Friendly v Royal Wootton Bassett 2nd Leg

19 September, 2025 / / No comments

The postponed 2nd leg of our annual Friendly v Royal Wootton Bassett PC was played at RWB on Thursday 18 September 2025. All those taking part were relieved to find that the fixture was still taking place after the atrocious weather the previous day. In fact it turned out to cloudy with very warm sunny interludes.

The match was played in the usual format of 2 rounds of 6 doubles and 2 rounds of 4 triples. Unusually RWB chose to start with the triples which were then followed by the doubles after lunch.

MPC had a healthy lead of 13 games to 7 after the first leg, but realised that RWB would be looking to overturn that on their home gravel.

The 2 rounds of triples each finished with 2 games all, so MPC had retained their 6 game advantage, after which lunch provided by RWB was taken.

The first round of doubles finished 3-3 so RWB would have to win all 6 of the games in the second round of the doubles. Fortunately for MPC they came up slightly short by taking 4 of the games to MPC’s 2 thus reducing the overall deficit to 4 games with MPC taking the overall honours by 22 games to 18.

 

Category: Competition, Friendship /

2025 Club Singles

19 September, 2025 / / No comments

The first ever (annual?) Club Singles were held at the Club on 6 September 2025. There were a total of 28 entries, 20 Men and 8 Ladies (inc 3 Juniors) so both a Men’s and Ladies’ Singles were held.

Both competitions had a 3 round Qualification Stage in the Morning followed by an Elimination Stage in the afternoon. The Men’s Elimination stage was divided into Main, Plate for the top 16 from the morning and a Repechage for the remaining 4.

Ladies Competition

The morning Qualification Stage threw up few surprises but mention should be made of Maddie Bartlett who ranked #4.

The Quarter Final of the Elimination Stage in the afternoon went very much as might have been expected but the later stages saw a very tight finish between Penny Wooller and Amanda Jenkins with Penny squeezing home for a place in the Final. On the Other side of the draw Maddie Bartlett overcame Diana De for the chance to meet Penny in the Final which was another close run thing with Maddie just coming up short at the end.

So the Final has been contested between a newcomer to the Club, although Penny had played the game at league level some years ago, and one of our exciting crop of Juniors.

Perhaps this will encourage more Ladies to come forward next year – in Singles its anybody’s game!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Men’s Competition

Main

In the Main there were no great surprises but mention should be made of Tony Cooper (4), Paul Hawkins (6) and Keith Miller (7) who are all relative newcomers to the game. Unfortunately they all fell at the first Elimination hurdle except Keith Miller who went on to defeat Phil Roberts (2), Claude Razavet (3) and Sean Smith (1), the tournament favourite.

Huge congratulations to Keith for an outstanding performance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plate (Qualification Rankings Below are all +8)

In the Plate, those who were Ranked after the morning session from 9 to 16, Tony Martin, an experienced but infrequent player of the game, came through to beat newcomer Lloyd Kinsey in the Final.

Repechage (Qualification Rankings Below are all +16)

The big surprise was to see Tony Smith in the Repechage. As Tony himself put it “I’ve had a S*$% day”. Well done to Keith Thomas for fighting through and taking the Final against Peter Lippett

A big thank-you to Claude Le Razavet who organised the competition – a first at MPC for Claude. Hopefully he is a leader and other members will follow in his footsteps and organise one of the Club competitions. Help is always available if you haven’t done it before.

 

 

Category: Competition /

July & August 2025 Club 100 Draws

25 August, 2025 / / No comments

The July draw was made on 21 July at the Club. The lucky winners were:

1 Ann Marie Sheridan £102.00
2 Roger “Ben” Bennett £34.00
3 Mike Jones £17.00

The August draw was yesterday at the Club. The lucky winners were:

1 Denise Jones £102.00
2 Tom Mills £34.00
3 Tony Cooper £17.00

The 100 Club currently has almost 70 members, making the monthly prize pot approximately £155.00. In addition there is a bonus draw in December for a prize of £175+ (depending on the number of members). If you are not a member please consider joining.  The more people that join the bigger the prizes and the more improvements we can make to YOUR Club.

Congratulations to the winners but don’t forget:

YOU HAVE TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT

Contact Bernard on treasurer@monkstonepetanque.org.uk  or speak to him at the Club if you would like to join or for more details.

Category: Membership /

June 2025 Club 100 Draw

3 July, 2025 / / No comments

The June draw was made last week at the Club. The lucky winners were:

1 Ann Marie Sheridan £103.50
2 Lyndon Francies £34.50
3 Phil Lloyd £17.25

The 100 Club currently has almost 70 members, making the monthly prize pot approximately £155.00. In addition there is a bonus draw in December for a prize of £175+ (depending on the number of members). If you are not a member please consider joining.  The more people that join the bigger the prizes and the more improvements we can make to YOUR Club.

Congratulations to the winners but don’t forget:

YOU HAVE TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT

Contact Bernard on treasurer@monkstonepetanque.org.uk  or speak to him at the Club if you would like to join or for more details.

Category: Fund Raising /

Friendly v Royal Wootton Bassett 1st Leg

3 July, 2025 / / No comments

Toady, we welcomed to our club, a party of 15 friends from Royal Wootton Bassett PC. The occasion was the the 1st leg of the annual competition between the clubs. The 2nd leg will be played at RWB PC on 18 September 2025.

Our guests were welcomed in typical Monkstone sunny weather and were treated to tea/coffee and Welsh cakes after their journey across the bridge.

The match was in the usual format of 2 rounds of 6 doubles followed by 2 rounds of 4 triples.

When play got under way Monkstone took an early lead in the first round of doubles and finally won the round by 4-2 (games) and 62-43 (points). The pattern continued the second round of doubles with Monkstone again edging it by 4-2 and 56-41.

A break was then taken for a sumptuous lunch provided by the MPC members with a trip to the bar for those who wanted to slake their thirst in the hot weather. The deserts provided included, what else in Wimbledon fortnight, strawberries and cream.

So, after the repast, play recommenced with round one of the triples. Monkstone proved they hadn’t overeaten or drunk by continuing in their fine form to take the round 3-1 and 50-26.

On to the final round of triples but Monkstone took their foot of the gas a bit and RWB earned a draw with 2-2 and 45-36.

So the final score was a 1st Leg win by 13-7 and 213-146. They may “think its all over ……….” but it’s not. Monkstone can expect a tough fight from RWB in the return fixture in September as they try to overcome the deficit.

Many thanks to those who played and those who provided the lunch and a special “Well Done” to Ros Goddard, supervising her first event in her new role as MPC Fixture Secretary.

 

 

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