Alnwick Town v South Shields 25/08/2015 by Alnwick Town AFC

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Ebac Northern League Division 2 Alnwick Town v South Shields Tuesday 25th August 2015, 19:45 KO

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Index Club Officials

Welcome to St James’ Park

President

Alnwick Town Association Football Club St James’ Park, Weavers Way Alnwick, Northumberland NE66 1BG

The Duke of Northumberland

Vice President

Norman Laidler

Chairman Secretary

Tel: 01665 603162 Website: www.alnwicktownfc.co.uk E-Mail: info@alnwicktownfc.co.uk

Assistant Secretary

Page Index

Tom McKie Cyril Cox

Brian Ellis

Treasurer

Stuart Cairns

Commercial Manager Alan Lingwood

1st Team Manager Jon Egen

Reserve Team Manager Alan McFall

Club Physio

David Ross & Joanne Chisholm

Groundsman Ian Hogg

Gatemen

Dave Knapp & David Turnbull

Programme / Website Editor Michael Cook

Page 1: Index Page 2: Gift of the Gaffer’s Gab Page 3: Match Sponsors Page 4: Pitch Sponsors Page 5: Commercial Corner Page 6-7: Club History Page 8-10: Player Profiles Page 11: Player Stats Page 12-13: Matchday Info Page 14-15: Opposition Info Page 16: Record Against Opposition Page 17: Mike Amos - Last Legs Page 18-19: Fixtures Page 20: Division 1 Page 21: Division 2 Page 22-23: Noticeboard Page 24: Stats

Cracking game of football on Saturday against Crook, and 3 deserved points. James Jackson (man of the match) grafted his arse off and got his reward with the equaliser. Also good to see Ross Gair get his first goal for the club. The first of many we all hope. Good to see South Shields back at their home ground after a couple of years away. I visited a couple of seasons ago when we won 3-0. You could tell Peterlee wasn’t their home, just a stop-gap. Our equivalent would be playing home games at Morpeth. Just not right is it! And the league chairman is here tonight. Best behaviour lads!

Cheers, Cookie

Gift of the Gaffer’s Gab

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We welcome Shields to St James’ Park tonight fully aware of the ride they're on now after the financial backing they got from their new owner. They've brought in some very talented and experienced players and it’ll be good for our lads to be amongst them on the pitch showing what we have. Kings is very vociferous as I was described as by the secret shopper and will drive then on to good things. Middla whom he brought in as his assistant was my boss at Ashington and will have them playing to their strengths. We will respect them as they deserve but not fear them as we are the best footballing team in the league and we have our pride in the club that won't allow us to lie down especially at St James’. Please go on the website to see reports from games or a piece from myself about future games. Enjoy the game. Oh, and try the steak pies if it's your first time here. Jon

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Commercial Corner

Pitchside Advertising Board - £150 a season Pitchside advertising boards at St James' Park are a quick and easy way to get your business noticed. They are seen by players, officials and supporters at the ground, and with local photographers, there is a good chance of your board being in the background of the local newspapers or on social media. Advertising boards are 8x2 feet in size. Match Sponsor - £50 a game Your business will be advertised in our matchday programme, on Facebook, on Twitter, the club website and in the Northumberland Gazette match report. You will also be given two complimentary tickets to the match with half-time refreshments and a free programme. Ball Sponsor - £25 a game Your business will be advertised in our matchday programme, on Facebook, on Twitter, the club website and in the Northumberland Gazette match report. You will also be given a complimentary ticket to the match with half-time refreshments and a free programme. Player Sponsor - £10 a player Sponsor a player for the 2015/2016 for just £10. You will be noted in the matchday programme, Facebook, Twitter and the club website.

For more information, or to get involved with our sponsorship opportunities, please e-mail info@alnwicktownfc.co.uk or speak to a committee member.

Club History

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Alnwick Town Association Football Club was formed in 1879, and was then known as Alnwick United Services. The club was the only Association Football side between Dunbar and Newcastle. It is believed that the club played in red shirts with thin black hoops, black shorts and black socks. In 1900 the club moved to our current home, St James’ Park. The club’s name was also changed, to Alnwick United Juniors. Between this time and the beginning of the First World War, the name changed between United and Town on several occasions, and also a brief spell as Alnwick St James’s. The club competed in the North Northumberland League until 1923, moving to the East Northumberland League until 1936. The club was then renamed Alnwick Town, and would compete in the Northern Alliance until 1982, apart from 1 season in the Durham Central League in 1964-65. The 60’s and early 70’s were Alnwick Town’s golden years, winning the Northern Alliance on 7 occasions and a league and cup double 5 times. In 1982-83, Alnwick Town were admitted into the newly formed Northern League Division 2. In the 1988/89 season the club finished runners-up and were promoted to the 1st Division, the highest tier of the football pyramid they have played in to date. The club also elected the league’s first female chairman, Judith Draycott. Relegation from the Northern League 1st Division followed after 2 seasons in 1990/91. The club remained in the Northern League 2nd Division until the 2006-07 season, when failing to meet ground criteria and lack of funds resulted in relegation back to the Northern Alliance. A change in chairman, committee and management saved the club from extinction, and with the club spending 4 seasons in the Northern Alliance Premier Division, they were promoted back to the Northern League for the 2011-12 season. Whilst in the Alliance, the club won the Senior Benevolent Bowl and the Pinpoint Recruitment Cup. The club were also awarded F.A Charter Standard for the first time in their history.

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Club History

The club now faces its 5th straight season in the Northern League, looking to build on the 2014-15 season points total of 50, their highest since returning from the Northern Alliance. But it was almost a different story. The 2012-13 season saw the club complete the ‘Great Escape’ on the final day of the season, which was also the club’s 1000th game in the Northern League. A 5-2 victory at St James’ Park against Washington secured Northern League status for the club. Jon Colley scored a hat-trick to complete a remarkable turnaround in fortunes for the club. The 2014-15 season saw the club reach the 2nd Round of the F.A Vase for the first time since the 1975-76 season. Sadly, a 4-5 defeat at home to St Helens Town in extra time ended the Wembley dream for another year. In 2015-16 we look forward to another positive year, with a new management team in place and fresh ideas for the future. Club Honours Aged Miners Homes Cup Winners: 1936/37 Durham Central League Cup Winners: 1964/65 North Northumberland League: 1898/99 North Northumberland Minor Cup: 1903/04 Northern Alliance Challenge Cup Winners: 1961–62, 1965–66, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1970–71 Northern Alliance Champions: 1937/38, 1962/63, 1963/64, 1965/66, 1967/68, 1968/69, 1969/70, 1970/71, 1971/72 Northern Alliance Runners-Up: 1959–60, 1961–62, 1966–67, 1972–73, 2010–11 Northern Alliance Subsidiary Cup Winners: 1980/81 Northern League Division 2 Runners-Up: 1988/89 Northumberland Amateur Cup Winners: 1971-72 Northumberland Senior Benevolent Bowl Winners: 1986/87, 2009/10 Northumberland Senior Cup Runners-Up: 1961/62 Northern Alliance Pinpoint Recruitment Cup Winners: 2008/09 F.A Cup Best: 3rd Qualifying Round (1951-52, 1957-58) F.A Trophy Best: 3rd Qualifying Round (1990-91) F.A Vase Best: 2nd Round (1975-76, 2014-15)

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Player Profiles Baker, Robert - Sponsor: Tyneside Wombles Position: Left Back / Left Midfield Former Clubs: Brief Info: New signing for the 2015/2016 season, looks to be a promising player. Position: Centre Midfield Former Clubs: Monkseaton Academy Brief Info: A talent, looks composed on the ball in pre-season. Bright future ahead.

Briggs, Josh - Available to Sponsor Brooks, Callum - Available to Sponsor Position: Goalkeeper Former Clubs: Alnwick Town Reserves Brief Info: First team debut against Esh Winning. Definite future number 1 long term. Position: Goalkeeper Former Clubs: Brief Info: Another new signing, competing for the number 1 shirt with Callum this season. Brown, Nathan - Available to Sponsor Brown, Tony - Sponsor: Steve Hall Position: Centre Midfield Former Clubs: Felton, Shilbottle Brief Info: Captain, midfield magician, one of the longest serving players at the club. Position: Centre Defence / Midfield Former Clubs: Coldstream Brief Info: Back for his 2nd spell with the club following 1 appearance last term. Dixon, Jamie - Available to Sponsor Donohoe, Calum - Available to Sponsor Position: Left / Right Back Former Clubs: Brief Info: New signing this term to provide competition for the full-back positions. Position: Centre Defence / Full Back Former Clubs: Wallsend Boys Club Brief Info: Looking for an injury free season and to secure his place in the 1st team. Dundas, Lee - Sponsor: Alnwick Memories

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Player Profiles

Egen, Kieran - Available to Sponsor Position: Centre Defence / Midfield Former Clubs: Ashington Colliers Brief Info: Back again, only this time he’s got his Dad to impress! Position: Centre Midfield Former Clubs: Shilbottle, Amble Brief Info: The summer’s big transfer, we’re looking forward to seeing Gairza this season. Gair, Ross - Sponsor: Bryan Murray Glass, Chris - Available to Sponsor Position: Centre Midfield / Forward Former Clubs: Bedlington Terriers Brief Info: Glackie was one of Jon’s first signings, a bright future with the club. Position: Left Back / Centre Midfield Former Clubs: Alnwick Town Juniors / Reserves Brief Info: Brief spell at Ashington last term. Welcome home Nippa. Best years still to come. Hogg, Kieran - Available to Sponsor Jackson, James - Available to Sponsor Position: Midfielder / Forward Former Clubs: Felton, Chester-le-Street Brief Info: Minnow’s back. Scorer of important goals in the Great Escape season. Character. Position: Centre Defender/ Forward Former Clubs: Alnwick Town Juniors Brief Info: After a year out to recover from serious injury, Dale’s back! Get stuck in lad. Kennedy, Dale - Available to Sponsor Lowes, Danny - Sponsor: Hotspur 1364 Position: Defence / Midfield Former Clubs: Shilbottle, Felton Brief Info: Mr Versatile, can play anywhere in defence on midfield. Longest serving player? Position: Left Back / Midfield Former Clubs: Alnwick Town Juniors, Felton Brief Info: DJ Jakey, another product of the Alnwick youth system. Lowes, Jake - Available to Sponsor

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Player Profiles Macpherson, Tom - Sponsor: Hotspur 1364 Position: Centre Defence Former Clubs: Wallington Brief Info: Tom has been an ever present since our return to the Northern League. Reliable. Position: Forward Former Clubs: Ashington, New Hartley Juniors Brief Info: Brad’s back, and has been in good form in pre-season. Hat-trick v Esh Winning.

McClelland, Brad - Sponsor: Alyn Brewis Cars Moore, Ross - Available to Sponsor Position: Winger Former Clubs: Whitley Bay A, Belford Brief Info: New signing this season from Belford. Young, promising midfielder. Position: Right Midfield Former Clubs: Amble, Ashington Colliers Brief Info: Daz has been an ever present on the wing since his move from the Colliers. Riddell, Darren - Sponsor: Alan Burn Straughan, Ross - Sponsor: Blackshaws Garage Position: Centre Defence Former Clubs: Alnwick Town Juniors / Reserves Brief Info: Ross came on leaps and bounds last season, hoping to continue in same vain. Position: Centre Midfield Former Clubs: Ashington Colliers Brief Info: Looks a talent in pre-season, young Scholesy is one to keep an eye out for. Willis, Josh - Available to Sponsor Willis, Kris - Available to Sponsor Position: Centre Midfield Former Clubs: Ashington Colliers, Alnwick Town Brief Info: Kris is another returning player after a couple of seasons away. Position: Manager Former Clubs: Ashington Colliers Brief Info: Looking to build on what Derek Atwell left, has big plans for the club. Jon Egen - Sponsored by NU Heat

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Player Stats Appearance Info

Player

BAKER, ROB

BRIGGS, JOSH

BROOKS, CALLUM

BROWN, NATHAN

BROWN, TONY

DIXON, JAMIE

ULS

UCS

Cards

DONOHOE, CALUM

Goal Info TG

DUNDAS, LEE

EGEN, KIERAN

GAIR, ROSS

GLASS, CHRIS

HOGG, KIERAN

JACKSON, JAMES

LOWES, DANNY

MACPHERSON, TOM

MCCLELLAND, BRAD

RIDDELL, DARREN

STRAUGHAN, ROSS

WILLIS, JOSH WILLIS, KRIS

1 1

1 0

Stats up to and including Crook Town home game (22.08.2015)

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Matchday Info BAKER, ROBERT BRIGGS, JOSH BROOKS, CALLUM BROWN, NATHAN BROWN, TONY DIXON, JAMIE DONOHOE, CALUM DUNDAS, LEE EGEN, KIERAN GAIR, ROSS

Alnwick Town AFC

GLASS, CHRIS HOGG, KIERAN JACKSON, JAMES KENNEDY, DALE LOWES, DANNY LOWES, JAKE MACPHERSON, TOM MCCLELLAND, BRAD MOORE, ROSS

Manager: Jon Egen Coach: Adam Laidlaw Physio: David Ross Joanne Chisholm

RIDDELL, DARREN STRAUGHAN, ROSS WILLIS, JOSH WILLIS, KRIS

Tuesday 25th August 2015 Ebac Northern League Division 2

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Matchday Info BEAL, RYAN YOUNG, GARETH HALL, DARYLL GALPIN, LEWIS TURNER, MICHAEL BUCHANAN, WAYNE RIDING, BEN CURRY, ADAM GRAY, PHIL

South Shields

HEPTINSTALL, JAMES SMITH, BARRIE

Manager: Jon King Assistant: Gary Middleton Physio: George McLaughlin

SCROGGINS, LEE PAUL CHAPIM, GILBERTO BALL, KENNY SAKR, ADAM MCMAHON, LEE PHILLIPS, WAYNE BRIGGS, ROBERT WIGHTMAN, JONNY FOLEY, DAVID

Referee: Mark Ryan Assistants: Leighton Hopper James Scott

GUERIN, ARIS LOKONGA SCOTT, LEE KANE, PAUL BYRNE, WARREN RAMSEY, STEPHEN

Opposition Info

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It has now been over 125 years since the first recorded appearance of a named South Shields Football Club. A few references have been found which allude to the origins of a town football club playing in the early 1870s, but it was in 1888 that a team from the town began playing friendly matches. From those early times, the town club has been subject to both fortune and misfortune, with halcyon days of great success and also periods of severe reversal and twice of total loss. The club, in all of its incarnations, has had many twists and turns, and now appears to have started another new era. South Shields Athletic AFC was a member of the Northern Alliance League, and enjoyed moderate success in its short career of five years, before being disbanded in 1902 due to financial problems. The name of Jack Inskip features prominently in the early annals of South Shields FC, and he is credited with the formation of a junior club in 1899 of local schoolboys from the Adelaide Street area of Laygate, that progressed beyond all measure to be ultimately elected into membership of the Football League in 1919. This team was known as South Shields Adelaide Athletic, and after much success, it re-organised two years later as a limited company in 1910, and now changed its official title to that of South Shields Football Club, and was victorious in the Durham Challenge Cup the following season. Numerous records were made and smashed, plus two consecutive North Eastern League championship titles won, in which seasons only four games were lost. The 1913-14 and 1914-15 campaigns turned out to be most remarkable for Shields, and the statistics are indeed memorable, as they were winners of six trophies, champions of the North Eastern League in the first season by a margin of 15 points, winners of the Durham Football Association Challenge Cup, the Ingham Infirmary Cup and retained the Black Cup (Tynemouth Infirmary Cup). Shields were champions of the league for 1915-16, and in 1919, the years of effort behind the drive for the Football League came to fruition with its election to the Second Division, or the second league as it was then titled. Initially all seemed promising, and manager Jack Tinn and his colleagues had good reason for guarded satisfaction. In the 1921 season, with Shields top by five clear points at Christmas, promotion was in the air and the distinct possibility of derbies against the league neighbours Newcastle United and Sunderland was an exciting prospect. However, the impetus was not maintained, form suffered and the club finished in sixth place, only 10 points behind champions Nottingham Forest. Indeed only a total of seven more points would have seen Shields promoted as runners up, and only the bitter pill of crushing disappointment was their reward. How very different club history would have been if promotion had been realised. Famous players in this period included ‘Warney’ Cresswell – the only player ever to gain a full international cap with Shields – and Alf Maitland. Shields reached the FA Cup quarter final in 1925-26 and again in 1926-27, and the ground attendance record for Horsley Hill was achieved, 24,348, but the visitors Swansea Town denied Shields’ further progress. The club sold its best players, though, and was relegated to the Third Division North before, facing impending bankruptcy, the only possible viable alternative from closure

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Opposition Info

was to move, and this regrettable but seemingly unavoidable point was reached in 1930. Despite a final league table position of seventh, the club left the town and moved to Gateshead. A new club was eventually established, and won the 1938-39 North Eastern League championship, and the Durham Challenge Cup. In 1950, Shields moved to Simonside Hall, and for a few years from the mid-1950s, it was widely acknowledged as one of the better non-league clubs in the country. The development of Simonside Hall, backed by the endeavours of a supporters club with a recorded membership of over 13,000, produced positive dividends. Shields played in five different leagues during the 1950s and 60s, and many will recall with great pleasure the appearance of the great Stanley Matthews in a game at Simonside Hall in 1966. A major change in the national non-league set-up came in 1968 with the formation of the Northern Premier League, part of the new soccer ‘pyramid’, with South Shields invited as a founder member. The club advanced to the FA Cup third round in 1970 and was drawn away to Queens Park Rangers. The final result of 4-1 also told a story of missed chances by Shields and numerous injuries sustained, against a side that included Terry Venables and Rodney Marsh. Also in 1974, the club reached the FA Trophy semi-final, but financial problems culminated with the total loss of the club, the ground of Simonside Hill and all effects. The club went to Gateshead for the second time in 44 years and re-emerged as Gateshead United, and took the place of South Shields in the Northern Premier League, and the rest is history. A new club, the South Shields Mariners FC, was born, and started with nothing. Initial progress was indeed quite remarkable, only the lack of a ground with adequate and sufficient facilities to satisfy the required criteria of the Northern League for promotion prevented this being maintained. After the winning of two consecutive Northern Alliance League championship titles, and an appearance in the FA Vase quarter-final, the club joined the Wearside League. Further success followed with the winning of the Durham Challenge Cup at Roker Park in 1977. A ground to develop became a long-running issue and over the course of the next long 18 years, so the club remained a member of the Wearside League, seemingly unable to leave the council-owned Jack Clark Park. In 1992, the redundant sports club and ground of Filtrona FC became available for purchase, and following protracted negotiations, was bought by the club. Gradual upgrading and development of Filtrona Park and promotion to the First Division of the Northern League was achieved in the years that followed. The club’s recent successes were in 2009-10 as winners of the League Cup and J R Cleator Cup, but it faced a major challenge to stay at Filtrona Park after its former owner put it up for sale. Eventually Shields were forced to leave the ground in 2013. They also suffered relegation to Northern League Division Two in 2012-13, and kicked off the following season 20 miles away from home, in Peterlee. The club played home matches there for two years until new chairman Geoff Thompson bought Filtrona Park – now renamed Mariners Park – in the summer of 2015 to start a new era at the club. There is now much hope for brighter times ahead, with Mr Thompson having significant, ambitious plans for the Mariners.

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Record Against Opposition Season

Home Team

Away Team

Result

Northern League Record

1995-1996

Alnwick Town

South Shields

0-2

Alnwick Home Wins:

2000-2001

Alnwick Town

South Shields

2-2

2001-2002

Alnwick Town

South Shields

1-1

2002-2003

Alnwick Town

South Shields

2-3

2003-2004

Alnwick Town

South Shields

3-0

2004-2005

Alnwick Town

South Shields

1-0

2005-2006

Alnwick Town

South Shields

2-2

2006-2007

Alnwick Town

South Shields

1-2

2013-2014

Alnwick Town

South Shields

1-1

2014-2015

Alnwick Town

South Shields

2-1

Season

Home Team

Away Team

Result

1995-1996

South Shields

Alnwick Town

2-1

Alnwick Home Goals:

2000-2001

South Shields

Alnwick Town

2-4

2001-2002

South Shields

Alnwick Town

1-1

2002-2003

South Shields

Alnwick Town

3-1

2003-2004

South Shields

Alnwick Town

2-0

2004-2005

South Shields

Alnwick Town

2-2

2005-2006

South Shields

Alnwick Town

4-1

2006-2007

South Shields

Alnwick Town

3-0

2013-2014

South Shields

Alnwick Town

0-3

Shields Away Goals:

2014-2015

South Shields

Alnwick Town

1-2

Alnwick Away Wins: 3

Shields Home Wins: 5

Shields Away Wins: 3

Alnwick Away Goals: 15

Shields Home Goals: 20

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Mike Amos - Last Legs

Usually I travel to Alnwick Town matches by train. It’s a canny hike from Alnmouth station but because Northumberland County Council seems not to have heard of integrated transport, better than waiting around an hour or so for a bus. Fortified by the thought of a pint at the end of it, I can usually make it in about an hourand-a-quarter. This evening’s different. Today I’ll have walked for around 12 miles, the sixth stage of the Last Legs Challenge – a 500-mile sponsored walk which marks my 20th and final year as Northern League chairman and which will embrace all 44 NL grounds. I’m assured there’s a good pub at Boulmer in the middle. The hope is to raise at least £10,000, half going to the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation and half – in £1,000 segments – to community-based charities nominated by our clubs and drawn at the annual league dinner next May. Already we’re half way there in cash terms, hoping far to exceed the target and grateful to so many generous folk for getting the thing – if not its chief participant – off to a flier. The decision to help the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation was what I think the younger generation calls a no-brainer. Sir Bobby was a wonderful friend to the Northern League and its clubs right from the time he launched the Northern League Club in 1998 and without thought of any reward save for a plate of pie and peas. He was a brilliant, natural and tireless raconteur. I recall a sportsmen’s evening at Tow Law Town, the club desperately in need of funds, when I sat next to Charlie Woods, then Bob’s chief scout at Newcastle United. Bob had entrusted his mobile to Charlie and Lady Elsie rang it at 11 30pm, anxious to know what had befallen her husband. “He’s on his feet talking,” said Charlie. “He’s happy.” Today’s walk has been in the company of the admirable Julian Tyley, who lives somewhere near Alnwick but is a passionate Whitley Bay follower. Cyril Cox and Tom McKie were offered the chance to join us but, inexplicably, declined. I shall have been fortified not just by the pint at Boulmer but by the thought of The Tea Hut, about which Northern League people wax ever more enthusiastically but which so far I’ve only seen through the window. An intravenous Bovril, perhaps? Julian’s already offered me a lift back to Alnmouth to catch the last train south. The only worry will be falling asleep on the train and ending up at Kings Cross – a particular problem because there’s another 12-mile leg, to Northallerton, tomorrow. Alnwick Town folk are always welcoming, hospitable and generous. Before the Last Legs pack up completely, I’d be very grateful for your support. *Donations to the Last Legs Challenge can be made on-line at www.justgiving.com/ lastlegs challenge, by cheque made payable to the Northern Football League and sent to me at 8 Oakfields, Middleton Tyas, Richmond, North Yorkshire DL10 6SD or simply shoved into my hand tonight. I’ll probably be in the bar. Mike Amos Chairman, Ebac Northern League

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Fixtures 2015/16

Opponents

08/08

11/08 15/08

Score Att

Darlington Railway Athletic

2-0

Esh Winning

4-1

Chester-le-Street Town

0-2

18/08

Thornaby

1-0

22/08

Crook Town

2-1

25/08

South Shields

29/08

Billingham Town

31/08

Heaton Stannington

05/09

Billingham Synthonia (FAV 1Q)

10/09

Easington Colliery

12/09

Birtley Town

15/09

Tow Law Town

19/09

Billingham Synthonia

23/09

Bedlington Terriers (LC R1)

26/09

Whickham

03/10

Northallerton Town

10/10

Willington

17/10

Ryhope Colliery Welfare

24/10

Hebburn Town

31/10

Stokesley Sports Club

07/11

Brandon United

14/11

Team Northumbria

21/11

Chester-le-Street Town

28/11

Ryton & Crawcrook Albion

05/12

Esh Winning

12/12

Thornaby

19/12

South Shields

26/12

Heaton Stannington

02/01

Birtley Town

09/01

Darlington Railway Athletic

16/01

Crook Town

23/01

Billingham Town

30/01

Easington Colliery

06/02

Tow Law Town

13/02

Billingham Synthonia

20/02

Whickham

27/02

Northallerton Town

05/03

Willington

12/03

Ryhope Colliery Welfare

19/03

Hebburn Town

26/03

Stokesley Sports Club

02/04

Brandon United

09/04

Team Northumbria

23/04

Ryton & Crawcrook Albion

Brown N

Dundas L

Baker R

Briggs J

Macpherson T

Straughan R

Jackson J

102

Brooks C

Dundas L

Baker R

Brown T

Macpherson T

Straughan R

Jackson J

Brooks C

Lowes D

Baker R

Briggs J

Macpherson T (Y+Y)

Straughan R

Jackson J

Brown N

Dundas L

Baker R

Egen K

Macpherson T

Straughan R

Lowes D

Brown N

Dundas L

Baker R

Egen K

Macpherson T

Straughan R

Lowes D

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Fixtures

13 / 17

Brown T

McClelland B

Gair R

Riddell D

Glass C (7)

Hogg K (9)

Lowes D (2)

Donohoe C

Dixon J

Egen K (Y)

McClelland B 3

Gair R

Riddell D

Glass C (11)

Hogg K (7) 1

Lowes D

Briggs J

Dixon J (8)

Brown T

McClelland B

Dixon J

Hogg K

Glass C (7)

Brown N

Riddell D (8)

Dundas L

Egen K (4) (Y)

Gair R

Jackson J

Glass C (Y)

Hogg K

Briggs J (2)

Brooks C

Willis K (10)

Willis J

Donohoe C (11)

Willis K

Jackson J 1

Gair R 1

Hogg K

Riddell D (7)

Brooks C

Briggs J

Glass C (4)

Dixon J (2)

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Division 1 Ebac Northern League Division One 2015-16 - As of 23.08.2015 Pos

Team

Pts

Morpeth Town

Shildon

Dunston UTS

Guisborough Town

Penrith

Washington

Newton Aycliffe

Seaham Red Star

Whitley Bay

Marske United

Consett

North Shields

Durham City

Newcastle Benfield

-1

Ashington

-2

Bishop Auckland

-4

West Allotment Celtic

-10

Jarrow Roofing BCA

-2

Sunderland RCA

-6

Bedlington Terriers

-10

Norton & Stockton Ancients

-11

West Auckland Town

-10

Midweek Fixtures

Weekend Results

Ashington

Norton & Stockton Ancients

Ashington

2-0

Durham City

Consett

Penrith

Consett

1-2

Guisborough Town

Dunston UTS

Washington

Dunston UTS

1-0

Whitley Bay

Jarrow Roofing BCA

Seaham Red Star

Jarrow Roofing BCA

2-2

Sunderland RCA

West Auckland Town

Durham City

Marske United

3-1

Norton & Stockton Ancients

Bedlington Terriers

Whitley Bay

North Shields

2-3

Washington

Bishop Auckland

Marske United

Penrith

3-0

Bishop Auckland

Newcastle Benfield

Morpeth Town

Seaham Red Star

1-0

Newton Aycliffe

North Shields

Newton Aycliffe

Shildon

2-0

Bedlington Terriers

Shildon

Guisborough Town

West Allotment Celtic

2-6

Newcastle Benfield

West Allotment Celtic

Sunderland RCA

West Auckland Town

0-2

Morpeth Town

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Division 2 Ebac Northern League Division Two 2015-16 - As of 23.08.2015

Pos

Team

Pts

Team Northumbria

Chester-Le-Street

South Shields

Darlington RA

Hebburn Town

Thornaby

Northallerton Town

Whickham

Billingham Town

Ryhope CW

Ryton & Crawcrook Albion

Crook Town

Alnwick Town

-1

Willington

-8

Easington Colliery

Heaton Stannington

Billingham Synthonia

-1

Brandon United

-4

Tow Law Town

-10

Birtley Town

-14

Esh Winning

-14

Stokesley Sports Club

-19

Midweek Fixtures

Weekend Results

Alnwick Town

South Shields

Alnwick Town

2-1

Crook Town

Darlington RA

Crook Town

Billingham Synthonia

0-1

Darlington RA

Hebburn Town

Brandon United

Billingham Town

2-4

Heaton Stannington

Ryhope CW

Team Northumbria

Birtley Town

0-9

Team Northumbria

Tow Law Town

Billingham Town

Brandon United

3-4

Chester-le-Street

Whickham

Esh Winning

Hebburn Town

3-0

Esh Winning

Billingham Synthonia

Thornaby

Northallerton Town

2-0

Easington Colliery

Birtley Town

Stokesley Sports Club

Ryhope CW

4-6

Thornaby

Heaton Stannington

Easington Colliery

Stokesley Sports Club

0-6

Ryton & Crawcrook Albion

Northallerton Town

Ryton & Crawcrook Albion

Tow Law Town

2-3

Whickham

Willington

Chester-le-Street

Willington

1-4

South Shields

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BINGO! Monday Night is Bingo night at St James’ Park. Eyes down at 7:30pm in the Clubhouse. Please come along and support the club.

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Stats

Match sponsor alex makin scored once against south shields (13.11.2012)

Brad mcclelland scored twice against south shields last season

alnwick town have won their last three games against south shields.

Darren riddell has scored four league goals for alnwick town

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