Albion’s five match home streak ends on Saturday when Bedlington Terriers are the visitors to the Oldhaulage Stadium. The Terriers currently sit in 12th place in the table but are on a poor mini run, collecting just one point from their last three games, their last win being a 2-1 win over Sunderland RCA at the end of September. The Northumberland outfit haven’t had their problems to seek of late, having to cede their FA Vase tie with Northallerton after not being able to fulfil the fixture & seeing an exodus of players in early October, many joining Newcastle Benfield. And of course our final game of last season saw the Terriers have to switch the game to Kingsley Park due to issues with the playing surface at the Dr Pitt. That game ended 1-1 but our scheduled home fixture was a 3-1 win for an impressive Bedlington side that really caught the eye that day. We’ve played Bedlington 22 times over the years in the Northern League, the Terriers having won 13 games, we’ve won 6 and there have been 3 draws. Bedlington also hold bragging rights in the cup having won the only tie in which we’ve met, that being a 2-1 win in the League Cup back in 2016/17

Back to the present & now things have settled down at the Dr Pitt Stadium, with new faces in place there’s a renewed optimism that the club can bounce back to former glories.

Tomorrow though they will face a RACA side on a tremendous run of form winning eleven of the last fourteen league and cup games, the latest being the impressive 5-0 win over FC Hartlepool on Wednesday night. A little milestone can be reached tomorrow if a 0-0 is avoided- then Ryton will have gone 100 league games without a goalless draw, the last blank being a home game with Chester-le-Street United way back at the start of the 2022/23 season. Kick off is 3pm if you can make it, then it’s the luxury of a match-free midweek before a trip to Jarrow next Saturday. Howay RACA!