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Stadium – Kingston Park
Director of Rugby – Dean Richards
Captain – Will Welch
Last Season – 8th
INS & OUTS
The biggest name on the lips of every Newcastle Falcons fans
is the return of former England star Toby Flood after 12 years away playing at Leicester
Tigers (nine years) and Toulouse (three years).
He’ll be joined by French International Maxime Mermoz, after
a short spell at Leicester, and the flying Canadian winger DTH van der Merwe.
INS – Ryan Burrows (Yorkshire Carnegie), Tevita Cavubati (Worcester
Warriors), Cameron Cowell (England Sevens), Trevor Davison (Blaydon), Gary
Graham (Jersey Reds), Toby Flood (Toulouse), Joel Matavesi (Redruth), Josh
Matavesi (Ospreys), Sami Mavinga (Lyon), Maxime Mermoz (Leicester Tigers), Adam
Radwan (Darington Mowden Park), Sam Stuart (Richmond), DTH van der Merwe
(Scarlets), Charlie Wilson (Academy).
OUTS – Mike Delany (Bay of Plenty), Archie Erskine
(Edinburgh Rugby), Andrew Foster (Rotherham Titans), Ben Harris (Wasps), Marcus
Watson (Wasps), Fred Burdon, Joshua Chisanga (released), Mouritz Botha, Tom
Catterick, Sam Egerton (all retired).
Verdict
Newcastle continuing to be the team to watch to the point
they could be dark horses for the top four.
They already had a team that battled for Champions Cup last
season and with players like Flood, Mermoz and Merwe the only way is up and
will clinch the Champions Cup play-off spot.
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They’ll be in for a battle with both Northampton and Sale for that place.
Prediction – 7th
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