Sunday gives us the opportunity to return to winning ways as we travel to Blaydon. We have worked hard on defence and tackling and will need to bring this hard work onto the pitch to stop Blaydon's powerful runner. The key will be avoiding repeating the same errors we made against Rockcliffe last time out.

Last season saw the honours even with both teams winning on their own patch, Blaydon recovering from a 5 try half time deficit to take a convincing 12 Try to 8 victory, whilst the return fixture at Mowden saw DMP run out winners by 13 Tries to 4.

It should be a good, exciting game.