Irish tactics blow away Falcons

14 September 2014Newcastle's last win in the Aviva Premiership was against the Exiles at Kingston Park last October and the Falcons have now lost 18 top flight games on the spin.

They came close to snatching it against Brian Smith's side with a a stoppage-time try but it would have been an injustice in what was a thrilling fast-paced encounter.

"We put together a plan for the wind up here and how to manage it and we trained on a surface just like this at our training centre," said Smith who revealed that playing Shane Geraghty at 12 and Chris Noakes at 10 was a specific plan…