Club must give Moro a long-term contract after superb display

THE scoreboard tells the tale - it was job done by Tigers at Kingston Park where Newcastle were duly beaten with the bonus point try to maintain their place in the higher echelons in the division, and crucially ensure that ground wasn't lost to the rest of the league.

- By IAN COCKERILL

To be brutally honest every other side at the moment, and until the new signings and coaches bed in, will also gain five points against the Red Bulls so the result was vital.

At the moment Newcastle are in something of a holding pattern.

There is a smattering of quality on the pitch - latest recruit, former Crusaders captain Tom Christie, is probably the best New Zealander never to have played for the All Blacks, while Liam Williams' record for Wales and the British and Irish Lions speaks for itself.