Shanghai Gaelic Football Club

Dear Club Members,

The Shanghai Gaelic Football Club holds an Annual General Meeting once a year, to reflect on the past season and report on various items including games and events, coaching, sponsorship and club financials. This meeting provides the opportunity to address any motions, questions and nominations for the club committee in preparation for next year. Every single club member is highly encouraged to attend the AGM. This is your chance to participate as an active decision maker of our club’s future. 

Time and Date: This year’s AGM will be held on ‪Friday December 2nd at 7pm‬, directly before our club Christmas Party. Venue TBD.

Motions: Any motions you’d like to be addressed at the AGM should be sent to the club secretary, Jane Hsu Southwick, by Sunday November 27th‬.

Nominations: Every year the club relies on new club members to step up and join our club committee. It is with your energy and ideas that the club is able to continue thriving. If you wish to nominate yourself or a friend for the Club Committee, please feel free to contact any committee member with nominations.

Vote For Your Teammates

Hi Everyone,

A huge thanks to everyone who made it up to the Beijing for The All China Games; what a weekend! I’m sure many livers are still in recovery. And although Seoul won the men’s and Beijing the women’s, our teams put up a huge fight and everyone played excellently. A special mention to MC who won an All Star and rightly so!

It’s a sad month also. We are losing four players who make up a huge part of our club; MC, Tom, Ling and Fergus. We’re sad to see them go but we wish them all the best in the future!

Gaelic Outreach Program- Coach
The club has a vacancy for a coach to develop the Gaelic games within the club and at School and universities in and around Shanghai.

Schools will mainly be international and Bilingual – Chinese language is not essential. Ideally the candidate will have a completed the GAA level 1 coaching course and have experience of coaching children.

Estimated contract period : 2 months  (mid-September to Mid-November)

Working hours :
08:30 – 17:00 Monday to Friday. Saturday 11:30 – 13:30

Package:
Shanghai GAA will fund:

• Return economy flights to Shanghai – Flights will be booked and paid for by the club.  Successful candidate will need to be flexible on traveling dates to keep fares to a minimum.
• Living allowance of approx. 1000 Euro (7200 RMB) per month will be provided
• Reasonable travel expenses within shanghai will be covered for work purposes.

Please note, the club will not fund accommodation for this position.

Applications should be made to Shanghai GAA email address (shanghaigaelic@gmail.com).

North Asian Games
No rest for the wicked! Next weekend sees some of the team heading to Busan for the NAGs on July 9th. Best of luck to all attending and the rest of us are sad we can’t make it! If you are interested, contact either Peter or Adrian.

Training
Training is done for the summer but will restart in August. In the meantime, there is a Ladies Soccer League happening during our slot at Luwan on Tuesday evenings and the men are more than welcome to join the AFL lads. Keep the fitness up for the AGGs

Hopefully see you all on Tuesday and if not, maybe the Blarney!

Shanghai Gaelic

Hi Everyone,

Hope you are well. We have a few things to update you on this week:

Competitions

• Suzhou- 23rd April
• SAGs in Bangkok- 14th May

Keep an eye out on the chats and let us know if you can make it- it would be great to have as many as possible!

(The dreaded) Membership Fees

• Full adult- 2000
• Half adult- 1300
• Full family- 3000
• Half family- 1700
• Student- 400
• Half student-250
• Child- 1000
• Social- 400

First 3 tryout sessions are free, so bring your friends. And for those you just want to play for the craic, it’s 100 per session after that.

For the first 25 who pay, you’ll also get a free Shanghai GAA Polo Shirt!

Deadline: April 26th
How to pay: Cash at training or via Wechat to Alan

 
Things have been very busy the past month! From The Cup of Nations, to the Feile Shanghai Family Day to the St. Patrick’s Day Ball, I know for certain there are a few livers that might need resting.