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Shetland RFC play in the RBS Caledonia Regional League Div 3 NE
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Ticket News
Updated wed 11 Jan 2012.
Anyone who ordered 6 Nations tickets through SRFC, through Forbes. The tickets for England, France and Wales have arrived, still waiting for Irish and Italian tickets to get here - will let you know when they do.
If you ordered tickets, please sort out arrangements or come and get them asap. cheers, the Ticket Sec, Shetland RFC.
Kevin Jones has photographs of recent matches on his site here.
Scotland International Tickets
The SRU are introducing a new method to pruchase tickets for Scotland fixtures. Click here for more details.
Season 2011/12
Seasons fixtures avaliable here.
RBS Caledonia Regional league Div 3NE post split fixtures
Sat. 21 Jan. Shetland 5 v 13 Aberdeen Univ. Medics
On a beautiful day to watch rugby indoors on the television, Shetland and the Medics slugged it out through the mud on the Clickimin rugby pitch.
A sizeable crowd watched a match that could easily have been won by either side. Unfortunately for the home side it was two kicks that led to the tries for the Medics. On a day when the wind was a tad gusty, the kicking option was perhaps unwise.
The Shetland forwards battled away all match, consistently gaining ground through some decent rucking. But there appeared to be no real cutting edge in the backs, who at times looked like brass monkeys in search of welders.
seven minutes into the second half Craig Mann rumbled over from close range for his first try for Shetland, after the Shetland forwards had battered away for several drives. The home crowd was expecting more of the same, but Shetland appeared to then lose any real momentum. With a Shetland scrum on the Medics 5 yard line being lost against the head.
At the end of the day the Medics defended well and scored their two tries through bad decision making from the home side. Shetland should look on the positive side as they could quite easily have won this match.
The other two league fixtures were both postponed.
The league has now been split in two, with the top 6 facing each other again and the bottom 6 doing likewise.
The fixtures are the reverse of what has already been played - Shetland has already played Dyce away, so they now only play them at home, etc.
There has already been one change to the initial fixtures - with Dyce now being the last match instead of the first. There will probably be more.
Shetland RFC now have 3 home and 3 away fixtures to play between 14 january and the beginning of April.
The fxtures are:
14 Jan Shetland P v P Dyce
21 Jan Shetland 5 v 13 Aberdeen Univ. Medics
18 Feb Ellon 2nd XV v Shetland
25 Feb Deeside v Shetland
03 Mar Aberdeen Univ. Medics v Shetland
31 Mar Shetland v Gordonians 2nd XV
07 Apr Shetland v Dyce
As you can see from the above fixtures, Shetland will face 3 away matches in consecutive weekends.
A glance at the Gordonians fixtures show that their 1st XV do have a fixture at the end of march, so I wonder what sort of team they will bring up then?
A full list of RBS Caledonia Regional League Div 3 NE post split results/fixtures can be found here.
The post split table now looks like this
Full list of RBS Caledonia Regional League Div 3 NE pre split results/fixtures can be found here.
League table at 3 Dec 2011 (the final pre split table):
International Ticket News: 26 August 2011
The Club has been allocated the following tickets for
SCOTLAND v ENGLAND - Sat 4th Feb
SCOTLAND v FRANCE - Sat26th Feb
9 x £75 ((£37.50 under 18)
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2 x £50 ((£25 under 18)
As usual, I am taking "order requests" for tickets, both home and away.
First come, first served, but if I get too many requests, we nearly always get access to more tickets, with the obvious exception of the Scotland v England v Scotland matches!
Information about away matches will be issued later by the SRU, so if you wish to request away tickets, still get in touch, and I will let you know prices as soon as the SRU sends out the information.
Due to recent outstanding unpaid ticket bookings, the Club cannot accept any future orders without money being paid upfront!
Any Cheque payments to be made out to Shetland RFC
As Ticket Secretary, I must confirm our uptake of the ticket allocation for the above two home games by Sept 30th 2011. If not confirmed in time, our allocation will be released to other Clubs
To allow for postage of the paperwork, I must have confirmation and payment by Sept 23rd, 2011
Contact Forbes Hogg - forbeshogg@shetland.gov.uk
Mobile- 07776457977
Don't delay - you have been warned!!
2011 Shetland Midsummer Sevens photographs
Hurriedly uploaded some of Forbes photos which can now be found here.
Full tournament report will appear when anyone sends it to me.
For the record - Banchory won the SVT Cup, with Inverness the Shield, and the Shetland Chargers the Wooden Spoon. The Murray Anderson trophy, for best Shetland team outside of the Select, went to the Shetland Baa Baas.
Past Seasons
Some information about the 2010/11 season can be found here, with the 2009/10 seasons details here.
Junior Rugby - has started for 2011
Training - every saturday morning. Venue kickaboot pitches, Clickimin.
Minis (P4-7) from 10.00 - 11.00. Midis (S1-4) normally 10 - 12.
For more detail contact Paul woods (Coaching coordinator)
(01595) 694965
07799567416
woods.1956@virgin.net
Intercounty in Orkney on August 22nd 2009
Orkney 88 Shetland 5
Shetland try from Joe O'Connor.
Some photographs from Forbes Hogg can be found here.
2009 BP Shetland MidSummer Sevens weekend
Congratulations to the Arbroath Smokies team who won the BP Shetland Midsummer Rugby Sevens last weekend beating the youngsters of Shetland Select in one of the best finals seen in a long time. Other winners were the Shetland Babarians who defeated the North Zetland Vets to win the Murray Anderson Memorial Trophy, the 'Oros' won the 125 shield beating the Arbroath Vets and in the battle of the Wooden Spoon Delting defeated Shetland Recreational Trust.
A more detailed match report can be found on the Shetland Times site here.
A report from the Arbroath Herald here.
Photographs of the tournament can be found at Kevin Jones' site here.
A list of fixtures for the 2008/09 season can be found here.
Been around the world!
In a moment (in fact several minutes) of madness, I worked out the distance that Shetland RFC has travelled from Lerwick, in league and cup matches, since our probationary season back in 2003/4.
Having fulfilled our away fixtures this season the grand total of miles covered is some 26,093 miles in less than 5 seasons. Which is a couple of thousand more miles than the circumference of the earth round the equator.
Young people, old people.....
Shetland RFC on the SRU website here.
2007/08 fixtures
The Shetland fixtures/results and match reports can be found here.
News:
Just in case you were wondering!
In a moment of boredom I wondered if Mike Skinners televised figure for "this is the distance we will travel our away matches" was correct.
Mr. Skinner pulled the figure of 5000 miles out of the air, but he underestimated.
The actual distance from Lerwick (according to www.theAA.com) for 9 away matches was 6350 miles.
Fixtures 2006/07
Last seasons fixtures here
BT National League Division 5B (North) fixtures and results for 2005/06 season available here.
Shetland RFC's fixtures/ results & match reports for the year ahead 2004/5 are available here.
Information on how to reach Shetland, and things to do once here, can be found here.
Old news + Rugby Special
Those of you who missed the Rugby Special feature on Shetland Rugby can view the
video clip here.
Moved a lot of the old stuff to another page. So if you are looking for the likes of the 2004 Viking match reports, past tours, John Beatties radio interview, and some other bits and bobs, try
here.
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