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Edinburgh East Lothian Shinty Club" was a shinty
club which played in the South Division 2 Shinty League. They were formerly known as Musselburgh Camanachd until 2000. In 2007 they withdrew from the league due to team-raising difficulties. The club can now be assumed to be defunct.
The club (in all its forms) has played in the South Divisions of the Marine Harvest League and associated cup competitions. After a particularly difficult season in the upper division, Musselburgh found itself in a perilous state - it was at this juncture that the club was reconstituted.
Reforming in 2000 as Edinburgh East Lothian Shinty Club, (to broaden its catchment area) the club underwent dramatic redevelopment. EELSC were narrowly pipped to the league title during the two years after reformation - the latter amidst controversy over match cancellations/walk-overs. Read more about this period in an extract from the Shinty Yearbook, 2002.
Successes were also achieved at the St Andrews sixes (1999) and the Inverness sixes Rosedean Shield (2002 & 2004). The club sporadically contested the Hunter Eccles Trophy against St Andrews University.
With the change to summer shinty in 2004, Edinburgh East Lothian found themselves in a large South Division One, where they routinely suffered heavy defeats. However, the scrapping of the National League One in 2006 meant that EEL were to be in a more competitive environment. This has not helped the club in the long term as the club struggled to fulfil fixtures towards the end of the 2006 season and this trend continued into the 2007 season, where they have folded due to a lack of players. The club expressed its desire to reform for 2008 and said it would be playing in 6 a-sides.
The club did not re-enter competition in 2008 and some members of the playing squad transferred to Aberdour Shinty Club
and Tayforth Camanachd
. Levenhall Links still played host to ladies team, Forth Camanachd
, but they amalgamated with Aberdour Ladies in 2011.
Shinty
Shinty is a team game played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands, and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread, being once competitively played on a widespread basis in England and other areas in the...
club which played in the South Division 2 Shinty League. They were formerly known as Musselburgh Camanachd until 2000. In 2007 they withdrew from the league due to team-raising difficulties. The club can now be assumed to be defunct.
History
The sport arrived in East Lothian during the mid-1990s, principally at the instigation of Dougie Hunter (a shinty playing graduate of St Andrews University) and Ian Watt- a fellow resident of Musselburgh. The team played originally as Musselburgh Camanachd Club, in royal blue and white stripes, at Levenhall Links.The club (in all its forms) has played in the South Divisions of the Marine Harvest League and associated cup competitions. After a particularly difficult season in the upper division, Musselburgh found itself in a perilous state - it was at this juncture that the club was reconstituted.
Reforming in 2000 as Edinburgh East Lothian Shinty Club, (to broaden its catchment area) the club underwent dramatic redevelopment. EELSC were narrowly pipped to the league title during the two years after reformation - the latter amidst controversy over match cancellations/walk-overs. Read more about this period in an extract from the Shinty Yearbook, 2002.
Successes were also achieved at the St Andrews sixes (1999) and the Inverness sixes Rosedean Shield (2002 & 2004). The club sporadically contested the Hunter Eccles Trophy against St Andrews University.
With the change to summer shinty in 2004, Edinburgh East Lothian found themselves in a large South Division One, where they routinely suffered heavy defeats. However, the scrapping of the National League One in 2006 meant that EEL were to be in a more competitive environment. This has not helped the club in the long term as the club struggled to fulfil fixtures towards the end of the 2006 season and this trend continued into the 2007 season, where they have folded due to a lack of players. The club expressed its desire to reform for 2008 and said it would be playing in 6 a-sides.
The club did not re-enter competition in 2008 and some members of the playing squad transferred to Aberdour Shinty Club
Aberdour Shinty Club
Aberdour Shinty Club is a shinty club which plays in Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. It is the only senior Shinty Club in Fife and was founded in 2001...
and Tayforth Camanachd
Tayforth Camanachd
Tayforth Camanachd is a shinty team from Perth, Scotland. Whilst being based in Perth, the team draws players from all over the Tayside and Lothian area...
. Levenhall Links still played host to ladies team, Forth Camanachd
Forth Camanachd
Forth Camanachd was a women's shinty club based in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. The club was established in 2006 and won both the Valerie Fraser Cup and the Caledonian Canal Challenge Cup in its time in existence.The club has now merged with Aberdour Shinty Club as of the 2011...
, but they amalgamated with Aberdour Ladies in 2011.