Over the last few of weeks on site at the Eagles Community Arena build the internal walls have started going up, which is giving the building a real sense of it’s completed form. Meanwhile in the arena our constructors Esh Group continue the groundwork in the latest phase leading up to eventually laying the court…
In the latest instalment of our summer break series of features on and interviews with former Eagles and faces of British Basketball, reporter Johnathan Ramsay caught up with fan favourite Andrew Bridge who believes we ‘need to work harder’ if we want to bounce back into the top two next season… The Derbyshire-born shooting guard…
Perfectly timed as we start our series of stories about faces of British Basketball with Eagles connections we congratulate Nick Nurse, the two-time BBL Coach of the Year who brought our own Fab Flournoy to Britain, on being confirmed as the new head coach of Toronto Raptors in the NBA. It was back in 1996 when…
In the off-season break we’ll be bringing you features and interviews with many faces of British Basketball starting with North Shields-born Gary Stronach. Stronach was one of British basketball’s most respected playcallers before he parted company with Plymouth Raiders in 2010 – beginning a self-imposed exile from the sport he loves. Simon Rushworth caught up with…
On Saturday 9th June club and foundation staff were joined by some of our sponsors on a trek to the summit of the highest mountain in the British Isles to raise much needed additional funds for our Eagles Community Arena. After an early start around 7:45am ‘Team Eagles’ took on their Ben Nevis Challenge in…
A huge well done from everyone at the Eagles to ‘Lost Voice Guy’ Lee Ridley on winning Britain’s Got Talent last night. Lee, from Consett, has followed the club for many years and is a well-known face to fans who attended our games along with him both at the Metro Radio Arena and Sport Central….
Led by Eagles’ assistant coach Ian Macleod and starring our academy player Tosan Evbuomwan, ‘Team Black’ flew to victory at the 2018 Hoopsfix All-Star Classic Underclassmen’s game yesterday afternoon in Brixton. Underclassmen Team Black Coach @CoachMacleod shares his thoughts on today’s event! #HASC18 pic.twitter.com/FjnYIV5jTQ — Hoopsfix 🇬🇧🏀 (@Hoopsfix) June 2, 2018 “Mac’s Blacks”, as they were…
On Saturday 9th June our Eagles Community Foundation and club staff will don their hiking boots and set-out on their way to the summit of Ben Nevis to raise funds which will go towards making the Eagles Community Arena into an extraordinary venue. Inspired from their visit to the building site yesterday and knowing first…
Today club and foundation staff had a tour of the Eagles Community Arena site from our constructors at Esh Group to check out how our new home is progressing. It was the first time the whole staff had been on-site together giving many of them chance to get a sense of what it will be…
