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ALL THETHE TALK TALK OF THE TERRAINOF THE IN TERRAIN THE CIRCLE This newsletter is also Edition No 1 available on our website www.thejpa.co.uk March 2016 player and she finally Handy Andy persuaded her husband to give the game a go. He’s now such It’s not often that being an enthusiast he’s agreed to nagged by one’s wife leads to take on the role of JPA vice- a happy outcome. But in Andy president, which has been Limbrick’s case it did. He vacant for some time. “Lorna discovered a new passion … Welcome to the Jersey had started playing in the alternative to the ‘voice of and among the beneficiaries lunchtime league and she kept are the JPA. Andy’s wife the balls’. It’s the quarterly Lorna is a keen pétanque Continued on page 3 bulletin for boules enthusiasts, whether you’re highly competitive - or Extra jewel in the crown for Toby? highly sociable. Or both. It’s about anything pétanque Toby Northern is to be nominated for the who won gold medals at the 2015 Island Jersey Sports Council’s annual award to the Games. Toby, the island’s top ranked player, related. If you want to talk Sports Personality of the Year after a year in completed pétanque’s grand slam in September about it, this is your forum. which he won the island’s ‘triple crown’; the last year when he and his partners Ross Payne Anything goes - from serious JPA singles, doubles and triples trophies. Last and Matt Buesnel won 13-7 in the triples final concerns to silly stories, from year the Sports Council gave the award to GB played at the Weighbridge. That made it a full diary entries to quirky events, international compound archer Lucy O’Sullivan house for the first time in the history of the from triumph to disaster … sport in Jersey, after Toby won the doubles title just let us know. Get in touch with Matt Pinel at the Jersey Petanque Club with any member of the JPA and the solo title back in April at the committee or e-mail: Weighbridge when he beat Andrew Bellamy- Burt 13-4 in the final. [email protected] Toby said he was delighted to be nominated by the JPA as it could only help the sport achieve wider recognition. “It’s really good when you INSIDE THE do something well in your sport and then when CIRCLE it’s appreciated that you have achieved something worthwhile.” The ‘triple crown’ was THIS the icing on the cake in a terrific year for Toby which also saw him win many other trophies QUARTER including the Liberation Winter Singles Premier League title; the Liberation Doubles with Matt Pinel; the Liberation Charity Triples Turkish Delight Open for the third successive year, with Brian Richard Sowerby ‘fezzes’ Harris and Ross Payne and the St Helier parish up to a bazaar trip triples open with Ross Payne & Matt Buesnel. Underwater Pétanque The Jersey Sports Council is holding its annual Has the JPC gone in at awards Ceremony at a dinner to recognise the deep end? outstanding achievement in Jersey at the Take off your stilettos th Mayfair Hotel on Friday March 20 when the Giving the wrong winners will be revealed. Meanwhile Toby will footwear the boot have to defend the first of his ‘crowns’ when this year’s JPA Singles takes place at the Plus the event schedule Toby and his trophy collection Weighbridge in April 9th. for the next 3 months At least there was no argument about which way to head from the Vic in the Valley car park, At least there was no argument about which way to head from the Vic in the Valley car park, Tony Morton receives Keith Boleat & Brian the Knockout Cup Mollet Oscars, Baftas & Dereks? A glittering, star-studded, red carpet awards event took place at the Ambassadeur Hotel in early February for the presentation of the Inter Parish League trophy – except that there were no stars, there was no glitter and the carpet was blue. There weren’t any Oscars either. The pétanque equivalents are the Dereks, but so far we haven’t been Inter-parish league champions, St Mary able to source statuettes with suitably resplendent people – one guest, Darcy He thanked Ron Le Herissier Tony Morton stepped up to moustaches. Beau, wasn’t quite one-year- and Jacquie Boschat for receive the award from old. Otherwise there weren’t organising the event and then Richard Sowerby. The But, apart from that, a too many participants who paid tribute to the family of opportunity was also taken to splendid time was had by the had to worry about getting Sean Guegan who’d hand over the trophy for 130 people who attended the back to work that afternoon. sponsored the Inter Parish winning the JPA veterans’ luncheon, at which every After a very enjoyable four League and donated its triples trophy to Keith Boleat table was identified by a course meal JPA chairman silverware, the Basil Guegan and Brian Mollet. The third clever napkin arrangement in Derek Hart said how pleased Memorial Trophy. He also member of the trio, Robert the colours of each of the ten with he was with the turnout thanked Stan Boschat for his Birch, was unavailable. parishes represented. St Peter which was probably a record help running the league last Finally it was the turn of St distinguished themselves by for a pétanque social event in year and Paul Le Moine for Mary captain Richard demonstrating how seriously the island. He said it showed f looking after the Inter Parish Sowerby to receive the Basil they took the JPA’s just how far the sport had Knockout Cup to the winners Guegan Memorial Trophy determination to extend the developed since it started in in its inaugural year, St and his squad to be given sport to the island’s young Jersey thirty years previously. Lawrence, whose captain their medals. As far we know sub aqua petanque is a YouTube video showing it being Periscope depth hasn’t been sanctioned yet by the sport’s played seven metres beneath the sea, but governing body. However plenty of we don’t think the sport has ever been pétanque unlikely sports do have underwater played competitively. However Ken Le versions. Football for instance is played Brun tells the tale of some competitors in a swimming pool with both teams from France in Jersey for the first wearing snorkelling gear. The idea is to Tournoi being led up the terrain when move a rubber ball to one of two buckets the chat turned to play in heavy rain. The at either end of the pool, weighed down visitors pointed out that bad weather to rest on the bottom. Underwater ice wasn’t a problem for them because they hockey is very different. It’s played had plenty of indoor facilities. Ken upside down underneath frozen pools or responded by saying that the Brits are a ponds using the underside of the frozen much tougher breed, prepared to play in surface as the playing area for a floating any weather. Although he accepted that puck. Players wear diving masks, fins sometimes adjustments might have to be and wetsuits but because they don’t have made, including the use of a metal breathing apparatuses they have to cochonnet, to avoid it floating away surface for air every 30 seconds. There’s during a game. Apparently the story was New JPC outdoor swimming also underwater wrestling called Aqua- swallowed hook, line and sinker until the pool at Les Quennevais? thalon, but underwater pétanque? There visitors were put out of their misery. unbeatable.” What the pair didn’t realise more like bowls, with bigger balls but was that they were the only two Western without any bias. It was played on two TROTTING OFF Europeans taking part. There were some indoor courts, but it seemed very 400 players representing seventeen complicated. It’s very popular in Turkey TO TURKEY nations at the competition, for the most- and Russia apparently. We went back the At least there was no argument aboutpart from which Eastern way toEurope head and from North the Vic in thenext Valley morning car and park, again At least there was no-one there was no argument about whichAfrica. way “Virtually to head from no-one the spoke Vic Englishin the Valleyaround. car park, Then a taxi pulled up and three – or French for that matter – and that’s very agitated Lebanese players got out. where our problems really started. They said they’d been told to be there at 9 o’clock prompt or risk missing a match, but by this time it was already 10.15. We later played a game against them – they For a start we were playing in a triples were very good players and they went on competition and we’d been promised to win the tournament. Eventually other they would find us a third member for a people started turning up and eventually team,” said Richard. “We played three someone arranged for a young Turkish lad games in the end, one with a Turkish lad to play with us in a triple’s match. We and the other two with some Mongolians. played against a Mongolian trio but lost I’m not even sure what language they and were then thrashed by the Lebanese. speak in Mongolia. Added to that, it was The only game we won was against some possibly the most disorganised Bulgarians.

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