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Last season they finished just above us in third place and their teamsheet has a familiar ring to it. But they've only got seven points and will be looking over their shoulder as teams like Rovers and Durham City star to pick up points.
The Northumbrians have a very close points difference, losing quite a few games by very narrow margins. By all accounts they could have given Middlesbrough a fright last week but, like us the week before, gave away a daft try in the first minute and were then chasing the game.
In fly half Matthew Jinks they have an excellent kicker and play maker, and have experience and power in the pack in the likes of David Dickinson, John Walton and evergreen Duncan Hutton - the Dean Richards lookalike is just two games short of his 400th game for the club.
By contrast we are once again fielding a very young side. Howe comes into the sqaud after training over the past few weeks, and will provide very welcome cover and competition for places in an area where we don't have much cover.
Andrew Hare stays at full back after an excellent show at Sheffield while Paul Moss returns to the fly half berth.
The pack is the same as the one which battled through the wind and rain at Sheffield Tigers. Carl Robinson is also on the bench as the club awaits the Referee's report from his sending off in the dying seconds last week. Young Tom Dixon continues his first team "blooding" on the bench in a game we must win to stay in touch at the top.
West15 Andrew Hare
14 Chris Lambert
13 Greg Edwards
12 Peter Hodgson
11 Gavin Painter
10 Paul Moss
9 Davy Tighe [capt]
1 Anth Carr
2 Brett Cullinane
3 Jon Norris
4 Paul Rudd
5 Carl Miller
6 Dan Boatman
7 Aaron Myers
8 Jon Boatman
16 Tom Dixon
17 Carl Robinson
18 Neil Howe
Morpeth 15 Tom Wilkinson
14 Peter Cole
13 Brian Stewart
12 Stuart Hills
11 Alan Rodgers [capt]
10 Matthew Jinks
9 Chris Reynolds
1 John Goodfellow
2 James Thornton
3 David Dickinson
4 Joe Forsyth
5 Duncan Hutton
6 Rory Morrrison
7 Andrew Watson
8 John Walton
16 Nick Harper
17 Chris Pringle
18 Andrew Shippen
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Author: MikeyBoy
Date: 01-12-06 14:00
Good to see some depth being added in the centres. The handling hasn't been great along the backline over the last few weeks and hopefully a bit of competition can improve the performances in that area
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Author: West Park Allotment
Date: 01-12-06 14:07
Its because they are
a]standing too shallow
b] ball is too slow
c] crash ball is being overused
I'll tell Snorbitz! That will get me off the Xmas card list!
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Author: MikeyBoy
Date: 01-12-06 15:26
I don't necessarily disagree with your points there WPA but none of them are the cause for people dropping the ball or delivering poor passes
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Author: grievo3
Date: 02-12-06 10:08
Mikeyboy
If they are standing too flat that could be why they are dropping the ball as they are not moving on to it, or the pass goes behind.
Just a point, don’t want to start a debate.
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