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Post by penkhullite on Jan 12, 2008 15:48:09 GMT
I know there is loads of choice, but was wondering if there are any exiles up there who can advise what pubs to go in or avoid this Wednesday? Can't wait!! ;D
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Post by GRUMPY 1 on Jan 12, 2008 15:49:27 GMT
the mona?
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Post by uttoxeterstokie on Jan 12, 2008 16:00:06 GMT
bin loads of times family up there theres a complex in town 10 minutes from ground its called the gate complex plenty of pubs in there wheterspoons as well avoid strawberry gets packed and all home fans in there.
hope thats some help
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Post by Silverdale on Jan 12, 2008 19:37:09 GMT
Strawberry it is then!
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Post by GeordieDave on Jan 12, 2008 20:02:09 GMT
Where do I start .... I guess it depends on where (and when) you park. The Strawberry is the nearest to the ground but will be rammed. Just down below that near Chinatown is Rosie's and the Newcastle Arms. The latter is the best by far although Rosie's is always a good atmosphere. All three are OK for away fans normally but best not forget that a lot of people up here have long memories and remember one night back in Stoke in 1995 all too well. I dont for one minute think that any kind of revenge is in the air but the Geordies are wounded, and like any animal when its hurt will hit back hard if any Stokies take the piss about the MU result, Redknapp or Shearer. Best just sup your pint, mind your own and you will be welcomed by one and all. For those with more time check out the Crown Posada on the Quaysaide, or The Duke on High Bridge. Both cracking pubs for that that like real ale. Avoid the Bigg Market if you can, not that it will be dangerous, its just SHIT !!! Expensive lager (or bitter) that tastes like piss. Avoid ALL pubs around Grainger Town, these are rough as fuck and AVOID The Adelphi at all costs, this is the local hooligan bar (Newcastle Gremlins) and Stokies entering will get twatted for sure. The beauty of Newcastle is that you can be in any bar in town and you are ten/fifteen mins walk from the ground max. You can literally sup until c1915 and be in your seat for the teams coming out. For any Stokies wanting a safe, decent bar see The Duke. My work local. The enclosed link is well worth a peak. Its funny as fuck and is 100% accurate. Three of the pubs listed above are in its top five. The Gate mentioned above is shocking in my opinion, its full of wankers, chavs and tarts and charges a quid a pint too much. For Stokies visiting Newcastle for the first time it might be worth a peak in Tiger Tiger, next to The Gate. Horrible place in my opinion but for some surreal reason a lot of people love it .... and its 5 mins from St James Park. The Trent House is near the ground, its a super bar but will be full to the rafters. The away buses often park near The Trent so it might be the first pub you see! www.theburglarsdog.co.uk/ |
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Post by daverichards on Jan 13, 2008 11:01:11 GMT
Plenty to choose from, as there are 2 Universities in the city center, so loads of studenty pubs that do cheap drinks etc . I'm planning on supping a few in some of the bars I used to frequent in my student days , but given that Luckies has a large out door area for the smokers amongst us, I'll probably be there most of the time, its opposite the Civic Center, just down from the Haymarket Metro station, about a 10 mins walk from the ground . Its #8 on this map  www.pubsnewcastle.co.uk/click Haymarket and Gallowgate |
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Post by BraveSirRobin on Jan 13, 2008 11:18:36 GMT
Or the Mona like Dixo said.Ill be in there at 1.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2008 11:26:32 GMT
Blimey the Haymarket, I haven't heard that since I was a bairn  . I always remember coming in to Newcastle as a youngster with my Mother on the train and always amazed at the Tyne Bridge. Real pitty I won't make the match as it would of been first visit back to the NE since the death of my grandad back in 87v  |
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Post by GeordieDave on Jan 13, 2008 11:30:20 GMT
Where is The Mona? Ive been up here nearly twenty years and Ive never heard of it?
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Post by daverichards on Jan 13, 2008 11:33:55 GMT
Where is The Mona? Ive been up here nearly twenty years and Ive never heard of it? was going to say the same, never heard of it, and can't find it on that website I linked either |
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Post by GeordieDave on Jan 13, 2008 11:52:55 GMT
Where is The Mona? Ive been up here nearly twenty years and Ive never heard of it? was going to say the same, never heard of it, and can't find it on that website I linked either Dave, try the link in my post. You'll enjoy it. The Burglars Dog. On another note The Mona isnt listed by him either ... You'll laugh your bollocks off on The Dog. Look up The Adelphi, The Black Garter, The Rose & Crown .... |
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Post by daverichards on Jan 13, 2008 13:38:49 GMT
one for the Black Garter is funny as fuck ;D
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jan 13, 2008 14:17:19 GMT
For any Stokies arriving early...not to take advantage of IDOLS would be a real mistake.
Excellent atmosphere, with both home and away fans, and beers served by near naked women.
What more could anyone want.
Only a 5 minute walk to the ground as well if memory serves me correctly!
Can't wait...Playing golf at Slaley Hall, followed by idols and the game. Does life get any better?
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Post by Lawto on Jan 13, 2008 15:42:45 GMT
Spent a few months staying at The Marriot Hotel in Newcastle (right by the Metro Centre). Nice bar, although a tad expensive, but the chances are the team will be staying there, and there's a good chance that Gazza and Jimmy Five Bellies will be in there. They were in there loads when I was staying there.
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Post by daverichards on Jan 13, 2008 15:58:47 GMT
For any Stokies arriving early...not to take advantage of IDOLS would be a real mistake. Excellent atmosphere, with both home and away fans, and beers served by near naked women. What more could anyone want. Only a 5 minute walk to the ground as well if memory serves me correctly! Can't wait...Playing golf at Slaley Hall, followed by idols and the game. Does life get any better? I'd read a latest review of IDOLS if I were you, it sounds cack |
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Post by GeordieDave on Jan 13, 2008 17:02:48 GMT
Idols .... from a local site linked below ....
Reviewed by: The Burglar's Dog Editors
www.theburglarsdog.co.uk "Honest incompetence in the act of love" We're getting old. There's no denying it. It's tricky enough these days to even get up the stairs at the match, never mind add any more unnecessary climbing to our Saturday afternoons. And it is for that reason, and that reason alone that we've been giving the subterranean Idols a wide berth for the past few years. But, y'know, to celebrate the mackems' relegation we thought we'd hobble down for a swift, raucous pint watching the strippers, and maybe freshen up the review in the process. Ye bugger, this place has changed. Although the tatty stairwell remains the same, gone is the eighties throwback decor of industrial tat and springs and bits of tubas, and in their place is a minimal, empty shed so beloved of lazy bastard designers the nation over. And while they're still advertising exotic dancers, in their upmarket semi-refurbished state they actually mean dancing and nowt else. It's a tragedy to see the comedy strippers ("two stone overweight, cellulite-ridden, knockers like beagles' lugs", as we reported last review time) replaced by uninterested bunny girls and over-rehearsed, over-choreographed dancers in leg-warmers, especially when one of them is a fucking BLOKE. Dancing girls are really starting to lose their attraction these days, an' all. Bearing in mind that the inference of all the grinding and thrusting is the thought of what they'd do to you beneath the duvet, I just find your average under-dressed turn on the podium so utterly sexless; with all that left hand UP, swing hips ROUND, slap arse HERE business, it's all as regimented and as procedural as a fucking MOT-check. It's like in The Man With Two Brains, when Steve Martin finally gets to consummate his sham marriage to gold-digger Kathleen Turner and pronounces it "so...so...professional". What's wrong with a bit of honest incompetence in the act of love? Does there have to be a fucking British Standard for it? I've given too much away again, haven't I? Better get back to the review, by saying stuff like...And to make matters worse, it looks like when the previous DJ moved out, headhunted by the Sports Cafe round the corner, he not only took the strippers, the atmosphere and the legendary banter with him, but he even took his ladder, judging by the way some poor lass had to clamber up the optics and onto the shelf to do her act. Yeah, I know they're pumping out the dry ice for a bit of a showbiz feel, and bringing on fire jugglers to compensate for the lack of chebs, but it all seems a bit desperate and, more importantly, anything but a money-spinner. I only stood nursing my pint to see if the girl in the nylon mini-skirt with her hair all over the shop was actually going to set herself aflame; once she'd got to the end of the song with only a few soot marks and a splash of lighter fuel on her skimpy T-shirt, we were off, headed for somewhere more interesting. Like Lennon's. For: The "tits" will be back "oot" sooner or later, you can guarantee it. Drop us a line when they do so we can rewrite this and make it as favourable as the old Idols review. Against: Why can't toilet attendants just fuck off once and for all? Next time I see one, I'm going to cack in my hands, piss down my trousers, and puke all over my Toon shirt. Then I'm going to ask THEM, "Alright, mate?" and see if they can work miracles with a bottle of Blue Stratos and a paper towel. I've never understood the appeal of being a dancer. Fair enough, with all that exercise you get to be trim and toned and fit as fuck, even if you've got a face like my German helmet. But for the ratio of effort to reward, it's pretty depressing, if all your big break will ever amount to is being third grinning nobody from the left behind the latest clueless fuckpuppet RealityPop! winner. Still, it could be worse. They could spend every hungover Sunday morning hunched over a keyboard, hammering out witless pub reviews that no cunt will ever even read, let alone enjoy. Now that would be a waste of a life. |
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Post by Stokieson on Jan 13, 2008 17:12:28 GMT
lol Dixo
He means the Mona in our Newcastle!
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Post by Paul_Stoke on Jan 13, 2008 17:45:24 GMT
I'll be heading for the newcastle arms first and then who knows where. Went there when we played sunderland a few years ago and had a cracking time. The Bloke running the strawberry (right by the ground) was born and bred in Meir Park and cause we told them we were going to sunderland hoping to stuff 'em we were treated like royalty by the locals. Don't think we paid for a beer all day/Top place!!!!
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Post by Ex-GeordieNeil on Jan 13, 2008 20:29:20 GMT
It's amazing how many pubs you forget with just a few years away, eh?
The Gate's great... if you've got no taste or class whatsoever... the Old George and the Duke of Wellington round Bigg Market area are definitely worth going out of your way for. And the Hotspur near Haymarket is always friendly to all.
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Post by GeordieDave on Jan 13, 2008 21:46:27 GMT
Are you coming up for the game Neil?? Hope so, be good to see you. I'll be in The Duke of Welly on HIgh Bridge from 1730 until c1900.
Ive got to collect my ticket from the St James Park Box Office and the queues are usually massive.
Text me fella if you fancy a pre-match jar.
Dave
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Post by Ex-GeordieNeil on Jan 14, 2008 0:45:45 GMT
Dave, hope you've been stirring up plenty of SKY-esque tension in the office! I will be doing the same with every geordie I know.
Last sunday being my big one, I'm afraid I can't make the replay due to work assignments - Jan a very bad time.
Will be on the text to ya on Weds.
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Post by Northy on Jan 14, 2008 8:55:21 GMT
There was an idols in Whitley bay, that used to be a good night out.
For food and a more "exclusive element" there is the quayside the Malmaison hotel end, Tapas bar, piano bar etc.
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Post by citytillidie08 on Jan 14, 2008 8:58:48 GMT
i reckon we are best going in them all then we will know for next season which are good pubs or bad
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. I always remember coming in to Newcastle as a youngster with my Mother on the train and always amazed at the Tyne Bridge. Real pitty I won't make the match as it would of been first visit back to the NE since the death of my grandad back in 87v 
