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00:00We spoke a wee bit before and touched on a wee bit there, Eli Juhan,
00:04I think for people looking in, he sort of just came back in,
00:09like just kind of out the blue a wee bit, I don't think many people will have expected him to
00:14start the game again, I don't think anybody expected him to finish the game, certainly,
00:20he got the sort of minutes he needed and I think you can tell, obviously we all know how
00:26effective a player Eli Juhan can be, but he certainly, and I guess it's only natural when
00:31you're coming in to start after a lengthy absence, but he does look like a player who needs that bit
00:37of, that rhythm of games that he's probably going to elude him in the next few weeks,
00:41to really get into the sort of player we all know he can be.
00:45Yeah, he was, you know, he, doesn't matter how well you're going in training and apparently he'd
00:50been flying in training and looking really good and he played 45 minutes in that bounce game
00:55against Dundee United during the international break and so did Junior Hoylett, so it was always,
01:00I think, a case, one was going to start and one was going to finish, they were just going to get
01:0445 minutes each. Eli, he just struggled to get to pace with the game, that simple, it's just a guy
01:12who's been out since July, mid-July, it was a really annoying, just an impact injury that kept
01:17him out as well, it's not as if he's torn anything or pulled anything. In the last minute, injury
01:22time, even a collision with the goalkeeper in that, effectively a meaningless Premier Sports Cup game.
01:29So, one of those annoying things, he just looked off it, just not ready yet, not, and that's, but you
01:35need to, there's only one way to get him back into it and skip the minutes, so I think he will have
01:40benefited from that, benefited from just getting his head back in the game, you know, just as much
01:46as anything, not the physical, but just getting his head back in the game of, up to the speed of how
01:51quickly you have to react to things.