Paul Heckingbottom pre-Portsmouth

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00:00Is Brad's injury a new one or not? I think he's done his hamstring here before.

00:03Yeah, that was part of the problem and what caused all the canjer. Everyone's saying we're time-wasting.

00:11Why would I take the only two people who can play right-wing back off, you know what I mean?

00:14Just absolutely... And if Kane hadn't have left the pitch, we'd have probably left him on.

00:20We took him off because he's got a tight hamstring at the minute, he's getting treatment for it,

00:24we're managing him through it and he was starting cramping up. But he was the first board that the

00:29linesman I looked at had gone and said, I've done my hamstring, I'm sure I have, so

00:34we had to make that other change. He's got some damage there so it unfortunately means that he'll

00:44miss this week and the good thing is we've got the international break now to get him right.

00:50What's the plan for the break? Are you going to have a bit of time away from each other?

00:54Everyone's different because we've got some players coming back from injuries who will need

00:58a bit more, some who have played a lot of minutes who will have rest after this game.

01:05But the idea is, in the build-up for the Villa game, everyone's back

01:09and as close to their maximum as they can possibly be.

01:13Is Militang going to be back Saturday?

01:16Hopefully, yeah, hopefully. Like I said, he wasn't at a level where he was comfortable

01:24playing so if we were one of them we would look after him. Still sore, he was still

01:29hindered by his hip and still feeling it. But we want him playing, he wants to be playing

01:38and we're hoping that these last few days rest we've given him has calmed it down for him to

01:44play and then go away a month and then grow. Do you know if he's spoken to the FA yet to

01:48give his case to them about that? There's been conversations, yeah, but not.

01:52But yeah, that's it, there's been conversations, yeah, it's a process however it goes and however

01:58long it goes on. So this can't be rushed, this is a serious incident, a serious case.

02:04So yeah, there's a big process to go through.