Author: huddersfieldpetanque

 

On Sunday at 1pm we’re hoping to have a chat about the recent league season. This meeting will be indoors probably in the big room near the bowling greens but if we can’t get that we’ll be  in the little ‘park ranger’ room.

Anyone welcome who played in the league (or wanted to). We want all your feedback, good and bad, nothing is sacred so we can make our league teams better for the next time.

It will only take 30 minutes we hope…. We’ll play afterwards. If it’s raining we may talk longer.

If you can’t make it to the meeting you can talk to one of the league captains or email us with your thoughts at huddersfieldpetanque@outlook.com

 

This will be Friday 27th January in Greenhead Masonic Hall at 1900. Menus are in the clubhouse for you to choose from. It’s not a Xmas menu. Take one, tick your choices, add your name and return it to Sue with £10 deposit and it’s done. We have a limit of 40. On the day in addition to the meal there will be speeches, silly games and a raffle and a bar.

Tuesday 22nd November saw the final match of the Kirklees Autumn League. It didn’t have any bearing on the League winners but Huddersfield 2 lost 2-3 to Heckmondwike 2.

After the game the trophy was presented to the winners – Heckmondwike – and was accepted by Roger and Clive just before the rain arrived.

The winners won 35 of their 50 games. Mirfield 1 came a very creditable 2nd winning 33 of their games. Huddersfield team 2 were 3rd.  Full results below.

	Won	Pts
Heckmondwike 1	35	146
Mirfield 1	33	104
Huddersfield 2	22	-46
Huddersfield 1	21	-69
Mirfield 2	20	-79
Heckmondwike 2	19	-56

It has been a long season (10 weeks) and although most games were played in reasonable conditions the last 3 weeks saw a cancellation because of snow and a couple of matches played in atrocious rainy conditions last Monday.

Clubs should now talk with their members about the good, the bad and any other aspects of the league for a meeting in a few weeks to review the season.

Next League is planned for after Easter and will be the West Yorkshire League. Details about all leagues so far available on the leagues tab on the menu bar.

Sunday’s Winter Pairs is postponed. There are only 5 pistes playable at present. The other 5 have lying water. Things will probably get worse rather than better. After consultation with Alan we have called it off.

Rearranged date when we have one.

Sorry it’s taken a long time but the results sheet got lost between Spain and Huddersfield and suddenly I was without email then it was Flamenco night then it was a long bus trip then it was flying home.

But now the results are in. November melee winner is Daniel. Here’s the results.

Winter Melee	Oct	Nov	Total
Daniel	10	13	23
Sue	13	8	21
Fred	8	8	16
Michael		12	12
Sandie	2	10	12
Richard	12		12
David	7	4.5	11.5
Sandra B		11	11
Jack	11		11
Elisabeth	9	1	10
Amanda	3	6	9
Christine K		8	8
Edwina	6		6
Alasdair	5		5
Malcolm		4.5	4.5
Barrie	4		4
Marie		3	3
Rita W	1	2	3
Geertje			0
Sandra L	0		0

Some questions need answering as the scoring still perplexes some folk. No matter how many players there are the points available are 13 for winner, 12 for second etc down to 1 for 13th. If there’s fewer than 13 then the last few points are not awarded. If there are more than 13 the bottom few will not receive any points. If two tie for a place they share the points for the two places combined. If two players tied for first place they’d both score 12.5 (13+12=25\2). In this melee there were 3 players tied for 5th place so they shared 9, 8 & 7 resulting in 8 each. Clear?