An explosive end to a tight contest from the home team from Thessaloniki sealed a bonfire night disappointment for the Newcastle Eagles after they sparkled early on and threatened to come away from Greece with a big win. In the end the fireworks produced by Iraklis were too hot for The Eagles to handle as…
No Dapaa, no Wells, no Gaynor, no problem! Head coach Chloe Gaynor and her players shrugged off absences and adversity to produce a sensational performance in their opening SLB Championship game as they shot down the previously unbeaten Essex Rebels. The visitors had come into the Vertu Arena on the back of five wins. Four…
Not quite a frightful night in the Halloween showdown for the Eagles against the Flyers but a scary worrying trend with another defeat that will send shivers down Head Coach Marc Steutel’s spine. The Eagles slipped to a sixth consecutive defeat and their fifth in a row in the Super League Basketball (SLB) Championship. A…
The Newcastle Eagles tipped off their third successive European North Basketball League campaign on Tuesday night in The Vertu Arena. Their opponents and visitors were a familiar rival making their first trip to Newcastle, Dziki Warszawa of Poland’s top-flight Oblen League. Newcastle had actually crossed swords with The Poles twice last season in the 2024/25…
A much-improved competitive performance from Friday night’s loss at Leicester almost say Marc Steutel’s Newcastle Eagles put an end to their losing streak. However despite better defence and spreading the scoring load they still came up a little short in a battling effort that they took all the way. They say in a team performance…
It was a winner-take-all SLB Betty Codona Trophy Group game in The Vertu Arena on Sunday evening. Simply put the winners of the game would advance to the semi-final stage and the losers would be out. The pace, tenacity, commitment and endeavour of both side’s showed that and more. In what was a fantastic advert…
The end analysis will show a loss in the L column for Newcastle and a third successive SLB Championship defeat in a row. A statistic no-one involved whether it be coaching staff, players or even fans. What needs to be addressed is how to reverse the trend and quickly. Especially as The Eagles face another…
The end analysis is of course another loss in the L column and a second successive SLB Championship defeat that takes the Newcastle Eagles to a 2 – 2 level record after four games played. Perhaps the more in-depth analysis that will follow will give Coach Marc Steutel positives to take. A question only his…
A quite magnificent second-half comeback with a defensive masterclass enabled Newcastle Eagles to turn what at half-time looked like a loss into a stunning win on the road in Manchester on Sunday evening. In doing so they took their SLB Betty Cordona Group stage record to 2 Wins and 1 loss from their three played…
