Crawley, Horsham and District Table Tennis League
January 2012 Minutes
Minutes of Meeting to be held at Holy Trinity on 16th January 2012 at 7.00pm.
Present ; Derek Flanagan, Alison East, George Gray, Joe Comper, Dave Edwards,
Brian Stevens and Alan Shipley.
Apologies of absence; John Lee and Marie Campbell.
1. Minutes
Minutes of last meeting were agreed and signed. Points from last meeting still outstanding, Alan is still preparing the accident book and procedure list he confirmed this will be finished soon.
2. Chairman’s address.
Derek reported that he felt the right decision had been made regarding the curtailing of C1 as teams are struggling to field a full team.
He thanked George for his continued evaluation of www.tabletennis365.com
and proposed that the league adopt this for next season.
Although Tuesday nights are increasing in numbers Derek feels we are not active in coaching and we need to rectify this.
He is concerned there is a lot of in-fighting within the committee and calls for this to be stopped and start working as a team.
Derek would like to propose a rule change at the A.G.M. to eliminate doubles from the H/A format to enable an earlier finishing time.
3. Team Captains.
There have been requests for more information for contacting team captains on the website or by Club secretaries forwarding details received by them. A new sheet will be issued. Some contacts on the website were in-correct and George will be making these changes. The committee agreed that Rory Scott would be asked if he would be prepared to arrange for a team to enter the Carter Cup. The league would pay the entrance fee and mileage of 30p per mile. The entrance form was passed on. It was noted that the order of League structure and strength still needed to be changed on our website, this will be changed.
4. Treasurers Report.
The accounts were presented and accepted. George informed the committee that although Holy Trinity had been notified that there was an invoice still outstanding, as yet he had not received it. Clubs that were in C1 will be refunded money to them for the curtailing of the division. George informed the committee that he will not be putting himself forward to be the Treasurer next season.
5. Player Registration.
It has come to the committee’s attention that about 50 players in our league have not registered with the E.T.T.A. Players must be made aware that this is required as our insurance policy requires them to do so. Derek stated that we are vulnerable to action by the E.T.T.A if caught. George will make a list of those not registered and inform Club secretaries so they can remind them.
6. Closed Championships.
Entry forms are now in circulation. Individual trophies will be purchased by Juliette and Derek. Alison will collect the annual trophies from last year’s winners.
Dave will help with the handicap competition. Alison is to liaise with Joe concerning the refreshments. Derek Bunday had been asked to present the trophies but has had to decline.
7. Shield Competition Update.
Dave reported that this is running well and some results are extremely close.
The Premier teams that requested to enter are not fulfilling their matches on time. A walk over to Trinity will be awarded if the outstanding first round match cannot be arranged promptly.
8. Joe Comper’s Complaint and concerns.
Joe read out his letter that had been circulated to club secretaries showing his concerns of a new club opening in Holy Trinity School. Joe offered George 2 brand new tables and help to take his venture to other playing premises but George declined. After discussion George was asked would he revalue his application and see if there were other options of playing premises available to him this option was also declined.
9. Application of New club.
George presented his formal application to register Crawley Table Tennis Club with the league. This application had been circulated to club secretaries prior to the meeting. He stated that C.T.T.C had secured a booking at Holy Trinity for Thursday nights. The new club has no intention of poaching players from any club and the club will welcome guests based on a ‘pay as you play’ basis. George was not prepared to give details or names of the organisers, or committee members mentioned in his application.G eorge is very enthusiastic about this club but admitted he had made some mistakes in its preparation. After a lengthy discussion, the committee voted, and the application was refused.
10. Web site TT365
George explained the advantages of this site. It was agreed to go forward with this project.
11. New equipment.
The purchase of new table tennis nets and equipment was agreed.
It was approved that up to £160 could be used .
12. AGM
Date of A.G.M will be held on the 21st June 2012. This will commence at 7.00pm venue to be announced.
13. A.O.B.
Three dozen balls will be purchased for use at the closed tournament.
Discussion took place concerning Alan’s suggestions for the revamping of the format of H/A league.
Alan will be organising the Hard Bat competetion
14. Date of next committee meeting.
Next committee meeting will be held on March 26th 2012.
Meeting closed at 9.30pm.