Strachur and District Shinty Club
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| Full name | Strachur and District Shinty Club | ||
| Gaelic name | Comann Camanachd Sgire Shrath Chura | ||
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| Founded | 1880 | ||
| Ground | Strachur Park, Home Farm, Strachur | ||
| Manager | ? | ||
| League | South Division Two | ||
| 2011 | 1st | ||
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Strachur and District Shinty Club is a Shinty team from Strachur, Argyll, Scotland. The club has one team which won South Division Two in 2011.
[edit] History
The club was founded by 1880 and there are traditions of annual games on New Year's Day, with sixty players from Succoth Glen alone. [1]
It has never folded or merged with another club. The club has won a sprinkling of honours throughout its history, the most recent of these in senior shinty being in 1985, when Strachur won the Glasgow Celtic Society Cup for the second time in four years. [2] The club also reached the Camanachd Cup final in 1983, losing to local rivals, Kyles Athletic 3-2. This was the first, and so far only final between two teams from the South District.
It won the 2006 Marine Harvest South Division Two in comprehensive fashion, recording comprehensive victories against Aberdour Shinty Club, 12-2 and Glasgow Mid Argyll, 19-0, on the way to victory. The club held its own in South Division One in 2007 but were demoted in 2008 after finishing bottom. They will return to South Division One in 2012 after winning South Two.
Fitzroy Maclean had a longstanding relationship with the club as he was a resident of the local area and the club played in the grounds of Strachur House. The club now plays at a community pitch on the shores of Loch Fyneat Strachurmore.[3]
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