23 January 2012, 7.30pm
Held at Cheadle Conservative Club
The chairman was unable to attend through illness. The meeting agreed that the secretary should take the chair.
The secretary asked delegates to stand for few moments in silence in memory of colleagues who had passed away in the last year. These included:
| Joe Tippits | Debdale Park | Walter Crooks | Poynton WMC |
| Charlie Parker | Didsbury | Ronnie Millward | Royal Oak |
| Ken Madden | Grange | Peter Sawyer | Stockport CC |
| Alf Blinston | Heald Green Social | Derek Kirkhan | SW Manchester CC |
| Dave Curtis | Heald Green Social | Bob Jones | Torkington Park |
| Billy Howell | Houldsworth WMC | Harold Wright | Waggon & Horses |
| Harold Litchfield | Klondyke | Dave Hatfield | Woodley Sports |
| Terry Pollitt | Klondyke | Arthur Leigh | Woodley Sports |
Present: Secretary, Treasurer Vets’ Match Secretary and delegates
Apologies: were received from the Chairman.
Absences: Bungalow, Gatley Rec, Northenden Social
The secretary welcomed our life member Jack Forrest to the meeting.
Evening league
We have one new team this year: Spring Gardens, who are moving their second team from the S&D to us. There is one resignation: Robinsons (one of the clubs that have been in the league since the early days). Robinsons were in Division A, but the Spring Gardens team finished in the bottom half of the S&D fifth division. So I suggest putting them in our second division to see how they go on. This means promoting Burnage Garden Village, who finished third last year, to keep the divisions at ten teams each.
For the last two years we have run the Bob Newlan Trophy on Tuesday evenings after the league season. This year, the S&D league have decided to play the first two rounds of their cup on league nights during the season. We now have six clubs playing in both leagues so it’s essential we co-ordinate the fixtures and it would be nice if the S&D were a bit more pro-active in organising this. Anyway, it’s not a bad plan for us to run the first two rounds of the Bob Newlan during the season, so that’s what I propose. The third round (when only a quarter of the teams will be involved) will be on the Tuesday after the league matches, with the semi-finals and final following on Sunday mornings. I propose to continue running the Merit at the end of the season.
The fixtures are carefully interwoven with other leagues beside the S&D, and Alan Bligh only got the last bit of information he needs yesterday. So the fixtures aren’t ready yet, but they should be on the web site in the next day or so.
It also means I can’t do the green rota – I need the S&D fixtures to avoid double-booking. So they will be sent out in the next week (and also put on the web site).
Veterans’ league
Only two changes from last year: Torkington Park have resigned, but Vernon Park have entered a second team. I understand that some of the Torkington players are moving to Vernon. Torkington finished bottom of Division 4 last year, so I suggest putting the new Vernon team where they would have been in Division 5. Otherwise it’s a straight two-up, two-down.
The fixtures are now on the web site. If anyone needs an advance copy and can’t access the internet, please ask.
The green rota is also available on the internet, and I will send it out next week with the evening one.
Green Rotas and Player Registrations
When you do get the green rotas, please make sure your greens are available as required. Also you should already have a list of your players from last year to help you register players for this year.
Great Moor Sports ‘C’ Home matches
The meeting agreed that these matches may be played at 10.30am.
Next meeting
The next meeting will be on 12 March This is a short but important meeting when we distribute the handbooks and other paperwork you need for the season. I expect to distribute the fixtures in the next week or two.
The treasurer summarised the accounts. He noted that club registrations were up around £1000 on the previous year, but this was because about £700 had been outstanding from the previous year. Excluding this factor, fees had increased in line with the plan.
The auditor had been unable to act this year for health reasons. The treasurer had arranged for Mr Peter Holbrook to conduct an audit. He was also unable to attend but had certified the accounts to be accurate.
The post of veterans’ secretary had been notionally vacant for some time. However in practice the work was being done satisfactorily between the secretary and the vets’ match secretary.
President: D Walker
Chairman: DJ McKnight
Hon Secretary and Match/Results Secretary (evenings): ER Kavanagh
Hon Treasurer: T Forsyth
Hon Results Secretary (Vets): A Bligh
Management Sub-committee: S Alsop, T Bills, J Pearson, A Rowlinson, H Beech, N Dewey
Auditor: D Cocker
The officers expressed the view that the honorariums were becoming disproportionately large and suggested that tehy be frozen for this year. However the meeting agreed to continue the planned increases.
The new honorariums were as follows.
Treasurer £480
Secretary £480
Match secretary £290
Veterans’ secretary £290
Veterans’ match secretary £290
The honorarium for the veterans’ secretary would be split between the secretary and the veterans’ match secretary.
Trophies and prizes were presented by Mr Forrest.
There was no further business and the meeting closed at 8.15pm