Coventry City manager Andy Thorn has admitted that he will have to protect his players from getting any more injuries.
With Carl Baker now out for the rest of the season, Clive Platt unable to train properly due to a back injury and Jordan Clarke with a sore calf, the City boss is now taking precautions in the hope that no more injuries are picked up by his already threadbare squad.
Speaking to the CT’s Andy Turner, Thorn said: “It’s unbelievable but you’ve just got to get on with it,” said the City boss, who remains steadfast in his belief that the club can get the results they need to maintain their Championship status, no matter how long the injury list gets.
“The lads are determined and I am certain we’ll get enough points to get out of this.
"It doesn’t matter who drops out injured, if we keep going and pushing we have proved we can compete with the better sides.
“The games we’ve got coming up at home are particularly important, massive really, because we play all the teams down and around us – Portsmouth, Peterborough, Millwall and Doncaster – games that we know that if we do the right things then we have got a great chance.
“But I need as many fit bodies as I can.
"We have to keep the training upbeat and fresh and can’t afford to get any more injuries.
"We can’t have any more reserve games in case people pick up knocks, so it’s a case of wrapping everyone up in cotton wool and delivering them on match day.
“That’s what we have got to do and hopefully it will be enough. "We have to produce when we play the teams down and around us, there are no two ways about it.”
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