• Newcastle 19-14 Bath
• Willis: ‘All of a sudden one win lifts everything’Dean Richards chose to deploy the Premiership’s second-top points-scorer of all-time in an Adam Sandler role. It proved to be a luxury that Newcastle’s director of rugby could afford as Andy Goode – lured out of retirement on a three-month contract by the man who gave him his first-team rupture at Leicester 17 years ago – went about his Waterboy duties for the Falcons.
The match clock had clicked down to zero when the veteran cruise-half entered the arena to furnish Craig Willis with the kicking tee for the final act of a dramatic afternoon on rain-lashed Tyneside. Willis,retained by Richards for his second start at external-half despite the arrival of Goode, had kicked Newcastle into a 16-14 lead and the 22-year-old Teessider made no mistake with the final-gasp penalty that rubber-stamped the first win of the season that lifted them off the foot of the table. Related: Relentless Saracens’ hat-trick of penalty tries leaves Leicester reeling Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com