FIELD INFORMATION:
The Irondale Soccer program has moved to Grantswood & Gresham.

                                    The Bullets Soccer Club of Irondale has relocated to Grantswood & Gresham. Our home base will be Grantswood, with overflow going to Gresham. 
We've repaired the irrigation system (mostly), replaced sprinklers, installed 210ft of fencing (more to come), put up backstop netting, run electrical, worked on lights, had 100 tons of sand delivered & spread, sprayed for clover, put out seed & fertilizer, and situated sheds. 
Thanks to Delan (Public Works), Donna (Parks), & Grant (Water Dept) and their crews, we are well on our way in bringing Grantswood up to speed. So far, we've spent around $10,000 of the almost $14,000 we expect to expend. The city has given ($6000), the league ($2000), and the club (with some generous donations) will pay the balance of @$6000. A lot of man hours are still to go, but we'll get there! The biggest problem to me is that when you walk up, it's really not apparent what all has been done.
The trees that Donna and the work crews took out just aren't there. If you hadn't seen them you wouldn't know.
The sprinklers are underground, the dirt Donna & Kelly put in the holes around the poles filled in the holes. Again, you wouldn't notice. All the time & effort spent figuring out we had a bad transformer & the effort & money that will go into buying & the installing the new one won't be noticed. The water will just work, the water fountain will just be where it is, and the fields will just look like fields. Maybe we should have done some "before & after" pictures!

         Still no recommendation has been given to the council for the other full-sized field to replace what we lost at JPK. We are still in the process of trying to figure out how to keep practices on the same nights, etc. 
If we expand Field #2, we lose the U8&U10 field. If we keep the U8&U10 size, it's not feasible nor logistically possible for U12 boys & girls, U15 boys & girls, U18 boys & girls, and 2 adult men's team & 1 adult women's team, (9 teams) to all use the same field for practices and games. Oh well, we'll figure something out. 

   5 weeks and counting to the Fall '08 Soccer Season!

 

• ASF - update - Bullets Soccer U19 girls took silver, U12 boys Bronze, U16 boys lost 2-3 in the Bronze medal game, and the SC1 team finished 3rd in the Adult Open Division. Not as well as we hoped, but a successful tournament at the State Games. 

• For those who might not know, the Sports Festival 12 year old girls fast pitch softball was played here in Irondale at the tremendous facility build by the Shea Bridge folks. This is a world class, private facility! If you haven't yet seen it, go to 84 Lumber and turn right, you'll see it come up on your left. 
  

  

          FALL'08  LINEUP

Bullets SC DIRECTORS and MANAGERS for FALL '08
CLUB - Mark McElroy		CONCESSIONS - Rhonda Deaton
REGISTRATION - Julie McElroy		FIELDS - Tom Downing
COACHING -  Mark McElroy
COACHES & TEAM REPS
U6		Adults
U8		SC1
GU8		SC2
U10		WD
GU10
U12
GU12
U15
GU15
U18
GU18

 

                                     

  1st or 2nd Place teams from the season & Goal Cup S'08

NOTE:   There has been some confusion, intentionally so, with regard to the league with which we are affiliated, and its name. Birmingham Southeastern Soccer League broke ties with AYSA in the Fall of 1997, becoming an "independent" soccer league. In the Fall of 1999 the BSSL changed its name to the Central Alabama Independent Soccer League or CAISL. In the Fall of 2005 the state soccer association decided to call its newly formed "league" Central Alabama Soccer League or CASL, thus intentionally generating the confusion. That's unfortunate for a lot of soccer folks, but it's simple to keep it straight. We play with the "independent" league.   

                                                  

Anyone wishing to become a CAISL referee should contact the league office at 957-1191.