Midfielder Paul Anderson has emerged as an injury doubt ahead of Saturday’s trip to Blackpool, while the Blues will definitely be without Aaron Cresswell, who is suspended for two games following his red card after the final whistle against Barnsley last week.
Boss Mick McCarthy revealed that Anderson had suffered a problem in training: "We’re all alright, Ando’s got a bit of a groin problem, but we’ll see how he is.
"He had to come off in training. He hasn’t trained today, we’ll wait and see how he is tomorrow.
"That’s the only injury problem we have but, of course, we haven’t got Cressy because he’s suspended.”
Skipper Carlos Edwards will return to the Town starting line-up if Anderson doesn’t make it and may in any case have been recalled with McCarthy admitting that he’s likely to make changes after a couple of poor performances.
The Blues boss has no doubt that Tyrone Mings will prove an able deputy for Cresswell: "Ty will be fine. I’ve no worries at all about him.
"That’s the nice thing about having back-up players of that qualify. Sad to lose Cressy, it was just a silly set of circumstances but it happened and Ty will be fine.”
Meanwhile, McCarthy reminded reporters that he had told them who the new manager of the Republic of Ireland would be in September after Giovanni Trapattoni’s exit: "I told you in here six weeks ago what was going to happen and you kept badgering me.
"It was Martin ONeill’s to turn down, it was his gig, in my view, and I don’t think he was ever turning it down. I might be wrong, they might tell me it’s different. I said he was a shoo-in and that was the case.”
However, he repeatedly refused point blank to give his thoughts on the O’Neill-Roy Keane Republic of Ireland management team when asked.