ANNUAL REPORT 2016 – 17 Major Sponsor Contents Club Overview ......................................................................................................................................................... 2 Office Bearers 2016 – 17 .................................................................................................................................... 2 President’s Report .................................................................................................................................................. 3 Treasurer’s Report .................................................................................................................................................. 4 Juniors Report ......................................................................................................................................................... 7 FIRST GRADE ..................................................................................................................................................... 11 SECOND GRADE ................................................................................................................................................ 12 THIRD GRADE ................................................................................................................................................... 13 FOURTH GRADE ................................................................................................................................................ 14 Women’s Cricket 2016/17 ................................................................................................................................ 15 Under 21s ......................................................................................................................................................... 16 Season Awards ...................................................................................................................................................... 17 Perpetual Awards ................................................................................................................................................. 19 Most Runs in Grade – Pop Rogers Trophy ........................................................................................................ 19 Most Wickets in Grade - Bruce O’Sullivan Trophy ........................................................................................... 19 Junior Player of the Year – Fordham Trophy .................................................................................................... 19 Most Improved ................................................................................................................................................. 19 Women’s Cricketer of the Year ........................................................................................................................ 19 Tom Anderson Medal ....................................................................................................................................... 19 All Rounder – Robert Wilkinson Trophy ........................................................................................................... 19 Jules Vitnell Medal ........................................................................................................................................... 19 Club Person of the Year – Robert Wilkinson Plate ........................................................................................... 19 Player of the Year ............................................................................................................................................. 19 Page | 1 Club Overview Newcastle City and Eastern Districts Cricket Club Inc. is an incorporated sports club. This club was formed in January 2001 following the amalgamation of Newcastle City District Cricket Club and the Eastern Districts Junior Cricket Association. Our teams play in the Newcastle District Association, the Newcastle City and Suburban Association, and the Newcastle Junior Cricket Association competitions. Office Bearers 2016 – 17 President John Hodgson Senior Vice President Trevor Van Kemenade Junior Vice President Ross Leonard Treasurer Adrian Mannel Secretary Julie Vitnell Assistant Secretary Penny O’Shea Junior Secretary Ross Leonard Junior Registrar Yusuf Badat Committee Member Bryce Garrett Committee Member Ryan Van Kemenade Committee Member Jordy Van Kemenade Committee Member Steve Garrett Committee Member Mark Conway Page | 2 President’s Report The 2016/2017 season will be remembered as rebuilding and development year for Newcastle city. The club changed courses and focused on fostering local talent and growing the junior base while expanding our involvement in women’s cricket. This has led to a productive year for the club off the field with economic growth and expansion. Results continue to be flourish in the junior section of the club with another strong representation in the finals and some amazing premierships. The senior section of the club didn’t have the success it hoped for with the club featuring in the City and suburban finals only. The departure of Mitchel Clayton led to a change in skipper in the top grade with Jack Downing earning the appointment. This I believe was a positive change for the club with a new found enthusiasm to both training and game day spreading down the grades. 1st grade toiled hard this year earns some impressive victories over some top quality teams. For the first time in many years city struggled to get results in the lower grades however the plus side to this was the emergence of the next generation of talented city cricketers. This can be reflected in the success of the 21’s side coming second in there pool and being extremely close to the final. The foundation of that team are well below the age limit which bodes well for the future. While results didn’t always go our way the effort, attitude and the culture of the club shifted in a direction that will see positive results in the years to come. Newcastle city has continued to embrace and expand on our involved in Women’s cricket. This season saw the return of our all girls junior team as well as involvement in the inaugural women’s social competition. The success of our junior girl’s team has been reflected in the numerous representative players that achieved success this year. Speaking of the representative season, city featured in a number of representative teams with many players doing the club proud. Our continual commitment to fostering talent will hopefully lead to many more selections in the coming years. Congratulations to the enormous list of players. I want to again welcome Old city legend Tom Anderson and Lyle McGuigan to the club as our full time coaches for next year. This was a conscious effort by the club to continue to develop our talent and provide a solid structure to trainings and games. We are looking forward to working with them this season. Another key component to City’s success has to be our sponsors. A special thanks to all who have helped this year and in previous years their amazing contributions and relationships with the club make playing cricket in our equipment and in our facilities possible. We appreciate what you do and what you contribute. To finish I want to especially thank our amazing committee members and associates. The success we have starts here and the people involved have continued to volunteer their time to make what we do and what we play easy. Thanks for a great season City boys and girls. Onward and upward. John Hodgson Page | 3 Treasurer’s Report The season proved to be a pretty good one off the field. The club saw an increase in sponsorship dollars thanks to some hard work and promotion. As always the cost of playing continues to rise but the club is improving its position to try and keep registration costs to players as low as it can. Once again the club this year focused on some other luncheons (where we looked after raffles/auction items), the Toyota Raffle and a couple of social fundraisers. Items to note in relation to the financials are: • Registration was down to a reduction in junior teams and more junior players in seniors being subsidised this season. • Sponsorship has been strengthened with new sponsors coming on board this year. • Cricket ball expense was higher due to more games being played, some balls on hand for 2018 and in the 2016 season we had a higher level of cricket balls to start the season with. • Grounds and maintenance expense and the equipment expense was in relation to work done on Empire Park nets, money spent in relation to the grants, training gear and curating items. The club would very much like to thank all the sponsors in both the senior and junior levels. Without these sponsors the club couldn’t run so we very much thank them for their contributions and ongoing support. I would like to thank all of those on the committee and in particular Greg Hook for assisting me throughout the year with the finances as well as working on the sponsorship, clothing and luncheon aspects. Some key people I would like to make special note of are Steve Garrett for his fantastic work with sponsorship and grants, Penny for her work on promoting the club (in particular the newsletter) and others like Bryce, the Van Kemenade’s & Hodgo who have contributed to the club greatly again. On a personal note it was a huge honour to win the Anderson medal and I aim to continue to do my bit for the club and