The end of the summer before it all started, I quit my job of over twelve years and spent time traveling and taking on odd jobs to make ends meet, including editing work at a television news station and some tutoring and proofreading gigs. My experience has been different because I’m now living in my third different country since the beginning of the pandemic. Even before COVID, I felt proud of myself if I left my place at all on any given day, and I still do. I’ve spent long stretches where I didn’t leave my apartment at all, and it wasn’t due to a global pandemic. I’m an introvert and loner and homebody I did have to go through a two-week quarantine once and it wasn’t bad at all (admittedly, Korea’s a pretty good place to quarantine if you can do it from your own place). Ordinarily, the pandemic wouldn’t have affected me too much. It’s been weird for everyone the last couple of years, but it’s been weird for me in a slightly different way. Once we've played against Olympic, we'll be able to make a better assessment."Van Egmond was hopeful the future of Italian import Fabio Vignaroli would be settled within the next few days.It’s been a while since I last posted.
He's neat and tidy and looks quite sharp in that front third. "We want a bit longer."Of Smith, who arrived in Newcastle on the recommendation of former Jets crowd favourite Nick Carle, van Egmond said: "He's been going OK.
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At this point, he's an extremely slim chance of playing, but we'll see how his recuperative powers are."Newcastle still have their share of injury concerns, including Dutch striker Donny de Groot (hamstring) and midfielder Jobe Wheelhouse, who has resumed light training after having his appendix removed.De Groot missed the 1-0 win against Ulsan Hyundai on May 21 and is yet to resume full training.Van Egmond was hopeful Wheelhouse, Song and possibly de Groot would be able to play in Tuesday's trial against Sydney Olympic at Belmore Sports Ground."The medicos reckon Donny's a chance of travelling, which would be great, considering the amount of injuries we have," van Egmond said.Meanwhile, van Egmond cast his eye over a host of triallists in yesterday's practice match, including English midfielder Jamie Smith, former Central Coast veteran Andre Gumprecht, Young Socceroos defender Jason Davidson and former Wales under-21 midfielder Matt Crowell."In regards to signing any of them, we haven't made any decisions yet," van Egmond said.
He can start bike riding and swimming come Monday, and he's even saying he's still a chance for Pohang," van Egmond said."Realistically, he probably isn't, but it's good that he's thinking he wants to be part of it. But he's been looking good and hopefully he can play some role for us against Pohang."The Jets have been given a further boost after learning that defender Nikolai Topor-Stanley would not need surgery on a knee injury, after initial fears that he needed reconstructive repairs to his anterior cruciate ligament."He just has some swelling around his meniscus.
KOREAN import Song Jin-hyung could make a surprise return for the Newcastle Jets in their do-or-die Asian Champions League clash with Pohang Steelers in his homeland on June 24.Song has played no part in Newcastle's six ACL group matches since undergoing ankle surgery after the Jets' A-League season finished on January 25.Jets coach Gary van Egmond said the 21-year-old attacking midfielder was under consideration for the lucrative round-of-16 showdown, although he was not risked in yesterday's intra-club practice match at Ray Watt Oval."It definitely looks like Song will travel with us," van Egmond said yesterday."How much game time he gets, we'll have to talk to the physios with regards to what he's capable of doing.
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