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

QE v. Hartlepool

QE Netball A v. Hartlepool

After a brief warm up thanks to our bus driver parking about 4 miles away from the court, we got off to a steady start in the first quarter. Second quarter things started to pick up a bit and we were defending strong and carrying the ball well with Ellie  and Jo  having some great takes on the circle edge, Toni worked the circle well and her and Beth's shooting was spot on.
Laura and Emily H were strong in defence and supported the attack really well. We decided to break the mould of having a shocking q3 and really got into the swing of things and we were in such a good mood about it we decided that we need some sort of social to celebrate at a later date. Big well done to izzy and Emily in circle defence for handling a GA who was a bit on the tall side (special mention to izzy for overcoming all traumatic Ethiopia experiences to be on peak form) and overall a smashing performance from everybody to take a 41-6 win and make a strong start to the season.

QE Rugby vs Barnard Castle B

A big crowd turned out to watch our game against Barnard Castle, and neither side disappointed.  Barnard Castle started with hard hitting backs play from the kickoff pushing us back with a stint of quick offloads.

QE soon came back however with expansive play out to the wing building pressure in Barnard's  22  where we were camped for some time.

Then after a quick succession of penalties Jamie Richardson score between posts, with Ollie Cooper converted. 

Soon after this the Barnard Castle 10 was yellow carded just before half time.

Ht QE 7    BC 0

With the kick off Barnard Castle came back with more offload play and caused numerous penalties for QE until we regained possession off a scrum. From the play that that followed Joss Mercer came out with a huge run down the majority of the pitch which lead to Jamie's second try - not converted.

However Barnard Castle soon retaliated with an unconverted try of their own.

Barnard Castle kept this up with another unconverted try.

This didn't deter us though as determination lead to Joss surging through the line to score the third which was converted.

In the last minute the BC 12 broke through a couple of tackles to score an unconverted try at the side of the pitch.

Ft QE 19 BC 10 or 15 

It was a very hard, fast and well played game with a very good result for us showing the rest of league what we can really do. Well done lads.

QE A Team Football match report v Hartlepool Sixth Form

The day started with everyone in the team very downhearted mood as a result of manager Mark Scott taking money off us (minors). So after scotty giving it the 'big un' in the away day quiz I was honoured to be allowed the privilege of coach DJ; playing suitable tunes to get the boys prepared.

Its safe to say the pitch at hartlepool wasn't the most baller-friendly being an little kids pitch, which suited the likes of niall and josh but restricted the play of us normal sized adolescents. The game started how it carried on; a battle with occasional flashes of good play from us. Marshy issued several rousing, tailormade, individual speeches throughout the game to our players. However, this seemed to adversely affect paul new as he spent the open exchanges chasing his first touch as opposed to his usual shoulder barging every moving object. This allowed Ready to step up to the plate and he displayed some class full back play driving us forward. Tbf to the lad he may be the sleaziest, cringiest man in QE but he is ok at football. Something that wasn't ok were his 'pants'  which defo need at least 2 pairs of socks stuffed down there to be anywhere close to acceptable. Our first and only goal was scored by the baldest person with long hair ever to grace a football pitch. Dylan chased down a loose pass before firing a shot via his sneid right boot. 8/10 finish. 

They then equalised from a defensive mishap involving the skipper and niall, to be fair to niall he was in the process of by what can only be described as 'deathgripped'. This was pretty much the last event of note to occur in the 1st half. The ref blew the half-time whistle and the ever-inspirational Mark got the lads in and rallied his troops; with an overall theme of just keep going. The second half began and we pushed on well and I think we created the better chances out of the two sides with bushy and josh clarke coming close. However, despite our spells of pressure and good play hartlepool scored against the run of play.

Desperate times called for desperate measures and I was flung up front but even with my physical presence up top ("great feet for a big man") we couldnt get that elusive equaliser. Then then scored another spawny goal and that was the game done, but we still battled away admirably. In conclusion, this wasnt a game we deserved to lose at all, we maybe lacked a cutting edge at times and we are bit naive in defence but thats being mega critical. Fortunately this was a cup game and there is defo 6 points to be taking from those in the league!! #QESteamroller had a day off but were are still proper class and that so its sound......



(sorry for lateness of this btw; Im a busy lad)

QE C team v Bishop Auckland

Well as today was a friendly the report won't be as detailed as a regular game, sorry lads just I want a quick nap before work so you's can let me off for a week. Before the game we weren't really sure of who we were playing, we all knew it was Bishop college yet various reports of their team left us a bit puzzled. The team today was shaken up a bit by Gary to give the lads who hadn't played as much a chance to stake their claim, starting 11 of Ben, Tunner, Connor, Sam, Bravey, Roe, Neish, Owen, Ab, Tom and Dan. That left me, Westy, Wayne and Hal on the subs bench all waiting for our chance. The game had a slightly sluggish start, and it was clear that the reports of these being a poor side were true as they really didn't seem up to much. However they did manage to take the lead, through a decent move where the ball was pulled back to their big centre forward who cooly slotted away. We were struggling to really get a hold of the game, Callum Roe was suffering from illness so had to be replaced mid first half by Westy, yet still we were struggling to fashion any real openings. Not long before the break the ball was played over our defence to that annoyingly fast striker who sweeped the ball underneath our keeper and made it 2-0. It hadn't been the best of first halves for us yet it was obvious that we could still get into the game as they really weren't a good side. Half time came and on came myself, Hal and Wayne for Dan, Ab and Owen. After a few stern words off Gary we approached the second half in the mood to get this game back. Our mindset was clear as we really pressured them high up and forced them to make mistakes, after a lovely interchange with Hal, Wayne went round the keeper and got fouled, he tried to get his shot away still but the touch had knocked him off balance and the referee pointed to the spot. I stepped up and put the penalty in the corner and made it 2-1, game on. Literally about 2 minutes after getting back into the game we shot ourselves in the foot, however I was taking my thermal off so I never saw the goal, all I know is that it was the number 8 who I was supposed to be marking so I will hold my hands up to that, sorry lads, 3-1. This would often kill a team off but it actually encouraged us to go on again, I've had a complete mind block and have no idea who scored the second goal, I have a feeling it may have been Wayne but I really don't know. Anyone care to inform me? Anyway, apart from the same ball to that player on the left which Tunner dealt with well often, they had no further threat. Then as we broke away again, their defender stupidly pulled down either Wayne or Westy as the ball was going out of play and gave Connor no choice but to point to the spot. They say that a second penalty in a match is hard to score, not when your name is Jamie Herd it isn't. Swapped sides from previous penalty and even though the keeper got a touch, the pure velocity of the strike got it in, 3-3. There was only one team going to win it after that, we pushed on but never created any genuine openings, I wasted our best chance by striking wide with my left foot which is no real surprise. Once again we broke through their shaky defence with Abel who saw his good strike saved well, only for it to fall to our Asian wonder kid Ab, who cooly nodded home to put us ahead for the first time, 4-3. They pressed on slightly and moaned a lot to the ref, but created nothing of any real sort. After a poor clearance from their defence Westy played Hal through, the ball looked a lost cause yet Hal managed to cap a brilliant performance with a excellent finish to find the far corner. Even with the goal Westy was still furious with his pass, yet it was actually on a plate for Hal, suppose it shows the quality he expects from himself and rightly so. The game fizzled out with no real great chances for either side and we won 5-3, coming from 2-0 and then 3-1 down which shows a decent grit and kept our good streak going. 

MOTM; Whilst only playing the second half his physical presence up top was something we had missed, held the ball up very well, got himself involved in a little handbags moment, then capped it all of with a goal, Hal Denny. 

Cock up of the week; Has to go to our centre half, who thought he was Neymar with his new boots, shocking purchase, specially for our so called hard defender, good job you had a solid performance. This week is Sam Henderson if you hadn't guessed already. 

No game next week but as Gary said we play Northumbria away in 2 weeks so make sure you sort lifts out for after that match as we need a big squad, don't want people dropping out of away games as it would be a let down. Well played lads.