{"id":5499,"date":"2024-04-11T19:21:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T18:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?p=5499"},"modified":"2024-04-11T19:21:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T18:21:41","slug":"wilton-bridge-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?p=5499","title":{"rendered":"Wilton Bridge Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monkstone PC today ventured into England to play the second leg of a friendly competition between our club and Wilton Bridge PC, Ross-on-Wye, Monkstone having won the first encounter 5 games to 2. The setting for the encounter was picture perfect as Wilton Bridge is situated in a leafy quarter of this pretty Herefordshire market town.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Round 1 consisted of four games of Triples on pistes that were flat and thinly gravelled. At the end,\u00a0 honours were even at 2-2, although Monkstone had a points advantage of 45-38.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a tasty lunch provided by our hosts, we played a round of six Doubles and it was clear that Wilton Bridge were up for the fight. With just one game to finish, the scores were 3-2 to Monkstone, but our last pair, Roger and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_123606144-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_123606144-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_123606144-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_123606144-1024x487.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_123606144-768x365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_123606144-1536x730.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_123606144-2048x974.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Roger &amp; Vickie dig in on the penultimate end of the crucial final game<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vickie, were 12-11 down with Wilton Bridge on the verge of\u00a0 win and an honourable 5-5 draw on the cards. Wilton Bridge failed to take their chance and Vickie was able to point in for 2 to secure the match 6-4 (115-89).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5497 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_125311195-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_125311195-scaled.jpg 1652w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_125311195-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_125311195-661x1024.jpg 661w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_125311195-768x1190.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_125311195-991x1536.jpg 991w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_125311195-1321x2048.jpg 1321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the match Monkstone captain, Roger, presented Wilton Bridge captain, Phil Lear, with a Monkstone PC pennant.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A fantastic day of boules, with (believe it or not) the sun actually shining for once! More importantly our two clubs have agreed to make our friendly an annual event as is our annual match with Royal Wootton Bassett PC which comes up next month.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Monkstone team was Ash, Bernard, Beryl, Frances, Ian Campbell, Ian McC, Keith Thomas, Peter Donovan, Phil Roberts, Robin, Roger and Vickie.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_125533240-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_125533240-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_125533240-1-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_125533240-1-1024x486.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_125533240-1-768x364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_125533240-1-1536x728.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240411_125533240-1-2048x971.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Both teams gather for a group photo<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monkstone PC today ventured into England to play the second leg of a friendly competition between our club and Wilton Bridge PC, Ross-on-Wye, Monkstone having won the first encounter 5 games to 2. The setting for the encounter was picture perfect as Wilton Bridge is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competition","category-friendship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5502,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions\/5502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}