A FAMILY’S connection with a rugby club has been strengthened after four brothers lined up for the same team.

Jordan, Taylor, Luke and Jacob McDonald were part of the Preston Lodge 2nd XV who travelled to Edinburgh’s Inverleith Park last month.

Positively, the brothers were also part of the winning team, with 29-year-old Jordan, who works for a utility company, and younger brother Jacob, 19, scoring a try each in a 68-20 win against Edinburgh Northern.

Twenty-six-year-old Taylor, who works in film and television, and 21-year-old Luke, who is a musician and studying music at Edinburgh Napier University, also played important roles in the game.

Impressively, the appearance of the four brothers furthers the link between the family, who live in Prestonpans, and the town’s rugby club.

Dad Mark was a regular part of the club’s first team in the early 1980s.

He said: “It was a great feeling.

“I have watched them all come through the school playing rugby and to see them go all the way to play for the FP was quite a proud moment for me and my wife.”

The brothers, all former pupils at Preston Lodge High School, have played rugby from a young age.

This season, with Jacob, who is also a music student, leaving the secondary school, he returned to rugby and the chance to line up together came about.

Mark, along with wife Carole, is regularly on hand to cheer on the brothers during the game.

Mark highlighted what the club meant to him and his sons.

He said: “The club meant stability to me.

“When I first joined, I had moved from abroad.

“I was brought up in Africa, although I was schooled in Liverpool and latterly Edinburgh.

“Rugby was everything to me growing up and I continued rugby right throughout my young age.

“It was good that they took up something I knew throughout the years.”

It is believed that this might be the first time that four brothers have lined up together in the same team in a National League competition in Scotland.