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 Newcastle Eagles head for the Ellesmere Port Sports Village on Sunday evening. They will face a home side thirsting for revenge. Last month the Cheshire Phoenix travelled to The Vertu Arena and a fine Eagles effort saw them defeated 88 – 70. But past games often count for nothing once the ball is thrown…
t’s a huge shoot-out in The Vertu Arena on Sunday afternoon when the Caledonia Gladiators arrive in Town. Officially it is a Women’s SLB Betty Cordona Group game but in reality is more like a quarter-final tie. The reason for that is whoever wins on Sunday will advance to the final four and secure a…
After only playing four competitive games since the season opening SLB Championship win on 21st September at Caledonia things are about to get very serious for the Newcastle Eagles. They embark on Friday night on a run of three games in a mere 5 days. Two on the road in The SLB and their season…
European North Basketball League (ENBL) officials have confirmed that Greece’s Iraklis BC will come to Tyneside to face our Newcastle Eagles on Wednesday 3 December. The date of the game was set in the summer with the team we would tip-off against previously unannounced and subject to scheduling. Considered one of the most historical teams…
Newcastle Eagles have made their second change to their 2025/26 men’s roster, bringing in 6’4 guard Deion Hammond, who last season played in the German Bundesliga for BG Goettingen. Hammond had a record-breaking college career, averaging double-figure scoring returns in each of his four years at Monmouth University of the Colonial Athletic Association from 2017…
Newcastle Eagles head coach Marc Steutel will be without Josh Ward-Hibbert until early in the new year as the club’s medical team issued an update on his injury. Ward-Hibbert suffered a high ankle sprain when the Eagles won their opening home game of the season against Cheshire Phoenix. Coach Steutel, his performance staff and club…
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…
