East Youth
Competitions Committee
Minutes
of the Committee meeting held on
Present:
L.Bant, Chair, F.Wheeler Secretary, S.Tippen Cambs (b&g),D.Menear
Essex (b&g), K. Edwards
Apologies
were received from: V.Chamberlin Lincs (b&g), C .Farrow
1.
The Minutes of the previous meeting were agreed and signed.
2.
Matters arising. A training session for
coaches of Quickstix was held in
Cambs and had been a success.
Ros Marsh has been recovering well having
visited
The lack of an umpires
representative was noted.
C. Farrow had sent out the Mini report as
requested.
3.
Correspondence: An offer of help from D. Lamb of Lincs was much
appreciated.
4 East Report. There will no longer be any
East Camps -a matter of great
regret.
The JRPCs will now run on certain Sundays instead. A reminder
was given to
counties that the
Performance Committee would like all county squads to be
put in order of
player excellence and sent to the Performance Committee after
the last matches.
There was no report from the umpires.
Competitions
Report
The results of
the finals which had been played earlier were given, together
with thanks to the
TDs of the various finals. These included Loraine
Bant,
Tippen was also thanked for helping at the
Boys’ Schools finals.
The bad weather in February meant that many
games of both the schools and
the county
championships have had to be re-arranged. Thanks were given to all
those who had
replied so promptly to emails and helped find solutions to the
difficulties. L.Bant
thanked F.Wheeler for her efforts to make sure that the
schools finals were
played on time and that the
be played on time
provided the weather did not let us down again.
C.Farrow had sent a report on the progress
towards this season’s Mini
preparation.
5.Next season’s programme. Following the guidelines set down by
there was
considerable discussion of how to implement these.
Schools:
There would be 14 teams in the schools and also the Minis now
known as separate Schools
and Club Championships. Proposals on how to run
the schools are to be put forward by the representatives to
the schools in their
county and their
comments to be sent to the Secretary by April 1st.
Indoor:
Dates were put forward for the Boys schools Indoor. Unfortunately,
we are no longer
able to use the
cause considerable difficulties. Other venues were put
forward which will be
investigated.
counties were asked
to check if their clubs were thinking of entering all of
these new competitions. The dates given for the Club finals are Dec
19th and
20th
and if not every county was involved it might be possible to avoid
these
dates.
JACS: There was only time to deal with the U17s
As this leads to a National
Finals it was felt that a league competition
held on March 14th, March 21st and
March 28th with a slip date of
April 25th would be appropriate. The other age
groups would be
discussed at a later meeting.
Girls Representative
meeting.
There was a discussion about the replaying of
the U17 game between
and
Cambs detailed the progress of their teams in
the various competitions.
JDCs and JACS. They
have also run a 7 aside tournament in the emerging schools competitions in
Herts No report.
Kent
C. Gilliat- Smith had been running the U13 JAC and has found it difficult to
find matches for the players especially the boys.
Lincs Have planned the JDC dates and are
concerned about the staffing of the JDC dates when there are 5 competitions on
the same day. Lincs also want to know which JAC group they will be in.
Norfolk
Norfolk want to know what county /JAC fixtures there
will be in 2010. Their JDCs have been set up between April and July with a
further set of JDCs,
in the second half of 2009.
Boys Representative meeting.
Cambs
detailed the progress of their teams in the various competitions.
Herts. G. Welch thanked the secretary for her work in making sure that the
schools competition was played on time. He also expressed concern that P. Simmons , the Herts Development officer, will not be funded
after the end of March.
Lincs,
The
meeting closed at 9.30. The next meeting will be on