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DAVE WALDER “The key now for us is to make sure performances like that aren’t a oneoff.”
Every week is a massive test in the Gallagher Premiership, and after the high of taking a bonus-point victory over Bristol Bears last weekend we have another major challenge this afternoon against Saracens. Thank you all for coming to the game, and welcome to today’s visitors. There are a couple of familiar faces among Sarries’ coaching staff with Joe Shaw and Ian Peel both continuing to do great things there, and as always it will be nice to chat with former team-mates before what we all know will be a big test. You can’t fail to have been impressed by what Saracens put out last weekend in beating Leicester Tigers, and rather than talking about the usual kickchase which everyone knows them for it’s apparent that they are making a great fist of playing a more attacking brand of rugby so far this season. I hope all of our supporters enjoyed our last home game against Bristol a week ago on Friday, and if you weren’t here in person then hopefully the TV pictures will have helped tempt you to come along and enjoy a Falcons game in the flesh. After the disappointment of our defeat down at Worcester it was great to see the lads come back and respond in the way that they did, and especially to add a bonus-point try right at the end. You might have had a good laugh at me embarrassing myself on the TV in celebrating that score but the beauty of sport is the emotion it gives you, even if I might cringe a bit watching it back afterwards! A lot was made in the coverage about the contribution of our three Argentina internationals with Matias Orlando and Matias Moroni playing just four days after landing in the country, and Mateo Carreras earning man of the match with his two tries. They’re all quality players and those plaudits are absolutely fair, although all three guys will be the first to tell you it’s a team performance. I thought our captain Will Welch was also a big presence having missed the previous game through illness, Sam Stuart showed up well at scrum-half in his first game back for a long while and Tom Penny made a number of key interventions from full-back to name just a few. We lost our starting fly-half Brett Connon on the day of the game but Tian Schoeman came in and performed, and the key now for us is to make sure that performances like that aren’t a one-off. We’ve set the benchmark of what we’re capable of, and it has to become the norm rather than the exception. With the November international window coming into view it was also nice to see a couple of our lads given some England recognition, with George McGuigan and Adam Radwan called into the training squad during the early part of this week. I’d been asked about George in the media last week prior to news of his call-up, and the point I made at the time was that he had been a great professional throughout the last couple of years in just keeping his head down and playing well even he wasn’t getting selected by England. Lesser players in that scenario might have sulked and dropped their standards, but George and Adam have gone about things the right way and are hopefully now starting to see the rewards of that. It’s one of those double-edged swords in knowing we might lose guys during the international window, but ultimately it’s a huge honour for us as a club to be producing players for England, and it’s great for the lads to know that their international ambitions can be fulfilled while they’re Newcastle Falcons players. Hopefully this afternoon we can give another positive account of ourselves on a big stage against a quality side, and with your support we can continue to make Kingston Park a tough place for opposition teams to come. Enjoy the game! DAVE WALDER Head coach 5
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