Town boss Mick McCarthy says keeper Dean Gerken is unlikely to be available to take a place on the bench when the Blues face Rotherham at Portman Road due to illness.

“Gerks hasn’t trained today because he's poorly again, he didn’t come in this morning,” McCarthy said.

“Malcolm Webster, the goalkeeping-coach, was off yesterday and they’ve been in close proximity. Let’s just hope it’s not been passed on to Bart. So, I don’t think Gerks will be available tomorrow.”

Michael Crowe, who was recently recalled from his loan spell at Braintree, is set to be amongst the subs.

Having added Liam Feeney on loan from Bolton yesterday, McCarthy says that might be his last business before the loan deadline next week.

“I don’t know, possibly,” he said. “I’m hoping Didzy’s going to be back to be on the coach going to Wolverhampton, I don’t know about Ryan Fraser.

“And with everyone else fit, there’s no need to be signing other players. I’ve said I wouldn’t do unless they’re better than what I’ve got and I stand by my comment when I was asked in January, it’s hard to get better than I’ve got.”"

The Town boss says Feeney wasn’t brought in due to concerns that Ryan Fraser, currently undergoing his rehab from his hamstring injury back with his parent club AFC Bournemouth, might not return.

“No, not at all, both of them can play on either wing,” he added. “But it was two weeks ago when I said I would hope he’d be on the coach going to Wolves on April 2nd.

“And I think he felt it in training and I think [Bournemouth manager] Eddie Howe said at a press conference that that might not happen.

“If it doesn’t happen, there’s nothing we can do about it. If it does, if he’s back here, that would be great. But that wasn’t the concern because we can’t have enough firepower really.”

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tractorboy12341234 added 14:33 - Mar 18 thank god its not bart
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ronnyd added 14:56 - Mar 18 Perhaps it,s re-action to not winning his place back. Joking aside, get well soon Gerks.
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