Gloucester boss Dean Ryan:
"I thought it was a poor game and it was decided by a charge down and 70-metre try, and that's going to happen.
"We created the problems for ourselves. We don't need to get carried away, but the need for results has led to us doing that and we have lost our smoothness and cohesion."
Newcastle: Burke; Rudd, M Tait, Noon, Flood; Wilkinson, Dickson; McDonnell, Thompson, Ward, Perry, Buist, Parling, Woods, Dowson.
Replacements: D Wilson, Long, Oakes, B. Wilson, Crichton, Grindal, May.
Gloucester: Balshaw; Bailey, Tindall, Allen, Foster; Lamb, Lawson; Wood, Azam, Nieto, James, Bortolami, Buxton, Boer, Forrester.
Replacements: M. Davies, Forster, Brown, Narraway, Richards, Walker, Keil.