The Triples competition enters it's Knockout stage, you can find the draw for this - click here.
Guidance on National Mourning
We join sporting bodies up and down our country in expressing our profound sadness on the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II.
Our thoughts and sincere condolences are with the Royal Family and we join the nation in mourning her loss.
Following guidance from the Government, we will not be cancelling any matches this weekend. Should any players/teams wish to hold a minutes silence before a match, we would ask that this request is respected.
2022 Summer Finals Weekend
The 2022 Summer League Finals weekend will be held on the weekend of the 1st and 2nd of October.
The Triples Finals will be held on Saturday 1st October, venue tbc, with the Cup and Plate semi-finals and finals on Sunday 2nd October at Aldeburgh.
Radio Suffolk Interview
On Tuesday 12th July, our President, Simon Fletcher, was interviewed on Wayne Bavin's BBC Radio Suffolk show.
Click to hear the interview in full.
Memorial Tournament 2022
Teams and Fixtures for the Memorial Tournament are below.
Annual Memorial Tournament Entry Open.
Following the success last year, we will be returning to the car park at Saxmundham Sports Club on Sunday 21st August - we had a record 78 entrants last year and raised over £900 for local charities.
Entry is £10 per person payable on the day and format as always will be barrel (each team drawn randomly, one from each ’barrel’) so please let me know if you wish to be placed in barrel as a shooter, middle or pointer - I will endeavour to meet your request but some balancing is usually required !
Please enter email, and remember you are entering as an individual !
Eels Foot Pairs 2022
Entry is open for the 2022 Eels Foot Pairs.
Eels Foot Cup - This year the Eels Foot Cup will take place on 7th August - £10 per pair - please register by email.
This tournament always fills up fast and is first come first served.
As always it will be timed games - once we have final numbers I will confirm exact format.
2022 Summer Plate
Apologies for the delay, but the Summer Plate draw is now available. Where possible we have followed the draw from the main cup, however with some teams dropping out we had a draw for some teams to fill these spots. This was carried out by Val from the Worlygigs team.
Three-Way Festival of Petanque
Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th July 2022
Suffolk Coastal v Mercia v CJB Middelburg (Holland)
As I am sure your Captains have already told you following the Leagues Rep Meeting a few months back, we have our friends from Mercia Region visiting us as well as our dear friends from CJB Middelburg coming over to Suffolk on the weekend of 9th/10th July.
On the Saturday, we are planning a three-way match between us, Mercia and Middelburg and are looking for 40 Coastal players to take part. Those that have been on the Belgium/Holland trips and those that have played against Mercia in the past will get first option to play as a reward for supporting us. There will be a £5 per player charge for taking part in this event (to Coastal players only) to cover venue costs, prizes/gifts etc. This will be held indoors at The Martley Hall Stud at Easton.
Sunday will be an entirely different format whereby firstly it will be FREE to take part, but the specific format and detail is currently being discussed, and this event will be held at The Meadlands in Stowmarket.
We plan to announce the two venues over this weekend so that people can start to make arrangements.
So that you know, our Dutch friends arrive on Friday and return home on the Monday whilst we believe some of the Mercia team are staying over locally for the weekend itself.
If you want to take part in the Saturday or Sunday or both days, then please email me at [email protected].
Pretend it’s Belgium
As this date would have normally seen us on our annual Belgium trip but again, thanks to Covid, we are having to stay put, we are going to host a melee event in the same format as our Belgium club friends do instead.
This event will see everyone being paired with different random partners and opponents in every round and each player carries their own respective scores through on each round.
The cost to enter is £5 per individual person BUT if you bring along any sort of donated prize, you will receive £2 of your entry fee back. The donated prize can be literally anything you want and the wackier and weirder the better, not just alcohol and chocolates. What happens at some of our Belgium clubs tournaments is that the prize table ends up looking more like a raffle table and at the end of the event, the best overall player gets to pick a prize first, then the runner up and so on, so that every player goes home with a prize. At previous Belgium competitions our players have gone home with pasta, coffee granules, toilet cleaner and spice racks to name but a few…..
We would look to start play at 11am, so if you can be ready to listen to announcements etc by 10.30am at the latest.
Entries must be made via email to [email protected] and payments can be made to our current League account.
Banking details will be provided.
You do not have to be a triples to enter, as the event is an individual one. ITS ALL MEANT TO BE A FUN, SOCIABLE EXPERIENCE AND EVERYONE GOES HOME WITH A PRIZE!!!
The event has a maximum entry limit of 54 players.
(And yes I know the photo is actually of us in Holland rather than Belgium, so no points to anyone for pointing that out!!!)
Ladies League 2022
The 2022 Ladies Leagues were drawn at a top secret location by an independent adjudicator and the leagues, fixtures, guidelines and scorecard are now on the website- click here
