Fixtures and Attendance for 10/11

Dear Team,

Don't know if Clement and myself are the only ones who know the password to the fixtures. My apologies for the lack of initiative lately as I had problems coping with personal commitments like FYP, interviews and exams..etc.

But since nothing is up yet (where's Clement's top assistant, Chris?? haha..), I wish to inform that, skies willing, fixtures are ongoing for next 2 weeks. I also understand that some of the students have plans to go for graduation trips soon and some planning to clear leaves. Please inform myself or Clement (we NEED to know in advance) so that we can reschedule matches if we are able to predict poor attendance for a particular weekend.

Fixture-wise, for better accountability, so far these 2 have proved to be viable:

1) status quo as per previous seasons - PLAYMAKER, email notification (sms service still NOT available yet..zzzz)

2) continue to use facebook events (but I reccomend non-facebook users have to create dummy accounts, comments alone are not good enough because we moved away from this system for a good reason.)

• Choice 1 is part of the service package we PAID for regardless of whether we use it anot. Other than having the league management generate fixtures for us, we can also update individual attendance and goal-scoring records and profiling. So far, I am the only person managing these data entry.

• Choice 2 is more user-friendly according to most players. Based on track records, our teammates frequent facebook more often than checking their email, which are probably already bombarded with lotsa SPAM. For this choice, it is more likely to involve more players to create fixtures, interaction, etc.

• Hybrid method is.. erm.., being more time consuming than each of the above choices, generally not reccomended unless neccessary. And also, how about those who don't use facebook and have a SPAM problem with email?

Whichever the choice, the decision must be made based on efficiency and convenience for both the player and the administration.The logic (as explained before to one of our squad members) for my insistence is to ensure a proper systematic communication method for the best efficiency without sacrificing too much of the convenience of the team as a whole. I have long regarded attendance at a glance (auto-generated) as a MUST-HAVE function so that it removes any issues leading to confusion, or time-wasting doing manual updating of attendance.. etc

It is often easier to criticise than to suggest. So I would like to take away the easy task and assign the harder one to the team. I like to hear (if any) a third or fourth solution to address the issue by the end of next week, otherwise Clement and myself will decide between these 2.