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Willow
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The 2009 honours board for the Willow League is as follows:
League Champions: South Glamorgan Education
Runners-up: Cardiff Hockey & Cricket
Cup Winners: The Consmen
Runners-up: Chartered Trust
Shield Winners: South Glamorgan Education
Runners-up: Chartered Trust
Plate Winners: Cardiff Cavaliers
Runners-up: Cardiff Bay Barbarians
So this season is done and dusted (or washed away, more like)
Look forward to seeing you all at the AGM (the Chairman will
be sorting out details soon) and if anyone sees a bio-sphere
on e-Bay that we can put over the cricket pitches for next
season, snap it up!
Jeremy Sparkes (Cavaliers)
Minutes of the Willow
League Annual General Meeting 2009
Cathays Conservative Club, Wyverne Road
9th February 2010 – 1830hrs
Rich Saunders – Consmen (Chairman)
Chris Stork – Eclipse Print (Treasurer)
Glen Chapman – Cavaliers
Glyn Poulsom - Cavaliers
Jeremy Sparkes – Cavaliers (“without portfolio”)
Ben Cossins – Cardiff Hockey
Iain Warwick – Casuals
Matthew Clark – Cardiff Bay Barbarians
John Lansley – Cardiff Bay Barbarians
Nick Allen – South Glam
Andrew – Rhiwbina
Duncan Montgomery – Cardiff Uni Staff (Chairman elect)
John Sparks – South Glam (Fixtures Secretary)
Simon Morgan - BA Dragons
Dave Powell – GE Healthcare (Statistician)
Richard Morris – Chartered Trust
Phil Dooley – Chartered Trust
Ashleigh Crowter – Rhiwbina
Dan Lewis – Casuals (Web Guru)
Minutes of previous meeting were read and approved.
It was felt there was no need for any rule changes to be considered.
It was agreed that retiring at 25 in Cup games would be used
again this season.
It was briefly discussed that while not being the perfect
the current system is the most sensible and fair.
No playing issues or concerns were raised. It was noted that
yet again the season was spoilt by the usual poor English
summer!
CBB asked whether rained off matches could be re-arranged.
This is not allowed for Shield/Plate as these were done on
an absolute points system so re-arrangement may disadvantage
other teams in the competition. For the League, a points averaging
system was used so the impact would not be as great. In reality,
the fact that several teams play other games mid-week, the
shortage of pitches and the need to complete each competition
within its allocated time frame meant it was unlikely to be
possible and, even if so, no team was obliged to re-arrange
a rain affected game except in the Cup.
Current account balance - £1,394.11
Projected balance - £449.11
Due to subsidising the cost of pitches at Llanrumney we had
a loss of £451.97 this season. The League cannot sustain
another loss like this so it was agreed that the League will
not be subsidising the cost of any pitches this coming season.
It was agreed that due to the increasing costs of pitches
that the League would now issue credits to teams who have
paid for pitches that are lost to the weather and refunded
by Llanrumney. Credits will be raised and credited against
the following year’s bill. This will be clearly shown
on the invoice for this coming season.
Llanrumney will this year cost £57 per pitch –
this reduces to £49.57 if we block book. Therefore teams
playing their home games at Llanrumney will be charged £49.57
per home pitch they use. It was noted that although not being
cheap it still represented good value for money and we were
able to guarantee our requested pitch bookings with Llanrumney.
It was agreed as per last season a new ball will be supplied
by the home team at the start of every game. We have managed
to secure the same deal with Lords International of Caerphilly
as last year (£7 per ball). As a minimum each side will
be required to take at least 7 balls of the requisite quality
to cover their home games. It will be possible to order more
should you require. An e-mail will be sent out in the next
few weeks to confirm orders.
Some sides were aware, but many were not, that we have awarded
prize money for winning each competition over the last 5 or
6 years. It was proposed and then voted for that we stop all
prize money with immediate effect. The cost savings will allow
us to start and build a small reserve in the League account.
Invoices will be sent out before 1st May 2010. Full payment
will be required by 31st May 2010. Failure to comply can lead
to League point deduction.
League Champions – South Glam Education
Cup winners – Consmen
Shield – South Glam Education
Plate – Cavaliers
Wooden Spoon – GE Healthcare
Due to an IT issue on the Statistician’s computer unfortunately
he could not produce the usual list of the League’s
top batting and bowling performers this season.
A vote of thanks was made to the League Officers.
Thanks was also expressed by the Chairman to Jeremy Sparkes
for all his advice during the year.
The officers were proposed and adopted as follows.
Duncan Montgomery - Chairman
Chris Stork – Treasurer
John Sparks – Fixture Secretary
Dave Powell – Statistician
Dan Lewis – Web guru
As previously circulated by e-mail British Airways has had
to withdraw from the Willow League due to change of shift
pattern. It was agreed by all present that they would be a
loss to the League and we had all enjoyed playing against
them over the years.
It was agreed that due to the lack of available pitches
and coming late in the day that we would go forward into the
2010 season with only 11 member clubs. We would then welcome
applications to join the League on probationary period (ie.
Cup & Plate) for the 2011 season. Cardiff Bay Barbarians
stated they play in another friendly League and would pass
the word around that there may be a vacancy next season.
A letter had been received from Stephen Jones regarding
the possibility of playing friendly’s against Willow
teams this season. At this stage it was not an official approach
to joining the League. Stephen’s contact details will
be passed to all League teams with the possibility that they
be able to arrange friendlies on bye weeks. Rich Saunders
stated he will contact Stephen with our thoughts.
It was discussed last year to look at opening out the Cup
competition to non-league sides. However due to the lack of
pitches available again this season it was recommended by
the fixture secretary that we defer this decision for another
year.
Cardiff Bay Barbarians has decided to go back to using Council
pitches. They will be responsible for booking these once the
Fixture Secretary has circulated the fixture list, and paying
for these themselves. They are currently lobbying the Council
to look at the situation of the Midweek League having preference
for pitches. We will monitor the situation this season. It
was noted artificial wickets would not be acceptable for League
games.
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Cavaliers reported due to development work at the Cathedral
School this year they will be unable to use it this year.
They will use Llanrumney as their home pitch. The Casuals
are looking at using Wenvoe less this year due to the number
of games lost to a wet pitch last season.
John Sparks has been able to secure a second pitch at St.
Fagans this season and Eclipse Print have agreed to use this
as their home base.
The draw was made and details of Cup ties will be included
on the fixture list to be circulated soon.
– Glyn
Poulsom commented on an increasing number of times the umpire’s
decision is being questioned. It was agreed by all present
that whether the decision is good or bad the umpire’s
decision is final and should not be questioned. It was also
noted that teams should ensure those umpiring have a good
knowledge of the laws, both those particular to the Willow
League and to cricket generally.
–
John Lansley raised the issue of public liability insurance
and whether teams have any or not. All present agreed that
each team should seriously consider this issue but it was
felt that, as with having under 18s playing in their teams,
it should be the responsibility of each individual team to
look into this issue and take whatever actions were appropriate
for them. It was not going to be a condition of membership
for the League. Jeremy Sparkes had looked into insurance for
the Cavaliers and will e-mail some of his findings although
these are by no means recommendations.
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Chartered Trust had won the Autumn WIC-ket indoor League.
A winter League is under way with 5 Willow teams participating.
It is hoped to run another one starting in September.
Meeting closed at 7.50pm
Updates (if any) will be posted on the Willow
forum.
Willow XI vs Cavaliers 30th
Anniversary Game 17 July 2008
Click here for
gallery picture
On behalf of this year's League Chairman, Richard Morris
(Chartered Trust), I'm delighted to pass on details of the
commemorative match to be played this Thursday (17 July) at
6.00pm at the Cathedral School this celebrates 30 years of
cricket in Cardiff for the Willow League and Cardiff Cavaliers,
both of whom came into existence in 1978
Thanks to Chris Stork for organising the Willow XI, who invited
each of the other 11 League teams to nominate a player, ideally
one of their longest serving members
Willow League Chairman's XI
Chris Stork (Eclipse Print), capt
Rich Holliday (Casuals)
Rich Saunders (Consmen)
Sanjay Thurpan (Cardiff Hockey & Cricket)
Andy Powell (South Glam)
Dai James (Rhiwbina)
Phil Dooley (Chartered Trust)
Dave Powell (GE Healthcare)
Rob Deighton-Jones (Eclipse Print)
Jack Landsdowne (South Glam)
John Furnham (Casuals)
Cardiff Cavaliers XI (debut year in brackets)
Steve Davis (1978)
Nigel Moore (1978)
Graham Newbury (1978)
Paul Goring (1983)
Warwick Armstrong (1990)
Glyn Poulsom (1993)
Geoff Lewis (1995)
Alan Ward (1998)
Jonathan Thomas (2000)
Dave Parsons (2001: his father debuted in 1978 and was first
Club Chairman in 1979; and his grandfather also featured in
an early game)
Derek Lewis (2007, in his second year of playing cricket having
only taken it up when in his 60s)
Umpires: Chris Vanstone (Consmen); Jeremy Sparkes (Cavaliers)
12th men and reserves will be drawn from others attending
supporters and spectators very welcome
Graeme Brown: a number of our Willow League companions will
associate the Cavaliers with Brownie, one of our founder members,
and perhaps wonder why he's not featured in the team list;
Graeme has undergone major surgery recently and is making
a good recovery but isn't yet able to make a trip to the cricket
-- he's gutted at missing this event but sends his best wishes
and hopes to see everyone soon in the event of wet weather,
the celebration will take the form of a skittles evening at
Llandaff Rugby Club, starting at 7.30pm
cheers
J
Jeremy Sparkes
Cavaliers
Useful League info for the 2010 season
-- a template for the match scorecard is here;
please remember to email this Dave at his home email address
d.powell8@ukonline.co.uk
after the completion of each fixture.
-- as per the
past few years, individual awards will be based on aggregates
and not averages.
-- both umpires
need to know the rules(!). Anything down legside is wide.
It was agreed at the AGM that teams would be reminded that
the person standing at square leg needs to (a) also keep count
of the number of balls being bowled and (b) be watchful at
the wicket their end for stumpings and run outs
-- It's also
useful to remind folk that a ball that is a full toss at shoulder
height or above is a no-ball regardless of its pace, and that
a ball that is full toss above waist height from anyone other
than a slow bowler is also a no-ball
-- in
the unlikely event of there being any difficulty or issues
during the season, the Willow League Chairman is the person
to contact in the first instance if the players/clubs involved
cannot resolve matters amicably.
All the best for the coming season
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