Villacourt Monthly Meeting
Date: January 5th, 8:15pm
Location: Croftons
Present:
Stuart Stotesbury (Club Secretary, U14) Peter Hoare (Chairman,
U18), Sean Turner (Treasurer), Nick Hatcher (Child Welfare Office,
U15 Blue), Deborah Scotland (Fixtures Secretary), Vickie Hatcher
(Head of Mini-soccer, U9 Blue), Mick Barker (U10 Blue), Ibrahim
Murphy (U15 Yellow), Mick Bentley (U15 Red)
Matters Arising
(Letters within square brackets indicate the league ([S]elkent,
[K]ent or [B]exley) that the matter relates to. The absence of any
league indication means that the matter is club-wide)
Child Protection Issues (Please ask for any further
information regarding the individuals below)
- [S] M**** J**** (26) of Stockwell, SW9 may not
participate in any football activity involving children under the
age of 16 years
- [S] C**** L**** (32) of Norwood, SE27 may not
participate in any football activity involving children under the
age of 18 years
Leagues
- [S] Managers are reminded that a change to the
rules this season means that goal difference is no longer taken
into account in deciding position when teams are tied on points.
Instead it will be the head-to-head results between the two teams
and then, if still tied, on the number of games won with finally a
play-off between the two teams if tied on games won. However, it is
not possible to have the league tables displayed on Selkent (and
Villacourt) websites reflect that rule, and so managers are asked
to be aware and to inform their players and parents that the league
tables should not be treated as
necessarily showing the correct order when teams are tied on
points.
- [S] Transfers and registrations may take place
up until the last day of February.
Club
- A discussion was had amongst those present around the potential
changes to youth soccer being proposed by the FA. Following much
dissent from the leagues and their members, it was resolved that
the Club Secretary should be asked to represent the club in making
our collective views known. Those views were that broadly, we see
the proposals as a whole as being unworkable.
End-of-Season Presentation
- Following the apparent lack of interest in holding a "fun-day"
at Croftons for the end-of-season presentation, further discussion
was had about the possible alternatives. In the end it was propose
to scale down the plans for such a fun-day and instead to plan for
an end-of-season barbecue at Croftons at which all club awards
(i.e. excluding individual team/player awards) would be made. Teams
can decide whether to hold their own team awards at that event or
to make their own alternative arrangements. The financial terms of
both the barbecue and any team event are still to be decided by the
committee. The club will continue to provide trophies to each team
for them to hand out as they choose, the barbecue will be a
paid-ticket event and although the club will not provide money to
teams who wish to do their own thing, the committee will endeavour
to support teams who decide to combine to hold joint events or
other such arrangements. However, it is hoped that all teams will
encourage a large turnout at the barbecue and further discussions
will take place about this.
Next Meeting
- The next meeting is planned for Thursday February 2th, 8.15pm
at Croftons. All managers are welcome to attend but it is optional
providing all subs owing have been paid to the Treasurer by this
date.
