Minutes of a meeting of the Committee of the Bury and District Table Tennis League

 

Date: Tuesday 23 October 2012, 7.45 p.m.                            Place: Seedfield Methodist Church Hall

 

Present:               Rodney Hall, Ian McKenzie, Keith Butler, Edward Freeman

 

Apologies:          Mandy Winskill, Bob Goodman, Andrew Webster, Graham Jeffries, Frank Green, Keith Warrington, Graham Wardle

 

 

1)      Minutes of the meeting held on 20 August 2012

Approved.

 

2)      Matters arising

a)      Handicap calculation automation – no progress.

KW

 

b)     Illegal rubbers – the Committee was pleased to see that the player concerned is still playing this season, hopefully with new rubbers.

 

c)      Sportsmanship trophy – this item will be put on the agendas in future so that a decision can be made.

EF

 

d)     Manual scoring machine – KW will make the purchase before the end of the season.

KW

 

3)      Bank signatories

Natwest Bank

A minor amendment to the form has been requested by the bank so KB and FG will deal with this.

GW

 

4)      Dwyer Cup

a)      The first round saw a number of close matches including wins by 1, 2 and 4 points.  The largest margin came from a match where one team were a player short.

 

b)     It was agreed that teams defaulting in the first round of the Dwyer Cup would not be entered into the Sponsors Cup.  This should be including in the competition rules.

KW

 

5)      Treasurer’s report

Noted.

 

6)      Website maintenance / Cup handicaps

KB will be entering results during KW’s absence.

GW, BG and KB will be dealing with handicaps.

 

7)      ETTA membership

KW had identified those ranked players who had not yet renewed their ETTA membership; all appeared to be reserves or not playing due to illness.  IM noted that one had in fact played in October and KB will follow this up.

RH drew attention to information from Bolton League that last year’s ETTA membership did not “expire” until mid-November according to ETTA rules.  The B&DTTL needed some guidance from the ETTA because the League rules were at some variance from this.

KB

 

8)      First Aid courses

This subject was deferred until a better attended meeting.

 

 

9)      Next meeting

Tuesday 22 January 2013 at Seedfield at 7.45 pm.