45th World Petanque Championships Coach's Report

"It was my pleasure to provide support to the New Zealand team at this year’s World Championship in Izmir, Turkey. The team was made up of four successful and experienced players … Maurice Belz, David Lippard, Michael Rocks and Richard Swaney.

A month prior to the competition the players and coach got together for a training weekend at the Herne Bay Club. This assisted in the preparation of the team and enabled the players to discuss their individual aspirations and to set team goals for the tournament...."

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1932 film has Petanque scene

"Marcel Pagnol often wrote about pétanque and his 1932 film, Fanny, includes a famous scene in which a tram is stopped in its tracks in order to allow the game to continue (the clip is unsubtitled but, as ever in Provence, the gestures speak volumes). Note that the players are following the "old" rules, and run before pitching, rather than the "anchored feet" version of pétanque generally favoured today." Text taken from this Page.

Computer Software in Izmir

The World Championships Petanque in Izmir was run using computer software by SPORT Software. Is this (or any other) software being looked at or evaluated for use in NZ?

"SPORT organises events, players, clubs, matches, referees and rankings in an easy to use manner.

The SPORT software enables you to generate all necessary printouts:
Standard letters to all clubs or players (with MS-Word),
Draws,
Referee forms,
Rankings, and
Entry fee summaries.

With SPORT, you have always a perfect overview on the tournament!"

World Championships in Izmir

Any info that comes my way from or about Izmir will be made available on our Twitter page over the next couple of days.

To Our Team

To the New Zealand World Championship Team,

All the best for Turkey, play your hearts out, represent New Zealand with dignity and have a great experience.

Also, best wishes for an enjoyable and smooth running trip to Lorraine Brock (manager), John Targett (coach) and Joanne Lippard (supporter) - hope you all have a wonderful time.

Liz Rocks

HAWKE’S BAY CLASSIC RESULTS

Trophy

1st Maurice Belz Bayview and Ron Sandilands Cockle Bay
2nd Denise Bavidge Bayview and Geoff Greer Bayview
3rd John de Gueldre Tauranga and David Bosley Napier Club
4th Lee Tafford Bayview and Ian Baker Herne Bay
5th Christine Strichen Wanganui East and Shirley Selwyn Wanganui East
6th Dean Norman Windy Hills and Claire Wilson Masterton
7th Barb Lucas Napier Club and Barb Johnston Masterton
8th Sharon Cannon Bayview and Murray Porter Bayview

From left to right. David Bosley President Napier City Petanque club presenting the HB Classic Trophy to Maurice Belz and Ron Sandilands.

Plate

9th Ian Hay Napier Club and Ralph Priddle Masterton
10th Richard Turfrey Wanganui East and Pete Hamilton Wanganui East
11th Robert and Sue Wilson HB Lawn Tennis
12th Gordon Ogden Napier Club and Philippa McNiven Napier Club
13th Susan Norman Windy Hills and Joan Miller Masterton
14th Gerard Flaschner Napier Club and Marie Fenton Napier Club
15th Eddy King HB Lawn Tennis and John Maxwell Bayview
16th Roberta Campbell Bayview and Arnold Lander Rotorua

Bowl

17th Yvonne Futcher Wanganui East and Dirk Winnie Wellington
18th Graham Morris Masterton and Beth Gardner Bayview
19th Dean Futcher Wanganui East and Sandra Carston Wanganui East
20th Annette and Jim Forrest Tauranga
21st John Hudson and Josie Parkin Tauranga
22nd Julie Chambers Napier Club and Vicky Cox HB Lawn Tennis

Bowl Consolation

23rd Peter Dennett Hataitai and Cliff Wood (Hataitai ?)
24th Brian Futcher Wanganui East and Krissy Dinnis Wanganui East
25th Peter Sutherland Napier Club and Olive Wright Napier Club
26th Val Nicholson Napier Club and Bill Billing Napier Club
27th Chryssa and Allan Munroe (both) Wanganui East
28th Pam Nicholson Napier Club and Pam Fuller Napier Club

National Championships

I am contacting you on behalf of the Horowhenua Petanque Club Committee (I am not a member) to try and get as wide a distribution as possible for the attached paper (see link at end of this post).

The paper is self-explanatory. It deals with a decision by the PNZ Board to only run National tournaments at the 3 main centres – Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The Board has even made a decision on the clubs in each region at which these tournaments will be run. In the case of the our region, the WPA, the clubs chosen are – Park Avenue and Kapiti. The criteria used to select these clubs are “Cost and Accessibility”. Even a cursory glance will tell you that there is little or no difference in cost of travel etc and accessibility between several clubs in the WPA, such as Manawatu, Horowhenua, Otaki and Kapiti/Park Avenue.

If you further look at facilities at the clubs you find that clubs such as Horowhenua and Manawatu win hands down in terms of clubhouse, toilets etc.

We are not asking for any special favours in this. All we are asking for is a level playing field in which we can bid for nationals (or even internationals) on our merits, and we dislike the draconian method of decision making by the Board which has not consulted us or our Regional Association.

Kind Regards,
Bryan Wells on behalf of the Horowhenua Petanque Club Committee.

Go to Paper

Oceania Championships Report

The Oceania Championships 2010 … a report from the Coach.
Six nations with one goal … to win the Oceania Championship.
Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Wallis & Fetuna, Vanuatu and hosts New Caledonia came together to compete for the title in Noumea on a terrain that was flat, hard and super quick like the Christchurch Petanque Club terrain in mid summer. Read more>>

New Zealand South Island Singles

Sat 2nd / Sun 3rd October.
At the St Kilda Petanque Club. 33 Royal Crescent Dunedin.
Download entry for here
St Kilda welcomes you and hopes you will have an enjoyable two days.

Oceania Championships

I am using twitter to provide any news that comes my way. Two items up already. Great stuff and well done. Go well New Zealand!

PNZ Selection Process

Please download the outline of the revised Representative Selection Process and Registration Form for 2010/11.

These documents will also be available on the website shortly.

Barbara Whittington
Secretary
Petanque New Zealand

Napier City Petanque Club Inc HB Classic

Hi everyone, it is two days till  the official start of spring and our Napier City Petanque Club Inc HB Classic tournament is one of the best places to experience a great spring petanque tournament. The date for this is September 11th and 12th. We would love to see you here in the sunny Hawke's Bay. Closing day for entries is 3rd September 2010. 

Barbara Lucas

Secretary Napier City Petanque Club Inc.

Download entry form

Wellington Wins Chanticleer Cup

Congratulations Wellington for your resounding win over Auckland.
You can find the results on the WPA website.

Tauranga Open Doublettes

"As the Tauranga Open Doublettes is a new tournament, I'd like to remind you and your club's members that this tournament is coming very soon on 28th and 29th August, entries will close on Tuesday 24th August, this mean that if you wouldn't like to miss the first doubles tournament of the new season and haven't sent your entry form and fees yet you have only 9 days left to do it, (details and entry form attached to this message).
Petanque Tauranga BoP Ass. is looking forward to see you in 2 weeks in Tauranga.
Can you, please, forward this message to all your club's members
Regards - John Degueldre"

Should there be prize money?

Here are the results from our survey. As you can see most would like some money. Even though I asked, not one person has been able to explain why a small amount of prize money at national tournaments would be undesirable.

I suppose that from our national petanque body's (PNZ) point of view it is more lucrative to not provide prize money - more cash in the coffers. Regional bodies would financially benefit in the same way - no prize money for, say, the WPA or APA Triples.

If you are from outside New Zealand, let us know what happens in your part of the world. Do you have prize money at your national tournaments?

Help with Chanticleer Cup - Auckland vs Wellington

We need a volunteer to send text messages about this event to our twitter page. We need someone who will be at the tournament for a part of each day. A supporter would be ideal. I would set you up and you simply text short 140 character twitter reports about the tournament from your phone (between 5 or 10 per day) to 8987. These textings will immediately appear on our twitter page. People can follow the tournament via our twitter page or elect to receive these twitter reports automatically on their mobile phones (Get updates via SMS by texting "follow NzPetanqueClub" to 8987).

As a volunteer you do your own thing - just some news such as scores, interesting game you are following, weather conditions, funny happenings, etc. If you are happy to help with this contact me on usabilitynz@gmail.com

If it proves successful (people like it) we can do it for other tournaments.