Full time Thornaby FC 4-5 Heaton Stannington
 
Thornaby welcomed newly promoted Heaton Stannington to Teesdale Park. Heaton took the lead with 4 minutes gone when Jonathan Wright drilled past Duff in the home goal and it was 2-0 just 3 minutes later when a corner was played in and  Lee Johnson. Thornaby had there first real opening of the match when Brodie-Myers played in Jamie Blyth's whose weak effort was collected by Backhouse. The home side had the following effort when Brodie-Myers free kick just went over the bar and the home side had the following effort after good work by Chris Burton and the ball was played to Brodie-Myers who blazed over the bar. Heaton Stannington had the next chance when Jonathan Wright was through on goal and he blazed wide. The visitors then made it 3-0 when Dodsworth's free kick curled over the wall and into the net with Duff having no chance with 20 minutes gone. Thornaby pulled a goal back when Jamie Blyth scored with 26 minutes gone. The blue's had the next chance when James Dowson effort was saved by Backhouse. Thornaby pulled another goal back after good work by Jamie Blyth and he squared the ball to Marc Dolan who tapped into the empty net with 39 minutes gone. 
 
Half time Thornaby FC 2-3 Heaton Stannington
 
Heaton made it 4-2 with 48 minutes gone when Jonathan scored his second goal off the match and it was 5-2 moments later after a ball was drilled across goal and Lee Johnson tapped home. The Teessiders had the next effort when Liam O'Mahoney headed past the keeper and he got on the rebound and his effort hit the side netting and O' Mahoney had the next effort which was finger tipped past the post by Backhouse for a corner. Thornaby pulled a goal back after a Curtis Edwards ball in was headed by a Heaton player towards goal and Backhouse made a great save but Phil Horsman overhead kicked home from 2 yards with 74 minutes gone and the hosts almost pulled another goal back after James Brown played in David Johnson and he tapped wide. Thornaby had the next chance when Joe Melvin's effort was saved by Backhouse. Thornaby pulled another goal back after a scramble in the box seen Curtis Edwards fire home with 91 minutes gone. The whistle went moments later.
 
Thornaby manager Neil Radigan and Thornaby Assistant manager Paul Edwards comments after the match:
 
" We went into the game in confident mood and kept the same team as we started v Norton. We found ourselves 3-0 down in 20 minutes and looked like we were going to get hammered, we managed to get 2 goals and went in 3-2 down. 2nd half we leaked a early goal and didn't recover then we conceded another 2 goals and were 5-2 down and looked dead and buried. We then got another 2 goals and maybe could of snatched a draw.    We didn't deserve a draw and Heaton will cause a lot of teams problems with there forwards.  But we have to dust ourselves down and look to Alnwick on Saturday, long season and we need to get points on the board.
 
Well my comments are that we started really slowly which i was really surprised with and the started to play some decent football in patches but then threw all our good work away by conceding another 2 goals in the 2nd half and then once again played some decent football to try and get back into the game. You cannot expect to concede 5 goal and still get a point out of the game.

Lets move onto Saturday's game vs. Alnwick. Come on Thornaby!
 
Man of the match: Curtis Edwards