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A Day of Mixed Fortunes
A disappointing day and then a day of relief - that just about sums up Saturday’s afternoon entertainment. The Glen seconds - woefully short - managed to play reasonably without completely capitulating...
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Taking a philosophical view about the old game.
The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel would have written the following if he’d come from Drum. “What experience and history teach is this - that shinty teams have never learned...
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Skye must not be the limit !
Semis of the MacTavish or a win over Oban Camanachd? Go ahead - you choose. Well, the Wing Centre would have chosen the win over Camanachd because in all honesty at the time it seemed that it was worth...
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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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Spell Bound
First things first- after yesterday’s defeat to Inveraray in the Camanachd, Glen know where we stand and where we must focus for the rest of the season. There is first the MacTavish final which has...
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Finally, Eventually, Magically……………………the MacTavish is won.
Newtonmore 1 Glenurquhart 3 The scenes of revelry by night had moved on seamlessly into the morning when the Wing Centre came across the Chairman in his tartan finery and still to the fore on the field...
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Shinty life goes on
It has to really, though the MacTavish still resonates from Corriemony to St Ninians which is why the “D” has had a break from the tyranny of the deadline in order to wallow in the glory of the win -...
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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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Footnotes to the Season
For a while now in the Glen it seems that the shinty season has been over though the team has seemed not to realise this and carried on winning anyhow. Half the time the full squad hasn’t been...
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One last performance on shinty’s big stage from Old Vic
By rights it should have been Gordie Mackinnon that the “D” was congratulating .Gordie was retiring-not a word you would normally associate with him- but at 40 he decided that enough shinty was enough...
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Let's just keep on keeping on!!
Here’s the thing-the season has been over for some weeks and the “D” has been slow to acknowledge that. Partly that has been because after the last home game v Fort William , for this scribe the...
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Glen Shinty takes off for the Big Apple
A new shinty season-but a slow start for both the Glen and the D. However, now things are hotting up and not only because the girls beat Strathglass in the Development League . This morning, if the...
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Rounding up…and then sounding off
If there has been a reason for holding back with the pen and ink it’s probably been the form of the Glen this season in the various competitions-though some recent matches have given cause for hope....
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The Glen makes its Annual Cup Final Appearance and the “D” almost never noticed.
Now that the nights are drawing in, it’s finally time for the “D-Meister” to get back to keeping out of it. Actually not quite true. Had the Glen - the black and reds as the Courier calls them -...
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The waiting game is finally over - at least for the Glen.
In the end the Glen made it over the line to Premiership safety with a fine 3-1 home win over Kingussie, a hard fought 2-2 draw in the pouring rain down in Lochaber and a just about worth it 0-0 even...
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Snapping to it for posterity
There have been times over the last few months when the “D” was resting, that this scribe set to making a list of iconic shinty photos which he would take with him to a desert island if he were ever to...
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Travelling on the train facing backwards
If you have ever tried to book seat no 51 on a train and you look it up on the website it can’t really tell you if you’ve got your back to the engine or not because-and here’s the obvious part-they...
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Verse or Worse
“Poetry and Shinty eh? There’s no doubt the two go together just like..like...eh ..like whisky and Irn Bru.” No sooner had the Wing Centre come out with that line than herself stopped him.“You can’t...
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Less Poetry ,Please
“This will really have to stop. It’s gone too far, “said the Wing Centre’s brother. He used to play for Kinlochshiel and won some minor medals with them a long time ago. More than that he won a silver...
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