Stephen Robinson today confirmed that the prognosis of Alex Greive's injury is more positive than first thought and the forward may only face three to four weeks out following a scan result yesterday.
The New Zealand striker was substituted in the first-half of our Scottish Cup tie against Celtic with an ankle injury and it was feared he may miss the rest of the season.
We are hoping it will not be quite so serious but it will still be three weeks. We were fearing it could maybe be an end-of-season job.
"But we are looking at three to four weeks with Alex. So that is a huge boost for us considering we don't have loads and loads of options."
The manager also told press this afternoon that Alex Gogic, Keanu Baccus and Curtis Main are all doubts for tomorrow's cinch Premiership match against Ross County, with Scott Tanser is also ruled out after a hamstring injury at Motherwell on Wednesday night.
With Richard Tait and Jonah Ayunga on the sidelines options are limited for Saints, but the manager was keen to stress he will still have an experienced starting eleven tomorrow with youthful enthusiasm on the substitutes bench.
I have a lot of belief in the younger players.
"We haven't given them that game time yet but there's players in the building waiting on chances. Players with real experience waiting for chances and I have belief in them as well.
"Any team that potentially has six or seven starters potentially out – even the top teams – are going to find that a difficult situation.
"But I am not in the habit of making excuses. We deal with it, we get on with it, we make the very best of it and we will put out a very competitive team."
