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Published with permission on July 26, 2006.

 

Selection Process Feedback Form

Dear Member,

 

The current PNZ selection process has been evolving over the past three years and as part of this evolution we are keen to receive feedback from our members about selection and how the process can be improved. Following the feedback in 2004 changes were made to the selection process. The feedback form can be completed by any member, whether involved in the selection process or not.

 

Post or email the completed form to the PNZ Secretary by 25th July 2006.

 

Postal: The Secretary, Petanque New Zealand, PO Box 31127, Lower Hutt.

 

 

1 Did you put your name down for selection 2006?

 

(Yes/No)

 

2 Was the amount of communication you received from the selector/s about the process:

 

 

(About right / too little / too much) – or so I thought when received

 

 

3 How easy was the selection process to understand?

 

 

(About right / difficult / confusing)

 

 

4 What areas of the process do you think could be made easier?

 

The process to apply for selection is fine.

 

5 Do you feel the selection process is fair?

 

(Yes/No)

 

If you answered no, please list how you think this could be improved

 

Firstly, get rid of the “soft” attributes that currently allow anyone to be selected. This means removing such nonsense as attitude, dress, variety of people played with etc. Currently anyone can be and IMO the odd person has been selected on anything and everything but performance – this needs to stop.

Secondly, whatever the policy or procedure is, stick to it. Don’t change your mind just because the first choice team isn’t available. I refer to the stop go selection of the second Singapore team. The decision not to send a team initially was not IMO. The decision to then send a team because of a "change in circumstance" was a joke that I don't find funny. I won’t repeat my comments that are available on the NZP Wiki.

 

6 Do you think there should be criteria for entry into selection?

 

(Yes/No)

 

If yes, then please specify what you think these criteria should be?

 

ß Put your hand up as per the current situation.

ß State in your application what your role is in a doubles or triples team.

ß Attend seeding tournaments at regional level and interregional level.

ß Sending should be based on an average of your best say, 5 tournaments at the (nominated by PNZ) seeding tournaments. The more tourneys you attend, the better your chance of improving your average seeding amongst your best 5 performances.

ß PNZ select the teams based on seeding points and self nominated role – clean and transparent.

 

7 Where do you think the process should focus to achieve a consistently performing team?

 

The question should be “Where do you think the process should focus to achieve consistently achieving teams?” The answer lies in:

ß Coaching, coaching and more coaching.

ß The building of depth at international level. This means selecting

o NZ “A” teams

o NZ Junior or Colt teams

o NZ Senior teams

o Not just a Boule Black Team all the time.

 

8 What attributes do you think a successful team should have?

 

Team members who have experience at regional, national and international level. PNZ ‘s role is to foster that depth, not maintain an elite bunch of "haves" vs "have nots" as is currently the case.

 

9 Petanque is a team sport. What personal attributes should be considered by selectors when selecting a team?

 

None. Petanque is a simple game based around roles and tactics. If a person is an aggressive player, place them with aggressive players who use aggressive tactics, vice versa for less aggressive players.

 

I have no time for personal attributes as these are being used in my opinion to reward players with selection who would not otherwise be there based on talent.

 

10 What was your experience of the selection process this year?

 

Not good. I have put my hand up for selection, attended the selected tournaments at great expense and personal time and made the top 16 of every tournament attended.

 

I outperformed at least one member (and probably two members) of the NZ transtasman team at every tournament we attended – I view that person's selection as a reward for services rendered -hence I have no time for “soft” selection criteria.

 

The above however is nothing compared to the second Singapore team selection debacle. As I am unaware of a complaint process, I would like to use this opportunity to make a written complaint as to why no team was originally selected as I am not satisfied with the explanation given to me. I would like to know how the original non selection of the team corresponds with the aims of PNZ to foster growth of the game in NZ. I would also like to (formally) ask what the “change in circumstances” was that resulted in the team being selected, and I would also like to have it confirmed that all the selected NZ team members actually met the criteria of attending the tournaments that applicants were expected to attend.

 

11 If you were a selector, what would you do differently?

 

Follow the aim of PNZ to foster the growth of the game in NZ as the basis of my role for team selection.

 

 

12 Do you think there should be performance measures for selectors?

 

(yes /no)

 

If you answered yes, please list the performance measures you think could be used

 

ß Success of the teams at tournaments

ß Growth in depth of the teams selected

 

 

13 Are you putting your name down for selection in 2007?

 

(Yes/No)

 

If you answered no, please specify why

 

ß I have no faith in the current selection process where I feel that who you know is more important than performance.

ß Potential is ignored

ß Fostering the future of our younger members of the tourney scene is ignored – the Transtasman team had no eye for the future - with the exception of Myles Cowper

ß The selectors can also be in the NZ team – completely out of the question in my opinion

ß The selectors would rather send no team to an international tourney rather than use is as an opportunity for growth

ß I doubt that any change will occur from this feedback, but at least I can say I did something.

 

 

 

14 Any other comments you have that might be useful feedback for the selection process.

 

If some real change did take place, I may reconsider my position but I have placed a lot of energy and financial resource into petanque, particularly in the last 2 yrs and have been treated piss poorly in reference to the Singapore "affair". I have other interests such as triatholon and wargaming which I have neglected in the past 18 months and am likely to return to them - competing perhaps only in our local competitions.

 

This raises another issue. There is clearly frustration and disenchantment amongst younger tournament players – this includes myself, Oskar, Margret, Myles, and Dean to name a few – Gordon appears to have voted with his feet - and I am likely to do the same. We are the future of the sport in this country yet this sport insists on focussing on the past rather than the future. Its great that the senior circuit is being worked on, but I am concerned that there is too much focus on the 60+ aged players at the expense of those who are in their 20s and 30’s.

-Maurice

 

NB: I have abridged this "public" version of my comments, but only to protect the identity of people I was more specific with in my comments that were made for PNZ eyes only. The points I make are exactly the same.


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