Treatment Room

[Fairscup]

By my reckoning the following players are injured.

Collocini, Perch, Raylor, Ben Arfa, Vickic, Santon, Debuchy, Haidara and Tiote.

There may be others of which I am not aware. This has to be placing great demands on our squad. I've no idea how serious some of these injuries are but hope that at least some are well on the road to recovery and able to assist in our "run in"

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Fairsy out of that lot I believe only Santon and Vučkić are truly sidelined for a number of weeks, depending upon how bad our left backs injury is or possibly until the end of the season.

The rest are either just resuming light training; Colo, Haidara and Raylor, or now available again; Debuchy, Tiote, Perch and depending upon which report you believe Hatem Ben Arfa.

Newcastle IMO don't have a huge depth of quality in the squad outside of the first team. However signing players that are able to cover more than one position appears to have worked effectively to a degree although long term, again only IMO, is not likely to bring a great deal of success.

It's real competition the side needs for places not stand ins...

WL