NDBSA News

Members have called for a Special General Meeting to be held to discuss the future of Newcastle Snooker given the recent loss of the Newcastle District Tennis Club as a venue.

I am calling a Special General Meeting for Thursday the 25th of August 6:30pm at the Toronto Bowling Club. All Premier Snooker matches that week will be postponed a further week to facilitate this meeting. All members are encouraged to attend to have their say and vote on potential proposals to address the loss of another venue.

Could Captains, Snooker Club Presidents and members please pass this info onto those of you who don’t have email. A4 Flyer can be found here.

Hope to see you all there.

The NDBSA endeavours to keep it’s members informed regarding Newcastle Snooker and utilise a number of ways in which we do this.

1. Emailing – if you aren’t receiving emails from the Association at least monthly then we don’t likely have your current address. If not then please email me  or call/sms me on 0421337105 and I will add you to our email list. If you don’t have an email address and would like one I can organise a free one that you can access via your phone, tablet, or work PC.
2. Website: www.newcastlesnooker.com.au – Score, results and information is updated to the website weekly.
3. FaceBook: www.facebook.com/NDBSA is also updated with local, state and international snooker news most days.

The NDBSA is organising, for those interested, national snooker & billiards referee accreditation. There will be a group of 6 in the first workshop that would either happen 1 night a week for approximately 6 weeks or over an entire weekend. The NDBSA will cover the initial and ongoing cost of accreditation provided those participating commit to refereeing a couple of NDBSA inter-club finals. Spots are filling fast so contact me via email at grant@newcastlesnooker.com.au or by calling/texting 0421337105.

The marking of matches is an important part of the weekly inter-club competition. All players for the home team are expected to mark a match and this will be reciprocated when you play at their venue. If you don’t have time to mark due to work, or other commitments then you should inform your captain and together organise a replacement marker. Playing your match at home then immediately leaving without marking is not ok and repeat offenders risk NDBSA disciplinary action. For venues with 3 tables the opposing team are encouraged to mark one match as there usually isn’t a home team-member available to mark the 3rd table. It’s the home team captains responsibility to ensure their players abide by this expectation.

NDBSA team captains are vital to the smooth running of NDBSA interclub competitions by:

• Organising teams each week to venue & start times.
• Ensuring players handicaps are correct prior to play.
• When at home drawing order of play – when the away captain, witnessing draw.
• Ensuring next player is ready to play as soon as a table becomes vacant.
• Recording scores, signing off on results and submitting to Grade Secretary each week.
• Advocating for their team members when there is rules dispute.
• Speaking for their team members who have requests of the other team captain i.e. Request to play first, expecting to arrive late

Without team captains there would be chaos… For this reason it is important that team captains are aware of these roles and if they are not in attendance for any competition night they assign an interim captain for the night who is aware of the above duties.

As discussed at the 2016 AGM the NDBSA has provided a ‘Foul & Miss’ flowchart to assist members in applying the rule.

This flowchart is a summary of the rules as outlined in the World Snooker & Billiard Rules. Please refer to this document for the exact wording of the rule.

Just a reminder that apart from the Rex Smith Shield all NDBSA Snooker competitions are to play this rule.