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3rd Team News

The 3rd team season starts with back to back home games this year.

6th September Vs Novos

13th September vs Durham

We are looking forward to a really good season with players from the Under 17’s and Under 18’s looking to gain their first taste of open age rugby, along side our experienced squad members such as Ryan Convery, Robert Pyle & Scott Whitfield.

We also have a new look coaching set up this season with Andrew Strachan & Andrew Todd taking control of the team for their first full season, having looked after team affairs for the second half of last season.

The third team will be competing in Candy League 2, The Candy League Cup & the Durham County Cup during the 2014-2015 season.

Blaydon 38, Currie RFC 14 – Pre-Season friendly

Blaydon produce a scintillating display to account for Scottish Premier League opposition, in the first of 3 pre-season games, outscoring their opponents 6 tries to 2 and in the process used 30 players which bodes well for the season.

In particular in the second period they dominated all phases of the game and ran out comfortable winners.

Next week we travel to Ayr followed by an away trip to Championship side; Rotherham on the 30th August.

Meanwhile the Geogians travel to Bishop Aucklane next week and then play away to West Hartlepool in the County Cup.

Blaydon RFC is sad to announce the death of former player – John Purves

John played many games in Blaydon colours and was well known and with many friends from BRFC.

Our thoughts are with his family at this time.

Please see extract from family announcement below:

PURVES John (Whickham). Sadly on 17th July 2014, aged 58 years.
Friends please meet for service at Mountsett Crematorium, Dipton, on Friday 1st August 2014, at 2.45pm.

Family flowers only please, a retiring collection will be taken at the end of service in aid of The Marie Curie Hospice.

Blaydon player in Barbados Commonwealth 7s Team

Sean English of Blaydon is in the Barbados team for the Commonwealth Sevens

They are in the Group A and amonst others will face NZ.

Our best wishes to Sean and Barbados

Blaydon squad update for 2014/15 Season

Retention over recruitment has been the Blaydon motto in the off-season and we’ve done a good job of achieving our goals. We only lost two of our players from last season so we feel like it has been a successful off-season. Andy Davies has left to join Newcastle Falcons Full time and Tommy Banks returned home to work, both these guys were massive for us last season however we’ve lined up some pretty handy replacements.

Even though we only lost two players, we were keen to get a little bit more quality in behind the scrum to add to the talent we already have. Two players who impressed last season after a short training spell were Joe Heslop and Ollie Wood. Ollie is a hard-hitting centre that is in the area studying business at Northumbria University, he played for Scunthorpe last season and impressed when he came to train with us. Joe on the other hand is a very illusive outside back that grew up in Barnard castle, he studied at Manchester University and is now working in the area as a nuclear physicist, Both players will bring a good edge to our squad.

The club will have a close working relationship with both Newcastle and Northumbria University, we currently have three players who will balance their university and Club commitments. We have two forwards from Northumbria who will add great value to our pack Victor Guignouard a French hooker, Jack Davison who plays in the back row and then at scrum half we have Rhodri Adamson from Newcastle University, Rhodri went on the England counties tour in the summer and will no doubt flourish under the guidance of ex falcons scrum half Hall Charlton.

Other additions to the squad include young open side Matthew Jenkinson and talented scrum half Nathan horsfall.

Our squad is pretty much finalised for the new season now the hard work of pre-season starts.

Mick Ward

3 Blaydon forwards in English Counties win over Georgia

 

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Chris Wearmouth (Blaydon and Durham)
Keith Laughlin (Blaydon and Northumberland)
Gavin Jones (Blaydon and Yorkshire)

RFU write up via this link

National League 1 – 2014/15 Fixtures released

The 1st XV will kick off their season with an exciting start, playing away at newly promoted Darlington Mowden Park, followed by Tynedale at home the week after.

– 6th Sept away to DMP
– 13th Sept home to Tynedale

Full fixture list will be available on Blaydon & NCA Websites soon

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

England Counties trio commit their future to Blaydon RFC

imageimageimageBlaydon are extremely pleased to announce three of their senior forwards have committed their future to the club for another season.

Matthew Hall, Gavin Jones and Chris Wearmouth have all agreed to stay at the club for another season. All three had a lot of interest from other clubs; however they showed their loyalty by committing to us.

Matthew has played over 250 games for Blaydon and captained England counties on numerous occasions; he is a good ball carrier and a great scrummaging hooker.

Gav brings a wealth of experience in the national leagues he also represented England Counties and is a Yorkshire regular.

Chris on the other hand was player of the season this year and the corner stone of the pack.

The club is so lucky to have retained 90% of its players from last season, we have a number of guys coming in to strengthen the current squad and we’ll announce these in due courseblaydon

Wednesday Carboot now firmly established

Blaydon RFC are running a Wednesday Carboot this season and its proving a good success with both sellers and buyers

More details:

https://www.blaydonrfc.co.uk/club/car-boot/

Heineken Cup Final: Toulon v Saracens‏

This match will be televised at club on the big screen

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Come along and enjoy