Season notes
Pathway meetings stall under paper. A scholar who has played eighteen minutes for the under-21s does not need a twelve-page dossier; the room needs to decide whether the loan should continue.
Priya’s boards give each discussed player one sheet: minutes by competition, loan club, and a single written caution. The caution is allowed to be blunt — “has not travelled well,” “position change not yet held,” “parent meetings are eating staff time.” If the club will not put a caution in writing, we will not invent a polite empty box.
Loan reports from other clubs arrive in every format. We do not retype them in full. A paragraph in the club’s own words is enough, with a date. If the loan club has not sent anything, the board says so. Silence is information.
Parents are not in this sitting. A separate evening can use different language. Mixing the two is how a review becomes a complaint session.
Book the room for longer than an hour if more than eight players are on the list. We will still only stay for the first hour of our attendance; the rest is yours. The boards remain until you take them down.