Uppies & Downies

Follow all of the action as it happens from the first game of this year's Uppies & Downies series

3rd & 7 37yd

Welcome to the 2015 Uppies & Downies Good Friday game. Liam and Sarah are on the field and we'll be here all night to bring you the action as it happens!

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 5:01:32 PM
by jamie beaumont via twitter 4/3/2015 5:02:03 PM
There's around 50 people gathered on the field tonight and two police vans have already arrived to watch the throw off. Liam says the weather's okay.

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 5:05:00 PM
by timesandstar via twitter 4/3/2015 5:05:15 PM
Veteran Uppie Joe Clark says there's a lot of new faces at the Cloffocks and he hopes that means his rallying cry has worked. He says he's expecting an Uppie victory "because there has to be one" and has told his team mates that if the ball goes in the river, they shouldn't give up

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 5:10:07 PM
Uppie Elvin Jarvis is back for his second game after an accident at work - he's also predicting an Uppie win - and says he is ready to get right back into the fray!

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 5:12:28 PM
by timesandstar via twitter 4/3/2015 5:12:35 PM
by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 5:14:38 PM
Five-year-old Darcie Langcake will today become the ninth member of her family to throw off the ball to start the annual Uppies and Downies series.

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 5:15:47 PM
Is she the youngest person to ever throw off the ball?

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 5:16:14 PM
Uppies appear determined - but will it be enough?

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 5:17:29 PM
by timesandstar via twitter 4/3/2015 5:17:36 PM
Down down down ....

by xx 4/3/2015 5:21:24 PM
Come on the uppies!!!!

by Creamy box lover 4/3/2015 5:21:26 PM
William Tunstall, 74, of Grey Street, Workington, is among the crowd, watching. He used to play - although he wouldn't reveal to Liam whether he was an uppie or a downie!

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 5:21:50 PM
Uppie Ryan Kelly , 26, of Westfield, said he's hoping for an Uppie win - he said "We're doing it for Shane Ball, the ball maker, and we met in the Bounty before to talk tactics. We have a cunning plan."

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 5:23:26 PM
Hundreds of people there now - it's shaping up to be a good game!

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 5:24:09 PM
Dean Askew hand of God ????????????????????

by xx 4/3/2015 5:24:41 PM
by Mark Regan via twitter 4/3/2015 5:25:05 PM
by timesandstar via twitter 4/3/2015 5:25:12 PM
come on UPPIES!! sort it out tonight!

by yeahman 4/3/2015 5:25:44 PM
Come on Uppies! Have a safe match everyone!!

by John Grainger Mills 4/3/2015 5:25:46 PM
Come on downies ????

by Siobhan 4/3/2015 5:27:39 PM
Two minutes to go.........

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 5:28:31 PM
the ball has arrived!

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 5:29:53 PM
Come on Downies, lets show them Uppies how its done

by The Northside One 4/3/2015 5:30:38 PM
And we're off........ the ball has been thrown off!

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 5:31:06 PM
Upupupupupup

by sow 4/3/2015 6:12:03 PM
Ha! Me in a group of sweaty men, dennis b, I wouldn't even begin to know where to put myself.....
just a quick reminder folks - no swearing please - your comment will not be released

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 6:12:29 PM
up up up up up up

by bob roberts 4/3/2015 6:12:32 PM
come on uppies

by bob roberts 4/3/2015 6:12:34 PM
Come on you DOWNIES, push to the river

by Downie living in London 4/3/2015 6:13:11 PM
Come on you Uppies

by ExTownie 4/3/2015 6:13:12 PM
We seem to have lost Liam. It's his first game so he's either overawed by it all or in the middle of the scrum.

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 6:13:23 PM
where abouts is the ball at is it still near the beck

by bob roberts 4/3/2015 6:13:33 PM
Come on uppies!!

by Nathaskew uppie in Australia 4/3/2015 6:14:23 PM
Come on uppies let's get the ball going up

by Susan r 4/3/2015 6:14:25 PM
It's just been lobbed to the top of Allerdale car park, Bob. Uppies managed to outfox Downies who had almost got it into the beck

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 6:14:27 PM
scrum middle of field where fair goes

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 6:14:57 PM
good

by bob roberts 4/3/2015 6:15:16 PM
still hundreds of people here too

by nicole.regan 4/3/2015 6:16:02 PM
by timesandstar via twitter 4/3/2015 6:16:13 PM
by timesandstar via twitter 4/3/2015 6:16:16 PM
Big break for the Uppies, as the scrum crumbles and the ball is away sailing over the Cloffocks. #uppies

by timesandstar via twitter 4/3/2015 6:16:21 PM
by timesandstar via twitter 4/3/2015 6:16:46 PM