Dear All

 May I take this opportunity to welcome your team and your players to the East Lancs Table Tennis league for the coming season 2009-2010.In the handbook (and on this website) you should find all the relevant information needed to thoroughly enjoy this coming season .The four divisions  will consist of 38 teams .
          Changes to the handicaps will again be made using the ranking system, and an updated set of handicaps will be released before the first preliminary round of the Fred Holden Cup takes place . If your team are intending playing someone without a handicap in the first preliminary round, they must first have played at least one league match this season .Please note that all handicap matches are still played up to 21  ,and the maximum start, as last season, is 18 .
           Please return all score cards to David Heys during the week that the matches are played, this gives us the chance to update the league and merit tables and pass them on to John Leech , who updates the web site, and myself who writes the reports and send reports to the Accrington Observer , Lancashire Evening Telegraph, Rossendale Free Press ,Burnley Express ,Nelson Leader , Colne Times and the Clitheroe Advertiser .Teams that play from the Hyndburn Regional Table Tennis Centre can leave their cards in the wall safe .
            The merit tables will work as last season  a victory of 3-2 will count as 60% for the victor and 40% for the loser , 3-1 would be 75% for the victor and 25% for the loser, 3x0 will count as 100% to the victor and 0% to the loser .
            May I take this opportunity to introduce you to our committee and invite anyone who could help us further Table Tennis in whatever capacity contact any of the committee members listed.
            Finally can I wish everyone all the best for the coming season, If anyone wants to support their representative sides in the Lancashire and Cheshire league matches they will be most welcome .The presentation dinner is again in April next year .The new curtain dividers which have been installed will, we hope, help with further uninterrupted playing of Table Tennis .
             If you have any problems whatsoever during the season please contact your divisional representative or any member of the committee who will be only too happy to help.
 
                   Good Luck
 
                   Ged Simpson – Chairman

 Our Committee: