Please find below the names of all those who were elected onto the Management Committee of the Newcastle Falcons Supporters Club for the 2024/25 season.
Chair and Treasurer – Gillian Watson
Secretary and Membership Coordinator – Lynne Crowe
Travel Coordinator – Keith Evans
Communications Coordinator – Gordon Lodge
Gillian Watson – Chair and Treasurer
I’ve been a rugby supporter since I was 13 (Melrose and Scotland) and moved to Newcastle in 2006, now living only a stone’s throw from KP! Season 2022/23 will be my tenth as a Newcastle Falcons South Stand season ticket holder. I’ve loved travelling to watch Falcons in the UK and to their European Cup matches in Italy, France (lots!), Ireland and Jersey and hope this is something we can do again soon. I’ve been proud to co-sponsor Simon Hammersley and at time of writing, Adam Radwan and feel that this is a great way for me to support the club. I’m lucky enough to watch home matches with various Supporters’ Club committee members and call them friends and think it’s about time I helped out, to make our Supporters Club as successful as possible.
Lynne Crowe – Secretary and Membership Coordinator
I have been a season ticket holder at Kingston Park since 2004 having attended a handful of games the previous season. Over the years not only have I attended home games but I have been lucky enough to attend many away games, usually on the Supporters Club coach. Wherever possible I try to support our team home and away, including travelling to games in Europe and in 2017 to the USA. This has taken me to destinations that I would NEVER have dreamt I would ever visit. Some of those destinations have included L’aquila and Padova in Italy, Brive, Lyon, Toulon and Montpellier in France, Bucharest in Romania and Philadelphia in the USA. Newcastle Falcons has enabled me to meet some amazing people and make lifelong friends. I have been on the Supporters Club Committee for the past seven years where I enjoy my roles of Secretary and Membership Coordinator.
Keith Evans – Travel Coordinator
For the past 16 years I have been a dedicated season ticket holder to Newcastle Falcons and attended most away games. I am an approachable, friendly person who has been part of the Supporter’s Club for several years now and have had the pleasure of meeting fellow Falcons’ followers who share the same passion I do. I hope to continue my input into a great Supporter’s Club which benefits both members and players of Newcastle Falcons. Teamwork makes the dream work!
Gordon Lodge – Communications Coordinator
I’ve been supporting The Falcons since they were formed. I don’t mean 1877, I’m not quite that old so I’m talking since the set up of prefessional rugby. Favourite all time player – Va’aiga Tuigamala. Although from the North East I moved to London at age 9 (obviously not on my own, I took my family with me) and have always moved around quite a lot so until the last 6/7 seasons or so when I’ve been more or less settled back in the North East and a season ticket holder I had been to far more away games than home games over the years so it’s good to be able to redress the balance and get to KP (even though it’s still a bit of a mission at times) and enjoy the home atmosphere and feeling more a part of the club. I took over the Supporters Club Website at the start of the 22/33 season, Editor is a bit of a glorification of what I do but not sure what an appropriate title would be, no suggestions please! Last season I was co-opted onto the committee and even in difficult times I enjoyed being more involved and trying to help out in taking the Supporters Club forward and think it would be good to continue doing that.
