Five weeks off brings Tynedale seven heaven

Jan 17 2010 by Nick Purewal, Sunday Sun

Such was the visitors’ impotence they failed to capitalise on two Tynedale yellow cards, Dave Whitehead and Peter Browne both taking 10 in the bin for not rolling away after the tackle.

For Tynedale, though, this was a chance to let off some serious steam in their first outing since December 12.

Former Morpeth free scorer Cole started things off after two minutes, finishing with ease and under little duress after a powerful driven lineout.

Fly-half Beasley then raced home after five fine offloads out of contact as the home side gave their opponents as lesson in how to keep the ball alive.

Standing up the defence and finishing well in the right corner after Charlie Ingall’s looping offload, Cole then doubled his personal tally to end the first-half try action.

After the turnaround full-back Smales capped a fine Beasley break, taking the scoring pass from flank tearaway Harrison to dot down.

Murray got in on the act next thanks to a lovely delayed offload from Harrison.

By this point Sedgley were simply going through the motions, which showed when Harrison strolled in almost untouched from 30 metres off a set scrum play.

Only the bounce of the ball from Beasley’s cross-field kick stopped Cole latching on and crossing for his hat-trick after that.

But Tynedale still managed one more score when scrum-half Shaw nipped round from the ruck base to cap a strong drive to the line.

So after the great white-out came the first whitewash of 2010, and in this form with all their key men fit, National One better watch out.