Shetland Women's FC

Orkney 0 v 3 Shetland

Shetland left it late with two goals in the last five minutes to maintain their 100% record over Orkney, scorers for Shetland were Josie Jamieson (2) and Jessica Bradley.

The squad for this years InterCounty is as follows:

1    Sarah Couper
2    Zoe Irvine (Vice Captain)
3    Alison Ramsay
4    Indyia Bradley
6    Karen Mackelvie
7    Stacey Laurenson
8    Abbey Irvine
9    Emma Gray
10  Karen Jarvie
11  Josie Jamieson
12  Caroline Watt
13  Jessica Bradley
14  Lauren Ward
15  Maggie Irvine(Captain)

There’s a few new faces in this squad with Alison Ramsay in for her competitive debut and Abbey Irvine making the step up from the Shetland U18 team.  The squad travel down on Fridays boat and return on the Saturday boat

We’re having a final training game ahead of the InterCounty this coming weekend, game is Tuesday 17th August, 6pm at Clickimin Hockey Park.  This will likely be the last chance of a game before yet another season comes to an end, so please dig out the boots and get yourself along!

Graeme Sutherland, Scottish FA North Region Manager, is coming up to Shetland in August and had kindly agreed to do a training session for us. Thursday 12th August from 2pm – 3:30pm at Gilbertson Park, those of you who have been at one of Graeme’s sessions in the past will know that he delivers a very good session that’s great fun, this is completely free of charge and I’ll bring all the fitba’s and what not.

We’re having a friendly game this Tuesday (10th August) 6pm at Clickimin Hockey Park.  It’s Shetland Ladies v Shetland Girls and should be a good fun run about to get you back into it again.

Even if you’re not able to make the InterCounty we’d really appreciate it if you could make the effort to come to this game, there’s no such thing as too many players and everyone will get a game.

It’s that time of year again, this years InterCounty is in Orkney on Saturday 21st August, there will be an ‘A’ and ‘B’ squads selected for this, due to accommodation issues in Orkney there will only be places for 24 players, 12 ‘A’ and 12 ‘B’. The teams will travel down on the Friday boat and back on the Saturday boat.
Training is every Sunday at Clickimin Hockey Park from 6pm until 15th August with two additional sessions on Tuesday 10th August and Tuesday 17th August again at Clickimin Hockey Park from 6pm.
A good attendance is requested as we’ve played very little fitba this year and we want to maintain our 100% record over Orkney!

Shetland Women’s FC are having a football open day on Saturday 8th May from 12 noon until 4pm at Gilbertson Park, this will be 7-a-side games across the pitch. Come as a team or as individuals and we’ll get you into a team, there will be games going on all afternoon so please feel free to come along whenever you can manage.

There will also be the opportunity to give your views on how Women’s football should progress. The current proposal is to start playing league football the following weekend with games being played 3pm on Sundays and it would be great to have four teams so that each team would have a game every week.

We’re really keen to hear your views on how things should progress i.e. do we continue to play as Delting, Whitedale, Thistle, etc. or do we allocate players to geographical areas i.e. Isles, North, Westside, Lerwick, etc. Or maybe you have another suggestion? If so come along and let us ken.

Now that the lighter nights are here outdoor training is on every Sunday from 5:30pm at Clickimin Kick About Area, this is open to everyone and not just those involved in the Scottish Cup game.
We are going to go ahead with some local football this season, so coming along to these training sessions will help make the first game of the season a bit less of a shock to the system.

Shetland have been handed a trip into the unknown for this years Scottish Cup campaign, we’ve been drawn away to West Lothian based team Murieston United Girls.
The tie is scheduled for Sunday 11th April which is four Sundays away, so a good turnout at training is essential!

Outdoor training is starting again tonight (Sunday 14th March) 6pm – 8pm at Clickimin North Pitch £3.00 per player, a good turnout is requested.