Hamstring Hell for Holmes

" I just felt a sharp stabbing pain in the hamstring on my right leg. It is not the same leg that I have been getting problems from but I am not sure how to look at it right now."

Graeme Holmes joined Dunfermline for the start of the 2008-09 season but it was Valentine's Day before he started his first match for the Pars. A run of four starts now seems to have been ended after tearing a hamstring 35 minutes into the match at Greenock.

Hobbling out of Cappielow on crutches the 24 year old midfielder revealed exclusively to www.dafc.co.uk, just how the injury came about:-

"I was chasing Jenkins back. He was getting to the ball before me and I stretched to try and touch it away from him. I just felt a sharp stabbing pain in the hamstring on my right leg. It is not the same leg that I have been getting problems from but I am not sure how to look at it right now."

It is too early to assess the extent of the damage, physio Gerry Docherty will examine the injury on Sunday.

Graeme described the players mood as totally deflated after the 2-1 defeat to Morton:-

"They are gutted at not being able to pull it back. When I did come out to watch it near the end it seemed as if we had all the ball.

"We are nine points off the top; nine points is a decent gap but we have a game in hand still. We have to be positive and lift ourselves for the next game. I don't think I will make that mind you!"

With Dunfermline facing a schedule of seven matches in 18 days it is not the best of times for Graeme to be out.

"That's not the important thing, what is important is that the boys lift it going into the next game and do well. We all have to pull together and hopefully we can get a couple of results to pull ourselves up."

Graeme hoped his injury problems were behind him.  After arriving at East End Park he had problems with his back but then experienced shooting pains in his hip. He was getting spasms in his hamstring and at first thought it was just a hamstring problem but Gerry Docherty discovered it was a back problem. The Pars physio discovered Graeme's discs were too close together so he had to have an operation to move them. They were touching and causing his hamstrings to spasm.

Let's hope this injury turns out to be just a typical hamstring strain.