Scotland hosts Grand Masters Hockey Celtic Cup

 

2014 sees Ireland and France take part for the first time in the Grand Masters (Over 60) Hockey Celtic Cup to be held at Clydesdale Hockey Club, Glasgow on 25-27 April.
Scotland and Wales first competed for the Celtic Cup in Aberdeen in 2007 and the competition has been held annually, with one break, since then. Scotland, winners in the first year, have a slight edge over Wales in terms of results but the matches have always been very close. In 2011, a second Celtic Cup competition for Great Grand Masters (Over 65) was inaugurated at Llandudno, Scotland winning the inaugural event. Scotland won the trophy again in each of the following two years.
Scotland appointed a new coach, Gary Wright, in the summer of 2013 and Gary has put both squads through an intensive series of training sessions over the winter in preparation for the Celtic Cup and the World Cup in the Netherlands in June.
Alongside the international tournaments, the Scottish Thistles recreational side, made up of players from 60 up to the wrong side of 70, will play fixtures against a Glasgow Select and a Barbarians side selected from all four competing nations.
David Sweetman, Scottish Hockey CEO, said
“This year’s tournament is the first time in seven years that we have had the opportunity to welcome our neighbours from France and Ireland to the GM tournament and I hope that it’s only a matter of time before we can welcome their GGM sides to the event too. I’m sure the Celtic Cup will be a great success for you all and the occasion will prove yet again that you can play hockey your entire life.”
Kieran McLernan, President of Scottish Veterans LX Hockey Club, which manages Grand Masters and Great Grand Masters international hockey on behalf of Scottish Hockey, added
“We host a unique event in Glasgow this weekend. For the first time ever the club has managed to get together all the hockey playing Celtic nations to compete for the Celtic Cup. Ireland, France and Wales will join with Scotland in what will assuredly be a hard fought contest to claim the first prize in the new, enlarged competition. The club hopes that the Trophy will be won by Scotland and will grace the trophy cabinet in the new SHU headquarters at Glasgow Green by Sunday evening.”
Tournament Programme
Friday 25 April
16:00 Scottish Thistles v Glasgow Select
17:45  Scotland Over 60 v France Over 60
19:30  Wales Over 60 v Ireland Over 60
Saturday 26 April
11:45 Wales Over 60 v France Over 60
13:15  Scotland Over 65 v Wales Over 65
15:00  Scotland Over 60 v Ireland Over 60
Sunday 27 April
10:00  Scotland Over 65 v Wales Over 65
11:45  France Over 60 v Ireland Over 60
13:15  Scotland Over 60 v Wales Over 60
14:30 – 14:45 Presentation of Trophies
14:45 (TBC) Scottish Thistles v Barbarians
Scotland Grand Masters
Bate (Hillhead), Bishop (Dunfermline Carnegie), Burns (Dundee Wanderers), Candlin (Hillhead), Chisholm (Waverley Inveresk Trinity), Connaghan (Fidra Lions), Durajczyk (Dundee Wanderers), Kalman (GK) (Peebles), Lorimer (Wolverhampton), Loudon (Perthshire), McBride (Western Wildcats), Moore (Rottenrow), Morrison (Gordonians), Ogilvie (Clydesdale), Paton (Livingston), S Robertson (Waverley Inveresk Trinity), Taylor (GK) (Dunfermline Carnegie), Wilson (Capt) (Kelburne).
East District provides six players including both goalkeepers while West District has six representatives including Captain Ian Wilson of Kelburne. There are three Midlands players and one representative from North District, with a single Anglo Scot making up the eighteen man squad. New caps are Candlin, Lorimer, Ogilvie and Taylor, who have come up from the Scotland Over 55 squad.
Scotland Great Grand Masters
Auld (Giffnock), A. Bain (Telford), Bryce (Captain) (Kelburne), Crichton (Waverley Inveresk Trinity), Downie (Aberdeen GSFP), Ferrol (Lymm), Gordon (Scotland LX), Leighton (GK) (Olton), McLernan (Aberdeen GSFP), Margerison (Leeds Adel Carnegie), Philip (Inverleith), Pollard (GK) (Jersey), Springford (Edinburgh CALA), Trainor (Western Wildcats), Turner (Scotland LX), Weir (Edinburgh CALA).
The older side has one new face, Trainor having been ‘promoted’ from the Over 60 side, and has five Anglo-Scots, including both goalkeepers, in the sixteen man squad. Two players no longer play regular club hockey: Gordon who has played for several different Dundee sides and Turner who played for Waverley in Edinburgh. Four East players, three West (including Captain Alan Bryce) and two North make up the rest of the squad, which welcomes back Norrie Springford following a lengthy recovery from a serious hamstring injury suffered against England in the Home Internationals in 2011.
For further information, see http://www.scotlandlx.org.uk or contact Ian Downie [email protected] / 01224 826646 / 07944 657913

2014 sees Ireland and France take part for the first time in the Grand Masters (Over 60) Hockey Celtic Cup to be held at Clydesdale Hockey Club, Glasgow on 25-27 April.

Grand Masters

Scotland and Wales first competed for the Celtic Cup in Aberdeen in 2007 and the competition has been held annually, with one break, since then. Scotland, winners in the first year, have a slight edge over Wales in terms of results but the matches have always been very close.

In 2011, a second Celtic Cup competition for Great Grand Masters (Over 65) was inaugurated at Llandudno, Scotland winning the inaugural event. Scotland won the trophy again in each of the following two years.

Scotland appointed a new coach, Gary Wright, in the summer of 2013 and Gary has put both squads through an intensive series of training sessions over the winter in preparation for the Celtic Cup and the World Cup in the Netherlands in June.

Alongside the international tournaments, the Scottish Thistles recreational side, made up of players from 60 up to the wrong side of 70, will play fixtures against a Glasgow Select and a Barbarians side selected from all four competing nations.

David Sweetman, Scottish Hockey CEO, said

“This year’s tournament is the first time in seven years that we have had the opportunity to welcome our neighbours from France and Ireland to the GM tournament and I hope that it’s only a matter of time before we can welcome their GGM sides to the event too. I’m sure the Celtic Cup will be a great success for you all and the occasion will prove yet again that you can play hockey your entire life.”

Kieran McLernan, President of Scottish Veterans LX Hockey Club, which manages Grand Masters and Great Grand Masters international hockey on behalf of Scottish Hockey, added

“We host a unique event in Glasgow this weekend. For the first time ever the club has managed to get together all the hockey playing Celtic nations to compete for the Celtic Cup. Ireland, France and Wales will join with Scotland in what will assuredly be a hard fought contest to claim the first prize in the new, enlarged competition. The club hopes that the Trophy will be won by Scotland and will grace the trophy cabinet in the new SHU headquarters at Glasgow Green by Sunday evening.”

Tournament Programme

Friday 25 April

16:00 Scottish Thistles v Glasgow Select

17:45  Scotland Over 60 v France Over 60

19:30  Wales Over 60 v Ireland Over 60

Saturday 26 April

11:45 Wales Over 60 v France Over 60

13:15  Scotland Over 65 v Wales Over 65

15:00  Scotland Over 60 v Ireland Over 60

Sunday 27 April

10:00  Scotland Over 65 v Wales Over 65

11:45  France Over 60 v Ireland Over 60

13:15  Scotland Over 60 v Wales Over 60

14:30 – 14:45 Presentation of Trophies

14:45 (TBC) Scottish Thistles v Barbarians

Scotland Grand Masters

Bate (Hillhead), Bishop (Dunfermline Carnegie), Burns (Dundee Wanderers), Candlin (Hillhead), Chisholm (Waverley Inveresk Trinity), Connaghan (Fidra Lions), Durajczyk (Dundee Wanderers), Kalman (GK) (Peebles), Lorimer (Wolverhampton), Loudon (Perthshire), McBride (Western Wildcats), Moore (Rottenrow), Morrison (Gordonians), Ogilvie (Clydesdale), Paton (Livingston), S Robertson (Waverley Inveresk Trinity), Taylor (GK) (Dunfermline Carnegie), Wilson (Capt) (Kelburne).

East District provides six players including both goalkeepers while West District has six representatives including Captain Ian Wilson of Kelburne. There are three Midlands players and one representative from North District, with a single Anglo Scot making up the eighteen man squad. New caps are Candlin, Lorimer, Ogilvie and Taylor, who have come up from the Scotland Over 55 squad.

Scotland Great Grand Masters

Auld (Giffnock), A. Bain (Telford), Bryce (Captain) (Kelburne), Crichton (Waverley Inveresk Trinity), Downie (Aberdeen GSFP), Ferrol (Lymm), Gordon (Scotland LX), Leighton (GK) (Olton), McLernan (Aberdeen GSFP), Margerison (Leeds Adel Carnegie), Philip (Inverleith), Pollard (GK) (Jersey), Springford (Edinburgh CALA), Trainor (Western Wildcats), Turner (Scotland LX), Weir (Edinburgh CALA).

The older side has one new face, Trainor having been ‘promoted’ from the Over 60 side, and has five Anglo-Scots, including both goalkeepers, in the sixteen man squad. Two players no longer play regular club hockey: Gordon who has played for several different Dundee sides and Turner who played for Waverley in Edinburgh. Four East players, three West (including Captain Alan Bryce) and two North make up the rest of the squad, which welcomes back Norrie Springford following a lengthy recovery from a serious hamstring injury suffered against England in the Home Internationals in 2011.

For further information, see http://www.scotlandlx.org.uk or contact Ian Downie [email protected] / 01224 826646 / 07944 657913

 

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