The WPA have published the preliminary round of this year’s National League Cup and can be accessed by following this link.
Monkstone Monarchs have been drawn away to the Golden Mile,
Monkstone Marauders have been drawn at home to the Penarth Predators and
Monkstone Minotaurs have been drawn at home to the Pontyclun Badgers.
Good luck to all the teams concerned.
Members of the club have had a busy weekend playing in the annual Grand Prix (GP) Series to endeavour to qualify to play for Wales in two important competitions, the Home Nations and the EPA Inter-Regional Championship.
| Monkstone Musketeers | Roger Griffin | John Barnes | Bernard Adshead | Peter Kensett |
| Binary Data | Tony Smith | Derek Jones | Peter Beresford | Inthrayut Kongchun |
| Three French Hens | Linda Hodges | Pat Daviss | Rose Fiera | |
| The Monkies | Peter Westall | Matthew Franks | Glyn Attley |
On Saturday the members of the club were playing at Wenvoe PC in GP1, the results at the end of the day saw the teams lying 9th and 10th.
| 3 | The Monkies | 4 | 21 | 111 | 64 | 36 | 28 |
| 9 | Binary Data | 3 | 18 | 104 | 61 | 49 | 12 |
| 10 | Monkstone Musketeers | 3 | 17 | 101 | 54 | 49 | 5 |
| 14 | Three French Hens | 2 | 17 | 102 | 45 | 68 | -23 |
On Sunday they popped up again in Abergavenny on wonderfully sunny day for GP2, the final results saw both teams lying in 7th and 9th position.
| 2 | The Monkies | 5 | 16 | 125 | 75 | 34 | 41 |
| 7 | Binary Data | 3 | 23 | 114 | 56 | 50 | 6 |
| 9 | Monkstone Musketeers | 3 | 17 | 106 | 60 | 55 | 5 |
| 16 | Three French Hens | 0 | 16 | 86 | 25 | 78 | -53 |
Both teams have a final GP to improve their positions on 27th April in Brecon. Good Luck to both teams concerned.
The following playing format has been posted on the WPA website.
if you have any questions, please ask.
Morning play:
There will be three pools of four teams play a round robin. The games will be timed with a 10 minute break between each game.
The top eight teams will qualify to play in the main competition. The next four teams will play in a plate competition (if requested).
Afternoon play:
The main competition will be a knockout from the quarter final stage for the 8 qualified teams.
The plate competition (if requested) will be a round robin for the 4 qualified teams.
The games in the afternoon will not be timed.
Three teams from the Club have entered this year’s President’s Cup – the first competition of the new season.
The three teams are:
Monkstone Monarchs: Tony Smith, Inthrayut Kongchun & Roger Griffin.
Monkstone Marauders: Jim Harrison, Peter Kensett & John Barnes.
Monkstone Minotaurs: Bernard Adshead, Vicki Adshead & Keith Nott.
Travel arrangements will be confirmed on Wednesday evening.
There will be hot food available on the day, either Cawl or Faggots, both come recommended.
For a number of the members this will be their first competition, we wish them all and all the teams good luck.
You will need your licences.
Recently the Monkstone Pétanque Club hosted the Welsh Pétanque Associations (WPA) National Veterans Championship.
Thirteen triples teams from around south-east Wales entered the final championship of the season, which as always was competitively fought. Over the day, six games were played by each of the teams entered, and it soon became apparent that four teams were in the running to take the title.
The home team of Jim Harrison, Roger Griffin and John Barnes (Monkstone Marauders) became the team to beat; the first team that lost to the local trio was the team of Graham Attfield, Tony Smith and Kon Tomczyk (The Barn PC, Monkstone PC and Caerleon RFC PC).
Next the team Age Concern, consisting of three stalwarts of the Welsh pétanque world, Dai Cannan, Mike Jacques (both of Wenvoe PC) and Jake Caston (Wheatsheaf PC, Llanhennock) played the Monkstone Marauders, this time the Marauders lost, placing Age Concern in a strong position to take the title.
The last team in pole position to take the title was GPS comprising Gay Evans, Stewart Spencer (both of the Monkstone Inn PC) and Peter Beresford (Caerleon Club RFC PC) who took on the Monkstone Marauders in the final round of the day. Up to this point GPS had won 5 games and needed the final game to put them on equal wins with Age Concern.
The Monkstone Marauders took a firm control of the game and failed to allow GPS to enter the game, losing 13/0 and thereby failing to achieve their much needed 6th win.
This left Age Concern the only team to win all their 6 games of the day with a handsome points difference of plus 48 and taking the 2013 National Veterans Championship title.
Final Results: Those players highlighted in red are members of the Monkstone Pétanque Club.
1.Age Concern: Dai Cannan, Mike Jacques & Jake Caston – 6 wins +48
2.Barnstone: Graham Attfield, Tony Smith & Kon Tomczyk – 5 wins +42
3.Monkstone Marauders: Jim Harrison, John Barnes & Roger Griffin – 5 wins +41
4.GPS: Gay Evans, Stewart Spencer & Peter Beresford – 5 wins +26
5.Monkstone Monarchs: Mike Wigg, Mike Jones & Paul Milton – 5 wins +20.
The remaining teams were, in order of placing:
6. Caerleon 1970: D Bevan, N Wilkinson & R Derret
7. PD&B: P Daviss, D Murphy & R White
8. Gloria, Me & Bob: G Davies, M Davies & R Hayman
9. Monmouth Marques: P Macer-Wright, L Lewis & V Lewis
10.Monow Misfits: L Humphries, R Clifford & J Clifford
11. Jakaba: B Vaughan, K Macleod & R Dobbins
12. The Bodjers: J Moody, D Lake & W Lake
13. MSF: P Clarke, B Clarke & J Prosser
