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Shetland RFC play in Scottish Hydro Regional League Caledonia 2 NE  Forthcoming Event Adrian Reynolds has photographs of recent matches on his Shetland Scenes site here and Kevin Jones has photos here. Sat. 6 Feb - Internal Game KO 11 amWeather and pitch condition allowing there will be an internal fixture on saturday with a 11am kick-off. Keep checking the guestbook for updates. Sat. 23 Jan. - Shetland 10 Aberdeen Wanderers 6On 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. After the postponement of the West Dyce match before Christmas we still have two away to play. The fixtures are now 13/2 Banff (A) and 6/3 West Dyce (A). So only one match per month, but several Up-Helly-Aas for one of our senior players - the size he will be come March! 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. 12 Dec - West Dyce v Shetland KOThis match was postponed due to a frozen pitch. Match now due to be played on 6 March 2010. Sat. 5 Dec - Peterhead 13 Shetland 26Two 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 22A disappointing final score from a match that saw Shetland holding their own for much of the match against a well drilled Ross Sutherland team. Sat. 21 Nov - Shetland 14 Huntly 22After 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. Sat. 7 Nov - Garioch 69 Shetland 3No match report received for this match. Half-time 19-3, points from Paul Grant. Sat. 31 October - Shetland 21 Deeside 34Match report can be found here. Sat. 24 October - Banff P Shetland PDue to weather related problems with the ferries, the away match at Banff had to be postponed. Sat. 17 October - Aberdeen Wanderers 74 Shetland 3Shetland version of the match here. Sat. 10 October - Shetland 40 v 10 West DyceMatch report here. Written by the John-Roy appreciation society. Sat. 3 October - Shetland 91 Peterhead 0Match report here. Sat. 26 September - Huntly 31 Shetland 10Match report can be found here. Sat. 19 September - Shetland 0 Garioch 97A game of two halves. Both of which were dominated by the away team. Sat. 12 September - Deeside 41 Shetland 20Shetland showed signs of improvement on the previous weeks match against Banff with three tries from Lewis King, Nathan Coote and Joe O'Connor. 6-Nations TicketsDetails on the prices and how to contact Forbes can be found in the right-hand margin. Junior Rugby - started saturday 29 AugustTraining - every saturday morning. Venue kickaboot pitches, Clickimin. Intercounty in Orkney on August 22ndOrkney 88 Shetland 5 SCOTTISH HYDRO CALEDONIA LEAGUE 2 NE 2009-2010Season starts with a home fixture against Banff on saturday 5 September. 2009 BP Shetland MidSummer Sevens weekendCongratulations 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 dueMemberships are now due for the 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. Young people, old people.....Shetland RFC on the SRU website here. 2007/08 fixturesThe 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. Fixtures 2006/07 Information on how to reach Shetland, and things to do once here, can be found here. Old news + Rugby SpecialThose of you who missed the Rugby Special feature on Shetland Rugby can view the
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