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Friday, September 16, 2011

Back for 2011/2012

First week back and we've had two great nights. There was a lovely atmosphere on both Monday and Thursday evening with everyone keen to have a chat, catch up and what else?? ..... oh yeah play a game or two of badminton!

We were delighted to welcome some new faces and Padraic gave anyone who was interested some coaching time for a little while each night.

It gave everyone a great start and I think we're all looking forward to the season ahead.

Good to be back!

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Roscommon Badminton Association AGM

The Roscommon Badminton Association held their AGM on Wednesday night last in the Abbey Hotel, Roscommon. It was very well attended by all clubs in the association. There were no alterations to the core committee who are: Donal Mee, Chairperson; Paul Lynch, Secretary & PRO; Liam Kelly, Treasurer; Tom Cox, League Secretary. The Connaught Delegates are Sean Staunton, Paul Lynch and Corrinna Delaney.

The meeting was attended by Tommy Hehir who is our Badminton Ireland representative as there is a change to the grading structure from this season forward. All players will be graded from Grade 1 to Grade 10. Grade 1 is the level of Ireland's No.1 Scott Evans and Grade 10 would be a beginners grade with everyone else falling in between. The new grading will be submitted and finalised by Badminton Ireland prior to the start of this years league competitions so hopefully by mid October.

Another issue which caused some debate at the meeting was the issue of shuttles, feather vs plastic. The outcome of this discussion was that should a team wish to play with feather shuttles in a match against a team who normally use plastic shuttles, as long as they provide the feather shuttles then the feather will take preference.

All clubs are anxious to get back and get started and the teams participating in the various league competitions are keen to see them getting underway earlier than they have in the past so it was agreed to try to implement a tighter schedule this year.