Joe Ramage delivers an update on the fitness of Hartlepool United duo Anthony Mancini and Callum Cooke.
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00:00 I think he said before the game last week that it would be a huge boost for them and that goes without saying.
00:05 To have two players like that come back in, because they were a big miss.
00:08 Mancini, I know he only played six games in August before it happened.
00:14 He looked like he was a real find at this level.
00:17 Forget the Barnett game, where he was his debut, across the board they weren't very good that day.
00:21 But in the games after that, he was excellent to be honest.
00:24 He was just a bit of a maverick player, someone you don't often find at this level.
00:29 A bit of skill in him, a bit of a turn of pace, he got pulls up the field,
00:33 contributed with a couple of goals as well.
00:35 Fans took a really good liking to him, the squad took a really good liking to him as well.
00:40 He was a really big miss and the injury it was at Hamstring,
00:44 but I think Aski had said that it had come off the bone.
00:47 So it was like, to potentially have him back at Christmas,
00:52 it's a bit of a miraculous recovery isn't it really?
00:55 You would expect him to be really struggling.
00:58 The one thing that you would say with him is be cautious over his return.
01:02 Because of that type of injury, the last thing you want is for him to come back in,
01:07 maybe ahead of schedule and then re-injure himself within a couple of weeks
01:12 and then be out for the season.
01:14 So they will have to be careful how they return him.
01:16 I think with Callum Cook on the other hand, that one seems a bit more realistic for him to come back in.
01:22 I think the end of November is what's been targeted.