Walter Rutherford
Saturday 1st January 2005 - aged 91
Walter was one of the three legendry brothers who played for Tynedale with great distinction in the 1930's and 1940's.

Angus Hunter
Tuesday 28th December 2004 - aged 73
In his playing days Angus was a dashing fly half and he later served for many years on the Selection Committee and the General Committee.

ANNUAL REPORT
The Annual Report for 2004-2005 can be downloaded from the foot of this page.

ALISTAIR JOHNSON

Saturday 25th September 2004 - Ali suffered a serious neck injury after 52 minutes of Tynedale's match at Fylde.
The injury occurred as the scrums engaged at a position near the Fylde line.

FLOOD - JANUARY 2005
On Saturday 8th January 2005 the club was devastated when the River Tyne broke it's banks and turned Tynedale Park into a reservoir.

CLICK HERE to view details & photos

PLAYING RECORDS

CLICK HERE to download/view Club Results
CLICK HERE to download/view 1stXV teams, appearances and scorers
CLICK HERE to download/view 1stXV Match Reports

1stXV Season 2004-2005

45 different players represented the 1st XV in 30 games.
No of tries scored = 87
Top Points Scorer - William Massey with 241 points (18 tries, 35 conversions, 27 penalties)
Top Try Scorers - Will Massey (18 tries), Ben Duncan (12 tries), Ali Gray (12 tries), Barry Hills (10 tries)
Will Massey was the only ever present - starting all 30 matches.

CUP SUCCESSES

Tynedale pulled off a tremendous hat-trick when we won the Senior Cup, the Senior Shield and the Junior Cup - just missing out as defeated finalists in the final of the Junior Challenge Cup.

To add to the silverware we also won the Senior County Sevens, defeating Northern 26-5 in the final, and won the Persimmon Homes Sevens, defeating "The Shipwrecks" from the South pacific 41-12 in the final.

Final Results
Tynedale 1stXV 41 v Berwick 13 (at Northern)

Tynedale Raiders 13 v Berwick Bears 6 (at Morpeth)

Border Park 16 v Tynedale Grasshoppers 28 (at Border Park)

Tynedale Veterans 8 v Newcastel University III 22 (at Ashington) - CLICK HERE for Match Report

The 1stXV won the Northumberland Senior Cup, defeating Berwick 41-13 in the final played at Northern

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Tynedale Raiders 13 v Berwick 6 (Sunday March 20th 2005)
Tynedale Raiders won the Northumberland Senior Shield beating Berwick Bears 13-6 in a well contested final at Morpeth. Both sides gave their all but the Raiders had the edge and led 13-3 at half time through a couple of penalties from Simon Allen and an excellently worked try from Jamie Harrison.
Neither side was able to gain the upper hand in the second half and Berwick caused Tynedale nerves to jangle when they kicked a penalty with only four minutes of normal time left.
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The Grasshoppers won the Northumberland Junior Cup, defeating Border Park 28-16 in the final.

CAPTAINS FOR 2004-2005
1stXV - Phil Belgian
Raiders - James Johnson
Grasshoppers - Andrew Neal
Hadrians - James Swann
Colts - Mathew Horrocks

TOM BORTHWICK

Tom Borthwick was appointed as head coach at Tynedale for season 2004-2005.

Tom played all his rugby for Aspatria and Cumbria as a full back or stand off. In 1990 he secured his level 4 RFU coaching qualification and took over as coach of Aspatria. During the next two seasons Aspatria secured successive promotions into National Level 3.

In 1996 Tom took over as Cumbria coach and in his first season Cumbria defeated Somerset in the final of the County Championship. Between 2002 and 2004 Tom has been assistand England Counties coach and currently carries out various coaching duties on behalf of the English RFU.

NEWSLETTER
CLICK HERE to download/view a Newsletter (August 2004)

NORTHUMBERLAND UNDER 20'S

The Northumbeland Under 20's squad includes a good representation of Tynedale players this season:-

Andrew Ions - Prop
Michael Smith - Hooker
Tony Gradwell - Prop
Michael Murray - 2nd Row
Scott Riddell - Back Row
Jimmy Scott - Back Row
Mathew MacLoughlin - Back
Robert Sedgewick - Back

On Sunday 30th January they opened up their their County Championship campaign against Lancashire (at Preston) with an excellent 36-28 victory.

This was followed with a home match against defending County Champions Yorkshire on Sunday 6th February (at Northern) which they lost narrowly by 9-14 - going down to a Yorkshire try in the dying minutes.

They then travelled to Birkenhead Park where they were second best against a strong Cheshire side before defeating Durham 29-7 at a match played at Tynedale on March 6th.

MATCH PROGRAMME
Tynedale v Fylde - 12th March 2005

SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT - SUNDAY 5TH SEPT 2004
Colston College again won the Tournament defeating Cistertian College, Rossgrey in the final. In the semi-final Colston drew 3-3 with home side 'Tynedale Schools' only for Colston to reach the final on the toss of a coin.

The following Schools entered:-

RGS Newcastle;
King's School Tynemouth;
Yarm School;
Barnard Castle;
Northumberland Schools;
Tynedale Schools;
Houghall College, Durham;
Giggleswick School;
QEGS Wakefield;
Filton College, Bristol;
Colston Collegiatte, Bristol;
Edinburgh Academy;
Fettes;
Merchiston;
Connacht Schools;
Cistertian College, Rossgrey, Eire.

SNIPPETS

(18/03/05) Dick Parker's Dinner Jacket went missing at the Club Dinner Dance. Hopefully someone now unknowingly possesses a dinner jacket which is very unlikely to be a snug fit. Please check your jacket to make sure you have the correct one.
(09/02/2005) New Posts put up on Dyvels (training) pitch. They certainly improve appearance of west side of clubhouse.
(23/01/2005) The Annual Dinner Dance which was held on Saturday 22nd January 2005 at the Function Suite, Mart, Hexham. was a great success. 180 attended, and enjoyed a good meal, good company and danced the night away to the music of John Baboon.
(19/11/2004) Dr Rachael Scurfield is our new club doctor. Rachael is the daughter of former Northern & Gosforth scrum half Peter Scurfield.
(15/11/2004) Work commenced on replacing the existing gas boilers in the club.
(26/09/2004) The Rugby Club Cricket team retained the Tynedale Cricket Club Knockout Cup when they defeated 'The Feathers' in a repeat of last year's final. The main run scorers were Ian Donkin(40), Simon Clayton-Hibbott(30) and Andrew Murray(20).
The First Team pitch was drilled, sanded and fertilised to help deal with the problems of compacting.
(09/08/2004) Hard working Chief Executive Douglas Hamilton produced an August 2004 Newsletter. Click Here to view.
Graeme Dunn (Tynedale RFC and Queen Elizabeth High School), has been selected to attend an England Training Camp from 9th to the 13th February at Hartpury College. Graeme has made it to the last 78 nationally - a tremendous achievement. We wish him all the best and every success with this fantastic opportunity
From this season in first team league matches the teams can opt to retire to the dressing rooms for up to 10 minutes at half time.
The first pre-season match for the First and Raiders squads was played on Saturday 14th August in red hot conditions against squads from Scottish premier League new boys Biggar. Both 'matches' (four 20 minute sessions) went Tynedale's way and Tynedale can be well pleased with the turn out - 46 different players participated in the two 'matches'.
James Ponton had joined Sedgley Park who will play in National League One in 2004-2005.
Penrith 'A' will play in the Borders District League in season 2004-2005 . Hawick Linden have joined the main Scottish League structure and consequently will drop out of the Borders District League.

TYNEDALE VETERANS

The club are fielding a 'veterans' side this season. John Eustace and Ian Lewis have got their heads together and the response to their pleading and bullying has been extremely positive.

The idea is that the Veterans will turn out roughly once a month, giving time for old worn muscles and joints to recover and also preventing players becoming 'tired' and lethargic from playing too many games!

The Veterans played their second match on October 23rd when they lost 19-31 in a good competitive match against Prudhoe & Stocksfield.

The Veterans hosted a Novos side on December 18th when a good time was had by all. Among the "veterans" were Richard Cramb, Simon Clayton-Hibbott and Richard Parker II who not surprisingly was yellow carded during the match. The Veterans squad left immediately after the match to begin preparations for their Cup match against North Shields on January 15th 2005.

The successful Vets season came to an end in the Junior Challenge Cup Final at Ashington when they were defeated by a sprightly team of students.
CLICK HERE for Match Report

DEREK STEPHENSON MEMORIAL MATCH

Tynedale Select 19 v Northumberland Centurions 17 at Tynedale Park
Wednesday 13th October 2004
This match was held in memory of Derek, whose untimely death at such a young age last year shocked us all. The Tynedale Select XV was a mixture of players who played with Derek at Tynedale and at his other past clubs which included Ryton, Prudhoe, Gosforth, Blaydon and Border Park..

Although played in a continual downpour the match was a credit to both squads of players and the three officials. A sizeable crowd turned out to watch an entertaining game during which many 'retired' players dusted off their boots as part of a tribute to a very popular person.

The 'past' players didn't let the crowd, or themselves, down and many people were left wondering if retirement had come too early. Among the 'past' players were:-

Andy Oglethorpe (injured after 5 seconds)
John Fletcher
Gary Fleming
Scot Ferguson
Mark Twelthtree
Ed Saunders
John Short (will do anything to pull on a Tynedale shirt!)
Andrew Laidler
Simon Clayton-Hibbott
Paul Leonard (injured in warm up)
Craig Johnston
Alan Moses (!!)
Stephen (Aga) Dunn
Gary Taylor
Graham Yates
Paul Winter (almost retired !)
Graham Dodd
Iain Harris
Aidrian Tallantyre
Billy Robson (will never retire!)
Rory Self
A collection made during the match raised £420 for the Air Ambulance charity.

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