With a team showing several changes, the Centurions took some time to settle and by then had conceded an early try after a mix-up in midfield.

After 15 minutes Andy Purves fielded a kick on half-way, jinked infield to produce the ball to Rob Earnshaw. The flanker made a powerful burst only to be held just short of the line but prop Ed Weir did well to get up in support and crash over underneath the posts.

From the resulting kick off Adam Telfer caught and drove through a couple of tackles and timed a sweet pass to Dan Heppell. The right wing raced towards the corner but was held ten metres out. The ball was swept to his left wing counterpart Joe Matthews who also went close before feeding full back Seth Kippax-Jones to finish a nice move.

A Spencer Tolley blind side break saw Heppell sprint 50 metres only to be collared again. From a resulting scrum, Oliver Hillary scattered defenders to cross wide out. A resilient West End finished the half with a nice score to make the score 12-17 at the break.

Playing with the stiff breeze in the second half, Tynedale were able to dominate territorially but never quite put the game to bed.
Kippax-Jones retrieved a kick in his own 22, exchanged passes with Heppell before finding centre Ryan Laverty who was tackled close to the line. Scrum-half Andy Harvey was there in a flash to the breakdown and beat the defence to score the best try of the match.

Shortly afterwards, good foraging by George Hendry saw him link with Ollie Murrell then Ian Charlton to drive the ball close. Another scrum saw Hillary again pick and prove too powerful for the several defenders who knew what to expect but were unable to prevent the try.

An attempted clearance kick by the Centurions failed to find touch and the strong running West End threequarters finished with a nice score.
A sustained period of pressure saw Weir, Murrell and Charlton drive almost to the line before Earnshaw solved the defensive puzzle by athletically diving over the top of the ruck.

Some great understanding between Rory Craney and Hendry looked to have relieved some West End pressure but, a penalty awarded for a trip, was tapped and led to a score amid the Centurions confusion. They repeated the dose with another quickly worked penalty move to bring them right back into the game at 38-29 with ten minutes left.

A stern lecture from skipper Jake Sloan led to a much more controlled finale and the home side were not allowed back into the Tynedale half. Near the end Sloan himself took the ball up into the 22 and slipped a pass to Hillary who completed a hat-trick of tries that his outstanding performance deserved.

Murrell converted five of the seven tries in a compelling game that was closer than the final score-line suggests.