Frank and Giles give Hickey and Henry update at fans' forum | OneFootball

Brentford head coach Thomas Frank gave an update on the fitness of Aaron Hickey and Rico Henry at Monday night’s fans’ forum at Gtech Community Stadium.

The full-backs have both been out for over a year with hamstring and knee injuries, respectively.

Asked when Hickey and Henry will be back, Frank responded: “Soon, hopefully. I think Rico will be back sooner than Hickey.

“I’ve said in a press conference recently, instead of getting your hopes up too high I will just say, ‘This week, they are involved in the squad'.

“Of course, we will say when they play a friendly or a B team game, but I think it’s better to do it like that than saying, ‘They’ll be back in 10 days or two weeks’.”

Bees director of football Phil Giles took an upbeat approach to the situation, believing there are positives to be taken from the injury problems, including Keane Lewis-Potter’s impressive form at left-back.

Giles stated: “There are positives, I see two positives - I know you probably see zero!

“Number one, it gives you the opportunity to play other players - I love that. Keane Lewis-Potter might turn out to be the best left-back in England, but we would have never found that out in other circumstances.

“The second positive is that it forces you to go back and look at how we do things and how we can do things better.

“I don’t think we’ve had any major problems, but what we saw was one or two details that we could put in place just to elevate the level again.

“But that’s normal, we’re always doing that across every area.”