The 6 month meeting was held at Au Délice (the Belgium butcher). All
to all there were 12 people at the meeting.
You can find the minutes of the meeting as the next item. Minutes and protocolls
from earlier meetings is not avaliable yet.
Date: 21 Mars 2002
Time: between 20.00 - 21.55
Place: "Au Délice" no 17 Tong Dan Street
Presentation of the club result
Stats corner
Financial situation
plus discussion on :
1) Rules of the club.
2) Membership + New members
3) Sponsors + New equipment
4) Pitches
5) Training
6) Away Trips
7) Referees
8) Club restaurant or bar
9) Fanzine and web
Sonny Dahl, Jean-François Van de Poël, Jiri Kubis, Jonathan Dunn,
Kenneth Hovmöller, Hans-Henrik Hansen,
Joakim Löfkvist, Klaus Greifenstein, Justin Wheatcroft, Ali Atmani, John
Hickins (from 20.30) and Paul Nguyen (from 20.40)
Sponsors + New equipment
Jiri presented a suggestion for new shirts from a good tailor in the Check republic.
The shirt could be made
in any way the Club decided. A suggestion to go back to the old colours with
black and white stripes would
cost approximate $300 for 30 shirts.
Space for the number on the back and spaces for main sponsors on the front
and under the number on the back.
The name is going to be printed on top of the number. Printing of numbers will
cost $1.5 a digit. Shorts and socks
is to be bought in Hanoi. Jiri will arrange with payment and shipment. Jiri
will also arrange a new shirt for the goalkeeper.
One problem is the main sponsor. Carlsberg have not said yes to go in as main
sponsor. Justine was willing to
be the main sponsor but suggested that the shirt would be in red and black stripes
in order go along with the
company logo. The meeting voted (10-0) and decided to take Justins offer and
go on with red and black shirts.
The shorts and socks will be black.
Jonathan Dunn handed out the statistics regarding The Complete Hanoi Capitals
All-time apperences list,
Season 2001/2002 list and the Top 25 list of apperance, Goalscorer and striking
rate.
Worth mentioning is the fact that Khalid Muhmood has past the magic 200 apperences
and Jiri Kubis the
well done 100 during this year. When taking about striking rates you have to
mention Jens Storm with 82 goals in 54 games.
John Hickins is the man with most played games without beeing substitute from
the start.
Many thanks to Jonathan (and the guys before him) for keeping these lists updated.
Financial situation
The financial situation is not the very best.The net loss the last six months
(from 1 of September) was $485,
which is $24 for each member, and the last year (from 1 mars) $841. The main
cost was the Awards Dinner and
sponsoring when going on tournaments (Mai Chau, Viet Tri, Penang etc). The Hanoi
Tournament also costed the
club a lot of money.
The suggestion was to eather make a significant raise of the member fee to
$150 and keep the sponsoring of
tournament or keep the fee at $120 with less or no sponsoring. The meeting decided
(8-3) to keep the $120 with
less or no sponsoring.
Later on the meeting also decided (see training) to charge non-members (not
the Drink Team) VND 30 000 for
every practice in order to raise some money for rent.
There will be a need for new members since 4-5 members might be moving within
the next 6 months. The Club
will ask Eddie if he wants to join. Joakim, Ali and Khalid was given the mission
to ask friends they have recommended before.
Some of the last games have been on the Bach Khoa stadium. The question was
if we should try to stay on that
bigger, somewhat better but more expencive pitch or stay at Thuy Loi. The head
of accounting argued that there
was no alternative then to stay at Thuy Loi regarding the economic situation.
The meeting decided to stay at
Thuy Loi pitch with the motivation of costs and long time friendship with the
ones in charge.
The last month there have been many people at practice (between 20-26) and approx. half of them Capitals.
The discussion if we should try to reduce the number of players on practise
or not. There is always periods
over the year with many players and few players on practice.
After a long a totaly chalotic discussion the meeting decided three things:
1. Charge every non-member VND 30 000 for every practise (in order to keep
the amount of players down and
also to contribute to the rent)
2. A team with Capital players should always start playing and the winner should
stay. That meens that
(if divided into minimum two teams) Capital players will alway be on the pitch.
3. A guest must have been invited by one member in order to play if there is
to many players
Members are also urged to come at practice at 19.30 the latest in order for
the management to decide equal teams.
The schedule for known tournaments is:
11 May in Tam Dao
end of August in Shanghai (suggestion from Ali, 7 aside)
September (usually first weekend) in Mao Chao
and also the annually tournament in Ho Chi Minh City.
The meeting decided to concentrate on the always nice tournament in Tam Dao
and the traditional one in
Mao Chao and to skip the one in HCMC. Shanghai tournament is still open for
discussion.
Jiri said that there have been complaints from the members about the referees
during the last years. The management
have tried to find new solutions but there is no other alternative available.
They will try though to keep Mr. Hoa from the pitch.
Sony said that it is up to every each one of us to keep the calm during bad
referee games. The captain is responsible
and allowed to substitute players that behave aggressively during the game.
The Club has been looking a long time for a good place to look upon as a Club
restaurant or bar. Maybe a place to
keep all the tournament trophy´s. Today there is only a small Club flag
on the La Salsa restaurant. There was no
really suggestions but to ask Justin and his new opened place at Bao Khan street.
Sony suggested that he could ask his gay friends at the Fortuna.
Jeff and Joakim is working on getting a webpage up. A suggestion will be availaible
within the next couple of weeks.
The content will mainly be Club and other news, statistics and information to
members (current, old, new and potensial).
The question if we should seek for an own domain name (cost some money) was
Sonny: The management do a hard job to keep the Club going. Complaint from
members is taken to heart but some
more commitment from others are sough for. Criticism is welcomed but a member
can take own action if he has
some good connections. It is only good for the Club to be more constructive.
Jiri: There is no garanti what quality the team we play have. We have played
18 different teams the last six month.
Members must sign up for the game at thursday the latest. After that the management
will look for substitution players.
Members who sign up later may start the game on the side as substitute.
The meeting said that the management had done a good job and decided (10-0)
that the current management should
be reelected for the next period (six month).
The meeting ended att 21.55 but the night continued at the Polite Pub.
Minutes taken by Joakim Löfkvist
... and I almost forgot that everyone had steak except for Justin and Klaus who tried the fish.