Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
A big roll-up for the Rusty Poppet Head challenge. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose It is up to the numbers to choose On Saturday 6 September we sent a team of 10 over to Ballarat to contest the last round of the Golden Boule Robin Round. All the competing clubs were there, with all…
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…and we have the winners! Stephane and Muriel Langlois with Chris Serre, flanked by umpire Beverley Forsyth and bank board member Michael Annear. It is almost the end of May There is plenty of petanque to play After Saturday’s extravaganza, the 2025 Forster Cup tournament, a much smaller group of local players enjoyed their usual…
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The all-important scores. On Sunday 24 August, the sun shone brightly on six teams of Piste Artistes for our final winter games. Gathering beside a freshly raked piste by Antoine our groundsman. The teams for the day were announced by Geoff Mac, our indefatigable MC and scorer. The games commenced with alacrity once players sorted…
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It was St Patrick’s Day
You didn’t have to be Irish to play
The colour green
Was nowhere to be seen
Pétanque has a proud French connection, so there were no special celebrations on the pistes last Sunday for the Irish, just three rounds of convivial play.
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