University of St Andrews Men's Shinty Club

University of St Andrews Men's Shinty Club Representing the University of St Andrews, the historic Mens' Shinty Team competes in the University league and cup competitions. A romantic highland pastime?

Shinty: a sport emerging from the primordial mists of Scottish history. Or violent battle training drawn from bitter clan feudalism? The Gaelic forefather to many modern sports such as hockey, ice hockey and golf, Shinty remains one of the leading causes of character-building in the northern hemisphere. The St Andrews Men’s Shinty team has grown from a quaint diversion into a successful team, part

icipating in Scottish Student Sport’s University Shinty League against universities all over Scotland. The team prides itself equally on its off-pitch activity, with a strong social culture based on our noble history and tradition. Most new players have never heard of the sport before arriving, and the club welcomes all willing participants, so bring your enthusiasm, get your shinpads on and get involved. Training Times:
Mon 15:30-1700 @ Rubber crumb
Wed 14:00-16:00 11
Sat 14:00-16:00 11

Pitch 11: 56.3367437, -2.8122556
Rubber Crumb: 56.3380650, -2.8160221

Hear ye, hear ye, Hamii and Gentlemen. The time is finally upon us.What: Littlejohn's 2023Where: John Seamens ArenaWhen:...
13/03/2023

Hear ye, hear ye, Hamii and Gentlemen. The time is finally upon us.
What: Littlejohn's 2023
Where: John Seamens Arena
When: Wednesday 15 March, 10:30am
Who: All those who aren't still on Chompei's naughty step
Prize: honour, and "the second most expensive sporting trophy in Scotland" (Wikipedia)
Food: N/A (Wednesday)

Come down to watch the Saints make use of their home field advantage and see the highest quality shinty in all of Scotland.

PBTJ xx

I’ll admit, there’s something quite poetic about how my predecessor ended his captaincy with a historic, not terrible de...
19/02/2023

I’ll admit, there’s something quite poetic about how my predecessor ended his captaincy with a historic, not terrible defeat to Edinburgh roughly a year ago (7:0), and here I am coming to the end of my captaincy with a pretty terrible defeat to the same team.

It was a classic StA shinty experience. Many of us were hungover. Raahb was in bed despite saying he’d play. A social member was drafted to ensure we had a full team. No ref had been arranged so H. Pugglz stepped up (he didn’t know the rules). We possibly played the 2nd half with 13 players. We conceded goals well into double digits. All fairly standard. What wasn’t standard however was that we scored some goals. One might have been illegal (it was) but the other was a fairly decent goal. The usual suspects played well, we know who they are (Gjalf etc). And if nothing else, Lindsay tried.

With only a couple games left of the season, "inshallah" we are able to field teams so we don't have to find out if the AU is bluffing about withdrawing us from the league and not reentering us next season. This would however require that the Rothschilds and CIA stop paying the Hamii to be "Busy".

Final score: 19(or 20?):2
MOTM: H. Bos Mutus
COTW: Atcwymp
DOTD: Lindsay (Major chun)

23/10/2022

Despite funding delays and issues with rejection by all high impact factor journals I am happy to announce that our paper, based on the results from the 6s tournament several weeks ago, has now been published in the Journal of Applied Shinty Boys. Please see the attached manuscript (Facebook is terrible and won't let me attach pdf directly so see link).

MOTM: Miguel Ganderoi (Patrick Connor)
COTW: Chilliwinkkl (Husain Makda)
DOTD: Raahbudeer (Thomas Mitchell)
(Not allowing me to tag for some reason)

PBTJ x

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Hucn6QcrommLOqzaPJiDLNjqly7hQHM/view?usp=sharing

Training schedule for this semester. Look forward to seeing you there.There are no more give it a go sessions planned bu...
13/09/2022

Training schedule for this semester. Look forward to seeing you there.

There are no more give it a go sessions planned but new people are always welcome to come along to a training session.

PBTJ.

Captain. Quartermaster. Thunderdome Champion. To this this day, only one shinty boy can claim they have achieved all of ...
21/07/2022

Captain. Quartermaster. Thunderdome Champion. To this this day, only one shinty boy can claim they have achieved all of this, and this only scratches the surface of what Scarlett (Ole Jorgensen) has accomplished throughout his time in Shinty.

Singlehandedly fighting the lonely battle to buy stripes over quarters (sadly losing and gereing for it), Scarlett and his crib sheet dominated shinty’s poker leagues, and in among us he was the most sus shinty player after Trev. He has brought much laughter to the club and, defying many of his naysayers, he won Thunderdome - whilst proudly sporting his stripes - despite having the worst Controlled Assessment time.

His skills on and off the pitch are unparalleled in aggression and trolling, bringing covid split or steal to the single social he led and abusing players even after he retired: “if you want to have fun, f**k off elsewhere cause it isn’t here chief.”

He will be deeply missed as he has been a genuinely great friend and captain of the club leading us for two years during covid. He is moving on to greener pastures completing an MA at Imperial London and will forever be an iconic member of the club.

Kazuyoshi Miura, Tom Brady, Wilfred Rhodes, Simon shaw, Darren Stevens and Goldee (Ewan Phillip) are all athletes that h...
21/07/2022

Kazuyoshi Miura, Tom Brady, Wilfred Rhodes, Simon shaw, Darren Stevens and Goldee (Ewan Phillip) are all athletes that have continued to perform despite their old age and Goldee, further hampered by his chain smoking, still scores more goals than Poly when he’s not busy chain smoking on the side-lines.

A player of surprising talents with his deep passion for music and vast wealth of general knowledge, he nearly made the St Andrews university challenge team and has been an important member of Shinty’s unofficial Union pub quiz team, Quizmanachd. helping them win over £100. It would be near impossible to list all of his greatest memories in the club, but his attempted backwards shot against Edinburgh is one that can’t be forgotten.

Spending 6 years at this godforsaken university dithering between degrees, being voted in as the vice-captain whilst being a Hamish and maintaining his goal scoring abilities through years of chain smoking and drink he is truly papa shinty. Pot-bellied but quick, sneaky good at the game and our only Scottish leaver he has been a mainstay of this club and his presence will be sorely missed.

A former King of Fife whose time in power was tragically cut short by the Covid pandemic, only very few were lucky enoug...
21/07/2022

A former King of Fife whose time in power was tragically cut short by the Covid pandemic, only very few were lucky enough to witness the Honkeehonk (Paddy Morrison) as Chieftain. Even though few saw his socials, anyone who met him at training or the pub would know instantly how great of a leader he truly is. As treasurer, he instituted many reforms and turned this clubs’ finances around after the tenure of one Dobbybinx, demonstrating his commitment to the club (as Chiliwinkkl can attest to the fact that RBS customer service is poor, very poor).
A member of the OTC, Honkeetonk possesses a black belt, the crown of lizard fight king and the reputation of being the biggest danger in murderball that the game suffered a pause of nearly two years due to his determination. He is a excellent gent, always on hand to help anyone and his jokes and comedic timing are not to be underestimated.

Honkee leaves us this year to join Sandhurst Academy where he will rub shoulders with royalty and learn to be an even better leader then he was for us.

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