Three dates for Border League games yet to be fixed for Jed-Forest after call-off v Kelso
Saturday gone’s scheduled Border League game for Kelso hosting Jed-Forest at Poynder Park was called off because the prospective visitors were unable to muster a team.
It’s been postponed until a date yet to be fixed and is now one of three games awaiting calendar slots, all involving Arnold Clark National League Division 1’s Jed taking on top-flight opposition, the others in the offing for head coach Michael Harshaw’s Riverside Park team being away to Selkirk and at home to Hawick.
Last season’s corresponding fixture for Kelso and Jed ended in a 26-26 draw at the latter’s home ground in January.
Gala’s Border League game at home to Hawick scheduled for this coming Saturday has also been put back and is now due to be played on Friday, February 13, with kick-off at Netherdale at 7.30pm.
It’s one of two fixtures that night being contested in the regional competition billed as the oldest rugby league in the world, the other seeing head coach Gordon Henderson’s Selkirk hosting Graeme Paterson’s Peebles at Philiphaugh, with kick-off there also at 7.30pm.
Both will be the sides’ first meetings since the contest reverted to a league format in 2023 as last season’s corresponding fixtures were among five to go unplayed and the campaign before’s also went unfulfilled.
Two more follow in March and they’re the last to be allocated dates thus far.
The first is a trip to co-head coaches Nikki Walker and Bruce McNeil’s Kelso for Arnold Clark National League Division 2’s Peebles and the second is a home game for the Pees at the Gytes against Graham Hogg’s Hawick seven days later, both 7.30pm kick-offs.