1st team squad to play Ponteland away at 1500 - Andy Hall, Tom Taylor, Pete Twentyman (captain) Adam MacDonald, Ross Radford, Louis Matthews, George Bambrick, Darren Kelly, Tom Grieves, Matty Marshall, Brandon Gilbert, Gregor Stirling, Jack Hearn, Lewis Chater, Ben Wollerton, Luke Foster, Ben Walker, Ross Glasper

Covid has finally hit our group after being relatively untouched over the last six months as Daniel Shuttleworth and Ben Kelly are omitted.

We have selected possibly our lightest pack of the season as we expect a torrid , high tempo battle with Ponteland. From the Horden fixture Ross Radford comes back into the pack to help with continuity and Louis Matthews comes in after some fine displays for the 2's.

The back line is also strengthened as youngster Brandon Gilbert starts on the wing in the absence of Ben Kelly. In addition, it is amazing to see Lewis Chater back within the group after some time away from the game.

We will need to be at our best to beat an in form Ponteland side. However, we have planned well at training and solved problems during the week thrown at us by injury and illness.

2nd team squad to play Ponteland at Sutherland Park starting at 1500 - Rob Reid, Alex Cokeley, Alan Pitchford, Chris Parnell, Nick Orr-Burns, Callum Anderson, Gus Nye, Alex Cleminson, Jonny Martin, Ewan Dalziel, Harry Armstrong, Shaun Stewart (captain) Ben Forbes, Toby Peters, David Marshall, James Forbes, Henry Cartwright, Chris Ward, James Bass, Andrew Maxwell, Greg Abibu

2nd debuts for Toby Peters and Henry Cartwright - two very exciting prospects to look out for. Also great to see the return of Greg Abibu to the squads after returning from a badly dislocated finger against Morpeth.

3rd team squad to play at West Hartlepool 1400 kick off - Ethan Carmichael, Tom Storey, Ian Wood (captain) Harvey Stannard, Marcus Hunton, Dylan Holmes, Alex Histed, Ian Pratt, James Kilburn, James Oh, Phil Howard-Johnston, Zac Weatherhead, Jonny Allton, Jonny Bulfin, Ben Charmer, Jeff Burke, Rob Taylor, Alex Taylor, Oli Taylor, Jonny Lowes, Will Evans, John Ozap-Marshall

Couple of great stories in this squad - none more so than Rob Taylor taking the field with his two son's Oli and Alex. Incredible memory about to be created tomorrow. Debut for James Oh at flyhallf who plays outside his housemate James Kilburn.

Good luck boys - go well and Up the Vos !