Injury table and expected return....

[Royal Ginger]

With HRK now out for the beginning of the season, how far away are we from declaring a full injury crisis before we've even kicked a meaningful ball?

[loyalroyal4life]

With HRK now out for the beginning of the season, how far away are we from declaring a full injury crisis before we've even kicked a meaningful ball?

Fear not, we have Blackman

[maffff]

Three players short of an injured XI so far in pre-season....


Keown Hector Kelly
McCleary Guthrie Karacan Williams Robson-Kanu

[TommyF]

Do you think Blackpool could lend us some players?

[Winchester Royal]

Do you think Blackpool could lend us some players?

Maybe Triallist 1, Trialist 2, Trialist 3 and Trialist 4 are available?

[Ian Royal]

With HRK now out for the beginning of the season, how far away are we from declaring a full injury crisis before we've even kicked a meaningful ball?

Pog getting injured might do it. Or Tshibola and Akpan. Or Obita.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Chronic saying Obita's a doubt for Saturday.

[leww_rfc]

Chronic saying Obita's a doubt for Saturday.

Medical with Swansea on Friday.

[genome]

http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/reading-fc-star-garath-mccleary-7572125

Garath McCleary has revealed that he played the final two months of last season with a broken back.

Royals’ winger suffered the injury during the 1-1 draw with Yeovil Town at Madejski Stadium on March 1.

It wasn’t picked up at the time, however, and he went on to play a part in all but one of Reading’s remaining 13 games of the campaign.

“I had a fracture in my vertebrae,” said McCleary.

“So I played for two-and-a-half months with it which I shouldn’t have done.

“Playing with a fracture, you’re always going to make it worse. “

The true extent of McCleary’s injury was finally discovered after it was spotted in a scan a month before he was due to return for pre-season training.

He has since undergone surgery to fix the problem and is not expected to return until the end of October.

“It was finally found four weeks before pre-season,” said the former Nottingham Forest player.

“No-one wants to have an operation, but it is something I had to do.

“It was a minor op. It was non-invasive so that’s a good thing.

“It would have been better if it had been spotted earlier because then I wouldn’t have to miss the start of the new season.

“But it’s something that I have to deal with. Hopefully I can come back stronger and quicker than the expected time.”

[Royal Lady]

He was very lucky there. Surprised he hadn't had a scan earlier though.

[Nameless]

Doesn't sound like it was actually a broken back.....
Interesting that his operation was 'non invasive', wonder what that actually entails.

[Ian Royal]

He fractured a vertebrate. Sounds much much more serious than it actually is. Don't get me wrong. For a professional sportsman its certainly serious. But it's not the "oh my god he'll never walk again" you might think from it being a broken back.

[genome]

Interesting that his operation was 'non invasive', wonder what that actually entails.

It means the surgeon decided not to give him a wank while he performed the operation.

[Royal Lady]

He fractured a vertebrate. Sounds much much more serious than it actually is. Don't get me wrong. For a professional sportsman its certainly serious. But it's not the "oh my god he'll never walk again" you might think from it being a broken back.

Yep - hence I said how lucky he was - it could have been far worse.

[melonhead]

He fractured a vertebrate. Sounds much much more serious than it actually is. Don't get me wrong. For a professional sportsman its certainly serious. But it's not the "oh my god he'll never walk again" you might think from it being a broken back.

he's like burt trautman, but played through it for multiple matches.

[Royal Lady]

Is McCarthy injured? Or did Feds look ace in training so Adkins went with him?

[leww_rfc]

Is McCarthy injured? Or did Feds look ace in training so Adkins went with him?

No injury, there's nothing between the two at the moment and McCarthy has had a lot more game time over the last year so only fair Feds gets a try.

[soggy biscuit]

McCleary > Neymar

[LoyalRoyal22]

Is McCarthy injured? Or did Feds look ace in training so Adkins went with him?

No injury, there's nothing between the two at the moment and McCarthy has had a lot more game time over the last year so only fair Feds gets a try.

Feds is playing because he is comfortable with the ball at his feat and his good & effective distribution helps the team massively with regards to keeping possession.

[Ian Royal]

It's probably just as simple as fed doing better in preseason. Otherwise he'd have played last season if it was tactical.