East Stander 0 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Taken from .co,uk MICHAEL Owen has been ruled out of Newcastle United's Carling Cup clash with Wigan Athletic on Wednesday night. The Magpies' record signing has missed the recent Premiership defeats at Chelsea and Everton with a groin injury, and he will again be on the sidelines at the JJB Stadium. Also absent is left-back Celestine Babayaro, who limped out of Sunday's 1-0 loss at Goodison Park. As a result, manager Graeme Souness recalls Robbie Elliott to the squad that will travel to the north west to face Paul Jewell's Latics, when a place in the last eight of the Carling Cup will be at stake. Newcastle will be looking to avenge their 1-0 league loss at Wigan back in September, when skipper Alan Shearer saw an equalising 'goal' controversially chalked off. United have named the following 18-man squad: Ameobi, Boumsong, Bowyer, Bramble, Brittain, Chopra, Clark, Elliott, Emre, Faye, Given, Harper, Luque, N'Zogbia, Parker, Ramage, Shearer, Solano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 175 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Oh isn't that just effing brilliant ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isegrim 9899 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Good, the League Cup would only be a distraction of our fight against relegation anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7169 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 wigan will shit on us if we play anything like we did on sunday. id rather have chopra and guy up front than shearer and ameobi again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 175 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 wigan will shit on us if we play anything like we did on sunday. id rather have chopra and guy up front than shearer and ameobi again. 62348[/snapback] I'd rather us have Dr Stephen Hawking play up front instead of Shola ! He's far more mobile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isegrim 9899 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 wigan will shit on us if we play anything like we did on sunday. id rather have chopra and guy up front than shearer and ameobi again. 62348[/snapback] Isn't Guy playing for Doncaster for some time now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 God, I hope it's Luque plus A. N. Other up front. Not Shearer and Shola again, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 (edited) Well, I'm stupidly going down to Wigan to watch this shit. It sounds like it's going to be a resereve match. A bloke on the Legends last nigt had a good point like, the League Cup could be the difference between Souness keeping his job at the end of the season and getting the sack. We're not in Europe, it's going to be very difficult to qualify through the league imo, and the FA Cup is taken far more seriously by the big clubs. The League Cup is our only chance of winning anything this year imo. Edited November 29, 2005 by sweetleftpeg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombadil 0 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Injured again, what a surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 6783 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 wigan will shit on us if we play anything like we did on sunday. id rather have chopra and guy up front than shearer and ameobi again. 62348[/snapback] I'd rather us have Dr Stephen Hawking play up front instead of Shola ! He's far more mobile. 62349[/snapback] When he can get a game.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 This means Owen has only played in half of our games since he signed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1260 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 If we're not going to risk Luque for the full game then we might as well give Chopra a run out. Let's face it Shearer will be playing (which despite the fact that he's a shadow of his former self these days, he's still light years ahead of that donkey he played alongside on Sunday) and everyone with eyes can see he can't play with Shola so we might as well give Chopra a go. At least he'll look interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6700 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Injured again, what a surprise. 62395[/snapback] So what should we have done? Looked into our crystal balls and see that he was going to get injured and therefore not bought him? Of course, this would never have happened if SBR was still in charge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isegrim 9899 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Injured again, what a surprise. 62395[/snapback] So what should we have done? Looked into our crystal balls and see that he was going to get injured and therefore not bought him? Of course, this would never have happened if SBR was still in charge 62424[/snapback] No, but Owen has always been injury prone. So it is a bit worrying that we have solely to rely on this player and are lacking other options. This season: games with Owen = 13 pts., without Owen = 5 pts. Don't get me wrong, I am excited to have Owen at Newcastle. Though, 16m was a very huge price to pay. I just hope that Owen does play often enough to repay this sum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 If we're not going to risk Luque for the full game then we might as well give Chopra a run out.Let's face it Shearer will be playing (which despite the fact that he's a shadow of his former self these days, he's still light years ahead of that donkey he played alongside on Sunday) and everyone with eyes can see he can't play with Shola so we might as well give Chopra a go. At least he'll look interested. 62417[/snapback] At the risk of taking a kicking, if Chopra was to be given a chance against Wigan I'd be playing Shola instead of Shearer. Ow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombadil 0 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 (edited) Injured again, what a surprise. 62395[/snapback] So what should we have done? Looked into our crystal balls and see that he was going to get injured and therefore not bought him? Of course, this would never have happened if SBR was still in charge 62424[/snapback] Why do you always come up with the same shit comments? Edited November 29, 2005 by Bombadil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46027 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Owen is a soft hom tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6700 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Injured again, what a surprise. 62395[/snapback] So what should we have done? Looked into our crystal balls and see that he was going to get injured and therefore not bought him? Of course, this would never have happened if SBR was still in charge 62424[/snapback] Why do you always come up with the same shit comments? 62446[/snapback] You're the one who appears to think the Robson could do no wrong and that we'd be better off if he hadn't been sack if I'm not mistaken?? Souness was NOT the right man to replace him, but that doesn't detract from the point that Robson had to go - tbh he should have been relieved of his duties 3 months before he actually was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Owen is a soft hom tbh. 62447[/snapback] He loves Calvin and Hobbes apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut 189 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 God, I hope it's Luque plus A. N. Other up front. Not Shearer and Shola again, please. 62353[/snapback] Other looked shite in the reserves recently tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Injured again, what a surprise. 62395[/snapback] So what should we have done? Looked into our crystal balls and see that he was going to get injured and therefore not bought him? Of course, this would never have happened if SBR was still in charge 62424[/snapback] If SBR was still in charge, we would still have a player who played in 54 premiership games in 18 months, while still carrying a painful knee injury ..... Has since been accused by people inside the club of feigning injury and being a "cancer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Injured again, what a surprise. 62395[/snapback] So what should we have done? Looked into our crystal balls and see that he was going to get injured and therefore not bought him? Of course, this would never have happened if SBR was still in charge 62424[/snapback] If SBR was still in charge, we would still have a player who played in 54 premiership games in 18 months, while still carrying a painful knee injury ..... Has since been accused by people inside the club of feigning injury and being a "cancer" 62455[/snapback] Bellamy is injury prone too tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut 189 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Remember when Bellamy missed about 2 months for Newcastle, then went off for 2 weeks with the Welsh national squad without having kicking a ball with Newcastle since his injury? Funny this has never been brought up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Injured again, what a surprise. 62395[/snapback] So what should we have done? Looked into our crystal balls and see that he was going to get injured and therefore not bought him? Of course, this would never have happened if SBR was still in charge 62424[/snapback] If SBR was still in charge, we would still have a player who played in 54 premiership games in 18 months, while still carrying a painful knee injury ..... Has since been accused by people inside the club of feigning injury and being a "cancer" 62455[/snapback] Bellamy is injury prone too tbh. 62457[/snapback] maybe he was, but he showed a lot more appetite to play for Newcastle than Owen has so far, and others too. Would you call that a "bad influence", No I don't think so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6700 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Remember when Bellamy missed about 2 months for Newcastle, then went off for 2 weeks with the Welsh national squad without having kicking a ball with Newcastle since his injury? Funny this has never been brought up. 62460[/snapback] Precisely.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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