Injuries

Reports saying that Downing is out for 3 weeks with a leg injury and that Joe Cole has a grade 3 hamstring tear ruling him out for 6 weeks. Diarra is out for the season and Andy Carroll hasn't kicked a ball in anger since April

Bare bones?

Bare bones and the managers lost brain cells!  

Jiggs wrote:Bare bones and the managers lost brain cells!  

 What makes you say that Jiggs?

His management of Vaz Te considering that Maiga is poo........

Be bloody interesting to see what side goes out against Soton.

downings injury gives Morrison a chance to show what he can do again, for me he was  the only bright spark in a sea of shit against stoke. all depends on wether they continue to play mr miagi upfront like he is andy carroll if we do then we wont get anywhere, if we at least try and play to a way better suited for him then we have a chance although i do admit that playing RVT gives rather than mr miagi gives us a better chance, all imo of course

IMO too Ian....Mr Maigi, lol...More like 

I thought I read that Carroll might be ready to play some part against soton.


Been out for a long time, he does worry me all these injuries he gets

alfiehammer wrote:I thought I read that Carroll might be ready to play some part against soton.


Been out for a long time, he does worry me all these injuries he gets

Big gamble signing him , quality player but way too injury prone ,personally I would have looked elsewhere . I often wonder too why Liverpool sold him at such a loss and why the Geordies never bought him back at the cut price that they could have had him for .

More to this that meets the eye .

I am a big fan of carrolls, ask was of Ashton and Hartson; I like the big strong combative striker type role and think he adds real quality to the side. But I'd like to see capable back up to him for the times he is injured and I'd like to see a real fox in the box striker up top with him. The heskey and Owen type, Quinn and Phillips type partnership. I also think players perform much better when they got real competition for places. A lack of it cost us our premiership status the first time around with what I thought was our best ever team (not squad) of players.

Surely Elliot Lee must be a better option than Maiga

My mum's a better bet than Maiga

Elliott Lee, like Sam Baldock and Nicky Maynard before him,would have a tough ask up front on their own if Collins and Reid insist on lumping the ball from back to front 7/10 times they get the ball at their feet I am afraid

Andy Carroll rumoured to have left the training ground on crutches this afternoon
 
I do hope this is a load of bollix

Especially as the club put out that email today about seeing Carroll make his home debut adainst Blue Scouse.


Oops

young jack confirmed an injury


and its looking like a long one
Sams transfer policy looks to have gone tits up

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AC is injured but we don't no how badly I will give you an update on Him as soon as we know

Campo wrote:young jack confirmed an injury


and its looking like a long one
Sams transfer policy looks to have gone tits up

OUR transfer policy. All the fans (me included) called out for the swift permenant signing of Carroll. We all knew he was a bit (!) injury prone. And we basically knew Carroll would be most of our transfer kitty gone. Through sod law it seems to have kicked us square in the knackers, from this point onwards I'd just be happy to stay up

if we dont change our policy of pumping the ball up to mr miagi and hope he holds the ball up (which he cant!) then we are fucked big time  

I get the feeling this isn't bullshit...  

Laughing stock

Now what happens? Maiga? Hmmmmmm.

The only man who is confident right now and scoring goals is Ravel Morrison, in pre-season and friendlies.
That's all we have.

We need to fit him into the team somehow, but we'd have to leave Maiga in as he's the only striker, so something has to give.

Either we drop Cole, our Capton or Diame, OR we go 4-6-0.


We're fucked.

Dave M wrote:Now what happens?  Maiga?   Hmmmmmm.

The only man who is confident right now and scoring goals is Ravel Morrison, in pre-season and friendlies.
That's all we have.

We need to fit him into the team somehow, but we'd have to leave Maiga in as he's the only striker, so something has to give.

Either we drop Cole, our Capton or Diame, OR we go 4-6-0.


We're fucked.

I would say leave Nolan out for a couple of games and play Morrison there instead, as we could do with his pace & skills, might just be our only hope of a goal with AC out.

Great idea - our best striker's out so next we'll leave out last season's top scorer!

shaun of the thread wrote:

Dave M wrote:Now what happens?  Maiga?   Hmmmmmm.

The only man who is confident right now and scoring goals is Ravel Morrison, in pre-season and friendlies.
That's all we have.

We need to fit him into the team somehow, but we'd have to leave Maiga in as he's the only striker, so something has to give.

Either we drop Cole, our Capton or Diame, OR we go 4-6-0.


We're fucked.

I would say leave Nolan out for a couple of games and play Morrison there instead, as we could do with his pace & skills, might just be our only hope of a goal with AC out.

Are you being serious? Nolan scored 10 goals for us last season and was our top scorer; and you want to leave him out for an unproven kid?