Newcastle Eagles go into today’s game at Cheshire Phoenix full of confidence after Friday’s big 109 – 95 win over London Lions. The Eagles lit up the Vertu Motors Arena with a dazzling team performance sprinkled with plenty of individual highlights. Captain Rahmon Fletcher led from the front with 26 points and 14 assists, Louis Sayers…
With ten games left in this season’s BBL Championship Head Coach has laid out his team’s plans and requirements to be ready for the end of season play-offs. Winning the league may well be beyond this Eagles side now but there’s still plenty to play for yet. MacLeod started his preview of this week’s tough double-header…
Newcastle Eagles slipped to a surprise defeat last Saturday night by 88 – 84 down in Surrey against a Scorchers team who are just outside of the Play-Off places. Eagles small forward Louis Sayers admitted it was a tough one to take. “It was a very disappointing loss. We hold ourselves to a pretty high…
After last week’s home defeat at the hands of Leicester Riders, Coach Ian MacLeod had discussed the need for more defensive intensity and aggression from his team. Perhaps that message was taken a little bit too much to heart by his players. In what was not only a disappointing loss but also a slightly surprising one…
Newcastle Eagles fly into Surrey Sports Park tonight looking to get back to winning ways and consolidate their top four spot in the BBL. Their chances of lifting the league title this season all but disappeared last Friday night with a loss at home to Leicester. The Riders who look short-odds favourite to take the…
Last Friday’s home defeat at the Vertu Motors Arena at the hands of league leaders Leicester Riders just about extinguished Newcastle Eagles hopes of landing the BBL Championship title this season. It put them three games behind their fierce rivals as well as crucially meaning they lost the season series against a team that looks…
Newcastle Eagles go into tonight’s crucial top of the table clash with league leaders Leicester Riders at the newly named Vertu Motors Arena in good heart and looking to open up the title race. The Eagles got back to winning ways with an emphatic 101 – 76 road win at Manchester Giants last Sunday and…
The Newcastle Eagles got back to winning ways last night in Manchester as they felled the Giants in fine style to maintain their Championship challenge, writes Jeff King. It was one of those performances from Newcastle where they just got better and better as the minutes ticked on. Still without Justin Gordon through injury the…
The sight of a frustrated Darius Defoe deep in conversation with his Head Coach Ian MacLeod at the end of Friday night’s 72 – 85 home loss for Newcastle Eagles was an enduring one. It was not the sort of performance the veteran forward will want to see repeated against Manchester Giants on the road…
