Top of the Championship and Dwight Gayle ripping defences to pieces, Newcastle United fans are the ‘happiest in years’
ELEVEN games into the EFL Season and Newcastle United find themselves top of the Championship.
Not bad for a team people claimed would struggle as Rafa had never ";managed in that type of league".
Rafa Benitez has had arguably one of the hardest job in football this year. The Spaniard has had huge pressure on his shoulders to deliver and also the added pressure of keeping a fairly big squad happy.
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Aleksandar Mitrovic, who had scored two goals for Serbia less than a week ago, has not been able to get a run in the team but was among the mass celebration when Dwight Gayle made it 2-0 in front of nearly 6,000 travelling Toon fans on Tuesday night against Barnsley.
Showing he is succeeding at not only winning games but keeping the morale high amongst both the starting players and those not in the 11.
Moving onto Dwight Gayle, many pundits and opposing fans where the first ones to laugh at the £10million we paid for Gayle in the summer and said the fee was outrageous.
Fast forward to October and he is being labelled the signing of the season and the "Aguero of the Championship".
It's hard to argue with that when you look at his form. Eleven goals in as many games for the ex-Palace striker and it seems a large number of the Palace fans were sad to see him leave.
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It's a very weird transfer on all fronts as he was Crystal Palace's top scorer for the last three seasons and seems to always score when given the chance.
Let me be the first to thank Mr Pardew as it's the best transfer he's even been involved in with NUFC.
So, all in well on Tyneside and it seems as though everything is going to plan.
The fans are the happiest I've seen in years and it feels as though for the first time that everyone is pulling in the right direction and it's paying off both on and off the field.
It's certainly early days in terms of the season but we were told by many Premier League clubs to "enjoy the Championship" and so far I must say we're loving it.
Hopefully we'll be back where we belong come May.
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