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Kids bring joy to Geordie land

MOMENT IN TIME
NEWCASTLE FALCONS, 2001 TETLEY BITTER CUP WINNERS
BY NEIL FISSLER

IT was once suggested that you don’t win anything with kids and that the magic of the cup was wearing thin but don’t tell that to Newcastle’s Tetley’s Bitter Cup winning side in 2001.The Falcons, with Sir John Hall bankrolling them, won the Premiership title in 1998 and lost the 1999 Tetley’s Bitter Cup to Wasps, with vastly experienced players.
But when they returned to Twickenham two years later, there was a changing of the guard despite the likes of Va’aiga Tuigamala, Doddie Weir and Gary Armstrong remaini...

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