Newport County Documentary

[Wash DC Blue]

Re: Newport County Documentary

It’s not really, not at all…..it’s just grim. It’s the city that doesn’t exist

It’s no different to most provincial towns across the UK.
The Centre has undoubtedly taken a nose dive over the last 20 years or so, but again so have most provincial towns.

[dandywarhol]

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Sludge offered the same but there's too much of one and not enough of the other.

It's a cracker.Even my Mrs laughed.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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It’s not really, not at all…..it’s just grim. It’s the city that doesn’t exist

It's very much similar to Cardiff without the investment Cardiff has had

Butetown .....Pill

Ely ....Ringland or Bettws

[dandywarhol]

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It's very much similar to Cardiff without the investment Cardiff has had

Butetown .....Pill

Ely ....Ringland or Bettws

I had sexual relations with a chick from Ringland.To think that was 50 years ago.The mind boogles.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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I had sexual relations with a chick from Ringland.To think that was 50 years ago.The mind boogles.

She's probably still at it

[Wash DC Blue]

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I had sexual relations with a chick from Ringland.To think that was 50 years ago.The mind boogles.

I’m 50 and my Mam used to go up the Ringland Club :)

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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I’m 50 and my Mam used to go up the Ringland Club :)

That tower block was where Nathan Blake lived I think after growing up in Cardiff

[Wash DC Blue]

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That tower block was where Nathan Blake lived I think after growing up in Cardiff

Think he was born in Cardiff but grew up in Newport.
He was a year or so above me and played for Spencer Boys Club and I believe Milton Jr School in Ringland.

[goats]

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It's very much similar to Cardiff without the investment Cardiff has had

Butetown .....Pill

Ely ....Ringland or Bettws

Two similar traits, perhaps the only ones? Newports small, city centre is shocking, no civic centre, castle ground, no uni’s? Any student population? Decent suburbs? Bay Area? Cardiff has plenty of nice areas, lots of parks etc….big events, any in Newport? Ever? There is no comparison and even on a football level we only became rivals briefly in a time we were on our knees in the lower leagues, which sums it up nicely.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Think he was born in Cardiff but grew up in Newport.
He was a year or so above me and played for Spencer Boys Club and I believe Milton Jr School in Ringland.

Cardiff born , Cardiff family

Uncle was Clive sullivan , British Rugby league captain

Mother moved to Newport when blakey was a youngster I think

I always thought he was Newport born and bred

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Two similar traits, perhaps the only ones? Newports small, city centre is shocking, no civic centre, castle ground, no uni’s? Any student population? Decent suburbs? Bay Area? Cardiff has plenty of nice areas, lots of parks etc….big events, any in Newport? Ever? There is no comparison and even on a football level we only became rivals briefly in a time we were on our knees in the lower leagues, which sums it up nicely.

Newport has a proud working class history and very multi racial , like Cardiff

Port city like Cardiff.....baseball ....Big Irish community

Some great industrial history

I would rather live in Newport than a lot of other cities up and down the country

Swindon , Stoke , barnsley

[Wash DC Blue]

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Two similar traits, perhaps the only ones? Newports small, city centre is shocking, no civic centre, castle ground, no uni’s? Any student population? Decent suburbs? Bay Area? Cardiff has plenty of nice areas, lots of parks etc….big events, any in Newport? Ever? There is no comparison and even on a football level we only became rivals briefly in a time we were on our knees in the lower leagues, which sums it up nicely.

I’ve got no desire to compare Newport to Cardiff as Cardiff is a lovely City with a lot going for it.

You are pretty much wrong on every count you’ve mentioned though.

3 nice parks in Newport.
No Bay or Waterfront sadly, there was talk of an Usk barrage which was sadly scuppered.
There has been a student population in Newport for decades. The art college particularly was pretty well thought of I believe.

Alt-y-Ryn, Christchurch and Caerleon are nice enough areas.

There is a Civic Centre behind the train station.

There is an albeit dilapidated Castle on the outskirts of the City Centre.
An historical Cathedral in the City Centre and if anybody could be arsed to look above the facias of the pound shops, they would see lovely architecture.

20 Years ago, Newport Town Centre was vibrant in the day and night.
Sadly, it’s no longer what it was although people are making efforts despite the woeful council.

Newport has held The Ryder Cup and a NATO Conference…both pretty big deals.

[Swiss Peter]

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Newport has a proud working class history and very multi racial , like Cardiff

Port city like Cardiff.....baseball ....Big Irish community

Some great industrial history

I would rather live in Newport than a lot of other cities up and down the country

Swindon , Stoke , barnsley

Didn't especially mind Newport County back than (I watched us home away against them early 80s - Somerton Park kettling and all lol) but it turned for me when I saw them against my most local league team at Crawley. I'd never seen anything remotely like an issue down there before until a Newport mob turned up and strolled into the home end and starting hitting everyone. Thing is, no one there had experienced that before. Left a bitter anti-welsh feeling down there, which still annoys me.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Didn't especially mind Newport County back than (I watched us home away against them early 80s - Somerton Park kettling and all lol) but it turned for me when I saw them against my most local league team at Crawley. I'd never seen anything remotely like an issue down there before until a Newport mob turned up and strolled into the home end and starting hitting everyone. Thing is, no one there had experienced that before. Left a bitter anti-welsh feeling down there, which still annoys me.

I think our lot behaved the same way in places like Torquay , Aldershot etc

In newports case a lot of the places they visited were sleepy towns very much unlike newport

[North Cardiff Blue]

Re: Newport County Documentary

Newport has a proud working class history and very multi racial , like Cardiff

Port city like Cardiff.....baseball ....Big Irish community

Some great industrial history

I would rather live in Newport than a lot of other cities up and down the country

Swindon , Stoke , barnsley

Nonesense it's a sh!thole.