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MM ON INJURIES AND RESERVES

Posted on: Tue 19 Aug 2008

Speaking to the press on Tuesday afternoon, Maurice Malpas revealed how the two injured players are getting on after Saturday's clash at Cheltenham Town.

Billy Paynter and Yinka Casal have both been in the treatment room this week after defeat at Whaddon Road.

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"Billy Paynter will hopefully train on Thursday. On Saturday he got a kick behind the knee which was swollen afterwards," said the boss.

"Once it was assessed we realized it wasn't as serious as we first thought, which relaxed everyone. He should return to training towards the end of the week and Billy is fine about it.

"Yinka Casal has three stitches on Saturday after his clash of heads. He's been kept out of training as a precaution as he had concussion over the weekend and felt a bit sick.

"He'll be back in training on Thursday as well."

Yinka Casal

The Scotsman stressed how important reserve games are ahead of this evening's reserve clash with Plymouth Argyle.

"Everyone who didn't play Saturday will be playing tonight in the reserves.

"You talk about the first team being under pressure to perform but the same happens with the reserves.

"Unless they perform well, they can't expect to be considered. We're going to start to put a bit of pressure on the reserves now. Their standard of fitness will go up for one, and their attitude.

"I thoroughly hope we can get another good performance from them as a team against Plymouth," Malpas added.

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