Secretaries Report – Matters Arising               

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Charter Standard 

Teams can now renew their Charter Standard for 2019-2020, it is pleasing to note that already five clubs have renewed, Billingham The Kings, Billingham The Merlin, Yarm & Eaglescliffe, RSD and The Griffin.  Many thanks to those teams for being pro-active, therefore to the other teams don’t delay get yours renewed.

For the new clubs you need to start and put this in to place, if you need a first aider then please enrol for the course next month, lack of a first aider is no excuse for not completing.  That also applies to existing clubs if you need to renew the qualification as it only lasts three years.  New Clubs need to have this completed otherwise they may not be allowed to continue within the League.  

First Aid Course has been organised for Wednesday 23 October 2019 here at Elm Tree Social Club commencing at 6pm.  Application forms are available please contact League Secretary for details. This is the only course the league will run therefore if you need to update or have someone else qualified then please organise.  There is no cost to teams in the league, North Riding teams can apply for the course and I will arrange with them re the payment.  I believe Andy Brown has emailed the DFA Clubs a form and notice of the course.

Whilst on about Charter Standard, one club failed to renew last season but have taken steps to rectify this already this season and submitted their application to Andy Brown. One team has still not achieved their Charter Standard and this is despite hassle from me and a good amount of help, this team has been in the league about 4 years.  As a league this team is now threating the League’s Charter Standard as they continual fail to complete therefore I am going to insist they complete and submit their application before Christmas otherwise the league is not prepared to lose its Charter Standard status and the Club will be suspended until such time as they complete.

Correspondence

League Statement – from FA received on a weekly basis. 

Postponement requests from teams

Secretaries Report

I am starting tonight’s meeting with a moan, already had two clubs advising today that they are unable to attend meeting, this is becoming a habit, teams need to make arrangements for someone to attend these meetings.

Second point is I have to apologies over the lack of league tables and Good Conduct table this is due to the printer playing up and instead of trying to get everything done I decided to leave, league tables can be viewed on the website.  I will email a copy of the Good Conduct table out to all in the morning. 

All fixtures are on the website; one change from that issued is that 27 October Billingham The Kings v Thornaby Roundel has been postponed.

With regards to the match return can you ensure this is filled in correctly with regards to the Sin Bin and Yellow card boxes, for the first offence use the first box, if a second offence then use the second box, don’t use the second box if only one card has been issued. 

A reminder to those teams that play on Stockton Council pitch that the first payment is due by 10 October 2019.

Some Teams still lax in paying fines, I had to send three emails last night about non-payment of fines.  

A further reminder to teams that they need to complete their player registration on the Whole Game System, this is compulsorily from next season so if you get set up now (most DFA clubs should be) it will things much easier for next season. If you need any help then for DFA teams contact Kerry Topping and for NRCFA teams contact Donna Crowther. 

Team of the Month– We will be continuing with this again this season, nothing for August as this will be included with the September award.

Cup Draws    

Ian Gorman Second Round draw was carried out

Referees:      Jes is not hear tonight as he is working however there are a few points he wishes to raise with regards to player registrations, the first being when you are registering a player then you need to remember to update player details, add email address, club registering with and finally change the Registration Status from Awaiting Documentationto Ready for League to Certifythis will change to colour status from Red to Amber, this will allow to use on the match return.

Teams are starting to submit a number of registrations on a Saturday, this must stop as no registrations will be done after a Friday, if you need to add after Friday then do as a match day signing on a Sunday as nothing is checked on a Saturday.  Also a reminder to text Jes with any match day signings, name, and address date of birth and club.

Transfers need to be submit by a Friday night in order to play on a Sunday, the reason being is to allow the change to be done on the website, match day transfers are not allowed, the form which must be signed by all parties along with the fee must be with Jes no later than the Friday.  Teams can scan and email transfer to Jes (again by a Friday) and submit a bank transfer but must advise Jes that a bank transfer has been done.

September has been a nightmare for referees and Jes would like to thank those clubs who have helped out by getting a referee, Jes has also managed to get referees from out of the area to help out.  To accommodate Jes has been changing referees around as late as 11-00 o’clock on a Saturday night just to make sure games are covered, referees doing us a favour which is greatly appreciated by the league.

Any Other Business

Date of the next League Meeting is a General Meeting on Wednesday 20 November 2019.