Coaches in Junior Matches

Juniors Playing in More than One Grade.

·               Juniors are permitted to play a maximum of two matches each week and may only move up one section, eg. Under 11 to Under 13, Under 13 to Under 15. 

·               Only Under 15 & Under 17 players will be permitted to fill in for Men or Women. No player may play in more than one team in any one age group (including Men & Women).

·               Where clubs have two teams in a higher age group, players who play in the higher age group/grade must be allocated to one of those teams after round 4. (Refer Bylaw 20)

Club and Player  Responsibilities.

FEE STRUCTURE

Clubs are required to pay the West Gippsland Hockey Association Inc. the following fees to register their teams in the Association competition.

Under 9                                                $80 per team

Clubs are required to pay these fees to the Treasurer by the end of Round 3.

UMPIRING

·                    The future and success of the competition depends on the willingness of people to umpire games.

·                    Clubs will be provided with a Roster of  Games for which they are required to supply umpires.

·                    In the situation of a rostered umpire arranging a substitute who fails to meet the umpiring commitment, any penalty will be applied to the team of the rostered umpire.

DUTY TASKS:

During the season Clubs will be allocated the task of setting up the fields and packing up at the end of the day.

Tasks to be done include:

Beginning of Day:

Clubs on Duty will need representatives at the ground by 8.00 am to allow time to complete these tasks.

During Day

End of Day

Help Wanted

The Association Committee continually needs help with the many aspects of running the association. Please feel free to offer your assistance and help out at any time.

BYLAWS

All clubs have copies of the Bylaws of the Association 

DOG DROPPINGS

We often have a problem with Dog droppings being left on the fields. Players and families are asked to clean up after their own dogs and if you know people who walk their dogs on the Bellbird Park fields, please ask them to clean up after their pets.

To assist in having people available to assist with Duty the Roster has been designed to ensure the Club on duty has an Under 9 Team playing at 9.00 am and also has a Men’s or Women’s Team playing at 3.00 pm .

UNIFORM

All players are to be in full uniform by the start of Week 3 of the competition.

Players without correct uniform will not be permitted to take the field.

Team Captains will be responsible for ensuring players in incorrect uniform do not take the field.

Please do not put our umpires and committee in the difficult position of having to enforce this rule.

INSURANCE:

This year we propose to have all players are covered for personal accident insurance. In the event of an injury contact a representative of your club committee to check on your eligibility to claim.

FIRST AID KITS

·               Ice Packs will still be available in the Canteen

·               Clubs will continue to be  responsible for providing First Aid Kits for all other First Aid needs for their members during the competition.

·               The First Aid kits owned by the Association will be available for use only for Inter Association and other representative teams.

SAFETY ISSUES:

In the interest of spectator safety there is to be no hitting up in the area between the 25 yard line to the goals on the two fields nearest the pavilion due to the danger of injury to spectators.

Players are also not have a warm up hit in the direction of the houses on the Eastern side of Bellbird Park.

COMPLETION OF MATCH BOOK.

See Example at back of this booklet.

·               Each Team Manager /Captain will be supplied with a Match Book.

·               It is the captains’/team managers’ responsibility to ensure this book is completed correctly

·               Write your own Team’s Name first at top of the page.

·               Sheet must be signed by both captains and umpires.

·               Please write all NAMES in BLOCK LETTERS.

·            DO NOT INCLUDE (or Cross Out ) NAMES OF PLAYERS WHO DID NOT PLAY.

·            Completed Match Book Sheets must be placed in the container provided in the clubrooms at the end of the game.

·            The Bylaws provide for clubs to be fined for failure to complete Match books correctly.

PRESS REPORTS.

·            Press reports are to be completed by each team and returned at the end of each match to the container provided.

NEWSLETTERS AND COMMUNICATION TO CLUBS.

·            Weekly information such as newsletters, nomination forms etc, will be placed in a team folder which will remain in the pigeon holes in the club room.

·            Team managers should collect such information from their folder prior to each match. 

·            All players and their parents are asked to read the Notice Board each week as well

PLAYER REGISTRATION.

USE OF PAVILION.

To assist the organisers players are asked not to use the Pavilion as a change room or for the storage of their personal hockey gear.

This will reduce the clutter and make it easier for the committee, and other organisers to perform their tasks.

WET WEATHER MATCH CANCELLATIONS

In the event of wet weather games may be postponed/cancelled at the discretion of the Grounds and Equipment Officer. They will ring 3GG and a representative from each club when such a decision has been made. It will be the club’s responsibility to contact team representatives who will in turn contact individual team members.

On days of very poor weather tune to 3GG and listen for the sport cancellation reports.