Author: huddersfieldpetanque

The dates are now set for these 2 events

The Open Meeting will be 1300 in the community Room on Sunday 25th March. Some members have some concerns they want to air prior to the AGM.

The agenda is still being written but so far we have..

 

 

1. Members should have voted on the lease.
2. We are concentrating more on Northern events
3. What about members who can’t play because of Northern events
4. Members should have been consulted about the bowling green offer.
5. Who is liable for the lease
6. Will we be liable for Council tax?
7. Will our PLI increase?
8. When the top part is developed into extra terrain will the club have to go through the same procedure as now because it isn’t on the lease with the extra legal payment that entails?
9. The committee needs more members to share the workload.
10. What events should be in the Summer Calendar
11. AGM preparation. Advice from committee re elections, nominations  and motions.
12. AOB

Anyone can add to this or raise matters at the meeting. Talk to or email a ctte member.

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The AGM will be at 1200 on Sunday 8th April in the community room. The agenda will be..

 

 

 

1. Apologies for absence
2. Approval of minutes of 2017 AGM and matters arising
3. Committee Officers report
4. Approval of accounts.
5. Motions received
6. Election of Officers
7. Date and venue of next AGM Noon, 14^th April 2019

• Last year’s Minutes and budgets are available on the club website from 1st April
• No Motions or Nominations can be accepted from the floor of the meeting. These have to be submitted before April 1st to the secretary.
• Subs will be due at the conclusion of the AGM

The terrain is under a few inches of snow which ain’t gonna melt with subzero temperatures. The surroundings are icy, snowy and dangerous. Forecast for tomorrow afternoon is snow showers and sunshine with a temperature of -1 or 0. I don’t think there’s any way we can hold a competition in 24 hours so reluctantly we have to cancel Sundays event.

This morning a hurriedly arranged video shoot took place at Greenhead Park. KMC had a team looking at all the activities in the park and filming people with the strapline Try it?. Dozens of people wearing bibs were moving from activity to activity and trying them all. Walking football, Tennis and of course petanque. Brendan, Fred and Paul were there to help out and over a dozen people tried Petanque for the first time. One intriguing game took place and was videoed where Team A played a good first boule and Team B played all its 6 boules and failed to beat it. The cameraman handed 3 more boules out and told Team B to keep playing. Even with 9 boules they didn’t take the point. Made good footage tho’.

Later on they interviewed Paul as a talking head direct to camera about the game. It was quite surreal as the interviewer was the cameraman and he didn’t actually know what questions to ask so it was all unscripted and impromptu. Hope it comes out OK.

We were told we could have copies of the videos so we could put them on our blog.

The camera crew was local outfit so I said I’d put a photo of their business card on our site.

Here you are Quickfoot Media.

Sue resigned as Treasurer today with immediate effect. This is not good news for the club as she has been there from the beginning and has done a tremendous amount of organising and fundraising and we will struggle without her input.  Brendan has agreed to take over as Treasurer in the short term.

There have been some issues raised by Sue and other members in recent weeks and the committee was thinking about holding an Open meeting so these issues could be aired. This must now take place before the AGM so we can talk about the development of the club. AGMs are very formal and much is predetermined. An Open meeting will give the members more opportunity to have their say without the constraints of the AGM process.

The date will be set soon and members are invited to send in any questions or issues that concern them so we have an agenda. Even so issues can be raised on the day.  Any substantive issue can be voted on which will require the committee to reconsider the matter if the vote goes against them. Contact a committee member to put your concern on the agenda by talking or writing or use club Email

Issues so far are

1. Members should have voted on the lease.
2. We are concentrating more on Northern events
3. What about members who can’t play because of Northern events
4. Members should have been consulted about the bowling green offer.
5. The committee needs more members to share the workload.
6. What events should be in the Summer Calendar

The date for the meeting will be announced soon. It will be in the community room prior to a regular session.

This Sunday’s tactics talk has been postponed. It will be re-arranged.

 

Our regular slot in the Northern Petanque Winter Pairs league took place Sunday. There are 10 events throughout the winter designed for players who “wish to continue to play through the winter” and each one has 5 rounds and is usually on a cold and often snowy day. Records are kept of matches won and at the end of the season someone is the winner.

Greatest number of teams was at Heckmondwike in October with 28 teams but yesterday Huddersfield we had 20 teams. It had been limited to ensure everyone could play and not have to wait for an empty piste. Even so one player sent a substitute and 3 players only just made it on time as Matt Blyton made a speech about La British Open in the summer at Heckmondwike.

The day started with Roy raking the terrain several times and our two new tea-ladies Lorna & Margaret setting up the refreshments and being very helpful. 20 Teams were as below.

Huddersfield had13 members playing in 7 teams. Brendan & Paul had a good day winning 4 out of 5; Pete & Margaret won 3; Fred 2, Roy & Sue, Clive and Kath , Maureen & Nigel all won 1; Kevin and Christine had a bad day. Brendan and Paul were hoping for 5 out of 5 and a share in the prize money but ran into an England International in the last game who shot them off the terrain (and he’s over 50 years younger than Brendan and Paul).

Winners on the day were the experienced shooters who also were mostly the younger players. Colin & Andy shared the top prize with Peter and Lee both teams winning 5 games with a points difference of +40. Matt & David Blyton were 3rd with 5 wins and +38. Angela and Maurice were best of the teams that won 4 games. Paul & Brendan were 6th and 16 points short of the prize money.

In the League table there are 114 players and 16 are members of Huddersfield. Our top player is Brendan with 17 wins just 6 off the top of the table in 7th place with 2 events to go.

See official results at http://www.northernpetanque.co.uk/EventResults.aspx?Ty=CR&TN=865

It was a good day; well organised; no problems with the games or the players. Some club members dropped in to see how it was going and have a chat. I expect we’ll do it next winter.