How The Away Fan Experience At Newcastle HONESTLY Compares To The Rest Of The Premier League
Not long ago, Bournemouth fans travelled up to Newcastle United for a thrilling encounter which finished 2-2. As ever, we review the experience and compare it to the rest of the Premier League - entering on to our league table, but where will it rank? To help us calculate this, we rate:
▪️ Car Parking
▪️ Pre-Match Away Pub
▪️ Walk to the Ground
▪️ The Wow Factor
▪️ View from your Seat
▪️ Pie and a Pint
▪️ The Noise
▪️ Value for Money
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Top of the league! 😁Howay, give us a trophy lads! 🖤🤍
I don’t know how many times you have been there but when we, B’mth went there in 91/92 for a cup game the crowd was 14,000 on a Monday night and we won, obviously the cookie 92nd minute winner has to be the most enjoyable since we won there in the cup that night.
Good review of us. However, the only qualm I have is walk to the stadium only being an 8. It's one of only 2 clubs in Europe that are in the City Centre, and you can LITERALLY get a metro to drop you off underneath the stadium, and buses can drop you off outside. Liverpool, another team that scored 8 is about 4-5 miles outside the city, and you have to walk through council estates instead of amazing architecture (and 108 pubs) in Newcastle city centre
Aye. It's a quick walk, but not pretty if we're honest.
@@two2goats depends where you are walking from
Yes the mackems do have a designated pub for Derbies at St James Park...its in Sunderland !
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That’s the toilets
Dudes... there are 108 pubs within half a mile of St James Park. That's one hell of a weekender
I don't think any pubs in Newcastle would refuse away fans unless they were makems 😂😂
The old George pub. Oldest pub in Newcastle, 1582. 5minutes from the stadium. 😊
8 for pubs seems low all things considered
I know I thought a 10 would be nailed on for pubs. Im very underwhelmed with an 8.
Walk up to the ground too - not many places you can leave a city centre pub (with a choice of over 100 and being welcome in any of them) and have a 5-10 min walk up
Love it! I'm a toon fan from the states! HWTL!
Great content lads, glad you enjoyed your visit to Newcastle. There's something like 250 bars in the city centre, you can get a different experience every time you visit and you would be welcome in all of them. We are awaiting a report on the ground this month which will determine what can be done to expand St James' or what the options are for a new ground, so bear with us for improvements. Good luck for the rest of the season 🖤🤍
great content, a little poor the atmosphere that day i agree but one day we,ll get an 8 for that aswell as ten would be the PSG at home level again which was 🤯
Last twice they’ve come in the league we’ve been shit and then last year was the Queen’s death too with no Blaydon Races and Wor Flags. The only decent ones were before lockdown when we scraped past them and the cup game which was a Tuesday night. Nowt better than SJP on one of those PSG nights
Love this lads.
Come up on the Friday and stay in Whitley Bay and have a walk on our fabulous coastline as well a good selection of restaurants
Whitley Bay? Don’t you want them to return? 😂
Fair assessment fellas! 😂
Hi lads, I’m really pleased you enjoyed the weekend and personally I think you were very fair on the marking system you have 👍 As for things to do over a weekend it really depends on who your with (children, couples or just the lads ) depending on your taste, but let’s say it’s couples or a family a visit to Whitley Bay or Tynemouth might be a nice day out depending on the weather as it’s right on the North east coast line but there are some lovely bars serving beautiful food ( fish&Chips is excellent and absolutely massive portions) so be careful what you order😉 Whitley Bay has arcades if you have children with you keeps them entertained or if it’s just a couple you can walk miles along the seafront with plenty of bars on route. If you really wanted to travel just over an hours drive you can head along the A1 and head into seahouses & (Bambrough which has a castle you can visit) many films have been made around that area including Harry Potter, seahouses is a fishing village and is very popular with people from the north east especially bank holidays. Anyway just a few ideas and if your with the lads so many bars and restaurants plus night clubs if you fancy just having a wild night out😉🤣 Take care lads see you all next season and I’m really impressed with Bournemouth this season and the owner is doing everything he said after seeing him on skysports this weekend. 👍 Good luck for the rest of the season and let’s see you finish in the top 10 it’s very achievable this season. 👍
Old George - 5 minutes walk, Three Bulls Heads - maybe 3 or 4, Rosie’s Bar…..literally 2 minutes from the ground
Well done lads.
Great review, lads. Really honest and as a season ticket holder for over 25 years I would agree with you. As for the noise level like most grounds it's down to who and how we are playing. 👍
We have a vibrant city, beautiful coastline & stunning countryside all within a few miles. And very friendly Geordies. *HOWAY THE TOON!* 🖤🤍
Yet the southern press never stop sneering and attacking Newcastle
The roar you said was playing through the speakers.its tiny bit of the Blaydon races track at the start 😊✌️ as far as I know anyway that's the only "roar" as you put it that comes through the speakers. Good show lads ✌️
Give us the trophy now lads 🤣😂👍🏼
First piece of silverware for many a year 😂
Yyyeeeeesssss boys well done . Great vid 🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍
You can pay £20 and get a magpie mover for the season for all public transport with in Tyne and wear for 3hrs before and after match
go to the Percy arms next lads, just across the road from bus station it’s cheaper and the goose too it’s a stone house pub that’s cheap too.
Really pleased you enjoyed your trip to Newcastle, particularly that you find us friendly. If you have time you could check out the spectacular Northumberland coastline, especially bamburgh castle an hour or so north. Some good pubs around the station, the forth and town wall. Away fans often congregate at oniells opposite the station
Great review on the Toon glad you guys enjoyed your visit & match day experience there's no friendlier place in the UK Geordies always have time for visitors unless you're from Sunderland 😂 Hope you're next visit improves our score 👍
Love seeing away fans enjoy their trip up to us and as you said you’re welcome or or less anywhere for a pint. Forth, Tilleys and Bodega is a nice little run on the way up to ground from the train station for next season. If you’re staying over…Metro out to Tynemouth you’ll feel like you’re at home albeit the sea is a little greyer.
The town wall opposite the train station is one of my favourite pre match drinking pubs, trendy place with a massive selection of beers and craft ales. The old George in the centre of the city is a quality typical old English pub with good atmosphere. For something very old and different with a snug check out the crown posada towards the quayside. Enjoy lads.
Top enjoyable content... Nufc fan and you were mugged by a red wearing 13th man man u ref..shocking Twice
Just round the corner from the green king pub you were in is The Town Mouse. This pub almost always wins pub of the year in Newcastle
My personal favourite matchday pub is upstairs in Wonderbar (in The Gate) it’s where the majority of the noise can be found pre-match. Others I like for a good pint on a matchday are The Gunner Tavern or The Geordie Star. ⬛️⬜️ ⬛️🟥
Check out Tynemouth for a night, lads. Beaches, bars, and a few decent restaurants. Go down the Fish Quay in North Shields. that's pretty good, and you may want to catch the ferry over to South Shields.
Best thing about South Shields is - you can see North Shields. And the best thing about North Shields is - you’re not in South Shields!
As a Newcastle fan the main problem with the atmosphere is that our main singing corner is in the opposite end to the away fans and neither sets of fans can hear each other most of the time. Used to be way better before Ashley made level 7 a family area. Whole Gallowgate needs to be safe standing or get rid of the family area
Spot on was just about to comment this. Our best atmosphere comes from across the ground where you can’t hear away fans, they can’t hear us
This just appeared on my feed! Funnily enough it looks like you stayed on my street by the shop on the corner
I love the view. 10/10 for me. I even feel I've got a good view of the far end.
Im a season ticket holder at st james park, the only time you will ever hear chanting through the speaker system is the intro to a rerecording of "the blaydon races" song where it just says "toon toon" 3 or 4 times before kick off
The Trent House. For the memories.
Get yourselves upstairs in the wonderbar pre match and post match. Goes off in there 👍🏻
Ben for the KZhead one day 👀, us Geordies 🔛🔝 tho
Best pubs, best atmosphere in the ground, only problem is you're in the heavens and oh those steps 😮😮😮
Changed a lot to early 90’s, I have been upthere about ten times watched B’mth mostly, when I went there in 1991/92 I think it was in the cup, only around 14,000 there for a cup game and we won, it was the first Monday night game on sky I think, full houses now though, definitely in the top three grounds in the premier when they are winning.
It was interesting to see your rating system however, and I'm glad away fans' efforts are rewarded by a nice weekend 😊. Pleasantly surprised that you like the view from the top of the Leazes stand, I've never been up there myself ! 😅 It's important that visitors enjoy coming up to Tyneside because it's only Newcastle which makes people realise that England is looooong 😂
Great show lads but you got the noise sadly wrong
That game in particular I do remember being quite shite tbh, they’re right when saying our loudest moment was a last minute equaliser, had we been winning 3-0 the place would have been rocking
A fair-ish summary but a couple of things…The area is surrounded by parking and stadium sits on top of its own Metro (tube) station- you couldn’t get any closer transport-wise without helicoptering directly onto the pitch. This gives you a 2 minute walk into the ground? You did go to a super generic pub rather than any of those that the city is famous for (some of which are closer to the ground)?
Fair rating, although the noise is always crazy loud, you hit it on a bad day!
That was a good watch lads. You must of caught the atmosphere on a bad day. Getting beat didn't help but most other games are so different.
Fair play lads, nice balanced views overall.. but the multitude of welcoming pubs open & friendly to away fans so close to SJP ,should surely of got a 10!!? 😉 ... all the best to Bournemouth for the rest of the season.. HTL 🏁
Nice balanced view. I agree with the atmosphere at home nowadays. Depends on lots of factors, who we're playing, how we're playing, time of ko which sound weird but it is a factor. There have been some easy 10/10s across the last couple of years PSG, Arsenal, Man City, the other Manchester, Chelsea, Everton, Spurs (for the first 25mins, we were so in shock at 5-0 we didn't know what to do haha). I would say you were harsh on the walk to the stadium given there are 10/15 pubs 1 minute away, a bus stop that drops you right outside the Milburn stand and a Metro station underneath the stadium. Overall though, just give us the win now, forget the rest of the season. Oh and geordies are definitely the most welcoming bunch you'll meet, unless you're a Makem 😂 take care!
Newcastle do not and never have played fan noises through speaks we are not Liverpool or man city
Thanks lads sorry you did not get the usual noise level and you did hit on some fair points there but I'm chuffed with your scores
Aspers Casino is a 5 minute walk from the ground, £4 Matchday pints and if you sign up (free) you can park for free in the Gate complex car park
This is great! Thank you for this info!
The Junction, you should've tried their food, omg , their steak pie, buttery mash & fresh broccoli with a fair sized gravy jug for around (or just under) £10 , next time eh ?
If your up for weekend you'll have to stay at, and have friday nite in Tynemouth then breakfast at North Shields quay. Enjoy lads.
RE : The Noise Always find it funny that the season ticket holders blame the so called tourists. 30k of them and they can't dictate the noise!
The Stack will be built outside of St James' the next time we play Bournemouth at home.
Black and white pub beside where the away coaches park. Then it's a 5 minute walk to the ground
I am an NUFC fan and I apologise to you that you paid that much for a Pie and a Pint...I wouldn't pay that and I live up here...
A canny result for us...The most important thing is that we want you guys here. You are more than welcome...It might be a bit hard for the fans from down the road but all the rest, come up to Newcastle and have some fun...
Probably the only table we're gonna top for a while, but I'm happy with it!
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Great video thanks for the brill ranking. Don't think I've ever know us to play crowd raws through our speakers though but agree this season there seems to be a mix of nerves at time and a canny few tourists that have brought the atmosphere down a little bit, But again thanks for the review
As long as I've been going to Newcastle there's been a nervousness and an anxious feeling, almost desperate a lot of the time, that can quickly turn toxic. I think it's a hangover from missing out on the title in the 90s.
Lads it deffo wasn’t 1 of the best games for atmosphere coz we weren’t too good and thought we were gonna lose.
Fiver for pie! Frigging pie man!
Can’t believe there was a lack of noise. It’s regularly praised for the atmosphere. Must have been an off day. 😢
4 for noise 😮
I am a Newcastle fan and there is no raw through speakers. I was also at the game and the noise section i would really disagree with in your ratings. Think you probably best coming a neutral game and assessing that way
Recommend some different pubs of things to do if you stay over in Newcastle ? 😮 Dear God, you came all this way without researching the area? 😢 Yes mate, there are lots and lots of interesting things you have to see, and videos about The Toon all over KZhead. Just as a starter, the Quayside and sampling the nightlife around the bridges and the pubs all over the city centre is a must. I'd recommend the view of the Tyne from the top of the Norman keep (the 'castle' in Newcastle), and the walk down Grey Street, but there's more..... 😉
How do you know the people you spoke to were Geordies?
Feel like you boys need to visit Newcastle a few more times and have this conversation again. If you’ve went from the junction up the stadium on the route you took you probably missed 90% of the bars and city centre. I always feel like getting the train for away fans is best because they come straight out the station and are dropped straight into the city centre where most of the bars are. I think this is a good representation but you’s honestly missed soooo much that is going on around Newcastle
Go to the rose and crown and the lowther m8
We go all the time on a Friday morning
Hello lad's, glad you enjoyed your time in Newcastle, every fan is welcome at Newcastle unless you're a mackem, you can take your pick of pubs of 108 pubs within a half a mile radius of sjp, thanks for the rates you give us, you'll always be welcome 🖤🤍 hwtl
Imagine going to Newcastle and not going out in the toon on a night out
Sunderland don't have an away pub. They get escorted on buses to and from the ground.
Wow you’ve got a good memory, it’s been that long since they played at Newcastle😂
Ben's pretty cute
How’ve you rated city 2 higher than ncl for noise☠️😮
Canny review, thanks lads. I was at the game and the atmosphere was poor, one of the worst this season. I think that's because of our performance, we struggled in the previous home game against Luton so expected a reaction against yourselves and it didn't happen. I thought you played ok but nowt startling. As for a designated pub the great unwashed use, couldn't happen. In the recent derby at the Darkside you had to travel on club provided busses and you didn't get your ticket until on the bus. Massive police presence, absolutely no way either side could drink in the others pubs
Pie & pint at your ground in Bournemouth was daylight robbery in the away end 1 beer on all pumps amstel £6.50 & your pies £7 bloody robbed it's was cheaper in the pub in pokesdown😂
How can tourists fill out more of the stadium though when it's full of season tickets holders, who have had their tickets for years. Can't get a ticket for love nor money outside of the ballet which is only 300 tickets or so. And only the strawberry corner is good atmosphere, the rest is like any other football ground
Tifo comes from the italian word Tifosi (ultra fans)... Ferrari F1 fans are called the tifosi.
Geordies are friendly because we are bred from tough people , comfortable in our own skin.
Plus really compared to other places, we've never had much to get defensive or possessive over! I work in construction in people's homes & I'm ALWAYS, without fail, looked after better & made more welcome by those that seem to have less.....it's literally a sliding scale
Mackems are not welcome in the city, never mind the pubs, everyone else is more than welcome. There are over 100 pubs within 5 mins walk in just about any direction except leazes park. Away fans are welcome in them all, unless you are a filthy mackem.
All the pubs in Newcastle and you go there
Gutted I couldn't make this one, was one of my faves last year!
Pubs are a 10, come on!
Newcastle fan here. You Bournemouth fans have been unlucky with the atmosphere. The three games since lockdown have been an (amazing but they attract first time fans) night cup game, a game diluted by the Queen’s passing and one of the worst performances at home since Steve Bruce was in the dugout. Sadly wasn’t at the cup game but the two most recent league games actually stick out in my head for how poor the atmosphere was compared to how it normally is. Hopefully we beat you for once next season but always had a soft spot for your lot. Longest journey of the season, you’ll admit you’re a small club but you always bring a decent set of fans. HWTL
FOUR!!!! You need to mark Dean Court must be a -8
Ok.
So we might actually win something this season? Cheers lads
I can tell you the inside of the ground isn’t great for us home fans either
Genuinely think you've been a handful of points too generous to us.
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At the top where we belong 🤣
I've always thought the atmosphere is overrated tbh, it's not the noisest place. I think one issue is the imbalanced stadium means the sound escapes rathe than reverberates around.
it's recorded as officially the loudest stadium in the entire country, so I think you need to book a hearing test if you think it's not noisy.
@@rogoth01themasterwizard11 No it's not.
Whether home or away you can always hear us Geordies being loud and proud supporting our lads 🏴🏳️🏴🏳️
8 for pre match pubs 😂 I’d love to know what’s a 10. Credibility immediately lost.
Ok. Cheerio then.
The Junction... Really?
Brentford above goodison lol ok
Atmosphere 4 is a lie geordies home and away 10/10
So you parked in gateshead and didnt stay in Newcastle overnight Then give out points on your stay ffs
Wouldn’t look into it too deeply if I were you.
Ffs ? A , 4 for the crowd.. Yes your crowd wa like Liberians at a book conference 😂 try sitting in the home stand and then judge the noise and atmosphere.. you pair of muppets.
Poor atmosphere?????? Are you crazy ,,,,,
It was? Maybe you didn’t go to that game?
HA ha ha having a laugh aren’t you???? NUFC having an underwhelming season. Please put a little homework into your script. A decade and a half of battling relegation almost every season. Yes they have been bought over but still over half their squad is from pre buyout days. All this season decimated with league leading numbers of key personnel injured but still in with a shout for arguably 5th place, and leading the pack for 6th, which would mean back into Europe. When you look historically at teams (outside the regular six contenders) that achieve Europe they normally bomb the following season, but they, NUFC are still well in the dogfight. Man City, Chelsea and other that got big spending owners took 3 to 5 years to even begin the start the ball rolling. Meanwhile at NUFC they turn a 19 place relegation battle into 11 place, and in their first two full seasons go champions league and leading the pack for Europe again. And you say an underwhelming season. Hoy shit your club must be minimum ECL semi finalists every season if you think NUFC’s season is underwhelming. What on earth are your criteria for seasonal achievement and acceptable season’s efforts???????????????
We used the "underwhelming" quote from one of your own channels from the beginning of April. I suspect they mean "underwhelming" compared to the previous season... but why worry about context when you can bash your anger out on a keyboard Friday afternoon when the sun is shining outside? Hope getting that off your chest now enables you to have a good weekend.
@@afcbpodcast Hi, and thanks for the reply, yes this is a bit long but it is what it is. I was initially considering the possibility of an apology. But the body of your reply caused me to reread what I had initially typed aaannnnd, no! the apology thought was quickly dismissed. That was quickly dismissed when I read through the number of false assumptions you made for your reply. What makes you think I am a toon fan??? To quote “from one of your own channels” is it simply because I posted on a NUFC centric video? I was following Bournemouth for several seasons because Howe had them bucking the trend and playing well above their perceived player value. Then following NUFC as post take over they are showing the very same properties as Bournemouth did when he dragged them up three divisions, without huge investment and player personnel changes. I have followed Brighton this last couple of seasons because of the way they were playing, same goes for Villa as they are upsetting the leagues upper order. That’s what interests me, the tactics employed in order to overcome financial restraints. You post up video’s in the hopes of it paying for itself and making your hobby a money maker, no problems I understand that, but you need to understand that not everyone is a moron and as such you may well get the odd kickback about what you are saying. As in this instance. All I did was point out an error, you deflected that ‘error’ by saying you lifted it from another NUFC site/page/blog/video. Which just reinforced my claim of you are not doing enough homework on your script. To use a throw away comment from a disgruntled or possibly deliberate contentious poster shows gross neglect unless you being deliberately contentious. I am not in any way taking things out of context, you used the term “underwhelming” and obviously did no checking, if you now suspect that the term may well have been used in error then why lazily use it in the first place. Had you made clear it was a quote then this reply would not exist. I am not bashing my keyboard in anger, I never post in anger, that is when you make mistakes, and type things you wished you had not. My comments are meant over the whole to be seen as constructive not destructive, I pointed out your misquote simply to highlight the error and suggest better homework. So suggestions are,,, do not lift sources without verifying their accuracy, that one source may well be the only f***wit that is complaining as their favourite player did not score. Verify you data,,, you said underwhelming, I gave a host of simply verifiable FACTS to show the opposite.
@@cupiddstunt Ah apologies for the assumption that you were a Newcastle fan. I thought you were, which, to be honest, makes your reply even more bizarre. But each to their own! That said, I'll give you the respect of a more fuller reply here - the bottom line (for me, not a journalist) is the amount of Newcastle fans who have commented and NOT flagged up the "underwhelming" comment, a word which came from another channel which we regularly buddy-up with for pre and post match content. By the way, I'd LOVE to have scripts as you suggest, but we do not. This is an error on your part, but don't worry, I won't ask you to "do your homework". Either way, I'm genuinely flattered by the level of journalism you expect this channel to aspire to, but given you understand this channel is wholly a hobby, you'll know that we've not got the luxury of having the time to carry out research which polls Newcastle United fans about their current opinion on the club, especially for a video that references everything BUT the football. Either way, your comments are welcome, but based on your expectations, I'd kindly suggest this channel is probably not for you. Enjoy your weekend and up the Magpies/Cherries/Seagulls/Villa.
Your bias spoiled you show.
Always prefer Sunderland bit friendlier and the grounds better