Kyle Ferguson spoke to the press after returning from injury in Dale’s 2-0 win against Kidderminster Harriers.
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[Applause] Kyle how did it feel to be back out on the pitch on Saturday oh it was it was brilliant um like Ro just speaking about it felt like such a long time um and obviously it was hard watching the boys every week when obviously the squad size was so small
And we struggling for numbers and I really wanted to help but I had to take him slow and but to be back out there and get 20 minutes was was very good um at half time Ben had asked me do you think you’ve got 20 minutes in you and I
Was buzzing I was like I’ve got 20 minutes in me I could go I felt like I could have played the full game but obviously the smart thing was to just ease me back in and it was felt really good to be back out there you came on at
A really good time as well I think we scored just a couple of minutes later and you obviously played a big part in the clean sheet as well yeah yeah like obviously when you come on as a sub in they brought me on because um kman had
Brought a big Striker on so it was to help with the stuff at the back post um and then obviously we scored two minutes after I come on and and then they started launching a bow long which was what The Gafford had predicted really
And it was just I was just happy to be able to play my part again after it felt so long that I’ve been out I think we remember talking to Tyrese a few weeks back he just come back from injury and he was kind of saying that even though
You are out injured you still very much feel a part of the squad is that the case for you as well yeah yeah obviously the the G or the coaching the coaching staff and the fyss make sure that we’re involved with all the meetings and obviously we’re in same time as the boys
And stuff but at the same time you feel part of it it’s you feel kind of not party it because you’re on the pitch every day working um which is probably the hardest part for me because I love training um but no it was like obviously you’re
There with the boys and watching all the games with them and supporting but at the same time I just like like just me I feel like I want to help and I feel like I want to be on the pitch benefiting the team and so like obviously come back at
This stage where we’re low in numbers as well just it feels it’s even more special I feel it was I guess especially a bit more grueling for you because you were almost back weren’t you from the initial injury but then sustained and yeah yeah i’ come back for the
Original injury against old them and then the same thing just happened again and maybe just wasn’t my body wasn’t ready at that point and but once the once it happened the reinjury happened we made sure that we took this time slow that’s why it took a bit
Longer to come back and but yeah like obviously I think it’s been probably the toughest injury that that I’ve had in my career just because of the it was the same injury and and obviously it was the same rehab that i’ had done twice so
Kind of felt extra long and but it was a wor in the end and the coaching staff and the medical staff that really helped me through it so it was good talk about that rehab what kind of things are you doing on day daily basis when obviously
The lads are out on the grass um usually in the gym in the morning um maybe doing some upper body or doing some single leg stuff um and then I’m just doing all the stuff to strengthen my growing like growing squeezes and Copenhagen and stuff um usually the same routine each
Day and then on the bike as well to keep my fitness up and and that’s before you can go on a pitch and once you got on the pitch you can start to kind of speed things up again with it strengthen the ball and stuff um but yeah it was like
Like I said It felt extra long because it was the same set of rehab twice but I was just my mentality all the way through was just stay focused and get through it I guess the closer you get to that return as well the more excitement
That you have to knowing that you’ll be back involved in the mar day Squad as well yeah for me the most Insight thing was training like I love training and it was the F when my first training session back um this time I was just buzzing
About there like it was like a was like a kid Christmas Day honestly I couldn’t I was just buzzing for it and and then obviously the match day and stuff it’s like back in the wall ups and then sitting on the bench in the side there’s so much different for sitting in the
Stand cuz you feel all the emotions with all the boys and stuff cuz you’re right there um but no like I said i’ like to be able to come back and and train and play is just like the best thing ever for me because that’s what I love doing
We still sports with few The Lads after the game on Saturday the lads who have been playing in this last couple of months week and week out and they were quite glad that there’s no game this weekend I guess it’s kind of the opposite for you and you love love have
A chance to be back up I’d love another chance to to play but I think at this point the no game at the weekend’s really good for the squad that let boys who are carrying slight knocks and stuff fully recover and then full focused to the league in the next game that’s
Coming up I guess it gives you I guess another week as well to to get carry on building that Fitness back up doesn’t it ahead of what’s going to be kind of a bit of a SLO for the last couple of months yeah yeah well I’m really looking
Forward to finish the season strong with the boys obviously we need to just try and keep this good momentum we’ we’ve got going just keep it rolling forward and and there’s been a couple of Queen sheets as well which watching as a Defender watching for the side you’re
Buzzing with because it’s makes your job easier when you go back into the team and you can see how hard everybody’s working for each other and that’s I think that’s one thing that’s been really good how defensively strong we’ve been um I think at the start of the
Season Maybe one one Queen sheo in him I’ve had a few in the in the past month or so so no definitely I’m gutted there’s no game but I think it’s at the right time as well like for the rest of the squad even though you’ve not been
Involved as much as you like because of the injury how much you enjoying not just like the camad the group and everything like that but also the results and and the football that we’ve been playing as well yeah definitely you can see I think from the start of the
Season and now the style of plays really came forward really matured but you can see like we’ve got a clear plan in every game it’s the same like the same you can see a clear style and that’s all the Gaff on the coaching staff like they
Drive it every day in training and we work it’s not like just by chance we work on it like if people could see inside these four walls how hard they work the analysis we do they’d understand that it’s like it’s not just be chance it’s like worked on really [Applause] hard oh
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Great to have you back, kyle. I still think you would be bedt up front!