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Chairman’s Welcome Welcome to Old Salvatorians Football Club Season 2010/11, and
what a season it promises to be. It has been a very hectic last few weeks following the
unplanned move from Broadfields, but as they say, every cloud has a
silver lining. With us now having secured the best pitches and training
facilities in the league at The Hive, the football side of things looks
very good indeed. In addition to this we have also secured the link with St
Josephs, with their under 17’s becoming our 5th team for the
forthcoming season, and hopefully this will be a continuing arrangement
to ensure an influx of fresh young talent every season. We have made changes to the way each team is managed, with
each team having a non- playing mentor to assist the Captain. This is to
try to improve the standard of football throughout the club, and ensure
that ALL players are playing in a team that suits their ability, and
benefits the club as a whole. When you join Salvos, you join a club NOT a team. It should be
a matter of pride that you are in a higher team than your mates, and an
inspiration to your mates to train harder and try to match your
standard. Meet your mates after the game in Conways 4 and tell them how
well you played, insist your team is better than their team, and thereby
hopefully improve the standard of football throughout the club by
creating competition for places. We are also going to have a very busy social calendar this
season. We had a very good response to our recent questionnaire and
intend to hold a race night and two quizzes, a possible poker night and
reintroduce the presentation dinner and dance. All dates are included within this members pack, put them in
your diary NOW ! It is massively important that we support our social events,
they are what being a member of a club is all about. The funds raised at
these events are essential to the running of the club, and the social
gathering of members, both old and new, is the spirit that the club has
been built upon. I have deliberately used the term “we” throughout my welcome,
and not “the committee”. WE are the club , ALL of us together, each and every one of
us, not separately “players” and ”committee”. Get to know your committee, and ask if you can help in any way
with helping to run the club. Any help , no matter how small, is greatly
appreciated. I would also like to thank everyone who has helped make the
move to the Hive as painless as possible and Kevin McLoughlin for the
sponsorship he has brought to the Club for the forthcoming season, a
great effort, and a great start financially to the season. Above all else, let us enjoy our football. Let us play it in
the right spirit, respect our opponents, respect the officials, and make
this season one to remember. Regards, and good luck for the season, Paul. |