NURL 1sts – 26
Napier University– 12
For the season opener NURL headed to Scotland with an injury and graduation ravaged side including 7 debutants out of Seventeen. Napier had been undefeated in Edinburgh for 3 years and boast a squad containing numerous Scottish Student Internationals. The Royals were keen to stamp their authority on the re-structured Premier North division and eager to welcome the newly promoted side with a crushing defeat.
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Newcastle Combined Squad – 38
Bradford University – 16
The Match consisted of 4 twenty minute quarters under the watchful eye of legendary SRL officiator Ian Mcregor. After a strong start Bradford were unable to live with NURL’s depth of talent amongst players new and old.
Newcastle’s try’s were spread evenly across the squad and included two fine finishes from debutants Bruce Rigby and Dan Acton.
Man of the Match for Newcastle was Fresher Rob Seagreaves who backed up his comanding attacking display with some bone-crunching shoulders in defence.
With the Gutsy Bradford side duly demolished the Season now begins in earnest.
New Players are still welcome and encouraged to join the squad at training which is running at the normal times.
To become a member you have to sign up on the following websites. The fee to the Athletic union covers your annual subs to the club contributing towards kit, officials and socials. The fee to the Centre for Physical Recreation and Sport covers University costs and can be paid as part of your gym membership.
CPRS Sign up page
Athletic Union Sign up page
The Majority of fixtures are played at 2.00pm on Wednesday afternoons at the following venues. Directions for road travel are provided with maps available by clicking on the on the respective addresses.
Etherstone Avenue
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NE7 7JX
Heading North follow the A167 over the Tyne Bridge then branch off to the A1058, After a few Kilometers turn Left to the A188. At the first roundabout turn Right onto Etherstone Avenue, after 400m Cochrane Park is on your Left.
Pedestrians in the centre of town should take the 305 or 306 buses.
Heaton Road
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NE65RS
From the A167 turn right to the The Coast Road (A1058) then after roughly 1km turn Right onto Heaton Road and the grounds are behind the wooden fence 100m on the Left.
Pedestrians should use the Chillingham Road Metro or the number 16 bus from the City Centre
Heddon on the Wall
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NE150HT
Close House Country Club is approximately 7 miles From the A1/A69 roundabout . Follow the A69 West for 4 miles until the junction marked Close House (B6528). At the junction, turn Left. Close House Country Club is signposted (on the Right) from here.
A Full range of authentic NURL training and leisure wear is available on request. Please get in touch with either president for more information.
All playing and match day kit is supplied and washed by the club free of charge with players given a chance to buy surplus team strips at the end of the season. There are still a limited number of playing kits available from the 10/11 season as modelled below:
NURL 1sts – 18
Trinity All Saints Titans – 14
Wednesdays match was the third in a week for Ed Ainscoe’s lethargic troops and the expedition to league home-country left the team feeling a long way from the big eared boys on Leazes field. TASC’s hundred or so supporters were gathered on the field in a scene reminiscent of The Wicker Man and the Ill intent was thinly veiled behind the crowd’s shifty eyes and toothless grins. Continue reading »
NURL 1sts – 32
Leeds 1sts – 0
A dominating victory at Leeds exemplified NURL�s impressive turnaround under the stewardship of pizza hut dwelling trench-coat loiterer Ed Ainscoe.
NURL 1sts – 12
Leeds Met 1sts – 20
‘This was the hardest game we have had in my three years including Grand Finals’ was Leeds Met and GB students coach Paul Fletcher’s sentiments after a bruising encounter at Cochrane park. Indeed with Leeds coming off the back of an 80 point victory in their previous match and demoralising memories of last seasons drubbing by a similar score line still lingering, it was not surprising that even NURLS most enthusiastic of players, Dave Furniss (not Furnish), rated their chances of somewhere between slim and C.J. Smullen. Talk prior to the game was to ‘keep the score down’ and ‘play with pride’ and Newcastle ended up doing a lot more than that.
Rick Davison with some neat passing
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Newcastle 1sts – 20
Northumbria 1sts – 4
By Ed Ainscoe and Kevin Davey
Coach Rob Jones’ devotion to the rebuilding of NURL is similar in scope and awe –inspiring genius to Gaudi’s Sagrada Família. Yet whilst the Catalan’s work remains unfinished, few can doubt that NURL’s Lazarus-esque resurrection is complete following the atonement for last year’s loss in the fixture.
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