MELBOURNE, Australia -- Across the past decade and a half, perhaps the best way to describe the Newcastle Jets is that they've existed.

It's not the most flattering of descriptions, an air of indifference almost worse than outright insulting them, and it's one that the loyal supporters would also likely disagree with. But, aside from one momentous year in which they finished second and hosted a Grand Final that ended in controversial VAR heartbreak , it really feels the most apt way to describe a side that has missed the playoffs in the other 14 years of that stretch and failed to progress beyond the quarterfinals of the Australia Cup.

During this run, which began in the same year that Con Constantine had his licence stripped from him by Football Australia after the club was unable t

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