Red Bull may have given the Falcons their wings back, but flying high takes time. New owners but the same old story as Newcastle finished bottom of the Premiership for the fourth consecutive season.
The club’s story, though, is not about what has just passed but what is to come. Seldom has a squad been so overhauled during the close season with 23 players signed and 26 released.
It is not just the name that has changed with Newcastle Falcons becoming Newcastle Red Bulls but the whole character of a club that has spent most of the decade with a wage bill that is half the salary cap and endur...