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Welcome to your EDSSA website
Please download the Team Registration document for 2012 from the Document Download tab.
The good news is that this form will cover the full year from March to November. Any changes to coach or coach details should be advised as it happens throughout the year to allow EDSSA to maintain its database up to date.
It was pleasing to see the yellow jackets being worn by the vast majority of coaches with one or two being reminded to put them on. The yellow jacket is as much a part of the coaches kit than the ball, whistle and stopwatch. Thank you for your co-operation.
The monitoring form is now uploaded to the website under Document Download tab.
East Dunbartonshire has a strict zero tolerance policy on dogs and smoking in their schools and football venues. It is a condition of our lets that no dogs are allowed at venues and no smoking inside the venue perimeter. For the avoidance of doubt that means anywhere inside the school or sports venue grounds.
We want good behaviour emphasised to everyone associated with EDSSA football on and off the pitch. Coaches need to be good role models and parents are there to support and encourage, not berate and abuse! Inappropriate behaviour and bad language anywhere on or around the pitch must be stamped out immediately by the coaches. Stop games if you feel it is appropriate to do so for your kids safety in line with Child Protection policies and bring to the attention of your Committee by e-mail within 3 days.
It has come to the Committee's attention that yellow jackets are not been worn by all of the coaches in the cage at Kirkintilloch Fun 4s. Everyone has a responsibility to police this as a group. NO ADULT IS ALLOWED INSIDE THE CAGE WITHOUT A YELLOW JACKET AND SHOULD BE POLITELY CHALLENGED and asked to provide their name, club they represent. This information should be forwarded to Brian. If they do not provide this information they should be asked to leave the cage. This is for the protection and safety of the children.
If there are further reports then the relevant clubs will be fined and possibly banned from participating following disciplinary action from Committee.
Please advise Brian Martin by e-mail of club and coach name if they were not given a yellow jacket.
The final EDSSA meeting of the season is due to take place at Caldwell Hall, 16 Campsie Road, Torrance on Monday 29 November 2010 at 7.45pm prompt. The Agenda is to include a look forward to next years Player Pathway and in particular 1999's going to 11-a-side, 2003/4's Development 4's and the aspect of supplying referees to games on a trial basis. Every club needs to be represented and Fines will be issued to non attendees if a club is not represented.
The Extra-ordinary General Meeting to agree amendments to the Constitution will take place on Monday 15 March (note date change) at 7.30pm in Caldwell Hall, Campsie Road, Torrance. All member clubs must attend to form a quorum to agree. Please click on Meetings/AGM tab to see full amended Constitution
The AGM will be held in Kirkintilloch Leisure Centre Conference Room, Woodhead Park, Kirkintilloch G66 3DD on Monday 10 January 2011 at 7.30pm.
All clubs must be in attendance as there will be items pertaining to the Spring Event 2011 that people need to be aware of to enable them to enter a team to particpate in this event.
Invoices for Autumn 2010 will be e-mailed out shortly and must be paid within 28 days.
There will be a meeting at Caldwell Hall on Monday 31 January for coaches of teams participating in the EDSSA league for next season. This meeting will give everyone an opportunity to have their invoices paid up to date and get your Registration in for 2011 - one form per team will be sufficient for the year.
Baljaffray v EDFC Locomotiv - St Helens Primary, Bishopbriggs 11.15am to 12.15pm
EDFC Rovers v Kirkintilloch BC - St Ninians High, Kirkintilloch 11.30am to 12.30pm
Teams will need to sign in and out at the site co-ordinators office.
7-a-side game
Celtic CA v Milngavie - Wester Cleddens Primary, Bishopbriggs 9.15-10.15am (nets can be picked up at 9am and taken back for 10.30am)
So much for Spring as the snow decimated the playing card and stopped the Fun 4's getting up and running. The good news is that there was plenty of communication and the website was updated at 7.50am and again at 9.25am with details of pitches off as we got reports in.
THIS IS YOUR REFERRAL POINT WHENEVER THERE IS A DOUBT DUE TO WEATHER RELATED ISSUES.
All coaches and active adult team members MUST attend the COMPULSORY In-Service day at Caldwell Hall, 16 Campsie Road, Torrance on Saturday 20 August between 9.30am and 11.30am.
All coaches named in the EDSSA Registration Form for each individual team together with First Aiders and other adults who actively take part in coaching at training and match days must attend this session which will be taken by Alan Taylor, SFA Development Manager, Central Region.
Failure to attand may result in fixtures for your team being withdrawn until a Disciplinary meeting can be convened to understand the reasons for non attendance. Whilst 100% attendance would be welcomed, there will be some valid reasons why a small minority of the EDSSA coaches may be unable to attend. If this relates to you then please advise Brian Martin immediately by e-mail and prior to the event, as to the reason for not being able to attend.
Following a further search of SYFA Registration information the following teams were found not to be registered with SYFA:-
Campsie 2000s, 2001s, 2002s, 2003s
North Kelvin United 2002s
The upshot of this is that I have had to pull fixtures from these teams which unfortunately means that the teams who are SYFA registered have had to have their fixtures rearranged or in the case of Baljaffray Thistle 2000s, their fixture has been cancelled altogether as there is no spare team available to play.
Re-arranged fixtures as follows:-
2000s - Baljaffray Thistle v Campsie cancelled - no replacement fixture
2001s - Campsie v Petershill BC A cancelled - new fixture is Petershill BC B v Petershill BC A at Wester Cleddens Primary kick off 9.15am
2001s - EDFC v NKU Athletic and EDFC Utd v NKU now reinstated
2002s - EDFC Th v NKU and Campsie v Rosebank United both cancelled - new fixture is EDFC Thistle v Rosebank United at Merkland Pitch A kick off 10am
2003s - Campsie will be excluded from Fun 4s until SYFA registration is in place. Westerton United are noe cleared to play.
Fixtures are being uploaded to the website over the next day or so. Please note venue and time each week and do not rely that a fixture you have on 26 November will still be the same time and venue as it is now.
Please note that the venue at Wester Cleddens allows for time from 9am to get the nets from the janitor to put up and the last two teams must remove and return them to the janitor at the end of the game.
Refer to Fun 4s or Soccer 7s tabs for further information on venues and times.
One year on as the website is getting bigger there are lots of things happening which clogs up the Home page therefore all club development related information will be posted on Club Development page including details of SFA courses and in-service days, EDCSportscotland courses, SYFA and PVG/Disclosure Events
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Deadline extended to midnight on 16 AUGUST to submit applications for your teams for the Autumn Event. The registration form was e-mailed out and can be downloaded in the link below this one.
Teams must also register with SYFA per link to the right =========================================>>>>
SYFA Registrtaion requires the signature of Brian although any Committee member should be able to sign on behalf of EDSSA.
If everything is not in place prior to the August meeting then you will lose out - NO EXCUSES
Some teams have not yet registered with SYFA at syfaregistrations.co.uk. Failure to do so will result in your fixtures being removed - NO TEAMS ARE ALLOWED TO PLAY FOOTBALL IN EDSSA WITHOUT THE PROPER SYFA REGISTRATION AS THIS PROVIDES THE INSURANCE COVER FOR ANY INJURIES CAUSED TO THE YOUNG PLAYERS. Any club/team playing their games whilst not in possession of SYFA Insurance will be brought before the Committee and may be expelled from the Autumn Event.
Delayed until February 2011.
Please click on the link to find out the latest developments in the new scheme which will replace enhanced Disclosure Scotland. Once fully rolled out and training has been undertaken by key EDSSA people we will arrange some evenings to get everyone through the new process.
During the last few weeks your Committee have been observing some games and are alarmed at the number of dogs being brought to games. Kids need to play in a safe environment and dogs should be left at home as they are not allowed on school premises nor Merkland cage.
Please also note the following standard requirements when using School 3G pitches.
In-Service day for ALL coaches taking teams in the Fun 4's Event in Spring. The session will be held at Kirkintilloch Leisure Centre from 9.15am and will last approximately 2 hours. Attendance is compulsory for coaches wtaking 2004/5 age group teams otherwise your team will not be allowed to take part.
Children 1st publicised a survey for children and young people regarding their media campaign to highlight the poor behaviour of adults at childrens' sporting events. There is another survey for parents and adults and we would be obliged if coaches and adult volunteers could spend 5 minutes to complete. Click on the link below to access the survey.
There will be monitors from SFA at the venues this Saturday handing out Surveys to capture information on children playing football in our league. This is happening in leagues across Scotland and your Committee should be obliged if you would co-operate with the monitors and provide the information that they are looking for as this will help drive decisions relating to funding requirements, facilities and so on which are important to all of us going forward.
Alan Watt stepped down from the Committee at the AGM after many years service to EDSSA. In appreciation of his length of service to the association and its member clubs, Alan was presented with an incribed plaque and bottle of Jura Malt whisky at the meeting. I'm sure the bug will set in and he will be back with us before too long....










































