Newcastle Start Red Bull Era With Prem Rugby Cup Win

Newcastle Red Bulls kicked disconnected their caller era pinch a comfortable 26-14 triumph against Harlequins successful nan Prem Rugby Cup, successful beforehand of a grounds cup crowd of 9,089 astatine a rain-drenched Kingston Park.

Newcastle, who person rebranded from nan Falcons into nan Red Bulls during nan adjacent season, were ever successful power against Quins successful their Pool A opener.

Tries from George McGuigan and Murray McCallum successful nan first half, followed by scores from Oli Spencer and Alex Hearle successful nan second, kept a youthful Quins outfit astatine arm's magnitude passim and secured a bonus-point victory.

Danny Wilson took complaint of Quins for nan last clip earlier he joins nan coaching unit of Wales' nationalist team.

In Friday's different match, Gloucester registered a cleanable opening to their Prem Cup run pinch a 29-15 bonus-point triumph complete Exeter Chiefs successful nan different Pool A fixture astatine Kingsholm.

Gloucester had to conflict difficult to summation power against Rob Baxter's Chiefs and needed a beardown second-half capacity to put nan crippled to bed.

Three tries from nan visitors successful nan first half saw them spell successful astatine nan break 15-14 up, earlier nan hosts ran successful 2 tries from Josiah Edwards-Giraud and Jack Innard, to spell pinch a punishment from nan footwear of George Barton, to agelong clear.

Yet nan nighttime was each astir caller beginnings successful Newcastle, wherever nan Red Bull finance has energised a broadside that made nan semi-finals of this title but vanished bottommost of nan Premiership past season.

And aft absorbing early unit and battling done rainfall which deed successful nan 2nd period, nan location broadside were ever a people to nan good, pinch moreover a precocious yellowish paper for Callum Hancock failing to dislodge their grip connected nan contest.