Hi

Welcome to 2020. I hope you have all had a nice break and happy new year celebration.

Despite the fact that it is still January it is time to start making preparations for the 2020 Soccer Season.

The registration website will be up and running for registration during this upcoming weekend 11-12 January 2020. Jason is loading the information in the system and we will send you links and more information on how to register during the weekend.

It is important that we get organised as early as possible in 2020. All players need to be register no later than 20 February 2020. We need to let the association know how many teams we will be entering into competitions in the 3rd week of February 2020 and so if you are not registered by 20 FEBRUARY 2020 it is possible that we will not be able to fit you or your child into a team. PLEASE REGISTER AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE TO SECURE YOUR SPOT

A reminder that our home ground will be Eric Primrose Reserve Park in John Street, Ermington. We will be sharing the ground with Parramatta City and we have already met with them to discuss details on how the ground sharing arrangements will work. Parramatta City have been very accommodating to date and we are trying to negotiate arrangements that would allow us to retain Wednesday night as our main training night of the week. We will confirm all these details once we have finalised all our discussions.

While we will be sharing a ground we will still be operating as separate stand alone clubs in 2020 and are confident that this will be a temporary arrangement until we are able to move into a new home ground at Newington Reserve in 2021.

All the information you need to make a start on the 2020 season will be provided in the follow up notifications we will send you later this week.

I am also pleased to let you know that almost all of the 2019 Committee remain committed to helping the club in 2020. We are thrilled that Katy Zaia and Emma Gibson have joined the Committee. Katy will take on the role of Secretary whilst Emma Gibson will assist Rayna with organising the strip and club clothing in 2020. Details of the committee are available on TEAMAPP under the Committee tab.

I look forward to seeing you all again at the Gunners and to a successful 2020 season.

Robert Cologna
Co-President