Town central defender Adam Webster has suffered a groin injury which is expected to sideline him for around three weeks. The 21-year-old has been ruled out of the live Sky game against Nottingham Forest which follows the international break but could make the match against QPR the week after, which is also at Portman Road.

The former Portsmouth man suffered the injury late on the 2-1 win at Sheffield Wednesday and is seeing a specialist and having an injection in London today.

“It’s a strain to his left groin,” physio Matt Byard told the club site. “We are looking at around three weeks or so [from when he suffered the injury].

“Adam won’t be available for Forest but we haven’t ruled him out of the QPR game yet. It depends on how his recovery goes.

“He is seeing Dr Noel Pollock, who worked with the GB team at the Rio Olympics, today and we will take it from there.”

With Tommy Smith continuing his recovery after back surgery - the New Zealand international is due back in early December - skipper Luke Chambers, a former Forest captain, looks set to move to the centre of the defence against his old club with Josh Emmanuel returning at right-back.

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Michael11 added 15:28 - Nov 10 International break came at the right time then. Josh Emmanuel has always done a solid job whenever he's come in so far though so not too worried if it's just the one game.
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tractorboytedwardo19 added 15:40 - Nov 10 Positive from this is Emmanuel can continue to prove his quality at RB and keep the pressure on chambers. Since Emmanuel had a couple of games, chambers has upped him game and SCORED 2 goals for us!!
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Burnzee1991 added 16:15 - Nov 10 SH1T class player hope it's only one game he misses!
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IpswichT62OldBoy added 17:35 - Nov 10 Shame, what does M Mc do to their groins?
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prebbs007 added 18:28 - Nov 10 Big loss this. Gives Josh a chance but Webster has been outstanding and we will miss him. Speedy recovery.
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carsey added 19:16 - Nov 10 Bu%%er just when he was really settling down and starting to look the real deal.
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martin587 added 19:18 - Nov 10 Extremely bad news,but as some say this will possibly give Josh a chance if Chambers plays in the middle against Forest.Let's just hope it's not long term.
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hampstead_blue added 19:47 - Nov 10 A great, huge, loss. Made worse by the fact the Chambers will get more game time.
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Beattiesballbag added 10:03 - Nov 11 Strange he usually seems comfortable on the ball !
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