THE FORMER NEWCASTLE FALCONS SCRUM-HALF

HALL CHARLTON

IWAS part of the new generation of Newcastle players coming through immediately after the Premiership winning season of 1997/98, and was fortunate to be surrounded by lots of people of a similar age in the dressing room, team-mates who would become friends over the next 10-11 years.
Despite having some very good players, including Jonny Wilkinson, no less, we never seemed to quite fulfil our potential, although we did win the Cup in 2001 and 2004 (I came on as a late sub in the latter, a 37-33 win against Sale), whilst also reaching th...