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nathan
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - 01/12/2004 : 08:49:46
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I have the unfortunate task of informing you all that Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre will not be renewing our booking at the start of April 2005. This means that we have the task of finding a new venue before then that is local to Leighton Buzzard or closing the club down. We will do our upmost to make sure this does not happen.
I hope that we can count on your support to continue LBRHC.
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nathan
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/12/2004 : 15:06:02
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Actually its 1st Jan 2005 that we are being asked to leave.
Clive and I have arranged a meeting with the Leisure Centre for Monday 6th Dec to discuss matters further.
They claim that we have scored the floor by dragging our goals out ?? I have asked them to prove that it is LBRHC without a doubt who has caused these markings. We will wait and see.
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melcat
Slippery Skater
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/12/2004 : 19:33:10
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Hope you get on OK at the meeting.
Its impossible that the trolly the goals are on mark the floor.
More than likely its the staff who drag out the barriers s****ing them on the floor or the posts used for badminton.
Be a poor show if they do proceed with not letting you lot play hockey there anymore.
Buy the way I'm Ant's dad
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Chaz
Forum Manager
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/12/2004 : 08:27:30
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Maybe we should try to get the school down to watch the junior training session, as its them that will suffer the most if we have to move venue/times.
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nathan
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/12/2004 : 12:43:59
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So how did the meeting go I hear you cry ???
Well we met with James the Centre Manager and he discussed his concerns as did we. There are a few issues that he raised which are unarguably our responsibility.
1. The goals being laid face down and leaving orange marks on the floor.
2. The door behind the goal covered in ball markings.
I believe that these issues can be resolved as does James.
Our next step is to arrange a meeting with John Bishop, the school head of P.E and discuss these solutions with him.
Keep your fingers crossed.
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Chaz
Forum Manager
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/12/2004 : 13:01:29
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good luck.
If it will help, I will take the goal board away and use it as a template to make a second board so there is no reason to ever turn the goals over.
This will also help for the days we are lacking keepers
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peter
Slippery Skater
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/12/2004 : 16:17:06
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If you are laying the goals on the floor to reduce their size when you play without a goalie, then you could try what we do at Southsea.
I got hold of the plastic lids that you get with catering size tins of coffee, and we hang them in the top left and right hand corners of the goal. Hit one and its a goal.
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stef
Forum Manager
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10/12/2004 : 13:28:56
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Hi Peter,
Hope you are well. And thanks for your suggestion.
We do have a board we which strap into the goalmouth that has holes cut at various shapes and sizes. This works fine, but we have only made one as normally we have only been one goalie short and we had only turned the goals over a few times. So we can make another for the other goal without any problems, its more the fact that we were only made aware of the orange paint issue through an eviction notice in the post! If they had spoken to us about it we could have resolved it quite easily!!
We shall wait and see if we are allowed to put our case to the decision maker...
Stef
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peter
Slippery Skater
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10/12/2004 : 13:59:35
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Best of luck with trying to retain the venue
We had to prove that we would not damage our venue when we first went there. For our first training session we did not hold back. Since then, no problems.
We have more of a problem with the state of the floor from other users. In particular, a Saturday night disco for kids leaves the floor covered in litter, dust, and worst of all chewing gum that sticks to your wheels.
The point about using the coffee tin lids to shoot at is that a succesful goal results in a solid sound of the ball hitting a hard object. With the wooden goalies,the sound of success is silence - no positive feed back.
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nathan
Pro
United Kingdom
241 Posts |
Posted - 13/12/2004 : 09:18:18
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UPDATE
We are waiting to hear from the school head to our proposal to allow us to stay in the hall until the end of January giving us time to discuss and resolve the issues with John Bishop.
I will keep you all posted
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nathan
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 13/12/2004 : 16:13:55
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Ok have spoken to Tiddenfoot today who have spoken to the school and the Head teacher there has agreed to allow us to stay till the end of January in order to sort things out with John Bishop.
However there will be no training on the following dates due to Xmas, New year and school exams.
Sat 25th Dec
Wed 29th Dec
Sat 1st Jan
Wed 5th Jan
Wed 12th Jan
We are safe for a month.
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nathan
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United Kingdom
241 Posts |
Posted - 17/12/2004 : 12:32:43
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Although going through a barrier and smashing it to pieces might not help.
I phoned them up first thing Thurs morning and told them that we would pay for the repairs. We will discuss further with them in the new year.
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We have lost our venue ?
