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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leftie1972 added 18:26 - Sep 30 Free agents, are any of them worth a punt? Bring back Morris!
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JewellintheTown added 09:00 - Oct 1 Wait, we have/ had strikers??!
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Razor added 10:18 - Oct 1 If we are going back to relying on Freddie Sears then the game is up.
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BcarefulwhatUWish4 added 10:23 - Oct 1 Hurst hasn't got much choice really. Two strikers down already and will need at least one replacement. He should aim to pick someone with some experience (28-34). Futac has just come back from a long term injury, 28 years old and has played in England before. At 6ft 5 he's the kind of player we should get in on a years contract. Offers something different up front and before his injury had scored 20 goals in 37. Know he's been linked with Sunderland but we can surely make a better deal?

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mathiemagic added 11:17 - Oct 1 Sad to see the lad is injured but no real loss to the team apart from a body to call upon. Sears should get some game time now hopefully.
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Skip73 added 15:35 - Oct 1 'He's not very good at all' Well he got that right anyway.
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