FARMERS' DAY
Farmers, families, friends and associates have been invited to Tynedale Park this Saturday, as the rugby club is hosting another Farmers' Day. It promises to be an exciting game and a great day with plenty of good old farming craic.
The schedule for today is :-
• 12noon (if not a bit before) - BAR1876 opens for pre-lunch drinks
• 12.30pm - Pre-Match Lunch
• 2pm - Tynedale 1stXV v Preston Grasshoppers (Bar open throughout game)
• 3.40pm - post-match socialising

PRE-MATCH LUNCH
This season lunches will again need to be booked in advance (by 23:59 on the Thursday) using a simple on-line reservation & payment system. Due to a maximum capacity this will be on a first-come-first-served basis.
The link to book your place at a lunch is:-
https://events.liveit.io/ian-tynedale/tynedale-rfc-pre-match-lunch-booking-202425-4/

Once payment is made an email ticket/receipt will be sent.

Tynedale v Preston Grasshoppers
Saturday 25th January 2025 (KO 2pm)

WELCOME
This Saturday we extend a warm welcome to the players, officials and supporters of Preston Grasshoppers.
We also, of course, extend a warm welcome to this week’s match officials Daniel Woods, Simon Lazenby and Dean Lythgoe.
We also welcome players, officials and supporters from our friends from Northern, South Shields and Peebles who are visiting our club today and not forgetting the match officials at these games.
To EVERYBODY - Enjoy your day!.

TYNEDALE v PRESTON GRASSHOPPERS

The two clubs first met in season 1979/80 and have played 33 times since, with Tynedale winning 20 of those matches; Grasshoppers have 12 wins, and one, the most recent match, drawn.
Of the 33 games played 22 have been League matches;-
Tynedale 15 wins (583 points)
Preston Grasshoppers 7 wins (478 points)
One draw.

RECENT MATCHES BETWEEN PRESTON GRASSHOPPERS AND TYNEDALE
19 Oct 2019 Tynedale 34 Grasshoppers 5
1 Feb 2020 Grasshoppers 14 Tynedale 29
5 Nov 2022 Tynedale 17 Grasshoppers 12
4 March 2023 Grasshoppers 40 Tynedale 34
2 Sept 2023 Tynedale 38 Grasshoppers 43
27 April 2024 Grasshoppers 35 Tynedale 36
5 October 2024 Grasshoppers 31 Tynedale 31

WHERE DID THE GRASSHOPPER NAME COME FROM ?
The name ‘Grasshoppers’ was chosen because, amongst the founders of the Preston club were several old boys of Cheltenham College. That school had a game ‘Fireflies v. Grasshoppers’. We could have been playing Fireflies today!

GRASSHOPPER STARS
Preston Grasshoppers has been a wonderful place to nurture rugby talent. After playing for the club many players won International recognition for England; Paul Grayson (32 caps), Wade Dooley (55), Steve Borthwick (57), Will Greenwood (55), Pat Sanderson (16), Iain Balshaw (35) and Alex Sanderson (5).

THE OLDEST CLUBS IN THE NATIONAL TWO (North) LEAGUE
Preston Grasshoppers is one of the more ancient clubs to our League. Three clubs are now older than Tynedale; Harrogate RUFC, Otley RUFC and Preston Grasshoppers RFC.

The clubs in this League began life in the following years:-
Otley 1865 Preston Grasshoppers 1869 Harrogate 1871
Tynedale 1876 Sheffield 1902 Fylde 1919 Wharfedale 1923 Billingham 1924 Chester 1925
Sheffield Tigers 1932 Leeds Tykes 1991 Hull Ionians 1992
Hull 1992
N.B. Four clubs were founded in the 19th century.

PRESTON THIS SEASON
Preston Grasshoppers, like the majority of teams in our league, have had a mixed season to date and sit 3 places below Tynedale with only 4 league points separating the sides.
We are certain, as ever, to be set for another close competitive match.

PRESTON’S LEAGUE RESULTS TO DATE:-
Preston Grasshoppers 30 Chester 32
Fylde 22 Preston Grasshoppers 20
Preston Grasshoppers 27 Sheffield Tigers 26
Harrogate 31 Preston Grasshoppers 38
Preston Grasshoppers 31 Tynedale 31
Otley 45 Preston Grasshoppers 22
Preston Grasshoppers 45 Hull 29
Leeds Tykes 35 Preston Grasshoppers 29
Preston Grasshoppers 48 Billingham 22
Wharfedale 40 Preston Grasshoppers 14
Preston Grasshoppers 17 Sheffield 25
Preston Grasshoppers 0 Hull Ionians 39
Lymm 42 Preston Grasshoppers 29
Preston Grasshoppers 12 Fylde 38
Preston Grasshoppers 38 Harrogate 31

PRESTON’S WEBSITE
https://www.pgrfc.co.uk/

MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Daniel Woods
AR1: Simon Lazenby
AR2: Dean Lythgoe

BALL BOYS/GIRLS
Tynedale Under 11’s

WEATHER FORECAST
Dry, sunny, moderate south-westerly breeze, 6 degrees

OTHER TYNEDALE (Senior Section) MATCHES THIS WEEKEND
SATURDAY
Tynedale Raiders v Northern Wanderers (2pm) – CaNDY 1 League
Gateshead II v Tynedale Hadrians (2pm) - CaNDY League 2N
Tynedale Centurions v South Shields (2pm) – CaNDY League 3N
Tynedale Colts v Peebles Colts (2pm) – Border Cup
SUNDAY
Cockermouth/Keswick v Tynedale Colts - POSTPONED

SELECTED SQUADS
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