Red Bull are throwing money at rugby’s Newcastle problem – but will it actually work?

The stats don’t exactly make pretty reading for Newcastle. Four straight seasons finishing bottom of the Gallagher Prem table, a mere two finishes higher than third-bottom since 2010 and a sum total of just four wins in the league over the past three seasons.The current ‘ring-fenced’ era of English rugby at least means their recent spate of cellar-dwelling hasn’t seen them drop into the Championship, as they twice did during the 2010s (earning immediate promotion back to