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ETTA MEMBERSHIP and PLAYER LICENCE APPLICATION

You may be aware that the ETTA are introducing this for the forthcoming season.  This is causing us serious headaches on this first occasion, and given below is what this League intends to do this year.  This needs your co-operation as Club Secretary, and the co-operation of your players.

For this season ONLY, your club should pay your subs to the league as normal on Fees Night, which is set for Tuesday, 7^th September, at the Brotherhood, 7.30 pm.  The fees payable to the League will be the same as last year - £35 per team, £3 per senior player, £2 per junior player.  The League will then pay the Player Licence Fees to the ETTA, £5-64 per senior, £2-82 per junior.  Thus, for this season only, the League will subsidise players’ ETTA registration fees.

Each player must complete an ETTA membership application.  The Club  Secretary should collect them & hand them in at the Fees Meeting on 7^th September.  Any player for whom no form is submitted will not be eligible to play in the League.  However, players who play in more than one league may have returned their application form to their “main” league.  In such cases, the Club Secretary should inform the League Secretary at the Fees Meeting.  As far as we are concerned, we expect the same payment for all players as stated above.

This arrangement for registering & signing players applies only to players whom you sign on before the start of the season.  Separate procedures will apply for players who are signed on after the season has started.  Full details will appear in the League Handbook.

As you can see, this is not simple.  This system has been imposed upon us by the ETTA and as a member league, we have no option but to comply.   They have not been easy to interpret into practical procedures, as they are involved & complicated.  Our Management Committee spent a long time in deciding what we feel is best for this League this season. We have been mindful that we wish to be fair, and to keep matters as simple as possible. We shall review the position before the 2011/2012 season, and decide how we proceed as from that year.

It is worth mentioning that we have not increased our subs for at least 5 years, and during that period we have brought in providing each team with a supply of balls.

If you have any problems with this, please get in touch.  We are still very much in the learning process, and the purpose of this letter is to try to get across to you what we know & how we have chosen  to play it.