Feb 252009
 

NURL 1sts – 34
Northumbria 1sts – 20

Ed Ainscoe

Following the heroics of the club’s second team, the stage was set for a gutsy performance from the Newcastle Owls, keen to emulate 2008’s double victory over their city rivals, the bizarrely named ‘Ninjawolves’. Despite some disruption caused by injuries in the run up to the game, NURL went in to the game at full strength, welcoming back big time accountant Dave Knox and proud father Richard Massey, and boasting student rugby league’s finest hair cut with Mikey Ward’s fine Mohawk.
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Feb 252009
 

NURL 2nds – 58
Northumbria 2nds – 20

By Murray James

A shiver-ridden gust of February bluster buffered the wise and pristine faces of the Owls as they strode out to face the Auld enemy. Hooting through a copyrighted Steven Thompson warm-up, two things were very clear: a) the back pitch at Gateshead Stadium appears to have recently been hired out by Spanish people in order to beat and execute donkeys; b) the opposition were a gargantuan rabble, exclusively made up of slobs, brutes, freaks and puddings.
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