Town boss Mick McCarthy has confirmed that Kevin Foley and Dean Gerken are fit again after missing Saturday’s game at Cardiff and says David McGoldrick is continuing to make good progress, but concedes that Teddy Bishop now may miss the remainder of the season.
"They’re both all right, Kevin’s trained and Gerks has trained,” McCarthy said. "Gerks was just violently ill on Friday night. Kev Foley had had a bang in the ribs, he’d got sore ribs but they both trained today and are both fine.
"Everybody else is fine. Didz has trained today. I only had two on the list from the Grim Reaper today, there was only two first-team players on that.”
Gerken will replace Michael Crowe on the bench with Foley in the running for a place in the midfield.
McCarthy says this weekend will come too soon for McGoldrick, who has been out with a hamstring injury since mid-December, but says he’ll play in the U21s next week and has been pencilled in to travel to Wolves after the international break: "He’ll play against Forest in the U21 game on Monday.”
Bishop has been out of action for the entire season with a succession of injuries, most recently a hamstring problem, and McCarthy admits that the 19-year-old may soon have to write off 2015/16.
"It’s getting that way,” he conceded. "We’ve not got that many left. He’s not going to be available before the international break and we’ve only got eight after we come back. It’s looking like a season written off.”
Meanwhile, McCarthy could add a loanee to his squad before the deadline on the fourth Thursday in March: "Possibly, if there's something around, if the right one's around."