| News Archive January - June 2007 30th June - Final match report of season 2006/07 now posted. The Ladies' version of events at Islay is available here 16th June - Preseason training starts on Monday 2nd July at Scotstoun. Click here for more details Hills first fixture of season 2007/08 will be on the first of September against West at Hughenden ko 3pm with a pre match lunch. All members, players, ex players welcome 16th June - Match reports. The webmaster sends his aplogies for the delay in getting these posted. Please click here for a match report from the Murrayfield 7s on 3rd June and here for the Islay beach tournament on 8th/9th/10th June 5th June - August internationals at Murrayfield. Scotland have two RWC07 warm up games in August - against Ireland on the 11th and South Africa on the 25th. Please click here for more information about buying tickets and here for a ticket booking form. 1st June - Timetable of events for Highland Games now available here 30th May - U19 Player of the year. Congrats to Joe "The Staff" Stafford who was awarded Scotland U19 player of the year at a glittering ceremony at Murrayfield on Friday 25th May. Click here for the full report on the SRU site and here for a photo of Joe celebrating. 28th May - More sevens match reports. Click here for Newton Stewart (report, photos and video) and here for Kilmarnock. 26th May - Ceilidh at Hughenden on Saturday 2nd June after the Highland Games. Doors open 7:30pm, tickets are £5 on the door. Spinning the wheels of steel will be our very own Vinnie (the good looking one in the picture above). 26th May - Diversions page updated. Click here 23rd May - Match report for Cartha 7's now available here 16th May - Calling all players - 7's training and tournaments. 7's training is still going on every Tuesday and Thursday at Victoria Park at 7pm. This will continue until at least the start of June. We're looking for players for the squad, especially for this weekend as we have two tournaments to take part in. Anyone who wants to be involved please get yourselves down to training or contact Gaffer either directly or through this site. 14th May - More Sevens match reports. Click here for Lochaber and here for Glasgow Uni 11th May Glasgow Highland Games Hillhead Jordanhill are hosting the Glasgow Highland Games on the 2nd June 2007. The games are attracting some of the strongest, biggest and best competitors to make the Glasgow International Highland Games a fantastic event. The Games will feature competitors from the Worlds Strongest Man competition challenging to be crowned Champion in front of the Glasgow crowd. In addition to the professional athletic events, we will also be hosting a parallel event designed for rugby players. These events will be: The Rugby Strongman Event Rugby Sprint King Further details will be issued directly to the applicants. As well as the bragging rights of being Scottish Rugby's Strongman Champion or the Scottish Rugby Sprint King, there will be a cash prize and supply of training kit to the winners of each of the two titles. We hope a number of our players will be interested in taking part in the event. An application can be obtained by emailing Further details of the games are available from this link or: www.glasgowhighlandgames.co.uk 13th March - Easter Raffle Hills are holding an Easter raffle with prizes of the following: Gallon bottle of whisky Half case of champagne Two tickets for Scotland v New Zealand in RWC2007 at Murrayfield in September Tickets are available from the clubhouse for all playing and non-playing members. Each ticket costs £1 and books of 10 are available. Raffle to be drawn on 14th April with all stubs to be returned by 13th April. This is one of our major fund raising events for the season and all members are encouraged to participate. DATE FOR DIARY - ANNUAL DINNER The annual player's dinner will be held at Hughenden on Saturday 31st March (after the home game against Stirling County) at 7:00pm for 7:30pm Tickets cost £25 waged / £20 unwaged Peter Wright (ex Scotland) and Gary Allan (ex Hillhead) will be speaking Bernie Mitchell (ex Carstairs) will NOT be speaking |
