Port Vale loanee James Plant has told BBC Radio Somerset’s Jack Killah he’s delighted to be fit again and back at Huish Park for the rest of the season, after securing a loan move from the League Two side until the end of the campaign.
Speaking ahead of the weekend’s game with Dagenham & Redbridge he said that he was just itching to get going…in the kitchen as much as on the pitch.
“I’m really happy to be back. Obviously, [I] got back in there with the lads and [I’m] just looking forward to a game now. Can’t come fast enough, really.
Speaking about the injury which cut his previous spell on loan in Somerset, Plant said: “It was just a hamstring injury. Obviously [they’re] quite common in football, but I was gutted. I ended up doing my rehab at Vale, just a five-week period of rehab, and then did a couple of weeks training with them. Then I just asked a question: ‘Can I go back to Yeovil’? And the answer was yes. So here I am!”
Plant returned to Huish Park on the EFL’s deadline day and is looking forward to getting more game time and being on the pitch more often than not.
“I just want to play, games. Here is the place that I’m doing that. It seemed like the best thing to do. [Port Vale] were really happy about it. I think that’s what they wanted as well.
“They just wanted me playing as many games as many games as possible. So it was a bit of a setback with the injury, but hopefully we can go again now to the end of the season.
“I just want to play every game from now to the end of the season. That’s my main target. I’ll look at individual games and how I want to perform in them games, but as a whole, I just want to play every game to the end of the season.”
Plant was adamant that despite a few changes to the squad there’s still a belief the club can be successful this campaign: “We’re all aiming for the same things. [There’s] a few new faces in there that I’m getting to know, which is always good, but, yeah, similar goals.
“I just think with football, anything can happen. We’ll take it one game at a time, but there’s a lot of games coming up, and we could be in a really good position after the next two or three weeks. So we’ll just work from game to game, try and be as solid as we can, and also try and get forward, get goals, and then you never know.”
Plant’s second Glovers debut will likely come at Dagenham on Saturday – a side he’s already faced this season with the club.
“They’re a decent side. I remember we played them here. It was one of my first games, and we played really well, but they still tested us. We came away 1-0, so we were buzzing. Hopefully we can go to that place and do the same.”
Finally, a new loan deal brings with it, challenges for any young player, it turns out that James Plant can still turn to his Mum to help with getting creative in the kitchen… there’s a joke here about Plant-based meals… or something, you can see where we’re going with this.
“It’s first time I’ve really had to move away for football. It’s part of the part of the job. So I think it’s good for me to experience it so young, and obviously it’ll help me in the future as well. My mum’s sending me like recipes down, because I’m quite boring with my food. I’ll just cook the same thing every night, just the standard stuff, but she says she said I should try and change it!”