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Shinty Club. Kingussie have been written off several times before and have always comeback, but 2010 promised to be the most testing season in many years for the club. The club did well after a rocky start to the season and defeated
Kilmallie to win the MacTavish Cup and were in contention for the league until a couple of games to go. The
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2014 saw the club lift the
Camanachd Cup for the first time since 2006 and Ronald Ross announced his retirement from first team duties after the victory over Glenurquhart at the Bught Park. However, in 2015 Kingussie would face a great decline, the club ending in the play-off position of ninth. They
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Steven
Borthwick was confirmed as manager for 2011 alongside Ronald Ross as captain at the club's 2010 AGM. The club had a reasonably successful 2011 winning the MacTavish Cup and reaching the Camanachd Cup Final but in Kingussie terms, this was a disappointing return. The second team also won the
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The start of the 2010 season saw
Borthwick attempt to blood youngsters. Ronald Ross suffered a freak injury tripping on a tennis ball whilst coaching youth shinty, the team lost the first game of the season for the first time in living memory and then suffered a poor 6–0 defeat to Fort William
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With the league undecided, Gow announced his intention to stand down at the end of the 2009 season with Stevie
Borthwick taking on the role of manager in 2010. Kingussie eventually clinched their 24th league title in 25 years on 5 December by defeating Kyles Athletic. This saw them overhaul
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The senior team once held a 63-game unbeaten record and the junior team achieved 100 games unbeaten in the early 90s. That unprecedented domination of the sport led to them becoming the World's most successful sporting team. In 1991, the club was forced to play one season at
Dunbarry, as
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for 2010. However the club lost to local rivals
Newtonmore 6–0 in the league which extinguished its league hopes (and ultimately gave its closest rivals its first league title in 25 years) and was beaten 3–2 in the Camanachd Cup Final. This was a fine return for a season of rebuilding.
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Between 1996 and 2004, they only lost two games at the Dell. Both of these were against
Newtonmore. Lochcarron became the first team to bring this run to an end when the beat them 7–4. All the more surprising as Kingussie had thrashed them 10–3 a couple of weeks previously.
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Since 2019, Kingussie have been resurgent. They won the
Premiership in 2019 along with the MacAulay Cup. They retained the MacAulay Cup in 2021 whilst also winning Senior League B, a regional league played due to COVID-19 restrictions. In 2022 they are on course to win the
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In defeating Fort
William in the 2003 Camanachd Cup final, Ronald Ross drove home the point about the club's total dominance of the sport, "Is there a team out there that can beat us? Well, I don't think so. We did not play all that well, but we destroyed them."
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who is the second highest scorer in the history of the sport, although his total is around half that of Ross'. The other notable name linked with the club is that of Borthwick. the five sons of Alistair 'Alta' Borthwick, were the backbone of the great 90s team.
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2005, is the world sport's most successful sporting team of all time, winning 20 consecutive leagues and going 4 years unbeaten at one stage in the early 1990s. The club is currently holder of the Camanachd Cup, the MacAulay Cup, and the MacTavish Cup.
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The club are now working closely with Newtonmore to help revitalise the grassroots game in the area, whose poor state has been masked by the continued success of the Kingussie senior side.
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Jimmy Gow returned as manager for the third time in 2008. Although the club lost in the Camanchd Cup Final to Fort William, they had a 100% record in the league.
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was also added to the honours for the season and with a win in the semi-final of the Camanachd Cup, Kingussie was the only team which could achieve the
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In 2010, the club started up a new website which also had a vote for the greatest XII in the club's history. The club also purchased the Dell from
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from Oban Camanachd who helped Kingussie regain the league again, the club also won the MacAulay Cup in 2007 against Inveraray.
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won the league in 2006 but Kingussie gained a modicum of revenge by defeating Fort in the 2006 Camanachd Cup Final.
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The Club's world record of domination in sport was finally brought to an end on 2 September 2006 when old rivals
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at the semi-final stage after a replay of a game which was abandoned with Kingussie leading 4–1 against
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The 2009 season has been a tumultuous season for Kingussie, they were defeated in the finals of the
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faced a relegation play-off with National Division One runners-up Kilmallie, which they won 2–0.
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322:. This meant that Kingussie could not catch the team at the top of the league.
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in 1896 and the club has won the cup more times than any other team, apart from
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having won all three major cups and having a strong lead in the league.
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who has achieved iconic status in the game. Another notable player is
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Changing room chat: Shinty - Cup treble-chasers hunt for dream XII
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Estate, from whom it had leased the park for 100 years previous.
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Kingussie Crowned 2009 Scottish Hydro Premier Division Champions
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Russell Jones was appointed manager for the 2012 season.
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Sutherland Cup. Borthwick stood down at the end of 2011.
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Stevie Borthwick Appointed Kingussie First Team Manager.
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The club was founded in 1893. It won the first-ever
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416:as of 31 August 2010. The club was sponsored by
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671:Steve Borthwick Steps Down As Kingussie Boss.
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601:Simpson warns against writing off Kingussie
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682:Russell Jones Named Kingussie Boss.
535:Shinty: Historic win for Lochcarron
479:from the original on 10 April 2017.
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635:"Kingussie Camanachd Club - News"
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696:Kingussie Shinty Club homepage
495:Kingussie 'best team in world'
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1353:Scotland national shinty team
1358:England national shinty team
1257:Single Team Club Competition
1338:Shinty in the United States
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1252:Glasgow Celtic Society Cup
94:Marine Harvest Premiership
1126:Badenoch & Strathspey
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1076:Robert Gordon University
1071:Milngavie & Bearsden
276:Guinness Book of Records
1091:Strachur & District
1302:Fingal Memorial Shield
953:Edinburgh East Lothian
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1282:Women's League System
1277:Valerie Fraser Trophy
1086:St Andrews University
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274:and according to the
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748:Aberdeen University
472:The Daily Telegraph
382:Clash of the Camans
260:Kingussie Camanachd
38:Kingussie Camanachd
1307:Albert Smith Medal
1146:Glasgow Mid Argyll
1041:Glasgow University
993:Strathclyde Police
803:Glasgow Mid Argyll
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121:North Division One
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1395:University shinty
1191:Tir Conaill Harps
1026:Dundee University
338:The most notable
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1379:Clash of the Ash
1348:Shinty in Russia
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1232:Macaulay Cup
1205:Competitions
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1121:Ardnamurchan
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848:Kinlochshiel
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793:Cruachanside
763:Ballachulish
758:Ardnamurchan
741:Senior teams
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908:Strathglass
893:Oban Celtic
645:6 September
348:Kevin Thain
344:Ronald Ross
84:John Gibson
43:Gaelic name
1410:Categories
1227:Grand Slam
1196:Uddingston
1181:Strathspey
978:Nairnshire
928:Uddingston
913:Strathspey
883:Newtonmore
868:Lochcarron
783:Caberfeidh
454:References
448:Grand Slam
414:grand slam
316:Newtonmore
293:Newtonmore
266:team from
1436:Kingussie
1287:Lovat Cup
1171:Oban Lorn
1151:Glengarry
1136:Inverness
1061:Lochbroom
1016:Caithness
973:Oban Lorn
843:Kingussie
833:Kilmallie
828:Inverness
823:Inveraray
813:Glenorchy
808:Glengarry
773:Boleskine
340:Kingussie
318:defeated
268:Kingussie
75:Kingussie
54:The Kings
35:Full name
21:Kingussie
1316:See also
1161:Lochaber
1116:Aberdour
1046:Kincraig
1021:Cornwall
923:Taynuilt
918:Tayforth
863:Lochaber
788:Col-Glen
753:Aberdour
477:Archived
426:Dochfour
391:The Dell
301:the Dell
272:Scotland
71:The Dell
51:Nickname
1272:Mod Cup
1056:Kintyre
963:Furnace
838:Kilmory
384:final.
380:in the
283:History
81:Manager
59:Founded
1385:Iomain
1141:Dunadd
1066:London
1031:Dunoon
768:Beauly
733:Shinty
520:3 June
418:npower
264:shinty
117:League
89:League
67:Ground
1390:SWAGs
1166:Lovat
1081:Scots
958:Forth
878:Lovat
858:Lewis
262:is a
1363:Alba
1186:Skye
1096:Uist
898:Skye
888:Oban
778:Bute
647:2016
522:2013
364:and
246:Away
200:Home
127:2018
101:2019
62:1890
130:4th
104:1st
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501:^
485:^
475:.
469:.
270:,
73:,
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717:t
710:v
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