Ryan Gauld still isn’t fit enough to be training daily at Hibs and won’t be considered for a first team outing yet.
The on-loan Sporting CP midfielder played and scored in last week’s 5-0 SPFL Reserve League win over Ross County.
He has trained since, but didn’t make the squad for Friday night’s win over Livingston and manager Paul Heckingbottom explained he won’t feature in the immediate future.
"We played him in a game, he trained after that game but he is just not ready to be involved with us daily,” he said.
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"We know it is the final part of his rehab and that's where we need to get him, so he can train every day, gradually build his minutes with his development games and with us so that he is ready and we know that when we put him out to do 90 minutes for us that he can do it."
Gauld hasn’t featured for Hibs since Heckingbottom took the job, and the frustration at how little he’s been able to play since arriving in January is shared by his manager.
He added: "If a manager is not picking you at least you can do something about it and convince him on the training ground but when you are injured you can't, you feel helpless and it is the worst part of the job."
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