Well in a week where if you read about North East sport in the popular press all you here is doom and gloom, the Head Coach having thinly disguised pops at The Owner and the inability to get the players they want over the line, let’s look at a properly run professional sports team in…
In the biggest rebuild of recent seasons a total of seven new Eagles fly in over the next seven days in preparation for our pre-season schedule, the British Basketball All-Stars Championship and of course the 2017/18 British Basketball League campaign. Earlier this week, upon the announcement of our final new signing, our commentator and press…
We’re counting down the days until the huge British Basketball All-Stars Championship at The O2 in London on Sunday 24th September 2017. On the bounce from our pre-season games and just before the new BBL campaign tips-off, the top eight teams from the 2016-17 season will compete in an exciting new tournament, which introduces a new, entertaining take…
As his coaching colleagues at Esh Group Eagles Newcastle were putting together the recently announced exciting new roster for the 2017/18 season fellow Eagles BBL Assistant Coach, Ian Macleod, was having an exciting and rewarding experience of his own, writes Jeff King. Macleod who made the step-up from coaching The Eagles School of Excellence Under…
Well Ladies and Gentlemen, Girls and Boys and whatever else you want to call yourself, there we have it, The 2017/18 Esh Group Eagles Newcastle. Whadda Y’all Think? I think I’m pretty excited and you should be too. Let’s have a little recap and a bit of fun too although, the fun may get me…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle have continued the international recruitment theme as they complete their 2017/18 roster with Danish National Team player Zarko Jukic, writes Jeff King. The 6’ 7” forward despite being only 23-year-old already has a wealth of European experience to bring to Tyneside. He started in the senior basketball ranks as a teenager…
Our recently announced squad of Eagles will be flying out on-court together for the first time in our pre-season schedule on Friday 8th, Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th September. See our new and returning players suit-up against the international visitors of Team USA Select, the 2016-17 NBL Division 1 and Play-Off Champions of Team Northumbria,…
