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As there are home fixtures on each of the booked evenings, there is no practice evening this week.
The ‘E’ ( for elderly ? ) team duly met the young kids on the block in the match against the ‘D’ team led by Paul Lunan at Southport on Tuesday 25th. Sept.
In a very enjoyable match the old timers were dispatched by 7 sets to 3 but, in contrast to the first match last week some sets went to 5 games and a number of games were closely fought.
In the clash of the Titans, Alan Walton & Paul had a very cagey and entertaining battle with Alan gaining a valuable point. Alan also contributed another singles and Charles & Bert White won their doubles games (probably because it was after their opponents’ bedtimes !)
Charles
New kids? Yes, we’re talking about the Southport ‘E’ team, which played its first game in the 3rd Division against Deyes High on Tuesday 18th September. With an average age in the XX’s, and not to be confused with the other new kids (the Southport ‘D’ team squad has an average age, excluding captain Paul Lunan, of 12½), this ‘E’ team makes up in years what it lacks in mobility and visual acuity!
Although narrowly defeated, the ‘E’ team acquitted itself admirably against a clever, youthful and spirited side. Alan Walton won all his sets, ably supported by Tom Bunner in the doubles, and Bert White recorded an excellent singles win.
Looking forward to taking on the other kids on the block next week!
Charles
Matches for the second week of the new season are
This means that on Thursday evening, 27 September, the hall will be available for Practice from 7.30 till 10.30pm.
Hot off the press! The draw for the first round games of the Anon Cup involving Southport teams is as follows.
Matches are to be played week beginning Monday 8 October 2007. The Home side is to arrange the fixture as per League Rule 33 and to send the results to the Fixture Secretary by 22 October 2007.
NB. the sports hall is NOT available on Thursday 11th October.
See the “Fixtures” link on the right.
For all our readers (and sticklers for detail!), there is an excellent article by Greg Letts on how to serve legally in table tennis. This is just one of many informative items posted by Greg on his regular blog on “tabletennis.about.com“.
Just look at The Service Law page.
You get by for years without one, then they come along one after another! Yes, on Tuesday we had our first Annual General Meeting since September 2000, and on Wednesday we were back at St Teresa’s for the League’s Ordinary General Meeting (a.k.a. the Handbook meeting).
So we now officially have a Chairman (Bill Bradley), a Secretary (Alan Nolan) and a Treasurer (Dave Williams), as well as 4 trusty committee members: Colin Fyles, Paul Lunan, Nigel Pilkington and Tom Taylor. Paul Lunan has also volunteered to be the Auditor.
We have a reasonably healthy bank balance, and although there are significant expenses due soon for League affiliation, our cash flow will remain positive for this season. However, we do need to budget for replacing one or two tables, perhaps next summer.
The present club constitution was last amended in 1999 and lots of things have happened since then, particularly the move from the old Drill Hall to Southport College. We also now have a different make up of members, with quite a few who may play only a few games during the season, so we need a different membership category for them. Finally, there are other issues which any organisation needs to concern itself with these days which are not reflected in either the constitution or the club rules, such as procedures for ensuring the health and safety of members, and what to do in the case of accident, illness or other emergency. So we’ll be drafting a new constitution and associated rules and procedures over the next few weeks and will present them to another General Meeting for refinement and/or approval.
Membership fees for the year ahead were decided as follows:
We still need to discuss whether there needs to be a Social category of membership.
Team captains were ageed as follows:
It was also proposed that we resurrect the Club Championship competition, which has not been held for quite some time - perhaps we can even polish up the trophy!
At the League OGM, we received the new handbooks (including a few late alterations) and score books. We also heard of the need to complete and return the official ETTA registration forms, so that the League (and member clubs) can rightly benefit from an enhanced legal liability insurance package.
The handbook reveals that there are 28 teams in the League this year (compared with 25 last year). As well as our own 2 additional teams, both Argyle and Formby Holy Trinity have one extra team, whilst North Meols has lost a team.
We’ll include details of all the fixtures in a separate section of the website, but for now, you may wish to note the first week of the season starts week beginning September 17th as follows:
Wishing you all a happy and successful season,
Alan Nolan
Secretary