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Post by Craig Benstock on Jun 2, 2012 18:24:02 GMT
Deano, you have sat on the committee of a social club so you know what its like when trying to arrange whats going on. Things have to go before the committee. A Social club will always take a booking on a first come first serve basis. The singles didn't give us enough notice that the venue was being used (not a certainty now only 16 venues are used) meaning that arrangements had to be made last minute to try and accomodate everything that was going on. Yes we could have assumed we were to be used, but like i said with only 16 venus now used we are not to know how many venues have said they wish to be used, or what venues will hold which events until the committee inform us. had we assumed we were to be used, and then not then the club would of turned away business which it need not have done. The league always used to give atleast 17 days notice before comps, but over the last few seasons its been getting less and less. Yes it can be fine for the players, but not giving notice to the venues is not right. Are you saying that the captain of your team sent the form back to the CAPL committee agreeing for them to be a competition venue without that being confirmed by the committee at your social club?
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Post by The Iceman on Jun 3, 2012 0:55:05 GMT
once again i repeat myself. Shut up Matt your getting boring now!!
either come back on board the committee or shut up!
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Post by monkey on Jun 3, 2012 14:42:57 GMT
Deano, you have sat on the committee of a social club so you know what its like when trying to arrange whats going on. Things have to go before the committee. A Social club will always take a booking on a first come first serve basis. The singles didn't give us enough notice that the venue was being used (not a certainty now only 16 venues are used) meaning that arrangements had to be made last minute to try and accomodate everything that was going on. Yes we could have assumed we were to be used, but like i said with only 16 venus now used we are not to know how many venues have said they wish to be used, or what venues will hold which events until the committee inform us. had we assumed we were to be used, and then not then the club would of turned away business which it need not have done. The league always used to give atleast 17 days notice before comps, but over the last few seasons its been getting less and less. Yes it can be fine for the players, but not giving notice to the venues is not right. In your initial post this argument was not even mentioned. It was about players needing to know were they were going. However, moving on from that. You knew there was only 21 days between the deadline for entering and the date of the Singles. Expecting a 17 day lead in, is in my opinion, therefore unrealistic. If your club had a specific issue with needing to know whether they would be used as a venue then you or one of the captain's should have said something at the time of registration instead of complaining about it afterwards.
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Post by monkey on Jun 3, 2012 15:44:06 GMT
Competitons always used to start later into a season rather than 4 weeks in. The season started on 12th April. The Men's Singles took place on 27th May. Even my maths can work out that this is just over 6 weeks in. You used to always get 2½ - 3weeks notice of comps with them being posted on forum and emailed to captains. As i have explained in my previous post with only 21 days between the deadline and Singles you could not expect this and should have mentioned it at registration. We are a socail club not a pub, and therefore have social functions all the time put on for members. This means if something is booked up and our function hall has been let we have little place to go. We had to try and make last minute arrangements to completely move the pool table and find out how we could accomodate everything without turning something away last minute, which i'm sure you would agree would annoy anyone being told last minute something had been canceled. This therefore had to go through the committee to make decisions on what would be the best solution, or if something needed to be canceled (would prob have been the pool). Same argument. Why didn't you say something at the time of registration for competitions. I can assure you our landlord did inform our venue the day the letter arrived, by which time we only had 9 days notice (if you think it should have been more blame royal mail). They were posted on Wednesday morning, with the hope that they would be at the venues for the pool team arriving on the Thursday evening. That is 10 days? I understand what its like on the committee, but you guys set the dates, surely you should consider that there are certain venues that need to know at the minimum. What is "the minimum"? I daresay this is different for each venue. As previously explained if your venue had an issue with time it should have been brought to our attention at registration. There are 5 free weeks of Sundays with nothing pool related on from the end of June and through July, so if you need more time to get things organised then why were the comps started so early? The earliest of the 2nd rounds of the comps isn't until August so starting the comps 2 weeks later really wouldn't have been an issue and would have given far more time to organise. The Singles is one week earlier than last Summer. This is due to the Bank Holiday moving back one week to take account of the Diamond Jubilee weekend. There are only two free Sundays and they are 24th June and 1st July. Not sure where you get 5 from? The Men's Doubles is on 10th June, Scotch Trebles on 17th June, Mixed Doubles on 8th July, Handicapped Open on 15th July, 3rd Round of Plate on 22nd July and Captain's Cup on 29th July. There is a competition of sort some sort occurring every weekend from now until the end of the season, with the exception of the two mentioned above and the August Bank Holiday weekend. Those two dates were left blank deliberately due to the Euro 2012 football tournament. The 24th is the date of a possible England Quarter Final and 1st July is the date of the Final itself. I can just imagine pubs and clubs welcoming half a dozen pool players into their establishment when it could be rammed with football supporters. I know the chance is slim but we had to allow for it rather than trying to rearrange things with only a couple of days notice. Also, most players would rather be watching the football on those ocassions than be playing pool. This was all discussed at the recent AGM.
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