OUR TEAM and the LEAGUE WE PLAY IN 

For the 2008-2009 Season, we will again be running just the one team in Division One of the MERCURY WALTHAM SUNDAY LEAGUE, this being a men's League which covers mainly the Boroughs of Enfield and Broxbourne. This League has now been reduced to five Divisions (a Premier Division and then Divisions 1-4), but is still recognised as being one of the strongest Sunday Leagues in the South-East of England, as most teams include players with experience from playing in Senior (Semi-Professional) Saturday football.
Our First Team spent three seasons in the Premier Division from Season 2002-2003, finishing third in that first season, but we were relegated to Division One at the end of Season 2004-2005 and have since struggled in the lower half of that Division for the past three seasons. This has been due to a number of experienced players having increasing work & family commitments and we are now in the middle of a big re-building process with new and younger players which we hope will eventually see us return to the Premier Division.
We ran a Reserve Team in Division Four of the Mercury Waltham Sunday League for Seasons 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 to cater for a number of long-serving players who were unable to get a regular game in the First Team and also to bring some younger players through for an eventual progression into the First Team, but after finishing bottom of the table without winning a single match in the 2004-2005 season, we decided to withdraw the Reserve Team from the League and revert to just running one team.
The Mercury Waltham Sunday League season starts on the first Sunday of September and finishes at the end of April.
Click Here to visit the League's website and find out more.
We also enter two teams in a Summer 7-a-side Football League on Astroturf at the Southgate Hockey Centre every year, which helps to maintain our players fitness. This is when we invariably try out new players who want to join the club. Click Here to visit the 7-a-side League pages for more details.

LEAGUE CUP COMPETITIONS THAT WE ARE INVOLVED IN 

We will be playing in the ROY BAILEY CHALLENGE CUP (which is for all teams throughout the League) and also the LEAGUE SENIOR CUP, which is for all teams in the Premier Division and Division One. 
The League Cup Draws for this season can be found in full here on the League Website from late-August onwards.

COUNTY AFFILIATION 

We are affiliated to the LONDON FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION, which means that we can enter London F.A. Cup competitions each season.
As we are a Division One team, we currently enter the London F.A. Sunday Intermediate Cup. This competition is for Premier Division teams from other (more inferior) Leagues and teams from Division One or Two of stronger Leagues like our own. We first entered into London F.A. Cup competitions in 1988 on joining the Mercury Waltham Sunday League, but have never reached a Cup Final. We lost 7-0 in the London F.A. Sunday Junior Cup Semi-Final to the eventual winners back in the 1993/94 Season, but that was our best ever performance (so far !). We actually entered the London F.A. Sunday Challenge Cup (the top London F.A. Sunday Cup competition) for two seasons when we were in the Premier Division, losing 2-1 in the First Round to the eventual winners St. Anselms at our first attempt and 5-1 to the eventual Runners-Up Dees in the First Round the following season.
The London F.A. Cup Competitions can see us having to travel to 'awkward' places to get to such as Mitcham, Crystal Palace and Putney (for 10.30.a.m. kick-offs !), but quite often the teams we play in London F.A. Cup Competitions are not as good as those we face in the Mercury Waltham Sunday League.
All County Cup draws will be on the 'Latest Club News' page when we receive them....or you can CLICK HERE to visit the London F.A. website, where they list all the draws and results in full.

COLOURS 

Our current first choice kit is Jade (Green) Shirts, Black Shorts & Jade (Green) Socks, Green being our traditional club colours.
Our change strip is Orange Shirts, Black Shorts & Black Socks, although we very rarely end up having to change as Jade is quite a distinctive colour that no other teams seem to wear !

OUR KIT SPONSORS (& ALSO WHERE WE DRINK AFTER MATCHES) 

ON BROADWAY is our regular 'haunt' for post-match drinking sessions on a Sunday afternoon. The pub is situated on the corner of Station Road and Green Lanes in Winchmore Hill, London N21 and is an ideal venue for Sunday League Football Teams (there are at least six teams who use it to drink in after matches on Sunday lunch-times) as it has a separate Games Room (including Pool Tables), plenty of big screens showing televised football, and best of all...attractive barmaids serving free hot food for all the Football Teams using the pub.
ON BROADWAY are also our current kit sponsors and also sponsored the purchase of five thermal substitutes suits during the 2002/2003 Season.
CLICK HERE to see a map of where ON BROADWAY is situated.

HOME PITCH 

Our Home Pitch is Pitch One at HAZELWOOD SPORTS GROUND, which is off Hedge Lane in Palmers Green, London N13. We have been using this excellent venue as our Home Ground since 1985 and have been on Pitch One since the early-90's.
There are several different entrances to the ground, but the one preferred by most of our players is a small alleyway in-between house numbers 66 & 66A in Connaught Gardens which leads directly to the changing rooms. CLICK HERE to see a map of the ground with this entrance marked or CLICK HERE to see a satellite map of the pitch. For those who rely on Sat-Navs, the postcode for this alleyway entrance in Connaught Gardens is N13 5BS.
There is normally plenty of car parking space in Connaught Gardens, but there are also walk-in entrances to the ground in Hedge Lane, Madeira Road, New River Crescent and Lynbridge Gardens, with car parking spaces in those roads as well. There is actually a car park inside the ground at the Lynbridge Gardens entrance, but this now has to be kept locked as it is only for the use of the Youth Teams that play at the venue. (They change in the car park and have the keys).
Hedge Lane is otherwise known as the A111, which runs between Green Lanes in Palmers Green to the 'Cambridge Roundabout', a major junction in Edmonton where the A406 meets the A10.
Our pitch is shared with fellow Mercury Waltham Sunday League side St. Mary's on Sundays and is also used every Saturday by A.F.A. side Broomfield, who are 'allowed' to roll & fork the pitch and cut the grass themselves, despite it being an Enfield Council ground ! Broomfield are therefore unhappy that ourselves and St. Mary's take advantage of this, and we have been living with rumours for several years that Enfield Council might throw us off at some stage !. The pitch is therefore normally in excellent condition (except for when it rains heavily every Saturday night) and there is also the advantage of it being right outside the changing rooms entrance, which are quite reasonable by Sunday League standards in so much as every team (and the officials) have their own rooms and the showers work (most of the time !). In fact most teams in our League rate it as their favourite away venue despite it being the furthest from the League's base in Waltham Cross.
Due to Enfield Council cost-cutting measures and ground-staff cutbacks, both ourselves and St. Mary's now have the keys to open and shut the changing rooms at Hazelwood ourselves for Sunday morning matches, which we both agreed to do despite having to pay the same pitch hire charges as normal. The alternative was for both teams to play at Enfield Playing Fields (an atrociously poor venue) instead.
These measures mean that players have to take it in turns on a Rota basis to sweep out the changing rooms and showers after each Home match, but our players are always prepared to do this rather than play at Enfield Playing Fields. (A lot of players actually decide to join the club because Hazelwood has such a good playing surface).

KICK-OFF TIMES 

All League & Cup Matches in the Mercury Waltham Sunday League Kick-Off at 10.30.a.m., as do the majority of matches in London F.A. Sunday Cup Competitions.
Players must arrive at the venue for matches at least 30 minutes before kick-off (i.e. before 10.00 a.m.) or they will be fined 50p for a first offence, up to a maximum of £5.00 for any subsequent offences.
Players will also be fined 50p (for a first offence) if they arrive late for a set time at a meeting place for travelling to away matches, with subsequent offences being punished by a fine up to a maximum of £5.00.
If a player or players are late due to the fault of another player (e.g. travelling in the same car), the player causing the late arrival will be liable to pay the fines of all the players travelling in the same vehicle.
However, fines will NOT be imposed if you phone or text a Management Committee Member before 10.00.a.m. with a reasonable excuse for being late. (See 'Who To Contact On Matchdays' below).
From this season onwards, it will be entirely at the Team Manager's discretion as to whether a player is fined or not. The fine imposed by the Team Manager will then be added on to the player's Subs owed without it having to wait until a Management Committee Meeting to be discussed. However, appeals from players against fines imposed will be discussed by the Management Committee.
Please note that unlike other clubs, we do not turn up an hour before kick-off and do a proper half-hour group warm-up on the pitch. This is mainly because too many of our players have family commitments and cannot get to the venue that early. Invariably our players turn up between 10.00.a.m. and 10.15.a.m., then get changed straight away and do their own individual stretching exercises just before the kick-off, especially at Hazelwood where the changing rooms are right next to the pitch. Despite this last-minute rush, we have not caused a late kick-off for about 10 years, but it does inconvenience Manager Trevor Hughes for his team-talks, and if we have a large squad of good players available for a particular match, he may well leave players out of the starting line-up if they turn up after 10.00.a.m.

UNAVAILABILITY FOR MATCHES & ANNOUNCEMENT OF SQUADS 

If players are not available for a match they must inform a member of the Management Committee as soon as possible before the actual day of the match.
If players are forced to cry off on a Sunday morning through illness, injuries received from a Saturday match or any other ‘last-minute’ problem, they must phone or text a member of the Management Committee immediately (see 'Who To Contact On Matchdays') in order to allow replacement players to be contacted in time.
All registered players are expected to turn up to every match unless:...
(a) They inform a Member of the Management Committee beforehand that they are unavailable, or 
(b) They are not named in the squad listed on the Forum and the Fixtures page. 
Please note that the squad will normally be listed on both the Forum and the Fixtures page at the start of the week. (Normally on a Monday). If players do not have Internet access, they will have to phone a Management Committee Member who has in order to find out who has been named in the squad. It is club policy that we DO NOT PHONE each player to tell them if they are playing or not...and that they have to phone us if they have not got access to the Internet. We will only contact players to tell them if they are in the squad if they were not originally named and have had to be called up as a 'last-minute' replacement. 
If players need to know if they are in the starting line-up before they set out to travel to a particular match, they must phone Manager Trevor Hughes only ! If a player does not want to attend a match because they are only a substitute, they will not be fined if they phone Trevor beforehand, but they may find it difficult to get back into the team/squad for future matches depending on the circumstances concerning their non-attendance.

SQUAD SELECTION POLICY 

We always pick a squad of 16 for each match, even though the League (and London F.A.) rules state that only three substitutes can be used from a maximum of five named. From our experiences over the past two or three seasons, we know that there are always going to be players dropping out of the squad at the last minute on Sunday mornings due to family commitments and that more often than not we will end up with just a squad of 14 or less.
If players have not been picked for the squad of 16 but are not doing anything else on a Sunday morning, it is always advisable for them to phone Manager Trevor Hughes on his mobile between 9.30. & 10.30.a.m. to find out if we are suddenly short of players. As for the starting line-up, Trevor will be fielding what he considers to be his strongest available side for each match (subject to certain club rules to be used at his discretion).

WHO TO CONTACT ON MATCHDAYS 

All players MUST ensure they insert the Mobile Phone Numbers of Management Committee Members into their own Mobile Phone Address Books so that they can phone or text one of them on a Sunday morning (between 9.30.a.m. and the 10.30.a.m. Kick-Off time) if they are going to be late for a match or have had to ‘cry off’ at the ‘last minute’. This is vitally important !
If you do not get any answer and have to leave a message, please also try phoning somebody else as the first person you phoned may be on holiday or working and therefore not attending the match. Please try and speak to someone rather than leave a voice or text message unless you know that person is definitely attending the match. 
Management Committee Members' Mobile Phone Numbers are as follows:
LAURENCE HUGHES (Club Secretary)......................... 07949 128505
TREVOR HUGHES (Team Manager & Treasurer)............ 07949 069429
STUART DORWARD (Club Captain)............................ 07947 135729
CONOR Mc,GOVERN (Assistant Secretary)................... 07957 244336
TERRY MOORE (Player's Representative).................... 07753 416154

'STARTING LINE-UP' PRIORITIES WHEN PLAYERS ARRIVE LATE FOR MATCHES

If a player who is originally due to be in the starting line-up for a match does not arrive at the venue until after 10.20.a.m. (i.e. 10 minutes before the scheduled kick-off time) and has not phoned beforehand to inform the Team Manager (or Management Committee Member) that he will be late, then that player will be named as a substitute or even left out of the squad altogether (subject to suitable replacements being available at the Manager's discretion).
If a player who is originally picked to be in the starting line-up does phone a Management Committee Member on their mobile to say he will not arrive at the venue until after 10.20.a.m., then that player will still be named in the starting line-up if he is changed and ready to play when the referee insists on the game kicking-off. (If the referee indicates that the club will be fined if we do not kick-off on time, then the player arriving late will be replaced in the starting line-up by a substitute (subject to availability) in order to avoid starting the game with only 10 men).
If players cause a late kick-off by arriving late, they will be liable to a fine up to a maximum of £8.00 if the club is fined by the League.

FAILING TO TURN UP FOR A MATCH 

Any player named in a squad who does not turn up for a match without a reasonable excuse will be fined up to a maximum of £10.00 and/or suspended for the next match.

POSTPONEMENTS ON THE DAY OF THE MATCH 

Quite often during the course of a season, we have a number of matches called off at the last minute (i.e. between 8.30.a.m. & 10.00.a.m.) on a Sunday morning due to waterlogged or frozen pitches or no referee being available. In those instances, all players named in the squad will be contacted by Management Committee Members between those times in an effort to save them an unnecessary journey. If the weather looks 'dodgy', but you have not heard from a Management Committee Member by 10.00.a.m., then you MUST take it that the game is still on and turn up at the venue. Any player who assumes that a game will be called off and therefore stays in bed will be fined under the 'Failing To Turn Up For A Match' rule if the game goes ahead.
Club Members who are not in the squad for a particular match will not be phoned, so if they intend coming along to watch the game they are advised to check with a member of the Management Committee first to see if the game is still on.
As a guideline to possible postponements, please read the details below:

• IF WE ARE DUE TO BE PLAYING A HOME MATCH AT HAZELWOOD SPORTS GROUND (or at any other Enfield Council grounds such as Enfield Playing Fields or Bush Hill Park), a decision on the state of the pitch has in the past always been made by an Enfield Council groundsman sometime between 8.00.a.m. and 9.00.a.m. on the morning of the match. We then have to phone a number at Enfield Playing Fields after 9.00.a.m. to find out whether the game is still on or not.
  However, last season they tended to make decisions on a Friday afternoon instead and seemed to be allowing Referees (or the Broomfield First XI Manager in Hazelwood's case !) to make a decision on Sunday mornings if the pitch had been deemed playable on a Friday.
  If Council groundsmen are inspecting the pitches on a Sunday morning, then invariably games are called off if it rains heavily at any time from Saturday mid-day onwards, but particularly if it is still raining when the pitches are being inspected at 8.00.a.m. on the morning of the match. (The Council then tend to call off every pitch in the Borough whenever there is a sign of any puddles forming !). 
  However, in the case of frozen pitches, Enfield Council's groundsmen do not call the games off and leave it up to the referee to make a decision, which means we all have to turn up at the venue even if it seems ‘obvious’ that the game will not go ahead. (If the opposition are there but our players don’t bother to turn up because they think the game will be off, then the opposing team will be given the points if the referee deems the pitch playable).

• IF WE ARE DUE TO BE PLAYING AWAY ON A BROXBOURNE COUNCIL PITCH OR IN WALTHAM ABBEY, we should be informed (by the League Fixture Secretary or the opposing Club Secretary) by mid-day on the Saturday if the game has been called off because of a waterlogged pitch. This is because Broxbourne & Waltham Abbey Council groundsmen always inspect the pitches on a Friday (or even a Thursday !) as they are not paid to do so at weekends. This invariably results in pitches either being deemed unplayable on a Friday but then ending up in a perfectly playable condition by the day of the match or being deemed playable on a Friday only for it to rain non-stop on a Saturday and Sunday, leaving the pitch badly waterlogged but still allowing teams to play on it (unless referees decide to call the game off...which they rarely do because they want their £30.00 !). The only advantage with Broxbourne Council’s policy of calling games off on a Friday is that it gives players the chance to arrange other activities over the weekend if they know the game is definitely off.

• There are also numerous TEAMS IN THE LEAGUE WHO OWN THEIR OWN GROUNDS OR PLAY ON PRIVATELY-OWNED GROUNDS. These are obviously the best teams to be playing when the weather is ‘dodgy’ because they can make a sensible decision themselves at a convenient time. 

PRE-SEASON TRAINING & FRIENDLIES 

We tend to do very little Pre-Season Training because we keep ourselves fit by playing in the Summer 7-a-side League, but when we do, we use Enfield Playing Fields (Ladysmith Road entrance) as this venue is central to where the majority of our players live.
Click Here to see a map of the entrance.
We normally arrange a number of Pre-Season Friendlies on Sunday mornings during August. CLICK HERE to visit our Fixtures page for details of these.
Our usual policy regarding NEW PLAYERS is to only use those who have been recommended by existing club members when picking squads for Pre-Season Friendlies, unless we have seen other new players at a Pre-Season Training session or in 7-a-side League matches first.

TRAINING DURING THE SEASON 

Due to work & family commitments for the majority of our players and the unavailability of floodlit Astroturf pitches between 7.30 & 9.00.p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday evenings, we have not been able to train during the Season for the last three years...something which has undoubtedly been a big factor in us repeatedly struggling to avoid relegation in Division One.
However, we have now purchased a portable floodlight and will be using it to train on a grass area behind the far goal on the Barrass 'Stadium' pitch  in Edmonton where Terry Moore's Old Edmontonians side play on Saturdays. Terry has arranged for the Old Edmontonians Clubhouse car park to be opened for us (from just after 7.00.p.m.) so that we can park inside the 'Stadium'.
We will be 'playing things by ear' on a week-to-week basis and only arranging training if by each Wednesday afternoon it looks like we have at least 10 players who are willing and able to attend the following evening.
If training is on, we will therefore meet in the car park at 7.15.p.m. ready to start training at 7.30.p.m. If players cannot get there until after 7.30.p.m. and miss the 'warm-ups', then that's their problem.
There are floodlights just outside the 'stadium' which are used every Thursday night by Edmonton Sunday League teams (as we actually used to do over there way back in the late 70's !), and enough of that light reaches into the stadium. By using our portable floodlight as well, we should have enough light for a 7-a-side practice match and shooting practice into the back of the goal on the Barrass Stadium pitch. (Old Edmontonians have been informed that we are going to do this and they have no objections). Terry didn't mention this, but we may even be able to have a drink in the Old Eds' clubhouse afterwards !?
If you click here to see a satellite map of the 'stadium', you will see the grass area behind the far goal.
The entrance to the Barrass Stadium car park is at the bottom of Houndsfield Road (N9 7RA is the postcode for SatNavs). Houndsfield Road is a turning off the Hertford Road in-between Bury Street & Galliard Road. Look for The Cock Pub (unless it has now been re-named !?) on the corner of Houndsfield Road and Hertford Road.
We will not be able to use changing rooms or showers, so players will have to come prepared and get changed in their cars.

GETTING REGISTERED TO PLAY FOR US (and NEW PLAYERS WISHING TO JOIN THE CLUB) 

All NEW Players joining the club MUST fill in a League Registration form and provide Club Secretary Laurence Hughes with one passport-size (recently taken) photo before they are allowed to play in any competitive game for the club. (We have not played a 'ringer' since the bad old days of the late-70's/early-80's when we had to drag people away from walking their dogs to help us field a team !) 
Normally, registration forms & photos have to be with the League Registration Secretary before mid-day on the Wednesday preceding a match. However, at the start of each season the deadline is roughly 10 days if you want to play in our first League Match of the season. (For this season the deadline to play in our first match of the season on Sunday 7th September is therefore Wednesday 27th August).
All players who played for the club the previous season and intend to play for the club this season are advised to re-register using the League's 'Multi-Registration' Form, which has to be filled in before mid-July. This form is always brought along to 7-a-side League matches. If you miss this deadline, you will then have to provide a new passport-size photo (and fill in a full registration form) as if you are a new player...which is obviously a real 'hassle'.
Registration forms do not have to be filled in for you to play in Pre-Season Friendlies.
For players who are unable to play in the Summer 7-a-side League or Pre-Season Friendlies in July & August (or attend the club's Annual General Meeting),  a full League Registration Form can be downloaded and printed off from here on the League website. Players must then fill in the left-hand side of the form ONLY in black ink and block letters, then post it to Laurence Hughes at 9 Wimborne Road, Edmonton, London N9 9EZ, together with a passport photo.
We prefer new players to be brought along to the club by existing players so that we are aware of their background and ability, but if other players want to join, they MUST be able to control and pass the ball properly and have reasonable ability. If they have already played for other clubs at a good standard, then that will be preferable.
Prospective new players who are not being brought along to the club by existing members MUST contact Laurence or Trevor Hughes first (preferably by e-mail) regarding their Age, Playing Position and Previous Clubs (at least), otherwise we will not reply to them. More importantly though, they MUST be able to read, write and speak English properly !!!  We pride ourselves on being a Multi-Racial club, but some of the e-mails we sometimes receive have been an absolute joke, and we have therefore not replied to them.
Most of these e-mails are from African teenagers (or their 'agents' !) who seem to think that we are a Professional Club who can arrange a visa or a work permit (in return for cash !) which will enable them to get into the Country and claim benefit. Needless to say, we are not prepared to go along with such 'scams' !

IF YOU ARE RE-JOINING THE CLUB 

Players who wish to re-join the club this season will also have to supply a new passport-size photo for the League if they did not sign a registration form for us the previous season. Players re-joining the club will also be informed by Club Treasurer Trevor Hughes if they still owe the club any outstanding subs from their previous spell and if so, these amounts MUST be paid in full before they are allowed to play in a competitive match.

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS 

All players (including any new players to the club) MUST pay a £25.00 Annual Subscription to Club Treasurer Trevor Hughes before they play in any League match this season. (The first League match of the season is on Sunday 7th September 2008). However, if any players who played for the club the previous season pay their Annual Subs on or before the date of our Annual General Meeting (Sunday 10th August 2008), they will then only have to pay £20.00. This incentive is so that we have enough money in club funds to be able to pay pitch fees which are due in August.
Players who have NOT paid their Annual Subscriptions will only be picked to play in matches if there are not enough players available who HAVE paid and this will be at Team Manager Trevor Hughes's discretion.
In the past we have let some new players play for the club (ahead of others) before they had paid any money whatsoever (basically because they were very good players and we were more likely to win if they were in the team !) They then continued to play without paying and built up a big backlog of subs owed, then when we threatened to drop them they promptly left the club. We are therefore determined that this will not happen again. 
All non-playing members must pay an Annual Membership Subscription of £10.00. This is for club officials and players who sign a registration form just to help us out in emergencies and do not want to be considered for a regular place in the side (e.g. Club Secretary Laurence Hughes !).
If you want to pay your Annual Subs (or any big backlogs of Weekly Subs you might owe) straight into the club account via the Internet, please e-mail Laurence or Trevor Hughes for the account details.

MATCH FEES ('WEEKLY SUBS') 

All players must pay £5.00 per match (for playing a full match only). This £5.00 'Match Fee' also applies to Pre-Season Friendlies and Summer 7-a-side League matches as well as for League & Cup Matches.
If a player is substituted in the First Half of a match, he will pay £2.00 with the player replacing him paying £3.00.
If a player comes off at Half-Time, he will pay £2.50 and so will the player replacing him.
If a player is substituted in the Second Half, he will pay £3.00 with the player replacing him paying £2.00.
All players are advised to get into the ‘habit’ of bringing £5.00 to every game and keeping up to date with their subs rather than building up a backlog. We currently have a rule (See 'Non-Payment of Subs and the Punishments' below) which allows players to build up a backlog of up to £20.00 before they are ‘suspended’ from playing, this rule having been brought in to allow players to pay on a monthly basis by cheque (payable to 'Edmonton Rovers F.C.'). However, players who have chosen to pay this way have ended up consistently owing the club £19.00 (to avoid suspension) and have then suddenly found themselves over the £20.00 limit after getting booked in a match (automatic £8.00 F.A. fine) or by finding that their wages haven’t been paid on time from wherever they work. Most players have now decided to keep up to date instead and we strongly recommend that everyone else follows their example.
All Subs must be paid to Team Manager & Treasurer Trevor Hughes. If he is not at a match, then other Management Committee Members will collect in Subs instead. All players are advised that they MUST pay their Subs before the kick-off if they have got to 'shoot off' straight away on the Final Whistle without having a shower. 

NON-PAYMENT OF 'SUBS' AND THE PUNISHMENTS ! 

Players will be left out of the starting line-up if they owe the club over £20.00 in subscriptions. This limit includes Annual Subscriptions, Match Fees, 7-a-side Fees and any Fines incurred. (This rule is subject to the availability of replacement players and at the discretion of the Team Managers).

SUBS LISTS & FINE NOTICES 

Detailed monthly Club Circulars are no longer produced as the majority of our players now have access to this website.
The only information that is NOT put on the Club Website is how much subs are owed by individual players and details of any Club Fines that have been handed out to players by the Club Management Committee. These details will be e-mailed to players instead.
Club Members who do not have an e-mail address will normally be informed verbally by a member of the Management Committee.

BOOKINGS 

Any player booked in a match where the booking is not sent in to the F.A. by the referee will be fined up to a maximum of £8.00 by the Management Committee, unless they decide no fine is necessary. Where bookings are sent in to the F.A. by the referee, then players will have to pay the F.A. Fine only (which currently stands at £8.00).
Players who are Booked five times or more in a season will be liable to a further F.A. Fine (£10.00) and a 7-day suspension.

SENDING-OFFS 

Any player sent off in a match where the sending off is not sent in to the F.A. by the referee will be fined up to a maximum of £20.00 by the Management Committee, unless they decide no fine is necessary. Where sending-offs are sent in to the F.A. by the referee, then players will pay the F.A. Fine only, although it could be as much as £100.00 and an indefinite suspension depending on the seriousness of the offence (e,g, Assaulting a referee, Head-Butting, Causing a Match to be Abandoned, etc.)
A Sending-Off for a Professional Foul or for Two Bookable Offences is a £15.00 Fine and a 7-day Suspension.
A Sending-Off for 'Serious Foul Play' is a £15.00 Fine and a 21-day Suspension.
A Sending-Off for Swearing at the Referee or 'Having a Ruck' is a £25.00 Fine and a 35-day Suspension.
Players who are Sent Off while playing for the club will NOT be played in matches (as a 'ringer') while they are under an F.A. Suspension and they will also be charged with 'Bringing The Club Into Disrepute' (See Below) if they have been Sent Off for a particularly serious offence.
During the last 10 seasons we have only had four players Sent-Off in 11-a-side matches, one of which was for an innocuous 'deliberate' handball on the goal-line and another which was for two bookable fouls. It is therefore a proud record which we wish to maintain.

BRINGING THE CLUB INTO DISREPUTE 

The Management Committee have the power to fine, suspend or expel any member who they have deemed to be ‘bringing the club into disrepute’ at training, matches or any other club functions. Thankfully this hasn't happened too often in the club's history (mainly because offending players have 'left/disappeared' of their own accord before we had a chance to 'do anything with them' !)

WEARING JEWELLERY DURING A MATCH 

Any player who is told to leave the field of play to remove or tape up jewellery during a match will be fined 50p (unless the Team Manager decides otherwise). All players should know that it is a FIFA regulation that jewellery must not be worn in football matches, and this applies to Sunday League Football and 7-a-Side League matches as well ! 

EQUIPMENT YOU WILL NEED 

All players are advised that SHINPADS must be worn in every match (Friendlies and 7-a-side League matches included), otherwise referees will stop you from playing. All players must make an effort to bring their own shinpads, as the club normally only has one spare pair to use in 'emergencies'. If players genuinely forget to bring shinpads to matches, then no charge will be made for using the spare shinpads from the club kit bag. It was originally supposed to be £1.00 per match, but it is more or less impossible for Management Committee Members to find out who has been wearing them. However, if it becomes evident that a player is wearing club shinpads every week because they are better than their own, then that player must then buy them off the club for a nominal fee.
Players are also advised to bring their own SOCKS to matches if they wish to wear two pairs of socks during a game in an effort to avoid blisters. These socks must then be worn underneath the club colour socks, otherwise we may be fined by the League for not having the correctly coloured kit.

SUBSTITUTES ROLES 

All players are advised that if they are named as a substitute in any match (Friendlies included), they will be expected to help the Team Manager bring the bucket, the medical kit, the drinking water ‘cool box’ and (if necessary) the spare kit bag out onto the pitch before the kick-off. They will also be responsible for looking after any balls that are not being used.

SUBSTITUTES 'GOING IN EARLY TO GET CHANGED' 

All players who have been named as a substitute for a match must be ready to enter the field of play (if required) right up until the final whistle (unless the maximum permitted number of substitutions have already been made). Unused substitutes who go in to get changed before the end of the match (because they are cold or bored ?!) will be fined 50p (unless the Team Manager decides otherwise) if they do so while there is still a chance that they may be needed.

GOALNET ROTA 

Players must take down the goal-nets (and bring in the corner flags) at the end of all Home matches. This will be organised on a rota basis by Team Manager Trevor Hughes in conjunction with the rota for sweeping out the showers & changing rooms and announced before kick-off as part of his 'team-talk'. Goalnets are usually put up before the match by Club Secretary Laurence Hughes and Players Rep Terry Moore..
All players are advised that they will be dealt with by the Management Committee if they refuse to put up or take down goal-nets when they are on a Rota to do so.

CLUB LINESMAN 

Mercury Waltham Sunday League rules state that all clubs must supply a linesman. However, unlike most other clubs in the League, we have no non-playing club members whatsoever who are willing to attend every match and do the job. (Normally it is the Club Secretary, but Laurence Hughes films all our matches and therefore cannot run the line as well). Invariably Manager Trevor Hughes acts as Club Linesman because our substitutes are often our younger players who are intimidated by opposing players and supporters while running the line, and in several cases have cost us matches by not concentrating.
Unfortunately though, Trevor will once again be missing a number of matches this season, so substitutes will have to run the line whether they like it or not. They will then have £5.00 credit off their subs (or £3.00, £2.50 or £2.00 if they only run the line for part of the match), but if they refuse to run the line when they are asked to do so, they will be fined up to £2.50 instead (at the Team Manager's discretion depending on the circumstances).
If we do not provide a Club Linesman at all, then we get fined £5.00 by the League, so anybody on the touchline who could have acted as Club Linesman but refused to do so would then have to pay that fine.
If anybody has a friend, relative or work colleague who no longer plays and is willing and capable enough to be a regular Club Linesman for us (for £5.00 a match !), please inform Laurence or Trevor Hughes.

OUTFIELD PLAYERS BEING 'FORCED' TO GO IN GOAL 

Following various last-minute non-appearances by certain Rovers goalkeepers during the past few seasons, we now have a Rule whereby 'Any outfield player who is forced to go in goal when a proper goalkeeper is unavailable will be given £2.50 credit off his subs owed'.

FLUID REPLACEMENT ! 

All players are advised to bring their own drinks to matches (particularly Pre-Season Friendlies) as there is never enough water in the ‘cool box’ for everyone (mainly because spectators & unused substitutes start drinking from it to quench their thirst caused by 'de-hydration' after drinking 20 Jack Daniels & Cokes the night before !) 
The water from the bottles in the 'cool box' can also taste rather 'foul' (see picture right !) because Laurence Hughes fills them up from his tap in Edmonton (direct from Deephams Sewage Works at Picketts Lock ?), so until Trevor Hughes volunteers to take the bottles home to the more 'luxurious surroundings' of Whetstone to fill them up there, all players may be taking a risk by not bringing their own drinks.

DIRTY KIT AFTER MATCHES 

All players, and particularly new players to the club, are advised that club kit must be handed in immediately after each match and turned the right way out (ready for washing), then put in the green plastic bag which is in the black kit bag. The only kit which should be in the black kit bag at the end of the match is clean (unused) kit. Players are also advised that we only wash club kit, so no more underpants please !
Players who fail to hand in any item of club kit after a match (including shinpads and tracksuit tops) will be fined £1.00 if it causes a shortage for the next match. Any club kit lost completely will see the player responsible having to pay for a replacement.

INJURY INSURANCE POLICY 

New players are advised that we do not have a club injury insurance policy as most of our current players have their own individual insurance (and also private healthcare). There are numerous different companies that specialise in individual sports injury insurance policies, so we couldn't really recommend any particular one.

MATCH DVD's & WEBSITE SPONSORSHIP

Our club is unique (for a Sunday side) in that we have all our matches filmed professionally (by Club Secretary Laurence Hughes...when he is not playing !).
His company Hughes Video Services also sponsor the club by paying £150.00 per season to have this club website online.
Fully edited & produced match DVD's (with titles & slow-motion replays) can be bought by players the following Sunday at just £10.00 per copy, while approximately 20-25 minutes highlights of each game are also produced as 80-minute long Compilation DVD's featuring four matches on each volume. These are then sold to current club members at just £5.00 per Compilation, and they can be found listed here on the Hughes Video Services website.
CLICK HERE for more details on the filming of Edmonton Rovers matches.

VIDEO CLIP LINKS 

We currently have a montage of our goals and other good bits of action from the past 5 years being shown on Sky's SkyCast website. Click here to view the footage. This was put together for us by Sky themselves !.
Ritchie Copues, one of our former Reserve Team players, has also started up a Group on Facebook entitled 'Edmonton Rovers - Have You Ever Worn The Fabled Jade Jersey ?' and video clips will also be put on there.
Most of these clips will come from our Video Clip Of The Week page on this website, and that will invariably be where the footage is shown first.

MARKS OUT OF 10 

Manager Trevor Hughes awards Marks Out Of 10 for each player that takes part in a match for the club.
The marks are based on the following 'criteria':
1 - 3  Should not be playing football
4       Very Poor
5       Poor
5.5   Below Average
6      Average
6.5   Above Average
7      Good
7.5   Very Good
8      Excellent
9      Exceptional
10    Hat trick plus three goal line clearances !!!
Players are advised that the Marks Out Of 10 must not be taken seriously. They are a rough guide to how people played according to the Manager on the day and are also subject to change by Laurence Hughes after viewing the match video.

CLUB TOURS & SNOOKER NIGHTS

Since 1986 when we went on our first Club Tour to Holland, we have visited Germany (twice), Spain (twice), Belgium, the Isle of Wight and most recently Prague in 2001. However, we have since had difficulties in arranging Club Tours because too many of our younger players cannot afford it, while our older players now have too many family commitments.
The only club social nights we tend to arrange nowadays are 'Snooker Nights', which are held at a secret venue that is organised by Manager & Treasurer Trevor Hughes once or twice a season. This consists of Pool & Darts competitions (and occasionally Snooker !) whereby players win half of the entrance fee and the other half goes into Club Funds. DVD's of matches are also shown, and with a 'licensed bar', it is always a good 'night out' when we can get a reasonable number to attend.

OUR ATTITUDE ! 

Our basic policy as a club is for our players to enjoy their football first and foremost. It is very rare that we will have a major inquest or bust-up in the changing rooms after a defeat - our players tend to just laugh it off and then discuss any problems rationally after studying the Match DVD's in order to see who was at fault. 
The majority of our players are intelligent & well-educated, so the changing rooms can be a dangerous place if you are not able to keep up with all the banter and good-humoured 'piss-taking' that goes on ! 
We also very rarely have any of our players 'throwing a tantrum' when they get substituted, mainly because of our rule that gives them a reduction in their subs if they do not play a full match ! In fact, we often get the whole team pleading to be substituted because of this (so that they can spend their money betting on Premiership matches or on the fruit machines down the pub afterwards !) 
Our relaxed attitude and good team spirit is complimented by the club being very well-run in terms of administration & on-the-field behaviour, and quite often we end up being the only club in the League not to get fined or have any players sent off during the course of a season.