Kendal Town vs Newcastle Blue Star (27/09/2025)

There is no better feeling in football than a winning feeling and Newcastle Blue Star earned another dose of that Tuesday night. Victory over Marske United at the KD Stadium now makes it four league wins in a row for Marc Nash’s men.

Not only that but it also places the Scotswood outfit on the fringes of the playoff paying positions – not something that was the case a few weeks ago and upward mobility is certainly on display within the confines of NE15.

A location that saw Blue Star slightly frustrated in the first 45 minutes of Tuesday’s night league encounter. Chances were created in rather high quantity but there were no quantity of goals to celebrate at the interval.

Thankfully the hosts broke the stalemate just after the hour and with Dan Lanning getting his first of the night, the game’s opener would soon unlock a flurry of goals that were all delivered within a 10 minute spell.

Lanning at the double just five minutes after his first. Marske United then cutting the evening’s deficit literally in half seconds later and although that could have set up a nervy finish, Rio Joisce’s strike restored Blue Star’s two-goal cushion and eventual three-point haul.

That result looked as if Blue Star were to finish Tuesday night in fifth as their rise up their league ladder continues. Were it not for a late Shildon winner at Birtley subsequently pipping them to the post, that would have been the case.

While sixth it is still a position above Saturday’s hosts as the longest single trip in the division is undertaken. Kendal may lie seventh in the standings but have played two games fewer and they will be keen to thrust themselves back in the early playoff conversation.

Not only that, but they will be keen to exact revenge for last season’s meeting between the two sides and although there was a deluge of rain, there was only a single goal. Michael Ndiweni’s winner all but securing an extension to the season and now Blue Star will be keen to extend their winning run.

Something which sets up tonight’s clash rather nicely indeed. A big thanks to Kendal for the upcoming hospitality and for those attending from an away perspective, safe travels both there and back.