Cardiff City Injury returns: Perhaps the biggest boost
Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:13 pm
Cardiff City Injury returns
17/09/19
Perhaps the biggest boost of all. Not many Championship sides will have endured the awful injury situation which has befallen Cardiff City this season.
Sol Bamba, who has been out since March following surgery on his knee, has been sorely missed. Danny Ward has also not played so far this season owing to an Achilles injury, he started running on grass last week.
Neil Etheridge and summer signing Marlon Pack each sustained grade three hamstring tears within two weeks of each other as Neil Warnock's nightmare seemed never ending at the start of the season.
Amid all that, Callum Paterson (knee) and Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (hamstring) have also struggled for fitness this term. And Lee Tomlin, who was also starting to regain a bit of a form, missed Derby after sustaining whiplash in a car accident last week.
It is a remarkable series of events which has seen seven players, most of whom would push for starting spots if not be shoo-ins, all sustain varying degrees of bad injuries. The positive news is that all of them are not far away.
Bamba will be back playing for the Under-23s any time soon, Etheridge is nearing a first-team return while Pack will not be far behind. Mendez-Laing will hope to be in contention for a start this week after WalesOnline learned he still wasn't 100 per cent for the Derby game.
Tomlin's omission on Friday is understood to have been only precautionary, so he will be back in the mix soon enough.
So, in a couple of weeks' time, we could see Bamba, Etheridge and Pack back and Mendez-Laing and Tomlin operating at full tilt. It starts to paint a different picture, then.
17/09/19
Perhaps the biggest boost of all. Not many Championship sides will have endured the awful injury situation which has befallen Cardiff City this season.
Sol Bamba, who has been out since March following surgery on his knee, has been sorely missed. Danny Ward has also not played so far this season owing to an Achilles injury, he started running on grass last week.
Neil Etheridge and summer signing Marlon Pack each sustained grade three hamstring tears within two weeks of each other as Neil Warnock's nightmare seemed never ending at the start of the season.
Amid all that, Callum Paterson (knee) and Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (hamstring) have also struggled for fitness this term. And Lee Tomlin, who was also starting to regain a bit of a form, missed Derby after sustaining whiplash in a car accident last week.
It is a remarkable series of events which has seen seven players, most of whom would push for starting spots if not be shoo-ins, all sustain varying degrees of bad injuries. The positive news is that all of them are not far away.
Bamba will be back playing for the Under-23s any time soon, Etheridge is nearing a first-team return while Pack will not be far behind. Mendez-Laing will hope to be in contention for a start this week after WalesOnline learned he still wasn't 100 per cent for the Derby game.
Tomlin's omission on Friday is understood to have been only precautionary, so he will be back in the mix soon enough.
So, in a couple of weeks' time, we could see Bamba, Etheridge and Pack back and Mendez-Laing and Tomlin operating at full tilt. It starts to paint a different picture, then.
Re: Cardiff City Injury returns: Perhaps the biggest boost
Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:27 pm
Hang in there for next 4 wks and with return of these players could se us move up near top fairly soon afterwards?
Re: Cardiff City Injury returns: Perhaps the biggest boost
Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:53 pm
pembroke allan wrote:Hang in there for next 4 wks and with return of these players could se us move up near top fairly soon afterwards?
Love your optimism
Re: Cardiff City Injury returns: Perhaps the biggest boost
Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:59 pm
NIBluebird wrote:pembroke allan wrote:Hang in there for next 4 wks and with return of these players could se us move up near top fairly soon afterwards?
Love your optimism
Not optimism just an objective view! We could and should be at least 6 points better off ? And thats with better players out and supposedly playing crap, what could we achieve with players mentioned in team?
Re: Cardiff City Injury returns: Perhaps the biggest boost
Wed Sep 18, 2019 7:01 pm
pembroke allan wrote:NIBluebird wrote:pembroke allan wrote:Hang in there for next 4 wks and with return of these players could se us move up near top fairly soon afterwards?
Love your optimism
Not optimism just an objective view! We could and should be at least 6 points better off ? And thats with better players out and supposedly playing crap, what could we achieve with players mentioned in team?
You are correct mate