■By PAUL REES

NEWCASTLE will be going hard in the Premiership Cup, which starts on Friday, as they look to ensure the victory over Exeter nine days ago is not a one-off.
“There will be players who have put in miles who will not play in the first week of the cup,” said Newcastle’s director of rugby, Steve Diamond, below, who two years ago won the competition when he was in charge of Worcester.
“But we will go strong because we need to build momentum. I did it at Worcester when I was putting a team together there and we got a lot of confidence from ...