Hamon 'quit' threat works

THE social leagues were on the brink of collapse this week – before a ball in the new season had been kicked.

Rod Hamon had threatened to resign from all seven of his positions within the Business and Sunday Leagues, unless other people came forward to help ease his workload.

The threat worked and three of the positions have now been filled.

Richard Felbabel is the new fixtures secretary for the Sunday League, while Vince Paver has taken over the registrations for both leagues.

The future looked bleak after the Business League held an EGM last Wednesday night.

At it, a proposal was put forward for all clubs to play each other three times per season instead of the two. This was strongly opposed by fixtures secretary Scott Le Page.

However, the vote was passed unanimously and Le Page subsequently resigned.

With no one else willing to take the job, Hamon added to his growing list of roles by taking it on.

However, in an e-mail sent to all of the clubs on Wednesday, Hamon said that he wasn't willing to push himself too far by doing all the various jobs.

'I do not intend to make myself ill over it, and if there are no people willing to help in some way I will resign from the lot,' he wrote in the email to league delegates.

'It may give certain people a lot of pleasure to see this happen but whether it gives people the chance to have a pop at me or not, I will not struggle on until I am sick trying to do it.'

He now believes that both social leagues can look forward to the beginning of the new season with confidence.

'We are very upbeat and are looking forward to the new season, which start next month.'

The two social leagues this summer chose to de-affiliate from the Guernsey Football Association which had hoped they would stay under its wing and play in an expanded GFA structure with promotion and relegation between up to four leagues.

Had they done so, all administration will have been taken care of by the English FA-backed paid GFA officials.