TRANMERE Rovers will be taking an improvised attack into League One action at Yeovil Town tomorrow as they deal with the fallout from two fresh injury blows likely to keep Andy Robinson and Enoch Showunmi on the sidelines for a month or more.
Playmaker Robinson underwent knee surgery after damaging his cartilage in training this week, while new scans on Enoch Showunmi’s leg have shown up a problem in the area where the tall target man sustained a fracture last April.
Unless manager Les Parry can force through a loan signing at express speed, Rovers will have to make do and mend at Huish Park, where they will be attempting to break a sequence of four successive away defeats.
Parry said: “Andy Robinson has had an operation on his knee. He tore the cartilage this week.
“It is a bit of a blow for us because he’s going to be out for four to six weeks. I’m hoping it will be four weeks but it’s more likely to be six.
“We had the results of Enoch’s scan and it is not good news. He still has a little problem in that leg and it looks like he is not going to be available for a number of weeks.” while he rests it.”
Robinson would have been hoping for a recall to the starting line-up at Yeovil, in the creative attacking role left open by Jose Baxter’s return to Everton last weekend.
Showunmi’s latest setback simply adds to the pressure on Tranmere to find a central striker to back up Mustafa Tiryaki, who has been leading the line in recent games in the absence of last season’s leading marksman.
The 24-year-old is learning to adapt his game to the demands of League One football after joining Tranmere from nonleague Havant and Waterlooville last summer.
Tiryaki started Tranmere’s last game, the 2-2 draw against Brentford at Prenton Park last Saturday and Parry said: “He put in a really good shift. He was running on empty for the last 15 minutes but he had to stay on because we had no-one to replace him.
”Our cover isn’t deep enough.”
Parry has the option of switching Lucas Akins from wide on the right to the central striker’s role but he does not have a player who is a natural fit for the creative “role in the hole” that was so well suited to the talents of Robinson and Baxter.





