What had for the most part been a dour game between the Falcons and London Irish was enlivened by Adam Powell’s winning try and Shane Geraghty’s slow last-gasp penalty that gave Newcastle their first home win of the season....
The Falcons played their part in an absolutely absorbing match in Brive last night but were eventually beaten by the French hosts 23-16, the bonus point and restricting Brive to two tries providing some consolation....
A second away win of the Premiership season helped Newcastle pull seven points clear of bottom-placed Worcester yesterday after the Falcons held on for a tight win at a dispirited Sixways....
The Falcons are finally off the mark in the Premiership table’s try column, but Tom Catterick’s first-minute score was not enough to prevent them from dropping to eleventh place....
The sun shone on Welford Road for the Falcons’ first afternoon game of the new Premiership season, but it was Leicester who rode off with the points after a routine five-try win for the home side....
What a difference a week makes! Seven days earlier fans were feeling gloomy after a nilling by Bath at home in our first game of the season, but then this Friday just gone the Falcons went to Sale and pulled off a tight victory that has boosted everyone’s morale. ...
The Falcons got their A League season off to a good start last night with a 26-18 win at home to Sale....
Bath gave the Falcons a lesson in the cutthroat world of Premiership rugby on our first game back in the top division, keeping a clean sheet on yet another win at Kingston Park....
The Falcons ended pre-season with a defeat to Edinburgh in Hawick on Friday night, in a match that provided some answers but provided questions too ahead of the start of the Premiership season this coming Friday....
After soaring into the finals of the JPMorgan Asset Management 7s last week, the Falcons headed to Bath with high hopes on Friday night....
The Falcons kept up their strong record in the Premiership Sevens, and perfect record in three group stage events, on Friday by winning the Northampton round of this year’s competition....
So with the regular league season safely negotiated, it was down to the business end of the campaign....