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Blaydon 7 – Esher 17

Blaydon’s recent good run came to a disappointing end in difficult conditions which they failed to master, only rarely threatening to cross the visitors try line.

Having turned round only 3 points adrift and with the wind now behind them they huffed and puffed for 20 minutes only to be let down by errors and poor handling, and time was running out when winger Tom Jeffery went close with a powerful run and a try by skipper Keith Laughlin was disallowed for crossing.

Esher on the other hand got off to an almost perfect start when their fly-half burst clear in the home 22 only to see his pass to the winger go down with the line beckoning.

They did get it right however on 12 minutes when they kicked a penalty to the corner for No8 Brandon Walker to gather in the line-out ball for the pack to drive flanker Peter Synott over in the corner.

Alex Chisholm put over an excellent conversion but Blaydon hit back in their first meaningful attack on 25 minutes. Good line-out ball looked to be heading for a typical rolling maul but they then let it out for winger Sean Brown to take a short pass and jink his way though a crowded 22.
Andrew Baggett levelled the scores with the conversion but the visitors were back in front by the interval when Blaydon were adjudged to have wheeled a scrum and Chisholm obliged with the penalty.

Lots of endeavour by Blaydon but little in the way of penetration then followed, and after comfortably surviving the pressure Esher broke up- field to land a second try.

With Synott at the helm their pack drove deep into the Blaydon 22 and from a quick tap penalty the flanker was in again, and Chisholm once more on target.

John Brennan

Saturday 11th April 2015 – Berwick XV 29, Blaydon Bricks 21

I have to say I am immensely proud of the Bricks who went to Berwick to play this game and against all the odds we nearly pulled off a victory. We knew this was going to be a tough one and was a bit of a stitch up, with Berwick having no 1st team game, they openly admitted putting out a very strong side, with a full bench. Added to this the ‘referee’ cried off, other clubs would have offered to allowed us to provide a referee, no they provided their own and boy was the game all about ‘him’, he had the whistle and used it, he missed things , a number that gave Berwick advantage and if Blaydon question they were cut down by his self declared power, we respected his position and just got on and played against 16.

North League

After the game at Westend was conceded gifting us the points we were offered a trip to Berwick, which if we won could have secured the league for us this season, with a win at Ryton. We started the day with 44 points, the same as Berwick and 5 points behind Novos, but with 3 points from Westend, a win at Berwick would have put us on 51, but it was not to be, travelling gets us a point, but unless Novos and Berwick both screw up, which is unlikely to happen, even if we win the Ryton game, the title although still mathematically possible, has gone.

Our thanks to Sam Headley who travelled up for us to play fly half, he had a great game, on his second appearance for us this season.

 

Berwick were well drilled and had gas to burn all around the pitch. The difference was the bench, the players they brought on, replacing the colts that were being blooded, were obviously 1st team, as were a number of the starting 15 and as our pack tired, we didn’t have any forwards subs and we just ran out of steam. We were probably 2/3 players away from winning this and given the size of our squad, (which will no doubt be available for the cup match next week) you would have thought we would have had a bunch of subs for what was deciding our league this season.

 

Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/26086313%40N08/collections/

 

Scorers:

Trys: Sam 2, Divers 1

 

Conversion: Sam 3

 

Back to our performance, everyone to a man played their part, with the ball our forwards battered them, our backs ran through them, but we; spilt ball in contact, tried to make passes we didn’t need to, or kicked away possession and Berwick made the most of it with runaway scores. Once we tightened up the game we recovered back to 24, 21 and were in the ascendancy, but as said earlier we ran out of steam, but we never gave up and Berwick knew they had been in a game.

 

Highs and lows:

  • Cliff standing at 10 took a high ball, took contact and juggled it but retained it. He lost a couple later in contact to make up for it.
  • Sam was causing them all sorts of problems with speed and directional running, as well as making good hits
  • Divers, Chester and Matt were making big hits and closing down the midfield
  • Adam and Ryan were making big yards with the ball
  • In the excitement we had Windy, Ryan and Keith making kicks, batter on boys its what you do best
  • Matt ran 50 yards, and dived for the try line with 3 men on him, Matt those broken lines are the 5m line… so close.
  • Divers and Chester made some good breaks
  • Tackling from all was exceptional, just getting caught out on the turnovers

 

 

 

 

Appearances this season:

As the season comes towards a close we thought it would be good to show who the main contributors have bene this season, below are all the players who have played 2 games or more this season, there are a total of 70 people who have made an appearance for the Bricks this season.

 

Player Played
Dave “Windy”Miller 19
Steven “Chester”Davison 19
Stu Bailey 18
Keith “Fingers” Winter 17
Ian Bennie 16
Phil Rayson 15
Ryan Denham 15
Scott Findlay 15
Damien Shaw 14
Matt Goodall 14
Phil Divers 13
Paul Dingley 12
Andy “Savs” Savory 11
Paul “GBH” Winter 10
Anthony 10
Craig Barlow 9
Jimmy “The Horse” Houghton 9
Liam Bradley 9
Cliff Snowdon 9
Adam Knox 9
Craig “Harry” Harrison 7
Joe Snowdon 7
Matty Bell 7
Stu Reay 6
Chris Coates 6
Steve Thackery 6
Paul Strachan 5
Davy Lowes 5
Richard Pike 5
Hopey 5
Joe Melia 4
Bum Bum 3
Chris Morton 3
Rob Pyle 3
Nathan McCleod 3
Nathan Somersail 3
Joey 3
Neil Gray 3
Sean Pyle 3
Brett Hanratty 2
Chris “Hamma” Hamilton 2
Craig McBurnie 2
Ryan Convey 2
Liam Wright 2
Adam Keeler 2
Cameron 2
Johnny Pruvis 2
Dicka 2
Sam Headley 2
Jerry 2

 

 

 

 

Team:

  1. Keith (Paul Winter)
  2. Ian Bennie
  3. Ryan
  4. Adam
  5. Matty Bell
  6. Windy
  7. Stu Bailey
  8. Cliff
  9. Hopey
  10. Sam
  11. Liam
  12. Chester
  13. Divers   ( Anth)
  14. Joe
  15. Matt Goodall

 

 

Blaydon v Darlington MP, with a great day of Rugby leading up to it on April 25th, buy your tickets ahead of the games and beat the queues

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Games don’t get much bigger than this, it may not be for promotion or relegation, but it is for bragging rights for the top team from the North East in National Division One, which sees 2 of the 3 North East Teams in National Division 1 go head to head on the last day of the season. Currently Blaydon 8th in league and Darlington MP one place behind, 9th there is nothing separating these teams. Blaydon just shaded it early in the season, the return match promises to be a ‘cracka’

 

Leading up to the game we have:
  • 2 games involving Newcastle School for boys
  • Blaydon IIs last game of the season, also against DMP in the Candy league
Suggest you by your tickets early and bypass the queues on the day, see below:

Buy your Blaydon RFC v Darlington MP tickets here……….

3 Games left of Blaydon 1st 2014/5 Season, which ends with; DMP at home on 25th April

3 really big games remain for the North East Teams in National Division 1

Blaydon, (currently 8th in league) Darlington MP (9th) and Tyendale (15th)

 

Blaydon final games:

11th April home to Esher (12th)

18th April away to Hartbury College

and the big one, last game of the season; 25th April,  home to Darlington MP

Come along for a great day of rugby, pre match lunches available before the game, Beer tent,  tickets on sale soon.

 

All NCA Fixtures:   http://www.ncarugby.org/index.php?pg=F%20National%20League%201&league=Nat%20League%201

Best wishes to Tynedale and we hope you are successful in avoiding relegation.

Blaydon RFC

Chobham come dancing into town on Easter Sunday

Big thanks to Chobham who provided great entertainment to a packed Blaydon Rugby Club on Easter Sunday, with a tour theme of Strictly Come Dancing. It was great to see a club tour that maintains the spirit of touring and they certainly enjoyed themselves both on and off the field.

Its been a while since we had an Easter Sunday game and with the warm weather the side line was packed and everyone stayed for the post match antics, it was a really fun day for both Blaydon and Chobham and then Chobham went off to the town with a few of our guys for company.

 

Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/26086313@N08/collections/72157647182482669/

The spoils on the field went to Blaydon, only just; 22 to 19 which was helped by the state the guys got off the bus, which allowed us to get 3 early trys and then defend the lead.

As far as the team we had on the day, aside from Joe Melia (who has played 4 games for us this season and is just on loan to the 2s while he’s young), was a Bricks squad player, with a number of people making a comeback as it was such a sunny day; Gerry, Big Lad, Simon Drennon, Mark Ward, Sean Pyle and Rodders.

Scorers:

Trys; Liam, Matt, Finnas  & Joe

Conv: Thacks

Highlights:

  • Chobham started with a Hacka
  • Savs and Stu Reay interplay left them spell bound
  • Matt breaking through tackles
  • Forwards were dominant in the scrums in the first half, but Chobham sent on reinforcements at half time
  • Liam must have thought he was a supper hero, instead of running round two big forwards he tried to go through them
  • Stu Bailey was everywhere and annoying Chobham
  • Windy was stealing their line out ball
  • Horse kicking the ball away, little bit of a huffy
  • Drennon came on and showed what a class player he still is
  • Tommy and Davy Hall had their gear and are looking to make a return
  • Rodders showed a good clean pair of heels and was just unlucky not to score
  • Joe made a try saving tackle, made his dad proud, then did a bullfighter move on the next one, but Stu Bailey helped him out
  • Side line banter was great, although not very encouraging, more micky taking.

 

Team:

1. Finnas  (Joe Melia)

2. Keith  (Craig)

3. Paul W

4. Cliff  (Horse)

5. Joe Melia ( Big Lad

6. Strachs (Ian Bennie)

7. Stu Bailey)

8. Windy (Simon Drennon)

9. Stu Reay ( Mark Ward)

10. Savs   (Gerry)

11. Craig Barlow  (Sean Pyle)

12 Thacks   (Chester)

13. Matt  (Hopey)

14. Liam   (Rodders)

15. Phil Rayson   (Joe Snowdon)

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Blaydon 2s win the Durham 2nd Team Cup

Photos:  Select ‘Durham 2nd Team Cup’

https://www.flickr.com/photos/26086313%40N08/collections/

Blaydon 2s successfully defended the 2nd team Cup against Ryton 2s yesterday in front of a good crowd for both sides. Match report to follow

Venues for Durham 2nd and 4th Team Cup Finals announced

Saturday 28th March – Durham County 2nd Team Cup Final

Ryton IIs v Blaydon IIs

Venue: Ryton

KO 3pm

 

Saturday 18th April – Duhram County 4th Team Cup Final

Blaydon Bricks (IVs) v Houghton Boars (IIs)

Venue: Ryton

KO 3pm

http://www.durhamrugby.com/CountyCup/CupCompetitions2ndTeams.shtml

It is with sadness that the club announce the loss of Jim Hurst on Sunday 22nd March

Update: Jim’s funeral is on Tuesday 7th April 1.30pm at Sunderland Crematorium, afterwards at the Rosedean
 

Jim played many games in Blaydon colours, was 1st team Captain and following his playing career helped develop ‘junior colts’ rugby at Blaydon RFC. Many of those colts remember Jim fondly, at the side line creating a one man crowd with his booming voice. If you slacked during the game, boy did you hear about it. Rest in Peace.

Jim was well known, with many friends from Blaydon RFC.

Our thoughts are with his family at this time.

4 Blaydon players in the English Counties squad that beat France

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Congratulations to our 4 players who were invovled in the game:  Keith Laughlin (Blaydon), Gavin Jones (Blaydon), Robbie Kalbraier (Blaydon) & Chris Wearmouth (Blaydon)

See match report:

http://www.rugbynetwork.net/main/england-/s245/st188868/france-federale-xv-15-england-counties-xv-24

Blaydon 26 Richmond 19

A first half riddled with knock-ons and clearances directly into touch from outside the 22 was truly forgettable and gave no warning of the entertainment to come later.

Richmond had led at the interval thanks to a Ben Lonergan try from a rolling maul but spectators had to wait until the 57th minute for the game to spring to life. But when it did it was worth waiting for with a Blaydon purple patch producing 3 tries in 13 minutes.

Tom Penny made the initial break to set up the first when he stormed into the 22 and then took it on again when it was re-cycled for Nathan Bailey to scramble over. Andrew Baggett added the conversion and was on target again 8 minutes later after he had held on to a head high pass to set up a score for James Christie who had only just come on as a replacement.

Christie then returned the favour by sending in Penny at speed and at 19-5 Blaydon were well and truly in the ascendancy, only for Richmond to finally get their act together.

Their No8 Joe Burton crashed over from close range after a concerted attack and Blaydon had to re-group. This they did and when a rolling maul was held up Harry Bate let it out and 2 passes later Bailey in a flash was in for his second, Baggett once more adding the extras.

With just 2 minutes of normal time remaining Blaydon at this point should have just concentrated on retaining possession but they went seeking another try and paid the price when a pass was intercepted.

Richmond sprinted up-field to reduce the deficit to 7 points with a Jordan Burns try, and were still on the attack at the final whistle.

 

John Brennan