Cruden Bay

Those matches are 2:00 PM kickoffs, so a little bit of a stipulation on that one There are also seven games in the North of Scotland Football League Championship this weekend.

These are all 2:00 PM kick-offs, and again, sponsored by mcbookie.com. Banchory St. Ternan host Cruden Bay at Milton Park.

Burghead Thistle are at home to Dufton.

Nairn County entertain Isle of Eile.

And, uh, another blind par three after that.

And it, it's a g- it's like Cruden Bay shrunk down into 12 holes, uh, on the complete opposite side, uh, of Scotland.

And it's a, it's awesome.

It's a thrill ride, and it does, it does make you want to go play.

[laughs] But Machrihanish, it is...

I, I, I, it's very different than what I guess I, I, I thought it was.

I, I, I played there before, maybe nine years ago, and I, I think it kind of had a reputation as, like, a fun, quirky, Cruden Bay-like golf course.

You know, it's kind of off the beaten path, and it's like...

I think all fiction writers weave a lot of themselves into their characters and their stories, no matter how hard they might try to keep them out.

it's what you know best isn't it and if he uses locations where he has been like like whitby and cruden bay it would make sense to have his own personal experiences as well as his own person involved in sort of first-hand knowledge because that was one of the things he did was write a story that sounded surprisingly real because the characters were real.

Parts of them were based on real people, real locations.

And therefore, when you characterize his fiction and say, my gosh, maybe this is real after all.

I have, actually, it's coming out any day now, a fictional work.

It's called The Ally of Madness, co-authored with Leverett Butts from Hellbound Books.

It's a fiction of Bram Stoker and Florence and young Noel in Cruden Bay, Scotland, the summer that he wrote Dracula.

So fictional work based on real events.

There were six games taking place this weekend, with obviously Sturrup Park Vale and Bucky Rovers playing in the Grille League Cup.

Sponsored by McBookie.com and finished Cruden Bay 1, Whitehills 3, Dufton 0, Sunnybank 5, Glen Sanner 4, Bankery St Ternan 0, Isle of Ale 1, Birkhead Thistle 1, Nairn St Ninian 5, Forest Thistle 2 and West Dyke 7, New Elgin 1.

Gary, obviously, Sturdywood Parkville and Bucky Rovers not in action this weekend in the Championship, which meant it was an opportunity for some clubs to improve on their league positions and start moving up this table.

And one team that certainly did that to pull just a point behind Sturdywood Parkville and level on points with Bucky Rovers was Sunnybank 5-0 winners at Dufton yesterday.

But well done to Nian on a very good win yesterday.

A great one for Whitehills yesterday, Gary.

3-1 at Cruden Bay.

Really good result this for Whitehills.

But yeah, I think people who know think that Simpson is the boy.

So he did more Fontaine, did Ballybunion, did Cruden Bay, a number of very well-respected golf courses.

I didn't really know any of this at the time or hadn't really considered it going to play.

It's very hard to talk about it because it just had every single thing that I can think of that I like about golf courses.

Right, welcome back to the North of Scotland Football League's podcast with myself and Dave.

Let's run through the championship scores, Dave, for Saturday the 19th of September, sponsored by mcduckie.com. Birkhead Thistle 0, Bankery St Ternan 3, Cruden Bay 2, West Dyke CC Juniors 7, Forrest Thistle 1, Sturwood Park Vale 2, Glen Sanner 1, Sunnybank 0, and Nairn St Ninian 3, Whitehills 0.

Dave Bucky Rovers, obviously, they were the league leaders going into this weekend.

They weren't, of course, in league action this weekend.

So well done, lads.

Keep enjoying your football and keep doing very well for yourselves.

and another team who had a good away win at the weekend West Dike CCG years Dave and how ironic that in the last couple of games West Dike CCG years have started banging in the goals since I went to see them they've scored 13 goals they've scored 7 against Cruden Bay here job done for Ian McKenzie's team sounded like it was a very interesting game up at Cruden Bay

yeah they were at the shooting boots a whole bunch of weeks ago so they knew you were coming and said nah not today Lance but on this one a lot of good goals in this game I watched the fruits back this morning a lot of good goals in this one one's a rather interesting one I think it's the second goal in which West had 2-1 up in the second half I don't know It was kind of played out the left, right-hand channel.

That's in the Premier League with a 2pm kick-off.

In the Northwesterly Football League Championship, Bankery St. Ternan travelled to Burkhead Thistle, Cruden Bay host West Dyke CC Juniors, Forest Thistle are at home to Stonywood Park Vale, Glen Tanner entertains Sunnybank, while Nian St Ninian host White Hills.

All the matches in the North of Scotland Football League Premier League and Championship are 2pm kick-offs.

And in the Scottish Communities Cup, all matches kick-off at 2.30pm. Once again, thanks very much to our guests for coming on to chat with Dave and myself this weekend.