Marc Thoday

Minutes of the meeting of Aylesbury and District Football League Committee held at 7.30p.m. on Wednesday 1November 2023 at The Tennis Club, Aylesbury

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Present: P Rice, M Griffin, A Morgan,K Saw, N Sabatini, A Skeggs, R Small, Mrs M Stevens, M Thoday.

Apologies were received from K Dunnings, Mrs M Harrison,

The Minutes: of the meeting of 4 October 2023 were agreed

Matters Arising:

Potten End appealed about the fine for an incomplete teamsheet, but Marc has explained the reason for the fine to them.

One of the semi-final pitches at Thame will need to be staked, Roger has the necessary equipment.

We are still awaiting a response from Buckinghamshire Council and from Berks and Bucks FA about the council pitches.

Correspondence:

Berks and Bucks FA have sent details of an early warning system for teams in trouble.

They also asked what we do to support clubs who are having problems – a reply has been sent.

They have informed us that someone wants to start a Sunday League in this area, and asked our opinion as a committee – a reply has been sent.

Treasurer’s Report:

Outstanding fines:

Aylesbury Hornets £10

Buckinghamshire Utd £50

Elmhurst £15

Potten End appeal pending. £10

Registration Secretary’s Report:

No report

Fixtures Secretary’s Report

Late Teamsheets. Rule 21B

7^th October  Wingrave Dev – Not by 6pm Monday

Buckinghamshire Utd – Not fully completed. days £30 fine

14^th October. Buckinghamshire Utd – over 7 days late (£30 fine currently) 

21^st October Aylesbury Royals – not by 6pm Monday

Oving Dev – not fully completed by Wednesday 6pm

28^th October. Aylesbury Hornets – not by 6pm Monday

St Leonards – not by 6pm Monday. Buckinghamshire Utd – not by 6pm Monday

Free Weeks

18^th November  Stoke Mandeville Firsts (2^nd request). Great Missenden,

Aylesbury Royals

November 25^th  Rivets Reserves

Aylesbury FC request declined for 28^th October as not within 4 weeks

Postponed games

Potten End Vs Stoke Mandeville – rescheduled due to a funeral 

Other

The Oxford Road, from Fairford Leys to Sedrup is due to be closed due to HS2 works from Friday 17^th to Monday 20th.  There is no access bar residents via Sedrup. Please check the situation before going to any venue that may be affected.

Games have been attempted to be moved to accommodate where possible

The same issue could arise on the 1^st – 4^th December. 

Clubs are reminded they MUST NOT amend KO times on FA Full Time. This will be completed by the Fixtures Secretary once confirmation by both teams and the Referee has been received via email. KO Times are now 2pm for League Games and 1330 for Cup Games until March 2024, If your opponent is happy to change the KO time it can be agreed, if they do not the League rules must be followed as above. 

Referees Secretary’s Report:

All games have been covered so far.

The sportsmanship marks given by referees to teams averages at less than 80%.

The highest marks have been given to Wingrave Reserves.

Please note that NO rings or jewellery are permitted on the football field, it is not sufficient to tape rings. Colours for opposing teams must be different, both shirts AND socks – rule 19.

Fines

9.9. S/C Ludgershall no first aider fine £10 rule 21A

7.10 Elmhurst – no team name, clolours or GK colours. Fine £10 rule 21A

Haddenham – no competition name or signature on teamsheet fine £10 rule 21A

14.10 St Leonards -wrong date (14.9.23) fine £10 rule 21A

Aylesbury Hearts no GK colours on teamsheet fien £10 rule 21A

Haddenham no signature on teamsheet fine £10 rule 21A

Buckinghamshire Utd no referee mark finr £5 rule 23H

21.10 Aylesbury Hornets no ref confirmation until Friday fine£10 rule 20C

Potten End incorrect shirt numbers fine £5 rule 19

Potten End wrong competition team sheet fine £10 rule 21A

Wendover Reserves no date on teamsheet fine £10 rule 21A

28.10 Chesham Youth no team name on teamsheet fine £10 rule 21A

Gt Missenden no colours on teamsheet fine £10 rule 21A

Elmhurst no GK colours on teamsheet fine $10 rule 21A

The dressing rooms for AWFC are not in a fit state.

Press/Results Secretary’s Report:

Thank you to Stoke Mandeville, Haddenham and Aylesbury Hornets for match action.  More clubs should provide match action

Any Other Business

Please note there is to be a one minute silence on 11 November before the start of games

Roger has a new phone number, it is

Cup Dates

Minutes of the meeting of Aylesbury and District Football League Committee held at 7.30p.m. on Wednesday 4 October 2023 at The Tennis Club, Aylesbury

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Present: P Rice, K Dunnings, M Griffin, R Small, Mrs M Stevens, M Thoday.

Also present was Ashley Morgan

Apologies were received from Mrs M Harrison, N Sabatini, K Saw A Skeggs

The Minutes: of the meeting of 9 September 2023 were agreed

Matters Arising:

There were none

Correspondence:

There is an Early Warning System being arranged by Berks and Bucks, for any clubs that are having difficulties. The League needs to contact Berks and Bucks with details.

There is a manager from a recent division 2 match who is under investigation for miscon-duct.

A division one game is being dealt with by Berks and Bucks FA for a melee.

Registration Secretary’s Report:

St Leonards are in correspondence with Herts FA over registration issues.

Fixtures Secretary’s Report

Postponed games

16th September Aylesbury Royals Vs Haddenham Utd – abandoned 12 minutes due to a broken leg to a Haddenham player – to be replayed

23rd September

Buckinghamshire Utd Vs Oving. Game awarded to Oving, Buck Utd unable to raise a side. £50 fine. Rule 20E

30th September

Elmhurst V AWFC Res – abandoned 82 minutes due to broken leg of AWFC player – set to be replayed.

Late Teamsheets

9th September, Wingrave Dev. 10 players listed and signings on the date not back date. £30 fine rule as over 21 days late

30th SeptemberAWFC Reserves – not by 6pm

Aylesbury Hornets – not by 6pm

Potten End – incomplete teamsheet by Wednesday

Other:

Aylesbury Hearts were under suspension prior to 16th September, but contacted the B&B who confirmed fine was paid, but B & B failed to lift the ban on WGS.

Can clubs please monitor WGS regularly to check all is in order.

When a club has a suspended player, can they please inform Berks and Bucks FA when the suspension is completed, so it can be removed from the website.

Referees Secretary’s Report:

Sept 9. Rivets – no assistant named Fine £10 rule 21A

Sept 22 Thame B late referee confirmation. Fined £10 rule 20C

Sept 23 Haddenham no named assistant, club signature fined £10 rule 21A

Rivets no named assistant, GK colours fined £10 rule 21A

Elmhurst no assistant flag

Sept 30 Elmhurst no club name, no club colours fined £10 rule 21A

AW FC Res were late (14.25) in giving their team sheet to referee £10 Rule 23E

Referee game coverage is currently 100%. We now have 26 referees on the ADL panel,

Also had 4 reports from teams about referees.

2022/23 the highest club marked referee was Lee Parrack, and the highest rookie referee was Nathan Parrin.

Press/Results Secretary’s Report:

The weekly report is now on the Facebook page

Roger’s Report

Roger has watched some games; a new referee Adrian Green was very good.

Another game between Stoke Mandeville and Elmhurst was played in a very good manner, but in a third game he watched the manager was very offensive and abusive.

Any Other Business.

.Condolences to Harry Collins of AWFC who broke his leg in two places while playing in a match v Elmhurstl. We wish him a speedy recovery.

Thame have agreed for us to hold all the Cup semi-finals there.

The Marsworth Cup and Reserve Cup finals will be held at Tring, 18n and 25 March respec-tively.

The meeting closed at 9.00 p.m. The next meeting was arranged for 1 November 2023

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Minutes of the meeting of Aylesbury and District Football League Committee held at 7.30p.m. on Wednesday 13 September 2023 at The Tennis Club, Aylesbury

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Present: P Rice, K Dunnings, M Griffin, Mrs M Harrison, K Saw, R Small, Mrs M Stevens, M Thoday. Also present was Rod Noble from Berks and Bucks FA.

Paul Timms Chair of Aylesbury United Women’s football also joined us later to take part iin the discussion about the state of pitches.

Apologies were received from N Sabatini ,A Skeggs,

The Minutes: of the meeting of 2 August 2023 were agreed

Matters Arising:

Since the last meeting Toqeer Titans will not be continuing, they have now merged with Aylesbury Vale and will be playing at Haddenham Airfield, and called Aylesbury Vale Toqeer Titans

Correspondence:

Aylesbury Hearts have changed their training ground to Walton Court Playing Fields, and

Their home ground to Edinburgh Playing Fields.

Berks and Bucks will be having Inclusion Training for leagues on 11 December, via the in-ternet. Nik and Kevin D are willing to log in.

There have been queries about various procedures by new teams, they have all been an-swered.

We have received comments about the state of the pitches, the changing facilities and the cost of hiring the pitches in Aylesbury Vale.

Wendover’s home ground is now back at the John Colet School

Treasurer’s Report:

All the league and cup fees were paid before the deadline, so there are no fines due.

Deposits have been returned to Prestwood and Toqeer Titans less fines as per the league rules.

Kings Sports have now returned the Sheffield Jackman trophy.

Registration Secretary’s Report:

Everyone has now registered successfully.

To register a player, 2 can be registered before midday on Friday before Saturday’s match,

3 can be registered on the Saturday, per team.

For Cup games registrations must be made 7 days before.

Fixtures Secretary’s Report

Free weeks

9th September. Oving 1sts and Development, Aylesbury Hornets

30th September. Haddenham Utd

7th October. Stoke Mandeville

Cup Draws have been made and are Online

Late game confirmation

Potten End – confirmed Friday before the game on 9th September. Fined £10 rule 21B

Late Teamsheets

None – thank you to most teams who added their Teamsheets ok. Guidance was given to a few, fines will now be applicable if they are not fully completed with the below by 6pm Mon-day

· Players who started

· Players who started as substitutes

· Players who came on and went off with the approx time

· Goal scorers and the minutes scored

· Yellow and red cards and minutes

Referees Secretary’s Report:

We are in dire straits, there are no spare referees. When people complete their referees course we are not being given their names because of GDPR. There is no communication from Berks and Bucks FA.

Rod Noble informed the committee that a new referees secretary has just been appointed, and Rod would pass our concerns about the lack of information about referees to him.

Also we need local courses to be run for people locally who want to take part.

Press/Results Secretary’s Report:

Please send in reports and photographs.

Any Other Business.

There are spare branded match balls available at £10 each, a set of 5 with a ball carrier and 6 water bottles for £60.

There was some discussion with the representative from Berks and Bucks about the state of the pitches for hire in Aylesbury. Edinburgh Playing Field have no showers and the Council do not have money to fund a new boiler. Walton Courts changing facilities have a damaged roof and Bedgrove do not have up to date changing facilities. Rod Noble was also shown pictures of the state of the playing surface on one of the pitches.

There are 319 teams in Aylesbury Vale, mostly youth. There should be 8.5 full sized pitches and there are 2.75. We have reached out to Bucks Council, with no positive out-comes and we need the support of Berks and Bucks FA to help our cause. Rod agreed to meet with members of Berks and Bucks FA to see what help they could provide. There are funds available, but only to individual clubs, not for Council pitches.

The meeting closed at 8.55 p.m. The next meeting was arranged for 4 October 2023

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Minutes of the meeting of Aylesbury and District Football League Committee held at 7.30p.m. on Wednesday 2 August 2023 at The Tennis Club, Aylesbury

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Present: P Rice, K Dunnings, Mrs M Harrison, M Griffin, N Sabatini A Skeggs, R Small, Mrs M

Stevens, M Thoday.

Apologies were received from. K Saw

The Minutes: of the meeting of 5 July 2023 were agreed, but the date of the next meeting wasIncorrect.

Matters Arising:

Potten End, Toqeer Titans and Thame B did not attend the SGM. £50 fine rule 30

Correspondence:

Buckinghamshire Council have been contacted about their pitches and changing rooms, since then we have received information about other people within the Council to contact.

Rod Noble of Berks and Bucks is to attend the September meeting, and we have already informed him of the pitch problems, so we will pass the information on to him, in the hope that he will be able to have more power to influence the Council.

Berks and Bucks have issued a notice about points deductions for teams that have behav-iour problems. This has already been sent to the clubs.

Registration Secretary’s Report:

4 teams have so far done nothing about registering their players:-

Potten End

St Leonards

Wingrave

Each fined £25 rule 2G (1)

There is a deadline of 31 August for all teams to have 14 players registered, in order to com-mence the season.

Fixtures Secretary’s Report

No fixtures can be arranged until all the teams have been affiliated.

There was a complaint made that there may not be enough fixtures, with reserve teams be-ing unable to enter some of the cups. A suggestion was made that for the reserve cup there could be two divisions, each playing a round robin, with the winners and runners-up of each division playing each other.

The Sheffield Jackman Cup is for first teams only, and will remain that way.

Referees Secretary’s Report:

Kevin is still in need of referees. Berks and Bucks have promised to create more referee courses for the coming year, again Rob Noble will be questioned about this in September.

Press/Results Secretary’s Report:

Clubs are reminded of the extension of the FullTime teamsheet to now include

· players who started

· Players who started as substitutes

· Players who came on and went off

· Goal scorers and the minutes scored

· Yellow and red cards

These need completing by the 6pm deadline a Monday after a game.

If you need help with this process please ask Marc for assistance

Any Other Business

There are some surplus footballs, bags etc. from what was supplied for existing teams, if new teams want to purchase them we will work out the cost and make them available.

Please do not over-inflate the balls it puts pressure on the seams and shortens their life.

A prospective new club has been interviewed by members of the committee.

Some of the roles previously carried out by Peter have been taken up by committee mem-bers.

Reports on unplayable pitches to Kevin Dunnings

Booking of semi-finals – Marc Thoday

Booking of finals etc. – Marcie Harrison

Aylesbury Town Council liaison – Tony Skeggs

The meeting closed at 8.50 p.m. The next meeting was arranged for 13 September 2023

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Minutes of the meeting of Aylesbury and District Football League Committee held at 7.00p.m. on Wednesday 5 July 2023 at The Tennis Club, Aylesbury

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Present: P Rice, Mrs M Harrison, K Saw, R Small, K Dunnings, M Griffin, N Sabatini. Mrs M Stevens.

Apologies were received from A Skeggs, M Thoday,

The Minutes: of the meeting of 7 June 2023 were agreed

Matters Arising:

ADL/Marsworth fees for Tring Athletic FC have been paid

Correspondence:

Buckinghamshire Council have been contacted, and asked to attend the Secretaries meeting on 31 July, to discuss the football grounds and amenities in Aylesbury. We have not as yet had a reply.

Following the AGM there was discussion about the Cups each team could enter. It was decided that they could enter four cups, plus the Oving Cup if applicable. The clubs will be informed by email.

Aylesbury Hornets will be playing at Bierton FC ground next season, as well as Aylesbury F.C. (formally Stone F.C.)

Registration Secretary’s Report:

Teams need to go on the WGS, it is available from 7 July.

Team sheet books have been ordered

The registration form has been amended, so the necessary information for Marcie is all on one side, making it necessary to only scan in one side.

As discussed at the AGM the rule change means two players need to be registered by Friday mid-day and three on match day, with the manager’s approval.

Transfers should be paid direct by bank transfer prior to being submitted and the transfers are not completed until the fee is in the bank.

14 players per team need to be registered by the Sunday before the SGM.

Fixtures Secretary’s Report

Marc needs to know when the league is affiliated, so he can check facts with Alastair. The proposed divisions will be sent out to clubs for their comments.

If Clubs have changed their pitches since last season, can they please confirm.

Referees Secretary’s Report:

Emails have been sent out for next season’s referees, and there have been 10 replies so far. We need a minimum of 20 referees for the season.

The information about the highest marks and the best rookie will be declared at the referees meeting on 6 September.

Berks and Bucks FA have sent out a request for referees for various leagues, we should ask them to include ADFL.

The Committee are looking into why details of Referees requirement are missing from the present rules.

Press/Results Secretary’s Report:

Can clubs send information on friendly or player requests via WhatsApp, email or the Facebook Page

Any Other Business

Nik has sourced some lightweight jackets for Committee who need to go out to games.

We need to ask someone from Berks and Bucks FA to come to the SGM and give their support for the need for pitches in Aylesbury.

We still need a Chair for the Committee.

Meetings will be at 7.30 in future, 7.00 is too early for some members.

The President’s Cup will be renamed the Tom Munt League Cup.

The meeting closed at 8.50. The next meeting will be on Wednesday 13 September at 7.30 p.m.

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