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Dancing and Dining
"Losing one manager in the course of a season might be regarded as unlucky,” said the Chairman last weekend. "Losing both of them looks like carelessness. We also seem to have mislaid Jemma the...
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A Letter to Santa
Dear Santa,It’s the Wing Centre here and as you know I always write you a letter at this time of the year to let you know what I would like to find in my Christmas stocking on the 25th. Like most boys...
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The Shinty season is getting closer-thank goodness
Finally, the days are getting longer and though the rain still hasn’t stopped, it is still true that as always at this time of the year if you step into a young Glenner’s mind you will find nothing but...
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The past is another country; shinty was different then.
The fixtures are out , the cup draws have been made and before we know it shinty’s phoney war will be over and the Glen will be back at the business end of their camans once more-provided, that is,...
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Hopeful Signs
The first thing that showed it was going to be a reasonable day was the fact that the sign “was going” again as we say in the Glen. Having been unlit and increasingly unloved over the last few months,...
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Ancient Rivals meet again
The papers called it a double celebration for the Glen. Maybe it was but these were two games which, given the clear application of common sense, should not both have gone ahead on the same pitch....
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Glen make encouraging start in the Orion Group Premiership
Glenurquhart 4 Kinlochshiel 0 A better start than was in evidence this time last year- and that has to be a good thing for all Glenners especially in what is bound to be the tightest of shinty leagues....
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Jack’s a hat-trick lad…
Glenurquhart 5 Beauly 0 (Marine Harvest North Division 1)Only one game for the Glen this week-a second team clash with Beauly which was switched from Braeview because Kilmallie were switched north as...
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Playing for the Jersey
Saturday was sponsors day at Drum. Both sides picked up their new kit with sponsors’ names emblazoned thereon. The senior squad and Captain Eddie Tembo received their new jerseys from Mr Donnie Macphee...
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Hutchie keeps the Glen at bay.
Kingussie 1 Glenurquhart 0 (Orion Group Premiership)Last Saturday morning it was very hard to believe that any game was going to go ahead let alone one up on Kingussie moor. After all down by Loch...
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Skye-fall…….. Eventually.
Mostly everything is nice about a day out to Skye. The trip down Loch Ness and up over Cluanie to Glenshiel is stunning. Then you come into Kyle and beyond the bridge unfolds the whole majestic...
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'More are the merrier
If you think about it the biggest disappointment last weekend in Glen Shinty was not the defeat by Newtonmore; it was actually the fact that with the cancellation of the GMA visit to play the...
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Deconstructing the “D” and destructing opponents.
Glenurquhart 4 Inveraray 1 (Orion Group Premiership)Lovat 3 Glenurquhart 4 (North Division 1)“Well,” said the co-manager to the Treasurer. “I’ve experienced losing 4-1 and I’ve also experienced winning...
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Glen lock antlers with Caberfeidh in the MacTavish
Glenurquhart 2 Caberfeidh 0 (R.B.S. MacTavish Cup-quarter final) This past Saturday , Glen progressed to the semi-finals of the MacTavish Cup with a 2-0 victory over National League challengers...
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It’s never about the shinty: it’s always about the community.
All’s well that ends- eventually. Let’s put it no higher than that- and if the truth be told , it was just as well for the Glen to be out of the MacAulay at this stage rather than make it through to...
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Smart finishing helps give Glen both points in Lovat clash.
Glenurquhart 2 Lovat 1 (Orion Premier League )Isn’t shinty a funny old game? That's what Glen goalie Stuart "Smack" Mackintosh seems to be telling Lovat keeper Stuart Macdonald as they shake hands at...
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Hold the back page! Newtonmore are even worse than the Glen at taking penalties
Look at this pic of the two keepers - are they laughing because they cannot believe the quality of the penalties they are facing ? Mebbies aye-mebbies naw but what was certainly true was the fact that...
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Lochaber lose and ‘More draw at Drum.
Glenurquhart2 Lochaber 0 (Orion Group Premier League)Glenurquhart 1 Newtonmore 1 (Marine Harvest North Division 1)Why the delay in posting the story of the Lochaber game? Well, truth to tell, after the...
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Glen axe Lochaber twice in the cups……..just!
Glenurquhart 6 Lochaber 4 (Strathdearn) Lochaber 3 Glenurquhart 5 (Camanachd Cup)OK so the Glen notched up two good results on the same Saturday but things were nearly very different.Take the game...
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Not an Orchid - not a MacTavish preview even.
Everything shinty related this last two weeks or so has been a distraction from the MacTavish final, hasn’t it? But what a lovely surprise for everyone in both camps to find out last weekend that two...
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