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Reasons to be Cheerful : Part 1
Glenurquhart 3 Beauly 0After last week’s narrow squeak and the fact that the squad which headed off to Inveraray had taken a goodly number of players , the Wing Centre was a little unsure about how...
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Heath on fire
Glenurquhart 3 Kinlochshiel 2 (MacTavish Cup)Glen posted a win in this MacTavish Cup home tie thanks to the predatory skills of youngster Fraser Heath. The young man has missed a game or two this...
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Glen return to Oban
Oban Camanachd 0 Glenurquhart 2 (Orion Premier Division)The last time the Wing Centre was in Oban he got a row; the last time his team were there they won a cup-for people who know shinty it will be...
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News of Battle
Glenurquhart 2 Kingussie 1 (Orion Premier Division)To the surprise of the Wing Centre, and doubtless to the surprise of everyone in Kingussie, Blairbeg dried out in time for the scheduled Orion Premier...
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Glen slip up in the Cup-but youngsters earn valuable home point.
Lovat 4 Glenurquhart 2 (MacAulay Cup)Two questions have puzzled the Wing Centre this past week. Here they are in order of importance:- what does weather girl Judith Ralston do with her 101 wee...
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If it’s not caught on camera, did it ever happen?
A picture’s worth a thousand words! Maybe so but this week Glenners will have to do without a picture ‘cos there was no one at the Eilean to take it- so the thousand words will have to do on their own....
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Goal Harvest at the Croft.
Lovat 4 Glenurquhart 0 (Orion Premier League)It’s time for Plan C. If Plan A and Plan B did not work it is certainly appropriate for some other strategy to be brought into play-literally. Saturday’s...
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Lochaber Once More
Lochaber 3 Glenurquhart 3 (Camanachd Cup 1stRound)If you want to know the truth then the title of this post should have been “Lochaber No More”. Why? Because Glenurquhart really ought to have managed...
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Anything can happen
The news that a pipe tune, written in the trenches of World War 1 and entitled “The Beauly Shinty Club“ had been rediscovered set the Wing Centre to pondering exactly what musical gem ought to be...
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So Far…………………………. so gutted……….!!
What is it about the Glen and MacTavish penalty shoot-outs? Last year the team lost out on pens in the semi-final to Newtonmore: this year the shoot-out was another heart breaker. The Wing Centre has...
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Fadgy goes Radge- and then Glen go quietly
It is difficult to know where to begin, except to note that with the hot weather this village is beginning to smell like it is in Spain. The bins at the shop are honking and there is a drain halfway...
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Home Truths.
What the Wing Centre likes about Drumnadrochit is that it does its own thing. Just at the point when everyone in Scotland thinks tennis is the new zumba- and that kids will be led to fitness through...
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The Cares of High Office
The Chairman was looking glum the other morning when the Wing Centre popped over to see him. There was no point in asking him why because everyone in the Glen knew he was mad because the boys had been...
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Making a Point on the Night Shift
Okay. The Wing Centre didn’t believe it either. In fact, such was his lack of faith in the squad that went off to Fort that he did not bother to accompany them. Nor did he look at Twitter or Facebook...
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Soldiering on.
“That was the saddest story I have ever heard” said the ancient former player when the Wing Centre told him about the Lovat game as he walked up Balmacaan Road after the match.The ancient former player...
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And now…the end is near…
It had to be the goal of the season: young Ryan Porter got possession out on the left and slipped the ball inside for Iain Macdonald, “Balbeg” himself, to slam the ball into the Aberdeen University net...
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Finally, Some Shinty Bits and Pieces.
The shintyless days stretch out ahead empty, promising nothing Glen- related for the hapless Blogger to write about. He has to forage in his poorly stocked winter store for little bits and pieces, true...
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By Truth , Justice and the Great Glen Way , the Avengers invade Argyll.
After the Camanachd Cup final, which was a bit of an anti-climax for everyone outside of Newtonmore, the Glen had nothing left to do but turn up at Tighnabruaich for the last match of the season. In...
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They think it’s all over ; perhaps, it isn’t yet.
While Johnny B , Smack and Drew went gallivanting off to the Emerald Isle to play shinty/iomain/hurling-the Wing Centre forgets which- back in the Glen of Monsters the clock was ticking down to the...
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Moans and Groans
Sometimes the Wing Centre wonders –to himself and quietly- whether the Glen would be better giving up the shinty altogether and concentrate on the things that they are really good at like amateur...
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