Bruce will be without a “major piece” of his crew for Saturday’s down with West Brom in view of the club’s Covid flare-up.
The Magpies’ match against Aston Villa on 4 December was delayed due to cases, and their preparation ground was closed down for longer than seven days.
Bruce would number of players had the it was a “critical number” staff who
Bruce clarified: “It’s been than where we were last Monday.
“From , we’ve opened the preparation tried twice and been negative so we are back the last a few days and we have enough to pick a XI us the game.”
As to tests, Bruce said there were “four one day, five”, players had been “seriously exhausted”. “major uncertainty” down at St James’ Park numbers had improved, the players had “skiped” Wednesday. a few players to the crew the at home.
Bruce said he felt like a “a football staff’s security.
“None of us have seen each other since Crystal Palace [on 27 November] so we have been away from the preparation ground for 10 days which was rather that was the forward,” he said.
“Ideally we have reduced it, it looks that route with the two negative tests last Monday and Wednesday, and it sets us in a place to play the game.
“You’ll need to stand by until tomorrow [to discover who is missing], we have definitely more than what we suspected last Monday, a few people have returned into the crew who had it and it’s left them. We would return .
“I need and staff and their . Here and there, we need to It was a critical number will be without a major lump of players that is without Monday we will have .