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Albany Creek Cricket Club Inc Issue 1-5 Volume 27 Summer Season 2017-2018 David Humphrey Riley Stent Full Season Cricketer Half Season Cricketer of the Year 2016-2017 of the Year 2016-17 Open Division Falcon Hawks Open Division Sea Hawks The President’s Bat Welcome to our first Hawk Talk edition for 2017/2018. I would like to send a special welcome to all those new families with the Hawks this season. This year we have a record 35 teams playing from U8 through to our Open division which is U16 to U18. This season, as with last season, we have two half season competitions, a pre–Xmas and post-Xmas competition. With these two separate competitions before and after Xmas so it will be possible for your team to win two competitions throughout the full season. After Xmas when some players go off to play for their schools, we will re-arrange teams to fill any vacancies. This is usually only for teams from U12 upwards. This year we will be again sending out the Hawk Talk electronically. This reduces costs and certainly takes a load off the time spent by our Editor, Eddie Mills. It also allows us more flexibility to highlight the various products of our very generous sponsors. Thank you to all those people who have volunteered to be coaches or managers. This season we only had to find a few new coaches, mostly in the younger age groups, which says a great deal about our retention rate. The parents of this club appreciate the work that is being done by these wonderful people and have every confidence in the way their children are being cared for. Remember parents that this is your club and any help that you can offer makes life easier for coaches/managers/scorers and club officials. We are all volunteers. On training nights you can help out by being prompt when picking up children. Your team officials will not leave until all kids are collected so be considerate to them. On game days support your team and the opposition in a positive manner. Our children will model our behaviour. Winning humbly is as important as congratulating the opposition when they are successful. Scoring and umpiring can sometimes be very stressful so please help your team by being supportive of those who have put their hand up to do the tasks that provide games for your children. I would not like to see cricket as being a child minding service on Saturday mornings. Thank you to the Quin family for looking after the canteen on Friday night. It is getting busier and busier each week. Please support this operation as the lights alone cost the club around $80 each Friday evening and the canteen offsets this cost. I would also like to thank the ACE Netball Club which has kindly allowed our club the use of their toilet facility for Friday night cricket. It is far too dangerous for our young cricketers to have to go over to the old clubhouse building with cars and poor lighting around those premises. Congratulations to our hard working Registrar, John Murray who was honoured as the Queensland Cricket Volunteer of the Month at his team’s game on Saturday. Well deserved John.! I recommend that you support all the generous sponsors who make a significant contribution to our club and allow us to provide the excellent facilities and equipment to enable the players to achieve their playing potential. Steve Casey Website: www.albanycreekcricketclub.com.au Email: [email protected] Postal Address: PO Box 82 Albany Creek QLD 4035 President Secretary Treasurer BNJCA Committee BNJCA Zone Delegate SPSA Delegate Ray Frazer Property Officer 0417 170 619 Steve Casey Francois Basson 0418 878 212 0428 785 306 Vice President Statistician BNJCA Hawk Talk Editor Juniors & Warehouse Website Administrator Warehouse Sub- MyCricket Support Committee, Coordinator Warehouse Sub- & Registrar Committee Social Co-ordinator MyCricket Support WCA Delegate Eddie Mills Peter McFarlane Kathy Casey 0409 491 682 0412 317 317 3264 2163 Registrar Statistician Grounds Co-ordinator BNJCA Juniors BNJCA Juniors U8 to U10 John Murray Warren Stevens Karlee Quin 0427 577 837 0425 227 532 0423 926 148 Assistant Property BNJCA Zone Delegate Warehouse Sub- Officer Committee Andrew Trenerry Barry McDougall Nick Thomas 0419 527 951 0403 134 459 Club Patron Canteen Convenors The Quin Family Geoff Dymock Pre-Christmas Season Vacant Post-Christmas Season The Sponsor’s Spin We recognise the fantastic contributions of our valued sponsors. We have many businesses that sponsor our club and this has enabled us to provide a sport at a reasonable cost and at the same time to keep your club financially sound. Please express your appreciation for the sponsors contributions by using these businesses wherever possible. On behalf of the Albany Creek Hawks Cricket Club we sincerely thank L.J. Hooker Albany Creek Hyperclean and Keith Dudgeon Cricket Specialist, Audit & Tax Accountants Albany Creek, Keith Dudgeon Cricket Specialist, Premier Cricket, Simply Pest Control and Zenith Promotions We look forward to all our sponsor’s continued support. With much appreciated help from our sponsors, your club is able to provide you with an excellent standard of facilities at a comparatively low cost and we will strive to continue this in the future. We sincerely thank Jason & Melinda Chandler of L.J. Hooker our club shirt sponsor and Cassie & Corie Morrad of Hyperclean our Friday Night Cricket sponsor for their valued assistance and hope that their business grows as a result of their association with the Albany Creek Hawks Cricket Club. Please keep our fields tidy and remove all rubbish at the end of training and matches, There are several rubbish bins placed around the net and field areas. This applies for all grounds used during the season, i.e. schools and opposition fields Restrooms at all grounds are for everyone’s use and convenience. Please leave them in a tidy condition and report any issues to your team manager. When entering the South Pine Sports Complex at any time, please travel at the signed speed limit for everyone’s safety, especially during night cricket when visibility is limited. Please park only in designated parking spots and refrain from parking on lawns around the complex. Please ensure that net and field lights are turned off at the end of training sessions. Non-club members can not utilise the lights at any times and the lock codes are made available to club coaches for Hawks members only . We frequently find items left behind after matches or training. Please ensure to check your areas for any items before leaving the field. If you have left something behind you can email us on [email protected]. Generally any lost items are kept in our club canteen for a short period of time until claimed. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PARENTS - TEAM PLACEMENT POLICY We do not grade players at Albany Creek Cricket Club. It is the policy of the club to attempt to place players according to the individual requests of the players. If no special requests are made, players will be placed in the appropriate age group. To make it simpler for existing players to register for the next season, we will provide pre-filled registration forms on our club sign-on weekend. Please note - the registration form and the club’s webpage form provides a special request section, so that parents can make requests for team placement as per examples: • Same team as last year • With Matthew Hayden • With players form ‘All Saints School’ Registrations are also accepted by mail, email or via MyCricket and the Hawks webpage. Please note that registration forms must still be completed for the MyCricket option and forwarded to the Registrar. Towards the end of each season we will publish the dates for next season’s sign-on weekend in the newsletter and on the club’s Webpage and Facebook page. We would also like to remind all parents to ensure that any changes in contact details are forwarded to the club to avoid missing out. Increasing player numbers each year make the administrative task of organising teams more difficult. At the beginning of each season our registrar invests a great deal of time reviewing all player requests before allocating players to individual teams. This commences on Sign-on weekend and continues over several weeks, with new registrations and late registrations coming in right until (and sometimes well after) the season’s first game. So please be sure about your special requests, it is extremely difficult to accommodate any late changes once the teams are formed. The process of sorting teams is long and involved and moving players around after it has started creates a logistical nightmare, especially since we also have to work around a deadline for nominating teams to the Brisbane North Junior Cricket Association. We have in excess of nearly 300 players to keep happy, therefore if registrations are not received before and by the sign-on weekend, or the registrar is not advised of a player’s intent to return and preferred playing arrangements, special requests can only be met if there is room in the nominated team. From: The Albany Creek Cricket Club Committee GENERAL ADMINISTRATION Any Cricket Problems? All Committee phone numbers are listed on page 3: You have all had a little time to settle in and see how your team is going. Are there any problems? Please don’t think now that the season has started that you are on your own. Phone and talk to any committee member or alternatively, approach your coach and we will try and fix what we can.