Change of date for South of Scotland’s inter-district rugby championship game v Glasgow and West next month
South of Scotland’s inter-district rugby championship fixture away to Glasgow and the West next month has been brought forward a day.
That game, their second this season following a 31-22 win at home to Edinburgh’s district side in Hawick earlier this month, was originally scheduled for lunchtime on Saturday, December 20, but will now be played the night before.
Kick-off at Glasgow Hutchesons’ Aloysians’ Braidholm ground will be at 7.30pm.
That’s the South’s only away-day this season, their third and final match, against Caledonia Reds, being lined up for Friday, February 13, at Jedburgh’s Riverside Park, also a 7.30pm kick-off.
One match into the championship, the red-and-white-hooped regional representatives are top of the table, on five points, with their next opponents third, on one point, following a 22-19 loss away to Reds in Stirling at the start of the month. Reds are second, on four, and Edinburgh bottom, on none.
Edinburgh are away to Reds on December 20, with kick-off at noon, and the capital city side host Glasgow and the West on February 13 at 7.30pm.
The team that got the South’s defence of their 18th outright title, accompanied by ten shared ones, off to a winning start on Saturday, November 7, was drawn from the region’s four Arnold Clark Premiership clubs, with head coach Gordon Henderson’s Selkirk contributing nine players to their match-day squad, assistant coach Scott Wight’s Melrose supplying six, including captain Angus Runciman, Kelso five and Hawick three.
Their tries against Edinburgh were touched down by inside-centre Andrew Mitchell at the double, left-winger Ben Pickles and hooker Fraser Renwick, with fly-half Dwain Patterson adding three conversions and Scott Clark another and replacement Clark also kicking a penalty.