Field surge

The first of Huddersfield’s four tries came after five minutes.

A good centre field break by full back Lewis Workman took play into the Blaydon half, with centre Tom Owen cutting a good supporting line to run in the score.

Scrum half Joel Hinchliffe, untroubled by the wind, added the conversion.

When Blaydon returned to the attack Huddersfield winger Danny Grainger was shown a yellow card for a deliberate knock-on, and Blaydon number 8 Keith Laughlin put his team on the scoresheet with a try on 20 minutes.

A penalty to touch had set up a line-out which was nicely taken and driven over in the corner.

Although Blaydon’s young backs were showing a readiness to run the ball, good defence prevented them going ahead and after half an hour they were two tries behind.

A knock-on in defence gave Huddersfield solid ball at the scrum and, although several good tackles were put in, eventually prop Adam Blades crashed over the line for the first of them.

Huddersfield were dominating the scrummages and when Blaydon were penalised 10 metres from their line a scrum option was taken, which led to the next.

Clean ball was moved right and winger Elliot Knight went in on the overlap.

Workman landed an excellent long-range conversion.

With half-time approaching Huddersfield looked like going in with a comfortable lead.

However they were uncharacteristically penalised on their own put-in at a scrummage and lock Jack Davidson touched