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Forthcoming Event
Senior training tuesday and thursday 6.30 at Clickimin. Junior training started on saturday mornings.

Saturday 8 November- Scottish Hydro Electric National Cup 2008-09 Round 1 - Arbroath v Shetland

A list of fixtures for the forthcoming season can be found here.
Shetland travel to Arbroath this weekend to take on a team who are having a similar season to ourselves having only won a single league fixture.
The winners of this match will face the winners of Waid v St. Andrews University away in round 2, which is due to be played on 22 november.
The losers will enter the draw for the shield or plate or bowl or something like that. The match is scheduled for a 12 noon kick-off.

Saturday 1 November- Shetland 0 v 27 Huntly

A spirited Shetland performance stilled lacked a cutting edge against a will drilled Huntly team.
Shetland had a share of the ball but could not convert any pressure into points.

Last weekends results:

This weekends fixtures:

West Dyce 0 v 46 Banff
Shetland 0 v 27 Huntly

Huntly v Inverness CD
Banff v Lochaber
Blairgowrie v Aberdeen Wanderers

Memberships now due

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

Autumn & 6-Nation tickets

Information about how to apply for international tickets can be found here.

Scottish Hydro Electric National Cup 2008-09 Regional Preliminary Round

Shetland were due to play Atholl Highlanders on saturday 23 August but (after some confusion) the match was cancelled and it will be Shetland who progress into the Caledonia Region Cup round 1 where we will face Arbroath. Arbroath had a 22-0 victory away to Peterhead.
The match is due to be played on 8th November.

2008 Shetland Mid-Summer Sevens

Congratulations to Orkney on winning the Shetland Times cup, beating Shetland select in the final.
A tournament report can be found here. A selection of photographs from saturday, along with other Shetland RFC home matches, can be found here.Thanks to Adrian Reynolds for the piccies.
Other photos can be found at the Kevin Jones site 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.

Junior Rugby

Training - every saturday morning. Venue kickaboot pitches, Clickimin.
Secondary 10 - 12.
New training time for primary 4-7
P4-7, Thursdays, Clickimin Leisure Complex (Indoors) 4-5pm
For more detail contact Paul woods (Coaching coordinator)
(01595) 694965
07799567416
woods.1956@virgin.net



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.

 SRFC Messageboard

Upcoming Events
Shetland v Peterhead
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".