Latest news with #JamieBlamire
BBC News
15-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Diamond hails 'remarkable' resilience at Newcastle
Newcastle Falcons consultant director of rugby Steve Diamond is full of praise for his "remarkable" squad despite their position at the bottom of the Falcons have won only two of their 16 league games and are set to finish last for a third straight the club is operating below the salary cap and desperate for new investment as owner Semore Kurdi tries to is against this backdrop that Diamond believes his squad deserves real credit."They are a remarkable group of men," he said. "Sometimes they are not the best rugby players, but to a man, there is not a whinger in it. Not one person."Morale is remarkably good for the unremarkable season we've had." Friday's game against Gloucester marks the final one at Kingston Park for captain Callum Chick and hooker Jamie Blamire, two Newcastle stalwarts, who are heading to Northampton Saints and Leicester Tigers respectively next continues a talent drain of homegrown players from the club, which included Adam Radwan's move to the Tigers in mid-season, which Diamond said were all in the best interests of those individuals, given the current have shipped 130 points in losing their two most recent games away to Bath and Saracens as the gulf between them and the Premiership's best sides has been before that they were on the wrong end of close games with Exeter Chiefs and Northampton Saints. "We should have won at Exeter," said Diamond. "We should have won against Northampton. End of story. "That would have put a completely different slant on our season. It would have been four wins with Gloucester at home to come." The ex-Sale Sharks and Worcester Warriors boss knows his squad is not the most talented in the Premiership, but he said that the shrinkage from 13 to 10 clubs in the league has left them more isolated at the should have been a relegation play-off at the end of this campaign but Championship leaders Ealing Trailfinders do not meet the criteria for promotion, meaning Newcastle's status quo remains. "What's happened because we've gone from 13 teams to 10, we are the only whipping boys in the league," he said. "There used to be three sides who were like that, so you could always pick up five, six, seven wins. Now there is only us who sides would have down to beat on paper, home and away. "When did that last happen to Newcastle, when teams were afraid of coming up here? That is what we need to change moving forward."
BBC News
13-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Tigers announce signings of Blamire, Haffar & Moro
Leicester Tigers have announced five new signings for next season, including Newcastle Falcons hooker Jamie Blamire, England A prop Tarek Haffar and Argentina international flanker Joaquin Moro.A day after confirming Geoff Parling as head coach for next season, the Tigers have wasted no time getting squad plans in aforementioned trio will be joined at Welford Road by former academy product Charlie Titcombe, who returns to the club from Llanelli Scarlets, and British Universities player of the year Wilf general manager Richard Wilks said all five were exciting signings."This is a very exciting signing for the club, which anyone who has seen Jamie play will agree with I'm sure," he told the club website, external."As a club, we have been fortunate to have had outstanding players and individuals at hooker over the last decade and Jamie continues that trend."Tarek is a young, talented front-rower, who is making great strides in his career already, and we are pleased that it will continue with us at Leicester Tigers."We believe Joaquin has huge potential to develop and continue the proud tradition of Argentine players fulfilling their ambitions in the game as part of our club."Wilf McCarthy has shown promise with Hartpury University and we are excited to be a part of this next stage in his development as a player."And we always keep track of the talented youngsters who have developed with us and, like in the case of Ollie Chessum, are delighted to welcome back Charlie."
BBC News
28-02-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Newcastle & Bath reach Premiership Cup semi-finals
Newcastle will host Bath in the Premiership Cup semi-finals after both sides came through their quarter-final were 21-0 down against Harlequins at the Recreation Ground but rallied with the help of a very experienced bench to score six tries and win selected a first-choice XV and a hat-trick from hooker Jamie Blamire helped see off a largely second-string Gloucester entertain Sale and Ealing travel to Northampton in the other quarter-finals. Bath had a far less experienced starting XV than Harlequins and quickly found themselves three tries Tyrone Green scored in the first minute before centres Will Joseph and then Ben Waghorn saw Quins three tries up after only 14 15, Tom de Glanville, got them on the board with their first try and although Argentina winger Rodrigo Iscro went over to extend Quins' lead, scrum-half Tom Carr-Smith scored for the hosts to make it 28-14 at the break. Bath then unleashed a platter of experienced replacements to take control of the game and tries from hooker Tom Dunn, number eight Arthur Green, flanker Jaco Coetzee and centre Louie Hennessey's superb diving finish in the right corner saw them comfortably through. Falcons see off Gloucester Newcastle dominated the first half at Kingston Park and Blamire's first try, from a rolling maul, and a Brett Connon penalty saw them lead 8-0 at the Louis Hillman-Cooper scored for Gloucester six minutes into the second half but another maul soon after led to Blamire's second Atkinson landed a 48-metre penalty to bring Gloucester back to 15-10 down but again the Falcons extended their lead as another driving maul brought Blamire's Wilkinson was sin-binned for the hosts for a deliberate knock-on and winger Matty Ward took advantage to go under the posts to keep Gloucester in touch but it was as close as they got.
