Dr Gloom 19716 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 He’s always been good at what he does. Problem is he can’t do it for more than 3-4 games before his body breaks down. I’d be amazed if he Survives January without picking up an injury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 5874 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 38 minutes ago, thebrokendoll said: pretty much, aye. he had a reasonable game on saturday and you appear to be beside yourself, i genuinely think you need to rein it in a bit and i'm not being patronising. just out of interest, why do you think he was a free agent and there didn't appear to be a whole host of clubs queueing for his signature? Cos he was injury prone. He said in an interview recently that a bodged surgery which blighted his career was rectified recently however, so hopefully we will get a couple of seasons out of him. Andy Carroll is the best in the league at what he does. We don't play to his strengths though. Not sure why Almiron isn't closer to him, playing on the shoulder of the last man and gambling on every flick on. Aye its route one stuff, but it worked wonders for Shearer and Bellamy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 5874 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Quote Carroll, we learn, felt an injustice. It is easy to understand why as he begins an exasperated recount of the ankle injury that plagued him for two years. 'This is ridiculous,' he warns. 'I had one operation and the screws came loose. Unheard of. The next one, the fracture opened again because the screws still weren't tight enough. So I went to a new surgeon. This time the screws were bigger but they realised the ankle ligaments were frayed on the outside. It had never been spotted, for two years! At 30 years of age, Carroll wants to pick up where he left off when he left eight years ago 'My last game at West Ham I played with a broken ankle. I'd been told it was fine. I was in so much pain and thought, "I just can't do this any more".' Somehow, Carroll finds the will to laugh. 'I should have gone to Wickes and got a big bag of screws before those consultations! But the latest surgeon was excellent. He repaired everything. That's nine months and no problems.' His last 3 big injuries at West Ham were all the same ankle. He's not injured it again since she surgery. Time will tell but hopefully it's sorted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrokendoll 7080 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Kid Dynamite said: Cos he was injury prone. He said in an interview recently that a bodged surgery which blighted his career was rectified recently however, so hopefully we will get a couple of seasons out of him. Andy Carroll is the best in the league at what he does. We don't play to his strengths though. Not sure why Almiron isn't closer to him, playing on the shoulder of the last man and gambling on every flick on. Aye its route one stuff, but it worked wonders for Shearer and Bellamy. honestly mate, not even in my most wildest imaginations can i see how it's possible to compare carroll/almiron to shearer/bellamy, or the football currently being played under bruce being comparable to that of the team robson had finishing 4th, 3rd and 5th. i apologise if i've taken that last paragraph out of context. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30213 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 2 hours ago, Tom said: Carroll's easily been one of our best players this season tbh. Not saying much but aye.. I don’t think we play particularly to his strengths either. He looks decent because we hoof it a lot and he wins more than his share. But he’s often isolated so little comes of it. He’s still managed three assists and he’s only really been close to full fitness the last few games. Joelinton isn’t a great partner for him because he seems to want to take up similar positions. Gayle is probably the closest thing we have to a decent foil for him but his touch and finishing just aren’t really up to it in this division. And when we do get the ball wide the crossing has left a lot to be desired. Ditto a lot of our set pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30213 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 2 hours ago, Kid Dynamite said: Cos he was injury prone. He said in an interview recently that a bodged surgery which blighted his career was rectified recently however, so hopefully we will get a couple of seasons out of him. Andy Carroll is the best in the league at what he does. We don't play to his strengths though. Not sure why Almiron isn't closer to him, playing on the shoulder of the last man and gambling on every flick on. Aye its route one stuff, but it worked wonders for Shearer and Bellamy. Almiron looks more comfortable playing a bit deeper (or wider). Obviously that doesn’t stop him making those sorts of runs occasionally but I don’t see him as that sort of player. In the PL anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30213 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 I’d also take what Carroll says about his injuries with a pinch of salt. If half the stories about him are true he’s a fucking heed tha baal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tdansmith 2065 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Carroll's pay deal is unbelievable bruce says "Andy has been dealt a cruel hand.." £1.2 millions worth https://www.themag.co.uk/2020/02/andy-carroll-pay-deal-at-newcastle-united-made-public-report/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30213 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Glad his injury problems are sorted after that last operation anyway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 5874 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 On 30/12/2019 at 11:29, Kid Dynamite said: Time will tell..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30213 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 20 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said: I know you think I’m having a go at you but I’m having a go at him and his bullshit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30213 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 And the people at the club who believed it (or didn’t but signed him anyway for an easy PR win). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 5874 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 For the money he’s on it was worth a punt. Although it’s madness if they extend his deal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30213 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 59 minutes ago, Tdansmith said: Carroll's pay deal is unbelievable bruce says "Andy has been dealt a cruel hand.." £1.2 millions worth https://www.themag.co.uk/2020/02/andy-carroll-pay-deal-at-newcastle-united-made-public-report/ There’s literally no such thing as pay as you play in the modern game and there has been for decades. It’s just some bollocks fed to the fans when a player with a poor injury record is signed on a free 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30213 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 2 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said: For the money he’s on it was worth a punt. Although it’s madness if they extend his deal I tend to agree but with the caveat it was incredibly predictable how it would play out and only a club as lacking in ambition as ours would even take that punt at this stage in his career Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGingerQuiff 2412 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 I think the risk to the club in terms of relying on him was absolutely massive even if he was playing for free. Stupid signing unless he was a wildcard/5th choice. But for a bizarre purple patch from our defenders we could be buried 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 5874 Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 11 hours ago, Tdansmith said: Carroll's pay deal is unbelievable bruce says "Andy has been dealt a cruel hand.." £1.2 millions worth https://www.themag.co.uk/2020/02/andy-carroll-pay-deal-at-newcastle-united-made-public-report/ £95k pw if he’s starting games? I call bullshit. Shelvey is our top earner on £80k pw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26117 Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 It doesn’t seem beyond the realms of belief to me. I’m just amazed that that with all the massive investment in our training and medical facilities that we haven’t been the ones to succeed where Liverpool and West Ham have failed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tdansmith 2065 Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 1 hour ago, Kid Dynamite said: £95k pw if he’s starting games? I call bullshit. Shelvey is our top earner on £80k pw Are you saying you don't believe everything wrote in the papers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12733 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Last I heard, Dubravka's contract made him the highest earner. But surely Rose is up there now? Especially if we're paying his wages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30213 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 6 hours ago, Ayatollah Hermione said: Last I heard, Dubravka's contract made him the highest earner Tbf he does the most work 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t00nraider2 40 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Considering no transfer fee it's possible also and not too shockingly bad. We have 4 strikers on the books. It wouldn't be so bad if the other 3 were performing. I'd be happy to let Gayle and Muto leave in the summer and be replaced with decent, non injury prone strikers or even just one striker that shows £40mil quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonatine 9921 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19716 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 55 minutes ago, t00nraider2 said: Considering no transfer fee it's possible also and not too shockingly bad. We have 4 strikers on the books. It wouldn't be so bad if the other 3 were performing. I'd be happy to let Gayle and Muto leave in the summer and be replaced with decent, non injury prone strikers or even just one striker that shows £40mil quality. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anorthernsoul 1221 Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Hero. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/mar/20/andy-carroll-leads-newcastle-squad-whipround-assistant-kit-man-george-ramshaw-new-hip?fbclid=IwAR2n0DgrpQKjWWpqJIqWEpXqzOQPTa1LyOr1HADAQHUMXhTORpH0fdUBkbw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now