CKA Meeting Minutes

CKA Meeting Minutes 8^th MAY 2006 at the Penny Ferry

ATTENDEES:
	PRESENT	ABSENT	APOLOGY
ActingChairman (Howard Laffling)	ü
Secretary (Laura Neaves)			ü
Treasurer (Corinne Bowes)	ü
League (Nick Armitage)			ü
Fixtures (Vacant)
Juniors (Liv Armitage)	ü
CPO (Nick Evans)		ü
Publicity (Vacant)
Development (Vacant)
Refereeing (Andy Rutter)			ü
Coaching (Lee Matthews)	ü
OTHERS:
PRESENT APOLOGY City Rep [Rick Baldwinü] Phoenix Rep Lions Rep Tigers Rep [Reda Ibn-Tahaiktü] (Alex Beavanü) University Rep (Lucy Martinü) NL Rep ABSENT
ACTING CHAIRMAN: Howard Laffling ACTIONS arising from last meeting
Ian Birch-Machin has passed on the CKA papers to Howard for safe-keeping. There is a need to improve attendance at CKA meetings, especially from people who expect CKA support (eg NL) Howard proposed bringing forward the AGM to late June/early July to allow more time before the start of the season and to allow any new status rules to be digested before clubs decide how many teams to enter into the league. The committee agreed that a letter should be sent to the BKA about Lee’s (paid) junior co-ordinator role.				Howard to send a reminder. All agreed. Howard to draft the letter.
TREASURER: ACTIONS?
Corinne provided the monthly report: Reda still owes 7 pounds. Everything else is up to date. Rick reminded the committee about the forthcoming Avon Tyrell sponsorship for Antony Proietti. Corinne enquired about the CKA payments to the BKA. (This is usually done at their AGM).				Attached.
LEAGUE:
Nick sent his end of season report to the committee.				Attached
FIXTURES:
(Howard stated that this post needs to be filled asap i.e. well before next season!)
JUNIORS:
The BKA National Youth Day is being held in Cambridge again on Saturday July 1^st. Liv asked for a suitable venue and volunteers for : Parking (9-11 a.m ; luminous shirts) Catering (1 co-ordinator and 2 hours per club) BKA give a shopping-list n.b: power source must be available. Refereeing Desk is run by the BKA Moving posts and setting up pitches (15; 20 x 40). Posts (at Perse, Chesterton), tapes (Corinne), spiked bases (Simon?) First Aid (600 kids?) Team managers to help local school teams / teachers. Clearing up.				Lee can provide shirts. Need BBQ & tea-urns. BKA and Andy to co-ordinate. CKA to buy a gazebo and provide desk&chairs Corinne passed tapes to Lee Liv to con-tact StJohns To be addressed later
CPO:
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PUBLICITY:
(This post also has to be filled asap)
DEVELOPMENT:
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REFEREEING:
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COACHING:
15 people passed the BKA Level One Coaching Course run by Lee with assistance from Laura N and Rick on Sunday 7th at Littleport.

AOB:

The new status rules proposal (Alex Beavan) were discussed : the criteria

were agreed; clarification is required of exactly how games are to be counted i.e. matches started or subbed ( part matches: is this as per the ¼, ½ , ¾, 1 statistics as Nick A already does?)

Howard/Phnx commented that the player status at the start of the season ought to take account of last season in order to fulfil the ‘apply fairly and equally.. for all matches’ rule. The ‘old’ rules took some account of last season but not full account, which was one of their weaknesses.

Clarification of the ‘between 0 and 16’ in the team composition rules section was requested.

The possible extension was not thought necessary.

Nick Collier’s suggestion on a new rule

“ to ensure players don’t play for one NL team and a different local team|” was supported

3. CKA summer tournament (Sat July 15^th):

Venue: Netherhall was proposed

Fees: 30 pounds and 24 pounds (Cambs teams)

Publicity: already on website/korfballnet.

Emails and flyers at other tournaments

Posts/pitches (not spiked bases): Netherhall may mark out some pitches. Otherwise from Perse and Chesterton

Fixtures / Results

(CKA Gazebo will have been bought)

Catering: having outside caterers was suggested.

Social: to be decided.

Trophies : at a cost of c. 20 pounds

Other AOB:

Lee asked about the Third Division Cup.

Lee will borrow the CKA tapes for Littleport Tournament and will buy 2 more tapes and a reel.

Reda declared the success of Tigers (2) in the BKA final on Sunday 7^th v Bearsted (won 8-7)

This represents the culmination of many years hard work and dedication starting with Liz Jones at Newnham Croft and ending with Reda at Tigers.

Reda asked Phoenix to make an attempt to get a junior section.

Thro’ Rick, Simon Jackson requested that other coaches ask for permission if they want to “borrow” juniors for their teams.

Rick mentioned that 18 juniors had attended City’s first junior training at Chesterton session on Sunday 7^th. Congrats to Simon Jackson and Sue Carr for their hard work.

Rick enquired about City Sport at Tigers: there were no takers.

Howard proposed a sincere vote of thanks to Ian for his years of service as CKA chairman.

Attached.

Alex to draft a specific text for inclusion in the league rules for a proposal at the AGM

Nick C. to draft a pro-posal for circulation one week before the next CKA meeting.

Reda to contact N/hall.

Howard to do flyers & emails

Lee will have tapes at L/port.

Howard will do.

Liv may have a Fair Trade contact.

Lee will deal with.

Reda to pass cup on.

Reda will send report to Rick

NEXT MEETING:

Tuesday 13^th June, 7.30, at the Penny Ferry

End of Season League Report is as follows:

CHAMPIONS

Division One Tigers 1

Division Two City 2

Division Three Lions 3

Congratulations to Tigers 1, City 2 and Lions 3 for their respective league title successes.

TOP SCORER

Division One Nick Armitage (Tigers 1) – 53 goals

Division Two Adrian Dobbyne (Phoenix 2) – 32 goals

Division Three Hannah Pawson (City 3) – 27 goals

Well done to Nick, Adrian and Hannah for topping the scoring charts.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

In the National League Division One, Cambridge City finished runners up for the 2^nd year running.

And despite a valiant attempt, they lost the play off match against Nomads and will stay in Division One next season.

Congratulations and thanks go to Janine Collier in her first year in charge of the National League team.

Note, next season, Cambridge Tigers have successfully entered a team into Division One so there will be two teams from Cambridge competing side by side next year (as well as two teams from Norwich).

HOT OFF THE PRESS

Cambridge Tigers are the National Under 16 Champions of Great Britain!!!

In a close match played in Croydon yesterday, the “Tiggers” beat Bearsted 8-7 in a thrilling match to claim the national title for the first time ever.

Congratulations to the youngsters and to their coach, Reda.

FULL DETAILS ON THE WEBSITE

Final League Tables:

DIVISION ONE ----- HOME ----- ----- AWAY ------ ---- COMBINED ----

Team P W D L GF GA W D L GF GA W D L GF GA GD Pts

Tigers 1 18 9 0 0 128 70 7 1 1 117 67 16 1 1 245 137 108 33

City 1 18 6 2 1 100 77 7 0 2 95 51 13 2 3 195 128 67 28

Lions 1 18 6 0 3 92 72 5 2 2 85 72 11 2 5 177 144 33 24

Phoenix 1 18 4 0 5 101 78 4 0 5 84 80 8 0 10 185 158 27 16

Tigers 3 18 4 0 5 75 91 2 0 7 64 112 6 0 12 139 203 -64 12

Tigers 2 18 3 1 5 61 90 1 0 8 65 108 4 1 13 126 198 -72 9

Uni 1 18 2 0 7 35 87 0 0 9 55 102 2 0 16 90 189 -99 4

DIVISION TWO ----- HOME ----- ----- AWAY ------ ---- COMBINED ----

Team P W D L GF GA W D L GF GA W D L GF GA GD Pts

City 2 15 6 0 2 89 50 6 1 0 102 29 12 1 2 191 79 112 25

Lions 2 15 5 1 1 45 28 6 0 2 65 46 11 1 3 110 74 36 23

Phoenix 2 15 4 0 4 80 57 6 0 1 78 42 10 0 5 158 99 59 20

Tigers 4 15 3 0 4 46 51 3 0 5 44 72 6 0 9 90 123 -33 12

Phoenix 3 15 3 0 4 46 55 1 0 7 41 63 4 0 11 87 118 -31 8

Uni 2 15 0 0 8 17 107 1 0 6 18 71 1 0 14 35 178 -143 2

DIVISION THREE ----- HOME ----- ----- AWAY ------ ---- COMBINED ----

Team P W D L GF GA W D L GF GA W D L GF GA GD Pts

Lions 3 15 7 1 0 74 23 7 0 0 66 22 14 1 0 140 45 95 29

City 3 15 6 1 1 75 40 4 1 2 52 33 10 2 3 127 73 54 22

Lions 4 15 3 3 1 48 31 4 2 2 71 42 7 5 3 119 73 46 19

City 4 15 3 0 4 36 53 1 1 6 30 81 4 1 10 66 134 -68 9

Phoenix 4 15 1 1 6 31 62 1 1 5 36 47 2 2 11 67 109 -42 6

Tigers 5 15 1 0 6 28 71 1 1 6 25 67 2 1 12 53 138 -85 5

DIVISION ONE - TOP SCORERS

Name Team Games G P Tot Ave

Nick Armitage Tigers 1 16.75 40 13 53 3.16

Nick Collier Phoenix 1 16 35 12 47 2.94

Darren Payne Phoenix 1 16 33 12 45 2.81

DIVISION TWO - TOP SCORERS

Name Team Games G P Tot Ave

Adrian Dobbyne Phoenix 2 14 20 12 32 2.29

David Wright City 2 14.5 28 0 28 1.93

Janine Collier City 2 7.5 26 0 26 3.47

Louise Carter City 2 14 26 0 26 1.86

DIVISION THREE - TOP SCORERS

Name Team Games G P Tot Ave

Hannah Pawson City 3 9.5 27 0 27 2.84

Andrew Sills Lions 3 12.25 18 4 22 1.80

Andy Dunlop Lions 4 10 15 7 22 2.20

Status Rules Criteria

The aim of status rules is to restrict players playing down into lower teams in order to influence match results and thus the outcome of the league divisions.

The criteria for any status rules are :-

need to be objective and not subjective
not require lots of work to implement i.e. no requirement for frequent emails, information processing, declarations etc.
not require scorecards to be processed quickly very often i.e. team
selections for a match generally don't depend on immediately preceding
league matches
be independent of the number of league matches per team and thus the league structure
apply fairly and equally to all clubs, teams and players, for all league matches of the season

should be no restrictions on a club’s 1st team selection
ignores national league

Status Rules Proposal

Background

These proposed status rules are based on the former status rules that were replaced by the squad list rules, with come important modifications so that they meet the above criteria.

The former rules used matches played as the basis for mathematically calculating individual player status. 2^nd and lower team selections were then restricted in their composition of players with particular status.

Player Status

The league season will be split into 3 equal parts – ‘status periods’. Player status will be calculated and may change on defined, publicised dates at the start/end of each part of the season.
Player status is calculated over the last 6 1^st and 2^nd team matches, this may mean some matches are included in more than one status period.

	Games Played in Last Period
Examples	1^st Team	2^nd Team	Status for Next Period
Case 1: Regular 1^st team player	6	0	‘1^st team’
Case 2: 1^st team sub	3	5	‘2^nd team’
Case 3: 2^nd team stalwart	0	6	‘2^nd team’
Case 4: 2^nd team sub	0	4	None
Case 5: The returning superstar	1	0	None

Table 1

The numbers of 1st and 2nd team matches played by each player (G1 and G2 respectively) are counted. This information is already available on the CKA web site, on the ‘Goals over Season’ page.
If G1 is 4 or more i.e. the player has played more than half of the 6 matches in a period at 1^st team level, then that player will have ‘1^st team’ status. (see table 1)
If G1+G2 is 5 or more (but G1 is less than 4) i.e. the player has played most 2^nd team matches, or a good mixture of 1^st and 2^nd team matches, then that player will have ‘2^ndteam’ status. (see table 1)

Team Composition Rules

At each stage of the season each club will have a number of players with a status (between 0 and 16, depending on how they use them). The club will have to follow these restrictions:

	Number of ‘1^st team’ players allowed	Number of ‘2^nd team’ players allowed
1^st Team	Unlimited	Unlimited
2^nd Team	Max 2	Unlimited
3^rd Team	None	Max 2
Other Teams	None	None

Table 2

Possible extension

With clubs having more teams than when the original status rules were written, it may be desirable to have a 3^rd level of status and restrictions on these players. However, there is a need in any club’s lower team to benefit from experienced players. Therefore there is no current proposal to restrict players, especially as in all likelihood a club will have 16 players who have achieved status at any one time (most clubs only have 12 at the moment).

Limitations

No restriction on players new to the area, or returning from injury/pregnancy/long-term jury service.
As these rules are written, no restrictions at all at the start of the season. This could be altered, but a club’s team selection could change a lot over a summer.
There is some administration required to name the players with status twice a season.
Less stringent restriction on superstar players. In the current rules, players who can influence games the most (1^st team, top 4) cannot play for any other team. As these rules are written now, a team could take their best boy and girl players and play them in a 2^nd team league deciding match without breaking the rules. One possibility would be to place more stringent restrictions such as my example B below:

	Games Played in Last Period
Examples	1^st Team	2^nd Team	Status for Next Period
Case 1: Superstar 1^st team player	6	0	Superstar
Case 1: Regular 1^st team player	4	0	‘1^st team’
Case 3: 1^st team sub	3	5	‘1^st team’
Case 4: 2^nd team stalwart	0	6	‘2^nd team’
Case 5: 2^nd team sub	0	4	None
Case 6: The returning superstar	1	0	None

Table 3

	Number of ‘1^st team’ players allowed	Number of ‘2^nd team’ players allowed	Number of superstar players allowed
1^st Team	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
2^nd Team	Max 2	Unlimited	None
3^rd Team	None	Max 2	None
Other Teams	None	None	None

Table 4