Following yesterday’s confirmation of Edinburgh Eagles place in the 2019 Challenge Cup, the club can today reveal that we have been accepted in to the North East RL league competition for next season. Representatives from six of the eight clubs the Eagles will now face next season were in attendance at the NERL AGM last [...]
Five Scottish rugby stars are backing the work of an Angus community rugby trust by agreeing to become ambassadors for it. Internationalists Matt and Zander Fagerson have been joined by former Scotland international Suzie Newton, new Scotland Rugby League cap Murray Mitchell and professional referee Sam Grove-White in taking on the role of ambassadors for [...]
Strathmore Silverbacks are seeking a new Team Manager! The Silverbacks, who play at Inchmacoble, Forfar, were founded in 2015 and compete in the Scottish National League. In their first four seasons they have been Scottish Champions once, in 2017, earning the right to compete in the 2018 Challenge Cup, and finished runners up in every [...]
Edinburgh Eagles (16) 28 Tries: Robertson, Quinn, Robertson (2), Reid Goals: Simpson (4) Wallsend Eagles (18) 36 Tries: Goals: On another warm and sunny day at Kingston Park, Newcastle on Saturday, Edinburgh Eagles met current North East Rugby League champions, Wallsend Eagles in the final of North East RL Cup. This is [...]
The rugby academy founded by an Angus sports charity has scored a success in its first season. The academy, run by The Strathmore Rugby Club Community Trust at Strathmore RFC’s ground in Forfar, has run free sessions for male and female S1-S6 pupils 2-4pm on Friday afternoons during the school term since last August [...]
Edinburgh Eagles (20) 48 Tries: Mair, Reid (3), Marwick (2), O’Neil, J Jablonski, Hanmer, McBain Goals: Simpson, McBain (3) Catterick Crusaders (12) 18 Tries: Goals: Catterick Crusaders were the visitors to the Jack Kane Centre on Saturday to face Edinburgh Eagles for a place in the final of the North East Cup but returned [...]
Edinburgh Eagles (14) 22 Tries: Reid (2), Robertson, Jablonski (2) Goals: Simpson Strathmore Silverbacks (10) 26 Tries: Feighan (3), Smith, Gray Goals:McKay (3) Edinburgh Eagles were crowned Scotland Rugby Leagues National Champions for 2018 on Saturday following an aggregate win against Strathmore Silverbacks avenging last season’s final defeat against the same opposition. An entertaining game [...]
Edinburgh Eagles (14) 40 Tries: Hanmer, Quinn, Mair (2), Woods, Simpson, Clarke, Robertson Goals: Simpson (4) Jarrow Vikings (10) 16 Tries: Goals: Eagles welcomed Jarrow Vikings on Saturday to the Jack Kane Centre for their NE Cup tie and whilst the promised Yellow weather warning for rain and thunder did not materialise, the Eagles, [...]
An Angus sports charity has taken a step closer to its vision of a sustainable programme of projects centred on rugby, health and the community by appointing a full-time Community Project Co-ordinator to fund, develop and run them. Josh Gabriel-Clarke (32) has been appointed into the newly-created role by The Strathmore Rugby Club Community [...]
Gateshead Storm (6) 22 Tries: Goals: Edinburgh Eagles (12) 24 Tries: Clarke (3), Woods, Robertson Goals: McBain (2) In the North East Cup preliminary round, Edinburgh Eagles travelled to Kingston Park, home of professional League club Newcastle Thunder and Union club Newcastle Falcons, but it is difficult to imagine that either of these teams [...]
