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Some thoughts on the best and worst of the past season:...

A home defeat by Exeter condemned Newcastle Falcons to their lowest Premiership points total ever, and extended the Geordies’ losing run to sixteen successive league games and, by the time the season starts again, over ten months....

The Falcons have finally secured Premiership status for 2014/15, far later than they might have done, three early-season wins ensuring that fifteen consecutive league defeats did not cause an immediate return to the Championship....

Newcastle Falcons came close to causing one of the upsets of the season at Kingston Park yesterday, giving a second-string but high-quality Saracens team a mighty scare and gaining a bonus point that all but confirms the Geordies’ Premiership place for 2014/15....

When I got home last night it was just after 7pm, and Mrs Leipy and I decided to take advantage of the extra hour of daylight and walk up the hill near our house. We discussed yesterday's match and I explained that I was undecided about what to write about the game. I mentioned the sarcastic impersonations of Steve Bates I did a few years ago....

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Broughton Park completed a league double over Kendal in south Cumbria today as the Hornets fell to only their second defeat in eight North One West matches this year....

A bonus-point defeat to Northampton at Kingston Park yesterday takes Newcastle Falcons twelve points clear of Worcester at the bottom of the Premiership, and that should be enough to secure a second season back in the top flight....

Newcastle Falcons shook off a dodgy flight south on Friday to come within a few minutes of recording a first Premiership win at Harlequins since 2000 yesterday....

After a relatively mild morning in South Lakeland, the weather poured its wrath on Mint Bridge to ensure that Kendal Hornets and Vale of Lune would not only have each other to contend with in this afternoon’s North 1 West match....

 The Falcons’ under-18 side were well-beaten by a strong Northampton side in Penrith this afternoon in front of a healthy and enthusiastic Cumbrian crowd....

Newcastle Falcons got their first tries in four Premiership matches last night, but a far improved performance was not enough to beat Wasps at Kingston Park....

are still searching for a first Premiership try since late October after Saturday...

When I say Donnas, I don't mean kebabs.The Falcons came to Italy knowing a victory with a bonus point would put them top of the group but fell just short in a comfortable 25-10 win in sunny Calvisano....

 I’m not against a good defence. Back when we were teenagers, my mate Billy and I had a bit of a fascination with defensive football. He even got a Norway shirt for his birthday one year, while I still maintain that Roy Keane was the best footballer in the world back around the turn of the century....

In front of the largest home crowd of the season so far, the Falcons turned in one of their worst performances under Dean Richards' leadership and were soundly beaten by a far better Harlequins side who won at Kingston Park for the first time since 2006....

 Yesterday saw both sides of Newcastle Falcons, with a massive defensive effort keeping Northampton down to eighteen points but a toothless attack meaning that none were scored in response....

Gloucester won a one-sided match at Kingsholm yesterday against a strong Falcons team that just never got going....

 The Falcons had a chance to go seventh in the Premiership yesterday afternoon, though admittedly a bonus point win at Saracens was unlikely....