Weekly Club News

Good Morning MSC Members

Maidstone 1st Team Squash

MSC members would like to wish our 1st Team good luck in their semi-final clash away to Poult Wood tonight, (going to be explosive)

There will be a full end of season update on both our teams playing in the North Kent league and Cup matches In the coming weeks

Many Working Hands Required 28th April

With the weather starting to get a bit better we are now moving onto the second phase of the clubs General Building Maintenance and Repairs on the outside of the building where we need to clean away all the Ivy and anything else that is growing over and around the building so that we can give the building a very much needed make over.

We are calling for volunteers to help clear up around the outside of building on Sunday 28th April from 8am.

Bacon / Sausage sandwiches will be available to all volunteers all washed down with as much tea and coffee they can drink.

So if you can spare a couple of hours of your spare time on the 28th it will be greatly appreciated.

The external makeover will include ,

Repairing, sealing and repainting the previously painted outside walls of the Club building, (keeping to black and white)

Installing new LED car park lighting

Installing new external overhead illuminated Maidstone Squash Club signage (to give us better presence in Starnes court)

Repainting of the Car Park Bays (TBC)

Once phase 2 has been completed we will be turning our attention on the inside of the club with the Men’s Changing rooms being top of the agenda for a much needed facelift.

All these things will take time to complete and the committee and trustees appreciate your continued support in everything we do for the good of MSC

Important Club News AGM

At the upcoming Club AGM scheduled for the 22 April we plan to adopt a set of updated Club Rules governing how the Club operates and manages its affairs. These same rules have largely operated since the Club's foundation but needed updating since their last review in 2004 mainly focusing on how we introduce new members into the Club and how the online court booking system works. A set of the updated rules will be placed on the Club noticeboard and some spares kept behind the bar ( ask Darren) if you would like to review them. If you have any queries please email Andrew at treasurer@maidstonesquashclub.com.

Front Door

As the club can be accessed 24/7 we would just like to remind members that if they are the last to leave the club to double lock the front door when they leave the premises regardless of the time day or night.

Friday night is club night

Courts available from 5.20pm continuing until late, just turn up, Play and Socialise with other likeminded club players.

Club night squash time limit (when 6 or more players attend)

There will be a 10-minute time limited this week to each pair of players on court, straight into warming up and then playing with no limit on where the score ends up, once the 10 minutes has been reached the alarm will sound and the next 2 players can go on court to play there 10 minutes.

A £2 light fee will be charged for all players attending regardless of how many games they play

From Friday 18th April we will cease to have the meal deal option £7.50 with a drink of your choice, from Friday 18th a meal will be £6 with all drinks being charge at the prices advertised

Food this week will be

Shepards Pie (Lamb) (very limited number when they are gone they are gone)

And all the usual burgers + chips + side salad

Box League scoring system ( updated 11-4-24 )

We will be implementing a small change to the Box League scoring system next month (May boxes onwards) this is generally used at many other squash clubs around the country and is designed to encourage and reward all players that turn up and play there Box games, the change to the scoring system is that a player will get 1 point for turning up to play, and the wining player will get a extra point for winning the match.

Example

Player 1 V Player 2, ……………………………….Player 1 beats Player 2, 3-0, the score should be recorded as a 5-1 win to player 1 (1 point per game won, 1 point to the player winning the match and 1 point to both players for turning up)

Player 1 V Player 2 ………………………………..Player 1 loses to player 2 2-3, the score should be recorded as 5-3 win to player 2 (1 point per game won, 1 point to the player winning the match and 1 point to both players for turning up)

If a player fails to turn up at the time and date arranged it will be classed as a “walk over” to the player that has turned up at the club to play the match and will be rewarded the win, a 5-0 score should be recorded

2 Bonus points will now be awarded to any player playing all his games.

It has been pointed out that there are box players that seem to refused to actively arrange or reply to other players communications in regards to arranging these box games, can I ask all players to both try to contact other players in there box and if they do receive a message to reply to it. The box squash games will only survive if all players talk to each other so please either contact and reply to get the games arrange or let me know that you would like your name removed from the box leagues

Up and coming events

Quiz Night

Due to the success of the last quiz night a further evening of fun and antics will be arranged very shortly, date and time to be confirmed.

2024 Box League Play-off Finals Night

Friday 3rd January 2025 (Time to be confirmed closer to 2025)

11/04/2024