Topic: Agm (Read 18364 times)

WalkingWicket37 · « **Reply #45 on:** March 09, 2016, 12:05:31 PM »

Quote from: uknsaunders on March 09, 2016, 11:54:11 AM

I can't see how you can get anything organised with an AGM on the 1st April. Nobody knows who the skipper is (least of all himself) and player recruitment goes out of the window if the previous captain is packing in. You don't know how the finances are and what you can and can't do. What if your fixture secretary/treasurer pack it in and you have no volunteers. Sounds like a recipe for chaos but it must work in some parts of the world.

Seems a bit of a joke to hold an AGM so late, don't you think

shamelessshaun · « **Reply #46 on:** March 09, 2016, 12:11:29 PM »

We had our AGM near the start of Feburary. It followed the same pattern to everyone elses by the looks of things. We did have one surprise tho... Someone never knocked the hot water boiler off for the showers after the last home game and it ended costing us �200 extra on the Electricity bill. Also found out we have for the last three years running taken over 20k across the bar, at least now I know where my wage goes.

ppccopener · « **Reply #47 on:** March 09, 2016, 12:15:33 PM »

Quote from: shamelessshaun on March 09, 2016, 12:11:29 PM

We had our AGM near the start of Feburary. It followed the same pattern to everyone elses by the looks of things. We did have one surprise tho... Someone never knocked the hot water boiler off for the showers after the last home game and it ended costing us �200 extra on the Electricity bill. Also found out we have for the last three years running taken over 20k across the bar, at least now I know where my wage goes.

you don't mean 3 years running 20 grand over the bar each season, you mean over the 3 years right?

shamelessshaun · « **Reply #48 on:** March 09, 2016, 12:20:10 PM »

20k a year for three years running.

rickjames · « **Reply #49 on:** March 09, 2016, 12:22:21 PM »

Ours is this Friday, probably won't bother despite being new to the club...

ppccopener · « **Reply #50 on:** March 09, 2016, 12:23:10 PM »

Quote from: shamelessshaun on March 09, 2016, 12:20:10 PM

20k a year for three years running.

****AWESOME****

That's a top effort that.

uknsaunders · « **Reply #51 on:** March 09, 2016, 12:26:44 PM »

I have heard stories of some village clubs taking 100k a season over the bar, mainly because it's the only place to drink in the village.

ppccopener · « **Reply #52 on:** March 09, 2016, 12:35:48 PM »

Quote from: uknsaunders on March 09, 2016, 12:26:44 PM

I have heard stories of some village clubs taking 100k a season over the bar, mainly because it's the only place to drink in the village.

Jesus Wept.

jwebber86 · « **Reply #53 on:** March 09, 2016, 12:39:41 PM »

Quote from: uknsaunders on March 09, 2016, 11:54:11 AM

I can't see how you can get anything organised with an AGM on the 1st April. Nobody knows who the skipper is (least of all himself) and player recruitment goes out of the window if the previous captain is packing in. You don't know how the finances are and what you can and can't do. What if your fixture secretary/treasurer pack it in and you have no volunteers. Sounds like a recipe for chaos but it must work in some parts of the world.

i couldn't agree more. the captain is staying which is about the only steady thing. at the last agm the club lost �1800 for the previous year and nobody actually knows how things have been this season due to there not being any committee meetings. the club hasn't had a chairman for the last year. i was the fixutre secretary and groundsman and i have just moved 2 hours away. i have got the fixtures finished but they dont know about looking after the ground and haven't organised much to address this issue.

im sure they will work somehow but i did feel april 1st was the perfect date for the way the club seems to have been run

Gurujames · « **Reply #54 on:** March 09, 2016, 03:39:16 PM »

We have ours in November, it rounds off the season and everyone knows sphere they stand.

TangoWhiskey · « **Reply #55 on:** March 09, 2016, 04:31:09 PM »

Quote from: jwebber86 on March 09, 2016, 12:39:41 PM

i couldn't agree more. the captain is staying which is about the only steady thing. at the last agm the club lost �1800 for the previous year and nobody actually knows how things have been this season due to there not being any committee meetings. the club hasn't had a chairman for the last year. i was the fixutre secretary and groundsman and i have just moved 2 hours away. i have got the fixtures finished but they dont know about looking after the ground and haven't organised much to address this issue.

im sure they will work somehow but i did feel april 1st was the perfect date for the way the club seems to have been run

God knows what my club is going to do when the old guard decide to sack off being on the committee. We have so many non playing members it's not funny. The only thing anyone would stand for to be on the committee is a captains position. I'm in my first year as fixture secretary but before that I'd been on the committee as website administrator. Now we don't have a website administrator as I still do that too, unsurprisingly no one stepped up to do that when I took up the fixture sec job.

I'm going to stick at it for a couple of years but at some point in the not so distant future I'm going to get very sick of people happy as long as they can turn up and play their cricket week in week out as long as they aren't inconvenienced in any way. It's the same on match days, the only time you see anyone down near the meet time doing the jobs is the committee members, but then when you mention it to anyone all you get is a 'oh stop moaning' in response.

ppccopener · « **Reply #56 on:** March 09, 2016, 04:50:28 PM »

Quote from: TangoWhiskey on March 09, 2016, 04:31:09 PM

God knows what my club is going to do when the old guard decide to sack off being on the committee. We have so many non playing members it's not funny. The only thing anyone would stand for to be on the committee is a captains position. I'm in my first year as fixture secretary but before that I'd been on the committee as website administrator. Now we don't have a website administrator as I still do that too, unsurprisingly no one stepped up to do that when I took up the fixture sec job.

I'm going to stick at it for a couple of years but at some point in the not so distant future I'm going to get very sick of people happy as long as they can turn up and play their cricket week in week out as long as they aren't inconvenienced in any way. It's the same on match days, the only time you see anyone down near the meet time doing the jobs is the committee members, but then when you mention it to anyone all you get is a 'oh stop moaning' in response.

sad to read this but the reality is your club is not alone. I'm absolutely sure the vast majority of our club's members don't have any idea what is involved on the committee and running a club.I've seen clubs local to me fold because there is no-one to run the club.Club members who actually run the club should be held in high esteem but clearly they are not in a lot of clubs.

As a player I always believed very strongly the most important aspect was what happened on the field, winning games, getting promotion,etc. About 10 years ago we had a new Chairman with a background in business. When we first me he let me talk for an hour about what I expected to happen( I was club Captain then) and after I'd finished he just said:

''the sooner you realise that what happens off the field is now our priority and will be going forward the sooner you will understand how the club works, and the better our relationship will be''

and that was that !! essentially without the people who give up their time to run things any club is dead in the water.

ProCricketer1982 · « **Reply #57 on:** March 09, 2016, 04:52:47 PM »

Quote from: TangoWhiskey on March 09, 2016, 04:31:09 PM

God knows what my club is going to do when the old guard decide to sack off being on the committee. We have so many non playing members it's not funny. The only thing anyone would stand for to be on the committee is a captains position. I'm in my first year as fixture secretary but before that I'd been on the committee as website administrator. Now we don't have a website administrator as I still do that too, unsurprisingly no one stepped up to do that when I took up the fixture sec job.

I'm going to stick at it for a couple of years but at some point in the not so distant future I'm going to get very sick of people happy as long as they can turn up and play their cricket week in week out as long as they aren't inconvenienced in any way. It's the same on match days, the only time you see anyone down near the meet time doing the jobs is the committee members, but then when you mention it to anyone all you get is a 'oh stop moaning' in response.

What you've eluded to is why I've walked away from organising/committee and simply going to just turn up and play like most others. I'm more than happy to put hours of work in but not if others simply do nothing and get preferred treatment over others. Sod that, it's amateur cricket , no one is 'needed'

Seniorplayer · « **Reply #58 on:** March 09, 2016, 05:05:03 PM »

We have a committee of 20 but 3 are making the decisions for the rest of us the Treasurer chairman and secretary so i go along to listen so I know whats going on also get the impression that certian things have already been decided on before its put to the rest of the committee

ProCricketer1982 · « **Reply #59 on:** March 09, 2016, 05:16:24 PM »

Quote from: Seniorplayer on March 09, 2016, 05:05:03 PM

We have a committee of 20 but 3 are making the decisions for the rest of us the Treasurer chairman and secretary so i go along to listen so I know whats going on also get the impression that certian things have already been decided on before its put to the rest of the committee

Tbf, having less people has advantages over large committees. The issue is getting the right 3/5 people in those 'power' roles. Usually it's people with vested interests, power mad or old and out of touch.

Still, having said all that.. Clubs desperately (well, other than clubs here as everyone seems to have the best clubs ever) need players and most of all people to run them/do the grounds etc

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