Galapate Group Outside Bar

28/06/2024

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Look out for these posters around Gala on Braw Lads’ Day! Any donation is helpful no matter how small!

17/06/2024

🏁 💴 ALL THE FOLLOWING EVENTS WILL BE CASH ONLY BARS 💴 🏁

Braw Lads ball
Braw Lads Sports
Ex Braw Lads and Lasses Dinner
Carnival Dance
Civic Reception
Braw Lads Lunch
Final Fling

🏁 Thank you in advance 🏁

16/06/2024

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Braw Lads’ Sports and Family Fun Day 🏁

📆 Sunday 23rd June
📍 Netherdale

Fun and Games for all the family. Admission for adults £5, 16 and under go free.
NOTE Gate Entry will be Cash Only.

06/06/2024

BRAW LADS' GATHERING OFFICIAL BROCHURE 🏁

Our 2024 Official Brochure is now on sale! Full of all the information you will need for this year's Gathering, along with fantastic photos and articles.

⚫️ Meet the Principals
⚪️ Anniversary Principals’ Memories
⚫️ Rideout Timings and Routes
⚪️ Event Information
⚫️ Braw Lads’ Gathering History
⚪️ Photos from the Archives
⚫️ Photos from 2024 so far
⚪️ Art and Essay Competition Winners
⚫️ And much, much more!
⚪️ Only £5!

Available from:
Wood Street Shop - Scott Street Shop - Gala
Park Post Office - Morrisons - Premier Tweedbank Stores - Melrose Gait Premier - DS Dalgleish & Son - Spar - WH Smith - Quins of Galashiels - Fountain News & Confectionery - Millar's Hair Salon - Honey Be Bright

04/06/2024

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27/05/2024

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15/04/2024

🏁🏁🏁🍻🍻🍻 who will it be? 🍻🍻🍻🏁🏁🏁

DECLARATION NIGHT 2024 🏁

Only one week to go until the town's best kept secret is revealed and we'll be introduced to the Braw Lad and Braw Lass for 2024!

Join us for the announcement from the Burgh Chambers at 8pm.

07/04/2024

Fabulous night… well done to all involved … such talent 🙌

What a great night at the Sports Dinner last night!
Lots of thank yous to make:
- Our MC Bruce Aitchison who was ran the night brilliantly, and local sporting legends Sammi Kinghorn, Ryan Mania and Richie Gray for giving up their time to entertain us 🎤
- The Singing Souters aka Tommy and Darren Knox who were superb 🎼
- Stuart Wilson for doing an excellent job with the sound 🎛
- John Robertson and team for the great meal 🍲
- The GalaPate bar team and waiters and waitresses 🍷
- A and A Doyle Ltd for sponsorship of dinner programmes
- Everyone who donated raffle and auction prizes ✅️
- And all our guests who came along to support. We hope you enjoyed your night 🙌

27/03/2024

Tickets still available see ⬇️

27/03/2024

Tickets still available….see 👇

Our next focus on our Sports Dinner speakers is a well kent face in Galashiels – Richie Gray.

Richie, Ryan Mania and Samantha Kinghorn as well as MC Bruce Aitchison are all kindly giving up their time to support the Rowan Boland Memorial Rowan's Trust and Gala Cricket Club event.

They are joined by musicial duo The Singing Souters – well known Selkirk father and son Tommy and Darren Knox.

Tickets are still available to buy, please contact either Scott Paterson (07834522358); Keith Irvine (07773142226) or Kenny Paterson (07913767871) or email [email protected].

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Richie Gray grew up with rugby in his veins, having followed the lead of his father Johnny who played for Gala almost 300 times as well as becoming a highly regarded coach, from youngsters at Langlee Primary to some great Gala and South of Scotland District sides.

Richie would follow in his father’s coaching footsteps, but not before captaining Gala to a famous Scottish Cup victory in 1999, with a young protégé named Chris Paterson scoring a late try to secure a narrow win over Kelso at Murrayfield, in front of over 20,000 supporters – an incredible figure for a club rugby game in Scotland. The Rowan Boland Memorial Trust’s chair Dave Boland also started the game.

But it was coaching where Richie’s rugby career took off. After working with Scottish Rugby for 12 years in a variety of roles as well as being a TV and radio pundit and presenter, Richie moved on to work with elite rugby teams across the world – from South Africa, to Fiji to a variety of French Top 14 League clubs including Lyon and Toulon.

Alongside this, he started a new company GSI Performance which has changed the way players and coaches prepare and train the areas of ‘Tackle, Collision and Contact’.

This has been achieved through GSI Performance’s innovation of technical training aids for Rugby Union, Rugby League and American Football, with an emphasis on specific techniques that can be coached and performed by the player on each piece of equipment.

His work in this area has seen Richie noticed by NFL teams and has moved into American Football, working with the Miami Dolphins in 2016.

Its within the last six months where Richie’s name has become even more widely known across the USA and globe while working with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Richie was credited with creating the innovative but slightly controversial ‘Brotherly Shove’ play for the Eagles, and was namechecked when discussing the play as ‘this Scottish Guy’ on a podcast by Eagles star Jason Kelce, and his brother Travis – who won the Super Bowl in February with the Kansas City Chiefs and is currently dating a little known musician called Taylor Swift.

Not bad for a lad from Gala.

27/03/2024

Massive well done to Lucy and her team.. fabulous night !! 💙🍻

It was a local team of Robbie Graham, Jamie Bertram, David Blake and Malcolm Howden who came out first, with a total of 54 teams entered.

20/03/2024

💙🍻🥂💷 It’s nearly time for The Big Quiz this Friday 22nd … please note it will be a cash bar…. Please share 💷🥂🍻💙

20/01/2024

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📣 Reminder - Closing Date for Applications is
31st January 2024 📣

16/11/2023

Election Of The Braw Lad And Braw Lass 2024 🏁

26/08/2023

The bar all set and ready to go for the Henry wedding!… 🍺🥂👰‍♀️🤵🏻🥂🍺

25/06/2023

Come along and say hello to us at the sports 🍻🍻🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🏁🏁🏁🏁

23/06/2023

Set up and ready for the Ball tomorrow ….hope you are all thirsty!!! 🏁🍺🥂🏁

21/06/2023

🏁NEWS ALERT ‼️
Please note that all functions in conjunction with Braw Lads Executive Committee and the Ex-Braw Lads’ and Lasses’ Association are cash only bars… apologies for any inconvenience 🏁

21/06/2023

Please note that this is a cash 💵 only event…. Many thanks in advance 🍺🍺🍺

Make sure you get your Final Fling tickets at the early bird price of £10. Offer ends next Wednesday!

Tickets will be available at the Ex-Braw Lads’ and Lasses’ Association gazebo at the sports on Sunday and also at the Riders Social next Monday night.

FINAL FLING TICKETS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE ON BRAW LADS’ DAY!!!