Jamie you are the busiest man at Saltergate at the moment what's the latest?

 

Jamie Hewitt - physioGaz Davies and Anthony Jubb have both rejoined training on Monday. Janos Kovacs came off on Saturday with a slight ankle twist and he's rejoined training this morning (Tuesday) after he spent a day with us yesterday and he looked okay today. A decision will be made late on Wednesday if Janos will play apart against Huddersfield after we see if he's suffered any further reaction. One thing  that we will be doing with Janos over the next few weeks is working with him to strengthen his ankle ligaments to try and prevent the injury reoccurring

 

Steve Blatherwick missed Saturday's game more as a precaution really after his back went in spasm. He could have been out for a few weeks. But his back seems to have settled down and he says he's feeling better today and he's joined in some light training obviously with a hope of being involved on Wednesday.

 

Alex Bailey will have his pot removed a week on Wednesday and we then hope his knee injuries settled down and he can start work on his building his knee up.

 

Aaron Downes ankles improving all the time and he should be running again next week, then if everything goes okay he should be back in two to three weeks

 

What about the mumps out break how did that effect things?

 

Four of the youth team and Gaffers went down with it.  Touch wood none of the first teams have gone down so far and we have had no new cases for nine days. It's an awkward one with an incubation period of two - three weeks so with any look we are well on the way to getting over it.

 

We worked with the Health Services and took every precaution that we could to stop it spreading. But its tough if you get it there's not a lot you can do other than let it run its course. So our preparations for Oldham were not the best we split the first teamer's away from the youth team and they all had a couple of days off really while we assessed things and waited to see if there were any further cases.The players then came back in and trained late on in the week and they looked sharp so not ideal preparation. But this week things should be virtually back to normal.

 

Jamie Hewitt was talking to Geoff Mitchell

                                    

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