SWINDON Town’s injury crisis does not look like letting up any time soon.

Jonathan Obika is the latest to succumb to a knock, damaging the same ankle that saw him miss a month of games earlier this season.

The striker failed a fitness test ahead of Saturday’s 2-1 defeat at home to Peterborough United following a heavy challenge from Momar Bangoura in training and looks likely to be out for a few weeks.

Yaser Kasim will return next week from international duty to take the absentee list down to 10, but that is of little relief to Town boss Mark Cooper.

Paul Godfrey’s physio room at the County Ground is clearly a big issue for Town. The players missing are not just squad players, most would be first-team regulars, which is heaping pressure on an increasingly misfortunate Cooper.

“Jon Obika was in the team and he got a bad injury Friday morning and we had to change the team,” he told the local press after the defeat.

“He got a bad kick in training from Bangoura, it was bad tackle and he’s going to be out for a few weeks.

“We’ve got a lot of players unavailable at the moment and until we get them back it’s going to be hard.

“It’s difficult when you’re having to play different players every week. You look at the team that’s finished the game, you’ve got Ellis Iandolo who is 17, Will Randall’s on there and a lot of young players.

“It changes every week, until you get a settled team it’s difficult to get anything set in stone.

“You come back to the fact that you’ve got so many of your better players unavailable, until they get back fit it’s going to be difficult. Somehow we have to scramble a result from somewhere.”