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Manchester area, meaning the team have to pay for a coach to every away game, and paying costs for the visitors at a home game. The Northern League (the feeder division that Newcastle came from) had said that they would welcome the team back. This was confirmed on 26 March that Blue Star would be relegated in place of the bottom placed team in the league. However, on 4 April it was announced that the league allowed Blue Star to stay in the Northern Premier League as they had withdrawn their request.
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Division at the end of the 2008â09 season via the play-offs, off field troubles led to the club winding up having never taken its place in the league. In 2018 the club was reborn from renaming club Hazlerigg Victory and bringing with it their players and management staff, playing games at
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for the 1985â86 season, emphatically winning it. It won 36 out of 38 games, only dropping points in two games (one a draw, the other a loss). Also in that season, the club scored a very high 133 goals. In 1986, the name was reverted to its original title of
Newcastle Blue Star.
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and came very close to winning it in 1987â88. By the early 1990s, the club had a slump in the league, finishing generally in the lower half of the table. From 1994 until 1998, the club was known as RTM Newcastle, soon changing it back to
Newcastle Blue Star.
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Northern Premier League Division One North but were promoted to the Northern Premier League Premier Division after a 4â1 victory over
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with the intention of moving it to the north-east and merging with Blue Star, thus giving Blue Star league football. The bid was turned down by Maidstone chairman Jim Thompson.
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