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Interview with Elgin City manager Allan Hale assessing injury to goalkeeper Tom McHale
Transcript
00:00It's not looking great for Tom, to be fair. He's got a bit of significant damage there.
00:06Thankfully, he's got an x-ray and it's not broken like what was maybe feared after the game.
00:11I think you've got to give him a lot of credit for playing on because I think probably 95% of the time I don't think a player gets up and plays on from that.
00:19And, you know, defensively I thought we were really good in the game where he didn't have a lot to do.
00:24You could tell that his mobility was really restricted. His distribution was extremely restricted in terms of his ability to distribute from his foot.
00:32But he carried on and put in a really commendable performance.
00:37But it does look like it's going to come at a cost and we'll be without him for some time, I would expect.
00:43So it's something that we're working on. Obviously, we're not blessed in the goalkeeping department.
00:49Obviously, Ollie being out there is a broken arm as well.
00:52So, yeah, it's one of those unique circumstances that you don't really plan for.
00:57So it's been very busy. A lot of phone calls have been made, a lot of conversations.
01:04So we're working on a couple of things and I'm sure by the weekend we'll have a solution anyway.
01:10Are we talking about emergency loans? Is that something that can be done?
01:13I think, you know, firstly, it probably will be an emergency loan.
01:16And then, you know, with that, we probably then need to look at a loan, you know, to tide us through for the period that Tam will be out for.
01:23We don't know the extent of that detail. There's obviously a lot of swelling and a lot of bruising there.
01:27So we need to kind of wait for that to ease off a little bit before we can start to get the treatment.
01:32So we don't really know the extent in terms of timeline at this minute in time.
01:35But, you know, from experience and having dealt with those injuries in the past, it's not going to be, you know, a matter of weeks, I would expect.
01:42So, yeah, we'll probably look at an emergency loan to tide us over for this week.
01:46And then, you know, try and look at maybe something to tide us over till January thereafter.