Report on the EPA AGM

Six members of our club attended the AGM at The Limes just outside of Fareham.
The AGM is normally attended by 40 to 50 members but this year there was over 100 members attending. This was due in part to a couple of votes on whether to change the Secretary and the Match Secretary. As it turned out both the incumbents were re-elected.
One thing that will effect our members is the winding up of the BPF, and all of the home nations registering directly to the world body.
This will mean that the EPA will be our governing body.
I will place the Minutes on our notice board when they arrive.
In the afternoon we all took part in a melee organised by The Limes this was a very successful event with over 40 members taking part, most of our member won two games out of the three.
Next year I would like to see us double our membership to the EPA.

Anyone got a Laptop

Hi All,
Has anyone got a laptop going spare? We are looking at using a seeding system for our competitions etc... But would require a computor of some kind, the one we have is a little old and needs to be up dated or if some kind person could donate one to the club that would be great.
Contact Paul or Ian or Jeff

SCPA Winter doubles

The draw as just been make for the SCPA winter doubles matches.
Five matches to be played by each team between now and March, three games per match.
Mike and Christine will be travelling to Racing Club and Hampshire Rose
Jeff and Ian will be travelling to Cobbets, Racing Club and The Lamb.
We will be hosting clubs from Limes, Shedfield, Cobbets,
Have a good series see you in the finals in March.

SCPA AGM

Dont forget all you SCPA members it is the AGM on Sunday at the Limes, start time 10.30.
This will be followed by the 1st SCPA winter mellee of the season.
See you all there

The Secretary's Cup

Three of our committee, Ian, Kath and Carolyn went off to the Handcross club on Sunday to take part in this years secretary's Cup. This is a competition solely for committee members of SCPA clubs.
There were 14 clubs taking part this year and everyone had a great day. We won two and lost three games but avoided the dreaded Fanny. Five other clubs had to Kiss the fanny but it was all done in great fun.
Last comment from Ian was that they won their games against The Limes and Hampshire Rose do to the Power of Merlot can guess what he means.
The Winners of the Cup this year was Cobbets

Final positions of Div 4 SCPA

League Table for 6-a-side League, Division 4.
Last updated on: 08 November 2007.
Team Name Played Won Lost For Against Points Comments
Limesdowne Marvels 12 11 1 41 19 52 champions
ABC Wasps 12 6 6 35 25 41 promoted
Hampshire Rose Raiders 12 6 6 34 26 40
Cobbetts B 12 6 6 27 33 33
Wanderers 12 5 7 27 33 32
Racing Club Racers 12 5 7 24 36 29
Nomads 12 3 9 22 38 25

Well done team we are promoted, stand by for Div 3

Southern Counties Petanque Associtation AGM

The SCPA AGM will take place on the 25th Nov: at the Limes.
This will be followed by the 1st Winter Mêlée.
Lets have a good turnout

AGM Report of the League Captain 2007

AGM Report of the League Captain 2007
Well once again we have had a busy year home and away, our standard of play is improving all the time. We are making the name of Amities Boule Club known in all circles of our sport.This year we have played two teams in the NDL and one in the Southern counties 6 side league div 4.Our North Downs teams have played well. Mike and I divided the members wishing to play between us, both having around 16 people per team.The Wasps and The Bees both came 3rd in their leagues, both teams with the same points. The finals where against Bordon and Oxshott novices with Bordon taking the honours.

The SCPA 6 a side team played very well again this season to come 2nd beating Hampshire Rose by 1 point. Once again we will have to wait for the teams rejoining next year, if they are the same as this year we will be promoted to the 3rd division.

We took 27 players and 2 non playing guests to Jersey this year this is the most for an away open, once again a good weekend was had by all.We had a few of our group collecting winnings at the gala dinner.Jan and I came third in the 1st consolage, Kath and Carolyn came third in the 2nd Consolage.Dan and Joan won the longest name prize “psychological and medical”Bobby and Sue won the prize for the most app name “Bobby and Sue”Our guest Ray Austin from Adur won the men’s mêlée on the Sunday and Jan came 4th in the ladies mêlée.

Next year May 2008 we are organising a trip to the South of France to take part in the 11th British Boule Challenge. This is a 10 day trip playing boule against French club every other day of the trip.See Jeff for the full details.
Boules on the beach was a great success with over 40 players coming from over 6 clubs. The weather was not as good as it could have been but it was dry until just after our lunch. Ten people back to our house for a Bar b q in the evening when the weather was fine and warm and we all sat outside until after 9.

The North Downs league mêlée this year attracted 28 people; this meant that we could all play doubles all day. The standard of play was very good and the Winner was our own Chairman Joan who was the clear winner. We made over £50 on the day including entry fees and raffle. This money is held in the North Downs League pot, and is used to pay for entry fees to the league, to subsidize sandwiches and chips at our home events, and pay for some of the wine and the hire of the building for the North Downs League party which is held for those who have played in this years league matches.

We have also taken part in the European Clubs Championships we played Southampton City and were beaten in the first round. This was a new competition for us, it being a knock out competition against all of the EPA clubs, the final 8 clubs would represent England in Europe next year

And finally as a club I think our finest day this year was our Open Triple competition which we dedicated to Rachel who had just passed away.. There were 49 people taking part coming from Kent, Croydon, Welwyn Garden City, Southampton, Worthing, Bordon, Oxshott. We played leagues in the morning followed by knockouts in the afternoon. We borrowed the drive from our next door neighbours which gave us 8 piste and allowed constant play all day.The standard of play and players was fantastic..Taking part included one of this years ladies EPA triples champions, 1 of this years EPA juniors triples and doubles champion, 4 of this years GB players. 1 GB umpire (who is now umpiring in NZ). Plus over 20 players who where using this competition as a warm up for the National regional competition.The winner for this year was Merl, Dan, and Mark from Croydon.I would like to thank everyone who helped in making this day run smoothly and enjoyable for everyone taking part.

Here’s to next year’s competitions.

But before we do, we must decide what our club requires of their league captain.North Downs league, do we continue playing 16/17 players per team and enjoying the social side of the game or do we concentrate on finding a winning team to compete against the likes of Bordon, Racing Club, Vikings and Oxshott who produce teams just to win competitions.Southern counties, this year I have tried to put out our best players out in all games, due to holiday etc we have not always been able to do this. But we have produced some cracking scores when we have.I believe next year we should have two teams in the Southern counties, and two teams in the North Downs league. This will mean more of us joining the EPA, come on lets get playing boule improving skills as we enjoy our games

Thank you all for your support.

Amities Boules Club AGM

Do not forget that the AGM is on Saturday, the venue will be Kirdford village hall starting at 10am. Our normals boules will follow after the AGM, Marlene is putting on a buffet lunch for everyone in the pub.

Anniversary Cup results

The clubs Anniversary cup was played on Saturday.
The weather was fine and warm which helped to provide a good turnout.
The results of the Anniversary cup are .
Wnners Sue Ross and Benny Goodman.
When I get the full results I will post on here