The North Sydney District Cricket Club 2015-16 Annual Report
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The North Sydney District Cricket Club 2015-16 Annual Report Photograph: T Johnson Distinguished Members & Office Bearers Patrons BO White Premier Grade Committee D Graham (President), M Lloyd (Vice President), P Lindsay (Secretary), R Wilson (Treasurer), K Lawrence, T McKenna, A Wayling, K Campbell, J Thompson, B Wallis, C Lloyd Junior Cricket Committee K Riseborough (President), J Riseborough, T Davison, C Hodgson, R Brown Cricket NSW Delegates D Graham Sydney Cricket Association Delegates D Graham, BO White Life Members T Chappell, D Cole, T Greenwood, S Hockey, V Kringas, M McMahon, W Playle, J Riseborough, K Riseborough, G Roberts, D Rodgie, R Shelton, G Spring, D Taylor, R Telfer, BO White, BC White, M White Life Member of NSW Cricket Association D Cole Vice Presidents Life Member of Sydney Cricket Association R Allen, A Anderson, K Austin, AR Baillie, J Baird, B White R Balcomb, S Ball, M Beattie, R Bergin, J Bray, G Bush, I Chappell, R Chapman, W Charlton, R Collins, W Crane, G Cummins, P Cohen, K Davidson, R Dignam, R Donovan, D Eade, R Emerson, N Evans, M Fisher, P Fitzgerald, J Gray, R Green, R Halkyard, R Harris, K Hepwroth, J Howard, R Jeffrey, T Johnson, D Johnstone jnr, A Kelleher snr, A Kelleher jnr, R Kelleher, D Lockwood, B McMahon, M McKeand, G Maddocks, V Margan, J Medland, D Middleton, C Morgan, K Nelson, A Oakes, J Peterson, T Peterson, D Pilkington, K Rodgie, P Sachs, S Stewart, T Sullivan, N Taylor, S Taylor, D Tierney, A Thompson, M Tobias, M van Rhoon, S Weisner, B White jnr, C White, G Wood, S Woodhouse, T Wooster, RC Wotton, MP Aldermen and Officers of the North Sydney Council Mission Statement Contents The North Sydney District Cricket Club (NSDCC or the ‘Bears’) Distinguished Members and Office Bearers IFC aims, through a quality structure and environment, to provide an opportunity for our cricketers to compete to their highest potential. The President’s Report 2 The Bears provide a talent pathway all the way to Cricket NSW and Highlights 5 ultimately Cricket Australia. Awards 6 Our Mission is to: Governance 7 • Establish and maintain formal links with our community within Operation our geographic zone on Sydney’s lower North Shore; 9 • Assist our cricketers through their development from entry level Selected Financial Indicators 10 (Milo In2Cricket) through to Premier Grade Cricket; A Tribute to Rob Aitkin 11 • Provide the best quality structures and training; and Head Coach’s Report 13 • Develop the life skills of our junior members. First Grade Captain’s Report 15 Second Grade Captain’s Report 16 Long Term Strategic Vision Third Grade Captain’s Report 17 The Bears have a long history and proud traditions and the Fourth Grade Captain’s Report 18 Committee are committed to building on these solid foundations to Fifth Grade Captain’s Report 19 enhance our sport within the community. Poidevin-Gray Captain’s Report Our long term vision is to: 21 • Develop and nurture a greater number of first class cricketers; AW Green Shield Coach’s Report 22 • Provide higher quality facilities by working constructively Junior Section President’s Report 23 with local council, the State Government and Cricket NSW to NSDJCC Financial Report 25 prioritise resources; Income & Expenditure Statement - Juniors 28 • Expand our training and development programs to engage a broader universe of cricketers including schools Balance Sheet – Juniors 29 and girls/women’s cricket; and NSDCC (Seniors) Financial Report 36 • Strengthen our community engagement Income & Expenditure Statement - Seniors 40 Balance Sheet – Seniors 42 The Bears Sponsors 50 The President’s Report The winds of change have been blowing briskly Voluntary measurement commenced in 2015 with throughout the course of the 2015-16 cricket season feedback providing a valuable insight into our areas providing additional challenges for North Sydney District of strength and weakness. The CAS assessment areas Cricket Club (NSDCC). Sydney Grade Cricket is now cover 15 separate sections comprising: Premier Cricket, NSDCC (or ‘the Bears’) are now a part • Governance of the Club Accreditation Scheme (CAS) which will in • Management & Administration future benchmark our performance both on and off the field and our beloved North Sydney Oval has become • Coaching the most recent venue in Australia to adopt a ‘drop in • Finances wicket’ to accommodate A-League Football. We are • Technology truly fortunate to have many sponsors, volunteers, • Volunteers service providers and other supporters who have • Culture stepped up to assist your Committee in ensuring we can continue to provide high quality cricketing opportunities • Facilities for our members. I wish to acknowledge and thank • Performance Cricket NSW and the Sydney Cricket Association for • Juniors their support during the season. They remain our major • Female Cricket source of funding however their support extends well • Marketing beyond the financial imperitive. • Sponsorship During the 2015-16 season Cricket Australia and Cricket NSW unveiled their plans for the CAS as a means to • Community Engagement improving the grass roots of Australian cricket. The CAS • Local Government Relationship measures our ability to... Fortunately the measured adopted by your Committee over the past season have provided a robust foundation “...fulfil our dual role of talent development for the new CAS regime though there remains an and community engagement by providing enormous amount of work to do. Our initiatives to objective measures to drive minimum invest in coaching, junior engagement and governance in hindsight could be described as prescient. standards and allow for evaluation, comparison and overall improvement”. I extend my thanks and praise to your Committee who have volunteered their time to shoulder the burden of seeing through an enormous amount of change off the 2 The President’s Report park. The Bears have a talented and diverse Committee who juggle their professional work responsibilities, Committee roles and in many instances playing duties to selflessly contribute to the good management of the Bears. The 2015-16 audited accounts show a deficit of $42,051 and cash at bank balance of $33,471. The financial result was within expectations and reflected the need for the Bears to invest in equipment, clothing and pre-season indoor training facility hire. Running a Premier grade club is an expensive endeavour and raising funds to keep teams on the oval is a never ending exercise. The Bears are in a sound financial position but will need to improve our fundraising efforts in the coming seasons. I extend my sincere thanks to our sponsors without whom we could not function. David Hill and his team at Raine & Horne Crows Nest have been vital supporters of the Bears and we are proud to wear his brand on our apparel from our under 9s through to our 1st Grade. Likewise Patrick Gallagher and his team at the Union Hotel, North Sydney have been generous hosts for many of our functions and game day de-briefs and his onging financial support is most appreciated. We have been fortunate to attract new sponsors this season including Harry Solomon and his team at Kingsgrove Sports, the CBA North Sydney and Raymond Chen and team at Physio4All in North Sydney. The Bears are fortunate also to have the excellent services of the North Sydney Council grounds staff who have provided high quality practice and playing fields for our teams over the course of the season. The loss of access to North Sydney Oval due to renovation and the winning positions in consecutive one day and two-day impacts of a wet season placed a strain on the ground (outright) matches mid season forgoing 14 competition staff. To their credit we lost minimal access to facilities. points. I am confident our young squad will learn from We look forward to the new and improved facilities defeats like these and will become tougher competitors both at Bon Andrews and North Sydney No.1 and will in 2016-17. continue to work with Council on upgrading our facilities It was equally true that our 1st grade team (18th in as and when required. Our longer term goal is to secure McDonald’s Belvidere Cup) was most unfortunate not to an indoor facility on the lower North Shore and we will record victories against Sydney University (9 run loss on continue to draw upon the expertise of Cricket NSW in Duckworth-Lewis), Penrith (2 run loss), Eastern Suburbs this endeavour. (draw 10 runs short with bad light called) and Blacktown Our performances in Premier cricket have been (21 run loss). Those 24 points (had they been gained) generally a disappointment in 2015-16. The Bears would put a completely different perspective on the finished 20th in the Club Championship (18th in 2014- 2015-16 season. 15). The silver lining to this report however is that the I extend my thanks to both Jaik Mickleburgh our 1st results have not been for want of effort and in many grade captain and Glenn Aitkin who deputised for Jaik in of the games we lost the vital moments in battle that his absences. It has been a challenging season for our could so easily have swayed the result to our favour. I captains who have shown outstanding leadership in a personally watched as our 3rd grade team squandered season which has ushered in five new 1st grade caps. 3 The President’s Report I congratulate our 2015-16 1st grade debutants Nic required at the elite cricket level. The President’s Watkins, Alastair Fitzpatrick, Tom Jagot, Jas Cheema Scholarship Award is a small contribution from the Bears and Oliver Knight and wish them all the best in their in acknowledgement of these sacrifices made and our 1st grade careers. On the topic of 1st grade careers way of thanking those players for making that sacrifice.