Newcastle produced a second successive high-scoring Anglo-Welsh Cup victory with a nine-try demolition of Cardiff Blues at Kingston Park.
The Falcons ended round one on top of their group following a thrilling 53-41 victory at Wasps, a match which saw Joel Hodgson scoring a try and two conversions in an action-packed 20 minutes from the bench.
This time he scored a try and kicked five conversions in a dominant display at fly-half. Sinoti Sinoti grabbed a brace and winger Adam Radwan, who grabbed two in Coventry, scored another wonder try.
Micky Young, Mark Wilson, Alex Tait and Gary Graham also crossed in a one-sided encounter in which Cardiff also conceded a penalty try and had George Earle, captaining the Blues for the first time, sin-binned.
Nothing much happened in the opening 20 minutes and it was Hodgson who broke the deadlock with a lovely inside break for Young to score in the 21st minute. It was not without cost to the Falcons as Young limped off immediately after scoring.
Josh Matavesi's excellent hands opened the way for Sinoti to characteristically smash through and skip through two more attempted tackles and Hodgson converted to put Newcastle 12-0 up five minutes later.
The Falcons piled on the pressure as half-time approached with a penalty to the corner and a line-out drive that resulted in a penalty try and a yellow card for Earle in the 34th minute.
The loss of Earle proved costly, with Newcastle repeating the penalty into the corner and a driving line-out for flanker Wilson to be driven over as the Falcons took a 24-0 lead into the break.
Radwan screamed in for a try a minute into the second half, jinking inside from the wing to leave three Cardiff defenders floundering in his wake, and Hodgson converted for 31-0.
Sinoti grabbed his second try when Hodgson cleverly kicked crossfield after a rampaging run by Ryan Burrows and Alex Tait swapped passes with Matavesi to score in the corner.
Hodgson added the extras before scoring a lovely jinking try himself and converting to make it 50-0, the Falcons with three tries in 12 minutes to effectively bury the contest.
Cardiff resisted in the closing quarter but were always on the back foot and right on time Graham ploughed over from close range and Hodgson kicked his fifth conversion to make it 57-0.