Newcastle Eagles tough, tough start to the 2021/22 season continued last night in Leicester. After crashing out of The BBL Cup with a one win seven loss record they were hoping to kick-start their campaign in the opening Championship game of the season. But it was not to be as reigning Champions the Riders produced…
When it’s not your time, it’s not your time. Newcastle Eagles travelled to Cheshire Phoenix yesterday already eliminated from The BBL Cup and destined to finish bottom of the North Group. Since the season opened it’s been a catalogue of misfortune for Head Coach Ian MacLeod and his men and that theme unfortunately continued prior…
The slow start that has plagued the Newcastle Eagles men’s team in the BBL seems to have infected the WBBL team as they dropped a home game to Riders they really should have won. Leading 28 – 16 after a hotly contested first half they fell apart in the second half as Leicester completely turned the game around….
Newcastle finally relinquished their increasingly flimsy grip on the BBL Cup last night as an illness and injury-ravaged Eagles slipped to a sixth defeat of the season. The 2021 winners head to Cheshire Phoenix tomorrow with nothing more than pride to play for as a North Group dead rubber signals the end of a cup…
A courageous performance from the Newcastle Eagles against all the odds in Glasgow last night saw them come up agonisingly short at the end of heroic 40-minute effort. The last thing Newcastle needed after being hit by COVID-19 protocols which denied them three key players, Darius Defoe, Duke Shelton and Louis Sayers was to lose…
Chris Bunten has called for collective commitment and greater consistency as Newcastle’s winless start to the league season stretched to a third game. Champions Sevenoaks were back to their ruthless best just five months after the Eagles eclipsed the Suns in a dramatic playoff semi-final. And while Bunten praised a breakout performance from close-season signing…
Beaten but unbowed Newcastle Eagles face a last-minute body count ahead of tomorrow’s cross-border clash in Glasgow following a fraught end to a difficult week. The BBL Cup holders lost both Rahmon Fletcher and Kyle Williams after the break as a bruising battle in Sheffield stretched the visitors’ resources to the limit. And with three…
Newcastle Eagles’ injury curse struck again as the nervy visitors lost a second league game on the bounce. Caledonia Pride avenged last month’s 84-50 drubbing by Chris Bunten’s side on the back of big double doubles from Maud Ranger and Sian Phillips. But Newcastle might have mustered a stronger finish had both Ebony Horton and…
Once Amanda Staveley and Newcastle United’s ambitious new owners get their feet under the table at St James’s Park they could do worse than look down the road for inspiration. The blueprint for sustained trophy success and community engagement already exists within the city boundaries. And if Staveley and co. really are focused on delivering…
