McEveley to face Blades in Rams Reserves run-out
JAY McEveley was due to play for Derby County Reserves this afternoon wearing a mask to protect his fractured cheekbone.
The defender picked up the injury in the defeat at Middlesbrough just over three weeks ago.
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McEveley mask
He also suffered a major scare on the operating table when his heart stopped for two minutes.
But he has been training and will face Sheffield United Reserves at Bramall Lane (2pm).
McEveley, with his mask at the ready, was an unused substitute for the first team in Friday's home victory over Coventry City.
He will not fly out with the rest of the squad tomorrow for the friendly against Den Haag in Holland because his fiance is due to give birth in the next week or two.
The Reserve team will be made up mainly of youngsters like Greg Mills, Arnaud Mendy, Mark Dudley, Aleksander Prijovic and Henrik Ojaama.
Ben Pringle is still a few weeks away from being fit.
The midfielder damaged his knee playing for the Reserves against Port Vale last month.
4 Comments
by Thomas, spondon
Wednesday, November 11 2009, 3:50PM
“we could call him fatom of the rams”
by Toggles, Derby
Wednesday, November 11 2009, 2:41PM
“Prijovic playing again. Will he score again. probably. Will he be on the bench next time there is an injury crisis.
No.
Surely any human is worth benching if you have no one else.
These youngsters keep playing, but not to be a sub in place of no-one must be irrataing to say the least!!”
by WB - admiring the moot guy, SE
Wednesday, November 11 2009, 10:37AM
“Moot is at the sharp end of Ram comment; there is no way, as I see it, that Derby County FC can come back with a riposte!”
by Moot, Derby
Wednesday, November 11 2009, 9:50AM
“Aleksander Prijovic and Henrik Ojaama. Who are they? I have never heard of them.
Clearly they are either figments of our imagination or they are not strikers, as Clough said Hulse and Dickov are the only fit strikers we have.”