{"id":4114,"date":"2022-01-09T17:23:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T17:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2022-01-09T17:51:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T17:51:01","slug":"winter-friendly-1st-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?p=4114","title":{"rendered":"Winter Friendly – 1st Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Caerleon provided a lovely sunny day for the 1st Leg of our annual (“plague & pestilence permitting” as Tansy put it) Winter Friendly against Caerleon RFC PC. Tansy welcomed all the players and thanked Gemma & Bernard for organising the teams for the day’s play. Tansy noted that Monkstone currently held the Winter Friendly Cup from the last time it was played in 2019\/20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monkstone had brought a squad of 13 players – would that be unlucky? – after Mike Jones had to drop out due to a bug – not thought to be Covid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The games got underway with the opening round of singles and it was very quickly apparent that Monkstone were taking a commanding lead in a number of games. This was confirmed at the end of the round with Monkstone taking 10 of the 12 games for a points lead of 20-4. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worse was to come for Caerleon in Round 2 as Monkstone ripped through their doubles teams and took all of the 6 games for a points haul of 18-0 giving an overall points score at that stage of 38-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caerleon were hoping that things couldn’t get any worse but Monkstone really had their tails up and, in the Round 3 triples, registered another clean sweep taking all 4 games and gaining another 20 points for a final points total of 58-4 and 20 games to 2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be remiss not to expose Roger and Bernard as the 2 ne’er do wells who prevented a total whitewash. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the ease with which Monkstone appeared to win, many of the games were closer than the score would suggest and all the games were played in a friendly attitude and good spirit – most of the spirit was in Gemma’s excellent Christmas cake which she generously provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so its on to the 2nd leg to be held at Monkstone in two weeks time on 23 January 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pete can’t believe he got near the cosh!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Smith boys considered their next play<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Pete going for his own version of Red Nose Day!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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