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Sunday, 16th May 2010
Car Parking – New Street Football Club will be staging one of their Youth presentations on the afternoon of Sunday 16th so we’ll need to ensure that a couple of rows of the car park are “taped off” for them to use. We are unable to use the Archers field this year for overflow parking, so we will need some volunteer marshals to assist in directing cars onto the 1st team pitch once the main car park is full (being extra careful to make sure we keep pedestrians and moving vehicles well apart) – volunteers names please to Howard Golding who’s offered to help organise this? Could we ask that wherever possible, players, parents, Nan’s and Grandad’s etc are asked to car share – if everyone does their bit then this could cut down the requirement for car parking significantly.
Start Time - Please ensure players arrive at the club by 10.00am so we can get everyone seated and ready to start the presentation promptly at 10.30am. Nigel & Sam will be offering tea, coffee, soft drinks & snacks for sale from the marquee during the morning.
Dress Code - All Coaches, Team Managers and Committee members to dress smartly (gents - jacket and club tie please) in order to show our guests, players, and their parents the high standards we continually strive to achieve.
Mini/midi players all to come smartly dressed & that ALL senior section Academy players (U13 – Colts) attend wearing “Number 1’s” (WHITE shirt, club tie with the end of the tie down to their belt and NOT halfway up their chest, black trousers and CLEAN black shoes).
County Players - please can the “county players” wear their blazers for the presentation (with their CLUB tie NOT county tie) as I will arrange for a picture to be taken with all the county players together with Tim Allen, following the presentation?
Guests – invitations have been sent to Mark Day (the Financial Director of Simplyhealth – the Academy’s Principal sponsor), Tracey Baylis (Academy Associate sponsor), Mike Glogg (Hampshire RFU President), Tim Allen (Chairman of ‘Club Hampshire’, Hampshire RFU) and Ian Price from London Irish together with other local dignitaries, our MP and I hope a number of the club and Academy sponsors together with any senior club players who might like to come along..
Format – once our guests have been introduced and given a brief resume of the season, Tim Allen will present our county players with their certificates & salvers and then it will be straight over to the Principal Coaches who will be invited to come up onto the stage to announce your teams individual winners starting firstly with, “Coaches Player” (award presented by the Principal Coach) followed by “Most Improved Player”, (award presented by Mark Day) and finally your squads “Players Player” (award presented by Ian Price).
Once Andy Earle has completed the Colts awards, Shaun Rule will announce all the nominees for the Academy Junior Clubman of the Year. All the nominees will be asked to come onto the stage and the winner will then be announced and the trophy presented.
Finally the Derek Rennison Senior Clubman of the Year Award (this award is presented as a result of your recent voting for a Coach/Manager/Helper/Academy Committee member etc.) will be presented by Jack or Henry Rennison and following that the presentation will be formally closed.
Photographs – Dave Burlison will be on hand all morning to take photos, which can be viewed after the main presentation AND PRINTED there and then. The photo’s will be 8 x 6 size & mounted in a card frame complete with the club logo (cost £10 with a donation of £2 per print going to the club). The various squad photographs that Dave B will be taking this coming Sunday morning will also be available for purchase. Due to the demand for photos being printed that morning Dave Burlison will only be able to print the images that he has available – he won’t be able to cut “Little Tommy” out of a squad shot & then print it as a separate image!!
Following On – once the main presentation is over, all the teams can then move outside the marquee and meet under their age group “Lollypop” signs where each Principal Coach can then make any squad specific speeches and distribute the 2009/10 season mementos to each of their players (together with any other individual squad awards, thank you presents etc.)
Return Of Playing Equipment and Club Kit – Team Managers and Coaches – please can you ensure that ALL Academy kit (i.e. water bottles and carriers, first aid kits, balls, ball nets/bags, tag belts, cones, sub suits, tackle bags/shields etc are all returned and LEFT by your respective age group ‘lollypop’ board. The equipment will then be collected in by Mick and checked to ensure that everything that was issued out last September has been returned.
U13, U14, U15, U16 and Colts Team Managers, can you also please ensure that the playing strips that each of your squads were issued with (Kooga shirts) are returned in COMPLETE sets to Mick together with the rest of your kit.
If some of the youth teams also have sets of Testway 7’s shirts – again these need to be returned
Kit Shop – the kit shop will be open offering all the latest club branded garments, + club shorts, socks etc all ready for the new season.
2nd Hand Kit – please can you let parents know that Mick Roscoe will be available to accept any donations of 2nd hand kit (boots, shorts, scrum caps etc) that youngsters have grown out of? This is a great facility that we can offer parents, but we can only stock it via other parent’s generous donations.
Sam & Nigel will be running a BBQ, and bar (from 12 noon) adjacent to the marquee, so finger’s crossed for some good weather!!
We will also need a few people to help stack up the chairs in the marquee following the end of the presentation and also assist in helping to load the stage blocks and PE benches into the van which then need to be returned to John Hanson School and unloaded – therefore volunteers required please – don’t just leave at the end of the tag game and go home….
See you all there...
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