Tynedale vs. Preston Grasshoppers, 1st February 2020, 2.30pm
Preston Grasshoppers entertain Tynedale this Saturday at Lightfoot Green and will want to both put last weeks dismal second half behind them and avenge what was their heaviest defeat of the season back in October in the North East.
It came as no surprise after the game at Lockwood Park that the Huddersfield Full Back was announced as the home side’s Man of the Match, not the first present he was gifted that afternoon!
Looking forward to Saturday’s game, and the Tynedale game will be viewed as a possible ‘W’ by the Hoppers coaches, which can only be achieved if their charges stick to the game plan worked on throughout the build up.
Tynedale are currently sitting comfortably just below mid table with eight wins to their name and bring to Lightfoot Green a recent record which has seen them concede then score themselves fifty points in successive games. A fifty points to ten defeat at the Woodlands was followed last Saturday with a fifty four points to five victory over bottom side Scunthorpe on home soil.
Our visitors Tynedale first gained promotion to Level 4 in what was then National 3 North during the same season Hoppers were demoted from National 2 back in 2002.
The first meeting between Preston Grasshoppers and Tynedale was in Corbridge on the 9th of February 1980 after a game the previous season at Lightfoot Green had been cancelled. The victors that day were the home side by twelve points to three.
All told there have been twenty nine meetings between the two clubs plus a pre-season game at Lightfoot Green prior to the 2012/13 season, with a further five fixtures being cancelled including the proposed initial game. Currently Tynedale hold the upper hand with eighteen wins to Hoppers eleven. Amongst these there are twelve league wins to our opponents and just five to Hoppers with the spoils of the pre-season game going to Hoppers.
Team News
1. Oga MABAYA
2. Olli TRIPPIER
3. John BLANCHARD
4. Ally MURRAY
5. Adam HOWARD
6. Ryan CARLSON
7. Ben DORRINGTON
8. Sam WALLBANK
9. Scott JORDAN
10. Tom DAVIDSON (C)
11. Jacob BROWNE
12. Will DAVIDSON
13. Sam STOTT
14. Jordan DORRINGTON
15. Nick GREGSON
16. N. MILLER
17. D. MADDEN
18. T. HARRISON
19. J. PRIOR
20. T. SPENCE
