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.

 

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

 

Player recruitment

Have you played football before? Are you competitive, dedicated and want to win?

Then St. Judes is the club for you!

We have two competitive teams playing in the Leinster Senior League.

One Saturday team playing Major 1D and a Sunday team playing Division 2.

St. Judes offers diversity with players from all parts of Ireland as well as UK, Slovakia, Zimbabwe, Morocco, U.S.A, France, Spain and Italy. The club is run by the team members with an emphasis on members contributing socially to the club.

St. Judes offers excellent pre-season with a fully qualified fitness coach providing a balance of interesting circuit and cardiovascular work.

St. Judes are looking to recruit a qualified football coach for sessions once a week to work on training games, balls skills and continuing to develop our game.

We have access to several pitches at ALSAA (Aer Lingus Sports and Social) www.alsaa.ie/ which have their own groundkeeper who as well as maintaining the pitches to an excellent standard also marks the pitches and sets up the nets/flags for the games.

Leaving us to concentrate on winning!

We’ve access to dressing rooms and showers and a bar/clubhouse for socialising after the game.

Training is twice a week Tuesdays and Thursdays based on all weather pitches with shower facilities.