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Friday, December 15, 1995

MINUTES OF 1995 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
HELD AT NAILSEA C.C.
ON FRIDAY 15TH
DECEMBER 1995 @ 7.30pm

Clubs represented:
Claverham
Clevedon
Congresbury
Failand & Portbury
Nailsea
Uphill Castle
Cleeve
Clifton Flax Bourton
Imperial
Lodway
Portishead
Weston-super-Mare
Wrington
Cheddar

Also present:
Tony Willoughby (Chairman)
Robert Humphreys (Secretary)
John Waters (Junior Secretary)

Apologies:
Brian Rose (President)
Paul Wickham
Andrew Moulding
Terry Brown (Woodspring Development Project)
Wells
Barrow Gurney

Absent:
Winscombe
Worle Airways

The late holding of the meeting was ratified.

Minutes of the last meeting: these were read and agreed as an accurate record.

Wells C.C. applied to join the league and their application was accepted. Old Bristolians C.C. had informally indicated an intention to apply to join but in the event no formal application had been received.

Tony Willoughby reported that NSYCL had won the inter-league U17 festival. Taunton & District had withdrawn and South Somerset did not have a side, leaving only two leagues: ourselves and Bath, whom we beat.

John Waters reported that an U17 representative side had played the Bristol & District League at Nailsea, winning comfortably. There had been a number of late drop outs so the team had comprised mainly players from Nailsea, Weston-super-Mare and Imperial. Naqui had scored 100.

Terry Moran (Imperial) reported that an u16 side had played against Halesowen C.C. touring side, winning a very good game off the penultimate ball.

An U15s representative side had played in the half term festival. Geoff Warren (Barrow
Gurney) managed the team but in his absence Roy Jennings (CFB) reported that in the two games which he had seen NSYCL had beaten Taunton East but had lost to Taunton West. 7 clubs had been represented in the team,which had played well.

Peter Rose (Portishead) reported that the U11 representative side had not played and Matthew Govan (Clevedon) reported that the U13 representative side had not played.
The U11 and U13 "pick of the league" sides had played against the SCA (managed by personnel from W-S-M) but both had been lost.

The Secretary delivered a report, which was accepted.

There was discussion of the continued viability of running a Sunday morning U17 league and the member clubs were asked to give consideration for the future to the idea of Sunday afternoon U17 games.

The Junior Secretary delivered a report, which was accepted.

In view of the difficulty in completing u 13 8-a-side fixtures it was determined that from next season these would be run on a knock-out basis.

The Treasurer's report and accounts was accepted.

Thanks were expressed the league's sponsor West Country Ground Care for meeting the costs of the handbook. The Chairman encouraged members to ensure that those responsible within clubs for ground care used their services.

There was discussion as to completion of fixtures and various suggestions were put as to methods of ensuring this. It was left, though, that clubs would make extra efforts to ensure that their managers completed all fixtures.

It was determined after discussion that an u15 North Somerset cup and an u13 North Somerset cup would be purchased and awarded to the clubs winning the knock-out competitions at those levels.

Mike Regan (Congresbury) delivered a report by Terry Brown on behalf of the Woodspring Development Project. He said that the aim was for this body to run District teams at all ages from u10 to u16. He also reported that coaching at Weston had been organised for the coming winter.

Discussion occurred as to whether the NSYCL should continue to run its representative sides or, in view of the formation of the Woodspring Development Project, whether it should cease to do so. It was determined that the NSYCL should continue, at least for the time being, with its representative sides since it is an independent body.

Election of the following officers took place:

Brian Rose: President
Tony Willoughby: Chairman
Robert Humphreys: Secretary
John Waters: Junior Secretary

The following were elected as representative team managers:

John Waters (Nailsea u17)
Simon Hopkinson (Nailsea u15)
Kevin Stafford (W-S-M u13)

Although he was not present, Will Weber (W-S-M) was put forward and accepted as u11 manager.

Roy Jennings (CFB) canvassed a proposal for a tie-breaker mechanism in league games but, after discussion, it was determined not to pursue this.

The meeting ended at 10.30 pm.

Chairman........... Dated......................