The Hatters are facing a huge injury headache ahead of their Johnstone's Paint Trophy second round clash with Brentford at Kenilworth Road tomorrow night.

With Sam Parkin, Kevin Nicholls, George Pilkington and Drew Talbot all still unavailable the latest crop of injuries has left manager Mick Harford nursing a selection headache.

Sol David is definitely out with a hamstring injury, Lewis Emanuel looks set for a spell on the sidelines with knee ligament damage and Marc Pugh is also ruled out with a hamstring problem.

Town are also waiting on permission from Leicester City to field Harry Worley and Conrad Logan.

Harford, who admitted they would be drafting a letter to the Football League about their 'mini injury crisis', said: "The position we are in is a very difficult situation for us. You have to play six of your players who have made most of your appearances. The majority of ours are injured which makes it very difficult for us.

"We have got a bit of a problem at the moment about getting a team on the field. We had nine players missing at the weekend and a majority of those players would be in the first team."

Harford revealed that Ian Roper, who was unavailable on Saturday with a bug, and young left-back Jake Howells would come into the reckoning.

However, he admitted that both Parkin and Nicholls face a further fortnight out.

On Emanuel's injury, he said: Lewis is quite a severe one. He has gone for a scan. I think he has done his medial ligaments, but hopefully it won't be too long."

Harford conceded they could do without the match, but revealed he still wants to win it, adding: "We've been in worse position than this. It's a game we want to win and it's a competition we want to progress in and we will put out the best team available.

"It' something we could do without, but we want to win the game."