For weeks now it seems that every game has been a must-win match for Newcastle Eagles and Head Coach Marc Steutel as they strive and strain to make the end of season play-offs. Unfortunately, time after time they haven’t delivered in those clutch game situations losing games on many occasions they should have won. It…
This was the first in a series of Retro Games organised by The BBL and took fans and Clubs back the glory years when these two sides regularly delivered silverware for their fans. Memories of 2004/05 resonated throughout a sold-out Vertu Motors Arena the year when the Eagles won the end-of-season play-offs after Cheshire, then…
Newcastle Eagles go back to the future tonight in a bid to finally reignite the club’s playoff push. The first of this season’s Retro Series games sees the men in black revisit the 2004/05 double-winning campaign as they host a throwback fixture against Cheshire. Newcastle will wear a unique kit styled to evoke memories of…
Friday 31 March tips-off the Retro Series 2023 as we throw it back to the 2004-05 season when our Eagles started lifting BBL silverware. EXPECT THROWBACK KITS, OLD-SKOOL TUNES, FAMOUS FACES AND MORE… The team will also be playing in a specially produced a limited edition retro reboot of that first winning kit, which is available to purchase on the shop online…
Short-handed Newcastle suffered a sobering loss at the hands of champions-elect London as the Lions’ strength in depth overpowered the battling men in black. The visitors lined up at the Copperbox Arena shorn of starters Javion Hamlet and Hasahn French following Sunday’s heartbreaking defeat in Manchester. And with Ben Mockford still absent as he battles…
Marc Steutel insists his battling Eagles will fight to the finish as Newcastle launch a final bid to save their season. The men in black face a tough trip to London Lions tonight less than a week after coughing up the chance to beat the champions-elect on Tyneside. But with nine league games to go…
Somewhere, somehow, someway the Newcastle Eagles keep coming up with ways to lose a basketball game in what may well go down as one of their most frustrating seasons ever. On Friday night on their own court in the Vertu Motors Arena, they led Champions-elect London Lions by thirteen points with 11 minutes and 55…
Newcastle have reached the ‘finals countdown’ in their bid to punch a ticket for the post-season party. That’s the verdict of Darius Defoe as the BBL’s most decorated player prepares for this afternoon’s pivotal showdown with friend and former team-mate Rahmon Fletcher. The Eagles have 10 games to salvage a disappointing campaign as Marc Steutel’s…
Champions-elect London survived an almighty scare at the Vertu Motors Arena after Newcastle Eagles came within a whisker of ending the Lions’ 17-game BBL Championship winning streak. Marc Steutel’s men led until deep into another dramatic night on Tyneside but the league leaders proved their class to close out a barely deserved three-point victory. And…
