Shetland RFC play in Scottish Hydro Regional League Caledonia 2 NE

Forthcoming Event
Senior training tuesday and thursday 6.30 at Clickimin. Junior training saturdays Minis (P4-7) from 10.00 - 11.00. Midis (S1-4) will begin slightly late at 10.15 and run until 11.45. Players old and new are more than welcome

Kevin Jones has photographs of recent matches on his site here.

Next season

Season starts with at home to Huntly on saturday 28th August.
Full fixtures (as at 14/7/10, but may change):
28/8 Huntly (H), 4/9 Garioch (A), 11/9 Aberdeenshire 2nds XV (H), 18/9 Deeside (A), 25/9 Aberdeen Wanderers (H), 2/10 Banff (A), 9/10 Ellon 2nd XV (H), 16/10 Huntly (A), 23/10 Garioch (H), 30/10 Aberdeenshire 2nds XV (A), 11/12 Deeside (H), 15/1/11 Aberdeen Wanderers (A), 22/1 Banff (H), 29/1 Ellon 2nd XV (A).

Shetland Mid-Summer Sevens - Saturday 19 June

Waiting on tournament report. Shetland Select winners.

Weekend 6/7 March - Double Header

Two matches, one victory and one defeat, rounded off the 2009-10 league season.
On the saturday Shetland earned a hard fought victory over West Dyce 22-7. Try scorers where Jon Pulley (2), Stewart Mouat (2). One conversion kicked by Paul Grant. MOM Stewart Mouat and DOTD Kristian Fraser. Whilst on the sunday Shetland lost 45-7 to a very street wise Banff team. Ty scorer was Captain Matthew Nicolson with conversion kicked by Paul Grant. MOM was John Roy Nicolson and DOTD was Kristian Fraser.
Photos from the Banff match (courtesy of FC Hogg) can be found here.

Sat. 23 Jan. - Shetland 10 Aberdeen Wanderers 6

On paper the result seemed straight forward. Wanderers had only lost one league match in the last 2 seasons scoring almost 1100points in the process, whilst the home team had only beaten West Dyce and Peterhead in the same time period. Five points from the boot of Paul Grant (a penalty and a conversion from each touch line) and a late score from Lincoln Carroll gave Shetland their best result in many a year.

The Shetland team has shown in glimpses that they have the capability to beat teams but poor starts and unforced errors have led to defeats. Thankfully the sporting gods must have been popping along to Clickimin as Shetland cut down on the mistakes, hardly missing a tackle all match. Even the appearance of Mal Smith was thought of as a lucky omen.

The match report can be found here.

Christmas Fixture(s)

At the end of the day only one match was able to be played. On saturday 19 December some 35 hardy (or downright stupid) players turned up to play in a match where the temperature never made it above -2. By the end of the match the youngsters had won by 3 converted tries to 2.

Sat. 5 Dec - Peterhead 13 Shetland 26

Two tries from MotM Maurice Williamson, plus one each from Paul Grant and Nathan Coote gave Shetland the victory over a much improved Peterhead team. Paul Grant kicked three conversions. Full match report here.

Sat. 28 Nov - Scottish Hydro Regional Bowl - Shetland 0 Ross Sutherland 22

A disappointing final score from a match that saw Shetland holding their own for much of the match against a well drilled Ross Sutherland team.
Click here for the match report.

Sat. 21 Nov - Shetland 14 Huntly 22

After a good start with two tries in the opening quarter, Shetland faced their old problem of having a decent amount of the ball but failing to convert their chances.
Match report can be found here.

Sat. 7 Nov - Garioch 69 Shetland 3

No match report received for this match. Half-time 19-3, points from Paul Grant.

Sat. 31 October - Shetland 21 Deeside 34

Match report can be found here.

Sat. 24 October - Banff P Shetland P

Due to weather related problems with the ferries, the away match at Banff had to be postponed.
It is now due to take place on saturday 19 December.

Sat. 17 October - Aberdeen Wanderers 74 Shetland 3

Shetland version of the match here.
Wanderers version of the match here.
A link to photographs of the match taken by Jim McNair here.

Sat. 10 October - Shetland 40 v 10 West Dyce

Match report here. Written by the John-Roy appreciation society.

Sat. 3 October - Shetland 91 Peterhead 0

Match report here.

Sat. 26 September - Huntly 31 Shetland 10

Match report can be found here.
Huntly version of the match can be found here.

Sat. 19 September - Shetland 0 Garioch 97

A game of two halves. Both of which were dominated by the away team.
Shetland version of the match here.
Garioch version here and some of Kevin Jones' photographs also here.

Sat. 12 September - Deeside 41 Shetland 20

Shetland showed signs of improvement on the previous weeks match against Banff with three tries from Lewis King, Nathan Coote and Joe O'Connor.
Shetland Times match report here.
Aboyne version here.

6-Nations Tickets

Details on the prices and how to contact Forbes can be found in the right-hand margin.

Junior Rugby - started saturday 29 August

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

Orkney 88 Shetland 5
Shetland try from Joe O'Connor.
Some photographs from Forbes Hogg can be found here.

SCOTTISH HYDRO CALEDONIA LEAGUE 2 NE 2009-2010

Season starts with a home fixture against Banff on saturday 5 September.
12/9 Deeside (A); 19/9 Garioch (H); 26/9 Huntly (A); 3/10 Peterhead (H); 10/10 West Dyce (H); 17/10 Aberdeen Wanderers (A); 24/10 Banff (A); 31/10 Deeside (H); 7/11 Garioch (A); 21/10 Huntly (H); 5/12 Peterhead (A); 12/12 West Dyce (A); 16/1 Aberdeen Wanderers (H)

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.

Memberships now due

Memberships are now due for the forthcoming present season.
Access the membership form 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.

Upcoming Events
Preseason training - tuesdays and thursdays

Player Profile No.7

the thoughts of the evergreen Mr Michael Skinner.

Orkney has a furthest travelled ORFC shirt competition.
Below we see the SRFC President wearing his shirt with I believe Cullivoe in the background.


I believe that Forbes also made a new signing during his travels - some Aussie bloke who said "Shetland is the only team I've ever wanted to play for".