Hillfoots Rugby Football Club

The Clackmannanshire Sports Council – Awards 2011 are to be awarded this week.  Hillfoots RFC has been nominated as “Club of the Year” which is a great honour in itself.  The awards ceremony will be held at Alloa Town Hall on Thursday 23 February 2012. Fingers crossed!

Hillfoots took the long bus journey north this week to take on Caithness in Thurso.  Leaving on the Friday, with conditions rumoured to be good for the following morning, spirits were high and players were eager. The ‘Foots squad was almost at full strength with only Keith Slade unable to make the trip due to [...]

A great coach & a big friend of Hillfoots RFC Craig Bolan is moving on from his position as Rugby Development Officer for Clackmannanshire Council after 2 years in the post.  Craig spent his time split between supporting both Hillfoots RFC and Alloa RFC, as well as developing rugby in the primary schools of the [...]

JP was at Dollar Academy this week taking a forwards skills clinic with the school’s 1st XV squad (U18′s).  He was joined by Eddie Pollock, the SRU’s Specialist Coaching Coordinator & U18 Head Coach.  As a former Dollar Academy boy himself, and a former 1st XV Captain, JP said that he was able to impart [...]

Finlay Johnston – Scotland mascot 4 February 2012 Finlay had a great day out last Saturday at Murrayfield as a mascot for Scottish Rugby.  He was given a complete set of replica kit and met with all the players & SRU staff.  Here he is on the pitch before the game sitting in front of [...]

Bishopton Rugby Club, based in Renfrewshire are the second Club after Hillfoots RFC to gain the prestigeous new accreditation in association with Positive Coaching Scotland & The Bill McLaren Foundation.  We have sent our congratulations to Bishopton & to Bosman Du Plessis, the SRU’s Positive Coaching Manager.

  Junior Section member Rory Power (P7)  was injured during a school rugby match yesterday.  He has sufferred a bad break to his arm which meant a stay at Larbert Hospital.  Best wishes Rory from everyone at the Club.  We are all thinking of you & hope that it doesn’t hurt too much for too [...]

Frozen pitches caused the Adult Section games to be cancelled on Saturday 28 January.  1st XV Captain Gavin Spowage has posted a revised fixture list for the rest of the season which you can download.  Gavin obviously couldn’t give his usual post match interview, however he did offer to describe the pre match pitch inspection.  [...]

Hillfoots has been honoured again by the SRU!  The Club has been given the opportunity to send one of its Junior Section members to Murrayfield as a mascot for Scottish Rugby at the Calcutta Cup match on Saturday 4 February.  Finlay Johnston (P5) was selected by a draw and will travel to Murrayfield with his [...]