Orkney Image Library

Here are the names of your team Kevin
Rear Row..Wooldrage-Thomson-Johnstone
Middle Row..Gourlay-Sinclair-Smith
Front Row..Sinclair-Lobban-Groundwater-Groundwater-Schollay
(All reading left to right by the way)
On a personal note if you like to ask Alan Lobban about this picture he may be able to say which team it is. My guess is Kirkwall Rovers

I think it must be a peedie bit later than 1931. I remember dear "old" (well, he was always older than me) Wattie Lobban passed away late in 1982, just as he reached retirement age. A fine man, and a great butcher.

This photo was probably taken in 1947. The players in the photo were taken from the selection committees from various clubs. We must assume that they played a game or twoafter taking the bother to acquire a strip. The boots even look polished.

The comment that the players were from the selection committees of various clubs makes sense. My father - middle left - was on the Thorfinn committee from the mid/late 1940s to the mid 1950s - to my knowledge he was never a Rovers fan!

Looks like David Johnstone (plumber) in back row right. He stayed along from me when I stayed in the Quadrant as a boy during the war (1939/1945)His family was Margaret Violet Elsie, Robert and David.I remember they had a Shetland pony called Dola who was very inclined to nip you if you got too close. Elsie was about my age.

His name was Robert (Bob) Johnstone not David as I wrongly called him in my earlier comment. Davie Wooldrage stayed on the opposite side of the Quadrant at the same time. Schollay was a dental technician with Davie Dunnet the dentist.