I think the majority of the committee in general are in favour of keeping the entire county squad at one venue. I believe this promotes a one team attidute and better team spirit. Where as splitting the team it may feel (especially to new comers) as if the county is a collection of different teams rather than a single organisation.
As Gaygan mentions splitting the teams does make life complicated (but not insumountably so) and it might be one of the things we look at over the coming year(s). After all if we keep accumulating teams the way we have been over the last couple of years we may indeed need more tables / space.
I think my sheet from the youth is not complete though, so this list might be subject to change when I look at my other bits of paper at home tonight!
Thanks to everyone who helped run the trials, it can be a bit of a nightmare but lots of people helped out which really did make a massive difference. Well done Sarah, Justine, Nicki, Ben and Browny!
-- Edited by Minx on Monday 22nd of March 2010 10:10:38 AM
Kenny Broster also reffed a significant number of matches to in the youth trials along with Tim. There were other people helping out to throughout the day and a long day at that.
This isn't a complaint but merely an abservation but it got incredibly stuffy in the front room where the womens and youth were due to the confined space and number of people in there. Put 30 to 40 adults in there and em - well you get the picture.
Not looking forward to a match situation if all four tables in there are used for a home match . This room should be restricted to only two tables and one team if required at all.......
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Yes, there definitely were some issues on Sunday - these didn't go unnoticed.
The mens' toilets were below pa (terry fixed this when he arrived but this was late in the day) and it was a painfully slow start for the youth and women as they only had 2 tables each, and were all squeezed in the back room.
We will definitely bear this in mind for next year, and I will be recommending splitting the trials over 2 days next time.
Hmm, unfortunately unless we had held some of the trials on a Saturday there were no other available dates in March this year. It was a similar problem to the one we had with the county championships in February.
1st Sunday was Selsey, 2nd mothers day, 3rd trials, 4th squad day and the first weekend in April is Easter.
We have for the last year or two tried to keep all county events to a sunday.
As this is the day that county matches take place on, its not fair to expect people to turn out on a Saturday for trials, when they may have work, for example.
We did have complaints about holding trials on a saturday when we did it before.
However, given the severe delays experienced at the weekend, that is not to say we wont go back to ladies/youth trials being on a saturday for next time round.
Various positions on the OCPF committee will be up for election in March (At AGM - 21 March 2010)
These will include: Mens County Manager (will be vacant) Mens Assistant Manager (Ash Penny-Larter) Youth Manager (will be vacant) Ladies Captain (Nicki Hoskins) Seniors Manager (Malcolm Lewis) Players Representative (Shelly White) Social Representaive (Jaz Venning)
Some of the current holders may choose not to re-stand for election, when I have been notified of this I will let you know
Role descriptions to follow in due course.
If you are particularly interested in a role and want further information then please contact me at secretary@ocpf.co.uk
I am standing down as manager, but if required will continue to captain the "A"team.
Also Julian Wood will also be standing down from his "B" team position of captain.
After deciding to start cutting down on my county pool matches, I think it is only fair to the rest of the team, (and thats if I am still in the As) to withdraw my (above) offer of captaincy, and hope that the manager (Gary) will appoint one of my team mates.
I do know that John Bland and Shaun Taylor are NOT interested if it helps his decision.
See you all on Sunday
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