David McGoldrick and Teddy Bishop will both be in the Town squad visiting Preston North End on Saturday. McGoldrick has been out with a hamstring problem, while Bishop has been sidelined with an ankle injury.
"They have both trained, they’re both travelling to Preston which is good news for all of us,” manager Mick McCarthy said.
"We have missed them, it’s a been a tale of our season so far, but Didzy was excellent in training yesterday.
"Tuesday and Wednesday, both he and Bish trained really well and you can see when they come back what we’ve been missing.”
Keeper Bartosz Bialkowski is fine having missed last week’s defeat at Huddersfield as he was ill.
"Bart’s fine, he’s OK,” McCarthy said."Bart has been the number one goalkeeper all year and that’s still the case for now.”
He added: Myles Kenlock is still suffering with the calf injury he picked up at QPR, he’ll be another two or three weeks. I’m hoping that’s all it will be. But other than that we’ve got a stronger squad.”
Looking at the longer term injuries, Tommy Smith is making progress after having back surgery in the autumn.
"Tommy Smith trained yesterday for the first time with the squad,” the Town boss added. "He’s nowhere near in terms of playing, I think he’ll play in an U23s game on February 4th, I think it is. And then hopefully after that he can be involved.
"Adam Webster has had his ankle operation. They’ve said he might get back for the last game of the season but unless he’s absolutely right that would be just nuts anyway.”
McCarthy says midfielder Luke Hyam, who hasn’t featured this season, is yet to return to training after his knee surgery.
"I’ve just had a long conversation with [physio] Matt Byard about him, we’ve got to get him out on the grass as soon as possible,” the Blues manager continued.
Also on the sidelines at present are Jonny Williams (shoulder) and Giles Coke (knee).