Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 In what way was that a rhetorical question? Unless you knew that everyone had clearly noticed you were a simpleton anyway, but then why say anything at all? Except you're referring to the wrong post. Just like you used the wrong quote. Simpleton! See ya pal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcat1990 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Get your tickets folks. We have a GRAMMAR OFF!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Except you're referring to the wrong post. Just like you used the wrong quote. Simpleton! See ya pal What on earth are you talking about? It's everyone else that's the simpleton here, yes siree! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Get your tickets folks. We have a GRAMMAR OFF!! The only way that this can be good is if she doesn't have saggy tits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 f**k is this shit? I wonder how close the likes of Shetland and The Outer Hebrides are to forming proper clubs and putting them in the NCL. SFA should be actively encouraging this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Said before but with support from sfa for transport a Lewis team in the senior leagues would be entirely viable at least in terms of support. One problem would be the pool of players they could draw from would be so small though. Currently probably every league team in Scotland draws on players living in and around Dundee,Aberdeen,Glasgow and Edinburgh or Inverness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted June 13, 2015 Author Share Posted June 13, 2015 f**k is this shit? I wonder how close the likes of Shetland and The Outer Hebrides are to forming proper clubs and putting them in the NCL. SFA should be actively encouraging this. Both are doing what Orkney did a couple of seasons ago, entering some of the North Caledonian cups; but I suspect it will be harder for them to move on a step and join the league, as the travelling is so much more considerable and time-consuming even than for Orkney. I don't think the SFA will ever give financial help so it'd require a lot of local fundraising too. Both also finance Island Games teams whereas Orkney hasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lubo_blaha Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Ignoring AFJ's posse of anti-Ulster stalkers, I can't remember ever seeing a rugby field in Shetland, but maybe there's one tucked away somewhere in Lerwick. Football is definitely very much dominant there and all the outlying parishes and larger islands have a pitch of some description. Not surprised a Shetland rugby team might struggle for numbers, doubt it would be an issue with football. There's one rugby pitch on the island over by the leisure centre in Lerwick, believe there also used to be one up at the old RAF base in Unst as well! In comparison, if I've counted right, there are 16 football pitches spread across the Isles. Football is very much the dominant sport with about 25 senior teams across 3 leagues (including reserve teams) and about 6/7 teams playing at every age group from under 8's to under 18's. Rugby just has the one senior team as well as a decent junior set-up with youth teams playing in mainland leagues as well. Numbers definitely aren't the issue for football but I think the rugby leagues are more lenient with the fixtures and player registrations that football authorities ever would be, and probably more welcoming to teams playing from the remote areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted July 18, 2015 Author Share Posted July 18, 2015 Orkney & Halkirk are the invitees for the 2015-16 North of Scotland Cup, otherwise contested by HL clubs & ICT. Drew each other in R1, at Orkney. Away v ICT in R2 if successful. Finished 1-1 today, and Halkirk prevailed on penalties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted July 24, 2015 Author Share Posted July 24, 2015 Sutherland United have mothballed themselves on the eve of the new season, meaning the North Caledonian is back to 6 clubs. https://www.facebook.com/SutherlandUnitedFootballClub Just as well Invergordon reformed, anything less than 6 and it might be no league at all. Participants are now: Alness United Golspie Sutherland Halkirk United Invergordon Orkney Thurso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Would any of them be good enough to compete with the lesser Highland League sides and the better Northern-based Junior teams in a Highland League Division 2 set-up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted July 25, 2015 Author Share Posted July 25, 2015 Not sure but I'm doubtful they could have much impact unless there are better players available locally who'll not play NCL but would HL (which seems unlikely). It's possible to make a comparison with existing HL clubs due to the shared cups. Golspie enter all the main competitions and have played HL clubs 31 times since the millennium. Only managed 5 wins, 5 draws and 21 defeats - plus most of the wins/draws were against Brora, Fort William and Rothes during their lowest ebbs, also a couple against Clachnacuddin. Since other NCFL club were admitted into the North of Scotland Cup in 2009 those clubs have only managed 1 win (Halkirk), 2 draws (Halkirk + Thurso) and 12 defeats - often by thumping margins. Bonar Bridge and Muir of Ord Rovers never managed anything except defeats and have both since disappeared. Golspie have played a number of LL/EOSL clubs in the Scottish Cup, usually lost but did beat Hawick and Preston. Also drew with Girvan, the Juniors. Halkirk were linked with HL when a proposal to split it into 2 divisions of 10 was mooted last year, and there are some on FitbaNorth who claim Golspie would be interested. Halkirk has had their ground done-up by a benefactor and now boasts 2 terracing covers and floodlights. However the rest of the league are basically open parks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted July 26, 2015 Author Share Posted July 26, 2015 Worth adding that Inverness City joined the North Juniors from NCFL a few years ago and have done fairly well. Alness United currently play in HL U17s, and Invergordon entered the defunct HL U19s from 2009-2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lubo_blaha Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 FT: Shetland 6-0 Orkney in the annual inter-county match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effeffsee_the2nd Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Both are doing what Orkney did a couple of seasons ago, entering some of the North Caledonian cups; but I suspect it will be harder for them to move on a step and join the league, as the travelling is so much more considerable and time-consuming even than for Orkney. I don't think the SFA will ever give financial help so it'd require a lot of local fundraising too. Both also finance Island Games teams whereas Orkney hasn't. i dont know much about the western isles, shetland is an overnight ferry to aberdeen and air transport would be prohibitively expensive. in terms of quality none of the teams there would be up to much although the county select team which play orkney and the island games could probably put a half decent team out. transport wise it would be harder for them to play in a league involving teams from caithness and sutherland, (the ferry docks in aberdeen theres no direct links to the north of scotland) which would involve several hours on the road aswell as the ferry trip. if they were going to join any mainland set up it would be more practical to join one in aberdeenshire, even then it would be very expensive to travel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 If they can go to all that trouble to lure Edward Woodward, they can find a way to send a football team to play in Scotland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted August 7, 2015 Author Share Posted August 7, 2015 As noted earlier, the Orkney rugby team plays in the national leagues and one promotion will take Shetland's to a region stretching to Fife and Stirling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Don't the SRFU subsidise travel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiGi Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Is that a question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted August 10, 2015 Author Share Posted August 10, 2015 Don't the SRFU subsidise travel? SRU. Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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