3rd July                                                                1st XV League Fixtures

The fixture list for the 2009-2010 Scottish Hydro Premier 2 League have been announced today. Jed play Gala at home on the 29th of August to kick the season off in style and also end at home against Aberdeen Grammar on the 6th of March. The full list is now on the fixtures page.

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30th June                                                              Jed Announce New Head Coach

Jed are pleased to announce the appointment of Darren Cunningham as our new 1st XV head coach. Darren is 41, is married to Kirsty and they have two girls under 6. He played on the wing and has been head coach at Morpeth for the last 3 seasons. Leading them to victory in the Northumberland Senior Cup for only the third time in their clubs history in his first season in charge. He holds a UKCC level 3 qualification certificate in coaching rugby (level 4 is the highest and this is a UK recognised system) after completing the very demanding course in 2008.

Darren is very ambitious and sees the move to Jed as a very positive step in his coaching career. He has already taken a training session after impressing in our original meetings and the players seemed very positive with his efforts. 

An interview by Bordersrugby.net can be found here.

Darren takes over from Calum (Beige) Brown who stepped down at the end of last season after 6 years coaching at Jed, 4 years as first xv coach and 2 years at 2nd xv level.

 Calum's record will be hard to match as Jed coach, he led the 2nds to 2 successive promotions taking them to the highest league possible before coaching the firsts to a semi-final of the cup, a semi-final of the shield, 2 Border league finals, a Kings of the 7s title and a Jed 7s title. Jed also finished in the top 5 of the league during all four years of Calum's tenure.

News of an assistant coach will come shortly.

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30th June                                                        Gary Holborn New Captain

Gary Holborn has been named as the Captian of Jed for the 2009-2010 Season after a players meeting last week. Gary moved to Jed at the start of 2007-2008 after being Captain of Berwick, he has played 57 games for Jed already, and is "honored to be Jed's new Captain". Donald Grieve is to be his vice captain.

 We are working on bringing players in to compliment the dozen or so Thistle boys moving up.

On a sadder note it seems like we are losing 2 senior players. Gary Elder looks to be heading to Melrose and David Grieve is heading to Watsonians. I'm not 100% sure that these moves are confirmed so watch this space.