Next up it’s the first of a cup double this week. We make the short trip to Teesdale Park to face Thornaby as we begin the defence of our North Riding Senior Cup title.

It’s a 7.30pm kick off and as ever our away games are sponsored by Dragontail Consulting this season. Thanks again for your support.

It’s just over 10 days since we faced Thornaby with an early Joe Dalton header and a hard working performance seeing us to a 1-0 win in the league. Since then we’ve beaten Bishop Auckland and lost away at Shildon last weekend. Thornaby had a 6-2 defeat at home against Crook Town and followed that up with a 6-2 win away at North Shields on Saturday.

Thornaby will be looking to make amends from the league defeat and will be buoyed by their performance against North Shields. They’ve signed a familiar face to the Y&E support with forward Jayden Gray joining them and scoring 2 against Shields. He joins Sam Lawerence as an ex Y&E player in their line up.

As for the Y&E Marshy’s suspension from his red card doesn’t start until next Saturday and Harry Williams is available after missing the defeat at Shildon due to suspension.

After tasting victory last season, Jacko and the lads will be looking to get as far as possible in the cup this season. The cup run was memorable to say the least, with the penalty shoot out vs York City, the remarkable win away on pens against a pretty much full strength Scarborough side followed up by the late HST show away at Northallerton in the semi final. That was followed by victory on pens in the final against old North Riding adversaries Boro Rangers.

Once again it would be great to see plenty of Y&E support at the game backing the lads.

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