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Falcons' top-flight destiny remains hanging in the balance

NEWCASTLE Falcons’ Premiership fate is still up in the air, with off-field considerations yet to decide whether or not they will be relegated.Read

Gateshead Thunder duo return for Skolarly test

RYAN McBride and Mike Mitchell are in line to return for Gateshead Thunder this afternoon as they take on London Skolars.Read

Corne Uys: This can be Newcastle Falcons' second chance

NEWCASTLE Falcons’ centre Corne Uys has urged his team-mates to learn the lessons from a troubled campaign as they bid to bounce back stronger under new boss Dean Richards.Read

Gateshead Thunder hoping to sting the Hornets

ROCHDALE is the venue for Gateshead Thunder’s latest attempt at a league victory this afternoon, as Co-operative Championship One’s bottom team take on the Hornets.Read

Mixed emotions as Falcons sting Wasps

GARY GOLD made no attempt to conceal his emotions as Newcastle Falcons ended the season on the bottom of the Aviva Premiership table.Read

Stringer winner just not enough

A LATE winner from Peter Stringer was not enough to guarantee Newcastle Falcons a 16th successive season of Premiership rugby as they ended the campaign on the bottom of the table.Read

Alan Tait: Dean Richards is right man for Falcons

ALAN TAIT believes Dean Richards is the right man to take Newcastle Falcons forward as a club – no matter what league they are in.Read

Westoe 12 Hull 55

RAMPANT Hull compounded Westoe’s disappointing season with a comfortable victory at Harton College. Read

Alnwick 16 Keighley 18

ALNWICK’S bid for promotion in this play-off for a place in North East Division One ended in the second half. Read

Blaydon 56 Barking 7

BLAYDON crowned a successful campaign with this eight-try demolition job on relegated Barking, achieving in the process their highest ever points haul of 84, and equalling their best ever league finish in seventh place in National League One. Read

Lifeline has been thrown to Newcastle Falcons

NEWCASTLE Falcons have been thrown an Aviva Premiership life-line by Bath, setting up a final-day showdown at London Wasps to avoid relegation.Read

Bromsgrove 84 Westoe 7

ALL of Westoe’s recent problems appeared to finally get the better of them as they suffered a humiliating 84-7 defeat at Bromsgrove.Read

Tynedale RFC 23 Wharfedale RFC 20

A PENALTY from Joel Hodgson three minutes from time saw Tynedale end their eight-game winless streak.Read

Blaydon 21 Rosslyn Park 8

FOR 10 minutes the visitors gave a glimpse of why they are currently fifth in the league but that was as long as it lasted once the Blaydon pack began to assert.Read

North Shields 39 Whitby 0

NORTH SHIELDS were quickly on the scoreboard with a penalty from Gavin Duffy.Read

A lesson for Thunder

GATESHEAD Thunder’s hopes of reaching the fifth round of the Carnegie Challenge Cup came a cropper at Swinton yesterday.Read

Super Blaydon smash Sedgley

BLAYDON ran in six tries to record a great victory on the road and, but for finishing with just 13 men, the winning margin would have been much greater.Read

Westoe mauled by Lions

WESTOE were made to pay by a rampant Leicester Lions side who ran out 34-21 visitors at Wood Terrace.Read

Gloucester 20 Newcastle Falcons 29

NEWCASTLE Falcons pulled a rabbit out of the rugby hat just when they needed to, winning at Gloucester for the first time in 14 years.Read

James Goode could extend Newcastle Falcons stay

JAMES GOODE is not ruling out the possibility of extending his stay at Newcastle Falcons beyond the end of the current season.Read

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