C Team v Tyne Met

After just watching Newcastle at Swansea I'm quite happy I chose not to attend that game in South Wales and make a much happier trip up to Tyneside to continue our fine form. Due to the absence of some of our squad, all suffering from the terrible illness of awaydayitus, we had to draft in a couple lads names Niall and James, can't go into too much detail of them due to legal reasons. The long journey there was pretty low key, with James and Ab throwing out some very questionable dance moves for a period of time. We were treated with the sight of the beautiful St James Park on the way in, the glorious Sydney Opera House( the sage) and also some of the more rural ends of Newcastle which need not be described nor returned too. Eventually we got there, and as we turned up there team was actually about to leave, so the journey could of been a shocking waste of time. Anyway after walking a good 17 miles too the pitch we found it, it was a fairly sized 7 aside pitch but the upside was it was onlooking the training complex of Newcastle United. This could of been a huge chance to impress. With the sun beaming down and making it difficult for our goalkeeper to see we kicked off, playing also against a slight wind. It took about 4 minutes for me and probably most of the lads to realise we were playing against absolute gash, and in honesty some of us took our foot off the pedal at 0-0.  Chances were few and far between in the first half, Westy hit the bar with a decent free kick whilst they hit the bar when their right winger hit a cross come shot that Jake tipped onto the bar. A quick break in the first half resulted in Tom being through, his shot was below average to be honest in the windy conditions, yet somehow it slipped under the keeper, then Ab came racing on to score from at least an inch out, 1-0. We came in at half time and after not playing great we were winning, Gary made 3 changes bringing James Niall and Josh on. The second half kicked off and we were right on the front foot, James was terrorising the centre backs whilst Niall and Westy were tearing their fullbacks apart. The second goal came with James picking the ball up before beating a couple players, then rifling a unstoppable drive into the top corner with what I believe to be his weaker foot, 2-0. The third goal followed shortly afterwards when Niall was played through into a position where any normal person would have crossed to the 3 team mates in the middle, Niall chose not to pass, and expertly smashed the ball into the far corner, 3-0. With the game over Gary started making changes with me slotting into my enforcer role in centre midfield and Tom coming back on up top. The 4th goal came from James once again dancing his way through the defence, who were getting slightly annoyed at the fact they could not touch him. With Tom Daley being in the headlines this week, personally more shocked that there is another series of his tv show than the fact he is batting for the away team but you know, one thing he has done well however is inspire James, not into having the strength to come out, but to perform a dive of a very high standard, it honestly would of been a solid 8 at the Olympics, but the referee pointed straight to the spot without hesitation. Due to not being on the scoresheet only one person was taking this despite Ab asking in the background if he could have a pop. Don't really need to say that it went in considering who took it, 4-0. Without even kicking back off I was taken off by our manager in a dubious call with our other centre midfielder limping about, favouritism. I never really watched the rest of the game as I was trying to find the ball from one of Toms wayward shots, eventually he did put one in the net from a follow up after Westy forced the keeper into a save. Shockingly this 'team' actually got a consolation, after Ab failed to clear his lines they got a corner, from this some small person leapt highest to head past Jake who can be forgiven for not being on his toes as the poor lad will have been freezing his tits off. The game fizzled out and we headed back to the bus with a pretty routine victory under our belt, happy days. 

Man of the match;

Today goes to Abel Neish, solid, steady performance. Did the simple things well, broke up their play, charged counter attacks, won tackles, generally a good game. 

Cock up of the Week;

Sam Henderson- After 5 goals last week he thought he was Aguero when it came to finishing and begged to go up top, had 2 clear chances and wasted them both, stick to defending lad. 

Home to Redcar next week lads, will text details later need a good turn up last game before Christmas. Cheers to James, Niall and Josh for today. Well played lads. 

QE Hockey Vs Richmond

Today was our first game together as team. We were playing Richmond who are a very good team. We started off slow but soon got into our rhyme and were holding our own for much of the first half. Unfortunately they scored first and then quickly bagged themselves another. However the team pulled together and made great runs forward, with a couple of shots saved. Erin eventually managed to break free of the defence and put one past the goal keeper to score making it 2-1, curtesy of a great pass from Ben. Katie then came close to scoring shortly after when she hit the post, which involved both a couple of use falling over and grazing several parts of our bodies, all in the cause of a goal. Another great second half performance meant that Richmond couldn't pull away from us, but due to fatigue kicking in with several players, Richmond managed to score again. We kept on attacking until the very end, but even though we didn't score we played incredibly well to say it was our first game. All the team played well today and we can only improve from today. We will regroup and surly improve for next match  against prior

Written by Ryan Towler

QE vs Ilkley Grammer School

Sorry for the lack of posts recently, been having problems with getting on to the blog, needless to say there will be more posts from previous games when possible and all future games from now on.


The game today started with a slightly weakened side due to injuries however places in the squad were filled by the non selected players so a big thank you to them.

The game kicked off with explosively Ilkley hitting the contact and driving with vigour whislt we worked against them in the defence. possession was passed from team to team as the game progressed until Ilkley broke through to score in the corner.

QE 0 - Ilkley 5

This try only seemed to inspire us as we hit back with a quick succession of breaks and powering forwards work which let the backs unleash themselves on the Ilkley back line allowing Olly Copper to score and convert at the corner.

QE 7 - Ilkley 5

After this we regain the majority of the possession driving the opposition back to their own 22 multiple times, and once almost scoring off a nicely placed chip from John Payne who was narrowly beaten to the ball by the  closer, Ilkley full back. However just before half time a succession of penalties lead to Ilkley kicking between the posts bring in the half.

HT QE 7 - Ilkley 8

The half kicked off explosively with both team fighting fiercely for possession. Great runs from the forwards and some brilliant steals by Jamie Richardson and Sam Bell, and some quality defensive work on our 5 metre line lead to an inspired break fro John Payne who scored in the corner, unsuccessfully converted by Costner Brown.

QE 12 - Ilkley 8

From here it looked as if we had done it with only 7 minutes to go it was just a matter of waiting the game out and defending as much as possible, however with the conseading of some arguable penalties Ilkley scored ending the game.

FT QE 12 - Ilkley 13