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The MacTavish Cup Final 2019-and some other matters of little interest
The last couple of years have gone unrecorded here on the D. Doesn’t matter why – but one thing that should have been put down was an appearance in the MacTavish Cup final. Of course, we’ve been there...
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The season that never was-2020
When you look back on it dispassionately there is one school of thought (perhaps it’s the Wing Centre’s alone) that sees Season 2020 as the most successful one that the Glen have ever had. The first...
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Out and about in Cork with Old Cork - and some other guys (October ’19)
Episode 1.Perhaps our first meeting with the bus driver might have been better handled. Actually, if the driver had paid attention it might have been worse. He was waiting for our party outside Cork...
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First we go on the Drink and then we go to the Dogs.
Episode 2 We left our intrepid party outside the Welcome Inn on the corner of Parnell Place, Cork with the words of an improbable Kinlochshiel supporter ringing in their ears. What happened next would...
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To Bandon and the Hurling-at last.
Episode 3A calm Saturday morning in Cork with a game against Bandon GAA in the afternoon. What would professional sportsmen do? A relaxing time is required. The lads went for a walk as far as the Wing...
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Dixie Breaks 'Glass Hearts in the Ali Ban
Glenurquhart 6 Strathglass 0So the headline is rubbish. Maybe it should have been “Hurrah! Hurrah for Dixie!” if that concept didn’t come with its own baggage. However, despite the rubbishness or...
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Second week of Covid-secure shinty in the Glen.
Glenurquhart 6 Inverness 0“OK Peloton, let’s go” said the President to the team- and quite right too because after having had one genuine match after the restart of the indigenous sport the players...
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On Saturday the Neighbours came round to play in our Shinty Bubble
This week we had yet another two Covid-secure games of shinty- both of them against our near neighbours Beauly. To Drum people of this generation, Beauly always seems a little posh: they have a square,...
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Holding the Fort…. or, on the other hand, not holding them.
A final week of shinty saw Victor and Addie take Felix, Arran and a pile of youngsters up to Drum to play an equally young Glen side which, honestly would not have been as young as it was if all hands...
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Hats off to the Glen – and to the Camanachd Association
Well not really- its more likely “Hats On” to them- because finally after some years of trying and some missed opportunities the principle of the compulsory wearing of helmets in shinty matches has...
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Glen Superheroes keep MacTavish dreams alive
It just shows you that you can never take sport for granted: things can happen that you would never think about. Last week Lovat defeated Oban Camanachd in a game they deserved fully to win while the...
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Here we go again- Happy as can be……..
It’s been a while- and a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then- but the Wing Centre has taken it upon himself after more than two and a half fallow years to pick up the feather quill once...
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Out of the mouths of babes…….
The Wing Centre had a little chat with Henry Corrigan at the close of the match against Lovat on Saturday past. Henry does not really share very much but he did say “Who’s that?”“That” was Iain Kennedy...
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Glen Young Team Flying Skye-High…….
Another shinty weekend- and more time spent that one will not get back. No that is probably too harsh. The shinty weekend started on Tuesday when the under-17s finally decided to start actually trying...
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Extra ! Extra! Read All About It
The Wing Centre likes to read the West Highland Free Press on a Friday if not for the politics at least for the shinty which is regularly carried-though to be fair, given the paper is, as would be...
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Keep calm and carry on- we can all unite behind that.
There are times when it gets to you- and you need to download some stuff into a sympathetic ear. The Wing Centre met one such sympathetic ear the other day.“I wonder if the Glen will ever win another...
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That’s the whole point of the game
So it wasn’t a pointless afternoon at all. That’s a good thing though it would have been better with both points but there did not seem anyway that the Glen were going to get that. Given that opponents...
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Banishing the Blues and Browsing on the Green Shoots of Recovery.......or...
It’s possible that some good times are on the way in what could be thought of as the beleaguered world of Glen Shinty. The under-17s and the Ladies sides-barring the odd hiccup- seem to be going on...
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Remembering the Chief-Chris Surtees 1959-2024
Of course, like everyone else in Balmacaan and Lewiston, the Wing Centre was aware that Chris was not well. He’d been in hospital and the outlook wasn’t good - but he was due back home where he would...
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Glenn scores for the Glen
See how misleading a headline can be. Not that Scots who have gone through a propaganda driven election campaign taking about “change” will be fooled by a mere headline. As the French say “Plus ca...
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
As far as he can remember the Wing Centre thinks that the guys who first composed and sang this little ditty- see above- finished off the line with ten flat notes that were, after repetition, very...
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The Nights are fair drawing in
As far as the Glen Year is concerned it’s almost a wrap- the Games are over and up at Corrimony & Buntait Farms, Barbara is once again selling tickets for the Pumpkins on the internet. To be fair...
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Our reasons to be cheerful are numerous.
When you write a headline like this on the blog, some folk in the shinty world will shake their head and think that you are whistling in the dark. But no - and that can be said despite the fact that...
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Strathglass and the MacDonald Cup: The Art of the Steal
It’s always satisfying to call it as it is- Strathglass managed to finesse their way to a win in Saturday’s MacDonald Cup fixture. (I know -finesse is not the word that comes first to mind when talking...
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Cork Scores a "Worldie" at ‘Shiel
At least that’s what Cork himself told the Wing Centre. The Wing Centre of course was not actually at the game. Word to the wise-it’s far easier to write about a game if you weren’t there at all- that...
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