Town boss Paul Hurst has revealed that striker Ellis Harrison will be out of action for at least two months having ruptured a ligament in his ankle. The Blues manager says he will look at whether to bring in a free agent having lost another striker, loanee Jon Walters, to injury earlier in the week.

“He’s not very good at all,” Hurst said when asked about summer signing Harrison, who suffered the knock in training.

“I think he’s ruptured a ligament in his ankle so we expect him to be out for a minimum of a couple of months, perhaps longer.

“It’s a frustration we’ve lost him, Emyr Huws, I said he felt his knee so he didn’t train Friday and wasn’t available. He hasn’t played but we were hoping he’d made a step forward again.

“And Myles Kenlock was another one we lost on Thursday to an ankle knock. That shouldn’t be anything like Ellis’s, he might be back training on Monday, I’m not sure.”

Free agents are Hurst’s only source of new recruits until January and he admits he may look at bringing someone in via that route.

“I think with Ellis we need to have a look at it,” he admitted, having previously said it was unlikely in the wake of Walters’s injury. “If there is something out there that we feel can help us, we’ll look at it.

“It doesn’t change my feelings overall, but if we are going to be without him having lost Jon - and I don’t want to lose any players - but you lose him, who gives you a physical presence at the top end of the pitch, then we lose Ellis who will compete, win headers etc, maybe we’re a little bit light in options.

“Kayden Jackson showed some of his attributes again today and Freddie Sears, they’re the two obvious ones but after that we haven’t really got too many options.”

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Northstander_Blue added 18:16 - Sep 29 Has to be said, we're not having any better luck with injuries so far this year than we have in past seasons. If the sports science approach of the new regime is meant to combat that problem, it's another thing that is sadly not delivering yet.
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NicRams added 18:17 - Sep 29 Folami?? Surely worth an opportunity.
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Blue_Meanie added 18:18 - Sep 29 FFS; another long term injury. We must be very unlucky???????
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shortmarine1969 added 18:20 - Sep 29 Very little loss to be honest , he is poor and not up to the job , unfortunate for him as a individual , but will it make much difference not having a poor non-scoring striker availabale , even been poor out wide..a dud buuy for me..sorry but thats what i see.!!
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grinch added 18:22 - Sep 29 Folami is in Australia for next 4 weeks with their squad
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parkinshair added 18:24 - Sep 29 Unfortunately you loaned out the promising young Morris and I'd rather see Folami than sign Dexter Blackstock or some other striker who's been sitting at home watching Tipping Point and Bargain Hunt since the summer.
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peteswindon added 18:26 - Sep 29 Well you sold all our decent strikers
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hogster1970 added 18:26 - Sep 29 May aswell bring back Morris. No good him just sitting on the bench unused that's no good for him and looked sharp against Blackburn.
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RobITFC added 18:27 - Sep 29 Recall Morris from his loan and see what he has to offer?
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Mark added 18:34 - Sep 29 Bad news, although Harrison has shown very little since joining us. After losing Celina, McGoldrick, Waghorn and Garner we needed to invest more in new goalscorers I think. Typical that McGoldrick finds his fitness just after Ipswich released him for nothing, netting another two today.
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Radlett_blue added 18:34 - Sep 29 Step up Nathan Ellington, Leon Best or Luke Varney.
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BlueandTruesince82 added 18:36 - Sep 29 OMG. Delia must have a collection of voodoo dolls or something. Freddie up the middle plz
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jas0999 added 18:43 - Sep 29 This is indeed bad luck. BUT when we released McGoldrick and sold Waghorn & Garner, replacing with just two players the alarm bells should have been ringing. Signing a player on loan who wasn't fit and carrying an injury wasn't the answer. When we sold Garner on deadline day it was essential a replacement was in place. We made the same mistake with Murphy. Evans clearly hasn't learnt.

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runaround added 18:59 - Sep 29 Bad luck for Ellis & symptomatic of things seem to be going for the Hurst regime at present. Might be a chance for a youngster to make a name for themselves though
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hyperbrit added 18:59 - Sep 29 ...Evans is looking for a buyer??
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Daleyitfc added 19:03 - Sep 29 I'm glad that this emphasis on sports science has really improved our players' fitness ...
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Bluearmy_81 added 19:07 - Sep 29 The football gods can fcuk right off
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OwainG1992 added 19:09 - Sep 29 When we came to deadline day and we were linked with Kayden Jackson and Josh Windass I thought it imperative we signed both. How that's look definite now.
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runningout added 19:15 - Sep 29 Harrison looked a little half hearted before injury. Hope he comes back full of go. Should Look very wisely at players not at a club, there's usually a good reason why they haven't got a job
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ronnyblue added 19:27 - Sep 29 The only way we can sign anyone is by singing a free agent and any of any value would have been signed already. With what Harrison has shown so far he will not be missed to any great degree, sorry for his injury, but he is another of the Hurst heroes!
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cornishnick added 19:31 - Sep 29 Go get Darren Bent. Surely worth a punt
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cornishnick added 19:31 - Sep 29 Go get Darren Bent. Surely worth a punt
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tractorboybig added 19:42 - Sep 29 well he will be missed,, bent a fat idle c908 we have Freddie
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Essexipswichboy added 19:50 - Sep 29 No choice but to recall Morris Harrison never scored anyway And don't forget we let kieffer Moore go early this year as ewell
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Dissboyitfc added 19:54 - Sep 29 What a muddle
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