Match reports

​Kieran Martin finishes off a great run, smashing the ball into the net to give RCA victory against Washington.

​More photos from the match are here.

Goal scorers: SRCA: Larkin, Martin,  Washington: Kane

As the injury list shortens the team selection becomes more difficult. With Hodgson unavailable due to family matters and Davis unavailable due to work commitments, Armstrong and Callen were called into the starting eleven. The rest of the team had a very familiar look. There was also signs that Cassidy, McNab and Bussey would be fit in the near future.

The Washington team boasted no fewer than seven ex-SRCA players while the RCA team had six ex-Washington players in the squad. There was also the return to the club of ex-RCA manager Neil Hixon and his assistant Stephen "Buddy" Halliday. 

​Adam McGuinness on the attack during the match against Seaham Red Star.

More photographs from the match are here.

Goalscorers: SRCA: J Davis,  SRS: Bird.

The management team almost had a full squad to choose from for the match against near neighbours Seaham Red Star. Only McNab (back), Cassidy (Knee) and Bussey (Fractured Ankle) were on the injury list. The return of so many players made the task of selecting the team a little more difficult and following on from last weekend's fantastic performance against Newton Aycliffe the manager kept faith with the majority of that team, with the only change being the retuurn of captain Swansbury to replace Cassidy.

​Kieron Martin makes another forward run in the Brooks Mileson League Cup match against Esh Winning.

​More photographs from the match are here.

Goalscorers: Esh: Hird. SRCA: Forster (2) Callen, Martin, J Butler.

Team selection for the League Cup match against Esh Winning fell to Assistant Manager Steven Stewart and he chose a blend of youth and experience whilst also pitching in some players who were returning from injury, he gave a debut to Jordan Cook while returning to the fold were Adam McGuinness and Brad Forster. There were welcome returns from injury for Kevin Gordon and Stephen Callen while both James Armstrong and Kieran Graham took their respective places on the bench. The team was: Harkess, Richardson, McGuinness, Preston, Forster, Hodgson(c) Gordon, Cook, Callen, J Butler, Martin: Subs: Stewart, Guthrie, T Butler, J Armstrong, Graham.

​Goal scorer Colin Larkin in action during the 2 -1 win over Bishop Auckland.

​More photographs from the match are here.

Peter Jackson's photos are here.

Goalscorers: SRCA: Larkin, Hassan. Bishops: Elliott.

Injuries continue to blight the season with the latest to join the queue being Michael Charlton, there are currently ten players receiving treatment which meant that we were down to the bare bones with only 13 fit players and two registered coaches available for the match against Bishop Auckland.

After their historic win against Farsley Celtic in the FA Cup on Saturday the visitors also had injury problems the most notable was the absence of Andy Johnson from the 16.