Ryan Taylor sidelined for 12 weeks.
Posted on November 17th, 2010 | 16 Comments |
The club have confirmed that the utility man will be missing for three months due to suffering ankle ligament damage in a training ground collision with Sol Campbell.
Even though Taylor hasn’t really featured this season, apart from in the Carling Cup of course, it’s still a blow and further reduces the pool of players available to Chris Hughton. Taylor was touted around by some fans as a replacement for the suspended Joey Barton before the weekend game against Fulham, but there were hints that Taylor had picked up an injury back then, although I didn’t expect that it would be an injury that would keep him out for so long.
Chris Hughton said: “It’s very disappointing to lose Ryan for this period of time.”
“Although he hasn’t played as much football as he would have liked, he has been a very important and valuable member of the squad this season.”
There isn’t really that much else to say on this to be honest, but I am starting to get alarmed at the amount of injured players we are carrying. I understand that injuries are part and parcel of football, but it always seems to me that Newcastle are near enough at the top of the injury table.
Still, I’m not a doctor so what would I know?
Way, we’re a lot better off than Spurs, Villa and Manure, so I guess we should count ourselves lucky.
Especially when you consider one of our 5 injured players was brought in in that state and we always knew he wouldn’t feature til the end of the year.