Ponteland United 2 v North Shields Athletic 0 - 28/01/17 - ground #428 - Ponteland Leisure Centre

after nearly 3 months off due to skintness & annual heavy dose of manflu, it was back to the old routine journey of the X10 to tick off a northern alliance ground. got off at heworth, then after 30 mins or so on the metro arrived at ponteland airport. after a quick break, the bus wasnt due for over 20 mins to take me the short way into ponteland town centre, so I just walked, overtaken by the bus not far from the ground. paid £1 to get in (1st time I've had to pay into a game this season!) just before kick off. a goal in each half settled this game of not many clear chances.
after the game I bused it strait to eldon square for a 10 min connection onto the X10 back to stockton.

season 2016/17 - 16 new grounds , 71 goals

transport -
X10 stockton - heworth
4024+60 heworth - airport

X78 ponteland - eldon square
X10 eldon square - stockton

University 2 v North Shields Athletic 0 - 24/09/16 - ground #422 - Cochrane Park

athletic had the best of the 1st half, but uni won a poor game, possibly spoilt due to the wind.

University 2 v Berkeley United 2

whilst nowt much was gannin on in the main game, the reserves game was much more entertaining :)

season 2016/17 - 10 new grounds, 48 goals

transport -
4030+52 chillingham road - monument
4034+74 monument - heworth
X10 heworth - stockton

North Shields Athletic Reserves 1 v Billingham FC 4 - 30/07/16 - ground #415 - John Spence Community High School

after 2 new grounds in Hartlepool to kickstart my season, it was time for a venture up to tyneside (1st of many possibly, as I haven't got many "local" grounds left to do) . set off from Thornaby on the 11.26 to Darlo, for the 12.05 to central station. 2 metros later arrived in north shields about 1.20. 20 mins walk later arrived at the ground for the 2pm k.o.
very enjoyable game, dominated by Billingham who led 4-0. shields had quite a few chances but couldn't make much of them. a late pen gave them a consolation goal which they deserved. after the game, a brisk walk back down to the metro station, got me there for 4.05 back into town, changing at monument, arrived at central station about 4.35, plenty time to pop into Sainsburys for 4 colld cans of Strongbow for the journey home, then got the 4.59 to Darlo (avoiding the crowd coming out of the mags v Vittesse Arnhem match). made the 5.31 to Thornaby by 3 mins, to round another good day :)

transport -
142093 thornaby - darlo
91102 darlo - central station

4072+04 central - monument
4036+57 monument - north shields
4088+26 north shields - monument
4062+67 monument - central
91132 central station - darlo
142093 darlo - thornaby