Esh Group Eagles Newcastle start their BBL Championship season this coming Friday night with a home game tipping-off at 7:30pm at Sport Central against Cheshire Phoenix and for one of their 2018/19 roster, the day can’t come fast enough. Despite it being his 14th season as a professional, all of them spent in The BBL…
If pre-season is about improving, learning and working together then Esh Group Eagles Newcastle must be happy with their final outing before the regular season begins. After going down by 13 points in Sheffield last Friday, Fab Flournoy’s men turned that around despite still being without the injured Kai Williams and Drew Lasker and facing…
An acute awareness of the past and a keen sense of pride is driving Fabulous Flournoy to write the next chapter in Newcastle Eagles’ storied history. With the new BBL season just 10 days away – the men in black tip-off a pivotal campaign at home to Cheshire Phoenix on September 21 – basketball is…
The 2018-19 British Basketball League season will be a monumental one for the Esh Group Eagles Newcastle with the opening of our new Eagles Community Arena home marking the biggest move in the club’s history since the franchise became the Eagles after relocating to the city over 20 years ago. A legacy of silverware success…
After last night’s 100-point in over USA Select in our first of two home pre-season games, let’s put the “meat on the bones” so to speak and see how we go there – seeing as we don’t have the BBL website to break it down in pre-season. Scoring Sequence: 1st Quarter – After 5 minutes 11 –…
At the fourth time of asking, Esh Group Eagles Newcastle picked up their first pre-season win and it was made all the sweeter as it was in front of their faithful fans at Sport Central. The Eagles who will continue to play out of Sport Central for the commencement of the 2018/19 as they await…
It may be 0 – 3 so far in 2018/19 for the guys but it’s not doom and gloom and remember last season we started in spectacular style and looked like world-beaters. Obviously, one does not mean the other will happen so what does it mean at this stage? Well, we’re still unbeaten in the…
So, we’re back on UK soil and have been since Sunday and after almost a week’s solid practice we get to let off some steam and see what improvements we’ve made since the Belgium trip by visiting one of our biggest rivals over the years, Sheffield Sharks. It’ll be interesting to see how the likes…
Our Eagles have returned home from their week in Belgium for some intensive pre-season training and challenging first games against some excellent competition to put them to the test ahead of their first tastes of BBL action as a new squad this week and next. Your first chances to see the new team in action…
