Glasgow Hawks Youth Development Programme
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Welcome to all Hawks Junior Rugby players and supporters at today’s game
against Boroughmuir. Please make as much noise as you can and get behind the players. They do appreciate all of your support and they will be around at the end of the game to sign autographs and chat to you.

Last Sunday the Under 15s Scottish Cup 2nd round game with Dundee Eagles was cancelled due to a frozen pitch. The match has been rescheduled for Sunday 14th of December with a 1:00 PM kick-off at Old Anniesland. The winners will play Gala in the quarter finals.

On Sunday the Under 15s will be looking to keep up their 100 % record this year and defeat GHA in a league match, kick off is 2:00 PM at Braidholm. The under 13s and 14s are both training at 12:00 PM and some of the Hawks senior players will be down to help as part of their senior player rota for training.

The Development XV team have a number of fixtures planned for the New Year including games against Constanta from Romania in February, Edinburgh Accies at Old Anniesland on Friday 13th of February at 19:30, Royal Navy on Wednesday 18th February, also at 19:30 and Viadana from Italy in April. Tonight’s player profile is standoff Michael Rainey.

Michael has represented the following teams - Ireland Schools, Ireland under 19/21, Ulster A, Captain Ireland under 21 IRB World Cup.

PLAYER PROFILE
NAME - Michael Rainey
NICKNAME - Rainman
AGE - 26
PLAYING POSITION - Stand-off
YEAR THAT YOU JOINED GLASGOW HAWKS - 2001
BEST RUGBY MOMENT SO FAR - Captained Ireland Under 21 at IRB World
Cup 2003 and the Scottish Cup final 2004
FAVOURITE MUSIC - A bit of 70’s power ballads
FAVOURITE FOOD - Barbecue spare ribs
FAVOURITE COLOUR - Orange
FAVOURITE PERSON AT GLASGOW HAWKS - Sean Murray – an easy target for abuse.

Anyone that would like information on Midi (U’13 to U’16), Youth (U’17 and U’18) and Development XV (U’20) rugby at Glasgow Hawks please don’t
hesitate to contact me on either 07825 181 041 or at [email protected].

Grant Talbot
Club Development Manager
06.12.2008

This article was posted on 5-Dec-2008, 17:19 by Hugh Barrow.