Newcastle consultant director of rugby Steve Diamond told BBC Radio Newcastle: "I think we just had three, four minutes of madness in the first half - two yellow cards, conceded three tries, took the game away from us. "I thought the lads did well to stick into it. Gloucester, a good team, fair play to them, they deserved the win. "I was pleased with quite a lot of the performances, but we're that nearly team aren't we? That sums up our season: we could have done better, could have got more out of it, but we didn't. "It's part of the learning curve we're on and hopefully that'll be one of the last losses we have here for a long time." Gloucester director of rugby George Skivington told BBC Radio Gloucestershire: "We got the five points we need. That was ultimately what we came up to do. "It's never easy here, but their last home game with Chick, Blamire, those guys leaving - they're stalwarts of the club - we knew they'd be ferocious and that's what we got. "The boys threw everything at it but we got the win. "You should never underestimate winning a game like this with five points, especially under the pressure we are to deliver after last week."