We hope that Dwight Gayle has regained his confidence that his hamstring has in fact fully healed and that he can have the right attitude to play in the game against the Terriers on Saturday afternoon – and there’s no doubt that game will be just as hard as at Brighton last night.
In fact Huddersfield overwhelmed Brighton 3-1 on 2nd February and the Seagulls were comprehensively beaten in that game.
It’s also a great chance to put 3 points between us and the 3rd placed side with 12 games still to play for the Magpies.
Dwight Gayle – back for Huddersfield game?
So it would help a lot of Dwight Gayle can come back soon.
Rafa has given an update on Dwight as reported in the Shields Gazette today and the manager was asked if the 20 goal man will be available for the Huddersfield game:
“We will see.” “He will train Wednesday.” “We will see how he feels. After, we will decide. It depends more on his feelings.”
So that doesn’t seems to have changed much from last week when it was basically up to Dwight if he was part of the squad last Saturday or last night.
The good news is when he did play against Aston Villa on Monday 20th February – a week last Monday – he did no further damage his hamstring and the scans were clean after the game – just as they were before he played.
So that should give the 26 year-old some confidence and it’s a case of mind over matter now for the 20 goal striker.
And Dwight was happy the lads produced an incredible result at the Amex Stadium last night which took us one step closer to promotion.
Get in there boys what a great performance ??? Toon army ????
— dwight gayle (@dwightgayle) February 28, 2017
From now on every win we get will take us closer to that automatic promotion slot.
And also a tweet from one of our other injured players on the game last night – Isaac Hayden.
Ayoooooooooooooooo ???????? get in
— Isaac Hayden (@IsaacHayden65) February 28, 2017
Take that from mo mo ?? game on ??????
— Isaac Hayden (@IsaacHayden65) February 28, 2017
Issac had ankle surgery and was ruled out for four weeks on February 17th, so he should be back in training in about three weeks around 20th March.
And with Rolando Aarons coming back too, it could be that all our squad will be fit after the International break on 1st April.
That will help us during the important 8 games left from April Fools Day – with five of those games being at home – normally that would be good.
8 wins should do it!
Comments welcome.
42 comments so far
Jail for Ashley
Mar 2, 2017 at 7:35 AM
Comment #41Of course we wanted subs earlier, I was shouting at the telly, Howay Rafa man stop being so stubborn. And using the fact that we didn’t absolutely batter the league leaders and only team with a better defensive record than ourselves as a stick to beat the manager with is just plain ridiculous.
lochinvar
Mar 2, 2017 at 7:53 AM
Comment #42I like the idea of Gayle on the bench at Huddersfield – it will mess with their heads.
As early on they’ll be inclined to attack knowing that the threat of Gayle is waiting in the wings. That leaves them open to Ritchie, Atsu and Gouffran and possibly Murphy having space to operate in.
Gayle comes on second half and creates even more mayhem against them.
Sounds like a plan – no doubt Rafa will have his !