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Newcastle Falcons
Full name Newcastle Falcons
Founded 1877
Union Rugby Football Union
Location Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Ground Kingston Park
Capacity 10,000
Chairman Dave Thompson
Coach John Fletcher
League Guinness Premiership
2005-06 7th
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Official website
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For the Australian basketball team of the same name, see Newcastle Falcons (Australia).

The Newcastle Falcons is a rugby union team currently playing in the Guinness Premiership. The team plays at Kingston Park in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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[edit] History

The original Gosforth Club was founded in 1877 by a group of Old Boys of Durham School, in whose colours of green and white hoops the club played until the mid-1990s. In 1955, the club moved to a new ground at North Road which was to be its home until 1990. During that time and particularly in the late 1970s Gosforth enjoyed tremendous success both on and off the field winning the John Player Cup in seasons 1975/76 and 76/77.

Gosforth supplied innumerable players to all counties over the years, to the North of England sides and to the full international and British Lions teams. These include Arthur Smith, Ray Mcloughlin, Malcolm Young, Roger Uttley, Peter Dixon, Duncan Madsen, Dave Robinson, Richard Breakey, Jim Pollock and Colin White.

In 1990 the club name was changed to Newcastle Gosforth. Gosforth Rugby Club continued as an amateur side working in partnership with Northumbria University.

The name Newcastle Falcons and the current black-and-white colours were adopted for the 1996/97 season, after local businessman Sir John Hall had taken control and attempted to create a sporting club in Newcastle upon Tyne that would emulate the success of Barcelona. The four teams that made up the sporting club were the football team, nicknamed the Magpies, the Newcastle Eagles basketball team, the Newcastle Wasps (later Riverkings, Jokers, Vipers etc.) ice hockey team and the Newcastle Falcons rugby union team.

Newcastle was the first of the “professional” rugby union clubs in England. In 1996, Sir John Hall installed former Wasps’ captain, Rob Andrew, as his salaried Director of Rugby and saw the club earn promotion from the national Second Division to the Premiership. The following season, Newcastle became English champions at their first attempt.

In August 2005 Falcons toured Japan pre-season. They beat NEC Green Rockets easily but lost to a fired-up Toyota Verblitz.

In August 2006 Rob Andrew left the Falcons to be in overall charge of the England set-up ahead of the 2007 World Cup in a wide-ranging role that encompasses all aspects of the professional representative game in England. John Fletcher succeeded Rob Andrew as director of rugby at Newcastle Falcons with immediate effect. Fletcher, a former England A centre, has been the club's academy boss and he will head up a team of Peter Walton, Steve Black and Bob Morton with ex-Falcons prop Ian Peel taking over as acting academy manager.

[edit] Club honours

[edit] Guinness Premiership Table 2006/07

2006/2007 Guinness Premiership Table watch · edit · discuss
Club Played Won Drawn Lost Points for Points against Bonus points Points
Gloucester 19 14 1 4 463 351 5 63
Leicester Tigers 19 12 1 6 390 375 12 62
Saracens 19 11 2 6 473 331 9 57
Bristol 19 12 1 6 333 329 6 56
Wasps 19 10 1 8 416 336 10 52
London Irish 19 11 0 8 333 330 3 47
Harlequins 19 8 0 11 401 388 9 41
Bath 19 7 1 11 364 434 8 38
Sale Sharks 19 7 1 11 364 402 7 37
Newcastle Falcons 19 7 0 12 388 489 8 36
Worcester Warriors 19 5 1 13 291 404 7 29
Northampton Saints 19 5 1 13 279 426 6 28
Reference www.guinnesspremiership.com and BBC Sport: Updated 2007-03-25 --- Current English Leagues
  • Leicester were deducted one point for fielding an ineligible player


[edit] Current squad

[edit] Forwards

  • Andy
  • Andy Long
  • Andy Perry
  • Ben Woods
  • Brent Wilson
  • Cory Harris
  • David Richards
  • Geoff Parling
  • Jason Oakes
  • Joe McDonnell
  • Johnny Williams
  • Jon Golding
  • Mark Sorenson
  • Matt Thompson
  • Micky Ward
  • Mike McCarthy
  • Phil Dowson
  • Robbie Morris
  • Ross Batty
  • Russell Winter
  • Sean Tomes

[edit] Backs

[edit] Current England elite squad

[edit] Other Notable International Players

[edit] Present

[edit] Past

[edit] External links


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