Managers Home Page
What Is This Page
This page is information, tips and resources to help make the complex job of administering an SUSFC team a little bit easier.What Is A Manager
The term manager is a bit of a misnomer. At SUSFC, it refers to the administrator in charge of a team. Contrast this with the perhaps more common usage in Europe, where it refers to the person in charge of a team and player selection and so on. Nonetheless we seem to be stuck with it. The manager acts as the interface between SUSFC and the players. A player's first point of contact for any administrative query is their team manager. Information, handouts, etc. are delivered to players via their manager. If the manager can't answer a query, they should refer it to their respective convenor, league secretary or the ExecutiveCommittee.Manager Duties
The key to surviving the manager's role is to learn to delegate. The manager is responsible for ensuring all the manager's duties are completed; but they are not responsible for actually doing all the work. Learn to farm out the work across your team so that everyone shares the workload. Our club is run by volunteers; players will hopefully be willing to help out.Match Records
SUSFC keeps a detailed record of every match that it plays. It is the manager's responsibility to ensure that a match record is submitted to our club for each match their team plays in. A template match record is available for use. You are welcome to use this or create your own, provided that it records at least all the information in the template.Equipment
The manager is responsible for all a team's equipment. This typically includes a first aid kit, training balls, match balls, bibs, cones and the jerseys. The jerseys remain the property of the club. Rather than give each player a shirt for the season, collect them after each game and assign a different player to wash them each week. Experience has shown that a lot less shirts go missing if they are managed in this way. At the end of the season, a brief equipment audit must be provided to the club prior to the AnnualGeneralMeeting.Home Ground Set-Up / Clean-Up
Where required, the team manager is responsible for the setup of our home ground for home matches. This includes the set-up of nets, corner flags, ropes, etc. When the game is over, this gear must be taken down and the oval tidied up. Where several matches are played on the one ground on the same day, you are only responsible for your game. For example, if yours is the first game, you must look after set-up. If yours is the last game, you are responsible for putting the gear away and cleaning the ground. If you're lucky you may get a middle game and not have to do anything.Team Footage
The team manager must organise someone to video-tape one or two of your games and supply the footage to our club along with a list of highlights. The highlights should be recorded in this spreadsheet which contains instructions on how to fill it out. The HighlightsVideo page has more details of what's involved.Team Photo
A colour photo of your team in their playing gear for inclusion in the Annual Report must be taken and submitted (by e-mail is fine). Please include your team name and a list of the players in the order they appear in the photo. Please try and ensure you get as many of your players in the photo as possible.Annual Report
At the end of the season, you must submit a report for your team for inclusion in the Annual Report. This may be serious, humerous or both. It should include a summary of the team's performance both on and off the field, as well as any highlights. Past issues of the report should give you an idea of what we're after.Team Awards
At the end of the season, the manager is responsible for informing the club which players from their team won awards. How the awards are decided within a team is up to the coach and manager. You can have the coach decide or do a player poll or whatever. The awards that need to be submitted are Best and Fairest for each team and Most Improved for each squad. (If you have a one-team squad then it's one of each.) We also need to know how many team members (including the coach/manager) who have reached 5, 10, 15 years of service. A year of service is a season with our club in any capacity: player, manager, coach, etc.Guessing Competition
Each year we run a fundraising GuessingCompetition. The manager must distribute one book of tickets to each player (as they have paid for it as part of their membership). Towards the end of the season, the manager must collect all of the stubs and return them to the club. You will be issued with the ticket books for your team. Please record the ticket numbers of each book you give to your players before you give out the books. Later when you are collecting ticket stubs you will be able to quickly identify who hasn't returned their stubs. Use this sample form for recording this information. If a player wishes to sell additional books, always take their money up front. That is, don't give out a book to a player unless they pay for it. Then they can keep the money from sales and life is much easier. Don't forget to record the ticket numbers for any additional books.Social Functions
A vital part of the manager's role is building team and club spirit. One way of doing this is encouraging, nay demanding, attendance at the various social functions. Many of these functions are held at our sponsors' pubs. Good attendance at these functions is vital otherwise our sponsorship income will drop.After Training / Games
After training and games the manager should encourage all players to come back to the pub. This is not mandatory for every player every week, but each team should attend on a regular basis. This is particularly so after games that are close to the pub.Team Dinner
As part of our sponsorship agreements with our sponsor pub(s), each team is required to have dinner at a sponsor's bistro. The date/day is up to each team.F. A. Cup Night
One of the key social events is the F. A. Cup Night. The manager is responsilbe for ensuring their team is aware of the event and ensuring a good attendance from their team.Annual Dinner
The gala end of season dinner is a great event. The manager is responsible for selling tickets, collecting the money and ensuring a good attendance from their team.Editing Your Team Page
Each team (or squad) gets its own team page on our website. You, as manager, can edit the content to your heart's content. Use the page to record useful info for your team as well as last-minute changes (eg. training cancelled). Read about how to get your login and how to edit your page.Need Help
If you can't resolve an issue for yourself or for a player in your team then do one of the following:- contact your League Secretary if the issue relates to the league you play in
- contact our Administrator or the ExecutiveCommittee if the issue relates to our club
