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There comes a time in every great club when a key decision needs to be made. As Chairman, I want to get everybody’s thoughts on this immediately, as it could alter our existence in a number of ways. The topic of discussion for this post is “Training vs 5-a-side“. Over the last couple of weeks we’ve had very enjoyable training sessions down at Xiaowuji on a Wednesday evening. The weather has been nice and at the beginning of the season numbers are always high. And there has been no 5-a-side. This week, however, ClubFootball is kicking off a new round of 5s which sees both the As and Bs compete…on different days.  So, the question is, do we want to have both training and 5s midweek? If yes, what day would be best for training? If no, do we drop training or do we kick 5s into touch? What are the benefits of regular training and how does that compare to the benefits of our club playing 5-a-side? What would happen if training became compulsory and we kept 5s alive through a combination of A and Bs?

These are all important questions and it’s something the management have discussed time and time again. I now open the floor to you all to share your thoughts on the idea. Training obviously has its benefits but are the benefits great enough to sacrifice 5s and are you guys committed enough to want to train when it’s minus 10 degrees outside?  Or simply put, do you just prefer playing 5s?

 I look forward to your comments.

Cheers,

the Chairman

The intention of the blog is to make the website more interactive, have all members and even externals participate to the content by posting articles and comments on articles. It’s very easy–you just have to sign up once and you’ll get a login and password sent to your email.

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It is a possibility and it would be nice if we can discuss it here.  The idea is the following :

Now, with the 11-a-side B’s, Andrew mails everyone about the next match, then the ones who can come reply to him, Andy makes the selection and let’s everyone know by email.
With the 5-a-side B’s, JJ does +/- the same, though there some players use “reply all”, so that hundreds of email are sent back and forth to many…
Solution : on the blog the captain of each team posts an article about their “next natch” with all details, and sends everyone a very brief email with the link to that article. Then the players can post a comment, which can be seen by everyone, to say if they are IN or not.

This should make it more easy for captains and players. All information about that match will be found on one page instead of many emails. Etc …

It’s a question of making a habit of using it. The first weeks might be a bit difficult to have everyone participating, but once it’s going, this seems like a very interactive and practical way of organizing matches.

More information about how to use this Blog/Wordpress can be found here.

Please let us know what you think of this idea. The more responses the better!