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David Wanless Senior celebrates his 50^th birthday on Friday 26^th February upstairs in the Premier Pub Ashington from 7.30pm.  Current and ex players who have played with the Harry Hill lookalike are invited to join in the celebrations!

Robert Clark will be venturing to Newcastle for his Stag Do on Saturday 27^th March  And all players are invited.  If you are interested Stevie Henderson is taking numbers for the bus!

Members are asked to make every effort for two lads who have proved to be club stalwarts over a long period of time!  

2010 brings a new name for our club following 10 years being named after the Northern Social Club, we would like to thank the Social Club for their support over the last 10 years.

However the new name of Ashington Rugby Cricket Club brings new optimism to our club, we have played cricket at the Ashington Recreation Ground "Rec" or more commonly known as the Rugby Ground for over 25years and in this time we have worked closely together in managing the facilities.

The Rugby club gives our members its first real club house since our conception back in 1982, no more will visiting and home players have to travel away from the facilities to enjoy a after match drink. We have used the club facilities before and they offer a club house to be proud of especially following its recent refurbishment.

With a new name brings a complete new clothing range which our club will subsides its members with the members only having to play a quarter of the actuall costs, this generous offer will give all its members a chance to play in the new clubs name clothing.  

Our clubs Annual General meeting will be held on 21st January 2010 in the club tea room, make sure members of the club make every efford to attend as this is your club and you need to attend to have your say on how the club is run.

As we are updating our whole clothing range, samples will be available to try on for size, orders will be placed early February. As your club is looking to subsidize the cost of the clothing this year please come along and make the most of this generous offer.

Our club was awarded grant aid to the sum of £20K from the SITA Trust Enhancing Communities Large Grants Scheme. This money was put to good use in purchasing a ISEKI Compact Tractor with Grass Cutting Discharge Deck and Grass Collecting with dump facilities.

This tractor will be used to support the various clubs who use the "Rec" such as Ashington Rugby Club, Green Lane Archers, Ellington Juniors Football Club and ourselves.

We need to work together to continue to provide good facilities to be proud of and this Tractor goes a long way in doing so. Without this tractor we the users would have struggled to maintain the vast grassed areas we have at our disposal.

On behalf of all the user groups Northern Social Cricket Club would like to offer our many thanks to SITA Trust, it is hard to put into words how much this grant means to all of us. 

2009 was another great year for our club, the first team finished 4th in the 1st Division, 2nd team finished 7th in B1 Division and the midweek team 8th in their league.

2nd Team won their Division cup carried over from the 2008 season.

Midweek team won the 2009 R.E Wood Shield.

As a club we hosted 2 county girls fixtures, the lady taverners cup competition and 2 league cup finals in 2009.  

Our first individual awards ever by the league to our club, they go to 1st Team Captain Chirs Harwood for his great season with the bat and to Trevor Elliott 2nd Team bowler for his sterlin work with the ball. Well done you both lead the way in your field and put our club on the map.

Yes it is nearing that time again when we as a club get together to celebrate the season just gone. Our event is taking place on Friday 13th November 2009 in the rugby club, as last years event went so well, our race night is back by popular demand and will start and the end the night as it did last season.

Members are asked to name a horse and become an owner for one of the 8 races at the small cost of £2. Names of horses and numbers of people attending to be provided to the Chairman or Secretary for the week before so arrangments can be made for the race program etc. 

The night is planned as follows;

Doors open at 7pm

First race starts at 7:30pm

Presenatation will take place after the 4th race at around 8:30pm

5th Race starts at approximatley 9pm

Auction race to start at approximatley 10:30pm

Bar closes between 11pm and 11:30pm

Remember to ask family and friends if they want to attend the more the merrier. 

Two sets of father's and two sons play in the same team for our club in the 2009 season.

The first was on Saturday 15th August, second team fixture away to Blyth saw father Bernard Tanney play with his 18 year old son Mathew and his 15 year old son Lewis.

The second was father Paul Milburn with his sons Callum aged 16 and his younger son Cory aged 15, this took place in the first team fixture away to Tynemouth on Saturday 12th September.

Veterans team photo back row right to left: Alex Frodsham, Richard Peacock, Ken Ward, Alan Pearson, Peter Rollinson, Michael Davidson, Steve Adams, Willy Clark. Front Row: Jim Peacock (capt), George Rogerson, John Brown, Lloyd Julien.

Jim Peacock brough his band of merry men back to their old patch to show off their skills. The vets won the toss that never was and decided to bat on a great track leaving the young guns out in the field trying to show the old gang that they were worthy members of the club.

Steve Adams showed he still had runs in him as he opened the batting, Alex Frodsham showed he still had all the skils as he was back to his old stomping ground as he had travelled up from Northants just for this game. Michael Davidson also known as bam bam for his stylish shots and Willy "One Step" Clark and Peter "Rubber Hips" Rollinson help push the score along with some powerful hitting.

Then came the young guns who eased passed the vets score with 15 year old Scott Maddison leading way top scoring before retiring to give other players a chance. The vets best bowlers was Alan "Skip" Pearson and Jim "The Hoover" Peacock who put the ball in the right spots to cause problems.

The vets suffered a number of hamstring injuries trying to run around like they used to do as they say you can take cricket out of the man but not the man out of cricket.

A great day was had by all especially in the bar afterwards talking about old times. Well done the vets it was great to see you back in your whites.