Any Of Our Injured Due Back?

Rotherham United have been through the ‘injury wringer’ this season but could February be the time that we see some of them back.

We definitely won’t be seeing Andre Green who joined from German side Slovan Bratislava in the summer, this season. The midfielder played in ten games for the Millers, his last one at the beginning of October away at Southampton but a training injury left him needing surgery on a ruptured Achilles tendon.

Like Andre, Cameron Humphreys managed just ten games before he went down in agony at the end of the first half of our one-all draw with Preston in September. The defender has had to have surgery on a severe hamstring injury but, fingers crossed, could return next month.

Likewise hoping to be back in February in long term injured Shane Ferguson who has had three lots of surgery on a hernia problem. Midfielder Shane hasn’t played since coming off in the first half of the last home game last season.

Hamstring and hip injuries kept centre-back Grant Hall out of action at the start of the season. He has managed to play in six games, his last being in December, but there is no time scale been put on his return.

Another with a hamstring problem is Tyler Blackett who joined the Millers when his contract with USA outfit FC Cincinnati ended in March last year. He was playing his twelfth game of the season and had just scored an equaliser at home to Bristol City in October when he was forced off with his injury. Thoughts are he could be back towards the end of February but March is probably a more realistic time.

Cohen Bramall is the latest player to be giving concern. The twenty-seven year old defender has played in all but one game this season for the Millers – in all competitions – but two of his last three games have seen him leaving the pitch early with what we are told is a ‘rolled ankle’. It’s hoping that this two weeks away from playing will be enough for his injury to have settled down enough for him to be back playing next weekend.

I don’t know about anyone else but every time one of our players goes down and needs treatment on the pitch I hold my breath. I think it’s fair to say we have been unlucky with injuries but let’s hope February sees most, if not all, of the injured players back on the pitch and the treatment room is soon empty.

Up The Millers.