Before the start of a new Season...

Guys,

Before the season starts I hope to bring up a few points to the team so that we can work to greater heights this season and bring back more trophies for TEAM GOAT!

1)      We have been in party mood for the past 1-2 weeks and its time now that we should be re-group and focus on our upcoming task ahead, Division 1 Title!!! We are starting our new league this Saturday and I do not think there are easy opponents in football. The ball is round, I believed many in the team have heard of this term, anything can happen in football and I hope you guys will be able to focus on the upcoming game this sat and let’s not get complacent in our games! We shall celebrate when we lift the trophy again!

2)     Blog!! With this new blog I hope everyone would constantly take some time to visit this site whenever u are free or when you are scouring through websites and pasting time. Come on in to the blog to read about latest happenings if not write a comment on the ‘Chatbox’ to keep it lively!

        
        Now with the blog I hope you guys will come to the blog and check for the latest game info and tell Yiwen who is able to make it and not make it latest by Tuesday Night in order to facilitate us to plan for the upcoming game. The information for the game will be updated by Yiwen latest on Tuesday morning.

        I hope you guys will be able to help out as sms is quite expensive if u send to 23 people and the sms is not a short one! So just drop him a sms saying, ‘I will be coming!’ Or ‘I will not be coming’ by latest Tuesday 2359!. So please help us out on this one! Thanks

3)      Team Goat is an up and rising team and new blood is constantly being pumped into the team. At the start we only have 15 players? But after recruitment and recruitment during the past years (mainly this last season) I’m proud to say we have a good strong team of up to 23players and a few more will come in during the season start.

The issue I would like to point out is that during some of the games we will expect to have a huge turnout (18-20 players?). During these games some of you guys will not be able to play as much as expected and I hope for you guys to understand why you were not being field in. Priority for the team is for us to get result and it is important as we are in a competitive league and I believe everyone would hope that we get the result that we wanted so sometimes we (the committee) would make decision that go against you and I hope that you will be able to understand as we are going for the good of the team.

4)      Stats sheet, a stats sheet will be up on the blog once the season have started. Attendance and goals will be placed up to help the committee keep record of the team.  If possible, Assists and man of the match will also be added!

5)      New policy. After discussing with the committee, we would like to have a TEAM GOAT FUND set up to help with some of the expenses. For example, new soccer balls (we just bought additional 2), water during games and even for gatherings! The contribution is small and I hope you guys will be able to contribute; it’s just $2/month. (PLEASE TAKE NOTE THIS $2 DOES NOT INVOLVE GAMES MONEY). I hope you guys understand why we are doing this and I will bring it up again this coming Saturday, if you have any questions u can bring it up to me as well. Thanks

These are the few points I would like you guys to take note of before the start of the season. Right now, everything starts from ZERO, we have not achieved anything yet. As we are the Champions of division 2 in our previous season, definitely there will be pressured for us to perform and to deliever results no matter from us or from others. We can use this pressure to our advantage, lets make use of this pressure to be a form of motivation for us to achieve even better results in all of our upcoming games!

Everything aside, i hope that you guys will be able to enjoy this new season! lets win the Division 1 title and in 5months time we will have another celebration! A BIGGER ONE!

TEAM GOAT!!!
Jeff