Injured midfielder seeking fortnight return
David Norris was sent off for this challenge on West Ham's Winston Reid
David Norris is targeting a Pompey return within the next fortnight.
The midfielder hasn’t kicked a ball since being sent off against West Ham.
He was subsequently banned for three matches for that dismissal.
It was a period the Blues used to send him to a surgeon to resolve a double hernia problem.
Norris has now missed the past six matches at a time when Pompey’s paper-thin squad is ravaged by injury,
But the summer signing believes he could be back in the next two weeks to boost Michael Appleton’s options.
He said: ‘It’s getting there, I’m looking at a couple of weeks.
‘It was a bit slow at first but is now getting a bit better day-by-day.
‘I am outside, I am running, twisting and turning a little bit with the ball.
‘I’ve got sprinting, checking and more ball work to do – then I’ll need a week’s training with the boys as well.
‘That is what will be expected of me and hopefully I’ll be okay in a couple of weeks.
‘I’m feeling stronger and my fitness will obviously need topping up but I am getting closer now.’
Norris was given a red card following a challenge on Winston Reid on January 14.
Since then Pompey have picked up four points from a possible 16.
In addition, the 10-point deduction for entering administration has plunged them into a relegation battle.
Along with Luke Varney, Norris has been a frustrated spectator during that time.
Varney, who suffered a medial knee ligament injury back in December, is also feeling his way back to fitness.
And Norris is desperate to get out playing with his team-mates again.
He added: ‘It has been so frustrating not being able to join the lads during an important time.
‘It wasn’t a straight-forward hernia operation because when I went into it I wasn’t in the best of shape.
‘Still, your body will let you know when you are ready and we will see how it goes.’
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Amesbury Blu
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 01:14 PMpost 7...those "honours" will look good in Moneyfields trophy cabinet won`t they?..........lol
number22
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 11:39 AMwhos great plan was it to give him a hernia operation when he was banned for 3 games thinking he would be fit to resume at the end of it especially when we were so short of players well done to all concerned
Canterbury Blue
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 11:32 AMhiddenhedgeender @6 pleases stay hidden and keep off this forum,please keep your anger and hatred at home or at st marys it just creates bad feeling move on we know the situation we are in and would not wish it on anyone not even you !
Harry Stotle
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 10:29 AMPost 6 HedgeendPlonker - 2 x FA CUp Winners, 2 x League Champions - Can't get over it, can you?
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Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 09:05 AMThis comes from a Saint who is ambivalent to your plight. As a early 60's child you never really appeared on my radar and I always looked for your score as the old man used to follow Saints and PFC.................. How many on here were at Wembley singing...."One Peter Storrie............"? Or were those singing that the missing tens of thousands of the self titled "best fans in the world"? The rest of the football world has realised that you have effectively cheated to achieve limited success and you still delude yourselves that real fans love you. Saints fans watched our team slide down the leagues whilst still paying inflated wages to journeymen who cared about nothing but themselves. When our position became critical we farmed out these wasters and played our kids with a management team that was cheap and as desperate as the club at the time. We were rightly relegated to L1 with a -10 point deduction waiting for us. Our position attracted an honourable man who had the vision and means to turn our situation around. So honourable that he paid off all the debts surrounding the club. Meanwhile you continued to spend way beyond your means. I've watched this site over a long period of time and some of your attitudes are laughable. Was the first question to your new administrator at the meeting last night really about signing players? FFS! Saints fans have watched your situation and been laughing as you continued to spend, spend, spend. Was it worth it? Are you that narrow minded that a bit of silverware and a few years in the Premiership are worth all the history and memories of P*mpey fans since you were established? So what does the future hold? If you had been liquidated as you should have been last time then the phoenix club could have already made progress up the pyramid. Trust me, as a football fan there is life beyond the Sky League that you crave so much. Wake up, FFS! P*mpey as you know it is a dying entity and the carcass will be picked over unless you take drastic action. Boycott the games, if you aren't already. Chanrai will bleed as much as he can out of PFC. Liquidation is the only clean and clinical way out. Take the medicine and start again. I don't care what happens to you but smaller clubs with a tiny % of your debt will disappear soon and I hope that makes you realise you are not as special as you think you are. So who was singing "One Peter Storrie......" then?
carisbrooke
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 09:03 AM@2 I don't know the rules, after all the Prem and the FL make them up as they go along don't they? However entirely possible we will lose the parachute payments, who benefits? The other clubs! Do they care what has happened to us, no, they are "angry" with us. After all they didn't have a placeman as CEO, they didn't approve of our owners via the F and PP test, didn't approve the businessplan when we came out of admin last time and haven't controlled all of our transfer deals have they. What a lot of villains we have been at FP. Our crime is that we have made them look bad and now everyone is looking at football and there is a threat of financial legislation in the future. The fooitball gravy train is coming off the track and PFC was one of the logs in the road!
pompeygazza
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 08:59 AM4 points from 16, who does the math on this paper?
rfwBlue
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 08:28 AMHuseklepp to Birmingham. Can't be true can it we won't have team to put out on Saturday?
t111sho
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 08:23 AMOn the meeting last night - two things require further clarification for me . Firstly regarding the money withheld by UHY that belongs to Pompey - what was the origin of this money and what rights do UHY have to withhold this and deduct money owed? Surely the funds belong to the new Administrators. Secondly, can the staged parachute payments really be cancelled in our circumstances - does anyone know what the rules are here? PUP
BC we Trust pardon the pun
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 08:11 AMall the best welcome back asap
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