1. AGM

The clubs AGM was well attended. Minutes of the AGM were accepted as a true record.

2. Emerald Update

The Emerald Club have agreed to continue to show Celtic games in the coming season. There have been comments that the Emerald lacks atmosphere on match days and so Phil has discussed with them the possibility of playing DVD’s and CD’s before and after the games. The Emerald have agreed but do not currently possess a DVD or CD player so the club agreed to look into the possibility of purchasing one.

It has been agreed that £3 per member will be paid to the Emerald club to cover membership of their club. These fees will be paid in January 2005 to coincide with the start of the Emerald clubs financial year.

3. Roles of Committee

Phil proposed that each member of the committee should have an agreed role to aid in the smooth running of the club. These will be discussed further at the next committee meeting.

4. Targeting of trips to Celtic Park

As last season, the club must make its request for tickets at the beginning of the season. The club agreed to run trips to the following games:

11/09/04 Celtic V Dundee

27/10/04 Celtic V Aberdeen

04/12/04 Celtic V Hibernian

22/01/05 Celtic V Motherwell

02/03/05 Celtic V Dundee

16/04/05 Celtic V Aberdeen

There may be further games targeted after the league splits towards the end of the season.

Due to time constraints it was decided not to request tickets for the first game of the season on 8th August.

The club will continue to use the same coach company in the coming season and travelling costs will provisionally remain the same although this may be reviewed at a later date depending on finances. Minibuses may be used as alternative means of travel if numbers are too low to run a coach. Rob Sutherland has a contact with a suitable minibus and will make enquiries as to cost and availability.

5. Membership

All members are now required to renew their membership for the coming season. Subscription charges will remain the same. Membership forms will be sent out to all of last years members with the next newsletter and will also be available at the Emerald club.

Andy Sutherland will produce membership cards to be sent out to renewed members. A similar format to last seasons was agreed.

6. Newsletter

Andy Sutherland agreed to produce the next newsletter to go out within the next week or so. This newsletter will also contain membership renewal forms and a code of conduct. This newsletter will be the last to go out to last year’s membership list. All subsequent newsletters will only go to members who have renewed membership.

Newsletters will be produced in a format that will enable them to be e-mailed to those members who have requested this on their membership forms.

7. Club merchandise

The club T-shirts are selling very well and Phil has ordered another batch. Club badges are also now available.

8. Promotion

Phil proposed that the club should do more to promote televised games and events to increase attendance at the Emerald club. It was suggested that adverts should be placed in the local press and posters should be sent to the University and RAF Cosford.

9. Possible future social functions

Social functions in the past have been poorly attended. However ideas for future functions would be welcomed and discussed.

10. Treasurer Report

It was agreed that all fees and charges will remain the same but will be reviewed throughout the season if the club is incurring significant losses.

11. Website Report

There have been some problems recently with the supporters’ comments section of the website with inappropriate comments being made which have subsequently been removed in good faith by Karl. This has raised issues of censorship. Karl was unable to attend the meeting so this issue could not be resolved and will be discussed at future committee meetings.

12. Website link to Emerald Club

The possibility of adding a web-site link or information about the Emerald on our web-site was discussed. Andy proposed that it may be more pertinent for the Emerald to have their own web-site. This will be discussed further with the Emerald committee.

Meeting closed. Date and time of next committee meeting to be arranged.