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IN THE CHAIR<br />
A warm welcome to <strong>Flackwell</strong><br />
<strong>Heath</strong> for today's Berks and<br />
Bucks Senior Cup fixture.<br />
Simon Negus<br />
Chairman<br />
A warm welcome to The Racecourse for tonight’s league match and a<br />
particular welcome to everyone from <strong>Flackwell</strong> <strong>Heath</strong>.<br />
Whilst our senior teams have been in action for a few weeks now, our junior<br />
teams have only just started back - it now feels that the season has started<br />
for real. Our 80+ junior teams are the heartbeat of this club and we are<br />
extremely proud and thankful for all the volunteers who run and administer<br />
these teams.<br />
Talking of volunteers it was sad to hear that the Chairman of one of our local<br />
clubs is stepping down. It’s prompted some debates about how much is<br />
being expected of the volunteers running grassroots clubs - as probably the<br />
biggest grassroots club in the country we are very conscious of the<br />
pressures put on our team, but we need our governing body and leagues to<br />
work with clubs to reduce the workload instead of the current trend in the<br />
opposite direction. And members also have a role to play - it’s great to get<br />
the 5-6 emails per day from members with suggestions of what we can do<br />
better, but it’s the rarer ones where they then offer to actually do it<br />
themselves that I particularly welcome!<br />
Let’s hope for another goal fest tonight, and hope everyone enjoys the game.<br />
Simon
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