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Newcastle United Supporters Trust have backed the notion by recently created supporters’ group Ashleyout.com, which appears to have received further backing following the club’s announcement that they had more than £34m in their bank account at the end of the last financial year.

Carver, talking purely results and the position they find themselves towards the wrong end of the Premier League table, said: “Let me tell you something. I am feeling it as well. My family are feeling it, we are all feeling it but no-one more than me because it is my job as well and I cannot run away from it.

“I can be disappointed like I was on Tuesday morning (after the Liverpool game) but then I have to pick myself up and go again and be ready for the next game. I can assure people out there ... I am giving it every single minute of my time, every inch."

But he would still love to be the man to turn Newcastle around beyond this season, having been reassured by the boardroom that there will be investment in the squad this summer.

Carver said: “This is the dream job, but the hardest thing is taking the criticism off your own people. That’s the bit I find really, really difficult. And some of it is deserved and some of it is not. Sometimes you’re dealt the hand and you’ve got to get on with it and this is the hand I’ve been dealt.

“When I took it on, if I hadn’t accepted or if I didn’t want it, then I would have been kicking myself. I wasn’t going to not accept it, not have a go at it, all right. I’ve said this to you, I genuinely believe that if I’ve got the right tools I can do the job.

“And I think I’m getting the best out of the players I’m putting out on the pitch at the moment. But it is bitter sweet. It’s bitter sweet and it’s definitely a roller coaster.”

Supporters have had a number of issues over the years with the way Ashley has ran the club and one of the biggest has been an admission to fans that progressing in cup competitions has not been important.

Newcastle have been starved of domestic silverware since the 1955 FA Cup triumph, and Carver said: “No-one wants to win the FA Cup and have a dream of the FA Cup more than me. Being realistic, are we going to win the Premier League? I would not have thought so unless you have an unbelievably freaky season, we are not going to do that.

“It is hard enough trying to make the top four. So what can you win? Either the FA Cup or League Cup. I am telling you now, I wanted to win the FA Cup and circumstances meant that was not the case.”

He added: "Listen I'm a realist at the start of every season I know the FA Cup and the League Cup are the ones we've a chance of winning. Listen I was quite excited before the Leicester game. Then players started coming to me with slight strains and pulls, it started niggling me a little bit. I didn't mention it to you lot but it was bugging me because of how much I wanted to win it.”