Striker Brett Pitman and midfielder Luke Hyam will both miss Saturday’s trip to Brentford through injury, manager Mick McCarthy has confirmed.

Pitman suffered a thigh problem in training and missed the 1-0 EFL Cup defeat to Stevenage, while Hyam, red-carded in the home fixture against the Bees last season, picked up a knee injury in the pre-season friendly at Cambridge United.

“He’s still struggling, he’s not going to be fit for Saturday,” McCarthy said regarding Pitman. “I’m hopeful for Tuesday, but we’ll just have to wait and see.

“Luke’s not fit, he’s still recovering from that damaged nerve in his knee. I don’t know how long he’ll be out. We were being optimistic that he’d be back and up and running now, but it’s not the case. I’m not going to put a time on it.”

He added: “Everyone else is OK, there are a few bumps and bruises, that’s all, a bit of fatigue as you’d expect.

“Grant Ward had cramp. He’d not played that much in pre-season and having had Saturday’s game, the euphoria of that and the adrenaline going, he played again on Tuesday night. Conor Grant just had a bit of a tight groin but they’re OK, they’re fine.”

McCarthy says he'll decide on his team on Friday: “I’ll see how they all are tomorrow because we had the game on Tuesday. Some of them have been able to recover.

"The ones that have played two games, I’ll certainly take a look at them all tomorrow and see how they’re all feeling.

“They’ll all tell me they’re OK, of course, but it’s my decision as to whether they play or not.”

McCarthy made his anger at Tuesday’s performance clear and called his players in for training on Wednesday when they weren’t due at Playford Road.

“I said that that doesn’t warrant a day off,” he continued. “I’m always the one to give them plenty of time off and rest and recuperation and time with their families because, to be honest, they repay me back in spades by the way they work.

“But that wasn’t an occasion to do it. We all suffered a little bit. I didn’t see my granddaughter. I drove my wife back at half-past 10, turned around at five o’clock and came back in the morning. We got beat, so it’s no hardship.”

Striker Daryl Murphy trained with the squad this morning after being given a few days off having had little time off over the summer and will start on Saturday, while midfielder Giles Coke is continuing his recovering from the knee surgery he underwent at the end of last season.

McCarthy said that no moves in or out of the club are currently imminent.

Meanwhile, Town’s U21s are playing a friendly against Colchester United at Playford Road this afternoon (KO 1pm).

TWTD

Kirbmeister added 20:42 - Aug 11 ...good season.
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TimmyH added 21:17 - Aug 11 Seriously is it worth us having Hyam on our books any more?...he's continually injured, sadly a player who's disappearing into the background after promise a few seasons back.
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MicksZzzTactics added 21:59 - Aug 11 Let me put it this dear @Kirbmeister: We BETTER do okaaaaye point-wise on Saturday! And this regardless of whether we should EVEN once again -- and purely "involuntarily" of course :-) lol - somehow revert to vintage Dinosaur Mick good ol' reliable (not!) Hoofball galore and UNentertaining afraid-to-lose Hedgehog Tactics!!! Why? Well I tell you why! Not only are Brentford playing very poorly at the moment ... they have in fact neither won more than ONCE in the pre-sason games nor scored more than ONCE in any game since the end of the 2015/2016!, and most importantly their vastly 2 best offensive players from last season is still Missing in Action!!! Joint topscorer Lasse Vibe the Danish U-23 international is still in Brazil as the Danes LUCKILY managed to qulify for the next round in the Olympic Soccer Tournament despite getting clobbered 0-4 by the host country early this morning ... and their other joint topscorer Allan Judge is still recovering from YOU-ALL-KNOW-WHO's shocking socalled "challenge" in the April 9 2016 fixture at PR. So imho there is no way we should as much as allow the currently offensively crippled Brentford team to bother our Bart The Spectacular much ... if any ... so AT LEAST a point should be an absolute minimum gain from this game , but again due to Brentford's aforementioned current offensive woes and form Mick should really really for once "dare" to Go For The Jugular from the very kick-off! ... and if he does I sincerely think we will win "comfortably", again simply for-the-sake-of-argument disregarding whether such a win actual wind up coming with any notable entertainment value, as the short point being: If serious about competing you simply NEED to pick up all 3 points from any non-juggernaut team who are currently "laying down" and are generally messed up! Period. PS: Thanx for NOT elaborating on why you downvoted my earlier post btw. :-) No hard feelings whatsoever matey :-) wink wink

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karls_dad added 23:04 - Aug 11 A bit of fatigue???? what the feck is that about? we have played two games!! so come xmas they will be all worn out? i give up on this manager i really do! i have tried so hard to support him and his comments, but he is becoming a complete joke in my book of late, i shudder to think what is going to happen in a few weeks when we face a certain team from up the road a bit, with their million pound players, minnows versus giants i,m afraid!

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BrettenhamBlue added 23:22 - Aug 11 Agree with Mickzzztactics pretty much in every respect. There isn't a better time to play Brentford than now and we should be getting a draw as a bare minimum. I haven't commented much recently because I found our performance against Stevenage shameful. I felt embarrassed to be an ITFC fan after that. Back to route one hoofball and some shocking defending, particularly from Digby. Where was the preseason passing football? As a mate of mine pointed out, we played pretty passing football preseason and lost to the likes of Union, Sudbury, Barnet etc so it's back to launching huge rockets into the sky. The only way we seem to know how to win a game is to literally launch those balls into space. If we are going to use this strategy game after game why don't we sign two monsters in attack that can win those balls (I am thinking Duncan Ferguson/Melvin Manhoef style) and forget about everything else? I predict 0-0 at Brentford. If we win it will paper over the obvious cracks in our team. And my two nephews don't want to go to the Norwich game as they don't want to face the humiliation yet again. Their fondest memories of the derby game are the scenes of celebration at the final whistle after Andersons equaliser. It's poor when that is your best memory, screams of excitement and chanting because we drew at home against Norwich. You'd think we had beaten them 4-0.

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Kirbmeister added 23:43 - Aug 11 MicksZzzTactics - I got a third of the way down your post got confused and nearly lost the will to live. I take it you didn't do very well at English at school. I pray we win tomorrow just to p..s you off.
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MicksZzzTactics added 00:37 - Aug 12 Great sincere & emotional post PJewellisaGoat! Firstly the "I felt embarrassed to be an ITFC fan" mental state is certainly one I think all OBJECTIVE Town fans can relate to having experienced... one more than one occasion ... in the 21th century, and especially during the larger portions of all the Marcus Evans years actually,(so thereby definitely not implying it's solely a Mick The Dinosaur "conjured" phenomena!) Secondly I fell genuinely sorry to hear about your 2 nephews (real "youngish" nephews I presume?) utter fright & reluctance of being further "humiliated", i.e.as in being OUTplayed and particularly OUTpassed.... whether by our dreaded local archrivals The Cannaries .... or a Stevenage / Dog & Duck / St. Albans-like :-) distinctive minnow opponent in the very next Cup MISadventure under Mick "I don't give a flying fu@k about ANY cup" McCarhty! Real pity as they are quite likely far from the only youngish Town fans currently feeling this way i.e. and as such is part of the by NO means unimportant "core" of the very next generation of ITFC fans! So may I friendly & humbly (and just SLIGHTLY sarcastically too of course, since that is my trademark style here!) suggest you try taking your 2 nephews to a COMPLETELY different kind East Anglia football game ....Naaah not them sorry-Azzz just relegated Colchester United but rather Lowestoft Town in the tough non-league Premier Ryman League springs to mind??? ... or what about this bold looking Bury St. Edmunds outfit playing in the even more "obscure" non-league Isthmian North Division 1??? I'm certainly not saying nor claiming they will get immediately cured of their current form of hmmm shall-we-call-it: Bade sideeffects of "Mick McCartyism" :-) lol .... but Who knows you might all get seriously positive surprised at the sheer fierceness -- and if everything else fails a particular player: often very notable "playing with all heart"! -- of non-league ball (I know I sometimes do!), including quite possibly seeing more than a few MORE passes strung together in just one SINGLE attack than you generally speaking see from Mick's Hoof Susceptible favorite XI over a whole 90 minute combined in a regular season or cup game!!! :-) lol

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MicksZzzTactics added 01:40 - Aug 12 @Kirbmeister WOW! You are really trying your best to be "mean" and "macho" from the nice safety of your armchair obviously! aren't 't you dear Kirbmeister??? ROFL Sorry to hear about your "sudden" suicidal tendencies .... not that I for one moment think of them as real "sudden", as you kind of strikes me as just ANOTHER one of them too-many-too-mention sad and pitiful ITFC fans here on TWTD seriously in urgent need of "Get a freaking life" plus just a teaspoon "Sense of Humor" while you are at it!!!!!!!!! kind of fan. And yep most likely an armchair fan at that! Soooo you better seek professional help ASAP about this here strange lack "of will to live" will you please???? :-) I did fairly well at English in school, thank you! LOL But there happen to be just a few things you simply NEED to bear in mind before your really pass any remotely fair judgement on on my written lingo here on TWTD: 1) First of all this is simply just the exaggerated "pedagogical" & deliberately Zzzzilly way I most often CHOSE to write like here on TWTD .... again due to the sheer abundance of seriously either foolish, ignorant, utterly devoid of any form of humor or else not accepting ANY form of criticism of "Mick Their Savior" ITFC fans writing (or in some cases exclusively just down-voting for the sake/"fun" of it!) here . 2) I often write and post here on my oldschool but ever soooo dear Blackberry phone (you know them with the very minuscule plastic/rubber keys) while often in some degree of hurry, somewhere in the process of my very frequent travelling .... aye I'm travelling quite a lot :-)... and is therefore particular prone to mere "typos" etc.. Typos which unfortunately cannot be rectified since as you all know Phil for some reason won't allow us to edit our posts once we press the "add comment" button?! 3) To currently make my distinct "proneness" for typos and in-a-hurry misspellings even more profound these days I just happen to have 2 broken fingers on my thus heavily tapped-in right hand (from too fierce Kung Fu fighting practice, obviously! :-) ) And finally: What on Earth possesses thou to think it will "piZzzz me off" -- me a faithful fan for more than 40 long years btw -- quite personally even?! if the lads won on Saturday, no matter how how they did it (see earlier post!) actually, against this currently woefully offensive crippled and out-of-form Brentford side?????????? Oh brother thou REALLY are off thou nut, dear Kirbmeister .... so again seek professional help ASAP!!!

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