| Match Reports Click here for all our match reports HJRFC News All the News That's Fit to Print (and Some That Probably Isn't) 26th February - Last ever league match on the big pitch at Hughenden. The last ever league match to be played on the historic big pitch at Hughenden will kick off at 3pm on Saturday 22nd March when Hills host Aberdeen in Premier 2. We will have a full events list for the day, including a special lunch for former players. Tickets for the lunch (two courses, coffee, programme and gate admission) will be £20 and anyone who wishes to attend should please contact Gordon Taylor as detailed here 18th February - Joe Stafford's meat. HJRFC are proud to announce the finalisation of a sponsorship deal between the club and Grampian Meats. The conclusion of this will mean that man mountain Joe Stafford will now receive a regular portion of raw meat on a monthly basis. Please see below for a photo of Joe with the first installment. (click on the picture for a larger version) Joe Stafford with Ken and Jarek of Grampian Meats 2nd October - Andy Hopkin and Simon Merry. Please click here 24th September - Hills lose 52-15 away to Selkirk, match report here. The game was covered by Scottish Rugby Radio and will be broadcast on Sky channel 0195 at 9pm on Monday 24th. It can also be listened to along with reaction from Keith Robertson on the Scottish Rugby Radio website (see our links page) on their channels 18, 19 and 20. 16th September - Hills lose second home game of the season 6-7 to Hamilton. Click here for the match report 13th September - 6 Nations 2008 application forms. Forms are now available either from this website, behind the bar at Hughenden or on the Hillhead sports club website. Click here for more details and the application forms. 5th September - RWC ball boys. Despite the sad fact that former 'Hills' player, Dougie Hall, won't be appearing at Murrayfield in the Rugby World Cup games, HJRFC will still have a presence on the field by way of ball-boys Michael Connolly, Adam Plunkett and Kenneth Green - all from our thriving junior section. Congratulations to the lads, we hope you enjoy your experiences. 2nd September - Hills lose first league match of the season going down 15-17 to West at Hughenden. Click here for full match report 26th August - HJRFC's first league match of the season will be at Hughenden on Saturday 1st September vs West. This will be a double header with the 2nd XV also playing West at Hughenden on the same day. Please come down and support the boys as they kick off this new league campaign. KO 3pm 20th August - Lots of additions to the site: First few player profiles now available Video of match v Ellon now on-line Match report for 2nd XV at Clydebank 10's now available On 18th August Will Marshall played his 100th game for Hills 1stXV. Click here for a photo of him receiving a presentation from El Presidente Mike Patterson after the game The match report for the Hills v Ellon game has not yet been posted, this is mainly due to some wild promises on the part of the webmaster about getting the player's input on Saturday after the game disappearing in a haze of Mad-Dog and Kopparberg 13th August - New look website launched. Please see the What's New page or the Site Map for more details. Also - new dates for the diary in the Social section and a match report from the Hippos from last Saturday 31st July - Player Profiles Coming soon to HJRFC.com profiles of all our players (who can be bothered to fill out the form). If you are a player and would like to see your details on the site please click here for a form which should be returned to Cammy McCulloch or Stuart Monro (see the form for email addresses if needed) 26th July - DOUGIE HALL Hills are sorry to hear of the injury sustained by Dougie (formerly of HJRFC) which has ruled him out of the Scotland squad for the forthcoming World Cup. We wish him a speedy recovery and all the best for the coming season when he returns to full fitness. Click here for more details 21st July - Fixtures for season 2007 / 08 now available. Click here Note that in addition to published fixtures, the 1stXV first game of the season will be at the Kilmarnock RFC tournament at 1pm on 11th August 21st July - Glasgow Warriors Touch Rugby Tournament takes place at Whitecraigs RFC on Sunday 29th July. Gaffer will be taking names for this at training over the next week. If you can't make it down to training but would be keen to play please email him from this link Gaffer First 12 players to reply/volunteer will play. News Archive January - June 2007 October - December 2006 August - September 2006 June - July 2006 May 2006 |
