Since Ashley took over, how many times have we been past the fourth round of any domestic cup competition? How far back in Newcastle's history do you have to go to find that many consecutive seasons of not getting past that stage in those competitions? How many FA Cup games has Alan Pardew, the second longest serving Premier League manager, won with Newcastle United?
Which would be encouraging for the future and imply that would be a good competition for us to try and excel in, if we hadn't since decided we don't want to compete in it.
I'd say we only got one round further in the Europa than you might've expected as well. Played some absolute dross before Anzhi.