TEAM DELEGATE NIGHT – 28/8/17– 6.30PM held at Touch Clubhouse
COST – $70 per player and must be paid before playing in the competition. There will be no discounts offered for junior players. All players must be fully paid prior to the start of round 1 in order to be eligible to take the field.
Team Nominations- You must have a minimum of 10 players registered and financial by the last trial in order for your team to be included in the 2017/2018 competition.
There will be cost invoices created per each team this year and invoices created for any fines that are given as well and sent to the team delegates.
Registrations after round 4 will only be considered by application and is at the discretion of committee.
Each team must have at least two qualified referees nominated in order to play in the competition. A Referee course will be run and the cost to attend the course will be covered by the club for one player from each team. Please give your team person nomination to President Dave Coventry
Ref course date: SUNDAY 8/10/17 Venue: St. Georges Basin Touch Fields Clubhouse
Lunch provided
IMPORTANT NOTE – there is an online theory exam that must also be completed for this course.
Each person that attends the referee’s course will receive a referee’s shirt and a whistle.
A person who is qualified as a referee, who referees on a weekly basis and referees more than 80% of rounds is eligible to receive the cost of their registration back at the end of the season.
Referees will nominate best and fairest points each week this season.
Each team delegate will receive a Touch Rule Book to share with their team.
Each delegate will receive a recommended punishment sheet to share with their team.
The judiciary and the process it follows will be discussed.
Inappropriate comments and swearing on Facebook, social media and in any other form will NOT be tolerated and any player in breach of this will be given an automatic 2 (two) week suspension.
All teams must be in numbered shirts by no later than 15/10.
There will be duty team referees allocated each week. If you are a “no show” the team will be fined $35 and cannot play until the fine is paid. If there are extenuating circumstances, there must be a minimum 24 hours’ notice before the start of the game given to the director of referees – Chris Duncan.
This year there will be duty teams allocated before and after the games to put out and bring in hats and pads. If you are a “no show” the team will be fined $35 and cannot play until the fine is paid. If there are extenuating circumstances, there must be a minimum 24 hours’ notice before the start of the game given to a committee member via the touch phone or Facebook. Earlier notice the better.
If you field unregistered players or sign on absent team members you will forfeit your points for that game.
The minimum age limit this year to play is 15 years old – born in the year 2001.
The Fields will be marked and the outlines will be the painted line not the mowed strip
DUE TO POSSIBLE TOP FIELD MAINTENANCE WE MAY NEED TO LIMIT TEAM NOMINATIONS TO 27 SO FIRST TEAMS REGISTERED AND PAID WILL BE GIVEN PREFERENCE
Time slots will be 6.15pm and 7.10pm with a possible third time slot 8.05pm depending on numbers this year.
If your team is going to forfeit you must contact a committee member and post on Facebook by NO LATER than 1pm on game day.
In case of wet weather call off the team delegate will get an SMS message and it will be put on Facebook and the website. A decision will NOT be made before 5pm on game day so please be patient and wait until then before asking if on or off.
This year there will be a dedicated Touch mobile phone for all enquiries and from where SMS messages will come from and that number will be :- TBA – need a new number.
This year again we will be running a small canteen with drinks and small packets of chips to start and other things to follow. We would love anyone who would like to volunteer to help out with that if possible.
Register on line via Sporting pulse – this is the ONLY way that you can register as a player and everyone has to complete your registration on line.
Committee will be identifiable again this season – they will be in the red committee shirts. Please feel free to approach any of them if you have any enquiries.
We will be taking expressions of interest in a separate MEN and WOMENS social comp to be run for 8 weeks from January 2018 on Tuesday nights
TEAM DELEGATE NIGHT – 28/8/17
TRIAL GAMES – Monday 18/9/17 and 25/9/17
COMPETITION START – Monday 9/10/17
BREAK – TBA
GRAND FINAL NIGHT –March TBA