Updates on the two Rotherham United strikers who had to go off against Luton Town
ROTHERHAM United are waiting to discover the severity of the injury suffered by Jordan Hugill after the striker yesterday added his name to the club's huge casualty count.
The 33-year-old has been the only attacker to remain fit this season as the Millers' treatment room has become more and more crowded.
However, he picked up an issue in the League One draw at Luton Town this weekend and had to be replaced just before half-time.
A scan will determine the frontman's length of absence, with manager Matt Hamshaw saying yesterday: “I don't have any indication as of yet. Jordan has rolled his ankle.”
Another centre-forward, teenage loanee Martin Sherif, failed to appear for the second period because of a hamstring concern, but the club aren't expecting him to be ruled out of action.
“Taking him off was just precautionary,” said Hamshaw. “That's what I'm hoping.”
Having been hit by a double-figure number of absentees earlier in the campaign, 11th-placed Rotherham are now battling against a similar tally.
The Millers have 11 players unavailable and that could rise to 12 as wing-back Denzel Hall suffered shoulder damage at Kenilworth Road.
Hamshaw knows that the continuing injury problems will see the club's training methods and Roundwood complex come under question again in some quarters.
“We've been trying to manage everybody back as well as we can, but we just seem to be having no luck,” he said. “There'll be all the myths about X, Y and Z and why it's happening.
“Honestly, I can't stand here and say I have all the answers, because I don't.”
A depleted squad has now gone seven straight games unbeaten in the third tier to climb from 23rd spot into the top half of the table and
Hamshaw added: ”We're working with the group that we have, and the group have given us everything they've got. Fans should be proud of the players.”
When asked how much time he is spending analysing the situation, the boss replied: “Every second of every minute of every hour of every day. You can't be a football manager and not be 24-7. My family will tell you that.
“We're giving our all, we're giving everything, we're doing everything we possibly can. I think you've seen that, you've seen the transition in the club.”