Sickness bug disrupts training

Last updated : 09 December 2016 By Michael Morris

City face the long trip to Ipswich tomorrow for the start of a run of games that see three in a week before the Christmas period.

After Ipswich tomorrow Cardiff face Wolves on Tuesday and Barnsley next Saturday, both at CCS.

These games are crucial and will be seen as a better opportunity to pick up points than the last block of games that included defeats at Villa and Newcastle.

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A sickness bug though has disrupted Warnock's plans as he looks to get his side out of the bottom three.

Warnock said: "We’ve had one or two this week which we’re monitoring. We’ve had another sickness and diarrhoea bug that’s put four out of training this week. It’s like emergency ward ten this morning! Unless we get someone going down today we should be OK.

"I’d planned completely, everything I was going to do against Ipswich only to be told, first of all we were going to work on an area but they said you can’t because he’s missing and he’s missing.

"Then we were going to work on another area but they said he’s missing and he’s missing! In the end I might as well have gone for a sauna and a massage! It was a waste of time but you’ve just got to accept it." 

Rickie Lambert remains a doubt, too, after missing the Brighton draw.

Warnock said: "Rickie Lambert is training, we’ll know more today, he hasn’t done anything other than straight forward running so we need to test that more, especially with three games in a week. "