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Newcastle Falcons’ head coach has commented saying that his team s ready to play by the new rules that are going to be implemented in the game. The International Rugby Board has put on trial nine new laws for the new season.

Out of these nine laws, six will be very crucial for Newcastle Falcons and will be affecting its performance on the field.

James Fitzpatrick and the other players of the Newcastle Falcons RFU Championship Rugby Union team have earned themselves a well deserved rest as the side from Newcastle upon Tyne takes a breather and thinks about the next phase after an extremely grueling pre-season.

The players, who began their preparations for the new season 6 weeks back ahead of the new season in the RFU Championship, aiming to get promotion back to the Aviva Premiership at the first time of asking have all been given a week off.

Chris York, the number eight of the Aviva premiership winning Harlequin FC has officially been unveiled as the eighth new signing of the Newcastle Falcons as the club continues a restructure and re-shape of its squad after finishing dead bottom in the Aviva Premiership in 2011/12 season and almost certain to be relegated to the RFU Championship if the London Welsh win their appeal against their promotion.

Dean Richards, the former Director of Rugby at the Aviva Premiership side Harlequins Football Club has been assigned the same role with another Aviva Premiership side, the Newcastle Falcons, a position that he will take up from the start of the new season.

But the question remains is whether Richards will have to take charge of the side when it will no longer be in the Premiership because as things stand at the moment, they are the favorites to go down from the top league of English rugby.

New Newcastle Falcons head coach, Gary Gold has insisted that he is in the long game with the Falcons and that relegation this season would not spell the end of the Newcastle club.

Neighbours West Hartlepool are one of many great Northern sides to have fallen from Rugby’s top table to lower league obscurity and Gold is determined that the Falcons will not follow the likes of West, Liverpool St Helens and Orrell.

Newcastle has appointed a new director of rugby and they have turned to Gary Gold of South Africa as Alan Tait was relieved of his directorial responsibilities.

Also Mike Ford, the former defence coach of England has also joined the rugby club’s backroom staff as the team faces relegation.

Premiership strugglers Newcastle did just about enough to wrap up victory against Toulon in the opening matches of the weekend.

Jonny Wilkinson returned to Kingston Park, but spent the whole 80 minutes sat on the substitute’s bench as an unused substitute. The game was never going to be a free flowing, high scoring encounter at a cold windy Kingston Park and so it proved to be. Newcastle indeed ran out winners in a tight encounter. Two penalties in three minutes from Jimmy Gopperth proved enough for the Falcons to run out victorious by six points to three.

Newcastle coach Paul Moriarty says that he is impressed with Exeter this season. An opening day win at home to Gloucester preceded an unlucky defeat at Leicester and Moriarty is impressed by their adjustment to the top flight.

“They’ve got enthusiasm and a fresh approach,” Moriarty told Wales Rugby Tickets. “They’ve made the rest of the division sit up and say this team has got something about it.”

Newcastle coach Paul Moriarty says that he is impressed with Exeter this season. An opening day win at home to Gloucester preceded an unlucky defeat at Leicester and Moriarty is impressed by their adjustment to the top flight.

“They’ve got enthusiasm and a fresh approach,” Moriarty told BBC Newcastle. They’ve made the rest of the division sit up and say this team has got something about it.”