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Given the job Rafa is doing it’s a real shame that Mike Ashley has put us in this hole once again…

After years of neglect, Newcastle United are a shade of what was established under Keegan or Robson, but…

For the growing number of cynics among us, it seems that once promotion was assured there has been a series of roadblocks put in place…

Rafa Benitez: Offloaded dead wood and egos at Newcastle United and got the players in to do the job.

My absence has been an echo of the season for most of us. Content to coast along with a sense that everything will work out in the end.

‘Unless playing balls to the wall footy then there really is no pleasing some Newcastle United fans.’

So it is with excitement that I look forward to seeing us against Derby on Saturday (despite it meaning a late one over here in Australia), not because I expect a result…but because I expect every Newcastle United player to put in a hard shift and give their all.

There will be some Newcastle United players who deem themselves too good to go down…so Rafa Benitez needs to offer them all the chance to leave.

Despite various differences of opinion around these parts in terms of which Newcastle players to get rid of and which to keep, I think the one thing all of us agree on now is…

Even after Karl Darlow pulled off a great stop, not one defender or outfield player went up to him and patted him on the back.