Cornick could be back to face Owls at Hillsborough

Luton attacker Harry Cornick might be fit enough to play a part in Town’s trip to Sheffield Wednesday this weekend, according to boss Nathan Jones.

The 25-year-old was named on the bench during Tuesday night’s 2-0 defeat at Millwall, although a groin problem meant he was very unlikely to be called upon during the 90 minutes.

When asked if he could feature on Saturday, Jones said: “Yes, we had to pull Harry out of the game, just to see how he is.

“We couldn't risk him on Tuesday night as these injuries, you can’t do it.

“If you do that, then you potentially could lose him for weeks and weeks and that’s not ideal.

“So we have to wait, see how everyone is, as I would imagine Sheffield Wednesday have to as they played last night.”

Along with Cornick, there was good news regarding full back Dan Potts, who is yet to make a single appearance this season due to a foot injury, with fellow defender James Bree also getting closer to a first team return.

Jones continued: “Potts trained with us today, so he’s closer than Bree, Bree is probably two days behind him.

“They’re back on track, but again, when they are ready to train, it’s when do you put them back in?

"As the schedule is crazy, so if they come back too early, pick up an injury, then we’re in trouble again.

“There’s a long way to go yet, but we are starting to get one or two back, and then hopefully when we get everyone back, we’ll be a strong outfit.”

Deadline day loan signing from Leicester City Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall could given given his first outing after not being involved on Tuesday night, with the likes of Tom Lockyer and Joe Morrell eyeing full Championship debuts as well.

Jones continued: “Kiernan’s available, he’s trained, came in, did an individual session with myself yesterday, trained today, he’ll train tomorrow and then he’s in contention.

“Everyone’s always in contention as that’s the squad we’ve got, we’ve always wanted that kind of squad.

“The performance the other day, the thing we’ve got to eradicate is just moments as moments are taking away from what the game-plan is.

“We could have imposed ourselves far more in the first half but if we'd have gone in at half time without conceding that goal, which wasn’t a good goal to give away as we’d had four warnings prior to it and we should have dealt with that, then second half it could have been a totally different game.

“We were always going to do something different second half, because we wanted to establish ourselves on the game, it’s the same as against Stoke.

“We were excellent for 45 minutes, came out to re-establish ourselves and then within a minute and a half we were one down and that changes the game.

“That’s Championship football, the margins are so, so, so small.

"Some games you look at there's hardly a shot on target, someone wins it and they go on a run and that’s the margins of Championship football.

“You have to eradicate those errors because we weren’t committing those errors before.”

After speaking of the disruption to training that James Collins’ positive coronavirus test had caused ahead of the matches with both Stoke and Millwall this week, Jones was hoping to have far less stressful time in terms of preparation for the trip to Hillsborough.

He added: “We’re like everyone else, fatigue will be a factor with the games coming thick and fast.

“We can’t train, we’re training with half a group, it’s constant, constant work in terms of how they’re feeling, monitoring them, do we put too much into them, do we do a little bit less?

“But they’re in a decent place, we're obviously still waiting on James Collins, so we’ve just got to get through this period.

“If we get through this period, then we’ll be in a wonderful place, but they just come thick and fast these games.

“There’s just no planning, and you see it happen in the Champions League, you’re looking at Liverpool, you're looking at Man City, they're picking up injuries as well, everyone’s in the same boat.

“It’s a relentless schedule at the minute, that's why I think it was a real bad decision on the substitutes.

"As I think if you just could use five then you could save people an extra 10, 15 minutes, which potentially could save an injury, but no logic.”