✔705 Outwood Academy Acklam 4G

Kader 1-8 Boro Rangers

North Riding Football League - Premier Division

Saturday 26th October 2019

 
Kader Football Club formed in 1976 and has over 300 players in 30 teams who are coached by FA qualified volunteers, covering boys, girls and mixed teams in all age groups. In 2018 the club started a mens team, playing in the North Riding Football League for players progressing from youth level. Kader has been recognised with Community Club status and awarded TJFA Club of the year in 1991-92, 2000-01, and have also won numerous NRCFA  club awards.

Hustler Trust Pavillion

Outwood Academy Acklam

Hall Drive

Acklam

Middlesbrough

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North Riding Premier League grounds visited 13/15

There’s 16 pitches at the Outwood Academy including the one which was used by defunct club Whinney Banks when I last visited here 200 grounds ago, back in 2016 on Sandy Flatts. 

Kader Men use the 4G pitch which is caged with dugouts on one side and the spectators hard standing on the outer side of the fence

Kader(15th) 1(Hoyland 13)

Boro Rangers(3rd) 8(Isle 29,43pen 51 Large 34,40,68 Guy 77 Johnson 82)

North Riding FL Premier Division matches 11

2pm ko

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Kader did well in the first half an hour, taking the lead with a twenty yard shot from Michael Hoyland in the 13th minute. Jamie Isle levelled with a first time shot from the edge of the box, before a long ball found Jake Large who fired Boro into the lead. Before the break both players had a brace including a penalty by Isle to make it 1-4 at the break. 

Isle completing his hat-trick with a well placed free kick from the edge of the penalty box in the 51st minute, then Large also grabbed his third midway through the second half. A good run and finish by Jack Guy made it seven up,  before Dave Johnson joined the attack to slot home and make it 1-8 at full time.

#HeedHopper

38 miles door-to-door down the A19 to Middlesbrough.

The NE Groundhopping Contingent had originally planned to visit Staithes today, but the heavy rain over the last 24 hours had blitzed the non-league programme.

We needed to visit Kader towards completing the Premier Division of the North Riding League, so this was the ideal day to tick it off.

Before the match we had plenty of time to call into the GBG listed Dr Phil’s Ale House just a mile or so along the road from the ground. The established catered for the three of us as I am a real ale enthusiast, Katie is a lager lover and Lee a cider drinker. 

✔704 Thirsk & Sowerby Flatts

Thirsk Falcons 1-4 Stockton West End

North Riding Football League - Premier Division

Saturday 19th October 2019

 Thirsk is a small market town and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire. The town is a popular tourist destination close to the Yorkshire Dales, the North York Moors and has a favoured racecourse on the edge of town. It was the home of author James Herriot and birthplace of Thomas Lord, after whom Lord's Cricket Ground is named. (population 5,000) 

Thirsk Falcons run boys and girls teams at all age levels. The adult team played in the Teesside League, becoming Division Two champions in 2013-14. They joined the North Riding Football League Division One in 2017 and won the league last season to gain promotion to its Premier Division.

Thirsk and Sowerby Flatts

Meadowfields,

Chapel Street, 

Thirsk, 

North Yorkshire 

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The ground is behind the Thirsk and Sowerby Leisure Centre. Opposite the centre is the club's changing room block and storage space for the goals and nets. The pitch is roped off on one side and borders the Cod Beck riverside walkway at the far side.

Current NRFL Premier Division grounds visited 12/15

Thirsk Falcons(14th) 1(Duffield 23)

Stockton West End(4th) 4(Williams 6,45,46,89)

North Riding FL Premier Division matchday 10

2pm ko

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Four goals by West End number nine Carl Williams secured the three points. He capitalised on a poor keeper's clearance in the 6th minute, before the Falcons levelled with a Joshua Duffield shot from outside the box. A goal each side of half time by Williams, including a cracking volley to give him his hat trick put Stockton back in control, before he wrapped it up in the final minutes to make it 4-1. 

The NEGC and a cheeky lino.

 #Heedhopper

60 miles door-to-door via A19

Drove down to Houghton after work, switching cars to head down the A19 with Katie & Lee. This was my first visit to Thirsk since the breadknife and I spent a summer evening there last year having a drink in every pub in town. On this occasion there was no bevvy, just a ‘Spoons coffee and a Greggs steak bake before the match. 

Revisit - Northfield School & Sports College

Wynyard Village 5-4 Heighington

Durham Minor Cup 1st Round

Saturday 12th October 2019

 Wynyard Park, sometimes known as Wynyard Hall is a large English country house in County Durham. The house was the family seat of the Vane-Tempest-Stewarts, Marquesses of Londonderry, an Anglo-Irish aristocratic dynasty, before it was sold in the 1980s.

There are three areas of housing development within the former Wynyard Estate: Wynyard Village, Wynyard Woods and Wynyard Park. The estate's residents include Duncan Bannatyne and in the past an array of  Premier League footballers from the north-east clubs. Wynyard Village FC formed as a youth side in 2004. The adult side joined the Wearside League Division 2 at the start of this season.

Northfield School & Sports College

Thames Road

Billingham

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The school is 2 miles east of Wynyard Hall. It was established in 1972 and was awarded specialist Sports College status in 1999. The complex has several grass and 3G pitches with Wynyard playing on the furthest pitch away from the Sportsdrome.

#Heedhopper

32 mile drive door-to-door down the A1/A639 and Stockton Road.

Current Wearside League grounds visited 22/25
Original visit to Billingham FC

Wynyard Village 5(Millward 19,51,58 Dawson 30 #4 OG 78)

Heighington 4(Dixon 11,86,89 Dodson 58)

Durham County FA Minor Cup 1st Round

1.30pm ko

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Crook & District League side Heighington took an early lead through Dan Dixon, but the hosts turned it around before the break through Toby Millward and Dylan Dawson. After the restart a smashing finish from Millward extended their advantage before substitute Shane Dodson got on the end of a right wing cross to pull it back to 3-2. 

Millard grabbed his hat trick just before the hour mark, then when the fifth goal arrived in the 78th minute through a clumsy OG it looked game over. With just under five minutes remaining Dixon scored his second with a lovely 25 yard free kick and he still had time to grab his hat trick to make it 5-4.The clock was against Heighington to take the match into extra time as Wynyard held on in a cracking open cup tie.