Skipper David Norris is a doubt ahead of Saturday’s home game against Scunthorpe due to the ankle injury he suffered at Barnsley prior to his recent two-game ban. Better news for boss Paul Jewell is that midfielder Colin Healy is expected to return from his torn stomach muscle.
Jewell says Norris, missing for two games having amassed 10 yellow cards, will be assessed prior to Saturday: "Chuck only trained yesterday. Although he’s been out suspended, his injury was quite a nasty one and I think he was feeling that when he made the tackle that got him booked against Reading.
"He’s been training with the physio and did the warm-up yesterday and we’ll see how he is later when we get to the training ground.
"When he got injured at Barnsley he got quite a nasty injury. He’s come back, which is typical of Chuck, and the ankle’s just hurt him at the end of the Reading game. If he hadn’t have been suspended, he wouldn’t have been fit anyway.”
The Blues boss says Colin Healy may be available after missing the last five matches: "He might well be in the squad this weekend Colin, he’s been training in the last couple of days, so hopefully he’ll be fit.”
Jewell says there were no new injuries from Tuesday’s game against Watford: "The players were in yesterday, there were a few broken hearts but everyone’s OK.”