Fellas,
A high altitude meeting was held in the Ferguson valley on Dec 3rd 2013 to lay the foundations for next year.
Present: Keech, Pears, Wharton, Johnson, Fantasia,
Gittos, Grieve, Mangan, Hutton, Moulton
Apologies: Baskerville, Jones, Hall, Haoust, Simbas, Sarre
Key points from meeting:
1. We need some early fund raising in the form of:
a) Bladder Buster in February – $20 ticket x 200 tickets – $2000 profit
b) Raffle for Bali holiday in March – $xxx tickets x xxx tickets – $xxx profit
c) Bunnings sausage sizzle in March – $1500 profit
d) Subs in by game one ($150 x 30 players) – $4500 profit
e) 10 sponsors committed and paid by first game ($xxx x xx) – $xxx
$ xxxx in bank by start of first game…
Note: we will continue with subs, extra sponsors, JV with country carnival hosts, show at one home game (estimated additional $10,000 for year)
[Murray Wharton, Scott Sarre, Darren Gittos]
2. Training night’s drinks and food will be run by the Dan Mangan/Mick Hoggan (collection of monies at end of night and purchase of the drinks/food/ice). Brett ‘Doolz’ Moulton will act as default barman initially and a roster made up for each week once we get in the swing. Dan and Mick to be supplied keys to the shed and the till.
[Dan Mangan, Mick Hoggan]
3. Sponsors Day – Organised around a May home game
[Murray Wharton, Scott Sarre, Darren Gittos]
4. Improvements to the shed – look at options around extending what we have or moving to a new spot around the oval somewhere. These options will be explore between the Capel Shire, Dalyellup College and Lutheren School. These improvements will take the form of a bizzy bee during the off season as we did in 2011 when we constructed the shed and paving.
[Bill Keech]
5. The Media Centre run by Justin and Shona Fantasia will bring back Dino TV in a big way in 2014 so make the most of any media training offered around the fire after training each Thursday.
Note: A permission form will be sent out to each Dino to allow pics of your family to be placed on dalyellupdinosaurs.com
[Fantasias, Gittos to supply video camera]
6. The Property Department will spend approx $400 on basics for first aid kit (players supply own strapping), investigate minimum orders for different sized polos/jumpers (short and long) before the start of next year.
[Mike Grieve]
7. Football department – a) Training will occur in 2014 occasionally away from Jurassic Park with Doolz (Donnybrook – new kitchen) and Hutto (Boyanup) as likely alternatives. b) Pre-season will start approx mid Feb, c) mid year scratch match to be played at Georgian Molloy (Dean Owens).
[Doolz, Hutts, Deano]
8. Fixturing – focus will be on working with the league to achieve a home/away/home schedule and a preseason trip to the wheatbelt.
[Bill Keech]
9. Budget to be constructed and presented to the sponsorship and social committees and targets drawn up.
[Bill Keech and Steve Baskerville]
Summary: It was a productive meeting and will set the base for a productive committee and a fun year ahead. If there are any issues you’d like to see addressed and not mentioned, please let me know.
Keechy
