Gareth McAuley's withdrawal from the Northern Ireland squad facing Serbia in a friendly in Belfast on Saturday has been confirmed. The defender is not yet over the thigh injury he sustained at Plymouth.
On Friday, manager Roy Keane said that McAuley would not be joining up with the Northern Irish squad if he was unable to play for the Blues at Reading.
Town have a number of other players away on international duty before the live home Sky game with Sheffield Wednesday on November 21st (KO 5.20pm).
Loan keeper Asmir Begovic is with Bosnia as they take on Portugal in their World Cup play-off, Jaime Peters is with Canada for a friendly, Tamas Priskin is with Hungary, also for a friendly, while Owen Garvan is with the Irish U21s and Ronan Murray is with the Irish U19s for European qualifiers.
Keeper Brian Murphy, who formally joins the Blues from Bohemians on a Bosman in January, is with the Republic of Ireland squad for their World Cup play-off with France.