Lenny:

We have to play on Sundays! Don’t complain.

The season starts Wednesday (18/01/17), captains responsibility is to enter the scores onto the website, if you have trouble please contact a member of the committee, please also take a photo of the score sheet at the end of the night and send it to Lenny.

Please also add any new players onto the score sheet, please make sure you include the gender of the player. Check they have never played in the league before.

Do not migrate any players yet, we must set up the league on the website first.

Make sure you pay your fees. Please ask Mark Jones of Scrooge pub for the bank details if you want to transfer (he will play home games the first 3 weeks). On the transfer please enter your team name or we don’t know who paid.

You will start forfeiting matches after the 3rd week if you haven’t paid.

Manage your team’s behaviour. Work with the other captains if there is a dispute.

Make sure your pub table is free 30 mins before the match starts for the visiting team to practice. You can take the home table to practice for 30 mins before the away team.

If you need to reschedule your match, please work it out with the opposition captain. You must give 24 hours notice minimum. Any later and it’s at the other captains discretion.

PROPOSAL 1st of March and 3rd of May are break weeks. (national holidays) OR keep it the same with a 20 week season no breaks (apart from byes for odd numbered leagues, they play 19 weeks).

11 to 4 votes in favour of keeping 20 week schedule.

[Some open discussion about a proposal for the bars to provide beer for the home or away team. Bar owners say they are not obligated and the home teams are free to negotiate with their sponsor pub however they wish]

PROPOSAL should the home team have to provide beers to the away team?

9-7 in favour of NO enforcement of alcohol provided by the home team to the away team.

Lenny: TIMEOUTS! There should be a 2 minute limit for all timeouts please.

Shot Clock: You may choose to enforce a 1 minute time limit on all shots by requesting a shot clock during a slow game.

Fouls. If any foreign object moves a ball at the table while you are at the table it is a foul.

Practising between games. Captains please make sure your team doesn’t practice between games.

Captains please make sure your referees pay attention.

PROPOSAL should captains be banned from refereeing matches?

13 to 5 in favour of NOT banning captains from refereeing matches

Mark Barnes: We are raising money for an IPL team to go to Thailand for the Asia cup tournament. We are trying to sell pool table cloth at a discount rate to fund the trip. If multiple pubs sign up to purchase cloth we can try to negotiate a deal with the table fitters. Equally you could buy the cloth and get your own table fitter.

Which colours do you prefer? If no objections Mark will choose the blue colours for the bars (No dog shit brown).

Please let Mark know which colour you want soon.

Lenny: Set up the divisions..

We need to have 7 teams in 1 division and 8 in 2 divisions, you can stay to have your say, or leave and the committee will sort it out.

[Everyone left]