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    AGM 2011 Agenda

    AGM
    Tues 17th May 2011
    7.00pm for 7.30pm
    David Lloyd (Westbury-O-T)

     

    Agenda

     

    1. Chairman’s Welcome and Report

     

    2. Treasurers Report

     

    3. Apologies for absence

     

    4. Approval of AGM Minutes 2010

     

                                                          5. Matters Arising

     


    6. Election of Officers
    Nominations required for Chairman, Treasurer, Mixed League Secretary, Ladies League Secretary.

     

    Nomination  - Chairman: Martin Cornelius
    Nomination – Ladies League Secretary: Ruth Drysdale
    Both nominated by Richard Tookey and seconded by Alice Clark

     

    7. Role of Honour
     
    8. Presentations

     

      Mixed League Report/Presentations

     

      Ladies League Report/Presentations

     

      Doubles League Report/Presentations

     

     

     

    9.     Proposals 2011
                                                       Proposals Rule changes 1 – 11 Jeremy Burns
      1. Rule 1 change - Any existing, or new, team can enter the BAD Squash League providing its club has paid the appropriate league fee within 30 calendar days of the first match being played in the season any team wishes to participate in, has 5 players available to it and can provide hot food refreshment for the visiting team after the match during the Autumn and/or Spring Seasons.

    Any new team entering in to the mixed league must start in the lowest division.

    The level of payment required to be paid by any team is determined by whether, or not, a club is represented at an annual AGM meeting. Any club failing to pay the appropriate fee will result in their respective team(s) being withdrawn from the season currently being played.
    2. Rule 2 change -  Mixed League matches (teams all men, or mixed) are normally scheduled for a Wednesday night. However, matches may be required to be played on a Tuesday, or a Thursday night, depending upon court availability at the Home teams venue. Ladies League (ladies only) is played on a Thursday night.
    3. Rule 3 change - NO REARRANGEMENT of any fixture is allowed once published on the website (www.badsquash.co.uk) unless there are extreme weather conditions, or the courts are unplayable (e.g. due to maintenance work or damage). The only exceptions to this are the University teams who may rearrange a fixture which falls outside the University term dates or coincides with a BUSA match, if the team that would have played in the original fixture consisted predominantly of students attending that University and those students are used in the rearranged fixture. If that is not the case then the rearrangement will not be allowed.

    Rearrangement requests will only be agreed to by the League Secretary and not by the opposing team captains, providing the League Secretary is notified, as soon as possible, of any such rearrangement due to extreme weather conditions, or unplayable courts, and of the revised dates (which must fall within the timeframe of the season currently being played). The League Secretary may require proof of the players who are unable to fulfil the original fixture to ensure that the above criterion is being adhered to.
    4. Rule 4 change - Matches start at the time advertised on the website. It is the club captain’s responsibility to see that this is accurately displayed. Failure to have a player ready to go on court within 10 minutes of the start time could lead to the opposing team claiming the tie if a complaint is referred to and upheld by the League Secretary.

    Play must be continuous. Once a match is in progress, players must be changed and ready to go on court within three minutes of an existing individual tie being completed. Failure to do so may lead to the opposing team claiming the first game of the next tie to be played.
    5. Rule 5 change - Teams MUST play in order of merit, i.e. the strongest player at number 1 and the weakest at number 5. Players may only move one place per match in the club order of merit relative to the other players who played at that time. This is best explained by an example:
    6. Rule 6 change - Clubs with 2 teams in the same division may choose to play with two parallel teams rather than two sequential teams. The League Secretary MUST BE NOTIFIED of this before the start of the season, and the two teams will be given distinctive names, e.g. Xclub Larks and Xclub Thrushes. Each team may draw up players from a lower division when necessary, but any player so drawn up may play for only one of the two parallel teams. The top 5 players in each of the parallel teams may not play in a lower division. Similarly, players from the club’s next higher team may be drawn down, but any player so drawn down may play for only one of the parallel teams. The top 5 players in the higher team may not be drawn down.

    ITEM FOR DISCUSSION >>> IF A TEAM IS WITHDRAWN FROM AN EXISTING SEASON HOW AND WHERE SHOULD THE PLAYERS OF THE TEAM WITHDRAWN
    7. Rule 7 change - The home team is responsible for providing sufficient court time (40 minutes per tie) for the match to be completed. If time runs out because the visiting team was late then the uncompleted tie(s) will be awarded to the home team. If the match started promptly then the uncompleted tie(s) will be awarded to the away team.
    8. Rule 10 change - Teams MUST play with a full complement of 5 players. Teams without a full complement of 5, or 4 players, should play 3 players for the match to be played. Any team without a team of 5, or 4 players, will be deemed to be without the lowest ranked player(s). Teams unable to play 3 players can not record a NO SHOW for the match to be played, but will incur a 9 point penalty. Any team unable to play 3 players on more than ONE occasion will be withdrawn from the season being played.
    9. Rule 13 change - Match scores must be entered on the website or, in an emergency only, notified to the League Secretary, within FIVE calendar days of the match date. Failure to do so WILL incur a 5-point penalty.
    10. Item for discussion - ITEM FOR DISCUSSION >>> EITHER ....

    A) Only players who have already played for a team at least twice during a particular season may play in the final two matches of the season and any subsequent playoff.

    B) Players must play twice in a season before the last two matches, but if a team captain can not raise 5 players, the team captain can play a player who is lower ranked than the player he, or she, is replacing. Team captains MUST notify the League Secretary of the player being replaced and obtain the acceptance of the League Secretary of the player taking that players place.
    11. Rule 17 change - Divisional champions will be decided by a play-off between the winners of the autumn and spring seasonal leagues. Details of dates of the play-offs will be communicated by the League Secretary when the spring fixture. Details of locations of the play-offs will be determined and confirmed by the League Secretary once the pay-off teams are confirmed.
    12. Amendment to Rule 1 – That food after the games in the Winter League be dispensed with.  Alan and Sarah Brown.
    13. New Rule -  That we use the ranking system to assist identifying out of order players. We have a rule which states that team should play in order of merit but there have been quite a few occasions when teams are playing significantly out of order - like a player at string 4 being more than twice as good as the player at string 3 - and that isn't fair on those teams who do play in the correct order. The ranking system isn't perfect but 2:1 is a big difference.  Richard Bickers.
    14.  New Rule - That we allow results to be left out of the ranking would  need to agree to keep it honest but these injuries do cause havoc with calculations if the match was abandoned due to injury. Both captains the ranking system and it can take 2-3 matches to recover. The knock-on effects can go some way beyond the two players immediately affected as well.  Richard Bickers
      Items for discussion/rule changes 15 – 22 Mark Regan
    15.     Let all ladies teams enter the summer league
    16.     Revisit PAR 11 for Prem A (I’m not sure all the relevant teams were asked)
    17.     End of season playoffs all at one club (different every year with prize giving)
    18.     Universities and Tuesdays
    19.     Knockout cup
    20.     BAD Open/Closed tournament – sanctioned (ties in with item 22)
    21.     Trophies(are there any – there may be in which case ignore)
    22.     Merge with ES
    10. AOB