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SHINTY SPOTLIGHT: 10 questions for Oban Camanachd’s Daniel Cameron

Oban's Daniel Cameron.
Oban's Daniel Cameron.

Oban Camanachd star Daniel Cameron is the next shinty star to take on our 10 weekly questions.

The 34-year-old utility player has spent two decades at the Premiership club, experiencing many highs and lows within the pulsating sport.

What is your earliest shinty memory?

My Park Primary School coaches Neil and Anne MacLennan stayed just three doors down from me when I was a young kid.

They put the first stick in my hand and introduced me to shinty and coached me right through until high school.

Shinty was not in my family, so it was Neil and Anne who taught me everything I knew, so I have a lot to thank them for.

There are a few players in our first-team who all came from their coaching, so they fully deserve credit for that.

Who was your senior debut against and what was the result?

It was against Lochcarron when I was 14 when they were also in the Premier League. I can’t actually remember the result, but it was at Battery Park.

Oban’s Daniel Cameron against Kyles’ Andrew King.
What is your best moment in shinty so far?

Winning back-to-back Celtic Cup finals as captain (in 2018 and 2019) and playing twice for the Scotland national team at Croke Park in Ireland – that was a big honour. That was an experience you don’t get very often.

And the worst?

Relegation from the Premier League in the early days for me. I’d also say defeats in major cup finals – twice each in the Camanachd Cup and Macaulay Cup.

What is the worst injury you have suffered?

Touch wood, I’ve not had any long-term injuries. I’ve had a fractured eye socket and snapped front teeth. Those would be two of the worst I’ve had.

Who is the joker in the team?

Scott MacMillan. I don’t think there is anyone who doesn’t know Scott in shinty. He came through a year or two after me and he’s been the joker since then.

What is your favourite away ground?

The Dell (at Kingussie), with the pitch and the experience of playing up there. It’s always in really good condition.

Who is the rival player you would have loved in your team and why?

It has got to be Kyles’ Roddy Macdonald. It would have saved me 20 years of pain, not having to mark him. That was the case through primary school, junior shinty and right through to seniors.

We play role reversal now – sometimes when I’m up front, he will mark me. I can’t get rid of him after so many years! We are really good mates off the pitch, but we have played against one another since we were primary school kids. He would have to be in my team.

What is the favourite goal scored by you or a team-mate?

Andrew MacCuish against Kinlochshiel, which I think was in a Camanachd Cup quarter-final. He got two that day and we were not sure whether he would make the game because his son had just been born. But he made the journey up and took us through with a really good goal.

From my own point of view, it would be my two goals against Kyles, which took us into the Camanachd Cup final (in 2019). They were not the best of goals, but it was the meaning of them in terms of importance.

Describe the sport in three words?

Hard but fair!

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