Inclined to agree. Not an injury but I feel like our marquee summer signing tonali should still feature on this list. Presumably not Howes job to do background checks
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Serviceable but I was shocked to see he was one of our higher earners so thought we might have moved him on to free up wages.
Elite?
When you look at that possibility so, but on the other hand, could his training methods be at fault? Isak for instance has had more days out playing for us than he has in his previous whole career
Nah Howe's not truly elite. I like him and the system we play - but lets not kid ourselves.
Soldato
I saw a thing on Facebook earlier. Said Wilson has missed 479 days at Newcastle while Michael Owen missed 480. Dunno how true it is but I was so enraged I immediately smashed my phone and sent mark zuckerberg the bill 
Difference is that I still believe Wilson "wants" to play for usI saw a thing on Facebook earlier. Said Wilson has missed 479 days at Newcastle while Michael Owen missed 480. Dunno how true it is but I was so enraged I immediately smashed my phone and sent mark zuckerberg the bill
Soldato
Yeah agree. I’ve always said he was a 75% player in that he misses a quarter if the season but it’s actually more than a third.
You follow Craig Hope on YouTube? Did a canny piece on him today. He’s bang on.
If Wilson misses the whole 12 weeks he will have missed 48% of Newcastle’s games since he signed.I saw a thing on Facebook earlier. Said Wilson has missed 479 days at Newcastle while Michael Owen missed 480. Dunno how true it is but I was so enraged I immediately smashed my phone and sent mark zuckerberg the bill
This just highlights another issue in our squad. If we wanna compete on more fronts, we need another striker and a good one at that, more money needs spending that we probably don't. Can't help but think we will be selling in the summer to be able to deal.
Soldato
They’ve already softened up, conditioned and tested the fan base in January ahead of this and didn’t get a lot of negative push back. Two steps forward and three back.
With Isak I think it’s more squad depth and not giving him the recovery time he needs. He always seems to be threw into the team or rushed back because Wilson is broken again. It’s the same issue this season with his groin.
It’s mental that we got all these injuries when we spent 10million upgrading the training ground facilities. Cryobaths, swimming pool etc.
Bring back the wheely bins and Argos paddling pool!!!
We've had a few freak injuries too. Bad falls etc. not everything can be mitigated.
seems like we are so desperate for depth that people are playing again before they are ready.
has anyone ever returned fully fit?
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It's best to stick all chat around matches during the weekend in the matchday thread.
Soldato
Gets lost a bit though at times. Especially on a weekend like this when Newcastle’s mediocrity is punctuated by Arsenal, Man utd and Liverpool all winning and scoring so many goals. There’s over a dozen pages on the match thread between my last post and this one. There could be a serious danger of missing some of Bigpigs hot takes. You wouldn’t want that would you?
I appreciate that and it's not a hard rule (although no chat is allowed pre MOTD) however it's tidier if match chat goes in the match threads rather than the same game potentially being discussed in 3 different threads. One of the best parts of our football forum is that we're a mix of supporters of different sides and rather than having just Newcastle supporters in here discussing how good Dan Burn's performance was, Utd fans doing the same in their thread etc, discussions in matchday threads encourage a bit more debate from all sets of supporters. This was actually one of the reasons why club threads were originally banned.
Chances of a Dan burn supporters thread?