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Or at least his holes have. It was agreed at our recent virtual AGM to acquire some pigeon holes for members to use for storing boule and other pieces of kit. These arrived earlier this week and Brendan, Paul & Roy spent some time today, Friday, erecting them in the club house. Members are advised to use these as the club house is more secure than the shed. We may move the kit notice board onto the wall above so this will become the “kit corner” ‘

A pairs competition. 11 teams. 22 players, 3 rounds, 2 new players.

Turned out nice despite threats of rain and a full afternoon of petanque with only 2 teams winning all 3 games. Roy and Brendan edged out Kevin and Christine (a fairly thick edge) on points difference. Well done Reg & Brenda. Thrown in at the deep end on their first visit and beat quite a few experienced teams to finish 6th.

Next similar competition November 1st. We may have to start earlier with the change of hour. Sunset that day is 1633. Watch the blog and AWIP.

With monthly members melees on hold due to Covid 19 we had a 3 round pairs competition on the 6th September. Social distancing was observed and only one person did all the paperwork. The latest version of Auto score was used to record the results. Here they are.

 

A different type of members melee. There were 22 people at the terrain, some not playing, some playing in singles league games or 123 team games and some in a melee. There were 2 visitors from Bordeaux on holiday in Huddersfield who just happened to have brought their boules with them. Some were late; some dropped out but after everything was taken into consideration the winner was Richard followed by 4 ladies.

Our procedures today were that a) no-one touches anyone else’s boules, coches, the scoresheet, the pen etc and b) drawing of numbers, allocation of lanes and recording of scores were done by one person only. A Track & Trace register was kept and will be kept for 21 days and gel & wipes were provided by the club and were well used. We had contingency plans if more than 30 turned up but didn’t need them.

It was also the live testing of a spreadsheet that will calculate melee results and it needed testing as a couple of bugs were found. If there are any Excel experts out there who want to collaborate on this please get in touch. With scores input the system calculates and flags wins and after all results are in a macro sorts wins and points and produces positions.  Worked OK but needs more sophistication.

Next Members melee September 6th. Not sure what the rules & restrictions will be then.

 

We can resume normal club sessions if we follow a few rules. One involves undertaking a risk assessment of covid19. See this by clicking here

Key elements

a)     Railings to be wiped down before play. b)    Keep 2m apart inside Clubhouse. No catering. c)     No more than 2 people to go inside storage shed d)    For club sessions one person to act as registrar/scorer and do all admin. To register players on arrival by filling in Track/Trace sheet which is retained for 21 days; to draw numbers and inform member their number without members touching numbers; to strike out members who leave the session from Track/trace sheet; To open lane allocation booklet to correct page. Members report score to scorer while maintaining social distancing. e)    Keep 2m apart on benches f)      Members to be advised to bring waterproofs and/or brolley to avoid overcrowding the club house. g)     Club will provide hand sanitizer and wipes. Use before play. h)    Bring your own chair i)      If more than 30 on site both entrances to be blocked off using high viz chain. Signs to be produced to hang on chains. NO ENTRY – due to Covid 19 restrictions

This will be trialled on tomorrow and if all goes well we will have a Monthly members melee on Sunday 2nd August. We may need volunteers to do the admin role. If there is no competition teams can be arranged without using numbered disks but registration sheets must be used until further notice.