Weekend rugby review: Further trouble for Newcastle and London Welsh as Bath impress with huge win
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Weekend rugby review: Further trouble for Newcastle and London Welsh as Bath impress with huge win
What is in a pitch? Quite a lot according to Northampton director of rugby,
Jim Mallinder, who was asked for his view of Newcastle’s new 3G
artificial-surface.
“It’s great, it has made a massive difference.
We came
here last year and it was a mudbath, really smelly.
This is a complete
change.
It suited us.
”
Have Newcastle shot themselves in the foot by laying down a surface that
everyone loves? Opposition teams used to dread heading to the chill
north-east outpost where the wind comes howling down across Kingston Park.
Yet when you saw the scenes after the m…
