CKA Meeting Minutes

Wednesday 5th December 2007, 7.15 pm, The Rock


ATTENDEES:


PRESENT

ABSENT

APOLOGY

Chairman (Howard Laffling)

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Secretary (Nicola Doak)



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Treasurer (Corinne Bowes)

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Fixtures (Adam Twiss)

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Results (Nick Armitage)



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Juniors (Liv Armitage)



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Refereeing (Andy Rutter)

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Coaching (Lee Matthews)



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Publicity (Vacant)




CPO (Brenda Matthews)



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Development (Sara Neaves)

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OTHERS:

City Rep [ ]

Phoenix Rep [ ]

Lions Rep [ ]

Tigers Rep [Reda Ibn-Tahaikt ]

University Rep [Elgon Corner ]

Vikings Rep [ ]

ACTIONS FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS:

City, Lions, Tigers need to find trophies and pass them to the winners. Division 2 : City 2 2005/6, Tigers 3 2004/5. Development League (Division 3) : Lions 3 2005/6, Knights 1 2004/5).


Lee to find date and hall time for level 1 coaching course – 6 hours on a Saturday or Sunday.


Sara to email ARU again in regards to maybe putting on 'learner' sessions.


Andy to email referees about safety responsibilities.

City, Lions, Tigers



Lee



Sara


Andy

CHAIRMAN: ACTIONS?

Emailed Nikki Lloyd, BKA CPO about CRB checks and updated area underage player request form to cover filming.



SECRETARY:

Nothing to report.


TREASURER:

Accounts attached. Nothing to report.


FIXTURES:

Nothing to report.


RESULTS:

Nothing to report.


JUNIOR DEVELOPMENT:

I have set the wheels in motion for a set of mini tournaments to be played throughout the season on a Saturday morning once every six weeks. Each club / school is to host a mini tournament and some kind of league process may evolve through this, or each may be its own separate competition, not decided yet.


REFEREEING:

Nothing to report.


COACHING:

Nothing to report.


PUBLICITY (vacant):



CPO:

Nothing to report.


SENIOR DEVELOPMENT:

Nothing to report.



1. PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILMING OF MATCHES INVOLVING U18S

Howard to draft new version of area underage plater request from, based upon updated EKA NL underage player request form and send to EKA.


Howard to email clubs to ask that out of courtesy clubs inform other the team if they are going to photograph or video and that they make copies available to the other team.

Howard

2. COMPETITIONS CONSULTATION

CKA position agreed with unanimous support of those present (City, Lions, Phoenix, Tigers and Uni) :-


We would like to keep NL Division 1.

We do not oppose the creation of regional leagues.


Adam to represent the CKA at the consultation meeting.


Andy raised the issue of how referees would be organised in regional leagues. It is believe that regional leagues and thus refereeing would be organised by the area associations participating in the regional leagues.







Adam

3. WEAK/UNDERSTRENGTH VIKINGS TEAMS AND LARGE DEFEAT RESULTS

Concern was raised that weak or understrength teams are having a negative impact on the league. There is also concern that failing to field teams is also affecting the league and may influence the final league outcome.


Howard to make a statement on deliberate breaking of league rules.





Howard


AOB:

None.



NEXT MEETING:

February, TBD.