By PAUL REES
NEWCASTLE are confident they can keep their England hooker Jamie Blamire happy at the club even though it is more than eight months since he started a match for the Falcons.
Blamire, who missed yesterday’s match at London Irish because of injury, has this season spent more minutes on the field in an England shirt than he has for Newcastle where George McGuigan, right, has kept him out of the starting line-up, 109 compared to 95.
Blamire’s last league start was back in March against Leicester and it was his third of the campaign in which he made 13 appearances...