TLDR newcastle injury list can’t be an excuse due to multiple factors like form, chemistry, bad squad depth and most importantly how much the players who were injured/suspended had an impact on the team with Bruno G being a good example from last season however if you think I’m wrong then please educate this newcastle fan.

As you might have guessed I’m a newcastle fan and i’ll be talking about the question whether or not the injury crisis at newcastle is an excuse for the bad performance recently. As you might of known newcastle has been suffering a major injury crisis ever since our 1st encounter with Dortmund where we picked up most of our injuries but when the injury list is brought up it is usually labelled as an ‘excuse’ with varying opinions saying that our team is worth more money than Bournemouth and they also have injuries up to 7 players and yes while these claims are indeed true and not helped by the fact we were indeed piss poor today with Bournemouth absolutely deserving the win. What isn’t considered is the human body and I want to ask all of those who think the injury crisis is an excuse that can your team play a match every 3 days with practically the same players, they would be battered no matter how good they are. You’ll probably say what about the bench and that’s another thing, our squad depth is horrendous and you can tell from the bench because we’ve resorted to picking players whom haven’t even played in the premier league this season and we have no functioning striker at this moment in time with even academy players under the age of 19 were even given chances to play. Another thing to add was chemistry, we practically had half a team that had rarely or if not haven’t played with each other this entire season although not as a valid excuse.

The biggest reason for Newcastle’s deterioration of performance as of lately is how much the player who is injured or suspended had an impact on the team as for an example once Bruno g was suspended our team lacked any offensive capabilities and I think man city fans can agree with me here as once Rodri was suspended their team was never the same and they folded against wolves and arsenal whereas they likely would have won with Rodri in the squad.