By JON NEWCOMBE
In-form Newcastle flanker Sam Cross returns to the scene of his first professional game confident the Premiership’s bottom side can pull off a shock.
Falcons travel to Leicester, where he made his non-competitive debut for Ospreys, having lost all seven league games to date but have shown in the majority of matches that they are not to be taken lightly.
“Outside of our circle no-one gives us a chance,” said Cross, a dual Wales international in 7s and 15s as well as a GB silver medallist at the 2016 Olympics.
“As a club we embrace being the underdog and people writing us off. W...
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