INJURY WATCH : 2016-2017

[3points]

Could play McCleary more centrally and bring in Meite or Harriott on the wing? Otherwise bring in Josh Barrett?

[mumbo-jumbo]

Source? Great shame if true, just when we have some momentum

Can confirm. Saw it on twitter on a football account and then swift himself tweeted about the injury.

He hasn't tweeted that he has ankle ligament damage, nor has he tweeted that he will be out until Christmas. His last tweet was yesterday and he merely said he was fuming about his injury.

I agree. No concrete evidence yet from any source.....just mention of missing the England game through injury. I expect he will need some time off to recover from a sprained ankle, but it all seems a little speculative, and so I'm going to remain optimistic until told otherwise.

[royalp-we]

Swift out for approx 2 weeks could be back for Fulham game according to GetReading.

I guess Stam will update everyone during his presser pre burton.

[royalp-we]

Swift out for approx 2 weeks could be back for Fulham game according to GetReading.

I guess Stam will update everyone during his presser pre burton.

And according to Stam at todays presser Swift will be missing for 4 to 6 weeks.

Yet again GetReading with bullshit click bait.

[Sutekh]

Injury round up

John Swift has ankle ligament damage, will be out for 4-6 weeks (so lets say until xmas)
Joseph Mendes is fit again
Liam Kelly is fit again
Deniss Rakels is expected back in December
Stephen Quinn still injured, having a knee injection. No return date specified
Ansi Jaakkola no-one seems to care about, no information available other than he's injured. Whether it's long term or he'll be back by the Burton game is anyone's guess

Believe everyone else is up and running, hopefully literally.

[Sutekh]

Yet again GetReading with bullshit click bait.

The GetReading site (and probably a lot of other "local paper" websites) really is awful for reporting some of its stories. The press conference item is awfully disjointed being presented in a lazy style of a load of screen captures off twatter with odd lines of content thrown in here and there

Whatever happened to writing articles using coherent sentences strung together to get a point of view or information over to readers? Probably died a death as apparently no-one under 25 has an attention span longer than 10 seconds these days.

Never mind, I'm sure they'll rehash each statement from the conference in it's own article over the coming days.

[Saaaaaaaammmmmm]

Ansi Jaakkola no-one seems to care about, no information available other than he's injured. Whether it's long term or he'll be back by the Burton game is anyone's guess

Stam vaguely stated today he is "still out"

Would have been nice if one of the 'journalists' pressed for specifics, I do wonder what they actually ask during these press conferences

[Saaaaaaaammmmmm]

The GetReading site (and probably a lot of other "local paper" websites) really is awful for reporting some of its stories. The press conference item is awfully disjointed being presented in a lazy style of a load of screen captures off twatter with odd lines of content thrown in here and there

Whatever happened to writing articles using coherent sentences strung together to get a point of view or information over to readers? Probably died a death as apparently no-one under 25 has an attention span longer than 10 seconds these days.

Never mind, I'm sure they'll rehash each statement from the conference in it's own article over the coming days.

Exactly this, probably deserves its own thread but getReading has become a total shambles (and that's ignoring how totally unusable their website is, ffs why do I need to complete a survey to read some articles?)

Their Twitter account must have tweeted the same Roy Beerens' Son Does Some Skills thing about 50 times the past few days, like honestly how about you do some proper journalism and write some interesting articles

You'd think their newspaper getting scrapped would have been a wake up call but instead they seem to just be using it as an excuse, rather than admitting that maybe the reason they sold so few copies is because what they were writing wasn't worth paying for

Seriously, when did Charles Watts last do a decent, well-written article? It's just Reading FC Talking Points (which is literally never interesting or insightful), 5 Things We Learned/5 Strikers We Should Sign/5 Things I Found On Twitter, or an incoherent 'Live Blog' which is just things we already knew from Twitter with no added information

And don't even get me started on the clickbait, the way they stretch a single interview into about six different articles, or that Football Manager article

[NewCorkSeth]

Yet again GetReading with bullshit click bait.

The GetReading site (and probably a lot of other "local paper" websites) really is awful for reporting some of its stories. The press conference item is awfully disjointed being presented in a lazy style of a load of screen captures off twatter with odd lines of content thrown in here and there

Whatever happened to writing articles using coherent sentences strung together to get a point of view or information over to readers? Probably died a death as apparently no-one under 25 has an attention span longer than 10 seconds these days.

Never mind, I'm sure they'll rehash each statement from the conference in it's own article over the coming days.

Tldr

[Royalwaster]

The GetReading site (and probably a lot of other "local paper" websites) really is awful for reporting some of its stories. The press conference item is awfully disjointed being presented in a lazy style of a load of screen captures off twatter with odd lines of content thrown in here and there

Whatever happened to writing articles using coherent sentences strung together to get a point of view or information over to readers? Probably died a death as apparently no-one under 25 has an attention span longer than 10 seconds these days.

Never mind, I'm sure they'll rehash each statement from the conference in it's own article over the coming days.

Exactly this, probably deserves its own thread but getReading has become a total shambles (and that's ignoring how totally unusable their website is, ffs why do I need to complete a survey to read some articles?)

Their Twitter account must have tweeted the same Roy Beerens' Son Does Some Skills thing about 50 times the past few days, like honestly how about you do some proper journalism and write some interesting articles

You'd think their newspaper getting scrapped would have been a wake up call but instead they seem to just be using it as an excuse, rather than admitting that maybe the reason they sold so few copies is because what they were writing wasn't worth paying for

Seriously, when did Charles Watts last do a decent, well-written article? It's just Reading FC Talking Points (which is literally never interesting or insightful), 5 Things We Learned/5 Strikers We Should Sign/5 Things I Found On Twitter, or an incoherent 'Live Blog' which is just things we already knew from Twitter with no added information

And don't even get me started on the clickbait, the way they stretch a single interview into about six different articles, or that Football Manager article

Well said .... hasn't learned the simple rule that tweeting the same bullsh:t again and again bores people to death.

[Saaaaaaaammmmmm]

Absolute peak local 'journalism,' with the Chronicle reporting that Liam Kelly is still injured, but Stephen Quinn is fit to return at the weekend....

http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/sport ... nt_damage/

So basically no one was actually listening to Stam and now we don't know who to believe, thanks guys, top reporting

[Sutekh]

You never know, perhaps Quinn's knee injection worked wonders and Kelly got another knock in training after yesterday's press conference. But based on previous experience I know which "paper" I'm more likely to believe.

[3points]

Jaap confirmed Kermogant is out for a couple of weeks. Good opportunity for Samuel, Mendes and Miete

[Stockport Royal]

No Joey today, is he on the injury table as well?

[AthleticoSpizz]

Stam probably put him there

[Sutekh]

Yann has a knee problem. Nothing ligament related apparently but is related to a problem he had earlier. He's had an injection and the club are waiting to see how his knee reacts. Expectation currently is that he'll be back in contention for the trip to (John) Craven Cottage

No Joey today, is he on the injury table as well?

Probably - or he's ill, or pehaps Jaap just thinks he isn't in very good form at the moment and/or doesn't want to risk him until the card amnesty is reached at the end of this month. No-one in the media seems bothered enough to ask and the club aren't forthcoming with information just like they have been with Kermorgant's (until specifically asked today) and Jaakkola's injuries.

By the way, anyone think we'll ever see Weiser get near the first team?

[sandman]

Here come the HNA? amateur journalist club again.

[Sutekh]

To confirm. Joey van den Berg currently has a knee injury.

That makes the current list of wounded :

Berg - knee, unknown how long will be out
Kermorgant - knee, depending on how his knee reacts to an injection he maybe back for Fulham (a)
Jaakkola - your guess is as good as mine, unknown how long will be out
Quinn - knee, just keeps running this one (not the knee, the injury), unknown how long will be out
Swift - ankle, currently slated for a return around xmas/new year
Rakels - ankle, could be back mid to late December, so let's say xmas as well

[Sutekh]

Latest after the press conference today is that Jaakkola is back in "light" training and that Berg has a small chance of some involvement on Saturday.

[Sutekh]

Obita presumably injured, no news on what, why, where or how

Swift is back kicking a ball again but presumably won't be risked until Boxing Day so the club can assess how he reacts following his lay off.