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It's been another bad year for injuries. The treatment room at Chester Le Street has been full for most of the season. Since Xmas though things were starting to improve with Howey, Goma, Griffin, Helder and the rest of the lads recovering well. Indeed last week only Charvet and Serrant were out. Then a spate of new injuries. Rob Lee, Nobby Solano, Keiron Dyer and now big Dunc are out again. Our Woman at the ground has sent us some pretty disturbing pictures of the lads injuries. If you really want to see them wait for the .avi files to load.

First of all Big Dunc.

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Other players here soon.

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Mind You if we thought we had problems, look at Man U, First of all their "Star" player confesses to wearing women's undies, then one of their other players is put under the microscope as he apparently is a she...