Town boss Mick McCarthy has no new injuries ahead of Tuesday’s game at Birmingham. Elliott Hewitt suffered a minor groin problem at Reading on Saturday but is expected to be fine.

“Everybody’s OK,” McCarthy said. “Elliott had bit of a tight groin but he’s OK, he’s training today. Everybody else is fine.”

Wingers Cameron Stewart and Stephen Hunt are Town’s only longer-term absentees with a broken jaw and a calf problem respectively.

Hunt is back in training, while Stewart is involved in non-contact work and is facing around another month out.

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StuartBrett8 added 09:32 - Aug 18 I'm concerned how small our squad is, I know we can fill the bench with kids but in reality we are at least 5 players short of a decent squad.
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Surco72 added 09:38 - Aug 18 Squad short of numbers and class in creativity
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Bobbychase added 09:56 - Aug 18 Reading's bench on Saturday was entirely players from their academy. Didn't stop them beating us.
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bluefeast added 10:00 - Aug 18 just looked through the squads in the championship , outside of the sides who came down its only us and Brighton who are weakened from last season. Also the way we play and the ground we cover in terms of running is due to a lack of possession. Also a small squad playing like that week in week out is going to suffer injuries and fatigue.
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jas0999 added 12:22 - Aug 18 Thank goodness. We can't lose many other players. We have a really weak, small squad as it is. We are considerably weaker than last year.
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Ebantiass added 16:08 - Aug 18 If we ever want the likes of Marriot Bishop and alike to come through and develope than a smallish squad is not the end of the world. Quaility over quantity.
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GerkensBeard added 17:53 - Aug 18 How are we weaker than last year? We may have lots numbers and lost Cresswell, but we have signed 2 good signings in Parr and Stewart, the only bit of quality we've lost is Cresswell. To say that our squad is considerably weaker is a bit over the top
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Luka added 18:26 - Aug 18 Ebantiass - spot on - Keane went for quantity over quality, when he actually sign players, and Jewell signed a lot of loan players, rather than a few quality ones
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