Newcastle and England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines after dislocating his knee.

The 29-year-old suffered the injury against Gloucester on Tuesday in only his fourth game since returning from six months out after shoulder surgery.

Wilkinson was carried off midway through the first half at Kingsholm.

"He has enormous strength of character and I am sure he will come back stronger," said Newcastle's director of rugby Steve Bates.

England begin their autumn Test programme at Twickenham in less than six weeks and Wilkinson is now a major doubt.

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LOL got to laugh, the guy has had no luck at all for the past 5 years

LukeIt'sMe. wrote:

I hate him.

same here, which is why i loled

LukeIt'sMe. wrote:

All he does it drop goal it

Are you serious - the dude is one of the best fly halfs in the world.

He certainly does kick well, most probably the best in the world, or he was.

In the world cup final he was miles out with his kicking; that's one of the reasons England lost.

However, kicking is not the only part of his game, he has great vision - with little pop passes that open up teams; he's a playmaker and there aren't many in the world who are better than him....... of course they aren't constantly on the sick so bah lol

Henson > Wilko

Gavlarr wrote:

We havn't lost to England for 3 years. Competitively

Pissflaps wrote:

lol at the bitter welsh when u make two world cup finals back to back come back and post 6 nations is not in the same league!and henson better than wilko lol just lol what in good looks or actaul talent

its not about being bitter, its jsut a case that i dont like the man, i like quite a few English players as their genuinely talented and such, i just dont like Wilko

for instance, Dan Hipkiss, vastly, vastly underrated, excellent player for Tigers, but has struggled to make it into the English starting lineup, hopefully Johnson will see this and pick his team on form rather than on previous reputations and picking players who are out of form