Sedgie welcome neighbours Darlington RFC to the Wok aiming to get back to winning ways after a couple of chastening losses to Bishop Auckland and Guisborough in the last 2 weeks. The Saxons are off to Stockton in a reverse of the fixture they won last week to take on Stocktonians.

Darlington have been in great form this season and occupy 3rd place in DN2 by virtue of 14 wins, 1 draw and just 4 losses so far, they have 74 points and ran out 63 - 0 winners over Seaham 2 weeks ago so they are having a great season. The reverse fixture saw us well beaten at Blackwell Meadows 33 - 10 in a pretty bad tempered game. Hopefully we will have a better game on Saturday.

Sedgie of course have had a couple of big losses in recent weeks but even in defeat last week to a very strong Guisborough side we played pretty well against a side that were just far too strong for us. With 6 more games to play and having caught up on our lost fixtures from early in the season we are one of the only teams up to date, we are hoping for a smooth run to the season end with no more fixtures going south!

As always, derby games have a little extra spice to them, so we are hoping we can once again upset the odds and put in one of those special Sedgie performances that shocks everyone in the league!

Team News

With injuries mounting Sedgie have made some changes but we are able to name 2 good squads

Graham Brennan reverts to prop with Seb Wilkins returning to hooker, Tom Ducker is another returnee to the front row. Pedro Gray is in the boiler house with Sam North who was impressive on his debut last week. The back row welcomes back Mitch Corney along with Will Johnson and Massimo Impagliazzo.

Tom Flatters returns at number 9 with Gaz Pratt at number 10, John Pope and Terry Cook resume their centre pairing and out wide Lawrence Oliver is joined by Jordan Portlock following some great feedback from the Saxons. Ryan Towler gets the nod at full back with Andy Fife out with a broken thumb.

Our finishers are Dan Lawson, Dan Martin and Chris Parker.

The Saxons are away to Stocktonians

Bobby Blackburn gets a start with Neil Hetherington and Stu Walton in the front row, Andy Broere and Thomas Cramp are in the 2nd row and Rumour has it Keith Armstrong is back to play alongside Micheal Reilly and Stephen Portlock in the back row.

Lee Keillor is at scrum half with Chris Parker at stand off, Josh Hodgson returns to number 12 with Jamie Wilson at 13. Kyle Smith and Chris Frater are the wide men with Speedster Danny Wolfe at full back.

Lewis White will face a late fitness test to line up with Ian Slack on the bench