Head Coach: Dean Richards
Captain: Will Welch
Ground: Kingston Park
Capacity: 10,200
Can the Falcons trump last season’s top four finish? Their credentials as a new force will undergo forensic examination with Saracens, Leicester away, Exeter and Wasps in their first handful of fixtures, but Dean Richards looks prepared for the onslaught thanks to a few shrewd moves in the transfer market
Having already scored a major success by poaching last season’s joint top try scorer Vereniki Goneva from Leicester, he has repeated it by tempting prop Logovi’i Mulipola and hooker Geo...