Payne confident new-look Newcastle can handle favourites tag in League 1 this season

Few - if any - clubs have endured a rollercoaster decade quite like Newcastle Thunder. From the highs of promotion out of League 1 in 2008, to the financial crisis which engulfed the Thunder (then, of course, known as Gateshead) a year or so later, to the long, arduous task of rebuilding the club in the third-tier: which included an incredible 6

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