Yesterday at Blackpool saw Ross McCormack stretchered off after he heard his hamstring "ping" while Paul Quinn also pulled up with a leg strain. Steve McPhail completed a hat-trick of Bluebirds who went off injured.
Add to that Mark Kennedy being absent after after a hamstring strain in the Scunthorpe match last week and recall how Bothroyd, McCormack, Ledley, Kennedy and Chopra were all absent at the tail end of last season with hamstring pulls and you do wonder what is going on.
One of City's problems is its small squad which forces players to play while not 100% fit, the Blackpool game saw Joe Ledley and Chris Burke have to perform after being unwell all week.
However it doesn't explain why so many Cardiff men suffer with hamstring trouble.
McCormack could join Kevin McNaughton spending several weeks out of action, there is no news on Quinn but he may be absent as well leaving City's resources vastly depleted heading to Plymouth on Tuesday night.
McCormack's dream of Premiership football will surely now go on ice as well as Hull have ended their interest while other clubs would surely not take a player who will be injured for some time and that creates another problem.
Cardiff clearly need 4 new faces but it's well known they need to move players out and had been hoping to sell McCormack or Ledley before the transfer window closes in a fortnight - their departure is looking very remote at present.
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