No official statement yet but the Times is reporting that he will be out for next 3 months. Great news.............

BTW cheer up everyone, Uefa cup never meant to be and to be honest it would be a struggle to get past the first round.

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2001

Answers

We have played 7 competitive games this season, won 4 and drawn 3, 3 at home and 4 away. Why the pessimism? And this is without Cort, Shearer and Dyer (Robert for 6 games also) Chins Up.

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2001

From midas soccer.

ANOTHER CORT BLOW

If things looked bleak after the 4-4 draw with French side Troyes on Tuesday night in the Intertoto Cup final then things took a turn for the worse with the latest news on striker Carl Cort.

The 23-year-old striker looks set to miss the next three months of the season after injuring his problem knee in a training ground practice match last Wednesday. Manager Bobby Robson will be hoping that his talismanic skipper Alan Shearer is ready to face Sunderland on Saturday as he looks to improve on a faltering start to the season.

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2001

Yet again ANOTHER injury during a training match. What the hell do these guys train on? It sounds like it could be a pub car park surfaced in that really rough tarmac,( the stuff you used to smash your knees open on when you were a kid), covered in glass.

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2001

"Faltering start to the season"???

Does he mean the draw away to Chelsea, or including pre-season - W4 D3 L1?

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2001

read the soccernet report...wow, have they got it in for us

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2001

Yeo, I read it and quickly dismissed it. Teletext report last night was classic. Rob Lee scored from the penalty spot before ??????Shoala Amoebi got the third! (Maybe the name they gave Ameobi was his full first name, but I'd never heard it before)

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2001

If he plays this season, I'll ... well hell, I' don't know what I'd do, but you better believe whatever it was, I'd do it!!!!!

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2001

Soccer net never have a good word to say about us. The articles come from the Mail I think and they are not our biggest fans.

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2001

One word

Bollocks!

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2001

small owl chicks or medicine balls?

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2001

It is interesting that our list of "star" absentees always includes Cort but have we any real evidence that he is better than Shola, Bellamy or Lua Lua? I am just seeking opinions here as to whether his non-inclusion is such a miss as opposed to the inclusion of one of the other three mentioned.

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2001

I think Cort plays a different game to those mentioned (haven't seen enough to be sure on that!)and so I think we are talking about options up front here. Cort cost YBR more than all of the others (although Shola's value may leap ahead in time) so he presumably rates him highly. Cort's scoring record is good with an average of a goal in half his games. I think he'd make a difference and the likes of Bellamy and/or LuaLua and/or Ameobi would benefit from playing alongside him.

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2001

Shola and Cort have ahd the same number of Premiership starts for us, at 13. Cort has scored 6 goals to Shola's 2. Cort is two inches taller than Shola at 6'4". Cort is 4 years older and has played 54 games for Wimbledon.

On pure stats Cort is better at putting the ball in the net, his extra experience of 54 games doesn't set him that far ahead of Shola in development. The long term, which in wort case may start next Monday, is that Shola and Cort and Bellamy are all 23 or under and are there to replace Shearer when he finally admits defeat.

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2001

The Chronic reckon 4 months and everyone else think 3 months.

I think if Bellamy can prove his worth alongside Shearer, we should be OK without Cort.

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2001