Dan Potts is back in training and two of his defensive team-mates are both progressing well, offering hope that Luton will have as few injuries as possible for the play-off run-in – though one attacker is further behind in his recovery.
Potts has been out of action for three month, having played 25 times prior to injuring himself, but his return to training will begin to ease concerns that Town’s promotion push could be affected by injuries.
Boss Rob Edwards said: “A couple who have been missing are out there training, or if they’re not training, are progressing very, very well, we’ve not picked up any knocks or anything like that from the game which is a real positive.
“Pottsy’s trained and trained fully out there today which is great.”
And two of Town’s other crocked centre-half options are also showing positive signs, with the manager saying: “Burkey (Reece Burke) and Gabe (Osho) are neck and neck. Tthey’re different injuries, obviously they’re different people, but they’re both at similar stages of return to play we’re hoping, we’re hoping that’s not too long as well, so real positives with them.”
However, Cauley Woodrow, who was absent from Monday’s 2-1 win over fellow promotion hopefuls Middlesbrough, is some way from a return, though still potentially in time for the play-offs.
Edwards said: “We’ll wait and see, he could be a little bit longer, we’re hoping, but I wouldn’t want to put a timeframe on it at the moment, but he’ll be a little bit longer than those three.
“I think he caught a defender (at Reading) as he volleyed it, he’s just opened something up, so it’s one of those things, it’s really, really unlucky, he was in such good form as well, playing really, really well, but hopefully we’ll get him back in the next couple of weeks.
“Like we did the other day, we’ll have a plan for each game, sometimes during it it takes you in a different direction as something could happen, what I was really pleased with the other day was we had a plan, we wanted to make the five subs and pretty much everyone that we wanted to look after, we were able to do.”
