𝑴𝑶𝑹𝑬 𝑰𝑵𝑱𝑼𝑹𝒀 𝑼𝑷𝑫𝑨𝑻𝑬𝑺 𝑷𝑹𝑶𝑽𝑰𝑫𝑬𝑫 𝑩𝒀 𝑫𝑼𝑭𝑭 𝑶𝑵 𝑴𝑼𝑳𝑻𝑰𝑷𝑳𝑬 𝑷𝑳𝑨𝒀𝑬𝑹𝑺 𝒀𝑬𝑺𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑫𝑨𝒀 “Rhys Healey had surgery yesterday. He was in London as well so that will probably be him for the season.” “Nigel Lonwijk is on the grass so he is probably the next one that will be back in.” “Mikel Miller is on the grass. He’s still a long way away because his was a significant bit of surgery but it’s just nice to see him around.” #HTAFC

𝑱𝑶𝑬 𝑻𝑨𝒀𝑳𝑶𝑹 𝑺𝑻𝑰𝑳𝑳 𝑵𝑶𝑻 𝑭𝑼𝑳𝑳𝒀 𝑻𝑹𝑨𝑰𝑵𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑨𝑺 𝑫𝑼𝑭𝑭 𝑮𝑰𝑽𝑬𝑺 𝑨𝑵 𝑰𝑵𝑱𝑼𝑹𝒀 𝑼𝑷𝑫𝑨𝑻𝑬 𝑶𝑵 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑺𝑻𝑹𝑰𝑲𝑬𝑹 “Joe Taylor is on the grass. He’s on the grass with the physios. He’s not been for any part of training.” “He’s still got a little bit of load and the box ticking exercises that they need to do because what we can’t afford is people that are coming back, we can’t afford for them to break down again.” #HTAFC

𝑹𝑶𝑶𝑺𝑲𝑬𝑵 𝑰𝑵𝑱𝑼𝑹𝒀 𝑵𝑶𝑻 𝑨𝑺 𝑩𝑨𝑫 𝑨𝑺 𝑶𝑹𝑰𝑮𝑰𝑵𝑨𝑳𝑳𝒀 𝑭𝑬𝑨𝑹𝑬𝑫 𝑨𝑺 𝑫𝑼𝑭𝑭 𝑬𝒀𝑬𝑺 𝑼𝑷 𝑨 𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑪𝑲𝑬𝑹 𝑹𝑬𝑻𝑼𝑹𝑵 “Ruben saw a specialist in London yesterday. Relatively positive news.” “We thought it might be the season, the scan looked really bad. He’s still going to be out for a significant period of time. We are looking at 2 to 4 weeks I think.” “Hoping to sort of get him back on the grass as soon as possible. That is a bit of a positive.” #HTAFC

𝐃𝐔𝐅𝐅 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐔𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐋𝐃 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐆𝐎 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐓 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐉𝐔𝐑𝐘 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐒 “No.” “The squads big enough because ultimately when everyone does get back we’ve got a competitive squad. To even be in the position that we are in with the amount of injuries that we have had shows that we have got a squad.” “I think bringing in, to be honest I’ve not really had a conversation about it but I think bringing in another player that would be unfit wouldn’t be the answer to where we are at the minute as we’ve got enough unfit players. Hopefully we can get the ones that are ours at the minute to add to what we already have because we are low on numbers.” #HTAFC

𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐓 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐀𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐌𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐄𝐅 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐔𝐄 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐔𝐋 𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐒 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙙𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣? “The short answer is no. What I would like to do for supporters is reward their continued loyalty so we will be looking to launch the renewal process before the end of the season.” “We all recognise that these supporters have been on such a journey for a number of years so in terms of making a decision, we will come up with a pricing structure and that pricing structure will then be communicated with the supporters before the end of the season.” “Gives the loyalty of the supporters that we’ve got, that have been with us for such a long time, they will get that preferential rate when we go through the renewal period. We will then go off sale. We will then be in a position come the end of the season where we will know the destiny of this football club. At that point we will go back on general sale, it will be a further increase in price that will then reflect the division in which we are playing in next season.” 𝘿𝙚𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚? “Correct. Even the Chairman has made it very very clear from the start, there has to be some form of increase, in a stage process, in order to make this football club financially sustainable but also competitive.” #HTAFC

𝑪𝑬𝑶 𝑯𝑨𝑲𝑬 𝑬𝑫𝑾𝑨𝑹𝑫𝑺 𝑨𝑫𝑴𝑰𝑻𝑺 𝑴𝑰𝑺𝑺-𝑪𝑶𝑴𝑴𝑼𝑵𝑰𝑪𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝑶𝑵 𝑷𝑳𝑨𝒀𝑬𝑹 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑲 𝑳𝑶𝑨𝑫𝑺 𝑷𝑶𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑰𝑨𝑳𝑳𝒀 𝑰𝑴𝑷𝑨𝑪𝑻𝑬𝑫 𝑰𝑵𝑱𝑼𝑹𝑰𝑬𝑺 “We’ve got a performance team, a medical team and then nutritionists and analysts and these players are tracked, monitored their load like never before.” “We’ve had some issues, more on the performance side of things. We’ve had some issues with communication, we’ve been addressing those. Things have been missed.” “Maximum loads have not been communicated so players have been forced to do more in training than they should be when they should be backed off. We are seeing more hamstring injuries and soft tissue injuries in games than we should be having.” #HTAFC

𝑪𝑬𝑶 𝑱𝑨𝑲𝑬 𝑬𝑫𝑾𝑨𝑹𝑫𝑺 𝑻𝑨𝑳𝑲𝑺 𝑨𝑩𝑶𝑼𝑻 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑰𝑵𝑱𝑼𝑹𝑰𝑬𝑺 𝑻𝑯𝑨𝑻 𝑯𝑨𝑽𝑬 𝑷𝑳𝑨𝑮𝑼𝑬𝑫 𝑯𝑼𝑫𝑫𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑭𝑰𝑬𝑳𝑫 𝑻𝑶𝑾𝑵 𝑭𝑶𝑹 𝑨 𝑭𝑬𝑾 𝑺𝑬𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑵𝑺 𝑵𝑶𝑾 “We’ve had a horrendous run of injuries and we’ve had a poor run of injuries last season as well. We’ve certainly been reviewing this and we are trying to get to the bottom of what’s been going on.” “There are studies that the EFL shares with us that when you change managers or you change a high performance coach, follows on a spike of injuries because all managers will say my players aren’t fit enough and need to work them harder and fitness coaches come in and want to prove a point.” “We had a situation last year where there was probably a feeling that there was maybe some fitness issues and then we changed managers and then we had a lot of hamstring and various soft tissue injuries.” “We changed around our performance team this summer and we’ve over indexed in some areas, hamstrings for example. League average is 5 or 6 and we are almost double that.” #HTAFC

Mark Cartwright was unavailable tonight, that’s all we’ve currently been told. Michael Duff wasn’t expected but looks like he’s stepped up in the absence of Cartwright. Duff currently answering questions in regards to recruitment that I’m pretty certain was asked as people wanted answers from Cartwright himself. #HTAFC

🚨Mark Cartwright NOT present at tonight’s Online Fan Forum No explanation has been given why that is the case after being told officially by the club he would be taking part. #HTAFC

𝑻𝑶𝑹𝑵 𝑪𝑨𝑳𝑭 𝑹𝑼𝑳𝑬𝑫 𝑴𝑨𝑻𝑻𝒀 𝑷𝑬𝑨𝑹𝑺𝑶𝑵 𝑶𝑼𝑻 𝑶𝑵 𝑭𝑹𝑰𝑫𝑨𝒀 𝑨𝑺 𝑯𝑼𝑫𝑫𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑭𝑰𝑬𝑳𝑫 𝑨𝑫𝑫 𝑻𝑶 𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑰𝑹 𝑰𝑵𝑱𝑼𝑹𝒀 𝑳𝑰𝑺𝑻 “Matty Pearson is now out for a period of time. He’s pulled his calf.” “We don’t even know when he’s done it. He reported Friday morning and then sent him for a scan and he’s got a significant tear.” “I don’t know what we’ve done at the minute, whether someone’s run over a black cat or something like that.” #HTAFC

𝑫𝑼𝑭𝑭 𝑾𝑯𝑬𝑵 𝑨𝑺𝑲𝑬𝑫 𝑨𝑩𝑶𝑼𝑻 𝑯𝑰𝑺 𝑫𝑬𝑪𝑰𝑺𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝑻𝑶 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝑵𝑰𝑪𝑯𝑶𝑳𝑳𝑺 𝑶𝑽𝑬𝑹 𝑪𝑯𝑨𝑷𝑴𝑨𝑵 𝑨𝑮𝑨𝑰𝑵𝑺𝑻 𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑫𝑰𝑵𝑮 “I think Chappys been really good. I’ve said it all along, Lee is the number one of the football club.” “What Chappy did allow us to do is as soon as Lee was fit we didn’t have to throw him straight in. I didn’t want to get to a point where I’m waiting for Chappy to make a mistake to leave him out of the team because I don’t think that’s fair on him.” “I thought Lee, everything he had to do he did well.” #HTAFC

𝐍𝐎 𝐖𝐈𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝟓 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐔𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐋𝐃 𝐀𝐒 𝐃𝐔𝐅𝐅 𝐏𝐔𝐓𝐒 𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐀 𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐎𝐅 𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐃 “In the 4 games that we haven’t won, I think it’s only really the Northampton game where we were really really poor.” “Birmingham we got beat done by a moment of quality. Bolton game they came in and tried to steal a 1-0 like Reading did.” “It’s just us having to be better in that final part of the game.” #HTAFC

You’re a harsh harsh man Bob 🤣🤣 Nicholls was definitely indecisive in moments and made mistakes against Reading but he’s bound to be rusty when last playing back in September 2024. Clean sheet and back between the sticks will give him much needed confidence for the next one. Let’s not forget how good Nicholls has been in the past. I do also believe Chapman has been superb too. #HTAFC

Two good goalkeepers we have on the books now. Hard to juggle both and will be interesting to see what Duff does going forward. Thinks the recent form of the team made his decision easier to bring back Nicholls last time out. He has stated a few times that Nicholls is our number 1 despite the way Chapman has performed in his absence. #HTAFC

In regards to the Rambo situation, all I’m hearing from my sources are that he was fired by the club. I’m yet to hear why it came about but if I find anything else out that’s reliable and truthful I shall let you know 👍 #HTAFC

We have some good players but what we don’t have are players that can make something out of nothing. We haven’t had that for a while. Literally everything has to work for us to put the ball in the back of the net. That’s why Joe Taylor is huge for us. His goal against Blackpool was literally from nothing. Then he goes and gets injured. Huge blow.

Been hearing a lot of noise in regard to Lee Nicholls on Saturday so here’s my two cents; Think we’ve got to understand that Nicholls had been out of action and not played a single minute in 138 days due to his injury. That’s a long time off throughout the season for a position where confidence is one of the biggest attributes to have. He was definitely rusty but ultimately kept a clean sheet. He will improve with each game now. #HTAFC

Duff has said they investigated everything and only the hamstrings were of concern and that’s why they had to get rid of a staff member and make a change. We’ve had some very bad luck this season injury wise. Could some of it been avoided? Sure, I think so but I do also believe we have just had rotten luck too. #HTAFC

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Ultimately we’ve invested rather heavily in the January transfer window and we had to lose something somewhere. Lonwijk probably the next one back and I think we’ve missed him just as much as we may have potentially missed Helik. #HTAFC