We were blessed with really good weather for the planned BBQ event but probably a touch hot for football.
And although the weather has not been too kind for the Hood, it’s been a touch dry, The Hood looked pretty
good with our new black and yellow nets setting the pitch off nicely.
It was an early start with Alleyns old Boys kicking the day off against a 3s/4s side at 12.30. It was a good
game but two or three early goals settled the issue. We rallied a bit in the second half but lost 5-0. It was
encouraging to see a good number of new faces in the Merton line up together with some old faithfulls, Pete
Jennings, Lofty and Neil Davidson to name three.
The next two games that were scheduled were down as 1s v Old Ruts 1s and 2s playing their 2s.
Unfortunately we were very light on numbers and we could only muster one squad of 15 or so for both games.
We lost the first game 1-0 to a slightly flukey goal but despite a few reinforcements arriving a very tired
Merton team lost the second game 3-0 to Old Ruts 2s. The scoreline flattered them a little but their three
goals were incredibly good strikes and unstoppable.
Pete and Jasper had the bar well stocked and Sherbs put on a great BBQ but Old Ruts disappeared on us
again. Still there were a few Merton lads that drank in the bar and Steve and Kevin brought some of the 5s/6s
back for a quick beer.
It was a good day with a lot of footy but not too many Memberships paid on the day. So we need to get
these paid by the end of August.
The 5/6 squad of hardy souls lost 6-4 in a great game away to West Wickham on the 3G.

AFA Cup Draws

Reserves

AFA Inter Surrey/Kent – 16th January 2016
Merton vs Old Strand Academicals (Home)

BBQ and Membership Day

Saturday 22^nd August

1pm – 7.30pm

Join us down at Merton FC on Saturday 22^nd August for our first BBQ of the season and annual Membership Day!

There will be a BBQ all afternoon from 3pm and the bar will be open from 2pm….

There will also be 2 x games against Old Rutlishians and we aim to screen some live Ashes cricket on TV in the BAR!

Great way to meet new members, bring your membership signing on fee and have a drink with teammates and get ready for the start of the new season ahead!

EVENTS CALENDAR

The Merton Christmas Carol (Do) Saturday 12^th December

Joseph Hood from 6.30pm, Christmas fancy dress strongly encouraged, carols, predators and more!

20th December (TBC) – Youth section Christmas Party

Main points out of last nights league fixtures meeting:
– Season starts on 5th September for 1st-3rd teams and 12th September for the rest
– A round robin cup competition will be run for teams in the bottom 2 divisions (our 6s) – this is to give clubs a chance to blood players
– Online team sheets are to be completed this season by all teams within 4 days after the game is played. The club will decide how best to ensure this is done
– because of above all players must be registered before they can play

Doverhouse proved very tough opposition and our U14s, U13s, U12s and U11s all lost. Battling to the end but losing. The U10s had a good day winning one but losing the other in two close games. Well done to Steve for pulling all this together. Good run out and a lot to learn before season starts. But good fun.

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Report of Annual General Meeting 2015 

Minutes of meeting at bottom of page, click on link to read.

Highlights

• The membership and match fees were agreed for the 2015/16 season.

Adults £75 membership and £10 match fee

U21s £30 membership and £5 match fee

• Memberships must be paid by end of August for eligibility to play for club.
• We have entered 6 teams for SAL this season but if we do not have sufficient paid up members we can withdraw a side and go forward with 5 or less.
• An existing member who introduces a completely new member will get the two memberships for £100 (£50 for each additional member)
• Youth section membership is £180 for the season.
• We welcome three new members to our Committee. David Laughton comes back to the Club with his son in the Youth section and will take care of discipline.
• Ivan Gladkow and Will Low join the Committee. They have both been involved with the club and their enthusiasm is welcome.
• The accounts were approved and the minutes of the meeting will be posted on the website
• This season we are already focussing on recruiting new members and developing our youth section.

Merton F C Minutes of AGM 2015

The Volunteers turned up and did some good work repairing the pitches with top soil and grass seed just ahead of the rain. It might be the Wimbledon final but we could do with some more rain this afternoon.  Thanks Ryan Gresty, Graham Willgoss, Andrew Graves, Kevin Locke, Marc Wilson, David Quainton and Ivan Gladkow for coming along for the gardening. Ryan this definitely gives you first dibs on free kicks on the edge of the box and DQ it excuses you from any future gardening.