Injury Thread 2025-26

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You mean this...

'Slater will undergo an MRI scan in the next 48 hours to determine any damage to the left ankle, but it's hoped there will be no lasting issue and he'll be fit to be involved in the busy Easter weekend, which comes in just under two weeks, once the international break is over'.

It doesn't say he's expected to be fine, it just says it's hoped that he'll be fine, which obviously was the case.

The suggestion is that was seen as the likely outcome. I mean no **** we hope he's fine.

It's be like releasing an article about joffy saying "it's hoped he'll complete a permanent move for 500k in the summer". No **** everyone hopes that but why write it if there's no chance?
 
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if Ajayi gets back in his groove, his pace enables the team to play 10 yards further up the pitch for a more effective press, without Regan this will be essential
I think in theory he does, but we've been doing that the last few weeks and getting pulled all over the place on the break. I'm not sure I trust this team's off the ball organisation to play a high line like that.
 
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I think in theory he does, but we've been doing that the last few weeks and getting pulled all over the place on the break. I'm not sure I trust this team's off the ball organisation to play a high line like that.
Yeah I get what your saying, I perhaps should have asterisks this with a when we are at home, and when we play four at the back - I think Lundstrum is better in that anchor spot coordinating....I sense getting shot down with an opinion like that though :)
 

We "hope" they're fit. So no truth to it and it's just wishful thinking? Or there is truth to it and previous reporting has been misleading?
This is what I asked the other day. It was reported that Giles, Jacob and Gyabi would be available for Oxford. Let me guess, Cooper has backtracked on that now and it’s ‘maybe’?
 
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This is what I asked the other day. It was reported that Giles, Jacob and Gyabi would be available for Oxford. Let me guess, Cooper has backtracked on that now and it’s ‘maybe’?
Yes, now it's just "City are hopeful". As above with slater, of course we're hopeful.. It's only a story if there's an actual chance. Guess we'll see.
 
Back home after three weeks away....Who is unfit for the final push or is it quicker to list the names of fit players?
 
Listened to the 1904 podcast last night and pretty sure he said Jacob Gyabi, and Giles in particular, are progressing really well and hoping they’ll be fit for Oxford but see how they progress over the break.
 
This is what I asked the other day. It was reported that Giles, Jacob and Gyabi would be available for Oxford. Let me guess, Cooper has backtracked on that now and it’s ‘maybe’?
I had a look at the Mail site and the X feeds of HDM and Cooper searching on Gyabi, and the only stories about him and the others I could find said 'could' not 'would'. Perhaps you could post the link to the 'would' story, unless of course you made that up.
 
I had a look at the Mail site and the X feeds of HDM and Cooper searching on Gyabi, and the only stories about him and the others I could find said 'could' not 'would'. Perhaps you could post the link to the 'would' story, unless of course you made that up.
I suspect it's others also reading the "it's hopeful they'll be fit" as will be. People can laugh react all they want, but as soon as you pump out stories with that language people think it's a real possibility. It was hoped slater was a minor knock and would be fine, it was hoped Matazo was just a precaution, it was hoped crooks pulling out in the warm up was to be cautious. Of course that was the hope. Until there's more tangible facts don't put the words on the page and get people's hopes up.
 
I suspect it's others also reading the "it's hopeful they'll be fit" as will be. People can laugh react all they want, but as soon as you pump out stories with that language people think it's a real possibility. It was hoped slater was a minor knock and would be fine, it was hoped Matazo was just a precaution, it was hoped crooks pulling out in the warm up was to be cautious. Of course that was the hope. Until there's more tangible facts don't put the words on the page and get people's hopes up.
...or go to night school to study English so that you can understand what has actually been written by Baz and other posters on here.
 
Yu Hirakawa has not given up hope of playing again this season and could yet make a surprise return to Hull City before the end of the Championship campaign.

Boss Sergej Jakirovic had almost written off the Japan international's season after he picked up a serious ankle injury in the thumping win over Derby County last month.

Hirakawa was initially scheduled for surgery a week after the defeat of the Rams before he sought a second opinion on the existing issue he first sustained at the Olympic Games in Paris two years ago.

The exciting winger eventually opted against going under the knife, instead choosing a natural recovery in a bid to keep his hopes of being part of Japan's World Cup squad alive.

His determination to get fit quickly could be a benefit to the Tigers, with the 26-year-old hoping he could make a surprise return towards the end of next month, or beginning of May, when City play their final game of the regular season against Norwich City on May 2.

More likely would be a possible return for any play-off campaign that City may yet find themselves in.

The EFL have confirmed the dates for the play-off semi-finals, with the first legs taking place the following Friday and Saturday (May 8 & 9) after the regular campaign finishes, with second legs a few days later.

Meanwhile, City haven't yet given up hope that Eliot Matazo could make an appearance before the season ends. The Belgian midfielder had hoped to be potentially involved at the weekend, but he picked up a quad problem, which set back his progress.

City are keen for Matazo to get himself right for the start of pre-season, but he could yet get on the pitch in the final games of the Championship campaign, provided he can prove his fitness.
 
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