Kosta off overseas. Surely it’s a holiday and not to play
Kosta off overseas. Surely it’s a holiday and not to play
Stockton All Age?
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
Mariners perhaps, In the world of Hoole it is a o/seas destination.
Based on the hints it seems like we're signing Taylor Regan which I'm all for
Yep, he's back.
Is Kanta ever going to play again? Does anyone know anything about the longest injury ever
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
Was in the Herald at the start of the month
JANUARY 4 2022 - 7:30AM
Newcastle Jets veteran Ben Kantarovski still battling to return from injury
ROBERT DILLON
ALMOST 18 months after he last played a game, there is still no update on when luckless Newcastle Jets midfielder Ben Kantarovski will be available for selection.
Kantarovski, 29, has not played since a five-minute stint off the bench in Newcastle's 3-0 victory against Wellington Phoenix on August 13, 2020, in the last round of their 2020-21 campaign.
The former Young Socceroos skipper underwent complex surgery in April last year to repair a problematic nerve in his lower back and sat out an entire season.
Despite extensive rehabilitation and physiotherapy, he has missed the first five rounds of 2021-22 and it is unclear when, or if, he will be able to resume.
It is understood he has been unable to join his teammates in full training.
Jets coach Arthur Papas has taken a patient and cautious approach with the club's most-capped player and remains hopeful that he can make a comeback later this season.
"Ben has been working hard to return to full fitness, but unfortunately he has suffered a couple of setbacks in his rehab," Papas told the Newcastle Herald.
"However we are still committed to supporting him and hopefully he can rejoin training with the first team in the near future."
Kantarovski, who debuted in the A-League as a 16-year-old and has represented his home-town club in a record 196 games, is off contract at the end of this season.
The playmaker told the Newcastle Herald last year he was hoping to avoid surgery, which he described as "a very last resort".
"That's quite a drastic and risky surgery, so we want to stay away from that avenue, but if it does come down to it, we may have to look at that," he said in March.
A month later, he underwent surgery but it has not provided a quick fix.
Injuries have been a constant source of frustration throughout Kantarovski's career.
Regarded as one of Australia's brightest young prospects when he debuted in the A-League in 2008, he needed a full reconstruction of his right knee in 2010, and had further surgeries on the same knee in 2012, 2014 and 2016.
He told the Herald last March that "the love of football" kept him going.
"There's nothing better than coming day in, day out to play the best sport in the world ... I can't wait to be back out there." he said.
Life isn't the same without Con... but it can only improve without Tinks...
Noah James has been loaned out for the rest of the season
OK, spurious rumour mill stuff, what's the point of a rumour if you don't bandy it around etc...
Was mentioned tonight that there was a feeling that some players may be getting picked over others based on their agent. I can see six of the players we signed this season are with FootballHousePlus (https://www.transfermarkt.com/footba...a/berater/5990), but the particular player who apparently hasn't been picked this season isn't actually competing for any of those spots, so not really sure on this one (rumour was coming from one of his relatives apparently), you can probably guess who the player in question is so I'm not saying it, but has Papas been linked to the agent at any stage? As much as I respect the player in question I'm not sure whether I believe that would have much at all to do with him not getting a run (the inference was that at least the relative thought it is part of it)...
Life isn't the same without Con... but it can only improve without Tinks...
Friend of the relative of the player.....pretty flimsy and circumstantial. Many relos have had an axe to grind in public and in social media.....Musialik and Van Egmond families are examples.
Well I don't believe it but hope the young striker keeps working hard and gets a chance
Penha’s Insta story has a collection of photos with him and newy fans, and a contact in the bottom corner with a 100% logo
Be a very good choice to try and keep him around for even another season
The club was telling all and sundry 6-8 weeks ago just how well the negotiations were going with his parent club to keep him around for next but since then things have gone eerily quite.
One can only imagine negotiations may have stalled or even more probable and backable, with just about every creative player the drive by's have putting in shocker's of a season Lederer has called dibbs and you can put your house on him turning out in the red n black next season.