Good Evening and welcome to you all.
Firstly, a reminder of your committee members,
Andy Mayer, Vice Chairman and League Welfare Officer.
Sally Simon, League Secretary.
Jayne Wheeler, Treasurer.
John Young, League Rules Officer.
Gary Reeves, Football Co-ordinator
Steve Hynard, Fixture Co-ordinator,
And, Myself, Dave Pearce Your chairman
Firstly, I’d like to say a huge thank you to all of the team for all the time they give up and the efforts they put into running the league and supporting you and your teams etc.
I would also like to thank all of you and the volunteers at your clubs for the effort and time you put into providing Football for our youngsters in the Grantham and Sleaford area. Please pass this message on to all involved.
Last Season:
The GYFL continued to successfully deliver a football programme for the U7-11’s in the Grantham and Sleaford area,
Our Futsal programme continued to bring an exciting alternative to traditional grass based football competitions whilst developing the players confidence and ability, their control on the ball and improve players quick decision making while playing the game, we’ve also had our feedback on Futsal and will announce some changes to the programme for the coming season based on that feedback.
Whilst match cancellations reduced last season they continued to be a problem with our older ages, wether there’s a link between the better players availability and match cancellations I’ll leave that with you to decide, however a reminder that you set the tone at your clubs and I ask that you would encourage your teams not to cancel, but rather play some of the other perhaps weaker players to enable their development also, which in turn will strengthen the team’s development and confidence both now and in the future.
Again our under 9’s were supported by Grantham Bowl who provided the venue and bowling Free for our Futsal winners and Runners up. This is a great presentation event for us and one I wish to expand on, Thanks again to Jane and the team at Grantham Bowl.
The feedback I’ve received about our Finals days has again be a point of personal pride for me as it’s clear (but for a couple of minor issues) that nobody does Festivals, Futsal events and Super Sundays Finals day better than the GYFL, and this is all down to those AGL’s and volunteers that pull these events together, so a huge thank you and well done to all of those clubs and volunteers.
On a slightly less positive note the league were unfortunately unable to attract any new teams other than U7’s despite the offer of free applications and player registrations to join, in hindsight I accept that I was perhaps a bit late in attempting to bring this to life, however more on that later.
We continue to be financially stable under Jaynes guidance, however Jayne may go on to explain that we made a loss for the season in isolation, and that this was because we embarked on some investment in a new fit for purpose League Website and can hopefully announce its launch shortly, more on this from Jayne and Gary in a bit.
During the season we held some forums with different age groups along with the Chairman and Secretaries of our member clubs, again from the feedback of these meeting some changes are forthcoming, some give a bit more flexibility and some may be a bit more stringent etc, and John will elaborate on these with you either this evening or in due course, I believe your clubs have all had the detail already.
The Season Ahead:
The season ahead will not be without its challenges,
- fewer teams and therefore team retention,
- attracting new teams/clubs,
- attracting enough people to shape, deliver and support the implementation of our development plans and join the committee.
- Replacement of committee members
I pointed out at our last meeting that NONE of the current committee members have children still playing in the league and spoke of the need for some new blood to the group to support the leagues sustainability, Thank you for those that are supporting as AGL’s but as you will hear shortly we still need some additional key support.
As I said we will have challenges ahead of us, however we will face into these and do our best to help the League continue and to grow, you will, I hope, be pleased to know that we have a plan and with your help and continued support I am confident that it will deliver.
Part of that plan is to the makeup of the League Committee Roles, whilst the Officers roles will obviously continue we have decided to make some subtle but exciting alterations to the remaining roles.
The previous roles were
Chair, Secretary, Welfare, Treasurer as officers. With…..
Football coordinator, Fixtures officers, Rules Officer (Club members, no current members)
The new makeup will be as follows….
Chair, Secretary, Welfare, Treasurer continue as officers along with rules Officer..
- The Football and Fixtures officer roles will now be combined into one with Steve Hynard taking up this role, Steve will head up our AGL’s and with their support be responsible for the footballing and fixtures matters within the league, The league through Steve has plans to get ALL fixtures and formats including Trophy events, Festivals and Futsal out to the clubs/ teams ASAP. along with supporting the team managers and coaches with their footballing queries etc.
At this point I would like to welcome and say thank you to our AGL’s for the coming season.
- Graham Almond – Cranwell
- Carl Holman – Leasingham
- Ellis Brown – Caythorpe & Fulbeck
- Michael Budden – Caythorpe & Fulbeck
The next New Role I would like to discuss is that of …….
The League development Officer,
- This new role will be headed up by Gary Reeves and will be responsible for our development plan for the future, Gary with the support of others (hopefully some of you) will be working on some of the League’s biggest priority and opportunities over the coming seasons, the biggest of which will be new Team and Club attraction. The team will also be looking at how we expand our Futsal programme, Girls participation, Youth Involvement, and
- All of this will be very exciting and will continue to promote the Leagues values of Development Football for all and Player centered coach development.
Another development within the committee will be the introduction of a discipline sub committee.
- This will be headed up by John Young, the League Rules officer, Chairman, Welfare officer and possibly one other. (volunteer/s needed)
- The purpose of this sub committee is to give a swift response and resolution to complaints of a disciplinary and or conduct nature, which previously would have been delayed until the next Committee meeting.
To bring my report to a close I would again like to thank you all for your ongoing support, but I can’t stress enough that we need more help. Later we will be discussing our recruitment needs and I hope that you will leave here with a view to actively helping us find suitable people and pointing a few our way. This may not be you, but you may know some experts in Websites, Admin, Working on projects, or just plain wish to help, who could prove invaluable to us. So please help us to help you and encourage them to give me a call. Dave.
AOB
Roles we need to recruit for are
- Media Officer to manage the New League website and social Media sites.
- League development plan asst’s
- Discipline Officer asst’s
- Welfare Officer.
- League Secretary
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