LATEST JED-FOREST NEWS

July 27th
Children in Jedburgh are being given a tremendous opportunity to do something worthwhile with their time during the summer holidays. Jedforest player Greg Walker is also the development officer for Jed and he's co-ordinating a series of four events starting this Friday at Jedburgh Grammar School Astro turf. 

"Street Rugby" looks at getting kids off the street at night and onto astro turf where they can throw a rugby ball about and play various conditioned rugby games. The first event starts at 7pm and will continue till 9pm. Friday 31st July will be the first night then on the following three Fridays on August 7th, 14th and 21st. It is hoped that a large number of kids from P7 to S6 will attend.
 
"The session shall be split into two sections," said Greg. "There shall be rugby being run from 7 until 8 and then the second half of the night shall be football from 8 until 9. This event shall be looking at getting kids off the street and keeping them active during the summer holidays. It is funded by the SRU and 'Cashback for communities' which pays for the use of the astro turf."


 Jed development officer Greg Walker

June 30th
Jedforest have announced their new coach as 41 year old Darren Cunningham. The former winger has been head coach at Morpeth for the last three seasons and sees this move as a very positive step in his coaching career. He's already taken a training session after impressing in original meetings with the club and the players are said to have responded very positively to his efforts.  He will take over from Calum Brown who has stepped down after six years coaching at Jed. Among Calum's achievements with the club were two consecutive promotions with the 2nd XV and a semi final appearance in the National Shield competition. He also led the club to two Border League Finals a Kings of the 7s title and a Jed 7s victory.

You can hear an exclusive interview with Darren here.


 Jed new captain Gary Holborn (above) and Darren Cunningham, who takes
over as Head Coach.

Gary Holborn has been named as new club captain at Jed. He led Berwick before joining Jed and has now played over 50 times for the club. Donald Grieve will be his vice captain. The club website has speculated that Garry Elder will be joining Melrose and David Grieve moving to Watsonians but these are yet to be confirmed..