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The great Glen, a land of myths and legends. On the shores of Loch Ness | :00:28. | :00:44. | |
Glen, one of shinty's oldest clubs. 130 years of history, but never the | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
biggest prize, the Camanachd Cup. The closest they have come, the | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
fairy tale Final in 1988 when they lead but lost to Kingussie. Once | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
dubbed the most successful team in world sport the Kings were the first | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
winners of the Camanachd cup in 1896. 22 times they have listed the | :01:08. | :01:18. | |
famous trophy -- lifted the famous trophy, but in this land of myths, | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
legends and fairy tales and omen 2014 saw a famous club win their cup | :01:26. | :01:38. | |
after weighting 130 years. The 2014 Scottish Cup is St Johnstone's does | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
destiny now call for men from the Glen? The main moment in the shinty | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
world is finally here, and so to thankfully other teams. Glenurquhart | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
Shinty Club hoping to win the shinty cup for the first time in their 130 | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
year history, the side that beat them the last time they were in the | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
final was Kingussie who they are up against. Welcome to the Camanachd | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Cup Finals of 2014 here at Bught Park in Inverness, this year between | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
Kingussie and Glenurquhart. The action gets underway in 15 minutes | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
time and it's an absolutely glorious day in Inverness, it has to be said. | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
There is a hugely pungent atmosphere in the Highland capital and the | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
crowds have come with the weather absolutely glorious and you can hear | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
the strains of the pipe band in the background. This really is the big | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
one, this is the big one, both metaphorically and physically. The | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
Camanachd Cup Finals, the World Cup of shinty, the trophy that every | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
shinty player wants to win. Thankfully I'm joined by two players | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
who know exactly what it's like to wind this shinty trophy, Fraser | :02:55. | :03:04. | |
Inglis and another former Scotland international. How do you see this | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
afternoon's match going? It will be tight, they are third and fourth in | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
the league, they have played each other twice and got one each so it | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
could not be tighter going into the game and the managers will have a | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
pivotal role in what tactics to pick. It could be the decision that | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
wins the cup. It is a glorious day in Inverness, perfect for the | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
Camanachd Cup Finals, and both sides have a real reason to win today, | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
Glen Urquhart in the final for only their second time in their history | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
and Kingussie with a poignant centenary celebration, how do you | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
see the match going? Kyles will feel this is their best opportunity. As | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
Fraser said they are very close in league action having played each | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
other twice and one apiece, so we are in for a cracker today. I would | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
say it is too tight to call. We will discuss it in more depth shortly but | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
for the moment thank you very much. I've been talking to a few key | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
players and managers in either camp, including one player who made the | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
journey from Africa. My mother 's family was from John -- and after 11 | :04:11. | :04:21. | |
years of living in Zambia we came to live here. I saw the boys in | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
training one day, the under 12, and thought I would have a go. And then | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
it took off as a shinty player. You only talk about the Camanachd, it's | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
the one thing to get to. The finally get there now it is unbelievable. | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
Our boys have been in three senior finals in the last couple of | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
seasons, so they are not completely un-used to the big occasion and have | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
played well this year and will finish third in the league and | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Kingussie will finish fourth. I think Kingussie will go in | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
favourites in the big match location. It's only the third time | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
we have reached the final in 130 years so it's not a good record. The | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
Kingussie team of 88 were at the peak of their powers so we have | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
worked really hard to put in a good performance. Over Loch Ness and into | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
the Ken dawns, another veteran of the 1988 final has been casting his | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
eye over Kingussie's current crop. His fond memories of that famous | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
game. Glen Urquhart played very well on that date and Kingussie didn't. | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
They lead for a long period before Kingussie overcame them 4-2. It was | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
great for everybody and was a great spectacle and it was a great game. | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Kingussie's last Camanachd Cup triumph came in 2006 with Ronald | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Ross scoring all four goals in their victory over Fort William. Their | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
captain that date says they remain as potent a goal-scoring threat. | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
Ronald was one of the best scorers and best players the game has ever | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
seen. To have him back in the squad for tomorrow is a massive boost. You | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
will see him tomorrow. During the game and in training, he is as fit | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
as he has ever been. We have played Glen Urquhart a couple of times this | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
season and lost one and 11. They will be the same. The team that | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
plays best on the day will win. -- won one. This is a hugely poignant | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
day for Kingussie, 100 years ago in 1914 day won the Camanachd Cup | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
Finals. The players that played that day went on to fight in the Great | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
War, and six of them never returned. They died in battle. They will be | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
remembered today by the Kingussie team who are wearing special | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
commemorative shirts to show their respect for former Kingussie players | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
who died in battle. Let's have a look at this year's progress to the | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
Camanachd Cup Finals in this year's Kingussie team. It started with a 2 | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
-1 victory over Lovat. Genini and Borthwick on the scoresheet. Then a | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
1-0 victory over Kelly's athletic, Genini again the goal-scorer. In the | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
semifinal it was nip and tuck. 2-2 against Fort William and Genini | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
again on the scoresheet -- Kelly's athletic. Eventually it went to | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
penalties which Kingussie's won. Ronald Ross, the great Rinaldo of | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
the Glens as he is known. He still going strong. He's the one player | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
everyone has heard of. -- Ronaldo of the Glens. Maybe seems to be quite | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
sure if there is life in the old dog. We saw that Ronald scored a | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
goal on 90 minutes and the two vital penalties. This is in an earlier | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
game. The semifinal. The ball breaks to Ronald and that's the power he | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
has. That gave Kingussie the upper hand in that game and when it came | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
to the penalties he took the first one so he has proved crucial in this | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
year's, edition and who is to say he will not be crucial again today? Is | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
this his swansong? He's achieved more than anybody else and yet 20 | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
years after he played in his first final he is just as hungry. He might | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
be backs next year. He keeps himself fit and mentally he still wants to | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
play. It's going to be exciting to see him in action. Let's talk about | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
Glen Urquhart who made it through the various rounds to this year's | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
Camanachd Cup Finals starting with a 5-3 victory over Lochaber. In round | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
three and impressive 3-1 victory over in their area. James MacPherson | :08:44. | :08:44. | |
with two of the goals this time. -- let's talk about James MacPherson, | :08:45. | :08:59. | |
the top scorer in the Camanachd Cup this year. How important a player | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
will he be if Glen Urquhart hope to win the trophy at last? He's the man | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
who's been scoring for Glen Urquhart and they will look for him again to | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
hit the back of the net. In the semifinals against Skye, the ball | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
comes out, and he ran over and he shouts and slips inside the player | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
and unleashes an unstoppable shot. James has the quality that you have | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
two have to be one of the best players and it's a bit of | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
selfishness and he has that and that is why he is the top goal-scorer for | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Glen Urquhart at this point. Absolutely. Let's talk about today | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
predictions wise. They are third and fourth in the league, they've played | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
each other a couple of times and one has gone either way. What is your | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
prediction for today's match? Glen Urquhart are the more settled team | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
and slightly younger and they have more options, more positional | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
options and more men on the bench. If they get the tactics right this | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
could be the day for them. One of their tactics has to be how to deal | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
with Ronald. If they get that right back or be the first time Glen | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Urquhart win the cup. You think it could be Glen Urquhart? Yes. My | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
prediction is for a great game of shinty. I'd love to see Glen | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
Urquhart win, the opportunity to take the cup back to Glen Urquhart | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
for the first time would be huge and we have the chance for a bit of | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
history. I wish Kingussie the best but I would love to see Glen | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
Urquhart take it home today for shinty. Gary will be the | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
co-commentator today. It's about to get underway. Let's throw to your | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
match commentator today, the one and only Hugh Dan MacLennan. | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
COMMENTATOR: These are tremendous scenes. What many people believe to | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
be the home of the Camanachd Cup Finals, the Bught Park in Inverness | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
bought from a local farmer, Mr McBain, in 1923 by the local | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
authority and ever since it has been the spiritual home of this great | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
event, although it does go to other territories in the shinty playing | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
community, it is a fabulous setting today played against the background, | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
I must say, of hundreds of Highland athletes tossing the caber, throwing | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
the weights, allsorts of stuff going on in the immediate environment of | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
this wonderful pitch with the Inverness is leading the two teams | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
out. Massively important occasion for both teams in shinty terms, in | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
terms of their history as a club and in terms of the centenary of the | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
First World War, as we heard. It is not just Kingussie commemorating the | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
loss of many people. Glen Urquhart lost at least 50 people in that | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
particular period. But today's event is commemorating the 1914 final of | :11:54. | :12:02. | |
course and the Kingussie players now showing the special commemorative | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
strips with the names, each player wearing the name of a player who | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
played in that particular position. The President of the Camanachd | :12:16. | :12:29. | |
Association's Sun will be playing today. -- son. James McClean will | :12:30. | :12:54. | |
not be in the starting line-up. I'm sure he will appear in midfield. | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
Plenty of support from the Glen, 14 miles to the west of Inverness. And | :12:59. | :13:08. | |
who's to say that if the predictions are part predictions by my | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
co-commentator, Gary Innis, it will be a great location. If it went back | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
with them, maybe even Nessie herself would be there to welcome them. But | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
there is a very big obstacle to get past it for the can even think about | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
that. The Kingussie team. Eddie Tembo, the skipper. He has a | :13:34. | :13:43. | |
wonderful sense of humour. You would have to to have a haircut! And the | :13:44. | :13:56. | |
chieftain of the Camanachd Association Jock Turner in the | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
background of Bute and Kyles athletic. I know that Kyles athletic | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
would have loved to be here today but they found Kingussie that much | :14:08. | :14:17. | |
of an obstacle also. I hesitate to say, but he is meeting his own team | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
but I'm sure he will temporarily set aside his loyalties. No doubt there | :14:23. | :14:34. | |
will be a firmness to the handshake. Because there is an awful long | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
period here that the cup has not come back to the Glen. 130 years. | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
McAllister will also be involved in presenting the trophies at the end | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
of the game. Absolutely glorious setting looking towards the town end | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
of the pitch from the ice Rink end, for those of you who know the | :15:01. | :15:12. | |
Inverness setting. It is shirtsleeve order. The chocolate biscuits are | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
melting in the commentary position. The window is open. Mr Innis is | :15:17. | :15:28. | |
calming and cooling having taken off his very swanky jacket he's wearing | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
today. Much too warm for the conditions, I suspect. The teams are | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
splitting up now. Let's have a look at the line-up formations because | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
they are interesting. Kingussie in their usual lines. They have very | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
strong defence, very good midfield and up front is the key. Is today | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
the day that the Borthwicks and Geninis of the world will make a | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
name for themselves? Glen Urquhart very strong at the back. John Barr | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
is a rock at full-back but there is an issue about his hamstring. Up | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
front they have goals aplenty. MacPherson is perfectly capable of | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
breaching the Kingussie defence. The captain is Eddie Tembo, who has | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
lined up in midfield. I suspect Glen Urquhart will make a tactical change | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
here pushing Fraser Munro forward. We will have a look at that. The | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
referee is David Mitchell, who is having a bit of difficulty getting | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
the ball in play. So we have Glen Urquhart in the red and black hoops | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
and we have Kingussie in their red and blue strip. Glen Urquhart team | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
heading towards their home area to the west of the town, right-to-left, | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
Kingussie playing from left to right. Gary Innis has joined me in | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
the commentary team. You were sitting on the fence before the | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
match, it's time to come of it. I would like to see Glen Urquhart take | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
it and they have a great chance but we've seen time and time again the | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
Ronald Ross show and you could not put that passed them today. We will | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
have a look at the great man who has lined up way over to our right hand | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
side at the moment. The collision between himself and John Barr will | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
be key in this game. As the midfield will be in particular, for allsorts | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
of reasons. That is a good ball. And well dealt with by Craig Dawson. A | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
converted goalkeeper, if we can call him that. A leading goal-scorer in | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
his day. One of Kingussie's many green keepers. He will have a view | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
on the state of the pitch which we will come back to, the immaculate | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
Bught Park. A few of the players with a feeling that the grass might | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
be a shade long. We will get Gary's view on that shortly. Let's see how | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
Eddie Tembo deals with this. Good ball into the heart of the Kingussie | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
defence and a chance, early chance for Glen Urquhart. The first goal is | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
a cliche, it is always crucial. We saw in the 88 final, although you | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
may not have seen it, the Glen got ahead in the 88 final and then they | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
blew it. Could they do the same again today? Will they go for the | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
early lead? Both teams will set out their stalls and try and get the | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
early lead. That was the first effort of the day. Glen Urquhart | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
will want to get ahead of themselves and settled themselves because | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
Kingussie have a lot more experience in these positions. Just to go back | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
to the bench, is there a feeling from some of the players the grass | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
might be a shade long? Yes and unfortunately I'm one of the | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
critics, Bught Park is never short enough and even when it is cut short | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
it is not short enough for a final. Just a little bit too long for | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
myself. I don't think any of these players will be caring about that at | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
this point. The referee David Mitchell exerting his authority | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
early on. The ball kicked away. He didn't like that, understandably. | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
Kingussie breaking through, but a trip. Gibson from midfield. This is | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
key to the game, clearing your halfback defensive line. Glen | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
Urquhart. Looking pacey and looking interested. Huge support for Glen | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
Urquhart today, as I said just 14 miles away. Lee Bain is an | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
interesting character playing in the heart of the Kingussie defence. He | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
went to school in Glen Urquhart, would you believe, and has now | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
turned out for Kingussie. His loyalties must lie with Kingussie. | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
The loyalties lie here, absolutely. Lee Bain has been upfront for | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
Kingussie most of the season. What a ball that is into the heart of the | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
Kingussie defence. Glen Urquhart trying to clear it, danger, but the | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
extra man in defence counting. At the moment Glen Urquhart running the | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
midfield, there is a chance here for the Glen! He could have done better | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
and should have done better with that because it broke eventually to | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
Craig Dawson. That is a key moment early in the game. You would have | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
wanted to finish this. The ball comes in from Eddie Tembo, the | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
captain and he took too big a swing, he just had to slip it past Dawson. | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
He could have taken it down and taken one step. Here is Ronald Ross | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
for the first time, pulled back by John Barr, good block. John Barr | :20:55. | :21:03. | |
getting it away again. John Barr holding the jersey, is the call from | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
the referee. These are tense moments at both ends. The first opportunity | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
for Kingussie to threaten the Glen goal. Oh! Side netting. That was | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
straight out of the training manual. Absolutely. Everyone's eyes were on | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
the Ronald Ross and Genini ran to the front post, the young | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
18-year-old, who has scored in each match they have played Thurau this | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
competition, and he took his first shot of the afternoon just wide. I | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
seem to recall you doing something very spectacular from a very similar | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
spot many years ago back in the day. They will not be thinking about that | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
just now. Here is Eddie Tembo. Interesting to see Eddie Tembo with | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
a helmet on today, another player who switched to wearing a helmet and | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
face guard after a recent injury. The full mohawk on display. In the | :22:02. | :22:12. | |
MacTavish final which Glen Urquhart famously one I remember seeing him. | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
Shoulder to shoulder is the rule, unless there is some sort of other | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
intent established. What do you make of this? John Barr comes out. It | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
looks pretty shoulder to shoulder. John is a big built man and used his | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
weight to his advantage and has been penalised. I think it is the issue | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
of not being within playing reach of the ball that really went for him | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
there. That is a good ball across the face of the goal, at too much. | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
There is a character we enjoyed a night out with last night, Stuart | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
McIntosh. He appeared on stage with Gary and I at Eden Court in a | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
special commemoration event as part of the festival. We will come back | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
to Stuart McIntosh's playing ability shortly. Eddie Tembo has come back | :23:04. | :23:13. | |
to help the defence. Good block by Gibson. And again, again. Now, there | :23:14. | :23:24. | |
is an issue here for the Glen defenders. They are testing David | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
Mitchell's patients in the first few minutes. If they start to pick up | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
cards and give away fouls there is an inevitable conclusion. Very much | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
show. Mitchell came in a bit heavy-handed on his back and gave | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
away the foul. As the game progresses over the next few minutes | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
we will see less and less of these fouls as Mitchell stamped his | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
authority on this final. Andrew Corrigan of Glen Urquhart has gone | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
down in midfield. He has taken a knock. I think that must be pretty | :23:59. | :24:07. | |
difficult for us to see behind his back. But I think there is going to | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
have to be an early substitution here eight minutes into the game. | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
Thankfully with the new rules as well, with rolling substitutes, you | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
can go off and get treatment and come back on at a later time if he | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
feels he can. I would guess that might be the end of his day | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
unfortunately. Here we have a very interesting swap here. It is Ali | :24:34. | :24:43. | |
mac. He was ruled out earlier in the season and here he is coming on, Ali | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
McIntosh. The historical interest in this is that Ali Tosh, father of the | :24:51. | :25:01. | |
current Ali McIntosh, played in the 1988 final between these teams. I'm | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
sure he is here somewhere but he will be here. Certainly watching his | :25:06. | :25:19. | |
namesake Ali McIntosh. Just a disruption. Any change like that is | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
a disruption. Ronald Ross sends it down the line to Fraser Munro who | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
has been pushed forward by Kingussie. That is a good ball which | :25:28. | :25:36. | |
had to be dealt with. Tembo. He turns and bang, all the way. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
Hutchinson is after it, just overheating. Well, he needs to keep | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
that kind of supply going. That was a good ball by Eddie, just a little | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
over exuberant but it was a good idea. He almost gave them their | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
first goal recently. There was a strong breeze earlier but looking at | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
the flag to my right it is pretty limp at the moment. I don't big it | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
is to any side's advantage but we will see if it will work that way. | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
Slightly ambitious from Thomas Borthwick. -- I don't think it is to | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
any side's advantage. Aaron Donald with the hit him, he | :26:28. | :26:40. | |
gets one chance at it, he can throw it up as often as he likes as long | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
as he takes only one swing. Two Kingussie defenders. This is where | :26:46. | :26:55. | |
pace takes over. Single-handed run by Fraser Munro, who is beginning to | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
make his mark in the game, he turns inside but that is a good block. And | :27:02. | :27:12. | |
fired back across. Strong tackle by Lewis McLennan, returned by Gibson. | :27:13. | :27:20. | |
Looking for Munro but it is Michael Brady who is busy in that left-hand | :27:21. | :27:30. | |
defensive corner for Glen Urquhart. He took two swipes. What we have | :27:31. | :27:38. | |
seen is a lot of the balls from Glen Urquhart being pushed up the middle | :27:39. | :27:47. | |
rather than wide. Ali Mac pushed it wide there. It is a bit frenetic. We | :27:48. | :27:55. | |
need somebody to take the ball down and play at around, because this guy | :27:56. | :28:07. | |
will. Ronald Ross against John Barr, twisting and turning. He turns away | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
from the angle. Maybe that would have been better cut back across the | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
goal, Gary, but just an inclination here that Ronald Ross is beginning | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
to move around the territory. Yes he is. He has got the ball and was in | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
the position and saw the goal with nobody in front of him and he took | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
his opportunity. He could have pulled it back but in a Camanachd | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
cup final when the ball lands in front of you you just want to hit | :28:35. | :28:42. | |
the target. The goal isn't that big given the length of the field but | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
either side would settle for 1-0, believe you me, at the end of this. | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
I have a funny feeling it's not going to end that way. Barrie | :28:51. | :29:02. | |
Dallas, one of the elder statesmen of the current Kingussie team, if | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
you can call him that. That was confident play from the Glen | :29:07. | :29:09. | |
player, he just played it perfectly. Davy Mitchell, the referee, getting | :29:10. | :29:23. | |
a bit of a shouting match from the sidelines. | :29:24. | :29:32. | |
It is interesting. I'm not sure about this wind, whether there is a | :29:33. | :29:41. | |
bit down at pitch level a little bit more than we can feel. A couple of | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
the throws have been difficult to control. I would say that is more | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
down to the Sun than the wind at this point. There was no noticeable | :29:51. | :29:55. | |
wind, or nothing that would affect the ball in the air having run | :29:56. | :30:05. | |
across it. That is better. The second attempt. That is right on the | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
goal if it is turned the right way, the Glen creative. Dallas gets it | :30:12. | :30:20. | |
away. The heating is not the best at the minute. That is better. That is | :30:21. | :30:26. | |
a great swing, bringing out the goalkeeper, forcing him to play. | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
Stuart McIntosh has put the cap on, the sun is bothering him in the | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
goal. This is a good run from Euan Lloyd in the middle of the Glen | :30:37. | :30:50. | |
midfield. Tembo. And again Glen being patient, working the ball. | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
That was good play, strong tackle from Lewis Monroe. You could see | :30:57. | :31:04. | |
Fraser played for that -- Louis Munro. He got the foul and now there | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
is an opportunity to attack. Good position and plenty of options. The | :31:10. | :31:12. | |
one option he can be not use is to hit the ball into the goal because | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
he cannot score directly from the free hit. Tembo again fires it in. | :31:18. | :31:22. | |
That was a good height and Hutchison got it away. That's the sort of | :31:23. | :31:24. | |
clearance you want your full-back to be making. Genini finding it a bit | :31:25. | :31:30. | |
pacey and a bit of an occasion at the moment. That is an issue for a | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
player as young as this. For all of his talents and everything else he | :31:36. | :31:38. | |
is bound to feel the pace in the early stages of a game like this. We | :31:39. | :31:43. | |
have to remember the young man is 17 or 18 years of age and in his first | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
cup final it's a big occasion and probably a lot is expected of him | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
having scored in each and every other round. As a young man you need | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
to calm down a little bit and basically restart your game again as | :31:58. | :32:00. | |
he has not had the best start so far. Tembo, digging in already. This | :32:01. | :32:13. | |
ball up the middle, no use against Lee Bain. He will get that all day. | :32:14. | :32:18. | |
Straight back up the other end. Just lacking a bit of discipline at the | :32:19. | :32:28. | |
moment, committing little fouls. We have not had a save in the last 15 | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
minutes. Both teams are clearly quite nervous and the hitting is not | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
great. As this game goes on hopefully both teams will settle | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
down and play the ball a bit wider as well. A packed stand at the Bught | :32:44. | :33:04. | |
Park. Here is the Glen again. Going towards goal. This time Barrie | :33:05. | :33:07. | |
Dallas gets a second swing in. That is lovely play. By the Kingussie | :33:08. | :33:16. | |
number six. Barry Munro. Just snatching at the ball. -- Garry | :33:17. | :33:29. | |
Munro. That is a strength that the Kingussie bench will be having a | :33:30. | :33:33. | |
word with the sage, Anderson, he will be having a quiet word. He was | :33:34. | :33:43. | |
the only Glenurquhart player booked in the 1988 final. That is the | :33:44. | :33:48. | |
trouble with the hit in, it is not working for either team. We are | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
seeing this once again, there was no excuse on that occasion. It was | :33:53. | :34:00. | |
possibly the sun but at this level it should not be happening. Now, | :34:01. | :34:06. | |
this should go into the heart of the Glen defence. Thank you. Well | :34:07. | :34:20. | |
delivered. John Barr. That was a good clearance, he gets the ball out | :34:21. | :34:25. | |
of play and that gives us our first opportunity to join Jonathan at the | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
touchline. Thanks very much, lots of hurly-burly so far. Fraser Inglis, | :34:31. | :34:37. | |
who has had the best of it? They seem to be first to the ball when it | :34:38. | :34:44. | |
goes loose. And when they get there there is no Glenurquhart player | :34:45. | :34:48. | |
inside. Kingussie will be the happiest with the start. When you | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
start to give that amount of uncontested ball, there is only a | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
matter of time before they get an opportunity. Fraser is a dangerous | :34:57. | :35:05. | |
player. David Smart has shown quite well, going past few defenders. When | :35:06. | :35:09. | |
Glenurquhart get it into the third bail looking dangerous. The game is | :35:10. | :35:15. | |
yet to take shape. -- they are looking. Just looking at the amount | :35:16. | :35:21. | |
of possession that Glenurquhart have, that is giving them an edge in | :35:22. | :35:30. | |
the game. No score after 90 minutes. Barely any effort on goal at all and | :35:31. | :35:36. | |
that tells you it's own story. I get the feeling that the Glen getting | :35:37. | :35:41. | |
more of the ball. They are, Eddie Tembo has been quite good | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
distributing down the middle of the field, but he is not keeping it low | :35:47. | :35:50. | |
which a lot of his forwards in joy receiving the ball that way, he is | :35:51. | :35:54. | |
playing it higher and over the top of the defence. -- they enjoy that. | :35:55. | :36:00. | |
I do not know if that is coming from the management or it is his own | :36:01. | :36:08. | |
decision. Again, that is a long, good hit. WHISTLE | :36:09. | :36:15. | |
Well, that was just a flick, a suggestion that Fraser Munro was | :36:16. | :36:24. | |
caught with a hand. Here we go, he turns it beautifully, running | :36:25. | :36:29. | |
through. All that has happened is that he tries lifting the stick, | :36:30. | :36:35. | |
McDonald, and it has caught in the fingers of Fraser Munro. We will | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
come back to that. That is a good move. I was going to say that sooner | :36:41. | :36:46. | |
or later all of these fouls will have to make them pay, and Genini | :36:47. | :36:52. | |
almost did it. That was straight off the training ground, as we were | :36:53. | :36:56. | |
talking, they were caught short, Genini goes across the face of goal. | :36:57. | :37:01. | |
He tries to slip it in the bottom corner and give Kingussie the lead. | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
The first and best chance of the lead so far, Samuel Genini firing it | :37:08. | :37:12. | |
past the right-hand post of Macintosh. The Glen defence gave it | :37:13. | :37:21. | |
away and went to sleep, I have disabled -- I have the say. | :37:22. | :37:32. | |
Borthwick. The skipper has started well, setting by example with | :37:33. | :37:40. | |
another high ball in. Again, another loose ball. That was over | :37:41. | :37:47. | |
exuberant. The adrenaline is still flowing even after 20 minutes. Now | :37:48. | :38:07. | |
they get a welcome breather. He lines it up. This is a fabulous day | :38:08. | :38:18. | |
for shinty. Barr alt, but he will not want to come out. Here is a | :38:19. | :38:26. | |
chance. Samuel Genini! He has set the ball rolling for Kingussie. That | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
is one way to set his confidence in a cup final, what a ball from that | :38:32. | :38:35. | |
man. The weight on the ball was just perfect. John Barr pulls it to the | :38:36. | :38:42. | |
left. Playing it straight through. And the young man slips it past | :38:43. | :38:46. | |
Stuart McIntosh, not giving him any chance whatsoever. The first thing | :38:47. | :38:52. | |
was the little switch from Ross taking it on to the other hand which | :38:53. | :38:57. | |
completely out foxes the Glenurquhart defence and then the | :38:58. | :38:59. | |
pass and the finish was absolutely sublime. The finish was beautiful, | :39:00. | :39:06. | |
playing it past McIntosh and then slipping it into the back of the | :39:07. | :39:13. | |
net. That was beautiful. Well, Samuel Genini started as a member of | :39:14. | :39:22. | |
the Kingussie team in 1990, picking up the cup. He could virtually fit | :39:23. | :39:33. | |
his son inside the cup, if I remember rightly. How time flies. | :39:34. | :39:40. | |
McGregor with a better hit. Tembo is under it. The Glenurquhart midfield | :39:41. | :39:49. | |
has to get up, especially now they are behind. This is what they have | :39:50. | :39:53. | |
to be careful about as they get sucked into defending too often. | :39:54. | :40:01. | |
John Barr gets it away. He has a chance to fire it onwards. Not | :40:02. | :40:10. | |
taking any chances. Gibson fires it on. Here is Ross. Barr is all over | :40:11. | :40:16. | |
him like a rash. Ross again, turning onto the other side. Showing great | :40:17. | :40:23. | |
skill. Of course he is equally strong on both sides. Incredibly | :40:24. | :40:34. | |
strong. Glenurquhart this time. He is harrying and chasing. The ball | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
has gone over for a corner. It is important, Gary, that the Glen gets | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
back into this. It is, they do not want to be behind for two long. -- | :40:46. | :40:53. | |
too long. This will give them an opportunity to get on the scoresheet | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
and level the game. There will be a chance from this corner from the far | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
side. McDonald plays it into the middle. That was far too high for | :41:03. | :41:12. | |
his team-mate. Munro at the front post. They are playing the high ball | :41:13. | :41:14. | |
more often upfront rather than the lowball. Certainly the ball is going | :41:15. | :41:21. | |
to run, try to get it further forward because the Kingussie | :41:22. | :41:29. | |
defence are dealing with everything. Absolutely, this is rule one shinty | :41:30. | :41:35. | |
as a defender. That is wasted. Lots are shaking heads. In the | :41:36. | :41:43. | |
Glenurquhart area. Chance wasted. They really will not get that many | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
chances. When they come, you have to make the most of them. Craig Dawson | :41:48. | :41:54. | |
is taking his time. That was a beautiful strike. Up to | :41:55. | :42:15. | |
halfway. That was a good challenge. It is beginning to get tough out | :42:16. | :42:21. | |
there. Barrie Dallas just gets his head out of the way of that one. | :42:22. | :42:30. | |
Dawson Shepherd is it behind. Dawson is trying to reorganise the | :42:31. | :42:35. | |
midfield. He is feeling as though he has more work to do than he should | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
have. That was a good ball. There was just nobody there. They came out | :42:41. | :42:46. | |
wide, expecting it down the wing but it came inside. Unfortunately there | :42:47. | :42:59. | |
has been nobody there to collect it. 26 minutes gone in this pulsate in | :43:00. | :43:07. | |
Scottish Hydro Camanachd Cup vinyl. Both teams are trying to create | :43:08. | :43:15. | |
their own bit of history. -- cup final. Collecting it from David | :43:16. | :43:24. | |
Smart's initial chip. Lloyd is going to take this one for Glen. Dawson is | :43:25. | :43:37. | |
doing his own bit of organisation. The Glenurquhart players cannot go | :43:38. | :43:42. | |
into the circle around the goal before the ball. Otherwise they will | :43:43. | :43:50. | |
be offside. They get it away. There is a spare man for Glenurquhart. | :43:51. | :43:55. | |
That was well saved by Dawson, I think he gets his stick on it. I | :43:56. | :44:00. | |
think that sound was the stick against the post but we will go back | :44:01. | :44:05. | |
to that. The best effort from Glenurquhart so far. Kingussie now | :44:06. | :44:16. | |
are under some pressure. The defender gets it away, goodness me, | :44:17. | :44:29. | |
he runs like his father, same style. He has made his mark in the midfield | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
since coming on. Well, that is just a bit of panic. This man kept | :44:36. | :44:42. | |
Kingussie in it. Let's see if it was the crossbar or his stick. It was a | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
great ball in. I think that is the crossbar. It is the bar. It has | :44:48. | :44:54. | |
beaten Dawson. It was lucky it did not going off his stick. Well, he | :44:55. | :45:02. | |
had the line. Give him his due. That is off the bar, we reckon. That is | :45:03. | :45:09. | |
the closest chance yet. Modern technology proving our point. Wow. | :45:10. | :45:16. | |
CHUCKLES That might be worth a lot if we | :45:17. | :45:20. | |
could have a look at that one again. Again, making his mark. The ball | :45:21. | :45:26. | |
landed and he realised it was in his way. Well, it is hot and hard and | :45:27. | :45:35. | |
very tough out there. That will be an issue for the players as they go | :45:36. | :45:40. | |
along. As we come into the 30th minute. That is a monstrous hit. It | :45:41. | :45:47. | |
works kindly for the Glen but again it is going high. Let's go back down | :45:48. | :45:56. | |
to the touchline where Jonathan is with the Kingussie Benj. -- Benj. | :45:57. | :46:06. | |
You must be pleased to be ahead? We are playing quite nicely. And we got | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
the goal. You have to expect that they will have dominant periods in | :46:13. | :46:16. | |
the game. How important is the first goal? It is important, obviously, | :46:17. | :46:22. | |
but there is still a long way to go. Thanks very much. Bain. This is a | :46:23. | :46:31. | |
good ball into the area but it goes too far, too fast. That was a | :46:32. | :46:38. | |
chance? I would not say that was too fast, he should not have let that | :46:39. | :46:41. | |
get away from him, he was seeing his name in lights and it comes to value | :46:42. | :46:46. | |
through and his first touch lets him down, on my Genini at the other end, | :46:47. | :46:50. | |
and that has been the difference. -- unlike him. I am not so sure. I | :46:51. | :46:56. | |
think the pace has just beat him. Well, I don't think so! Ross. He is | :46:57. | :47:06. | |
on the move. Well, I think the flag is up and he was taken out, there | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
was an attempt to take him out the first time and then the second time, | :47:11. | :47:18. | |
the assistant referee is John Angus from Skye who is a referee himself. | :47:19. | :47:29. | |
There is a final warning for Lewis MacLennan. Next time you're going to | :47:30. | :47:38. | |
get booked, OK? That is quite clear. Next time and he will be booked. | :47:39. | :47:46. | |
This is why, there. Yes. Oh, what a chance. I thought Ronald Ross would | :47:47. | :47:53. | |
have taken that shot earlier, he went one step too much. The swing | :47:54. | :48:00. | |
more than anything was the problem there. That is what happens when you | :48:01. | :48:07. | |
are 39. The mind and the spirit may not be quite in sync. 23 years | :48:08. | :48:13. | |
incredibly since Ronald Ross played in his first Camanachd Cup vinyl. | :48:14. | :48:19. | |
This is his 16th appearance in the final having won 11 and lost four. | :48:20. | :48:27. | |
Quite incredible. -- final. 17 years ago. He has won man of the match | :48:28. | :48:31. | |
three times and very few people have done that. It is the record, three. | :48:32. | :48:42. | |
Do you think McInnis might have it? We have had this discussion a number | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
of times over Shandy! You had to get that in. That is a good ball, nice | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
flick, but there was plenty of time for Dawson to take a look and he | :48:52. | :48:59. | |
lets it run. That was always going to be an issue and we knew that in | :49:00. | :49:04. | |
terms of the defence, the likes of John Barr and McLennan, they do not | :49:05. | :49:09. | |
stand on ceremony but eventually the referee has to draw the line with | :49:10. | :49:12. | |
persistent fouling. It is not about the seriousness but the position. It | :49:13. | :49:17. | |
is the Camanachd Cup, they are trying to give everything. They will | :49:18. | :49:21. | |
do everything to try to stop him scoring or anyone else in the | :49:22. | :49:27. | |
forward line. He has now been picked up for persistent fouling, so they | :49:28. | :49:35. | |
will now have to be careful. Tembo again. He makes it his business to | :49:36. | :49:42. | |
get it but the referee, Mitchell, is on his case. Just taking a quick | :49:43. | :49:54. | |
check on the Albert Smith Medals. He does not have three, only 2. Thank | :49:55. | :50:01. | |
you! Gary is one up at the moment CHUCKLES | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
Glenurquhart, then. Plenty of movement but too much movement. They | :50:07. | :50:11. | |
have dealt with that and dispatched it to the other end. John Barr has | :50:12. | :50:20. | |
to make this count. His defensive colleague gets it away. That is an | :50:21. | :50:25. | |
asking one. He has caught that in the face. -- nasty. He takes the | :50:26. | :50:34. | |
stick down on David Smart, it was completely accidental, you have to | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
say that, his eyes are on the ball. That is a big swing. He gets his | :50:39. | :50:43. | |
block in. Look where his eyes are at the time. All eyes are on the ball. | :50:44. | :50:52. | |
He comes up and unfortunately catches Smart in the face. But he | :50:53. | :50:57. | |
gets up and he is fine. Smart this time, it ricochets. He has had a | :50:58. | :51:04. | |
really solid game for Kingussie. Down the middle. Read fully packed | :51:05. | :51:11. | |
in there. Glenurquhart need to open up the game, I feel. Dawson makes a | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
good save. That is a good save around his feet. Then it is a way. | :51:17. | :51:27. | |
Playing it into Tembo. That is good play. Glenurquhart are beginning to | :51:28. | :51:30. | |
string passes together. That is a silly foul. He plays for it again. | :51:31. | :51:37. | |
It is clever play. He did. That is good linkup play by Glenurquhart. I | :51:38. | :51:45. | |
am not so sure. He comes in, it is his first touch. He does not need to | :51:46. | :51:53. | |
take anything else from that. Mitchell is having a word. Eddie | :51:54. | :52:00. | |
Tembo, nipping the era of the referee. He is entitled to have a | :52:01. | :52:03. | |
word because he is the captain after all. It can also be | :52:04. | :52:10. | |
counter-productive, though. This is good, this is good. Again, that man, | :52:11. | :52:19. | |
Lee Bain, picking up the loose ball. Here is Ross. Look at the weight on | :52:20. | :52:28. | |
the ball. Playing it into Genini. That is twice. Genini gets it in and | :52:29. | :52:35. | |
Stuart McIntosh has to get involved. That is a good clearance. Guess who | :52:36. | :52:40. | |
it was? Ross. It is often forgotten that Ronald Ross is much more than a | :52:41. | :52:46. | |
goal-scorer, the deft touches are unbelievable, when he picks out a | :52:47. | :52:50. | |
pass like that, the vision and the touch are incredible. He is arguably | :52:51. | :52:58. | |
shinty's greatest ever player. Look at the physique and the skill and | :52:59. | :53:03. | |
everything that he has. Over 1000 goals, but he still delivers balls | :53:04. | :53:06. | |
like that so it is not just about the scoring for him. Well, again, | :53:07. | :53:14. | |
that was a wasted opportunity. The little bit of chat from Lewis | :53:15. | :53:27. | |
Munro, and the supporters, there. Quite a lot of supporters down the | :53:28. | :53:32. | |
back line as well. I think this is one of the biggest crowds I have | :53:33. | :53:39. | |
ever seen at a Camanachd Cup final. And no wonder on a day like this. | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
McIntosh is on the case. It goes too far. Genini. A little bit of a touch | :53:45. | :53:58. | |
too much in front of his manager. This is the man who has been hitting | :53:59. | :54:10. | |
the shies extremely well today. Beautiful rhythm to get his swing, | :54:11. | :54:21. | |
bang on. This is good skill. It has made his team-mate run wide. With | :54:22. | :54:28. | |
the yellow boots. WHISTLE Oh, that is a hefty challenge from | :54:29. | :54:35. | |
Lee Bain. I have seen a lot more cynical, and now Glenurquhart at | :54:36. | :54:43. | |
creating more chances now. -- they are. Not really, they have sold him | :54:44. | :54:47. | |
a dummy and he comes out against the shoulder. Seven minutes of the first | :54:48. | :54:55. | |
half remaining in this increasingly tench Camanachd Cup final. They have | :54:56. | :55:05. | |
to be five metres away from him. Dawson saves it! Well, that is twice | :55:06. | :55:11. | |
now that they have needed him to save, they have given themselves the | :55:12. | :55:17. | |
chance to take the save away from him. That is great, solid | :55:18. | :55:23. | |
goalkeeping once again. Good anticipation from Dawson. He is | :55:24. | :55:30. | |
merely a way, Genini. Getting it away. -- nearly await. Look at the | :55:31. | :55:39. | |
way he takes it down. He gets away this time. And he has completed it! | :55:40. | :55:49. | |
He has gone the whole way. Well, was there any doubt? One on one. Ronald | :55:50. | :55:59. | |
Ross. 20 plus years. And he has done it again. This is beautiful. One, | :56:00. | :56:04. | |
two touches. And it is one-on-one, him and John Barr. Well, if you go | :56:05. | :56:11. | |
back to the very start of the move, he adjusts his stick in both hands. | :56:12. | :56:19. | |
Unbelievable. Absolutely fantastic. It is 2-0 Kingussie. All of a | :56:20. | :56:28. | |
sudden, this has become a massive mountain to climb for Glenurquhart. | :56:29. | :56:34. | |
Five minutes left in this first half. Where does this leave | :56:35. | :56:47. | |
Glenurquhart? I think the difference also is that we have 2 goals from | :56:48. | :56:51. | |
Kingussie, and I do not think we have had a save, he has only maybe | :56:52. | :56:56. | |
had to make one save and yet at the other end they have had a couple of | :56:57. | :56:59. | |
saves so far and good chances for Glenurquhart. We always knew that | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
the Goalkeepers would be key in the match. They often are in Camanachd | :57:05. | :57:12. | |
Cup finals. This time Dawson has secured Kingussie's position in this | :57:13. | :57:23. | |
magnificent match. Stuart McIntosh has got the best out of Ross and | :57:24. | :57:28. | |
Genini early on. 17 minutes between the goals. An awful lot of | :57:29. | :57:36. | |
possession. This will annoy them. They will have to try to sort this | :57:37. | :57:41. | |
out at half-time. Here is Ross again. Twisting and turning. Then he | :57:42. | :57:46. | |
turns completely the other way. He sets Genini are off down the left | :57:47. | :57:52. | |
judge line. He is way over on the far side. We have our backs to the | :57:53. | :58:04. | |
river. We are bathed in glorious sunshine. | :58:05. | :58:14. | |
Well, he does not lose any of his appetite for the game! He certainly | :58:15. | :58:22. | |
doesn't. And he was absolutely right. David Mitchell I think was | :58:23. | :58:30. | |
having a look to make sure that Davie Anderson was happy with where | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
the ball was sitting! It was only about five yards but he was making | :58:36. | :58:40. | |
the point. He himself is a legend. The son of a legend. Here is another | :58:41. | :58:49. | |
one. He is on his way. Thomas Borthwick. That is a great save! | :58:50. | :58:55. | |
Great save. Here is Kingussie again, though. These are critical | :58:56. | :59:01. | |
moments. Critical moments. WHISTLE Now, I think there could be trouble | :59:02. | :59:05. | |
here for Lewis MacLennan. Lewis MacLennan is in trouble here and I | :59:06. | :59:09. | |
think it will be no more than a yellow card, but the referee has had | :59:10. | :59:15. | |
enough, Gary. Yes, going back to this earlier incident, Borthwick | :59:16. | :59:20. | |
runs down, he knows where the goal is and he lets it go. What is saved | :59:21. | :59:24. | |
by the goalkeeper. Look at that. Had that gunning it would have been very | :59:25. | :59:28. | |
difficult for them to get their hands on the Camanachd Cup. Yes. | :59:29. | :59:38. | |
Lewis MacLennan. Well, he has been warned a few times today. And again. | :59:39. | :59:46. | |
Well, they have twice done that, they have a tendency to go to sleep | :59:47. | :59:51. | |
at the free hit. We saw it before with the goal for Genini. That time | :59:52. | :59:55. | |
they went wide and McIntosh got a chance to clear. They know they need | :59:56. | :00:00. | |
to settle down and get on the scoresheet soon because there is | :00:01. | :00:02. | |
definitely more goals in Kingussie this afternoon. Well, it has been | :00:03. | :00:09. | |
breathless in its own way. It has not been a classic. It has had its | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
moments and the wind has picked up all of a sudden. You can see it in | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
the players shirts. Yes, certainly looking at the flag it is from right | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
to left. That will favour Kingussie in the second half. It is said it is | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
easier to play against the wind. That was a good ball towards Genini. | :00:37. | :00:51. | |
He gets away. That is a clever nudge. The Glenurquhart defenders | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
are furious that Genini was not pulled back for that clever little | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
nudge. He is a clever man as well, Genini. He must have got into the | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
right position, there or the referee has got it right on that one. | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
Genini fires it across, a bit loose but still there for Kingussie. This | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
is the final minute of the first half of regulation time. Though | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
maybe some added time. Certainly Kingussie will be the happier, | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
because it is 2-0. But they've converted their chances, the | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
difference. They have and they have looked sharper, Glenurquhart have | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
had their chances to be 2-2 or even leading the game but good defending | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
and good goalkeeping has kept a clean sheet so far for Kingussie. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
There is going to be just this minute of the added time. Just the | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
one minute. And then we will call it a day for ten minutes, or | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
thereabouts, and see if the chocolate biscuits are any better | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
than they were 45 minutes ago. Gibson has set one off again to | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
Ross. Lovely touch. Good clearance by Euan Lloyd who has stuck at it. | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
He's been by far the busier of the wingbacks. Extravagant touch from | :02:22. | :02:31. | |
Munro. Gibson. Solid. Borthwick has taken one in the nose there. Thomas | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
Borthwick going down. I think Ali Mac caught him in the face. They | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
were both going for the same ball. Because it is a head knock the | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
referee quite rightly just getting the Kingussie trainer to come on. | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
But they have been told it is half-time virtually. Thomas | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
Borthwick, the son of David Borthwick, more Camanachd Cup medals | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
than you can shake a stick at, 14, even more than Ronald Ross, would | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
you believe. Gibson, the last play perhaps. David Mitchell lets it go. | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
I think Stuart MacKintosh will probably be allowed to get the ball | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
back into play. Great save. That was the highlight | :03:30. | :03:44. | |
of the game in defence of terms. David Mitchell has indeed called it | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
a day for the first 45 minutes. Genini with the first goal on 22 | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
minutes has made his mark. Certainly with his elder statesman colleague | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
Ronald Ross he will be happy with his performance. Dawson has had a | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
good game in goal with Hutchison at the back. There is a lot to be done. | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
There is a lot to be played for, because what we have had is two | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
goals, both to Kaan Ayhan -- Kingussie. At half-time Kingussie | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
2-0 Glenurquhart. It is starting to get a bit chilly at Bught Park. And | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
it will be a bit chilly in the Glenurquhart changing room. I'm | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
joined again by Fraser. They have played better shinty and outclassed | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Glenurquhart. Glenurquhart had to get their tactics right as we | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
mentioned and unfortunately they haven't and they are getting | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
overwhelmed slightly so they have to make some big changes in the second | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
half to get back into this game. Early signs Kingussie might be the | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
team on top, Savio Genini leading from the front and he went close | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
early on. This demonstrates Savio Genini's movement. The free hit | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
played in by Fraser Munro, Genini running across and he hit it well, | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
running across the goal as you should, just past the post, that was | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
a warning from Glenurquhart that he has good movement and he's quick and | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
you have to keep an eye on it. Later on with the goal it was crucial with | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
his movement and Ronald's pass. We talked about Ronald Ross before | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
because we have two because he is critical. Ronald is class, no doubt | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
about it. He came deep for the ball, here is Ronald with the ball, John | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
Barr was a bit too far away from him and Ronald spotted the run by | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
Genini. For a boy of that age it is tremendous composure. It was great | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
skill the way he finishes it off Mac. He looked up and saw the pass | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
and Genini with his first touch and then the second touch is a goal, | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
that is class and not everyone can do that and for somebody of his age | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
to do that in the final it says a lot about him. Savio Genini has | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
scored in every single round of the Camanachd Cup this season so that is | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
an achievement in itself. Kingussie on top at the moment. Glenurquhart | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
having to react. They came as close as they have come in the first | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
half. Aaron picked up the ball and he played in a lovely pass. Craig | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
Dawson was worried at this point and it came back off the bar and | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
Kingussie managed to get it clear. There is the ball dipping in, | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
difficult for the goalkeeper to deal with, off the crossbar and luckily | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
it didn't come back off his stick and go in. He started to back off | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
onto the post and thought it could bounce back in. It would have been | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
great if they could have got a goal because they would have got a | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
foothold in the game. Glenurquhart's goals from the | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
midfield have been poor, they are lumping the ball forward and I don't | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
like their attitude, standing with their hands on their hips as if to | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
say you have to give us better ball, this is the cup final, you have to | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
make a bad ball into a good ball. That man once again, Ronald Ross, | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
very much to the fore. This was a good move from Kingussie. The ball | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
went wide, fed through and first touch out to Ronald and this a bit | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
ISAs Ronald Ross's strength, power and determination, and when it comes | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
to the finish, he finishes it. That goal is a tremendous finish. He | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
brushes past John Barr and carries on running, this man is 39 and then | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
he has the composure to find the finish. We were talking before the | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
game whether Ronald would make the difference. So far he provided the | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
crucial pass for Genini's goal and now he has the second goal. Plenty | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
of life left in Ronald Ross. Thank you for joining us. A short time | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
before the Camanachd Cup Finals took place this afternoon we went to see | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
the McMaster 's cup final, the under 14 competition. This year it was | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
between Skye and Oban. COMMENTATOR: It was a repeat of last year's under | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
14 championship, a great privilege for them to play at Bught Park to | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
play before the first match. It was important to get the first goal and | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
that fell to Oban Camanachd's main striker due to some poor Skye | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
defending. He was to be the main man for Oban as they went further ahead | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
and took control of midfield and became the stronger and much more | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
creative of the two teams. The second goal came very convincingly | :08:52. | :09:04. | |
from the caman of the same player. They got back in it, Skye, and | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
probably the best goal of the game, Rory McLeod flashed the ball home to | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
give Skye some hope that 2-1. It wasn't enough, though, and Oban | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
increasingly dominated midfield and again began to create the chances. | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
The final word from pats Maclean who lashed a tremendous shot home. It | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
made it 3-1 and gave Oban the championship again, and the captain | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
Craig Kirkpatrick will take the trophy home. Congratulations to | :09:39. | :09:47. | |
them. It's been a huge weekend of shinty in Inverness. A real | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
celebration of the sport and last night was the big night out, part of | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
the festival, and a celebration of Gaelic culture and its starred Hugh | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
Dan MacLennan and Gary Ennis, and Stuart MacKintosh who is playing | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
today for Glenurquhart. And some great music was on show. Let's | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
listen to it. GAELIC MUSIC. | :10:08. | :10:40. | |
How was the night, a few sore heads this morning? I've been better. | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
Stuart MacKintosh was not drinking last night, he went straight home to | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
his bed, as we saw from some of the cracking saves he made already | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
today, thankfully for him. How would you assess the first half? Is there | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
any way back for Glenurquhart in this match? Yes I do. At two - zero | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
there is a chance for Glenurquhart and they have created some chances. | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
Craig Dawson has made a couple of good saves, the crossbar came to his | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
rescue as well. Glenurquhart are not out of this competition but if the | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
ball continues to land at Genini and Ronald Ross and they put the ball on | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
top of Macintosh in the goal as they have done they will struggle to get | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
back into the game. A further goal from Kingussie will put their name | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
on the trophy this year. Thank you for joining us. More from Gary in | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
the second half and there is more shinty coming up on BBC Two shortly | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
next month, October 18, the date to put in your diary for the next | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
shinty action, the shinty hurling international between Scotland and | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
Ireland on October 18, BBC Two Scotland, so do join us for that. It | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
should be fantastic. But today is all about the Camanachd Cup Finals. | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
Fraser, I mentioned to Gary that it is a long way back for Glenurquhart | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
in this match. They play a different type of style of shinty. How would | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
you describe it? It's a more physical and long hitting game but | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
unfortunately today they have not played the ball well and not played | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
it into the right areas and the forwards haven't made an impact so | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
far but they have got positional changes and a couple of guys that | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
are versatile. I would put Fraser Heath into the centre for his | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
ability and movement and Lewis Maclennan at full-back and John Barr | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
at halfback, I think that would work better. Obviously the management | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
knows them better than I do but they have to do something to get a | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
foothold in the game. It was a superb save at the end of the first | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
half from Stuart MacKintosh. Let's have another look at it. It was one | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
of those stunning moments where you have to admire the goalkeeper 's | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
inner shinty for their skill. That was Borthwick pushing forward, | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
Thomas was about to hit the ball and it was difficult for Stuart | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
MacKintosh because it was across him, not just the angle to deal with | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
but the pace of the ball and he picked it out with his stick and if | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
that had gone in the game may have been over. It is not just their | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
skill, it is their bravery. Most people watching think it must be the | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
toughest job on the pitch because the ball is flying at you at such a | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
rate of knots. It is the most thankless job because one mistake | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
everybody blames you. Thomas hit that from quite a distance but | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
people could hit these shots from inside the circle, five or six yards | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
away, but it has been good so far and we have not had too many | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
goalkeepers suffering injuries for the other reason, probably because | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
they have these skills. They are brought up saving these shots and | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
they use the stick and get their hands and eyes out of the way. Very | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
briefly, Fraser, what's the prediction? They have one hand on it | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
and whoever gets the next goal could be vital. If Glenurquhart get it | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
they could get back into the game but if Kingussie get it it could be | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
their cup. It will be an interesting second half. Let's go back to the | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
commentary team of Gary Ennis and Hugh Dan MacLennan. COMMENTATOR: | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
Thank you very much. Changed circumstances at Bught Park. Very | :14:10. | :14:23. | |
spooky looking man on the other side and the sun is breaking across the | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
park. There is the setting. That is quite spooky looking. Back to | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
business, we have Glenurquhart and Kingussie who are comfortable at | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
this stage two goals to the good. David Mitchell, the referee, his | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
patience has been tested at various points and we have a crowd in good | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
order who have enjoyed the house but our teeth in the last ten minutes. | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
The captain, Eddie Tembo, no doubt will have had stern words in the | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
Glenurquhart dressing room. Two are right we have the Kingussie | :15:01. | :15:09. | |
defence and to the left the Glenurquhart defence will stop | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
Glenurquhart hitting towards the town. David Mitchell gets the second | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
half under way. If there is any way back for the blend I think they need | :15:20. | :15:31. | |
to score next. John Barr. That is an easy ball for Kingussie to deal | :15:32. | :15:40. | |
with. We have a substitution for when a cart. That is another foul -- | :15:41. | :15:49. | |
Glenurquhart. Deep in the heart of the defence. David Mitchell just | :15:50. | :15:59. | |
checking to see Genini who has gone down, he has a knock on his leg, I | :16:00. | :16:11. | |
think. Can you see a player down. He may need a bit of assistance this | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
time. I think James MacPherson, sorry David MacLennan has come on | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
for Glenurquhart at number eight. We will just confirmed the details of | :16:25. | :16:34. | |
that. James MacPherson has been taken off. Does that surprise you? | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
James MacPherson has not managed to get into the game. It passed him by | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
unfortunately. He is a top goal-scorer. We may see them get | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
back into the game. James had a couple of chances that he has not | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
converted or done as well as he usually does. This is the first | :16:57. | :17:06. | |
chance of the second half. Kingussie will have worked on this on the | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
training ground no doubt. Lots of running, Ross, MacKintosh with a | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
good save. That was off the boot because they all ran in the same | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
direction and it came to Ross. Ross brings it down beautifully. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Beautiful take. He is trying to open them up, turns him twice, Barr, and | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
Barr cannot see where it has gone. That was a good effort as well. | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
Fraser Munro this time on the backhand. Good save from MacKintosh. | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
Very good, the ball came in low, he saw it late and kept it low and his | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
defence did a good job to get it away. There is a clear chill in the | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
air, let me tell you. Although it is a beautiful day. The climate has | :18:01. | :18:10. | |
changed dramatically. Maybe to the relief of the players, I suspect. | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
Ross in one-on-one combat with John Barr. He's not happy, looking for | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
the protection of the referee, Ronald Ross, asking David Mitchell | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
to take this further. He's having a word with John Barr. John is asking | :18:28. | :18:37. | |
what the problem is. You can see he is hanging on to him as well. To be | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
fair Ronald Ross cleverly... Good save! Another good save from Stuart | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
MacKintosh, this time it was Borthwick. Clever play. I think it | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
was possibly going wide but he had to look lively. He had to make sure | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
he is earning his crust in the early part of the second period. That is | :19:02. | :19:13. | |
rattled out again. The subs quite understandably, I would say, keeping | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
themselves warm now that it is cooler. It a B doesn't look as bad | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
as it actually is because of the camera work but we can feel it from | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
the commentary position, I can tell you. -- it may be doesn't look as | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
bad. Ross against Barr. Bar needs to be careful. They are threatening to | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
cut loose. They certainly are and they have started stronger in the | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
second half. Ronald Ross just holds it and he knows that Barr will come | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
into the back of him and he just flicked it out, first time over the | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
crossbar. John Barr needs to be careful but he has to do his job and | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
Shepherd Ross and he cannot give him a sniff of a chance. He has a tricky | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
position for himself. Gibson, exactly what you need in the middle | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
of the field at the moment. He has lost his stick. The Kingussie | :20:17. | :20:30. | |
attack, Genini away again. Like a bunch of these in one little | :20:31. | :20:42. | |
package. -- Bees. Sweeping right-to-left now so that will | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
favour Kingussie in terms of delivering the ball. It is almost | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
like there is a fire but trust me it isn't. I would say that is a close | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
call but Genini might have stepped inside the box and it might even | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
have been Ronald Ross. They would claim their timing is impeccable. | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
That is the difference we are seeing, Kingussie are keeping the | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
ball low from the corners whereas Glenurquhart are trying to put the | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
high ball in. That's the point you made in the first half. | :21:19. | :21:31. | |
Lee Bain looking lively. He is beaten this time, he is beaten all | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
ends up and Glenurquhart have a chance to take their time to take | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
the short ball along the ground this time. They had to leave it. But it | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
is blocked and there is a chance for the shot. It is on the goal and | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
Dawson deals with it. Goodness me! How on earth did that stay out? | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
Lewis Maclennan has been thrown into the forward line and that's the man | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
it felt to. He did nothing wrong, the shot was on target and Dawson | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
did as much as he could. It is coming in low, he goes to deal with | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
it and he actually hit it off his foot. It should be a corner. I think | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
it was saved by Dawson, or certainly at least deflection. They got away | :22:22. | :22:30. | |
with that. Clever play by Eddie Tembo. Lets go down to the touchline | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
where Jonathan is being joined by Glenurquhart comanager Billy | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
MacLean. Glenurquhart with it all to do, what was your message to the | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
players at half-time? We've created a lot of good chances we haven't | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
created and on a normal day we would have taken those chances. I would | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
have expected James to put them away having been our top scorer. I | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
changed a couple of things at half-time and told them to keep | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
doing what they are doing. Kingussie only had three or four chances that | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
were clear-cut and scored two goals. We lost Andrew Corrigan from | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
halfback which is a big loss. But our deputy in Ali MacKintosh is in | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
there. Just keep it going, it is the Camanachd Cup, it is only half-time | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
and we have 45 minutes to come back. There is a long way as Billy MacLean | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
says but the longer it goes without Glenurquhart scoring the more | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
difficult it becomes. Dawson fires it long, extremely long and wind | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
assisted this time of course. He has made the most of it. 20, 30 yards | :23:41. | :23:50. | |
past halfway. Good play. Kingussie swiftly upping the pace. It is | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
Genini in the corner. Oh! Straight in and out, a 1-2, Genini. It is all | :23:59. | :24:10. | |
in there somewhere. Genini played a 1-2 with himself. You always hope | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
for a bit of luck in a Camanachd Cup Finals. I think the ball came off | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
his face and landed perfectly at his feet. He was quite unlucky as well | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
as he made his way towards the goal. There was a bit of a skirmish which | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
David Mitchell is sorting out a bit of afters and the end result is a | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
corner. The coolest man on the park, Mr MacKintosh. Genini with another | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
chance. As time goes on Kingussie can take their time. There is not a | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
lot the keeper can do about it. Magnificent setting the Bught Park | :25:03. | :25:14. | |
is on a day like this. Let's see if this one goes in on the ground or | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
upwards. In between. And a little bit of afters there. Barr went | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
spinning after the tackle with Ronald Ross. Tembo just missed that | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
one. Gibson thought about exchanging views. Tembo just mistimed it. The | :25:31. | :25:42. | |
referee acknowledges that. Here we go. Ross again. Barr holding him | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
with his stick. Ross needs to be careful. Just an element of | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
frustration creeping into the game. He's not happy with the treatment he | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
is getting. REFEREE: Next time you are in the book. He has asked | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
Mitchell couple of times. John Barr, though, has to do his job and | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
that's the only way to stifle him. It's just he seems to be holding | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
him. I think Ronald was cleverly holding onto Barr's stick and it's a | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
good point and a question of who does what first. Here we go again. | :26:23. | :26:34. | |
They are zipping around. Oh! My goodness it is beginning to get a | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
bit scary out there. There is a flag at the far end to our left. The | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
referee has passed it up though. He doesn't have to go to it, he can | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
choose to ignore it. That is what he has done because the Glen have set | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
off to the top of the field. There is the suggestion that there was a | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
little bit of afters creeping into some of the tackles. The referee | :26:57. | :27:05. | |
David Mitchell coming under a bit of pressure here. It is a critical | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
point in the game as we approach the one-hour mark. The refereeing is | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
critical in terms of keeping balance in the game. He has to be careful | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
not to let this boil over. He's trying to be as fair as possible but | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
he must have to take a harder stance on some of these afters we are | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
seeing off-camera. That has just gone out, I think. Kingussie players | :27:31. | :27:45. | |
are taking water below us here. That is Michael Clarke dispensing. | :27:46. | :27:56. | |
Standing over a heap of shinty sticks ready to replace any but I | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
don't think we have ever seen any broken ones in the game proper. They | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
will be knocking lumps out of each other for the rest of the afternoon, | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
I think. Good ball at the minute -- up the middle and Lee Bain was on it | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
but the defender was on it. That is a good defensive three with | :28:20. | :28:21. | |
Hutchison in the middle, Barrie Dallas on the right and Lee Bain on | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
the left, a very solid unit. Very solid and Glenurquhart are having to | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
come deeper to fetch the ball and when they fetch it and put it up | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
front there is nobody there to collect. The only way they will get | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
the ball in is to get it over into the gap. Yes it is. And feed the | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
bear style, let Lewis Maclennan have a one-on-one with Hutchison. Here he | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
is, let's see if he makes anything of it but he doesn't as Hutchison | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
hits it out. Hutchison will knock them away all day. He's only there | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
to hit the ball-30 yards away from the goal and that will do him. More | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
water being taken. -- to hit the ball 20-30 yards. There is that | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
rhythm, it's obviously the system he has got which enables him to get | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
that all that distance. This is a testing ball now. Barrie Dallas was | :29:19. | :29:25. | |
the bravest. There are sticks and bodies flying everywhere now. Tembo | :29:26. | :29:32. | |
gets it out into the space. Unfortunately for the Glen they are | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
going to have to work harder to create the chances. Through to | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
McLennan again. One handed a way but it's not far enough. That is through | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
but Barrie Dallas covered Hutchison they're very cleverly. And again the | :29:47. | :29:53. | |
Glen manoeuvring the ball away. Good play, though. They are giving their | :29:54. | :30:00. | |
defence a bit of a break. But I don't think we have seen a shot on | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
Craig Dawson in the second half. It was an interesting point that Fraser | :30:06. | :30:13. | |
Inglis made. A lot of them are turning on the referee and you might | :30:14. | :30:19. | |
think they would direct that into a bit more pace and directness at | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
goal. I will correct myself and look at the previous click when Craig | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
Dawson actually saved it with his foot from McLennan to get one back | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
early on. Apart from that there has not been a lot to worry the | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
Kingussie defence. Hutchison and Bain are lapping it up back there. | :30:39. | :30:47. | |
Gibson with a wild slash. Well, not wild, it was fearless. I think he | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
may have taken one on the chin there. The end of Hutchison's swing | :30:53. | :31:00. | |
caught him. If that had been a ?300,000 per week footballer he | :31:01. | :31:03. | |
would have been rolling around all over the place. Good ball again. It | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
is in the danger area but again Kingussie step in, no messing. | :31:09. | :31:16. | |
That is good play in midfield by Rory McGregor just there. He has not | :31:17. | :31:23. | |
been the most noticeable of the Kingussie players but he did the | :31:24. | :31:26. | |
right thing there, holding onto the ball. Using the traditional | :31:27. | :31:33. | |
Kingussie socks, there, their special uniform to the day. Lovely | :31:34. | :31:42. | |
touches at times. He knew what he was doing, it was trailing leg. | :31:43. | :31:48. | |
Catching McGregor as he going down. It does not seem so clear-cut | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
because he seems to have done something which requires attention. | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
He is still limping a bit. We might see a substitute coming on in a | :31:58. | :31:59. | |
moment or two. You are asleep after last night, | :32:00. | :32:18. | |
aren't you? I am wondering which big substitutes they can bring on. | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
Anderson or somebody. That's my point, they do not have a big | :32:25. | :32:31. | |
substitute. Here are the changes. Coming forward is the Kingussie | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
substitute now. They have sorted that. They might try to get McGregor | :32:37. | :32:50. | |
back on. Infield again, Kingussie. That goes out to the substitute, | :32:51. | :33:04. | |
James Falconer. And again, one of the very youngest Kingussie players | :33:05. | :33:11. | |
here. It is a measure of how they have 2 regenerate their squad all | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
the time. It is something that they are particularly good at, Kingussie. | :33:17. | :33:25. | |
He is a famous name, Faulkner. In the history of the Kingussie club. | :33:26. | :33:43. | |
Tembo. That is a good effort. Just a point on the substitution, there. | :33:44. | :33:47. | |
This was possibly a good chance but it fell to the wrong man, and I mean | :33:48. | :33:54. | |
that in the nicest possible way. John Gibson would not have thought | :33:55. | :33:57. | |
he would be playing here in another cup final at the age of 39. Flying | :33:58. | :34:05. | |
off in a helicopter after winning a Camanachd Cup final with Kingussie. | :34:06. | :34:12. | |
I was not referring to his age but the fact he is a midfielder and he | :34:13. | :34:15. | |
rarely gets close enough to the gold to shoot. It ricochets for a corner. | :34:16. | :34:21. | |
Glenurquhart need something here, 65 minutes now into the game. Dawson | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
really has not had much to deal with but this could have gone anywhere, | :34:27. | :34:36. | |
really. MacLennan fires it across. The defender gets up to deal with | :34:37. | :34:43. | |
it. Dawson had to make sure. Getting it away. In it comes again. This | :34:44. | :34:51. | |
time Barrie Dallas with a veteran's merge, there. -- nudge. He knew what | :34:52. | :35:00. | |
he was doing, heading for the corner flag. If I go out there, it will | :35:01. | :35:05. | |
take me a while to get back. Alan Madonna has been playing for the | :35:06. | :35:15. | |
last ten seconds or so. This is now a chance for Glenurquhart to create | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
something across the goal. In it goes. Taken on the volley. That was | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
an ambitious chance. You have do have a go now. It is at the point of | :35:27. | :35:32. | |
no return, really. Very much so, they need to hit the target and get | :35:33. | :35:36. | |
some goals. There was a good effort, it was a good height. Doing | :35:37. | :35:43. | |
really well. Just not getting as much connection as they would have | :35:44. | :35:50. | |
liked. Craig Dawson is like a green keeper, hacking bits out of the | :35:51. | :35:56. | |
turf. That is what you get, you see, the ball falls off. That was a huge | :35:57. | :36:07. | |
hit. He is technically superb with his hitting out. Genini just slips | :36:08. | :36:17. | |
off the pace of the game again. Another chance to redeem himself. He | :36:18. | :36:23. | |
played that a bit high. It is all part of the learning curve for | :36:24. | :36:30. | |
Genini. If they get away with 2-0, he scored the first. Guiding him | :36:31. | :36:36. | |
from the touchline, I just spotted that below us in the gantry. I | :36:37. | :36:43. | |
guiding arm, I think. A word in the every so often. -- in the ear. He | :36:44. | :36:54. | |
has made a real contribution since coming on so early in the game as | :36:55. | :36:59. | |
well. It has got flat a bit. I thinking you see no day at -- know | :37:00. | :37:05. | |
that they are on the verge of something. They do not know how to | :37:06. | :37:12. | |
get out of this hole at the moment. Kingussie are lapping it up. Going | :37:13. | :37:16. | |
across the elbows there, and here he is again. That is a very tough | :37:17. | :37:27. | |
tackle from Alan Macdonald again. Yes, we need to have a look at this | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
again, this is great running for Kingussie. He has actually kicked it | :37:33. | :37:42. | |
on the way through. Well, this is a chance here for Genini. He has the | :37:43. | :37:50. | |
ball in the corner. It goes high to Ross. Ross is in. Well, you just | :37:51. | :38:03. | |
cannot turn your back on Ross. A chance again on the far side, James | :38:04. | :38:10. | |
Falconer will take this. They are happy knocking it back and forth, | :38:11. | :38:16. | |
back and forth. Running down the clock. That was a lovely touch. | :38:17. | :38:24. | |
James Faulkner! What a save. It is off the stanchion, it is a goal! It | :38:25. | :38:31. | |
is in! It is Genini. He has done it again. Samuel Genini. What a burst. | :38:32. | :38:42. | |
What a burst of play. It was Faulkner first and Genini finished | :38:43. | :38:48. | |
it. Look at the skill. He finishes it. Great reflex is. What a strike. | :38:49. | :38:55. | |
Straight off the stanchion. That skill is unbelievable. He is such a | :38:56. | :39:03. | |
young man. And from the second young man, putting it away like that, we | :39:04. | :39:11. | |
were not even 100% sure that it went in until we saw them celebrating. | :39:12. | :39:14. | |
This will be a real of hell battle now. Trying to get back in the | :39:15. | :39:24. | |
match. -- uphill battle. Oh, he is down again. He is down again. Ronald | :39:25. | :39:40. | |
Ross is growling. Davie Anderson is laughing. That is the only way, | :39:41. | :39:48. | |
really. There is nobody in shinty that can stop him. John is obviously | :39:49. | :39:55. | |
doing his best today to try to eliminate Kingussie's threat of | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
Ronald Ross. Genini has 2 goals and they are forgetting about him. | :40:01. | :40:12. | |
Another opportunity here. Goodness me. What a wonderful save. Thomas | :40:13. | :40:23. | |
Borthwick on Macintosh. First time, straight off the training ground, | :40:24. | :40:26. | |
that was going right into the top corner. Absolutely wonderful | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
goalkeeping. Wonderful hitting too from Borthwick. As we touched on | :40:32. | :40:38. | |
earlier, Stuart's father lifted the Albert Smith Medal and he will too | :40:39. | :40:43. | |
if he carries on with this formance. It is like shooting herring in a | :40:44. | :40:50. | |
barrel at the moment. You get the feeling in the last 20 minutes at | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
the floodgates could open if Glenurquhart are not careful. That | :40:56. | :40:59. | |
is a magnificent volley. That is what you dream of, catching a volley | :41:00. | :41:03. | |
at the back post and putting it in the back of the net. It was not far | :41:04. | :41:11. | |
away. Great camera work, the way they are capturing these incidents. | :41:12. | :41:20. | |
They happen at such speed. A Glenurquhart substitution here. I | :41:21. | :41:29. | |
think McPherson is coming back on. It is Tembo. Let's go down to Fraser | :41:30. | :41:36. | |
and Jonathan as Eddie Tembo leaves the field. 3-0 now, it is fantastic. | :41:37. | :41:44. | |
Is it game over? Not necessarily, with 20 minutes to go you can score | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
three goals in 20 minutes but the way it is going at the moment, | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
Glenurquhart are not creating any chances and they are being pinned | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
back here. The problem we are seeing is two different styles, the | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
cultured style of Kingussie, it is all about composter, and perhaps we | :42:03. | :42:08. | |
are seeing why Glenurquhart have not won the Scottish Cup before because | :42:09. | :42:13. | |
their style is not cultured enough, they have had great individual | :42:14. | :42:16. | |
players over the years but as a team in the big games, they do not have | :42:17. | :42:20. | |
the composure to make the difference. The Kingussie team is | :42:21. | :42:27. | |
not necessarily as great as Kingussie teams in the past, but | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
they have won at the moment in the Kingussie style, by playing better | :42:33. | :42:36. | |
than the other team. It is an uphill battle. Here is Ronald again. He is | :42:37. | :42:44. | |
39. I would sit back and enjoy the show. We will see him passing the | :42:45. | :42:52. | |
mantle to the younger guys. Savio Genini, two wonderful strikes. | :42:53. | :42:57. | |
Congratulations to Kingussie so far. It looks like for Glenurquhart Time | :42:58. | :43:06. | |
is running out. Fantastic insight from Fraser Inglis. Ross was always | :43:07. | :43:14. | |
going to unleash it. He was winding up for that. You could see it | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
coming. Very much, the ball comes and he turns in. We have seen him | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
stopping the ball and going one side or the other but that time he just | :43:25. | :43:31. | |
turns and unleashes it. I am not convinced we are finished between | :43:32. | :43:34. | |
Barr and Ross for the afternoon. It is still nip and tuck, every ball is | :43:35. | :43:40. | |
being contested. You and I both know, Ronald Ross and John Barr, | :43:41. | :43:45. | |
they will both won the final word. The final word rests with Kingussie | :43:46. | :43:58. | |
at the moment. Genini, Ross, and then Genini again. Our thoughts are | :43:59. | :44:01. | |
moving towards the man of the match. There is a committee looking | :44:02. | :44:08. | |
at that. It will be interesting. Stuart McIntosh Forshaw has made | :44:09. | :44:15. | |
some great saves. -- certainly has made. And you have the young Genini | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
with two goals as well. There are a few candidates out there. We still | :44:22. | :44:26. | |
have 15 minutes. I would say it is still all to play for, nobody is an | :44:27. | :44:32. | |
outstanding candidate at this stage. WHISTLE | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
LAUGHTER James Falconer should pick on | :44:38. | :44:40. | |
someone his own size! Absolutely brilliant. Great talent from the | :44:41. | :44:46. | |
16-year-old on the far right hand side. He is the last thing you would | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
want coming up against you in a Camanachd Cup final, somebody who is | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
16 and can run and run. Here in years again. He has the full bag of | :44:57. | :45:03. | |
tricks, this valour. Lovely ball into the middle, well taken by | :45:04. | :45:11. | |
Macintosh. This is what Fraser Inglis was talking about. It is | :45:12. | :45:14. | |
panicky and loose, there is no structure to it. They are willing | :45:15. | :45:21. | |
and eager enough, but at the end of the day, it looks to me as though | :45:22. | :45:28. | |
they have just not enough class. They will be disappointed not to | :45:29. | :45:32. | |
have taken some of their chances earlier today, which has | :45:33. | :45:35. | |
subsequently left them 3-0 behind at this point. It is their first | :45:36. | :45:43. | |
Camanachd Cup final. Ross. Genini. He thought about it. He scoops it. | :45:44. | :45:49. | |
That is inventive from Genini. He plays it to Ross. This is a | :45:50. | :45:52. | |
masterclass from the big fella. Look at the way he is taking John Barr | :45:53. | :45:57. | |
for a walk. Brilliant from Kingussie. Macintosh. He gets on top | :45:58. | :46:04. | |
of them. It is the full panoply of threats from Kingussie now. The | :46:05. | :46:10. | |
shadows have gone. At the moment Kingussie have gone. Lee Bain. There | :46:11. | :46:19. | |
are three Kingussie shirts. Here he comes again. A little pass. That was | :46:20. | :46:30. | |
nonchalantly from Ross. John Barr has no option but to put it out. | :46:31. | :46:36. | |
Well, this is classy stuff will stop very much so. -- classy stuff. They | :46:37. | :46:42. | |
are starting to open up the defence. When it is getting to the forwards | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
the defence are stifling them, feeding the forwards. Here is one of | :46:47. | :46:56. | |
the older hands. The captain. James Maclean has come on. And Fraser | :46:57. | :47:05. | |
Munro is headed off. Into the middle it goes. That is a good ball, | :47:06. | :47:18. | |
though, that is a good ball. Dallas. That is well taken by Barrie Dallas. | :47:19. | :47:23. | |
Hutchison. Then it comes in again. Dallas is underneath it but he | :47:24. | :47:28. | |
misses it. That is a good save. Dawson has been taken down. Off the | :47:29. | :47:33. | |
ball, there. Back it comes. It is wasted, there. Well, he is a big man | :47:34. | :47:42. | |
to take down! If you look here, it comes through. And he catches him | :47:43. | :47:45. | |
with the stick on the way through. He is trying to grab his own stick | :47:46. | :47:49. | |
back and he pulls the feet out from underneath Dawson. Just an | :47:50. | :47:56. | |
interesting point here, it is worth watching, when Dawson takes his hit, | :47:57. | :48:01. | |
if we can just stay on Dawson and see what he does immediately at that | :48:02. | :48:08. | |
he takes the hit... On the 18th hole again! He sold us a dummy. Look at | :48:09. | :48:18. | |
what he does. He swaps his stick. I wonder if he has a pound of lead | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
shot in the first one. I will let you ask him. He is just explaining | :48:24. | :48:31. | |
to the goal judge why he changes the stick. Usually you have more loft on | :48:32. | :48:39. | |
the stick underneath the ball, and possibly a flat ahead. To stop the | :48:40. | :48:46. | |
ball after. Well, that shot sums it up. Some of the despondency really, | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
that is all I can describe it as. Eddie Tembo. So much food for | :48:52. | :49:00. | |
thought. It is written all over his face, really. He will be | :49:01. | :49:07. | |
disappointed, his first ever and at cup final, possibly his last as the | :49:08. | :49:11. | |
captain. He will be very disappointed with 11 minutes left. | :49:12. | :49:16. | |
They have competed better than they did in the other final this year, | :49:17. | :49:22. | |
when the opponents run away from them. They have not really allowed | :49:23. | :49:28. | |
Kingussie to do that but they have been better than them. He has put | :49:29. | :49:32. | |
himself about since coming on. He is like a | :49:33. | :49:41. | |
-- whippet. They do not know how to control him. Absolutely fantastic | :49:42. | :49:51. | |
approach to the game. All credit to Kingussie for throwing him in. If he | :49:52. | :50:00. | |
is young enough, he is good enough. He is here because of his talent. To | :50:01. | :50:07. | |
be 16 years old in a Camanachd Cup final, trying to lift your first | :50:08. | :50:12. | |
ever Camanachd Cup final trophy, that is incredible. He tees up Ross. | :50:13. | :50:21. | |
Would you believe it? The confidence is oozing out of Kingussie. It is | :50:22. | :50:28. | |
very significant. There is a huge hole in midfield. There is just | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
nobody there. They have conceded territory. Again, great running by | :50:33. | :50:39. | |
Borthwick. He knew exactly what he was doing. He wants his name on the | :50:40. | :50:45. | |
scoresheet now as well. Ten minutes and less to go, the Kingussie fans | :50:46. | :50:52. | |
are massed to the left-hand side behind Macintosh's goal because they | :50:53. | :50:55. | |
want to put him under pressure as well. I am sure that the banter is | :50:56. | :51:04. | |
of the very best nature. They cannot quite get it away. This is a chance | :51:05. | :51:08. | |
to relieve pressure. Look at the acres of space here. What happens | :51:09. | :51:15. | |
is... That was a hefty challenge. The referee saw nothing wrong with | :51:16. | :51:19. | |
that. Fired it up the other end. They are not going to hang about. He | :51:20. | :51:25. | |
was lurking within tent. The referee has stopped the game. -- with | :51:26. | :51:33. | |
intent. Over on the far side there was a bit of concern about the | :51:34. | :51:38. | |
player, I think it is David Smart. He is down. That is who it. It is | :51:39. | :51:45. | |
not quite clear but it looks like his arm, actually. What happens is | :51:46. | :51:53. | |
that he goes down... Oh, he was trodden on, really. Yes, that will | :51:54. | :52:01. | |
be a sore one. There is some concern for him. It is nice to see Lewis | :52:02. | :52:08. | |
Munro as well, the Kingussie player, trying to help him back to his feet. | :52:09. | :52:13. | |
There is a great atmosphere around the pitch, one of the best crowds, | :52:14. | :52:22. | |
the best nature natured -- the best natured crowds I have seen. There | :52:23. | :52:28. | |
are hundreds and hundreds of flags around the field as well, and there | :52:29. | :52:35. | |
is great support for them as well, in their first ever Camanachd Cup | :52:36. | :52:39. | |
final. They will be horribly disappointed not to be able to take | :52:40. | :52:42. | |
the cup back because it is looking increasingly unlikely. We have lost | :52:43. | :52:49. | |
David Smart. Really it would take a miracle now. But you never know. One | :52:50. | :52:55. | |
goal would do it. It would like the touch paper. We have seen it happen | :52:56. | :53:00. | |
so often before in other cup finals. Tembo has come on. He has gone down | :53:01. | :53:09. | |
in midfield, James Maclean. Ronald Ross. Oh, and that was very very... | :53:10. | :53:20. | |
He has got a file. If you lie had not got that... -- foul. He has gone | :53:21. | :53:30. | |
down in the middle of the field in some distress, I think it is | :53:31. | :53:34. | |
cramped. There must have been some issues with that man coming on. I | :53:35. | :53:39. | |
think it is more than that, I struggled to believe that a player | :53:40. | :53:43. | |
of his fitness is getting cramp after only ten minutes on the | :53:44. | :53:46. | |
field! I think something else must have happened down there. Let's go | :53:47. | :53:53. | |
down to Jonathan who is with Russell Jones, the Kingussie assistant | :53:54. | :53:59. | |
coach. Is it game over? The game is never over until the final whistle. | :54:00. | :54:03. | |
We are not taking anything for granted. But you must be delighted? | :54:04. | :54:09. | |
We are delighted with the way we have played. It is Ronald Ross | :54:10. | :54:18. | |
again! It is game over. Incredible scenes here. Look at the crowd, | :54:19. | :54:27. | |
embracing their hero once again. That is bread-and-butter for him. It | :54:28. | :54:33. | |
is almost casual, almost casual. Look at Stuart McIntosh, he knows | :54:34. | :54:37. | |
that they were beaten all ends up because there is no way you can stop | :54:38. | :54:46. | |
that, Gary. No, and he had so much time as well, one-on-one, he is | :54:47. | :54:53. | |
lethal. Once more he has delivered, adding to his thousand plus goals | :54:54. | :54:56. | |
that he has already scored. A very strong contender for man of the | :54:57. | :55:01. | |
match as well. His play, his goals and his contribution. It has 2 B, | :55:02. | :55:06. | |
with the way he has guided the forward line, that has been immense. | :55:07. | :55:12. | |
At 39, he does not have the legs. Well, he has the same legs but not | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
the same staying power, perhaps. A lot has been made of his age in the | :55:18. | :55:22. | |
final, but to be honest he has absolutely delivered like he did ten | :55:23. | :55:26. | |
years ago and ten years before that as well. I think he will be fairly | :55:27. | :55:31. | |
happy with his contribution and very much the puppet Master today with | :55:32. | :55:33. | |
the forwards, he has controlled them and use them. Garry Munro has left | :55:34. | :55:40. | |
the field at the other end, and Dawson is happy to let that go for a | :55:41. | :55:42. | |
corner. A goal for Glenurquhart would give | :55:43. | :55:59. | |
them something to cheer, the supporters have come in their | :56:00. | :56:05. | |
thousands, so it would be great to see the net bulging. Just wide. | :56:06. | :56:18. | |
Well, it is all becoming clear. It is beginning to run the clock down, | :56:19. | :56:25. | |
only four minutes left and we are expecting the man of the match | :56:26. | :56:30. | |
announcement shortly before the end of the game. That is a good stop by | :56:31. | :56:37. | |
Dawson. Tembo. And he gets it away. The Glen never say die. With July to | :56:38. | :56:46. | |
guess at the man of the match award? -- would you? That is quite simple | :56:47. | :56:53. | |
because I know who it is! LAUGHTER Because this is him, this is the | :56:54. | :56:58. | |
man, the main man, Ronald Ross is the winner of the Albert Smith Medal | :56:59. | :57:02. | |
Memorial medal as man of the match. And he adds to his record, now | :57:03. | :57:11. | |
having it four times and it is well deserved. He has broken yet another | :57:12. | :57:16. | |
record, as you say. Was there ever any doubt? Well, I am sure at one | :57:17. | :57:22. | |
point Genini might have had aspirations. That is a good ball but | :57:23. | :57:29. | |
again it is wasted. At this stage in the game he is trying to lob it in, | :57:30. | :57:34. | |
make Craig Dawson work. The one time we saw that it hit the bar and it | :57:35. | :57:41. | |
beat him almost. Only a couple of minutes left, why not have a go? It | :57:42. | :57:46. | |
is only slightly wide. We are going to have a couple of minutes of extra | :57:47. | :57:50. | |
time actually. Let's have a look if he goes with the change of stick | :57:51. | :57:57. | |
again. Everyone a winner. It is hanging on the post! Good defending | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
from the forward line in classic style. Bain. At the other end of the | :58:03. | :58:10. | |
field, so they do not care now. Well, what is going through that | :58:11. | :58:14. | |
young fella's head at the age of 16? He has just come on. He will have to | :58:15. | :58:21. | |
ask his mum and dad if he can stay out and party with the boys tonight! | :58:22. | :58:25. | |
At least they will know where he is. I would hope! If they are watching | :58:26. | :58:32. | |
on telly. But they won't become they will be here. There will be an | :58:33. | :58:38. | |
explosion of red. The red and black of Glenurquhart. Kingussie is going | :58:39. | :58:47. | |
to go berserk in a few minutes when David Mitchell calls a halt to | :58:48. | :58:51. | |
this. It was not a classic but it has had its moments, it has had some | :58:52. | :58:55. | |
finesse and class. One or two good finishes. I think it has been, as | :58:56. | :59:04. | |
you say, not a classic but Kingussie have been very classy in their play. | :59:05. | :59:09. | |
Their approach. WHISTLE It is not finished. A bit of actors. | :59:10. | :59:16. | |
Glenurquhart will think they could have done things differently. We | :59:17. | :59:19. | |
have talked about a future answer is earlier. -- Afterburn. They are the | :59:20. | :59:30. | |
Scottish champions for 2014. Dawson will want to keep a clean sheet. He | :59:31. | :59:38. | |
is not going to concede anything. Because the Kingussie defenders are | :59:39. | :59:43. | |
not giving an inch. He has been outstanding at the back. The hind | :59:44. | :59:47. | |
Barrie Dallas. Barrie Dallas, who I think has strolled through this | :59:48. | :59:51. | |
game, has never had an easier ride in his life. Getting towards the end | :59:52. | :59:57. | |
of the game. He has mopped up everything, it has been very easy, | :59:58. | :00:02. | |
quick, simple. You are right, key has strolled through the game. It is | :00:03. | :00:07. | |
an interesting tactic. Kingussie look as though they are playing a | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
back three which is unusual. It has never been breached, really. That is | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
because Glenurquhart are happy to look for the ball more and more | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
often and it has not worked for them today. Beyond the point of no | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
return. The 90 minutes are up. Kingussie are heading for victory | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
and Genini is heading for a party. He blasts it straight across the | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
face of goal. I wonder if he has taken a bet with Ross about getting | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
a hat-trick! He is certainly on par for it. He was told off by Ross for | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
not passing the ball. Well, for a young man of 17 years old, scoring | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
twice in the Camanachd Cup final, he has every right to tell him to shut | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
up! The high ball, the dangerous ball, there. Gets underneath it. | :01:01. | :01:12. | |
Well, it is going to rock the Bught Park when the final whistle goes. | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
There is the weight of history on their shoulders. Today McLean has | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
recovered from his cramp -- McLennan. He seems to have dropped | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
deeper. He won't want to do too much. Interestingly he works for the | :01:37. | :01:45. | |
match sponsors so they are going to be very happy, Scottish Hydro. He | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
may have a week off after this, I might say. Glenurquhart, they know | :01:53. | :02:02. | |
the clock has beaten them. But they are not going to concede much if | :02:03. | :02:13. | |
they can. Barrie Dallas. Again, twice in recent minutes I have seen | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
three Kingussie players against a Glenurquhart player. They are lining | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
up to hit the ball. Here they come, Falconer. What a finish for this | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
young man to get a goal for Kingussie. Has he got the legs to | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
get a goal in his first cup final? He's got the legs, it's just whether | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
it will land for him at this stage of the game. Now then, Genini and | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Ross will be looking for the ball first because they are on a | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
hat-trick each. Oh! That was of the stanchion at the back. Still firing. | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
They might be 4-0 up but it doesn't matter, they will take another pop | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
any time they can get it. They want to finish the game in style. Unlucky | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
not to get his name on the scoresheet today but he has been | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
very close on a number of occasions. You can see over on the far side the | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
Kingussie bench are massing for a pitch invasion. It's going to be a | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
Usain Bolt type finish because Kingussie are the 2014 Scottish | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
hydroelectric Camanachd Cup champions and they take with it the | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
title of Scottish champions, largely due to the efforts of Ronald Ross | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
and Genini. They shared the goal-scoring honours. But really it | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
was a very complete and adequate performance from the new seaside who | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
dominated the match in virtually every respect. They never put a foot | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
wrong. And they delivered on the great moments that they were | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
commemorating today. It has all been done. They have signed it off, | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
because the final score at the Bught Park in Inverness is Kingussie 4-0 | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
Glenurquhart. Huge congratulations to Kingussie Camanachd the Camanachd | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
Cup winners of 2014, superb performance today as they thrashed | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
Glenurquhart 4-0, queueing a pitch invasion. Fantastic. Fraser Inglis, | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
there is no doubt about it, Kingussie were the dominant side. | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
They were and 4-0 didn't do it justice, they outclassed | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
Glenurquhart. As we said in the analysis Kingussie's cultured style | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
and movement and having the ability to take the chances, Glenurquhart | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
could not cope with it. Ronald Ross and Savio Genini with the goals but | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
it was more than that, it was more of a team performance overall. | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
Kingussie were dominant in every department. They didn't really give | :05:09. | :05:17. | |
Kingussie defence any problems and occasionally the midfield was | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
dominant as well. We are picking out Savio and Ronald because their goals | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
were fantastic, but Barrie Dallas, James McClean, these guys have been | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
playing for years and will be delighted to get another Scottish | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
Cup win. These are great scenes and it means so much to the Kingussie | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
players and the fans and people like Ronald Ross, in his 12th Camanachd | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
Cup Finals victory. Absolutely. Kingussie are world record winners | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
as far as sport goes, they had all of these record wins. They have not | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
won the Scottish for a long time so they were desperate to get back. In | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
fairness to them they were probably surprised to get into the final but | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
they made the most of it. We hope Ronald Ross will join us at some | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
point. Let's look at his goals, two goals today, Fraser, and he so | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
important. He had an assist as well that we will see. He's a | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
goal-scoring machine. He is. He has the technical shinty skills and he | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
is a fantastic athlete and he combines them for the first goal, | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
power, strength, composure and the will to win, the determination to | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
get there. He came through the tackle, through another tackle, even | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
though this one came in and now he is in a race with John Barr, and | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
Stuart MacKintosh does his best but cannot keep it out. That is the | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
difference with Ronald compare to other shinty players. He's such an | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
athlete. He is a consummate sportsman. He could have been a | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
tennis player. It means so much to him. Absolutely because Ronald | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
probably thought he would not see another Scottish final again. In | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
these areas, you have to remember when Ronald goes in there there is a | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
good chance he gets hit but he still goes in and has the peace of mind to | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
pick the right decision at the right time and find the goals. At the | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
other end of the age scale lots of young players in this Kingussie team | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
and Savio Genini, 17 years of age, but what a role he played, not just | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
today but in the whole Camanachd Cup journey for Kingussie. Nominee | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
people have scored in every round of the Camanachd Cup and to score the | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
goals and play the way he played, he is a great young player -- not many | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
young people. Great ball from Ross and that gave Kingussie the full | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
hold in the game. Fantastic composure for a boy of that age. -- | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
foothold. William goal and we will also see his second goal. Here he is | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
with the second goal will stop it was a stunning strike. -- brilliant | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
goal. The ball dropped and he took it with no hesitation, bang, no | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
chance for Stuart MacKintosh. The only guy we see finish like that is | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
Ronald so it's a coincidence they are in the same team, it came back | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
off the stanchion before Stuart MacKintosh knew anything about it. | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
We've been joined by the man of the moment, Ronald Ross. What does this | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
mean to you? You're 12 Camanachd Cup Finals success? It is special, we've | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
been trying for so long to get the 12th medal, we've come so | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
agonisingly close and it was the crowning moment today. Delighted for | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
the club. Our local rivals up the road have dominated the last while | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
but delighted to win this year and get the monkey off our backs. Is | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
this your swansong will you on? Probably is my swansong. I kept it | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
secret, I might play for the second team next year, I've enjoyed it this | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
year. No better way to go out. It's time for the trophy presentation, | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
over to Hugh Dan MacLennan. I think we've just heard a moment of | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
history, Ronald Ross's retirement, it seems to be. Meanwhile, the rest | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
of the team get on with the business. Mr Dawson leads the | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
charge, accepting the medals from sponsors, Scottish Hydro Electric, | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
the sponsorship manager. Jock Turner, the chieftain Archie | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Roberts, the President I mentioned earlier, having made a good recovery | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
from his recent operation. As we said earlier he has thrown away his | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
crutches. Kingussie, not one failure in their ranks, as we said. There is | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
Barrie Dallas. The same age as Ronald Ross. Young Borthwick, his | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
famous father took 14 medals home. A bit Borthwick. There is Ronald Ross | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
himself coming up, just taking that one medal at the moment. And we will | :09:59. | :10:08. | |
see the precise order of events taking the winners first, to enable | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
the presentation to be completed for us in time. The great setting and | :10:14. | :10:24. | |
magnificent trophy. And here is the captain, the winning captain of | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
Kingussie, who follows a great line of winning captains from this half | :10:30. | :10:38. | |
of Badenoch. The winners of the Scottish championship and the | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
Scottish Hydro elective Camanachd Cup -- Electric Camanachd Cup, | :10:44. | :10:44. | |
Kingussie. These are great scenes. | :10:45. | :11:00. | |
The glorious day of weather has given way to a grey day but it's | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
been a great day for Kingussie as they once again lift the Camanachd | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Cup Trophy, absolutely superb for them. I'm joined once again by Gary | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
in this, our co-commentator this afternoon. It was a dominant | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
performance from Kingussie. Kingussie were outstanding from | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
start to finish, from defence to the forward line and what a fitting | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
end. Ronald Ross gave us an exclusive that this was his | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
swansong, to pick up the Albert Smith and the 12th winning medal of | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
a Camanachd Cup medal is incredible. Absolutely. Ronald Ross said this | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
was his swansong. Do you believe him first of all? Ronald has said that | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
before but today I think Ronald was near his best and Kingussie were | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
fantastic and in the manner they won it would be a fitting way for Ronald | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
to leave the stage. I know that Ronald enjoys playing and wants to | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
play in the second team but I would say for the first team for Ronald it | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
would be the right time. A quick word about Glenurquhart, how do you | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
some up their day? A little bit disappointed. They will feel the | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
opportunities they had at the start if they had taken them they would | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
have been in a different position. Craig Dawson, their goalkeeper, made | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
some good saves. They will be disappointed. Losing your first-ever | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
Camanachd Cup final as well, they will struggle over the next couple | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
of days but they have a great squad and there is no reason they should | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
not be there next year and the year after. Thank you for joining us. | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
They will be more shinty shortly on BBC Two Scotland. Next month it is | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
the shinty -hurling international on Saturday 18th October, Scotland | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
versus Ireland. Join us for that. It will be fantastic. And fantastic | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
scenes here at Bught Park today. It's been a hugely memorable day for | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
Kingussie. A resounding victory for them in the Camanachd Cup Finals and | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
Ronald Ross, one of the great phenomenons of this sport, once | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
again very much to the fore. And if this is to be his swansong for | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Kingussie he could not go out in much better way. Thanks to everybody | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
in the team today. It's been a great day, a great day for Kingussie, | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
commiserations to Glenurquhart. Until next time from all of us here | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
at Bught Park, goodbye. | :13:21. | :13:24. |