Willow News

The 2010 honours board for the Willow League is as follows:

League Winners: South Glam
Cup Winners: Chartered Trust
Shield Winners: Cardiff Hockey
Plate Winners: Cardiff Bay Barbarians

Minutes of the Willow League Annual General Meeting 2010
Date: 17th March 2011
Venue: Cathays Conservative Club, Wyverne Road, Cathays
Time: 6.30 pm

In attendance: Mark Shelton – Cardiff Hockey
Chris Stork – Eclipse
Duncan Montgomery – Cardiff Uni Staff; Chairman
Jeremy Sparkes – “without portfolio”
Glenn Chapman – Cavaliers
Jonathan Thomas – Cavaliers
Richard Morris – Chartered Trust
Phil Dooley – Chartered Trust
Craig Mohring – Chartered trust
Andrew Mckenna – Rhiwbina
Ashley Akbari – Casuals

Apologies: Cardiff Bay Barbarians
South Glam
GE

Minutes of last AGM: Taken as read, No comments from anyone.

Review of 2010 season: Everyone happy with last year’s rules,
Complaints about the quality of some of the pitches at
Llanrumney – but we did get some money back because of that

Treasurers Financial Report: See attached report from the treasurer.

Final balance this year is £1303.55, last years balance approx £1600
GE did not pay league fees until November; this will not be allowed to happen this year. All teams to pay upfront for balls and Llanrumney pitch fees.
First block of pitch fees will be £1200.
St Fagans hopefully can be paid on a monthly basis, approx £50 per pitch.
Not too many games were rained of last season but there are credits, see attached list for credits for rained off games.
It was proposed that the league pays for all cup games (10 games) – this was not agreed, better to keep the monies in the account.
Proposed that the league pays for food after the cup final. It was agreed that the league will contribute £5.00 per player and £5 each for the 2 umpires.
It was agreed that we would continue to purchase and use the Lords Cricket balls at a cost of £7.50 per ball. Minimum of 7 balls needed per team. Agreed. Chris will send out invoices in May, payments to be made by the latest of 31st of May please.

Discussed some sort of penalty for late payment of league fees and it was decided that docking points would not help but possibly a financial penalty might work. It was proposed that a £50 late fee be enforced for payments after the 30th of May. That was agreed.

League Statistics/scoresheets:

This season’s statistics were not done due to Dave’s wife being unwell and no one volunteered to take over. No one has volunteered to do Stats for the new season.

Last years results were as follows:

League Winners: South Glam
Cup Winners: Chartered Trust
Shield Winners: Cardiff Hockey
Plate Winners: Cardiff Bay Barbarians

Well done to all involved.
Respective clubs are to get the trophies engraved and give the bill to Chris who will reimburse you.

Vote of Thanks to Officers:

A big thank you to: Duncan as Chairman
Chris as Treasurer
John for Fixtures
Jeremy for being Jeremy
Dan for sorting the website & to Casuals for hosting it

Appointment of Officers for 2011:

Chairman: Mark Shelton - Cardiff Hockey

Treasurer: Chris Stork - Eclipse

Fixtures: John Sparks – South Glam

League Membership:

There were no new membership applications for this year/season.

2011 Season:

All teams are to please e-mail Dan Lewis (webmaster) & John Sparks (Fix Sec) after every game with result and winning teams to complete scorecard and e-mail to John and Dan within 7 days of completing the match.

Dan’s e-mail: daniellewis@cardiffcasuals.com
John’s email: john.sparks2@ntlworld.com

When playing at Wenvoe, Cathedral School and Pontcanna, please remember to take your own stumps.

Be aware of leaving valuables in your cars when playing at Pontcanna.

Cathedral School charges £60 per pitch - £10 subbed by Cavaliers.

Hopefully the park pitches will be in better condition this season than last. There are not any other options at the moment, so will have to make the best of it.

Some teams said that they would like to play their matches on a Wednesday night but unfortunately we have no choice in the matter.

Phil from Chartered Trust proposed a few changes for this season:

- Introduction of a power-play- 2 overs – determined by batting side between 15th and 16th overs? – Too difficult to implement, no circle on the field.

- Move to an aggregate points system for league table from an average point system. – Stay the same

- League Winners determined by mid July- their success acknowledged with a fixture vs Willow League Eleven. Good idea but no one to organise.

- Teams to be given the option of playing in non-white kit subject to guidelines agreed by the committee. – No, agreed to play in traditional whites.

A.O.B:

No prizes for best batsman /Bowler so remove from rules – Jeremy will update and circulate

Close of Meeting

Updates (if any) will be posted on the Willow forum.

Useful League info for the 2011 season

Results and scorecards -- All teams are to please e-mail Dan Lewis (webmaster) & John Sparks (Fix Sec) after every game with result and winning teams to complete scorecard and e-mail to John and Dan within 7 days of completing the match.

Dan’s e-mail: daniellewis@cardiffcasuals.com
John’s email: john.sparks2@ntlworld.com

Cavaliers have asked me to make everyone aware that, following their return to the Cathedral School, the School now operates a strictly no smoking policy anywhere on its grounds and premises

The rules are unchanged from last season and a copy is also attached – as agreed at the AGM, you are asked to draw attention of all your players to a few points:

1. Umpires’ decisions – these are to be respected by all players and to help there are a few things below to remember …
2. Wides – anything down leg, regardless of whether the batsman plays at it, is deemed wide; only actually making contact with the ball (bat or body) or the batsman stepping outside leg so that the ball passes between him and the stumps would mean it is not wide
3. No-balls – any delivery of any pace which has not bounced and which passes the batsman above waist height in a normal stance at the crease is a no-ball, as is any bouncer which passes over shoulder height, and either of these may be called and signalled by either umpire
4. Run outs – umpires at both ends need to be alert; and square leg also needs to be alert for stumping appeals
5. Score cards – a copy is attached and need to be submitted by the winning team to John Sparks and Dan Lewis by email (their email addresses are included in the header of the score sheet document) so that points can be accrued, tables kept up-to-date etc

Have a great season everybody and see you in the bar after.

All the best

Mark Shelton
2011 Chairman (Cardiff Hockey)

Willow XI vs Cavaliers 30th Anniversary Game 17 July 2008

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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

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