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[TangoWhiskey]

We only have an eight man committee. 3 of the committee almost never play any more. Our treasurer is an absolute saint of a bloke, played loads in the 80's, 90's and early '00s but then married and had kids and has played maybe 5 games in the last 7 years. He is a groundskeeper at the school up the road from our club and spends his lunch break every day in the summer working on our ground and a former accountant so is more than handy with the books. He regularly asks people to get down in the evenings to do something like rolling but the only people who ever turn up are committee members. He literally begs others to do it and rather disgustingly everyone completely ignores it.

In a weird way I'm almost looking forward to the day when he decides to jack it all in. The whole club will literally go to pot and I'll be sat there with a smug 'I told you so' look on my face when the masses start whinging that the deck is (No Swearing Please) and the club's money has vanished. 

[liscon12]

Might be interesting to find out where everyone has their AGM meetings, both the clubs I play for have them in the local pub we usually go to after a game.

[TangoWhiskey]

Might be interesting to find out where everyone has their AGM meetings, both the clubs I play for have them in the local pub we usually go to after a game.

Our ground is owned by a social club, which is an absolute godsend. It's literally like having a completely staffed and stocked bar on site and we always have all meetings in there. Got a committee meeting tonight as it happens.

[smilley792]

We have a club house and bar. We sit in there.


Amusingly as its an "agm" we have 2.

One in October to sort the stuff out for next year.

Then one in march(next Thursday) to sort small bits before season starts.

[northernboy1987]

Ours is next Wednesday and is in a local village hall with no boozer in sight 

[shamelessshaun]

We hold ours in the Club House, with a fully stocked bar and a Key to shut it when we like 

[Kez]

In the pavilion and leftover beer from the season is free to a good home 

[northernboy1987]

We hold ours in the Club House, with a fully stocked bar and a Key to shut it when we like 

I'm just gonna come to yours instead then, it's only a 30 minute trip.

[liscon12]

I'm just gonna come to yours instead then, it's only a 30 minute trip.

Which club does @shamelessshaun play for, is it Whitehaven or someone down that way?

[northernboy1987]

Egremont I think!

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[shamelessshaun]

Egremont I think!

You'd be correct.

[Cin88]

I don't know exactly what went on at our AGM this year as I was on nights but there was a lot of changes on the committee. In fact only the child welfare officer and treasurer stayed in their jobs. The former groundsman claims that he resigned in protest over the president being voted out, in actual fact he was voted out as well (almost unanimously) because everyone was complaining about the poor job he was doing.

[TangoWhiskey]

I don't know exactly what went on at our AGM this year as I was on nights but there was a lot of changes on the committee. In fact only the child welfare officer and treasurer stayed in their jobs. The former groundsman claims that he resigned in protest over the president being voted out, in actual fact he was voted out as well (almost unanimously) because everyone was complaining about the poor job he was doing.

Wait, you guys have to vote in a groundsman? It's only me and the current groundsman who can get the roller started at our club, if he got voted out we'd be screwed!

[Cin88]

Wait, you guys have to vote in a groundsman? It's only me and the current groundsman who can get the roller started at our club, if he got voted out we'd be screwed!

Yeah, normally it's a rubber stamp vote but this time around they had to actually make a choice.

Edit: we have players that do gardening related jobs for a living so it's not like we're short of people when in a pinch, one of those guys is now the official groundsman and his employers are sponsoring us.

[Woodyspin]

Yeah, normally it's a rubber stamp vote but this time around they had to actually make a choice.

Edit: we have players that do gardening related jobs for a living so it's not like we're short of people when in a pinch, one of those guys is now the official groundsman and his employers are sponsoring us.

Great decision by them! "Wow their ground looks nice, best get him to do my garden! Wonder who he works for... Oh its their sponsor!"