Hunt Misses Doncaster Trip
Tuesday, 24th Dec 2013 10:37

Winger Stephen Hunt has been ruled out of Town’s Boxing Day trip to Doncaster with the hamstring injury he suffered in training on Friday. The 32-year-old, who signed a contract extension until the end of the season last week, missed Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Watford.

“He’s not involved for Boxing Day,” manager Mick McCarthy confirmed. “But it’s not too bad and he’ll be back quick enough, I think.

“We’ll see [whether he’s OK for Bournemouth on Sunday or Charlton on New Year’s Day], but it’ll probably be New Year’s Day.

“I’m not going to push it, that’s for sure, we’ve got plenty of games left. He was just unfortunate, he just planted his leg and he strained his hammy. We want him back asap but we won’t do anything daft and rush him back.”

Aside from Hunt, midfielder Anthony Wordsworth missed training this morning having been ill for the last few days.

McCarthy has no plans to consider striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake until the FA Cup match against Preston on January 4th.

Young right-back Elliott Hewitt is still sidelined with the ankle injury which curtailed his loan spell at Gillingham but could be fit again next week when he will rejoin the League One club.

McCarthy says the Town squad will be travelling to Doncaster on Christmas Day afternoon: “We’ll be setting off tomorrow.

“We’ll train in the morning, everybody will get home and have a bit of lunch and then come back here and we get up there for about half-nine or 10 o’clock tomorrow evening.”

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stokeholyted added 11:10 - Dec 24 Lets keep the good run going.
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Lathers added 11:26 - Dec 24 All those around us are playing each other - a win at Donny would be massive.
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jabberjackson added 11:33 - Dec 24 Sounds like a quite tiring preparation for a game Doncaster have a big advantage here Concerned...
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LiamCP123 added 11:45 - Dec 24 Would want to see taylor instead of hunty then. COYB!
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Cloddyseedbed added 11:55 - Dec 24 Hamstring injury - the curse of older players! This is a shame as Hunt is a midfield player that can make things happen and I for one am disappointed he can't get a run in the side, especially as Tunners maybe going back briefly or for good.
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blueboy1981 added 14:40 - Dec 24 ,,,,,,, unfortunately this could be a regular occurrence during Hunt's stay with us - hope not because he is a good player and 'could' contribute much to the team.
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ormey75 added 14:53 - Dec 24

Seems like this one is going to keep picking up decent wages from the club without actually ever playing, play one game and injured for the next three and so on, Hunty your a legend, just keep rinsing the club for thousands everyweek while you lay on the treatment table getting your hamstring rubbed, A goodjob he's only going to rinse the club till the end of the season!

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