SCORES
1 min - Bournville 0 Tynedale 7 - Try Will Miller + Conv Josh Leslie
7 mins - Bournville 7 Tynedale 7
9 mins - Bournville 12 Tynedale 7
16 mins - Bournville 19 Tynedale 7
26 mins - Bournville 19 Tynedale 12 - Try Ben Bell
27 mins - Bournville 19 Tynedale 19 - Try Adam Todhunter + Conv Josh Leslie
32 mins - Bournville 19 Tynedale 24 - Try Ben Blackburn
33 mins - Bournville 19 Tynedale 31 - Try Matt Ward + Conv Josh Leslie
38 mins - Bournville 26 Tynedale 31
HALF TIME
55 mins - Bournville 29 Tynedale 31
80 mins - Bournville 36 Tynedale 31

CLICK HERE for Match Photos (courtesy of Bournville's Lee Sullivan)
CLICK HERE to view Match Report (from 'The Rugby Paper')

Our 1stXV squad make the journey to west Birmingham this weekend as we visit Bournville for the first ever time.

BOURNVILLE HISTORY
The rugby section of the Bournville Athletic Club was established on 17th August 1909, when 22 members showed a strong interest in taking up the game. So it was that workers from Cadburys in Bournville village founded BOURNVILLE RFC, donning the chocolate colours.
The original Bournville RFC sides consisted entirely of Cadbury employees and the company would traditionally award caps to players. Gradually through the years other players from outside the Cadbury family joined the club.

Operating at the Rowheath playing fields for 100 years, the club temporarily shared facilities with the University of Birmingham before moving to their current ground at the Avery Fields Sports and Events Centre, a £3m facility 4 miles from Bournville itself.

Founding members of Worcestershire and Herefordshire, and affiliated to the North Midlands Rugby Football Union, Bournville have gone from strength to strength after struggling at first, gaining promotion from Level 10 to its present day Level 4 in the RFU league structure.
Bournville’s promotion into our league as champions in 2020 from the Midland Premier was very comfortable indeed, and at the end of that abbreviated 2019-20 season they were 22 point ahead of 2nd placed Sheffield having won 20 of their 21 matches. In that season’s Midland Premier League were a number of clubs well-known to Tynedale supporters -Broadstreet, Nuneaton, Peterborough Lions, Sheffield RUFC and South Leicester.
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THIS SEASON
In the first ever match between the two clubs at Tynedale Park on the 11th December 2021 Tynedale won 48-12, playing some impressive rugby on a dark, wet, day scoring seven tries to Bournville’s two.
The Tynedale squad was:-
BACKS Cooke, West, Clark, Grant, Todhunter, Blackett, Ball
FORWARDS White, Lowdon, Carmichael, Wearmouth, Dunn, Cousin, Robson, Blackburn
REPLACEMENTS Scott, Johnston, Hanning, Stanwix, Ward

This season Bournville started the season quite well but subsequently their results, like the majority of teams in the league, have been a mixed bag.
The current league standings of the two clubs are:-

	P	W	D	L	F	A	PD	Pts	Pos
Tynedale	27	12	1	14	648	783	-135	67	7
Bournville	26	6	1	19	610	903	-293	40	13

Bournville have played one game fewer than Tynedale, so the points scored by each team are very similar, with an average of 24 points per match. However, Bournville have conceded 903 points in their 26 matches, about 35 points per match, compared to Tynedale’s 29 points per match (which isn’t brilliant either). That poorer defence perhaps explains why Bournville lie six places below Tyne in the current table. - We just love stats dont we!!

The Bournville results so far this season have been:-
Huddersfield 19 Bournville 24
Bournville 47 Harrogate 20
Rotherham 48 Bournville 46
Bournville 66 Wharfedale 13
Sedgley Pk 20 Bournville 6
Sheffield Tigers 19 Bournville 17
Bournvlle 26 Blaydon 27
Fylde 73 Bournville 7
Bournville 43 Hull Ionians 46
Luctonians 17 Bournville 11
Bournville 22 Stourbridge 52
Bournville 22 Chester 14
Tynedale 48 Bournville 12
Harrogate 17 Bournville 24
Bournville 17 Rotherham 17
Wharfedale 30 Bournville 18
Hull 50 Bournville 22
Bournville 21 Sheffield Tigers 30
Blaydon 36 Bournville 14
Bournville 33 Fylde 47
Hull Ionians 52 Bournville 5
Bournville 12 Luctonians 35
Bournville 26 Lough. Students 24
Stourbridge 61 Bournville 24
Bournville 14 Hull 40
Chester 48 Bournville 31

Referee
Lloyd Davies

Ground
Avery Fields Sports & Events
79, Sandon Road
Birmingham
B17 8DT

Corbridge to Bournville ground
214 miles (via A1(M) – 3hrs 59mins

Weather Forecast
Sunny intervals in a gentle easterly breeze, 17 degrees

Selected Squad