Graham chases ‘dream’ season to emulate Dad

By JON NEWCOMBE

GARY GRAHAM insists there is no limit to Newcastle’s ambitions this season after they marked their return to the Premiership with a thumping, smash-and-grab 19-12 win at Bath last Saturday.
Spurred on by a text from his dad – the former Scotland prop George – reminding him that Newcastle won at The Rec in the opening match of the 1997/98 season, the year they won title at the first attempt following promotion, the back rower scored twice in a typically bruising performance.
Newcastle would have won more comfortably had Brett Connon not missed his first...

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