2007-03-26 Full Captains MeetingThis is a featured page

The first full captains meeting of 2007 was held at Cumnor Cricket Club on 26 March 2007.

  1. Present

    Jamie Parish (Angels), Jen Edis (Committee Treasurer, Angels), Chris Dore (Devils), Philippa Harris (Greensox), Barbara Young (Open Day Co-ordinator, Devils), Andy Meigs (Harriers), Norm (Committee Secretary, Oddsox - took notes), Stella Bradshaw (Committee Chair, Harriers), Theresa Evans (Oddsox), Nicky Green (Committee Players' Rep, Greensox), Dan Nadel, Stuart Morin (both Vodafone), Simon Taylor (Spirits), Roger Farrell (Committee Vice Chair, Devils).

  2. Projected Season

    Looked at some possible options, as we were not sure how many teams we would end up with.
    Either way Agreed that we would schedule some Thursday games for all teams. We should schedule games for the first Thursday in each month.
    If there are 9 teams:
    • 2 divisions but
    • all teams play all other teams (both divisions) twice
    If 8 teams:
    • 1 division
    • all teams play each other twice (14 games)

    There should be three weeks of Grapefruit games starting Tuesday 17thApril to be held at Oatlands Park. Pitch marking will be done on the evening of Tues 1 May and the first competitive games will be on Tues 8th May.

  3. Pitch layout

    To be the same as last year. With diamond 1's batter facing the Horspath Road (as last year).
    Pitch marking: need volunteers to do this on the evening of Tues 1 May (we mark out the first time and then the groundsman will maintain it. ACTION ROGER to make arrangements with the groundsman.

  4. Rover club fees

    The fee for individual membership of the Rover club is £15 per player. £20 per couple/two peoaple with the same addressEach team will be responsible to register and pay. There will be a form in the captain's pack.
    ACTION JEN: to chase Rover to get social club invoices out near the beginning of the season.

  5. Open days and team recruitment

    Open days
    Barbara produced plans and a poster. She will amend the poster slightly to make it obvious that it is a 'mixed' sport.
    We need people to buddy up with new players. All teams need to send along players to help out and to look after small groups of new players on the day.
    ACTION BARBARA: email the captains to get a named contact from each team to help out on the days.
    On the day, we should consider:
    • separating men and women to begin with
    • do some skills, then have a game
    Does anyone have bibs that they can lend for the 'organisers' to wear?

    General recruitment
    Teams that are short
    • Angels - need 2 women
    • Greensox - need 4 women
    • Oddsox - need 1 woman
    • Spirits - need 1 man, 2 women
    Agreed that if players come through centrally via the web site or the committee, the committee (usually the Chair) will give out some general information about each team. Therefore the newcomer can choose which team s/he would like to join and can email the captain of that team.
    ACTION ALL CAPTAINS: Email Stella with 3 sentences to describe their team for this purpose

  6. Team fees

    BSF fees haven't changed much from last year (e.g. C grade teams up by £5). There is a penalty for late payment (and the Oxford league will pass this straight on to offending teams!). Payments must be made on 21st May and 30th June.
    Due to increased costs and the need for the Oxford League to build a small reserve, costs for each team will increase by about £50 above last year's costs. The captains agreed this increase.

    2007 team fees should therefore be:
    £345 (comprised of £145 to BSUK and £200 to Oxford Softball)
    • (Vodafone being a new team will pay £305:- comprised of £105 to BSUK and £200 to Oxford Softball)
    • (Tigers, being in their third year will pay £320:- comprised of £120 to BSUK and £200 to Oxford Softball)

  7. Local Rule changes

    Several rule additions were debated and some additional rules proposed. These rules will be written into the 2007 working rules document (on this wiki site) for all captains to examine. ACTION NORM to add in the new rules as agreed by the committee at the meeting..
    Rule changes proposed
    • Scratch team
    • Head injuries
    • Line-up/rosters in early weeks of the season
    • Game start times (can be 6.45 pm)
    • Games stopped before completion (lightning added and rain substituted for 'dangerous conditions')
      • What to do with frozen games or games that went to 5 complete innings
    • Plate umpires calling on base coaches for clarification
    • Rain off (failure to play) sanctions
    • Failure to deliver names of best fielder (field MVP) sanctions
    • Non return of trophy sanctions

  8. League structure debate

    Agreed that we need an explicit rule on team demotion and promotion between the divisions.
    Agreed that:
    • we would have 2 divisions if we had 9 or more teams
    • one division if 8 or fewer teams
    When we have 2 divisions:
    • the team that finished bottom of division 1 would be relegated, and the team that finishes top of division 2 will be promoted
    • this year we would go for a 5+4 split (div1+div2); therefore the Devils will stay in Div 1 and the Oddsox will be promoted.
    • as the league grows in numbers of teams, it should probably have a larger division 2, so the next teams to join the league should be added to division 2

  9. Constitution

    Unchanged (apart from amendments proposed at the 2006 AGM).

  10. Captains pack

    To be collated and organised by Norm again. Ideas for additions:
    a BSF accident report form. Also make the inclusion of a scoring tutorial more obvious (it was there last year, but should be listed more clearly).

  11. Rostering

    Every team must have all returning players rostered to the OSL or BSUK site before the new season starts (currently planned for the 8thof May).

    All new players must be rostered no later than 2 weeks from their first appearance in any league game. Please remember if a players is not rostered on the OSL site no stats can be accredited to them, so best do it either before the game or before submitting stats after the game.

    Any team that does not have at least 7 rostered players for each game will forfeit that game. Help is available from the committee to roster your players. A form for both BSUK and Oxford Softball rostering will be included in the captains pack.

  12. Special occasions

    End of season dinner
    We should have this within about 2 weeks of the end of the season, if possible (given the dates available between tournaments).

    League one day tournament
    We are still looking for a date for this, but hoping that we can go ahead with something.

    Umpiring course
    A course has been 'booked' with BASU for Sunday 22 April at Harlequins Rugby Club, Marston Ferry Road. Cost will probably be £5 per individual (teams are encouraged to try to pay for their attendees - to encourage as many as possible people to attend).

    Winterball
    Last session Sunday 8 April.

  13. Equipment reminder

    For a full list of the equipment, see the captains pack or the slides that Stella has sent around to the captains.



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