Club News

We were deeply saddened to hear that well known former Heriot’s Rugby Club player Steve Dougherty passed away last week, aged 59 years, after a brave fight against cancer. Steve played for the club for many years throughout the 1980’s and into the early 90’s. Steve, a fast and elusive centre featured regularly for the …

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Doddie Aid(www.doddieaid.com) is an exercise event running through January, until Feb 6th and the Calcutta Cup KO, in support of Doddie’s MN5D Foundation and MND research. So far we have 23,000 people taking part, 2 weeks into the challenge, and have raised over £500,000.  The event is split into 5 geographical teams based on the …

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It is a sobering thought that there are fewer of us now than at the start of the year. It has been a year the like of which we have never experienced, well apart from those that were around in 1918/19.  Our Joe Wicks (Jordan) is doing his bit to keep our players conditioned and engaged, and …

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Two Heriot’s Blues Men players have been selected for the Scotland U20 squad with other members of the team forming part of the recent FOSROC Regional Academy intake. Finn McIlwraith and Duncan Hood both received a call up to the 36 player Scotland U20 squad, attending the first training camp earlier this month. Duncan has …

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Since November Heriot’s Rugby Club centre Cameron Hutchison has been training with Edinburgh Rugby. Cameron, a former Scotland U18 and U19 captain and U20 player, has been acting as emergency cover for the Edinburgh Rugby backline and was the 24th man for the team against Ulster on November 30th. The George Heriot’s School alumni was a standout player for Heriot’s …

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Golden Acre Foods, the main sponsor for Heriot’s Blues Women is proud to be supporting the newest Edinburgh-based women’s team in Scotland for a second season. Founded in Glasgow about 20 years ago, the company is a distributor of food and drink products to shops, schools and caterers across the United Kingdom. Golden Acre Foods …

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On Sunday, Broughton Women player Ruth Morgan ran 18 miles around each of the seven Edinburgh rugby clubs that have a women’s team. Joined by teammates and players from other teams for the run, including Heriot’s Blues Women to and from Goldenacre, Ruth set herself the challenge to raise awareness for women’s rugby. Team that took part …

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A new committee has been formed to represent the interests of senior players directly to the Board at Heriot’s Rugby Club. The introductory meeting for the new committee including player representatives, Director of Projects Calum McNiven, Operations Director Tony Delaney and Super6 Head Coach Andrew Kelly, took place virtually in late October. Player representatives from …

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From being part of a premiership winning team to coaching junior players on Sunday, Investec Senior Investment Director Gordon Lawrie, has been part of Heriot’s Rugby Club for almost 30 years.  Investec is the main sponsor of Heriot’s Rugby Club, a relationship that first began in 2015. Gordon believes that businesses like Investec supporting local …

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Heriot’s Blues Women players have been taking part in the Movember 60km Run Challenge to raise funds for suicide prevention and mental health awareness. Jacqueline Kerr, Paige Turner and Megan Taylor are part of the Euan Higgins Personal Training & Coaching team that has so far raised more than £7,000 towards the cause. Movember is …

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