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Walsall’s Richard Taundry ruled out
Monday 6th September 2010, 11:19AM BST.
Richard Taundry was today ruled out for up to a month with Walsall boss Chris Hutchings primed to bring in reinforcements.
The midfielder is sidelined with a knee injury and is likely to miss at least four games after limping out of last week’s Johnstone’s Paint Trophy exit to Chesterfield.
He sat out Saturday’s 1-0 home defeat to Colchester and boss Chris Hutchings confirmed the 21-year-old is set for an extended spell out.
“He could be three or four weeks which is a bit of a blow but the good thing is it’s not something major like cruciate ligament damage,” said the manager, who hopes to have Steve Jones back in training on Thursday.
“He’s just hyper extended and stretched everything and it’s going to take time to settle down. When that happens he can kick on again.
“Each day it is improving but obviously not to the extent where he can go jogging yet. On Thursday he was on crutches then it was a little easier and it’s getting easier but he’s still in a bit of pain.
“He can just get on with his rehab, it takes time to get over these things, we don’t want to rush him and need to make sure he’s right.”
Taundry was joined on the sidelines on Saturday by Jones and the suspended Alex Nicholls while Will Grigg and Ryan McGivern were away with Northern Ireland Under-21s.
Hutchings drafted in 17-year-old Aaron Forde to the bench and admits if the injuries don’t ease then he will move into the loan market when the window reopens.
He said: “If the injuries keep coming against us then we’ll have to look at bringing someone in. We’re always on the lookout and the window opens again on Wednesday so it’s something we can look at.”
And the below-par Saddlers were booed off after Andy Bond’s late winner consigned them to a fourth home defeat out of five but Hutchings insisted he wasn’t aware of the crowd’s reaction.
He said: “You could make a big thing about playing at home but it’s a green pitch out there and you have to go and perform. You don’t normally hear what the crowd are saying because your focus is on your job.”
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PLEASE bring in a new manager know Hutchings as lost the plot.. Buckley/Graydon..more idea than this wally..
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How has Hutchings lost the plot exactly?
We need a new midfielder, yes. But to say that he’s lost the plot after 6 games is ridiculous.
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WFC_Rob – I think Hutchings has lost the plot because his transfer dealings over the summer were muddled and his tactics and use of substitutions are poor. Why did we let both Mattis and Bradley (two central midfieldfers) go and then not replace them? We are, and have been for at least a season, crying out for an experienced, creative central midfielder who can boss the game for us. But we didn’t sign anyone in the summer. Instead, we signed Julian Gray, who looks past it and Reuben Reid on loan – is he a winger ‘cos he sure don’t look like a centre-forward? The tactics on Saturday were woeful – all we did was hoof it forward, straight down the throat of Colchester’s massive centre-half. If we are going to play like that then at least sign a big, bustling centre-forward – or at least convert Clayton Mcdonald into one. No, WFC_Rob, the evidence of this season so far and last season points to a manager who is not getting the best out of the resources available to him.
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He can’t win though, can he?
Lancashire is one defender who won’t just hoofthe ball down the middle, and he got booed by a section of idiots against Chesterfield last week.
I agree with you that we have been crying out for a creative midfielder to run the show from the middle of the park, but these cost money. Having said that though, Richards and Taundry showed the manager at the end of last season that they can hack it at this level.
There have been one or two who have failed to perorm to the best of their ability (Gray for example), and there are another couple who have made the odd mistake (Westlake & Lescott for example), but to start calling for the manager’s head half a dozen games into the season on the basis of that is madness I’m afraid.
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Rob must agree with Sam get rid es ad long enough..
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I also disagree, CH has not lost the plot cos he never had it in the first place! He has only got this far in football by hanging onto the coat-tail of Paul Jewell. Left to his own devices he falls woefully short as a manager.
He style of play is negative, boring and plain hoofball and I agree with Saddlertd, he hasn’t used the restricted resource as wise as he could have done. I fully expected a decent midfielder to be signed when Mattis was released – instead we sign no midfielder??
Get rid of CH and get some entertaining football back at the Banks’s before the crowds fall any lower!
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Sam-Who’s the wally? Look at your spelling and grammar and then look in the mirror!
Haven’t we also been unlucky with injuries?
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We are talking football not spelling and grammar WALLY..
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How many Rob..?? sorry about the spelling and grammar think i spelt grammar right..
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I was hoping CH went by last Xmas on e can hope he is gone by this. An ex saddler he maybe but he comes in woefully short as a manager, do you want him wasting anymore of teh so call war chest on players when we have been crying out for a solid midfielder and he signs everything but?
As for Richards and Taundry yes they looked good for the last six games, when there was nothing to play for the opposition was on the beach and were giving them time on the ball.
Cast you mind back to this time last season and deja vue springs to mind.
Just not good enough, and finally to justify not removing CH by saying ‘but to start calling for the manager’s head half a dozen games into the season on the basis of that is madness I’m afraid’ does not wash. It isn’t half a dozen games it is close to two seasons and we have not moved forward.
The football is poor, the motivation isn’t there, the man management leaves a lot to be desired and his tactical ability is dire.
Taxi for Hutching can’t come quick enough for me!
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