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Last updated : 25 September 2008 By Stray Shots Team
Rhys Day: Injury problems continue.
Shots captain Rhys Day has told the Aldershot News that his injury nightmare looks set to continue.

The Welsh defender has been missing since the pre-season with a hernia injury and just as he was getting fitter, he has told Charlie Oliver that the problem has returned.

Speaking to the paper he said, "This was already the worst start to the season — on a personal level — I've ever had.

"And now it's just got worse. It looks like my hernia has gone again. I had an operation on my right one in the summer and now the left one has gone. I'm off to see the specialist today [Thursday] and I reckon I'll be needing another operation.

"I played for the Reserves against Millwall on Tuesday as, although it sounds strange, we wanted the hernia to be as bad as possible, as that will help the specialist assess the damage better and settle on the way forward.

"I'm pretty devastated, to be honest, but now I just hope that, if I need an op, I can be fitted in pretty quickly and then get back on the road to fitness. Normally it's about three weeks after a hernia op before you're back fit, so I guess I'm just going to have to write off the first two months of the season. But hopefully the injury problems will soon be out the way — perhaps all the little niggles I've had have been connected to the hernia."

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http://www.gethampshire.co.uk/sport/football/s/2036004_day_thinks_it_all_over