After the disappointment of a tough close loss to Liverpool last Sunday the Newcastle Eagles bounced back in some style on Friday night on the road at Leicester. A thoroughly professional solid all-round team performance earning them an excellent 21-point away win. Once again for Newcastle there was no Kyle Carey and no Cam Christon….
Newcastle Eagles go into a third consecutive weekend where they have two games in less than 48 hours, and both are on the road. They go to Leicester Riders on Friday night before having to journey to Scotland to take on Caledonia Gladiators on Sunday afternoon. The Eagles prepare for such an eventuality as they…
After a third successive Friday night home loss in the Vertu Arena the Newcastle Eagles now know their final position in the SLB standings and who their quarter-final opponents will be. They will finish eighth in the table meaning they take on regular season Champions, the London Lions. That’s going to be a tough challenge…
Newcastle Eagles approach the last weekend of the regular season knowing that they have qualified for the end of season playoffs. What they do not know as yet and will not know until after the weekend is done and dusted is where they will finish or who they will play. They could finish as high…
A dramatic game of basketball down at the Mattioli Arena Leicester on Sunday went in the end to the hometown Riders who came from a double-digit deficit in the first half to turn the game around in the second. For the Newcastle Eagles and Head Coach Marc Steutel they would have travelled home wondering exactly…
Any suggestion that the defeat and long trip to and from Bulgaria was going to give Newcastle Eagles a Christmas hangover was emphatically blown away on Friday night at the Vertu Arena. The Eagles made it a very Black Friday indeed for the Leicester Riders. A superb 98-85 victory in a great game of top-flight…
The Newcastle Eagles were just in Bulgaria on Wednesday night and now just 48 hours later they return home to the Vertu Arena to take on a tough Leicester Riders side in a vital SLB Championship encounter. Newcastle lost that game on Wednesday in the ENBL group stage to Spartak Pleven by the close margin…
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…
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…
