Falcons face battle to break their duck

By PAUL REES

Time is running out for Newcastle as they seek to avoid joining Rotherham and London Welsh as clubs who finished a Premiership season without winning a game.
For the second season in a row they have engineered a change at the top during a campaign and in January called on experienced firefighter Steve Diamond after Alex Codling stood down as head coach having questioned the Falcons’ direction of travel after a chastening defeat at Leicester.
Newcastle were a late missed penalty away from securing a losing bonus point at Exeter in Diamond’s first game in charge and did everythi...

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