Newcastle Falcons are gambling their Premiership future by installing an artificial pitch at Kingston Park

The Aviva Premiership will get its first sighting of Newcastle’s new
artificial pitch at Kingston Park when London Irish visit on Sunday
afternoon.

It is an interesting development in so many ways.




Saracens have obviously led the way in this respect with their artificial
pitch at Allianz Park.

You could see why they did it and why they thought
that they had the side to utilise it.




With Newcastle I am not so sure.

The weather in the North East can be horrible
too regularly and that is clearly the reason for the installation of the
pitch, but it is a risk in pl…