2011 Remnants annual general meeting

The 2011 Remnants CC annual general meeting was held at on the evening of Tuesday, March 1 at the Fitzwilliam College Cricket Ground bar.

Attendance

Members present: Dave Green; Geoff Hales; Rob Harvey; Paul Jordan; Adrian Mellish; Nicky Mellish; Daniel Mortlock Dave Norman; Andy Owen; John Richer; Joe White; Dave Williams; and Russell Woolf.

Apologies: Matt Hughes; Faruk Kara; Simon McAdam; Tom Serby George Speller; and Phil Watson.

Minutes of the previous meeting

The minutes of last year's AGM, held on March 17, 2010, were taken as read.

The treasurer's report

Dave Williams once again provided an in-depth treasurer's report. Included were several discussion points which were opened up to the meeting:

• Dave suggested actively attempting to get more younger members, an idea that was met with some support. Rob Harvey will investigate the possibilities of recruitment from Chesterton Community College; Paul Jordan will establish links with the county-level juniors; the front page of the web-site will be made more explicitly inviting to new (and young) members.
• After some discussion about alternative methods, the membership shoetags will be retained for another year.
• The subs and match fees will remain at 2010 levels: subs are GBP 15.00 for senior members and GBP 7.50 for students/unemployed; match fees are GBP 3.00/GBP 1.50 for subs-paying members and GBP 5.00/GBP 3.00 for non-subs-paying members. The Fitzwilliam College pitch fees have gone up to GBP 54.00, and we will thus charge visiting teams GBP 30.00.

Secretary's report

The 2010 season summary was read out by the secretary as his report. However a number of issues arose which were opened up for discussion by the meeting.

• The e-mail based team selection system seemed to work okay last year, but this year there will be a more defined demarcation between the roles Daniel and Nicky play. Daniel will deal with initial availabilities and selection, but once the teams for the coming week are put up on the web-site (generally on Thursdays), all alternations, replacements, etc. will be handled by Nicky.
• After some tension last year (mainly with the teams from the technology companies, who prefer retirements and no extra delivery for no balls and wides), it was agreed that we will play matches by the home team's rules (which is believed to be okay with all potential opposition). A key aspect of this is that it will be made explicit on the web-site so that people who don't want to play in such games can rule themselves out of selection.
• The twelfth man scheme, whilst agreed at a previous AGM, hasn't worked and has been dropped for the moment.

Captain's report

Joe White's captain report was "not massively long", but painted the picture of another successful Remnants season. Playing once a week (leaving the team to be led by the club vice-captain or other player, as necessary) seems to work fine.

Election of officers

• Joe White was re-elected unopposed as captain.
• Daniel Mortlock was re-elected unopposed ad vice-captain.
• Geoff Hales re-elected unopposed as president.
• Daniel Mortlock was re-elected unopposed as secretary (but again Nicky Mellish will in coordinating teams during the season).
• Dave Williams was re-elected unopposed as treasurer.
• Paul Jordan's role as child protection officer has now expanded to be club welfare officer, and as part of this he will attend a course before the season.

General business

The 2010 annual dinner was a success, but there was some debate about both the menu choices and cost, with some members requesting more traditional British food. No firm decision was reached about where to have next year's dinner, but several candidates were suggestd, the most promising of which is the upstairs room at The Maypole. This will be investigated towards the end of the season. Faruk Kara once again requested that we avoid Thanksgiving (i.e., Friday, November 26, 2011 and Saturday, November 27, 2011), although it appears to be more important to avoid scheduling it within a fortnight of the Romsey Town dinner (as many people would choose one or the other if they're too close).

Russell Woolf and Adrian Mellish have both attended and passed an umpiring course (for which the club will reimburse them), so expect to see them leading the way when it comes to officiating this year.

Due to the unavailability of Fitz during the second half of August, it's possible the Remnants season might finish earlier than usual this year. Richard Rex may be able to secure us access to Queens' College's Ground this year, in which case the late season games will be played there, although playing away matches in those short evenings is less than ideal. As a compensation we have an all-day "post-season" match scheduled against Burrough Green on Saturday, September 24.