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Blaydon Beer Festival – August 8th to 10th 2014

This year’s Festival is being finalised, dates are 8th to 10th August

More Beers, Ciders and Wines this year

Music; Maverick Rejects and American Girl are back, other to be confirmed.

http://www.blaydonbeerfestival.com/home.html

Blaydon U17s win RFU National Shield Final

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Blaydon winning streak come to an end

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Blaydon’s season disappointingly ended exactly as it began, with a thumping defeat at the hands of Loughborough Students. Needing a win to escape the relegation zone the Students dominated from the start and were 21 points clear after just 23 minutes, capitalising on a series of errors by a lacklustre Blaydon side.

Full-back Jack Pons scored their opener when his opposite number Nathan Bailey failed to collect a high ball and then Rhys Owen raced clear when the visitors coughed up possession at a driving maul.

A Freddie Pierrepoint effort from another mistake completed the early scoring with Alex Davis converting all 3 efforts at which point things really went downhill for Blaydon with three key players succumbing to injury before the break.

Skipper Keith Laughlin pulled back 5 points from a catch and drive but much of the half had been one-way traffic for the Students.

Davis was on target with a penalty to make it 24-5 early in the second period but Blaydon gradually got back into it and were rewarded with a second try when they kept possession through several phases before prop forward Robert Morris popped up at outside centre to run in his first score for the club.

Loughborough fittingly had the last word however when the visitors lost the ball on the try line and Davis ran the length of the field to secure a bonus point score just as he had on the opening day at Crow Trees.

John Brennan

Blaydon Bricks v Weymouth IIIs – Sunday 27th April 3pm Kick Off

Blaydon Bricks last home game of the season brings Weymouth IIIs to Crowtrees this afternoon, playing there 2nd game of the tour, first one being Gateshead on Saturday

Bricks go off the boil and let a key one slip away; Blaydon Bricks 25, Ryton IIIs 27

After establishing a 20-5 lead by half time the Bricks went off the boil and allowed Ryton to come back into the game and take the last bragging rights for the season (Blaydon won overall 3 games to 2 for the season) and secure 3rd place in the league. In the end it was a story of ‘benches’ Bricks had two fit and 2 walking wounded and Ryton had a full bench and fresh players made a difference.

More to follow ….

Scorers
Trys: Surrey, Brett & Adam
Conv; Hopey 2
Pen; Hopey 2

1. Brett
2. Ian Benny (Chris Morton)
3. Paul Winter
4. Ryan Convery
5. Nellie
6. Andy strachan
7. Charlie
8. Vinnie.
9. Stu Bailey
10. Hopey
11. Adam Kibiridgee
12. Surrey
13. Divers (Chester)
14. Paul Dingley (Matty Bell)
15. Craig Barlow

Wednesday Car Boot Sale – Starts May 7th

Planning Permission granted by Council permits trading between 10am and 2.00pm

Entry onto the site will not be allowed prior to 9.30am and there must be no trading outside the above hours. Prices for traders and buyers will be the as same as the Sunday
operation.

Any member with a few hours to spare will be very welcome to assist with general duties.

Thanks,
Jim Huxley – Secretary

Another one gets away; Saturday 19th April – Blaydon Bricks 13, Blyth IIs 17

Scorers: Lowsey, tbc

This was a game Bricks could and should have won, with missed kicks proving the difference on the day, but the game littered with too many knock ons, not using the support players or not having suppoort when needed.

Headlines:
Good to see Chris Morton and Nelly back in Bricks shirts
Dean Holiday and Surrey guested on the day
Mark Ward came in at Scrum Half
Stu Bailey charged down a kick, offloaded to Lowsey who ran into the corner
Windy took a rest on a yellow, again

Remainder of match report to follow from Windy & Cliff

Forwards:
Charlie Johnson
Richard Pike
Brett.
Chris Morton
Nelly
Surrey
Stu Bailey
Windy

Backs:
Mark Ward
Dean Holiday
Lowsey
Anthony
Damien
Phil Divers
Antoni
Craig Barlow

RUGBY WORLD CUP 2015 – RUGBY COMMUNITY TICKET APPLICATIONS

The RWC ticket allocation is in two parts with ten matches at Twickenham and the remaining 38 matches throughout the country.   For the Twickenham matches, the club is allocated a fixed number of tickets for each match and members must choose which match they would prefer to purchase a ticket.

For the remaining 38 matches, members can choose when tickets go on sale, up to a limited of 4 tickets per member.

Tickets are sold directly to members nominated by the club and all ticket sales will be processed on line through RWC 2015 Ticketing System.

If applications by members exceed our ticket allocation for Twickenham matches, there will be a random ballot for those registered.

From 6th May 2014 the club can enter details on the RWC Ticketing Website of members interested in purchasing tickets.   These members will then receive an automatic email inviting them to register on the website prior to tickets going on sale on 16th May 2014.

Tickets will be paid for on application and will be sent to members direct in Summer 2015.

WARNING: Tickets CANNOT BE TRANSFERRED and all the strict terms and conditions by all purchasing members must be formally accepted.    Full members of Blaydon RFC from 2012/13 will be eligible to purchase tickets. Season ticket holders and junior members over 16 will be considered.

Hospitality or travel packages can be found at www.rugbyworldcup.com/hospitality.

By sending your details to the club that you wish to purchase tickets, you are authorizing the club to transfer these details to RWC 2015 and authorize them to store and use those details.

Ticket allocation and prices for Blaydon are 150 tickets for Twickenham and 300 elsewhere with prices varying from £50 to £175.

Ticket quotas outside Twickenham are not fixed and once registered you can chose which match for which you prefer to purchase tickets, up to a maximum of four.   Blaydon RFC have a total allowance of 300 tickets spread across those matches.   Tickets are available to buy across all price bands but are subject to availability on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Tickets are not guaranteed but registering gives you priority access before the general public sale in September 2014.

Ticketing/prices link: www.rugbyworldcup.com/ticketing/prices/index

TIMELINE:
Prior to 6th May 2014
you should forward your name and preferred email contact address to: ericwhickham@hotmail.com with details of all match requirements.

On 6th May 2014 RWC Ticketing Website goes live and the club uploads details of members wishing to purchase tickets.

On 16th May 2014 the sale opens and eligible members log into: ww.tickets.rugbyworldcup.com to buy tickets.

On 30th June 2014 sales to club members using the above procedure closes.

In September 2014 tickets go on sale to the public. Anyone can buy including those members successful in the above procedures.

SUMMARY:  Full members from 2012/13
Season ticket holders and juniors over 16 from season  wishing to purchase tickets for any RWC 2015 match should send name and email contact address to:  ericwhickham@hotmail.com prior to 6th May 2014.

Please indicate number of tickets required or place full name and email address on the list which will be on the club MAIN NOTICE BOARD UPSTAIRS.

The club will check status of the applications, determine availability and allocation of tickets in a fair and transparent manner.

I would just like to say hope everyone has enjoyed the season and we look forward to seeing all our players and supporters again next year and to those players leaving us we wish them every success both in their careers and on the field of rugby.

JIM HUXLEY

Blaydon extend winning streak to 4

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In a first half littered with errors by both sides the game was going nowhere until Fylde centre Chris Briers was yellow carded for a high tackle on Nathan Bailey and the visitors responded with a try right on the interval and then another 2 minutes into the second period. Blaydon needed to hit back quickly and so they did.

Director of rugby Micky Ward said afterwards “I was really pleased with the way we came through. We just didn’t do ourselves justice in the first half when our ill discipline let us down”.

Andrew Baggett’s 14th minute penalty looked to be the only score of the half until the dying seconds when a Fylde rolling maul took it almost to the line where they whipped it out for winger Oli Brennand to touch down.

Worse was to follow when still down to 14 men Fylde grabbed a second score through flanker Steve McGinnis after their forceful lock Paul Arnold had stormed into the 22, and Blaydon were staring into an abyss at 3-14.

Substitutions were made, the game opened up and in no time at all Blaydon had turned it around. Lock Chris Wearmouth grabbed a superb solo effort when at a line-out from a penalty to the corner he spotted a gap and raced clear unchallenged. Baggett added the extras and was on the mark again 5 minutes later after man of the match Harry Bate had set up and then scored the decisive try.

The flanker set off on a brilliant run into the 22 from half-way before moving it on to Tom Bramwell whose pass to the wing disappointingly went down. Fortunately however Fylde infringed from the clearance and Bate was driven over from the driving line-out.

John Brennan

Blaydon make it 3 wins out of 3

Blaydon’s 680 mile round trip to the south coast ended successfully despite playing most of the game a man short having picked up 4 yellow cards, and conceding a try after just 2 minutes.

The home side, fighting for survival in the relegation zone, were sharp in the backs but had no answer to the power of the Blaydon pack, even when depleted.

Liam Perkins the Worthing No8 scored the opener when he stormed through a gap in the middle of a line-out, Joe Govette adding the conversion, but the Blaydon response was immediate. Chris Wearmouth touched down from a driving maul 25 metres out and minutes later man of the match Harry Bate went over in similar style.

Winger Sean Brown made it 7-15 when he scooted over in the corner but by the interval Worthing had narrowed the gap to 1 point with a good effort by Oliver Richards who latched onto a chip ahead, Govette again on the mark.

An Andrew Baggett penalty early in the second period improved Blaydon’s advantage but Richards edged Worthing in front with his second try, this time from an excellent handling movement and the home side enjoyed a period of domination.

Two more Blaydon tries effectively settled the issue however, replacement centre Tom Bramwell grabbing the first to clinch a bonus point and Baggett adding the extras. Another replacement, Andrew Davies then scored a fifth try, a typical scrum-half effort to dart in under the posts with Baggett taking the score to 19-32.

Worthing, for whom this was a must win game, battled on to the end and secured their own try bonus through full-back Tom McLean when Blaydon were down to 12 men in the closing stages.