Dear All,

Well it's happened!!!
At last, the league tables are available online. We have had various teething problems, the latest being that the site was not accessible yesterday - but seems to be working OK today! There are bound to be a few issues to start with but we are working hard to get these resolved. So, what does this mean for you?

Currently I am still inputting the results (on a daily basis) so what you see is what I have received. It should all be pretty self explanatory, the best bet is for you to have a nose around and see what's there. You should be able to find current league tables, fixtures, team results and individuals results as well as team orders for all players. I think you'll be impressed.

Regarding the ranking list - this is done as a whole club. So if you have a number of teams this can get quite complicated. The way I think of it is a ranking list of all players from your club playing in the leagues. Imagine they are all playing in one big team at once. What order would they play in? This should be the order on this list and should be stuck to at all times. YOU CANNOT CHANGE YOUR ORDER AS IT SUITS. This can only be done with PRIOR permission from myself and should only happen at the Christmas break. There have to be exceptional circumstances for it to be approved at other times. Please adhere to this rule. You will see from the software that it becomes very obvious where players have played out of order and having given out a number of warnings to teams, I will now be deducting points if this continues to happen. If you have any queries with regard to any of the rules, please contact me to discuss rather than risk losing your teams points.

Feedback would be appreciated - good or bad - it's a resource for you to use and we hope it will be very helpful. Any ideas about how we could improve it would be most welcome. Log-ins will be provided once we are in a position for captains to input their own results, even then though, a match card is still required to be submitted.

Finally, I am looking for volunteers (1 or 2 from each division) to be a 'Division Manager', I would see this role as more of an 'ambassador' for the league, just talking each week with your opposition, making sure that all teams are aware of the league online and identifying if they are having any problems. It is very hard for me to keep in contact with each and every team (especially those not on email or even worse those that don't bother reading their emails!) Let me know if you'd be interested.

YOU WILL FIND A LINK TO THE ONLINE LEAGUE FROM OUR WEBSITE AT

www.herts-squash.org.uk/league.htm

Go on - have a look, you know you want to!!!

PLEASE TELL ALL YOUR TEAM MEMBERS AND ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED.

Thanks for your time

Sally-Ann