The first round of the Cup for Clubs will take place on Sunday 23rd November at the club, starting at 11:00 am.
Again, can all those players who took part in the previous round let me know their availability, in order that I can select a squad for the home leg.
Tony
Here are the final results of today’s Informal melee after some re-calculations due to results being recorded incorrectly and a miscalculation by the organiser – sorry Jim and Barney!
A Christmas Melee will be arranged for early December.
Tony
Our club has reached the final of the Cup for Clubs. With a slim lead of 3-2 against Wenvoe from the first leg of the semi-final, the home tie resulted in an emphatic 5-0 win, making it 8-2 overall. The points totals were 65-17 on the day.
We await our opponents for the final when the semi-final between Penarth and Wheatsheaf is decided.
On Saturday the 27th of September The Monkstone Petanque Club hosted a friendly competition at their piste with their friends from Penylan Bowling Club. The event was a reciprocal hosting from the previous week when several members from the Petanque club joined the bowlers for a friendly end-of-season ‘roll up’ on their beautiful green. Both events were tremendously enjoyable, helped by the lovely warm weather experienced on both days. William McCarthy, one time petanque player who, shame upon shame deserted to the bowling fraternity, was instrumental in organising both competitions and did a terrific job. Many thanks William and well done! Twelve ‘triples’ teams were sorted out, each comprising one petanque player and two extremely good bowlers or rugby boys. Each team played three games with alternate opposition. After a hard fought but extremely good humoured competition, the team captained by Liam Milton was declared the winner, whereupon everyone duly retired to the club to partake in a wonderful buffet and various refreshments.
Tony Smith was elected as a member of the Board of Confédération Européenne de Pétanque (CEP) in 2012 and as part of his duties he assists in the running of European Championships (EC) held every year on mainland Europe.
This year Tony has been on duty for the Veterans EC, which took place in Lulea, Northern Sweden and most recently in Mersin, Turkey with the Women’s EC. Tony says “It all looks so relaxing, but it is three of the longest hard working days of the pétanque calendar, but very enjoyable”.
Collecting the score sheets for the precision shooting competition from Bruno Fernandez (General Secretary).
The games are being played – chatting with Mike Pegg (President) and Ingela Eriksson (Treasurer)
