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Croquet Matters for your Club

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The National Development Officer Dave Gunn has launched an excellent new tool for use by any Croquet Club.  Whatever support, help or advice, any club needs – a great starting point will be Sport Englands “Club Matters” toolset. 

A recent conference called “Croquet Matters” was held on 31st March for Federation representatives and was very well attended – delegates found the workshop very useful as it gave them a deeper introduction to the proposed framework and to Sport England’s ‘Club Matters’ toolset in particular.  It also allowed them to give feedback as to what sort of support they would need to help them use it with clubs in their own Federations.

At the end of the workshop we agreed how we would respond to a positive show of interest from clubs around the country once Croquet Matters is formally launched in the imminent Gazette. The plan, simply put, is any early requests for engagement from clubs will come to me and/or the local FDO…and together will then agree a date to hold a workshop with the club to focus on the top priority issue they currently face, with any success arising being a catalyst for the club to move on to its next priority area. FDOs will have the offer of personal assistance from myself and small team of assistants at the first few workshops they run in their region and should become increasingly self sufficient after that.
 
Here are three initiatives available to clubs in the next few weeks:
– Guide to Getting your club onto Facebook – a guide written specially for clubs to wish to develop or improve their presence on Facebook.
– Club Website template – allows any club to easily build their own website or refresh their existing model – complete support and hosting provided free of charge.
– An ‘On-Line Forum’ to be launched aimed at Federation committee members providing an immense resource of support and advice.
 
Further details can be found in the launch article the April Gazette:
 
 
 

Changes to National Short Croquet Tournament Regs.

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What a kerfuffle!!  The CA announce details of a new Short Croquet national tournament but with some very confusing rules.   Cue north west Fed officers taking up the cudgels – result – rules have been re-written.

The detail can be found on the CA website: https://www.croquet.org.uk/?p=tournament/caCalendar&TwOpen=y&CalendarEntryID=2850&pup=y

In Summary:

  • Clubs can enter several teams of four players each and initial matches will be drawn on a regional basis.  
  • Each match is eleven games, over three 75 minute sessions – round 1 is two singles and one doubles; rounds 2 and 3 are all singles.  So each player gets three seventy five minute games per match.  However, if Captains agree, the match can be sixteen games over four rounds of Singles, all play all!
  • Team players are restricted to Short Handicaps in the range 5 to 10, however, one player is permitted to have a Short Handicap which may not be lower than 3. 
  • The aggregate handicap of a team must be at least 25

Closing date for club entries is 30th April (to CA Office) with first round matches to be completed in May.

 

Puzzling New Short Croquet Tournament by CA

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The CA have announced details of a new “National Short Croquet Competition” – details will appear on the CA website shortly and all Club Secretaries have received the information.

  • Clubs can enter several teams of four players each and presumably initial matches will be drawn on a regional basis.  
  • Each match is seven games, over two 75 minute sessions, with a mixture of doubles and singles.  So each player gets TWO seventy five minute games per match.
  • Each team may have an experienced player of Handicap 8 or above (?)
  • Team players are restricted to Handicaps in the range 16 to 24 (?)
  • The aggregate handicap of a team must be at least 60 (?)

Closing date for club entries is 23rd April with first round matches to be completed in May.

P.S. Several members of NWFCC have raised concerns about the above specification and we are awaiting clarification.  
If you have any queries, please contact any member of the NWFCC Executive.

 

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