With the games continuing to come thick and fast, it's no real surprise that we have started to pick up quite a few injuries over recent weeks.

Now hot on the heels of injuries to Andrea Orlandi, Dennis Lawrence and Paul Anderson, it looks like striker Guillem 'Bussy' Bauza will be out for two to three weeks with a groin strain.

Our Spanish striker picked up the injury against the MK Dons in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy on Tuesday.

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While we've been preaching the prevention of injuries all season, there is only so much you can do when fatigue sets in due to the huge fixture schedule the players have to endure.

That's the reality of it and it's extremely frustrating.

Now we've got to work hard to counter the swelling with plenty of ice before building him back up with some straight line running.

Owain Tudur Jones has also suffered another slight setback after picking up a knock on his injured ankle in a reserve team game against Bristol Rovers recently.

But it's nothing serious and we've just got to take a slight step back for two to three weeks for him to take two massive steps forward.

While the loss of Bussy and OTJ is disappointing, there has been some good news to come out of the treatment room with Dennis Lawrence (knee) and Paul Anderson (hamstring) making rapid progress towards their comebacks.

Big Den returned to training at the start of the week with me before joining the rest of the squad on Wednesday.

He's done some high intensity work now and if he's not in the frame tonight, then he could possibly be back for the trip to stadiummk on Monday night.

You also saw a fleeting glimpse of Ando last Tuesday night when he turned in a faultless one-minute performance against the Dons before being replaced by young Shaun MacDonald.

There was no reoccurrence of his hamstring injury - just a tactical switch. And he didn't even throw his shirt at the Gaffer and storm off down the tunnel!

Ando is now in the last stage of his strengthening and functional work and back in training. He was able to do the full warm up on Tuesday night, but we've got to make sure he's 100 per cent right before we throw him back in the action.

He's a Greyhound not a Dashhound after all!

Seriously though, if he doesn't make the Dons game on Monday, then Huddersfield will be his target.

Andrea Orlandi (knee) is also back on the training field doing some straight line running now that he's got his land legs back.

He's been spending hours in the gym and in the pool under the watchful eye of physio Ailsa Jones.

In fact, he's been doing so much swimming that he's not only ready to swim the Channel, but he's even started to develop an upper body!

Talking of bodies, I've just had the latest results from our body-fat tests back. And for the second month running, the 'Fat Fighters' award goes to Andy Robinson.

He has been working really hard on his fitness and his body-fat ration has dropped again to 8.7 per cent.

In fact, the whole squad results were impressive, with the body-muscle ratio going up and the body-fat rate going down.

In the four years we've been carrying out the testing, the body-fat ratio has dropped from an average of 15 per cent down to under 10 - the benchmark - which is really encouraging.

I'll reveal some of the other individual results from the squad in the next programme - so you have been warned lads.