After a night of "let's keep what we already have" in the UEFA Cup on Thursday when excitement was not the name of the game, he wants players to raise their game if they are to keep alive their dream of winning a cup.
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Roeder: "It is all about us raising our game, it is about expecting our standards to be higher because that is what I want to do.
"Hopefully, over the last dozen games - a few more than that if we stay in the UEFA Cup - we can finish the season really well and play good football and winning football.
"There are things at the club that need to be improved upon, and from the football side, that is consistency.
"We need to play better more often and I expect the players to handle the expectation of playing better more often.
"I have always said to be a Newcastle United player, you have to be a brave player."