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State Team Wind Up
Generally a good tournament, there was an improvement on last year. The Bantams were competitive in their division. Atoms should have done better but there were a couple of incidents, although the Bantams did enjoy the tournament. Joe Moore seemed to be a bit of a problem and had a argument with some of the players. Gordon advised that Joe should not have been dressed and missed the game. Another problem the Atoms faced was the games had 20 minutes periods (which are a different format to other years). All states have complained that the periods were too long, and the Handbook was not issued until the day of the finals.
Pee Wee Team was the most disappointing but they have improved significantly on last year. There is still a lot of work need to be done on the Pee Wee Team.
Bantams goalie was the Goalie of the Tournament. The team needs to get some consistency.
Tange tournament, we did not send a team. Some of the players were not able to afford the trip to Perth. Should be able to field a team next year as half the Bantams will be going up to this division.
Browns played well, most of the players still have 5 years in this level. The NSW team was loaded with AIHL players which made them too strong for the other states.
Brian advised that there are some clubs in NSW that would like to send some teams to Qld during the year for a mini tournament. It was also advised that NSW will be sending two teams to the Atom tournament next year.
All State teams need a Coach, Assistant Coach and a Manger for the tournaments. When we don’t send a team but submit players into the draft pool, Queensland should also send an official with these players. We should be creating a position of Chief de Mission for each State Team; this person would attend tribunals etc in place of the team manager.
Jim McIntosh advised that when playing a development tournament we should be using our development officials as part of their training.
Jim also asked if the change of season had been effective. He was advised that there had no been much match practice for the players and that next year more games would be scheduled during the training sessions. |
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Presentations
The State Team Medal presentation has been organised for 4.30 on Sunday 7th October at Boondall. Medal presentation will commence at 4.45PM on the ice. There will be pizza and Coke for the players after the medal presentation.
MOTION: That IHQ approve the payment for the State Team Players (Cyclone’s) Medals, Pizza and drinks.
Proposed by Lianne Steven, Seconded by Sue Bale
ALL IN FAVOUR - MOTION PASSED |
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National Youth Team Try-outs
There were three players invited to the try-outs for the Nation Youth Team, this was limited because we did not send a team to the national tournament. Brian will contact the selectors and see if he can arrange for a couple of other players to attend the try-outs. Eric Sewell, Alex Hall and Dylan Palmer-Given have been invited. The cost to attend the try-outs in $200 including the airfares. |
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Coaches for 2007/2008 Season and ‘Come and Try’
The Come and Try Program will run out of the both Acacia Ridge and Boondall with Roger Smith running the Acacia Ridge sessions and Dean Tully the Boondall sessions.
Roger Smith does not wish participate in the IHQ program wishes to run his own sessions privately. This was discussed and if anyone plays outside IHQ they cannot play in the IHQ competition. All players agree to this when they sign the IHA player registration application. Brian will phone Roger to find out exactly what his plans are.
Dean has advised that he will supply equipment from Skatebiz to assist the players. These sessions will be on a Sunday morning. |
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Junior Season and Draft
Junior Try-outs will be Saturday 13th October at Boondall. We currently don’t have enough coaches. Warren Miller will attend and bring some others with him. All games will require coaches, helpers and administration people and also scorers and medics.
There are currently about 89 junior players and Lianne and Brian will phone them and advise of the try-outs. All information will also be posted on the website. Once the try-outs are completed, all players will be drafted into teams.
Times for the Try-outs will be:
Come and Try 4.00-5.00
Atoms 4.30-5.30
Pee Wees 5.30-6.30
Bantams 6.00-7.00
Midgets 6.00-7.00 |
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Website
Brian has two quotes for the website, one from the people who have done the NSWIHA website and is $20,000. Another from Tracy Houcutt which is $300 set up fee and $100 per month to maintain. Tracy is within our budget.
MOTION: That Tracy Houcutt takes over the website and maintain. |
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Disciplinary Hearing
Gordon asked who would be on the disciplinary hearing schedule for Sunday to speak to Nick Bay and Ashleigh Sitton. After some discussion it was agreed that Gordon Young would chair the meeting and that Kathie Hall and Brian Maloney would attend. |
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AGM
There was a discussion about when to call the AGM, it was advised that because the constitution has not yet been fully accepted by the Department of Fair Trading that the meeting will not be required until after the 31st December. |
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Constitution
The constitution updates have almost been completed and will be finished on Sunday. A Special Meeting will be called on Wednesday 24th October to pass the constitution. The constitution will be forward to all executives and the club representatives by Tuesday. |
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Josh Downes
There was an issue with the Goalie for the Atom team prior to the team departing to Adelaide for the tournament. Brian advised that he would like to get this matter officials sorted out and stop any further wrong information being passed around. Brian was advised by Kathy Downes that her son was being pulled from the team, Gordon then wanted this player re-instated. There was never an application received by IHQ that his parents wanted him re-instated. The Atom team officials needed to work on this matter and resolve the problem. We cannot tell the parents that their child must play on the team and be sent away for to the tournament. The Atom officials approaches an in-line goalie but where advised that this player could not attend. They then approach each state for a goalie, but there were none available. Only state with a goalie available was NSW and there constitution does not allow them to put players into the draft pool.
This situation has caused a lot of ill feeling between everyone involved in the Atom Team. The players had been told, by an outside source, that he had ‘kicked the player off the team’. This had caused Brian to be ‘bad mouthed’ for something that was not true. Gordon then kept pushing for this player to attend the tournament. This cause a lot of friction with everyone involved again. Lianne was abused by a number of the parents, when she advised them of the situation and they may not even be able to attend the tournament.
Lianne then spoke to Grant Harding (tournament director – SA) regarding this matter and they advised that all states wanted Queensland to attend the tournament. The final solution for the tournament was that all states would share the goalie with Queensland. Gordon advised that we should have looked at our team early and made the decision not to attend. He said that it is not good to send a team when they are too young and at some point a decision should be made to not attend. |
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Coaches and Referee’s
IHQ needs more coaches and referees. This was discussed and it was decided that all players need to be contacted on-on-one. IHQ would be prepared to pay 50% and the players paying the other 50% but this would be refunded after a certain number of hours had been reached. |
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Officiating Issues
There are some referee’s that are not available during the summer season. Jim is still waiting to hear from a couple of officials. It was suggested that we run another course; it requires 1-1 ½ hours on the ice. The meeting was advised that the referees will be holding a meeting on Saturday, at this meeting they would set a date for the next course. Jim McIntosh will report back the outcome of this meeting. |
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Funding
Kathie advised that there has been a new 3 year round of fund become available, applications close 14th November.
We could use this money for compliance issues and to get our policies in place.
The level of funding goes up with each alternative application.
The meeting was advised that Vivian Thelander has been involved with the In-line Strategic Plan and may be able to assist us. |
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Next Meeting will be a SPECIAL MEETING at 6.30PM Wednesday 24th October at the Beenleigh Tavern |
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Next General Meeting will following immediately follow the Special Meeting on Wednesday 24th October. |
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