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That Winning Feeling
Glenurquhart 4 Glengarry 0 (North Division 2)The Wing Centre was elsewhere last Saturday on club business mark you and thus avoided the match against Inveraray at the Winterton- a fate that he was not...
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‘More too much for Glen but Mossfield duel too close to call.
Wow! Shinty-politics….politics–shinty. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which is which and despite having lived in wee villages all his life, the Wing Centre knows that the ups and downs of shinty and life...
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Kyles wear the Smiles while Glen prepare for a surprise Sutherland final
It has taken at least four days for the Wing Centre to get his breath back after another fantastic Cup final at Mossfield. What is it about Oban that brings these big occasions to life? The pitch,...
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Kingussie Youth Policy Pays Off With Sutherland Victory
Cheeky eh? Suppose so-when you see the headline in the context of the photograph- but it’s still true. Kingussie won the Sutherland Cup in what was a disappointing contest in Beauly last Saturday....
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Glen prepare to take on Ireland
Ok. So it’s a little bit of an exaggeration but it certainly does contain more than a grain of vérité. Glen manager Drew McNeil and three of his first team squad viz John Barr, Stuart Mackintosh and...
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One down and one to go
Yep. One down and one to go. Sometimes the headline just has to err on the side of simplicity. Not that the Wing Centre is talking only about the Shinty/Hurling International at this point. No the...
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Fifty Shades of Green?
Sometimes it’s best to reflect for a while rather than come out with an opinion right away: that of course does not ever guarantee that the resultant response is any better than what would have come...
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Glen still paying the price of excess
How do we pass our Saturdays?Good question indeed and one that has been put to the Wing Centre and all his wee pals in the Glen over the past two weekends. In fact it was uttered to him this very day...
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Dancer!
“Ooh, What a nightLate November, back in twenty twelve”You betcha. That’s the way uh-huh we’d like to remember the annual Glen Dinner Dance if, in fact, we can remember it at all which is not something...
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Leap of Faith
They have all finally gone and done it. After an abortive attempt as a result of a broken-down winch and a first run at the void which saw a clutch of the lads jump off the cliff, the rest of the bold...
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In with the New-but let's hang on to the Old for a wee bit longer.
It’s not possible to keep walking with your legs cut off, so how can you write about shinty when there isn’t any? With some difficulty! What happens at this time of the year to the Wing Centre is that...
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It’s nearly that time of the shinty year already
“I always thought that shinty teams bonded after the games,” said the former Chairman “in the bar usually or on the bus - but it seems that nowadays they do it before the season even starts”“What do...
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Iain Macdonald, Glenurquhart: A Farewell
(It is appropriate before the start of a new shinty season, and particularly before the annual Macdonald Cup match with Strathglass for whom he also played, to pay tribute to a Glen player of...
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Glen are back in Shinty Business-at last!
Quidditch is back – although serious competition for the sports Premier Prize does not commence for a week or two yet. However, on Saturday before a nice crowd of the faithful both Glen sides chalked...
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Strath Prove They Are No Duffers
Thank goodness those confrontations are out of the way for another year- and that Glen came out on top in both games. It’s hard to think that only a few short years ago things were totally different...
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Seemingly, it was ever thus.
Reporting on what happened in shinty matches is easy stuff; the ball went in the net - it was a goal. Not too much of a mystery there except of course for the fact that occasionally the goal judge...
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More or Less
The Wing Centre likes a good quiz. This was one however in which he was a reluctant contestant.“Do you know what the speed limit is?” said the question master.“I do indeed, “said the Wing Centre. “It...
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Testing Times for Glen at Drum.
This past weekend has been a marginally better one for the Wing Centre and the Glen: the loss of two points to Kyles was an unnecessary self-inflicted wound but at least that was balanced up by two...
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Glenurquhart too strong for ‘Shiel
Glenurquhart 4 Kinlochshiel 1 (North Division 2) A bitterly cold afternoon but a Glen performance to warm up the spectators though you would not have bet that it would turn out that way if you based...
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A week is a long time in shinty: three weeks an eternity.
You are away for three Saturdays and then when you come back the whole shinty world is in turmoil- and that just applies to the Glen, never mind anywhere else. Perhaps the biggest surprise is that the...
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