Eddie Howe is keen to improve the links between Newcastle United's Academy and the club's first-team training base. The long-term vision at United is to have all teams of all ages training at the new training centre including the NUFC Women's team but in years gone by there has been a disconnect between both the senior squad and the Under-23s and Under-18s.
Newcastle have historically always been recovering from the days when Kevin Keegan scrapped the reserve team all together and banished the second string to Gateshead's International Stadium.
The support network was poor at that time with then coach Jeff Clarke having to drive the team bus as well as preparing the team, and there was no pathway to the first-team as the Magpies of the mid-90s focused on the senior side. The club have vastly improved their Academy and Little Benton is a major improvement of years gone by.
