Town will be without striker Frank Nouble for Saturday’s home clash with in-form Bolton after he picked up a hamstring injury in training.

Nouble, 21, made his first senior start for the club in last week’s goalless draw at Peterborough, when he came closest to breaking the deadlock with a shot that struck a post.

He has also made eight substitute appearances since boss Mick McCarthy signed him from Wolves in January on an 18-month deal.

Nouble, who started out at Chelsea and also includes West Ham among his former clubs, said: “It is really disappointing to be ruled out.

“It’s a tweak and the physio has said the only cure is rest. I could take a chance and play against Bolton but it could get worse and I would end up missing even more games.

“It was felt that the best thing was to miss Saturday, have a good rest over the international break and then be back in contention for the game against Leeds.”

Lee Martin will serve the second game of his three-match ban against the Trotters, but Richard Stearman will be back after his one-game suspension.

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BrettenhamBlue added 13:16 - Mar 14 Looked good on his debut. Brings more to the team than McLean (who is likely to be his replacement...)
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TheBlueStig added 13:28 - Mar 14 Shame, he deserved to start this game alongside McGoldrick off the back of the Peterborough game.
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Michael11 added 13:29 - Mar 14 Big shame as him and Hewitt were easily our best players last week. I'd think Murphy will probably come back into the side rather than McLean.
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ChrisMakin2012 added 13:56 - Mar 14 Hopefully murphy starts he deserves to, as for McLean he doesn't even deserve the bench
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Garv added 14:01 - Mar 14 Chopra and McGoldrick then. Not a big deal.
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blue_beats_yellow added 14:04 - Mar 14 Thought he looked great against boro and was looking forward to him playing Bolton. Hopefully Murph will step up and bang them in. Need our luck to change with injuries though ...
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Garv added 14:05 - Mar 14 Or Murphy and Chopra while we play long ball. McGoldrick second half when we start to play football.
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Warkys_Tash added 14:05 - Mar 14 Bit of a Shefki, either row Z or breaks the back of the net... let us hope he can score as many as Shefki and be as popular here. Certainly the pace, strength and work rate are all evident.
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Superfrans added 14:21 - Mar 14 Presumably Chops is fit again?
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RetroBlue added 14:37 - Mar 14 Noooooouble !! The lad has a big future with Town. I feel sure we will be seeing an emerging talent over the coming months and next season.
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RetroBlue added 14:58 - Mar 14 He looks a real handful vs Posh. How the hell we didn't win 3-0 I'll never know- and that doesn't include the stone wall penalty decision we didn't get ! http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12040/8559156/Champ-Team-of-Week
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Cakeman added 15:09 - Mar 14 Great pity. I hope we have him back soon as others have already mentioned he played very well at Peterborough. We really have had bad luck with three of our newer players i.e. Taylor , Woody and Frank who have all showed promise. If we can have all three fit for next season, the garden is rosy.
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bluemikey100 added 15:14 - Mar 14 hewitt had great game but will stearman b back in team
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NSL added 15:31 - Mar 14 For me, Stearman is doing a great job at RB for now and should probably start but i'm looking forward to Hewitt growing into the team and bossing that position over the years to come. Fantastic that a solid spine seems to be developing for once, which may be with us for more than 1 season!
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itfcjc added 15:38 - Mar 14 Shame he's out He's looking good And he's CL4CK
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francisb123 added 17:03 - Mar 14 CL4CK
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jas0999 added 17:13 - Mar 14 Shame as I quite like this guy. However, we do have other options.
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Alwaysablue added 00:15 - Mar 15 Why does Mclean not deserve the bench ChrisMakin2012 I struggle to see what he has done wrong during his time here? Works incredibly hard and he can't score if we aren't creating chances, same with all of our current strikers, they all work hard off the ball, it's good to see.
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