| Indoor 2011-12 Team Photos have been uploaded |
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Go to “Teams” to view the photos. |
| RARE DOUBLE |
Congratulations to Paul Stanisci and AC Milan to their victorious season. The team managed to win both indoor titles. |
| Summer 2012 registration spaces only available to spares list |
To be admitted to this league, you’re expected to be recognized as someone who does everything he can to respect the safety and enjoyment of other players. That means if, in the opinion of the league executive and its prior season managers, you have or gain a reputation as a player who regularly a) makes careless or reckless tackles because you’re overly competitive, b) makes careless or reckless tackles because you can’t recognize that your lack of experience should prevent you from trying any such sort of contact in the first place, c) berates and badgers teammates, opponents and referees and c) plays selfishly or with no consideration for lesser skilled teammates, your application to play will be turned down, or your playing privileges withdrawn, as circumstances warrant. The BA Soccer League does not suffer brutes, butchers and boors. To be accepted into and kept in this league, you have to be seen as someone that everyone likes to play with and referee for, because you compete fairly, respect everyone, do everything in your power to avoid hurting or insulting others, and show remorse if ever you slip up on that front. If your profile doesn’t fit these criteria, the league executive, in consultation with its prior season managers, will turn down your application or eject you from the league, as applicable. Bad behaviour turns us off as much as good beer turns us on: keep this in mind as you complete your registration. The league is now full. However we can still accept a few more spares players. If a team is very short of players they can request players from the spares list to help out for that particular game. Also in the event one of the full-time players is hurt or moves to a new job outside Ottawa, and decides to withdraw, that would open up an opportunity for a player on the spares list to move full time onto a team. In prior years there have always been plenty of opportunities for spares players to become full time players part way through the season. By the end of the season almost all players who initially signed on as spares wanting to join a team full time had done so. Note: The Blackburn Arms Soccer League is for men 25+ years of age (18+ in the case of goalkeepers) |
| Congratulations Wael Athimni on earning the 2011 - 2012 Golden Boot! |
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| Summer Registration 2012 |
Summer registration has begun for the 2012 summer season. Games are played on Saturday mornings (except for holiday long weekends) from 10am to noon. Space is limited so please bring your forms and payment to the Blackburn Arms pub care of Steve or Carsten or better yet join us on Thursday nights for a beer after 9pm. |
| New BA Soccer Executive |
Congratulations to those elected to the executive of the League Management Board at the AGM February 2nd. The fees for the upcoming outdoor summer season have been set at $190 for regular players. To register for summer 2012 please fill in a registration form completely and hand to one of the members of the executive for processing along with your cheque made out to BA Soccer. |
| BA Soccer AGM will be held February 2nd |
The Annual General Meeting for BA Soccer will be held Thursday February 2nd, 2012 at the pub after the Thursday evening games in the dome. We will aim for a start time of 9.20 pm. Items that players have brought forward for discussion include: In addition we’ll have an update on recent projected changes to the constitution of the OGSC – Ottawa Gloucester Soccer Club (formerly OSA) and clarification on the status of the BA Soccer-OGSC link, and consider any updates to our constitution to account for modifications. The meeting will review the financial statements for indoor season 2010-2011 and for summer 2011 and will set the fees payable for summer 2012. Election of executives |
| Current Age Distribution of BA Players |
I have been asked by a number of people to give a breakdown for the current age ranges of players in the BA league. age 21 to under 25 = 3 (includes 2 sons and a keeper) |
| Check the game times for this week again please |
Between last Thursday and this Monday a change was made to the schedule of what time games are played. Please check again before showing up at the dome to ensure you know what time your game is this week. |
| 2011-2012 Indoor Season first game Thursday November 3 |
Season starts Thursday November 3rd at either 7pm or 8pm; check the Games section of the site. Make sure you let your manager know in advance if you will be absent so that he can arrange to request a player from the spares list to bolster numbers if required. If you repeatedly miss without informing your manager in advance that you can’t make it to play we reserve the right to give you a partial refund and take you off the team. PLEASE ALSO REMEMBER THAT THE TEAMS ARE NOT YET SET IN STONE. WE WANT THE TEAMS TO BE BALANCED IN STRENGTH AND WEAKNESSES AND IF MANAGEMENT PERCEIVES THAT ONE TEAM IS CLEARLY TOO STRONG OR CLEARLY TOO WEAK, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REASSIGN PLAYERS FROM ONE TEAM TO ANOTHER. It’s tough to ensure the teams are properly balanced ahead of the season start date when we do not yet know how capable, fast or fit the players who are new to the league will prove to be. Thanks for your understanding in this regard. |
| End of outdoor season playoff final won by team Spain |
These games are followed by the final at 11.10 am on Potvin SE between the team which finishes at the top of pool A playing the team at the top of pool B. Five of six teams are in contention going into the Saturday morning matches. |
| Indoor 2011-12 season is FULL |
UPDATE: Monday 3-Oct 9am, The roster is FULL: 88 (of 88) positions filled. |
| Summer 2011 team pictures |
All team pictures now on the Teams page. |
| England stands alone....... (2011 Season Champs) |
After a tight year of competion, it came down to the last game of the regular season between England and Spain. After a hard fought contest England was able to sneek out a 1-0 win. Congratulations to the regular season champions England managed by Mark Meng. |
| Golden Boot Race |
As we have come to the end of the season, the race for the boot is complete. |
| All games confirmed to be played at POTVIN for rest of season |
The regular season resumes at Potvin Saturday September 10. Fall-winter season registration forms are available from your manager for those who will be signing up for the upcoming indoor season which will run Thursday evenings in the Hornets Nest dome from November till the end April 2012. Please let the executive know if you are willing to volunteer for processing indoor season registrations. |
| Summer Season start delayed to Saturday June 4 |
Note: The Blackburn Arms Soccer League is for men 25+ years of age (18+ in the case of goalkeepers) |
| Team USA win |
Well done Mike Murphy and team USA on winning the playoff season final two-nil over Brazil. |
| Indoor Season playoff round final will be played Thursday April 28 |
The indoor season final will be played at 8 pm April 28th between Brazil who finished the round robin stage of the playoffs at the top of pool A and USA at the top of pool B. Congratulations to Carsten Sachse’s Italy on winning the regular season league title. In accordance with the new rules agreed at the most recent AGM the golden boot award stats calculations now end at the finish of the regular season and goals scored in the playoff round no longer count.. congratulations Darrell Birch on winning the title for the second indoor season in a row. Players: please remember that attendance is more critical during playoffs than during the regular season, as spares are not permitted to participate in playoff games. The only exception would be a spare keeper being allowed to replace an absent keeper, but even this is only if a spare keeper from the existing spares list is available. Teams are not allowed to borrow a keeper from an opposing team during the playoffs. |
| Annual General Meeting topics for discussion - February 17 |
BA Soccer will hold its Annual General Meeting after the Thursday February 17 indoor season games. Several players have brought forward items they would like the membership to consider - the league standings first tie-breaker should be head-to-head win tie loss record rather than goal differential. This would remove the incentive to a team to run up scores. winter_2009-10_financial_statements.pdf The meeting will take up the treasurers’ reports (linked above)and set fees for the upcoming summer season. Next year’s board will be elected. |
| Indoor Season 2010-2011 |
The BA Soccer indoor season will run on Thursday evenings in the Gloucester Superdome at Hornets Nest. Games will run either 7 pm till 7.55 pm or 8 pm till 8.55 pm and apart from a break between Christmas and New Year we will play every Thursday evening from November 11 through to the last Thursday in April 2011. The schedules of future games may change in the weeks ahead (click on games tab to the left to access the schedules). The only way you will know what time to show up is to keep a close watch on the schedule consulting it in advance each week. It may occasionally be necessary to alter your planned kick-off time (especially in the case of games requiring a spare keeper to play for the team), so on an ongoing basis please keep a look-out for possible scheduling modifications. Note: The Blackburn Arms Soccer League is for men 25+ years of age (18+ in the case of goalkeepers) Outdoor season games are played Saturdays at 10 a.m. until noon. Most games are played at the Potvin fields. Spares pay $20 to register plus $10 each game played to contribute towards dome rental and referee fees. Winter_2010-11_Registration_form.pdf Game sheet: |
| Rotten Tomatoes (red) edge Birmingham (silver) in end of 2010 outdoor season Cup Champions game |
In a tightly contested game that ended full time at nil-nil and extra time still tied nil-nil, the champions’ cup final went to FIFA rules penalty shoot out. |
| Yellow shirted team, Gold Dust, secures summer 2010 regular season title |
With their win over the red team on Saturday 18 September, the yellow team, Gold Dust, has secured their position at the top of the league standings table for the regular season. Congratulations manager Mark Meng and players. |
| Defibrillator instruction at 9 am, May 29th |
Rob Beanlands, who purchased the defibrilator we all hope will never need to be used, will be giving instruction on its use at the Potvin fields at 9 am May 29th. Managers are requested to attend, and all others interested and or concerned are welcome too. |
| 2009-2010 Indoor Season: Montserrat finishes top of league standings; Brazil takes cup championship |
Congratulations to Andrew Proctor and his light-green shirted Montserrat team for ending at the top of the regular season standings of the 2009-2010 indoor season. Notwithstanding the lower accumulation of points from the start in November 2009 your perseverence won through with your string of wins in 2010 pushing you through to the top. |
| Summer 2010 registration spaces only available to spares list |
To be admitted to this league, you’re expected to be recognized as someone who does everything he can to respect the safety and enjoyment of other players. That means if, in the opinion of the league executive and its prior season managers, you have or gain a reputation as a player who regularly a) makes careless or reckless tackles because you’re overly competitive, b) makes careless or reckless tackles because you can’t recognize that your lack of experience should prevent you from trying any such sort of contact in the first place, c) berates and badgers teammates, opponents and referees and c) plays selfishly or with no consideration for lesser skilled teammates, your application to play will be turned down, or your playing privileges withdrawn, as circumstances warrant. The BA Soccer League does not suffer brutes, butchers and boors. To be accepted into and kept in this league, you have to be seen as someone that everyone likes to play with and referee for, because you compete fairly, respect everyone, do everything in your power to avoid hurting or insulting others, and show remorse if ever you slip up on that front. If your profile doesn’t fit these criteria, the league executive, in consultation with its prior season managers, will turn down your application or eject you from the league, as applicable. Bad behaviour turns us off as much as good beer turns us on: keep this in mind as you complete your registration. The league is now full. However we can still accept a few more spares players. If a team is very short of players they can request players from the spares list to help out for that particular game. Also in the event one of the full-time players is hurt or moves to a new job outside Ottawa, and decides to withdraw, that would open up an opportunity for a player on the spares list to move full time onto a team. In prior years there have always been plenty of opportunities for spares players to become full time players part way through the season. By the end of the season almost all players who initially signed on as spares wanting to join a team full time had done so. Note: The Blackburn Arms Soccer League is for men 25+ years of age (18+ in the case of goalkeepers) U25 men and women, interested in playing in the summer please visit http://www.promotionscanada.biz/pythonSoccer.htm |
| BA Soccer AGM Thursday February 18, 2010 |
This year’s AGM will be held, as usual, at the Blackburn Arms Pub, once indoor season players have arrived from the dome after their Thursday evening games. Please plan to attend, ready to guide your executive on the direction you want your league to take going forward. Please also consider offering your services in some volunteer capacity. We need to spread the load of reponsibility for the running of the league more widely. PHIL RUSSELL WAS ELECTED AS AN ADDITIONAL VICE PRESIDENT, PLUS OTHER VOLUNTEERS WILL TAKE ON RESPONSIBILITIES 1) TROPHIES COORDINATOR: THIS INCLUDES TAKING EXISTING TROPHIES TO THE ENGRAVER TO GET TEAM NAMES AND PLAYER NAMES ADDED, AND PICK-UP AFTER THE JOB IS COMPLETED AND DELIVERY BACK TO THE PUB. THIS SUMMER IT WILL ALSO INCLUDE PURCHASING A NEW KEEPER OF THE SUMMER TROPHY Items that have been brought to our attention for discussion at the 2010 AGM |
| Recent EODSA referee refresher session clarifications |
He can’t play the ball on the ground… |
| Spirit of the League Award 2009 |
Because no league can thrive without its gentlemen |
| Congratulations to Jimmie McKenzie's Rangers on Winning the 2009 Outdoor Season Championship |
The 2009 outdoor season ended with Green Shift at the top of the regular season standings’ table. Green Shift also won a spot in the playoff final by coming in at the top of their pool A, but the blue shirted Rangers, winners of pool B, maintained enough pressure in the final to gain a one-nil victory, and take the Cup Champions’ title. |
| Document Archive |
2010-11_indoor_FinancialStatements.pdf This is the new website for the Blackburn Arms Soccer League. The older version is located at http://devel.rossenglass.com |