The A-League is hoping to return in August to finish the 2019/2020 season.

Robinson’s goal is for the Jets to sneak into the top six and make the finals in this campaign. But with a three-and-half-year contract, his long-term target is to turn Newcastle into consistent challengers.

In the A-League the Jets have always been the ultimate yo-yo club – decent one year but often poor the next.

They finished third in 2007, were second and grand final winners in 2008, second and grand finalists in 2018, but then eighth in 2009.

They claimed wooden spooners in 2015 and 2017, and missed the finals seven seasons straight between 2011 and 2017.

Robinson wants to break that cycle, while also encouraging and developing local talent. Giving opportunities to young players, and helped produce future Socceroos, is key.

“I will put the players in their best positions. I want to play a certain way and we will try and dominate the ball as much as we can,” he said.

“We will press at the right times. But we’ll enjoy having the ball, that’s a couple of principles in our play. The second thing is I don’t want to be a club that finishes first then last, I’d like to be club that finishes first but not a yo-yo club.

“My thing is I look at each transfer window and each season, and I’ll put a plan in place from where we can build. The first objective is to break into the top six, once you do that then you have a chance of playing and winning the title.

“Then you have a chance of breaking into the top four, which is not easy in a salary cap league… it can be done, but it takes a little bit of time. That’s the goal.

“I want to build a nucleus of young Australian players because sometimes you think of short-term. My medium and long-term is to develop a core group of players aged from 17 to 23 and five or six of them that can be the core of this team moving forward.

“Matt Millar, Stevie Ugarkovic, Johnny Koutroumbis, Angus Thurgate – if I can add two or three of them, along with the Maxi and Kosta Petratos’, then you’ve got eight players in an age group that will make you successful over a period of time.

“That is my remit now to build a team like that.

"In the short-term we might not be able to compete regularly with Sydney FC, but in two or three years time and if the salary cap stays the same and people are allowed to get their marquee players give or take, but the nucleus of my group will be strong enough hopefully to get into Graham Arnold's team.

“And if we get four or five of my group into the Socceroos squad, that’s my goal.

"So it not just helps Newcastle compete against the big boys in the A-League, it also helps Australia.”