Eddie Howe has instructed that he needs Newcastle United’s trophy drought to be a “driver” for his gamers as a substitute of it being a “burden”.
The final time the Magpies gained a significant trophy was in 1969 once they lifted the Inter-Cities Festivals Cup. They final tasted home success in 1955 once they gained the FA Cup.
Newcastle face Crystal Palace within the third-round of the Carabao Cup in midweek. Howe is eager for his gamers to place proper the membership’s previous failings in cup competitions.
Requested if Newcastle’s cup report was a burden, he replied: “I don’t know if burden is the suitable phrase. I strive to have a look at it the opposite means, because it’s not been finished for a very long time and an opportunity to create, possibly, a few of our personal historical past right here and go away a legacy of hopefully successful one thing.
“That must be a driver, not a strain that’s a destructive on us. I strive to have a look at it the opposite means.”
Howe has made no secret of his need to finish the membership’s look forward to silverware since he arrived in Tyneside, and that’s in stark distinction to the angle adopted at one level below earlier proprietor Mike Ashley when the board successfully informed a followers’ discussion board that Premier League survival was the one purpose
Howe stated: “Wherever you go, you need to go away your mark in a optimistic means, hopefully, for the membership and for the long run as a result of Newcastle will stay on for a lot of, a few years.
“You need to be remembered as somebody who cared in regards to the membership and hopefully left the membership in a greater place than whenever you entered.”
Howe celebrated a yr in cost at St James’ Park with the membership driving excessive in third place within the Premier League after a run of six wins in seven video games.
Nevertheless, he is aware of issues are more likely to develop into extra testing as they try and take their subsequent steps.
Requested what yr two of this tenure may maintain, he stated: “That’s a troublesome one to reply. Hopefully extra of the identical by way of what we’ve delivered this season, actually.
“Adjustments will occur by way of the exterior forces that may work, possibly, in opposition to us by way of expectation and different issues that may come into play.
“I believe we’ve simply bought to attempt to keep below that and away from that and simply consider what we’re delivering as finest we are able to, so actually simply concentrate on the soccer and the rules behind our sport, and who is aware of?
“You’ll be able to’t predict soccer and that’s why everybody loves the sport a lot, as a result of you possibly can by no means inform what’s going to occur.
“The one factor we are able to management is our effort ranges and our dedication to what we do.”
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