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Welsh Federation of Sea Anglers. |
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Surfcasting Section, Team Manager, John Power 07703162703 |
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Welsh Federation of Sea Anglers. |
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Surfcasting Section, Team Manager, John Power 07703162703 |
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W F S A CASTING TEAM MANAGER REPORT We traveled to Belgium to compete in the big danny event in Antwerp on the 28th and 29th of June 2008. There was 14 Nations attending the event, many from as far a field as Australia, Japan and Argentina. I am very pleased to say that our overall result was 4th out of a field of 25 teams. Christian Brayley finished an impressive 4th overall over the 2 days out of a field of 98 competitors, and outstanding performances from Joe Dowling, Wayne Saunders, Nigel Hutchinson and a special congratulation for Clifford Wilkins who managed a personal best in an international event. I am sure with these type of performances we have been archiving in International Events recently I know that it is only time before we win Gold , Sliver or Bronze medals. Especially considering the squad I have to choose from at current. Also when attending the competition I was able to present Danny Moeskops on behalf of the W F S A with a momentum for his World Record Cast made in July 2007 at Surfcast Wales Crack hill Cowbridge with a distance of 312 yards on a 150 gram weight. Now we are looking forward to our next international event and also our own International event which is being held on August2009 which I am sure is promising to be one of the largest events of that year after receive such good feedback already. John Power |
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Welsh National Team selected for 2008/9 |
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Name |
Best Points |
Finishing Position |
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Chris Brayley |
2 |
1 |
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Phil Jones |
3 |
2 |
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Gareth Davies |
4 |
3 |
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Nigel Hutchinson |
6 |
4 |
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Adam Neill |
7 |
5 |
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Nigel Davies |
9 |
6 |
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Wayne Saunders |
9 |
7 |
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Cliff Wilkins |
11 |
8 |
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David Neill |
15 |
9 New Cap |
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John Power |
15 |
10 |
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Wild Card's... Joe Dowling, Barrie Davies, John Gravell and Nick Panther. |
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Results for 4th and final round 2008 qualifiers 25th May |
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Name |
175 grm |
150grm |
Total |
Points |
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Chris Brayley |
247.15 |
251.60 |
498.75 |
1 |
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Gareth Davies |
243.23 |
244.33 |
487.56 |
2 |
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Adam Neill |
237.50 |
235.60 |
470.10 |
3 |
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Nigel Davies |
224.74 |
226.60 |
451.34 |
4 |
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Wayne Saunders |
208.65 |
206.60 |
415.45 |
5 |
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Cliff Wilkins |
198.60 |
207.30 |
405.90 |
6 |
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David Neill |
202.60 |
197.35 |
399.95 |
7 |
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John Power |
155.94 |
178.50 |
334.44 |
8 |
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Nigel Hutchinson |
234.25 |
DNR |
234.35 |
9 |
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John Gravell |
138.00 |
DNR |
138.00 |
10 |
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Phil Jones |
DNR |
DNR |
NIL |
14 |
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The pressure was on for the final round of qualifiers for 2008 with the leads from the heavier end of the scale to decide who makes the cut chance to represent they're country. Current team captain Christian Brayley set the standard for the day with a massive 247.15 metre cast on the 175g followed by an even bigger cast on the 150g of 251.60 blowing away all opposition and nailing his place in the team convincingly Twice capped shore fishing international Clifford Wilkins also secured his 2nd cap for the surfcasting team with an impressive display involving two personal bests on the 175g and 150g. Dai Neil the 2007 welsh championships grade 2 winner also secured his 1st cap with a very consistent run through the qualifiers. (J Power) |
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Welsh Qualifiers 3rd Round 30th March 2008 |
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Today's qualifier 30th march 2008 involved casting leads at the lighter end of the scale the 125g and the 100g, it was a close battle between Christian Brayley and Phil Jones to take the 125g rounds with Christian just beating Phil by 52cm's. The 100g gram round was a different story with Wales light lead specialist Phil Jones Hitting a massive 237 meter cast to take the round followed by Nigel Hutchinson with a hit of 231 meters. It was a cracking day at Cowbridge with the weather just as good as the banter and with only one more round of qualifiers to go it will be interesting to see who makes the cut. |
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Welsh Qualifiers 2nd Round. 24th February 2008. |
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Name |
175 grm |
150 grm |
Total |
Points |
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C Brayley |
227.19 |
253.65 |
480.04 |
1 |
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G Davies |
231.90 |
237.73 |
469.63 |
2 |
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N Hutchinson |
227.30 |
236.65 |
463.95 |
3 |
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A Neil |
226.94 |
229.74 |
456.68 |
4 |
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N Davies |
214.52 |
226.61 |
441.13 |
5 |
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W Saunders |
202.06 |
207.85 |
409.91 |
6 |
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B Davies |
195.10 |
212.40 |
407.50 |
7 |
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D Neil |
200.70 |
205.88 |
406.58 |
8 |
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C Wilkins |
175.90 |
199.22 |
375.12 |
9 |
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N Panther |
182.20 |
189.76 |
371.96 |
10 |
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J Power |
156.10 |
186.45 |
342.55 |
11 |
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J Dowling |
99.90 |
208.22 |
308.22 |
12 |
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J Gravell |
135.90 |
160.75 |
296.65 |
13 |
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P Jones |
nil |
nil |
nil |
14 |
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Another cracking day full of banter as usual with nick panther taking the brunt of it especially after doing a forward sommersault with a double twist off the oche. conditions weren't ideal the wind did blow down the court for a while then blew across court for the remander of the day, christian brayley took top honours with a cast of 253.65 metres with the 150g an unbelievable hit given the conditions and nobody really got close to him during the 150g rounds his smallest hit was 246 metres impressive. Gareth davies took top honours with the 175g catergory with a hit of 231.90 followed by nigel hutchinson with a hit of 227.30 it was close during the 175g rounds with less than a metre seperating 2nd to 4th place, very consistant casting by our top guns and its looking good for the future of welsh casting. Report by J Power. |
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1st Round, Welsh Qualifier 27th January 2008. |
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Name |
100grm |
125grm |
Points Awarded |
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Chris Brayley |
224.92m |
246.35 |
1 |
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Wayne Saunders |
211.85 |
221.14 |
7 |
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Nigel Hutchinson |
224.56 |
225.87 |
5 |
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Barrie Davis |
209.70 |
223.10 |
8 |
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Nigel Davies |
218.50 |
227.10 |
6 |
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John Gravell |
182.45 |
186.53 |
11 |
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Phil Jones |
223.87 |
234.65 |
2 |
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Adam Neill |
225.50 |
226.20 |
4 |
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Dai Neill |
203.00 |
211.18 |
10 |
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Gareth Davies |
213.26 |
239.10 |
3 |
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Nick Panther |
212.17 |
213.60 |
9 |
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John Power |
190.45 |
175.55 |
12 |
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Joe Dowling |
DNA |
DNA |
14 |
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Cliff Wilkins |
DNA |
DNA |
14 |
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We attend the CIPS casting championships for the first time this year, we did not know what to accept even still we were prepared to put on a good show. On the first day in practice Adam Neill broke his main casting rod thus putting him under pressure. First day of the competition was 100gram lead weight catorgey, Christian Brayley Managed to finish 4th with a distance of 252.26metres and Adam Neill finished 8th position with a distance of 245.31metres the team overall finishing with a impressive placing of 5th that day. Day two of the event the weight catorgey rose to 125grams, Nigel Hutchinson managed a 5th place with a distance of 240.75metres the team managed to finish with a placing of 5th overall again. Day three the weight rose to 150grams, this day Christian Brayley Managed to finish 6th place with a distance of 229.85metres, this day seemed a very difficult day for us as the wind was swinging across court, due to this fact the court was moved to favour the wind direction it put us in a position where we were exposed to the blistering sun and without any form of shelter. In effect of this I believe the heat was determental to our performance even though we still managed to finish 6th overall which I was pleased with. On the Forth and final day we were set to cast the 175gram lead, hopefully the large weight lead favouring our castors, Adam Neill managed a 7th position with a distance of 229.03metres, Christian Brayley finishing 8th with a distance of 227.30metres the team managed to finish 5th overall this day. Our final finishing position was 6th place just missing out on the 5th spot by 1 point with Christian Brailey finishing a impressive 4th position overall in the whole competition. I would like to say that nerves played a factor to performance in such a large event for the first time, but even still we had 3 castors who finished very well in the places of the top ten of this event. In regard I can say this is a good firm base for us and hopefully next we can build on this and next year win some medals. I would like to say a special thank you to all the team who partipated and joined me in France Captain Christian Brayley Nigel Hutchinson Wayne Saunders Nigel Davies Adam Neill The members performance and good conduct in which they represented our team and the welsh name forward into this event was truly a great asset to our national team and made me proud to be a part of this. Report by John Power, Welsh Casting Team Manager |
