Emails

Any information that needs communicating to team captains throughout the course of the season will be via these news articles. Team captains will receive a notification via email every time a new one is available. Do not ignore these emails. As a team captain it is your responsibility to know what is going on and it only takes a couple of minutes to read through the relevant information. Please make sure that you have a correct and up to date email address registered. If you have not received any of the previous emails please check your spam folder.

Underage Players

Whilst underage players are allowed to play in the league, the rules of any venue you play at always take precedence. If you have an underage player on your team you must ask the venue beforehand for permission to allow them to play. Do not just turn up and then kick off when the player is refused entry as happened on several occasions in the recent season of the Racks Summer Pool League.

Conduct

The previous point brings us to the behaviour of players during matches. The Rules of the Constitution state:

"Any player causing a disturbance through drink, drugs, intimidation, abusive language or acts of violence during an official League match or competition whereby bringing the game or the League itself into disrepute will be indefinitely suspended from the League forthwith."

We will not tolerate players being abusive in any form to other players or the members of staff at any venue. Anyone who does so will immediately be banned from playing for the remainder of the season as a minimum.

Registering Players

Player registrations need to be admin approved before they appear on your list of players. Do not keep trying to register a player if they don't show up straight away as this creates multiple player profiles. New players must be registered before 19:30 on a match night in order to be eligible to play in your match.

Postponing Matches

In order to postpone a match you must give the captain of the opposing team at least 24 hours notice. You must also inform the League Secretary. On too many occasions last season teams postponed matches without informing the League Secretary, which meant matches had to be chased up when no result was showing on RackEmApp.

You must also have a legitimate reason to postpone the match. "My best player is on holiday" is not a legitimate reason to do so. If you have enough available registered players to play the fixture then your request to postpone the match will be refused.

Matches postponed in the first half of the season must be played before the second half of the season begins. Matches postponed in the second half of the season must be played before the last designated fixture of the season in your division. It is the responsibility of the team that postponed the match to offer a suitable new date on which to play it. If you fail to do so then the match will be classed as forfeited and the rules for forfeited matches will apply.

Forfeiting Matches

If you forfeit any match, including a match in the team knockout competitions, you will receive a £20 fine. If you forfeit three matches during the course of the season you will be expelled from the League.

Voting Results

The details of the proposals that teams voted on can be found here - https://www.rackemapp.com/leagues/grimsbypool/news/1081

Proposal 1

Yes: 5
No: 1
Abstain: 1
Did not vote: 1

Only teams in the Wednesday Premier Division were allowed to vote on this proposal. The proposal was voted in. Players in the Wednesday Premier Division can still play four frames, but they cannot play four frames in a row. To match up with the other divisions, players can only play a maximum of three frames in a row.

Proposal 2

Yes: 19
No: 25
Abstain: 11
Did not vote: 9

The proposal was not voted in. Under current Blackball Rules when playing a lag, if a player's ball hits the top cushion before their opponent strikes their own ball it is a re-lag. It will remain a re-lag.

Proposal 3

Yes: 20
No: 28
Abstain: 7
Did not vote: 9

The proposal was not voted in. Doubles will not be reintroduced into matches.

Proposal 4

Yes: 29
No: 14
Abstain: 12
Did not vote: 9

The proposal was voted in. Teams can use Ultimate Pool Pro balls in matches.

Proposal 5

Yes: 24
No: 22
Abstain: 9
Did not vote: 9

The proposal was voted in. If a team withdraws or is expelled from the League during the first half of the season, all of their results will be null and void. If a team withdraws or is expelled from the League during the second half of the season, only the results from the seecond half of the season will be null and void.

THE VERY BEST OF LUCK TO ALL TEAMS AND PLAYERS FOR THE SEASON AHEAD