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Weekend Sport – Sat/Sun 24th/25th Nov. Rugby / Golf

Rugby:    Aberdeen Grammar  31   Stewart’s Melville RFC  14   (National League Cup – Round 2)   Another long away trip for the 1st XV ended in another defeat at the hands of NL 1 side Aberdeen Grammar on Saturday ending our interest in the cup for National League teams for another year. Link […]

Weekend Sport – 17th November – Rugby 1st XV win in Glasgow

Rugby: Whitecraigs  22   Stewart’s Melville RFC   50 While the attention of the World was on Scotland’s efforts against South Africa at Murrayfield the 1st XV were in Glasgow notching another good result in their quest for promotion from National League 2. Two early converted tries gave us a 14-0 lead and although the […]

Weekend Sport – Sat 10th November. Rugby – 1st XV win at Falkirk

Rugby:    Falkirk    25     Stewart’s Melville RFC    49 Congrats to the 1st XV in achieving a comprehensive win  in an early kick-off only hours after their annual shindig at Prestonfield House turning around an 18-12 deficit after half an hour’s play  (obviously took them some time to shake off the effects !) […]

Weekend Sport – Sat 27th Oct. 1st XV in Inverness

Highland    36    Stewart’s Melville   RFC     5 A second successive defeat away from home at the hands of Highland means Highland stay in second place on 35 points from nine matches, six more than Stew Mel now in fourth place on 29 points, one point behind third place Falkirk.   Table […]

Weekend Sport – Sat 20th October. Defeat for 1st XV at Dumfries

Dumfries    41     Stewart’s Melville RFC    26 Our 1st XV headed for Dumfries with high expectations.   Only one defeat in seven matches and looking good in second place.   Such thoughts were soon dismissed when Dumfries took the lead with an early try.   Although the 1sts pulled that back to […]

Weekend Sport – 6th October 2018. Rugby – Big win for 1sts at GHK.

GHK     7    Stewart’s Melville RFC    46 For once the rugby club’s senior management of President Bill McNie and Vice-President Simon Breeze had a stress free afternoon as the 1st XV strode to their biggest win of the season by 46-7 having led 22-0 at half-time. With league leaders Biggar defeating Highland, […]

Weekend Sport – Sat 29th Sept. Narrow win for 1st XV

Stewart’s Melville RFC   24   Preston Lodge  22 Seemingly winning comfortably by 24 – 12 with just 15 minutes to go our favourites contrived to lose a couple of scores in the next five minutes to leave home spectators biting their nails and encouraging the referee to end the game.    Eventually he did […]