Sedgie find themselves in the bottom 2 again by virtue of a couple of results going against us. Whether this will mean relegation, who knows? All we can do is try and pick out as many points out of the last 3 games to move as high up the league as we can. The league restructure is leaving everyone scratching their heads as to what next season will look like. The RFU still not decided as things stand with it likely to be after the season end before we will know for sure

Its not ideal for us, but also for teams competing at the top end with no real information about how many will go up, Gateshead in 5th will be hoping to hold off Ashington and Ryton to give themselves an outside chance of being one of the clubs going up. The reverse fixture saw us lose out at Gateshead by 45 -12 in a game where Gatesheads pace out wide and their outstanding number 9 was our undoing.

Saturday looks set to be another cold one after the weather tricked us into thinking we were headed for some better conditions and we are hoping we can set up another Sedgie special upset and bring home the points.

Team News

We welcome back Graham Brennan to the front row alongside James Watson and Mitch Corney, Dan Lawson drops back to the second row alongside Pedro Gray who returns to the squad after missing last weeks game with Redcar. Our back row is unchanged with Charlie Johnson, Dom Ryan and Massimo Impagliazzo proving an effective unit.

In the backs we shuffle again, Will Johnson is at scrum half and Owen Robinson comes in for the injured Gareth Pratt, Lawrence Oliver and John Pope form a strong centre pairing. Out wide Jordan Portlock and Ryan Towler continue with Adam Grieve again at full back.

On the bench, we have Ben Norris and Andy Broere