22 November 2010, 7.30pm
Held at Cheadle Conservative Club
Present: Chairman, Secretary, Veterans’ Match Secretary and delegates
Apologies:–
Absences: Bramhall Queensgate, Bungalow, Heaton Mersey Cons, Heaton Norris, Northenden Social, Wythenshawe Park
There was no half-yearly meeting in 2009. The minutes of the previous half yearly meeting (on 24 November 2008) were circulated prior to the AGM in January 2010 and approved at that meeting.
Add at end of rule 2.3:
Teams must notify the match secretary of any discrepancies in the recording of a match within 14 days of its publication of the web site.
Proposed by Torkington Park
This proposal arose from a case in the 2010 season where a team was entered in the database with 10 points fewer than it should have had. This led Torkington Park to believe they had won Division 5. The error was discovered at the end of the season, and put them in second place. The intention was to provide some certainty by putting the onus on clubs to notify errors promptly.
There was some discussion as to whether 14 days was long enough, and an amendment changing this to 21 days was approved.
The motion was passed with no votes against.
Add the following sentence to League Rule 3.3 (ii):
If a rearranged match is not completed by the end of the season the average home and away points respectively will be awarded, decreased by 20% for the club that originally requested the rearrangement.
Proposed by Waggon & Horses
The Waggon & Horses delegate said that while most clubs played their matches as per the fixtures, a few were wont to cancel matches because of a shortage of players. Often this was because of a fixture in another league. He considered this to be an abuse of the system, and wished to discourage the practice.
There was some discussion as to whether the proposed penalty was harsh enough, and awarding both teams zero points was suggested. However this was considered too radical to be acceptable as an amendment to the motion.
On a vote, the motion was passed with 6 votes against.
The chairman presented league and cup trophies and prize money to winning teams and trophies to the average winners.
The Annual General Meeting would be on 24 January 2011.
There was no further business and the meeting closed at 8.10pm.