Gala Rugby Club

Inter District Returns to Netherdale and Sevens Continue

The first Inter District match for a number of years was held at Netherdale on 9th May 2023. The South played very well to run out eventually comfortable winners by a score of 50 – 17 against Edinburgh.

It was a near perfect night for rugby and the enthusiastic crowd who fully supported the returning District fixture with most clubs well represented in the match day 23, although inevitably with a very strong Hawick bias given their very successful season. There is no doubt there is an appetite for the return of these fixtures in the future, hopefully more fully embedded in the revised season structure for next year,

The South now go on to meet either Glasgow or Caledonia ( who play in Inverness on 13th May) at Braidholm in Glasgow (the home of GHA rugby) on Sunday 21st May 2023.

Our final two National League 1 matches of the season were finally completed during April resulting in an Away win against Aberdeen and a Home defeat against Ayr, who brought a very strong team to play a Gala development side, despite the outcome having no bearing on final league positions. Gala finished the season in fourth place behind Kelso, Ayr and Melrose.

Gala Senior Seven have competed at Berwick, Kelso, Earlston and Musselburgh. Although the last tournament isn’t part of King of the Sevens it was a good opportunity to give some of our younger players a run out. They performed very well and got to the Final where they came up against a very strong Heriots, but came away with Runners Up medals. The two previous tournaments saw Gala get to the Finals of both but losing both. Nevertheless that leaves us placed second in the Kings of the Sevens , eight points behind Melrose with the Jed and Selkirk tournaments to come.

The Gala Red Triangle and Gala Wanderers have completed all their tournaments, regularly getting to Semi Finals and Finals with the Triangle picking up a set of winners medals, at Hawick.

At the end of the month we held our final Friday Lunch of the season when the guest speaker was Gavin Hastings, who needs no introduction. Over 70 guests enjoyed Gavin’s recollections and stories and we look forward to next season’s lunch which will begin again September/October.

Our next big event at the club is the return of Maroon’d@Gala on 19th August 2023 with more live bands and more street food! This year we will be including a tournament for S2’s and S3’s on the Friday evening, so that we can fully represent all age groups in the event.

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