WPA Regional Triples Results

Congratulations to Myles Cowper, Michael Rocks and Peter van Heusden for winning the final against Grant Bray, Pete Hamilton and Dirk Winnie.
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PNZ Trans Tasman Team

The New Zealand Representative team to play against Australia in the Trans Tasman match in May is:

Women: Sharon Cannon (Bay View), Pam Jenkins (Herne Bay), Barbara Johnston (Masterton), Christine Strichen (Wanganui East), Christine Taylor (Christchurch), Tina Targett (Christchurch)

Men: Maurice Belz (Bay View), Christian Fouquet (Herne Bay), David Lippard (Herne Bay), Michael Rocks (Khandallah), Ron Sandilands (Vic. Park), Richard Swaney (Herne Bay)

Seniors:
Men: Pete Hamilton, Graeme Morris, Rex Hayes, Charles Brock, Bill Peachey, Bob Bridge
Women: Joan Miller, Helene Hay, Shirley Selwyn, Jean Parley, Margaret Maher, Marilyn Bunce

News just in from Singapore

"news just in from Singapore - Andre Noel Bronze Medal in the shooting - he qualified with 35 - best effort ever by a NZ player.
Stop your bickering and play the game - Ricardo at large in singapore. PS David Jasrrod and Andre in the quarter finals, cross your fin gers for a great day tomorrow!"

Obama likes our Game

Not only has Obama got a nicotine addiction, he is apparently also hooked on petanque. I hope that if PNZ goes ahead with the rumored invitation for him to take part in one of our PNZ national events, PNZ will not make an exception and let him smoke during play. If the no smoking rule is good for us, it should be good for Obama too.

Reflections on the PNZ Representation Process

" The inaugural PNZ Representative process concluded at Herne Bay with the second selection camp in March.

The full process is available on the PNZ website, but essentially comprised individual baseline skills assessments and assessment camps where players were scored in doubles or triples combinations, in their preferred positions.

It is a good time to reflect on the process, to look at what went well, what could be improved and where to from here...."

This is the same article that appeared in the Summer/Autumn edition of our PNZ magazine. Follow the link at the end of this post. -Tom.

Mid-Winter Madness 10th Anniversary Tournament Results

1st Brian Smith & Andrew Joe
2nd Dirk Winnie & Graeme Morris
3rd equal. Bruce Jeffery & ClareCusack - Richard Lawson & Peter Dennett

Follow the link at the end of this post to see the full results.

Hawkes Bay Calling

As we all know the Hawks Bay is an extremely active Petanque region. We now have a wiki page which will have regular news from the HB. Simon is kicking it off, and other HB players will help provide a variety of news items. If this is successful we will invite other regions to do the same.

Follow the link at the end of this post.

First National Clubs Tournament

The 1st National Clubs Tournament held in Rotorua at the weekend. It was an awesome event enjoyed by all, with tons of camaraderie and team spirit, and lots of good natured ribbing between clubs! The weather mostly behaved itself, and the surrounds in Rotorua were stunning!

It was well attended by 14 teams of 6, and played in two divisions based on the triples results from day 1, with doubles played on day 2.

Herne Bay took out the open section followed closely by Bayview. Herne Bay also won the senior division, and division two was won by Cockle Bay who will move up to division one next year, which will possibly be played in Wellington.

Hopefully somebody can provide some photos as I forgot my camera!
-Simon

New Direction for PFA

The new PFA president Sylvio Jolicoeur has released a statement showing a new direction for petanque in Australia. We wish him and his team all the best.

PNZ AGM 2008 Minutes?

Now that we’ve had the PNZ 2009 AGM it’s time for PNZ to come clear over the minutes from last year which PNZ claims are incorrect. When will they now publish the correct version?

Records broken

The month of September has seen the most visitors to our NZPC Blog ever. September has broken all records and has helped with placing our Blog in second place (7181 hits) on petanque.org in the "most popular links" section. We've also seen large numbers of visitors from other shores. I like to think that this is due to the World Chamionships and the up-to-date reports and contributions from our people on the ground in Thailand, and the general membership here in NZ. All good stuff.

NZ Team update

Hi Tom, sorry this is a bit later than I thought it would be.


Pool Play:

• NZ 6 Belgium 13
• NZ 1 Italy 13
• NZ 10 Japan 13
• NZ 13 Taipei 0

Lost to Australia but don’t know the score.
Because Japan lost to Taipei NZ qualified for the top 32 on point for and against.
First game in second round NZ lost to Germany but don’t know the score.
Second game is against Seychelles. If we lose that one we will play in the Coupe de Nation but should end up with a good ranking because of qualifying for the second round of the championship. I imagine that if we win against Seychelles we will play the last game in the barrage.
Cheers, Graeme
Claire received a link from Ian Baker to a French site that should be good.
Go to Pattaya Weather

Results from first round of the World Shooting Championships

The results of the first round of the World Shooting Championships have been posted.

• 1st Yann Nauta - Tahiti with 52 points
• 2nd Jean Claude Bedi - Ivory Coast 48 points
• 3rd Thaleungkiat - Thailand 46 points
• 36th Ron Sandilands - New Zealand 17 points
• 37th Oscar Sorio - Australia 16 points

Graeme M

Claire received a link from Ian Baker to a French site that should be good.

Couple of interesting photos HERE

Go to Pattaya Weather

FW: NZ Team Draw

Just had the draw as follows:



Poule E

• Australia
• Japan
• Taiwan
• Italy
• Belgium
• New Zealand

Top four go through to next round. Our poule looks good and our first game is against Belgium (past World champions).

We need to win two games to go through so we will be going for it. The terrain is concrete with big stones so all the practice the team has been putting in should put us in good stead. Terry is here and in fine form. Christian met us at the hotel when we arrived. Met all the stars at the opening dinner. It feels good to be amongst them. I am off for an early night now as David has given us strict orders. First game is on Thursday.

Will update some more tomorrow. We have afternoon opening followed by shooting first round. Ron is looking forward to breaking the record again.

Murray Porter

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Email from Dirk Winnie

Email from Dirk Winnie. To read it, follow the link at the end of this post.

A letter from Joanne Evans

Dear All,
My one and only missive to the blog, since my mad snake comment is attached, for those who are interested...

My name is attached and Tom clearly states: I say it again: no post or comment with a verifiable name has ever been refused or altered.

My posting was sent to Tom yesterday at 3pm before two other postings went up, so why isn't it posted. Tom tells lies and he should resign as blog master, for those who are interested....

Best Regards
Joanne Evans

What follows now is the text from a Microsoft Word document created by Joanne Evans on Sep. 7, at 11:01AM. This MS Word document was sent as an attachment to an email group. I was not included in this email group. I received the MS Word document via email from a third party the same morning at 11:51AM. I have no problem with putting the text from Joannes's document up on our Blog.

NZPC Editor (Tom)

Tom,

I cannot believe that you would accuse me of being involved in the so called spamming of your blog site. Clearly this is the behaviour of silly little boys, playing in their sand pit and generally being a nuisance.

Tom, you have committed the ultimate sin- you have bitten the bait, just lighten up and rise above them and ignore them. You concentrate on what you do best, providing an informative and intelligently constructed debating blog site. Perhaps you could run a competition called “guess the names of the 11 people who actually requested a copy of the ‘spam’ email” (or was this your attempt at reciprocal wind up – not bad, not bad Tom). I reckon 95% of the Pétanque community would guess correctly.

Now ‘spammers’ and their accomplices behave and play nicely. Run along and do some work and leave Tommy Tutes alone. I don’t want to have to tell you again. We don’t want any more mad animals in the Pétanque kingdom.

Tom and his disciples, look on the bright side. At least this non-sensical, non Pétanque related and frivolous irrelevancy has received a fair number of responses which clearly demonstrates this topic is appropriate for the target audience. Good market research ‘spammers’

A couple of notes of clarity Tom; firstly, I always sign my name. Secondly I wouldn’t waste my time with pathetic, silly cryptic messages with the sole intention of winding up the blog master. My message would be crystal clear, exact and would hit you right between the eyes, Kupow!!

Now everyone lets rejoice together. It is a lovely day the sun is shining and most of us are healthy and well. Those who aren’t will hopefully seek appropriate help and before the start of the season. And remember Tommy, Tutes, even in the darkest spam moments Jesus loves us. Fat, thin, black, white, ugly or beautiful, even stupid, he shows no distinction in his love and presence.

Tom I challenge your conviction to being a man of his word and dare you to publish this missive in its entirety. Publish and be dammed !


But of course you won’t because this missive does not align to your propaganda, does it Chairman Tom.

Joanne