New Season 2008/2009

Lads,

Can you all please confirm your status for the coming season today (whether or not you will be playing for the club). I will also need your contact details (address and phone no) for registration purposes.

Next training session is on Monday night(28th July) at 6.45 in the Phoenix Park. Anthony will be taking the session and we hope to have our new manager down as well. The season is only 3 weeks away so we need everyone down for every session.

Thanks,

Daragh

 

New Season

Lads,

Time for the new season !

The first round of matches is scheduled for the weekend of the 15th of August.

Pre-season is scheduled to begin next Monday in the Phoenix Park, meeting at 6.45.

Please try and make it up on time. We are currently organising with Anthony from

St. Patrick’s Athletic to come down to go through pre-season with us again this season.

I think everyone enjoyed the sessions in the Phoenix Park last year and hopefully we can

carry on from it this year.

For people who were at the end of season games, your manager from last year should have explained

what we have in mind for re-organising the club for the coming season. Instead of having a pre-defined

Saturday or Sunday squad, there will be one squad who will train twice a week.

Come Thursday night training the managers for the Saturday and Sunday league will discuss which players

are playing with each squad that weekend and will inform the players.

If for any reason you can only play a certain day please talk to the managers and they will try

to accommodate you. We want to have as many players involved in the club as we can.

There are several reasons for this change

1. This is to increase competition within the club and give the club a fair chance of competing for

league and cup honours. We believe that there is more that enough good players to be competing

for honours in both divisions.

2. Everyone will be given a fair chance to compete for places.

We want to to win things. That’s why we put in the effort and train twice and week and turn up in the cold and wet.

We believe that by creating one squad were everyone has an equal chance , we can compete for trophy-ware.

3. Unity within the club. Creating a sense of everyone being an active St. Judes member.

As part of this we will be asking two players to take on the role of social officers. This means organising

some social nights out during the year.

As part of this and pre-season can you make a note in your diary’s (book the night off from the

missus) for Saturday the 9th of August. I’ll be talking to the two managers and we’ll look to organising two games

for that day and drinks for later on that night as part of our pre-season. 7-ups obviously !

Recruiting players.

I’ve included a word document for recruiting players.

As a club we rely on people to bring friends, friends of friends,etc along to join the club.

Please email out the document to mates, people you work with, friends from the Astro league who you

think might be interested. Post it on the company’s internal website, canteen notice board etc.

We’ve bought the domain www.stjudesfootball.com and I’ll endeavour to keep it

up to date with all the match, pitch and club news as I can. If you have anything which you would like

posted please drop me a line.

website: http://www.stjudesfootball.com

email: stjudesfootball@gmail.com

Apologies to anyone who email address I don’t have. If you spot anyone missing from the list can you please

forward on their email address to me and notify them about training on Monday.

With thanks

Ronan

St. Judes Treasurer.

 

Start of the Season

#1. Training tonight in Phoenix Park from 7:15pm. Anthony will conduct the training session.

#2. Saturday League starts this weekend(18/8) away to Donore kick-off 2:30pm. Donore now play at Dublinbus grounds in Ballyfermot near Liffey Valley Shopping centre.
i) Meet in the dressing rooms at 1:30pm
ii) Are you available?

#3. Just a few rules I expect each one of you to observe as the season gets underway……

Rule 1.
If you have initially indicated that you are available for a match and due to some unforseen circumstance you can’t make the match :-
a) I need you to let me know 24hours before match kick-off via SMS or email
b) If you incident that stops you attending the match happens less than 24 hours to kick-off I need you to ring me.

Rule 2.
You should respond as soon as possible with your availability. I will not be chasing anyone for response.

Rule 3.
Punctuality. We all need to observe punctuality and try our best to arrive early for matches and meet at the stated times.

Rule 4.
Togetherness. We will need to fight for each other. I will not hesitate to take off anyone mouthing and giving out to a teammate(s).

Rule 5.
Team selection policy will be based on :-
i) training attendance
ii) keeping me in the loop regarding your situation i.e away, injured, etc
iii) you play well you keep your place in the team

NB:- no one is guaranteed a starting place.

#4. Each one of us is responsible for looking after the gear. I will ask for volunteers for the gear and if there is none I will nominate someone to take the gear. I will keep a register of who has done the gear throughout the season.

Lastly I have been delighted with our performances in the 3 pre-season friendlies we have played. Team work ethic has been great and some outstanding individual performances.

Rennie

 

Pre-Season Training in Phoneix Park @ 7.30

Lads,

From tonight on we have a new trainer on Tuesdays and Thursdays. He’s an ex-Middlesborough apprentice who is currently studying for his UEFA A Coaching Licence and also doing some training with St. Pat’s. He wants to get a good idea of the standard of the squad tonight so can you all ensure that you are there. Turnout the last couple of weeks has been pretty dire so make the effort.

See you tonight,

Daragh