Lee Roche, in the side as a replacement for the suspended Micah Hyde, suffered a hamstring injury at Wigan and was out for four games before returning to the squad at 
Incredibly no other player has been missing through injury although Tony Grant spent the full ninety minutes at
There is a need to keep everyone fit, so much so that when Roche did suffer the injury our local evening paper reported a deepening injury crisis with just the one player out.
So it is anyone’s guess what they will make of the news today with striker Ian Moore set to be out long term with a knee injury that requires surgery.
Mooro was scheduled for his operation yesterday but it could well be that it is delayed for a week to enable him to play in this week’s two matches against
“Ian has had the injury for a couple of weeks now,” said Steve Cotterill. “We have been pushing him in games as far as we can push him and that is about it really. Sooner or later he is going to go down.
“We don’t really know how long he could be out, because we won’t know the severity of it until they have a look at it. It is a problem with his patella tendon and it is like a tendonitis there. It gives him a sharp pain underneath his knee cap.
“It is a blow but we have to deal with it, there is no other way round it.”
An injury for Mooro is a rarity indeed although he was out of the side with injury at the end of last season. He returned for the last match against
With money tight it is unlikely that a replacement will come in although there is a possibility that if the right player was available there could be an addition via the loan system.