Minutes of the meeting of Aylesbury and District Football League Committee held at 7.00 p.m. on Wednesday 2 February 2022 at the Tennis Club, Aylesbury
Present: P Rice, K Dunnings, M Griffin, Mrs M Harrison, T Munt, N Sabatini, K Saw, R Small, M Thoday
Apologies were received from T Skeggs and Mrs M Stevens
Matters arising
All clubs will be emailed a full list of first aid box contents, which needs to be in place for season 2022/23.
Peter and Margaret will be meeting with 5 representatives from Buckinghamshire Council on Thursday 17th February regarding pitches and changing rooms.
Berks and Bucks are checking that all managers with registered players under 18 have a valid DBS. Thank you to those clubs who responded in record time.
Stoke Mandeville’s appeal to Berks and Bucks against the racist remark was dismissed. The £50 fine, and 7 fixture suspension remain.
The AGM will be 20th June 2022, and the Secretaries Meeting 8th August 2022
All 12 pitches at Fairford Leys for the six consecutive semi-finals fixtures, commencing on Saturday 26th February have been booked.
The Chairman has a meeting at Tring Athletic later this month to confirm details for the 6 finals commencing on Monday 14thMarch 2022
Registration Secretary’s Report
Ben Pope transferred from Ludgershall to FC Bierton
Adam Davis de-registered from Burnham to play for Great Missenden, letter received from Burnham FC.
St Johns played a player on 22.01.22 before transferring him from his current club. (Transfer still not completed)
Aylesbury Vale Dynamos played a player on 22.01.22 under suspension, game awarded to Haddenham and fined £50 Rul 18M. (This is suspended while we await the result of their appeal to the Berks & Bucks FA)
Aylesbury Vikings 1st team failed to follow the correct procedure of signing a player on the day.
Reminder that if a player gets sent off his suspension starts the following week or the next game whichever is sooner, don’t wait for the Berks and Bucks to inform you.
Last date for player registrations is 1st March 2022, please check full time that all expected players are registered.
Marcie continues to investigate several involved issues, including a very unusual incident on the 15th January.
The committee are becoming increasingly concerned that team sheets on full time, which should mirror the copy given to the referee at the start of the match are slowly becoming different, always go back and update any players registered on the day and mark all subs as used or un used. Should this practice continue then we will have no option but to issue fines for incorrect team sheets.
Team sheets need to be printed as instructed on the pad so referees and the opposition can read all names clearly.
Fixtures Secretary’s Report
The proposed inter-league competition between teams in our premier division and those in West Herts will be starting on March 5th. Those involved will be contacted about their fixtures.
Following Wendover appeal regarding unregistered players, as no new evidence was forthcoming the appeal was dismissed. The seven fixtures involved are as follows:.
Saturday 4th September. Wendover Firsts vs Aylesbury Vikings Fined £50
Saturday 11th September. Long Marsden vs Wendover Firsts Fined £50. Fixture awarded to Long Marsden
Saturday 2nd October. Wendover Firsts vs Wingrave. Cup. Wendover fined £50
Saturday 2nd October Wendover Reserves vs Haddenham Fined £50. Fixture awarded to Haddenham
Saturday 9th October. Great Missenden vs Wendover Firsts Fined £50
Saturday 9th October Wendover Reserves vs Tetsworth Reserves Fined £50 Fixture awarded to Tetsworth Reserves.
Saturday 16th October Wendover Firsts vs Hale Leys Fined £50. Fixture awarded to Hale Leys.
Free weeks
12th Feb: Ludgershall 1sts & St Johns
Postponed Games
8th January. Long Marston Vs Tetsworth – Game awarded to Tetsworth Rule 20E £50
Wingrave First Vs FC Aristocrat – waterlogged pitch. To be replayed Stoke Mandeville Res Vs Stone Utd – waterlogged pitch. To be replayed
15th January. Aylesbury Vale Vs Prestwood Res – covid. To be replayed
29th January FC Bierton Vs Tetsworth Reserves. Game awarded to FC Bierton Rule 20E £50
Late Teamsheets All Rule 21A
8th January – Prestwood First – Not by Monday (Thomas Field Shield) £10 Fine.
15th Jan. Tetsworth Res – Not by Monday £10 Fine
22nd Jan. Aylesbury Raiders – Not by Monday £10 Fine Tetsworth Res – Not by Monday £10 Fine
Prestwood 1st- Teamsheet Not received within 7 days £10 Fine
Stoke Mandeville 1st – Not by Monday £10 Fine
29th Jan Stoke Mandeville Res – Not by Monday £10 Fine
Prestwood have been asked to play some games at The Rye, High Wycombe due to their backlog of Reserve Games
Wendover’s pitch is not available after 26th March
Referees Secretary’s Report
Kevin has received four reports from clubs regarding referees performances.
Referee sportsmanship scores for some teams are lower than usual, Margaret will email the clubs direct that this is noticeably happening with.
Referee fees will increase next season to come in line with other leagues. Referees £40 to £42, Assistants £25 to £30
With the current shortage of referees, the league may not be able to supply 3 officials for semi-finals.
8/1/22. Berryfields failed to offer match fee 15 minutes before kick-off, referee had to wait until after Berryfields had showered in breach of rule 23E £20 fine.
Haddenham had no surnames on team sheet rule 23C fined £10.
Ludgershall Res wrong copy of team sheet handed to ref rule 23C fined £5.
15/1/22. Aylesbury Vikings wrong copy of team sheet, no assistant named, late team sheet to ref rule 20F £5 fine
St Leonards wrong copy of team sheet to ref rule 23C £5 fine
22/1/22. Prestwood late referee confirmation (Thursday) rule 20C £10 fine.
Aylesbury Vikings Team sheet not signed rule 23C £5 fine.
Wendover res no club assistant rule 23C £5 fine
Berryfields team sheet not signed rule 23C £5, failure to pay referee on time rule 23E £20 fine
Prestwood no referee mark given rule 23H £5 fine.
29/1/22. Prestwood res late referee confirmation (Thursday) rule 20C £10 fine.
Prestwood Res – NO First Aider on team sheet Rule 25 £10 fine
Ludgershall res late referee confirmation (Thursday) rule 20C £10 fine
Hale Leys no first aider named on team sheet rule 25 £10 fine
Prestwood no colours on team sheet, no club assistant, no first aider, no club signature rule 23C £5 fine.
Aylesbury Vale wrong date on team sheet rule 23C £5 fine.
Wingrave Dev failed to give team sheet to the referee until after full time. Rule 20F £5 fine
Congratulations are due to the following referees who have been given County Cup Final appointments this season,
Manny Chandwani , Sophie Dennington , Lee Dunnings , Peter Gibbins & Kevin Saw.
Press Secretary’s Report
We are looking to re-vamp our website, if anyone knows of any web designers locally, please be in contact.
Any Other Business
We will no longer give referees a financial award at the end of the season. We will still give an award of recognition.
The ‘rookie referee’ award remains unchanged.
The meeting closed at 9.00 p.m. the next meeting was arranged for 2 March 2022
