Akin Odimayo and Liam McCarron have both played through the pain barrier, while Jordan Willis and Sam Hoskins had to play more minutes than would normally be recommended against Stevenage and Burton.

"Then Waggy [Martyn Waghorn] comes on and he played 90 minutes the other night and I didn't want to play him 90 but [Liam] McCarron comes off injured so I'm having to juggle everything at the moment.

Unfortunately, however, it was another injury-cursed afternoon. Liam McCarron and Jack Baldwin both came off with ankle and face problems respectively before Nesta Guinness-Walker suffered a ...

Liam McCarron limped off in the second half, followed by Jack Baldwin, who took a whack to the face from Aaron Pierre, and then Nesta Guinness-Walker was visibly in significant discomfort with a ...

only on for another substitute – Liam McCarron – minutes earlier, to be replaced himself with ‘blurred vision’. Pierre was not even booked, referee Seb Stockbridge appeared to caution the ...

From then on it was Northampton against Wigan goalkeeper Sam Tickle, who denied Liam McCarron after he had found himself through one-on-one. The best was yet to come in stoppage time, though ...

He replaced Guthrie while Hoskins, who started ahead of Liam McCarron, made his 400th appearance for the club. Cobblers started with a back three and Hoskins swung an early shot wide before Burton ...