Ely RUFC

Senior Management Coaching Team Meeting

Date 29th June 2014 11:00hrs

Venue: Clubhouse

Meeting Called By: Dave Walker Director of Rugby Type of Meeting: Scheduled

Chair: Dave Walker

Senior Management Coaching Team Attendees: D Walker (DW), P Coulson (PC), P Fosdick (PJ), Steve Brown (SB), W Marshall (WM),

Not present - Brownlie (BB), M Egerton (ME), Lloyd Palmer (LP)

Apologies- Nigel Jones (NJ), Glen Bennett (GB)

Previous minutes approved – N/A

Outstanding Actions- N/A

Agenda item: Committee Issues Presenter: All

Positions & Responsibilities:

Lloyd Palmer 1st team captain, vice Joel Scott Paul

1st team Manager Paul Fosdick

1st team Lead Coach Paul Coulson

Assistant Coaches – Ricky Neal, Paul Coulson, Steve Brown

Jason Byrne Development team captain, vice Greg Hill & Will Marshall

2nd team Manager Wayne Marshall

Third team captain – position vacant

Strategy & Playing tactics for the new season

PC outlined his plans for the coming season. The 3 phase system started last season is to be developed further. The 2, 1, 3 strategy and pressure around the breakdown being key.

Pre-season Training & Games

Preseason training is to commence on Tuesday 01/07/14. Training will as usual be held from 19:15 to 21:00hrs on Tuesday and Thursday nights. The aim of preseason training will be to up the intensity of game play to increase fitness. Jamie Russell has kindly agreed to run the fitness sessions.

Planned pre-season games: 23/08/14 – Possibles v Probables

30/08/14 – St Neots ? TBC

06/09/14 – St Ives (H) 1st & Development Team Fixtures

EC1 Teams

Discussions on the teams which will be in the 1st & Development team leagues for the coming season. Teams up and down in EC1 discussed and make up Development team league discussed.

The first league games of the new season are on Saturday 13th September 2014

Team Selection & communications

Team selection will take place on Tuesday nights after training. Criteria for selection to be based on attendance at training as players need to be aware of the systems and moves which the 1st team will be running.

Player Registration

Player registration will continue to be managed by Wayne Marshall. All Senior Players will be encouraged to register with the Club/RFU

Subs for 2014 – 2015

Changes to subs were discussed for the new season. Luke Cornwall has volunteered to chase Senior subs. A proportion of senior subs is to be paid in cash on match days. This will increase the amount paid but will hopefully cover physio cost and contribute towards petrol costs. Approval to be obtained at the Main Committee Meeting and discussed with the Club captain.

If all are in agreement WM to place letter on the club web site laying out the new system.

Sponsorship/ Kit 2014 - 2015

NR plumbing to sponsor first team kit for the next 2 seasons

A.O.B. –

Importance of running a third team discussed. It was agreed that the club will try to play third team fixtures when the Development team have a free Saturday and try to encourage old players to return to the club. The need for a third team skipper was raised as being of upmost importance to future club development.

First Aid kits and contents discussed.

Actions

Invite Tim Mills & Jason Byrne to next meeting - DW

Physio - Contact Physio and confirm that she wants to continue next season. Obtain details of certification, insurance and CRB – PF

Subs – Letter detailing revised Senior Subs to be put on the web site - WM

Approach likely candidates to be third team captain – DW

Provide list of items required to restock first aid kits - PF

Next meeting - Sunday 10th August 11:00hrs 2014

For next agenda-

Dave Walker

DOR

06/07/2014

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