"Nathan Ellington has hurt his shoulder and will see the specialist tomorrow to try to establish how serious it is is. He's certainly a concern but we'll have to wait and see. Meanwhile, Alan Mahon has a strained stomach muscle and Leighton Baines a head injury, although after a couple of days rest 'Bainesy' should be OK to join in with training later in the week.
"Jason Jarrett is still a couple of weeks away and though Per Frandsen's operation went well on Saturday, he's still obviously out for a long time. However, Emerson Thome is trying a little bit of light running now to see how he is and with a bit of luck Lee McCulloch will do the same later to test his ankle. There's a chance he might be back for Saturday but we'll have to wait and see on him too. We've missed him a lot in the last couple of games and it's only when he's not there that you realise how important he is to us.
"From that list of players you can see we're right down to the bare bones now and therefore I'm desperate to strengthen if we can. However, as many teams are finding, it's not as easy as you might think because teams do not really want to let there players go right now. We'll keep trying though and we have players in mind to go for and hopefully at least one of those targets will come off.
"I will not just bring someone in for the sake of it though, they need to be offering us something we haven't got. Maybe that's not the right thing to do but it's certainly how I believe we should do things. We have good players here already and therefore I only want to add more quality and not someone who I have brought in just for the sake of it."
"We weren't getting carried away after 17 games unbeaten so we're certainly not going to panic after two defeats! Look at the table - we're still top and therefore I wouldn't swap our position with anyone elses. Of course we know we should have won the game on Saturday and are therefore disappointed, but there's still a lot of football to play yet this season and a lot can happen over the course of the next six months.
"After the start we made, people were saying ridiculous things like we were going to run away with this League but we all knew that that was never going to be the case. There are too many competitive teams in this Division for one team to do that I think. However, we do need to bounce back in terms of getting a result, although I have to say that if we repeat how we played in the first half at QPR, more often than not I can't help but think we'll come out on top.
"To be honest, at Loftus Road I thought we played QPR off the park in the first half and should have had the game wrapped up by half time. However, we missed our chances and full credit to the home side for hanging on in there, taking advantage of our poor finishing and then snatching all three points.
We conceded an awful goal from our point of view when we should have put the ball out of play, but apart from that I thought we were fairly comforatble defensively. We didn't play as well after the break as we did before and got drawn into the more direct style that QPR play, but I still felt we looked the more likely winners. Unfortunately we didn't make our superiority pay and that meant that we came home pointless.
"What we need to do now is get back to winning ways as soon as we can and hopefully we can do that in what should be an exciting game against Leicester on Saturday. It will certainly be tough, but if we can rediscover the killer instinct to go with our general build up play, then we have a good chance of bouncing back in the way that we want, and need to, to consolidate the excellent start to