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PLAYERS WANTED UPDATED:
17.6.09 |
FRIENDLIES
WANTED UPDATED:
1.7.09 |
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To
have your Club News and requests for players or Friendlies entered on this page,
simply e-mail the details to
laurence_hughes@yahoo.co.uk
and it will appear
here the next time the website is updated. |
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LEAGUE CONSTITUTION FOR SEASON
2009-2010
NEW:
26.5.09 |
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The
League Constitution for Season 2009-2010 was adopted by member clubs at the
League Annual General Meeting on Thursday 21st May and full details can
be found by clicking here.
There are no changes for next season in
terms of the number of Divisions, which therefore means the League Senior
Cup will still be for Premier Division & Division One teams, the
League Intermediate Cup will be for Divisions Two & Three, and the League
Junior Cup will be for teams in Division Four only.
The Roy Bailey Challenge Cup will once again have all teams
in the League entering in the First Round. |
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AWARD WINNERS FOR SEASON 2008-2009
NEW:
26.5.09
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The Awards for Season 2008-2009 were
presented at the League Annual General Meeting on Thursday 21st May.
A group photo is below, but individual photos and details of all the Award Winners can be viewed
by visiting the League Awards page.
To obtain a copy of any
of the photos in full resolution (5 megapixels), please
e-mail League
Website Secretary Laurence
Hughes and they will be sent to you by e-mail in return.
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TOP GOALSCORERS
- SEASON 2008-2009
NEW:
26.5.09 |
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At the League Annual
General Meeting on the 21st May, it was announced that
Ryan Wade of Onnett
finished as the League's Top Goalscorer for Season 2008-2009 with 39
goals...in addition to finishing Top Goalscorer in the
Spartan South Midlands League on Saturdays ! Well done to him.
We hope to have the full list of goalscorers (taken from the Result
Cards) supplied to us shortly, and the
League Top
Goalscorer's Page will then be updated as soon as possible. |
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NEW LEAGUE OFFICERS' ROLES
NEW:
26.5.09 |
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There have been a
number of changes made to League Officers' roles for Season 2009-2010.
Firstly,
Ian Andrews has now retired as an Officer
after 9 years excellent service to the League, particularly in the very
demanding role of General & County Secretary which he had carried out
for the past 7 seasons. Ian's final County
Secretary's Annual Report (for Season 2008-2009) can be read by clicking
here.
Denis Coventry
will now be taking over as General & County
Secretary for Season 2009-2010 in addition to continuing with the roles
of Registration Secretary and Records Secretary.
Steve Summers
will now be Fines Secretary, while Oakwood
United Club Secretary
Bob Cleary
has been appointed as a League Officer to take
over Steve's role as Result Cards Secretary.
We also now have a new Referees' Secretary
in Gary Bailey,
who has taken over that job from Ian Andrews and Fred Beer. We welcome
Bob and Gary on board.
We are also pleased to announce that League
Competitions Secretary
Dave Smith
is now able to use a work e-mail address for
League correspondence, and he is hoping to have a home e-mail address
available at some stage during the season.
Click here for full details of all League Officers for Season
2009-2010. |
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CLUB DIRECTORY FOR SEASON 2009-2010
NEW:
26.5.09 |
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The
Club Directory
for Season 2009-2010 has now been fully updated from the information
given to us by Club Secretaries on their League Affiliation Forms.
Please
check your club's details and
e-mail both League Website Secretary Laurence Hughes
and League Secretary John Finn if any changes have been made since the forms were filled in.
Club members can also e-mail Club Histories, Team Photos, Club Badges
and details of Honours won to Laurence Hughes for inclusion in the Club
Directory.
Also, clubs who have their own websites should inform Laurence Hughes if
they are going to be updated after months of 'inactivity'. That will
then be indicated on the
Links Page.
As many players now
travel to Away matches using SatNav devices, we have inserted the postcodes of venues used by teams in our League under their
details in the Club Directory
and also changed the links to maps of grounds from Streetmap to Google
Maps' satellite images. Hopefully this will make it easier
for your players to find the venues for Away matches. |
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NEW CLUB SECRETARIES
NEW:
26.5.09
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Secretaries of clubs
that are new to the League this season and those who have just taken
over the Club Secretary's role with existing member clubs are strongly
advised to click here and read
through the Club Secretary's Checklist on the League Information Page.
The checklist can also be downloaded as a PDF file and printed off by
clicking here. You
should find this checklist far easier to follow than searching for
certain rules and regulations in the League Handbook.
If you are unsure of
how to fill in a League Result Card after a match, please
click
here to
view a PDF file example. |
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GETTING PLAYERS REGISTERED FOR THE START OF THE SEASON
NEW:
26.5.09 |
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The deadline for clubs to return
their League Multi-Registration Forms for Season 2009-2010 to League
Registration Secretary Denis Coventry is Saturday 11th July.
If you are
registering a new player on the Multi-Registration Form, then one
passport-type photograph must be included – with the player's name and
club written on the reverse side in block letters.
Players already listed (pre-printed) on the
Multi-Registration Form only have to sign the form to re-register for
Season 2009-2010.
If a player already listed on the form does not wish to play for your
club next season, then he does not sign the form and the space is left
blank.
If there are any address/postcode changes, please write the amendment in
block letters above the pre-printed address/postcode on the form and put
a straight line through the old address.
If you are registering more than 30 players, you
must include payment of £5.00 per set of 1-5 players. Cheques must be
made payable to the 'Waltham Football League'.
(This is an amended rule for Season 2009-2010, as
the previous limit for free registrations was 20 players).
The Club Secretary must sign and date every page
of the Multi-Registration Form and also ensure that a 9" x 4" stamped
addressed envelope is enclosed when the form is returned.
If you are posting the Multi-Registration Form back to Denis Coventry,
check the weight and put the correct postage on the envelope. He will
not collect any undelivered forms and your players will then be
un-registered for Season 2008-2009. Also, please do not use Recorded
Delivery.
If you take the Form to his house, please put it
through the letterbox and do not ring on his doorbell.
Players who do not sign the Multi-Registration Form (including new players) will
have to fill in individual registration forms (which can be downloaded
here) and provide a new
passport-size photo in order to be registered. For those players to be eligible to play on the first Sunday of the
new season (6th September), forms and photos must be sent to
League Registration
Secretary Denis Coventry
by Sunday 30th August at the latest.
Please note when you are registering players for this season that
Contract Players are not allowed to play in Sunday League football.
Also, please check that players have not already signed for another club
in the League. It is a serious breach of League rules if players attempt
to sign for more than one club.
The
League Registration
Secretary's page has now been updated
for Season 2009-2010 and gives full details of procedures. |
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6th SEPTEMBER FIXTURES & PITCH AVAILABILITY
NEW:
26.5.09 |
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All clubs are advised that they are
only allowed to be released from a fixture on one date per season.
If any club is unable to field a team on Sunday
6th September (the first day of the new season) because of player holidays, etc., and wish to
use up their one allowable release date that Sunday,
they must inform
League Competitions
Secretary Dave Smith IN WRITING no later than the 31st July.
If they fail to do so, they will be penalised for a Non-Fulfilment
of Fixture (Rule 10f) if they are given a
game on this date and cannot field a side. Dave Smith has also distributed a form to all clubs who do not hire pitches from the League requesting
their pitch availability dates for Season 2009-2010. This form must
be completed and returned by the 31st July otherwise clubs will
be dealt with under League Rule 5m (Failing
to deal with correspondence). It is vital that Dave is given this information by the
31st July so
that he can work out the opening League fixtures for the first three
weeks of the new season. |
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COUNTY
F.A. AFFILIATION NUMBERS
NEW:
26.5.09 |
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All clubs affiliated to London, Essex
or Middlesex are advised that League County Secretary Denis Coventry
must be notified by phone or e-mail of County F.A. affiliation numbers
for Season 2009-2010 by the 1st July at the latest. This is an F.A.
requirement. Please make sure you send off your forms to your County
F.A. promptly if you have not already done so. |
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RULE CHANGES FOR SEASON 2009-2010
NEW:
26.5.09 |
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Please note that in line with other
local Sunday Leagues, we have increased the Referees' Fees for Season
2009-2010 from £30.00 per match to £35.00 per
match.
Also, Club Secretaries are advised that from Season 2009-2010 onwards,
should they award a Referee a mark of 50 (out of 100)
or less, then a written report of
explanation must be sent to League Referees' Secretary Gary Bailey
within five days of the match. (The previous limit was a mark of
40 or less for a written explanation to be
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PRE-SEASON FRIENDLIES
NEW:
26.5.09 |
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From
late-July/early-August until the start of the season, we will be putting
the scores of Pre-Season Friendlies involving clubs from our League on
the
Results Page
if clubs wish to e-mail the information (including goalscorers) to
League Website Secretary Laurence Hughes.
(This is entirely optional).
In the meantime, Referees can indicate their availability for Pre-Season
Friendlies by e-mailing Laurence Hughes, and that can then be displayed
on the
Referees' Page so that Club Secretaries can contact them. (The
League do not appoint Referees for Friendly matches). |
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LEAGUE FULL COUNCIL MEETING
NEW:
26.5.09
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All
Club Secretaries are advised that there is a LEAGUE FULL COUNCIL
MEETING being held on THURSDAY 27th AUGUST 2009 at the
Wolsey Hall,
Windmill Lane, Cheshunt, Herts., starting at 8.00.p.m. ALL
CLUBS MUST BE REPRESENTED AT THIS MEETING or they will be liable
to a £25.00 Fine under Rule 6(h).
This is the meeting
at which clubs will be given their League handbooks, a supply of result
cards, Cup Draws and details of their fixtures for September. The Cup
Draws and Fixtures will then appear on the League Website the following
day.
Click here to see a list of all League Meeting dates for Season
2009-2010. |