Hawick Rugby Club are continuing to plan for their festival of rugby in August, but uncertainty over when the sport will be allowed to return is making things “very difficult”. For many years the club’s sevens tournament was played in the spring as part of the Kings of the Sevens campaign, but at the start...
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Hawick Golf Club captain Michael Patterson has hailed the “commitment and togetherness” of the membership as a return to playing the game in Scotland edges ever closer. Golf courses reopened in England on Wednesday, but the governing body north of the border, Scottish Golf, have not relaxed any restrictions as yet and are taking daily guidance from...
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From the fringes of Hawick United Colts as a raw 13-year-old to a league-winning manager, Steven Shields has crammed a lot into more than 20 years on the local football scene. He has spent the vast majority of his days with Hawick United and has also played for Hawick Royal Albert and been a member...
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Club captain Daniel Chandler has won two end-of-season awards for Hawick Royal Albert United, but must wait to collect his trophies. Individual awards were announced on Facebook this week after the first season since United and Royal Albert merged into one club came to a premature end due to coronavirus. The actual trophies will be...
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Rob Welsh was a member of the superb Hawick Rugby Club sevens squad that won ten tournaments in a row in the 1960s – and he remembers that time as “magical”. By September of 1966 the Greens held eight Borders sevens trophies and in the spring of 1967 they won at Gala and Melrose again. The...
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Scott MacLeod admits the step up to professional rugby in 2002 with the Border Reivers was “a shock to the system” before finding his feet and going on to have a stellar career. In last week’s issue we told you how he found the sport late in his early 20s, enjoying a rapid rise from Hawick...
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Steven Mabon has been named Hawick Harlequins player of the year again, while James Delaney and Ben Murdoch have also picked up awards for their fine form in the 2019/20 season. The campaign will be looked back on in terms of ‘what might have been’ by Quins because they had already won the Border Shield and had...
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Bruce McNeil admits he leaves Mansfield Park with many great memories after it was announced he is joining Kelso as a player/coach....
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Hawick Youth are aiming to rise to the “big challenge” of playing in a new league next season. The young Teries will face Ayr/Wellington, Boroughmuir, Marr College, Earlston HS/Melrose Wasps and Stirling County at under-15, under-16 and under-18 levels on a home and away basis....
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Sara Robson is currently enjoying a well earned rest after a busy 16 months of football and hockey....
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Seven Teri fitness fanatics boosted their physical and mental health during lockdown by taking part in a mammoth cross-country road relay....
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Tomorrow (Saturday) marks 38 years since a group of Hawick RFC players swapped their rugby boots for running shoes in what just the second ever London Marathon....
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Colin Deans vividly remembers the excitement he felt ahead of making his Hawick RFC first XV debut in 1973 against a touring Ballymena side....
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Scott MacLeod’s sporting journey could have been a whole lot different had he not been persuaded to head along to a Hawick Trades training session aged 20....
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As soon as author Steve Finan started researching for his new book, Dark Blue Blood – Scottish Rugby in the Black & White Era – he knew there was going to be a large amount of Hawick content....
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Twenty years on from his debut with Hawick United Under-16s, Alan Campbell remains a mainstay on the local football scene. And in this week’s special feature we talk to the 36 year old about his two decades as a player and manager....
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