Six-year-old Ryan Hume was inspired by his mum Samantha’s athletic challenge during lockdown – so he took on his own and completed it....
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When legendary Hawick rugby commentator Bill McLaren describes someone as “the hardest hitting, hardest running forward I ever saw” you know that they must have been some player....
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Scott MacLeod’s playing days came to an end during the 2015/16 season, but because he is now working as a coach, has a nephew that plays for Scotland and a son that is mad keen on rugby, his links with the sport are as strong as ever....
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The greenkeeping teams at both Hawick and Minto golf clubs have been working hard to make sure their courses will be in great condition for the sport’s return on Thursday or the immediate days after that....
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Scotland rugby captain Stuart Hogg is at the heart of a new, young leadership group in the squad, according to head coach Gregor Townsend. When the Scots returned from the World Cup in Japan in October, Teri full-back Hogg asked Townsend if he could throw his hat into the ring for the skipper’s role....
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The matches may be some 24 years ago now, but Colin Turnbull can remember the semi-final and final of the first ever Scottish Cup in 1996 – when Hawick tasted glory – like they were yesterday. The Greens went into the last four tie with Melrose as underdogs because The Greenyards outfit had just won...
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Women’s football is without doubt growing in popularity. Statistics reveal that there are now more females playing the game at all sort of levels than ever before. And Hawick is no exception with the town’s Border Ladies holding their own against sides from the Central Belt. Formerly known as Hawick United Ladies Colts, the Border...
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Scott MacLeod will always look back on his Scotland rugby career with great fondness with two wins from two against England and an emotional match in Argentina particularly memorable. Having come to the sport fairly late aged 20, won trophies with Hawick and then turned professional with the Border Reivers in 2002, things continued to...
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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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