Blues ace Michael Harriman was among the runners-up as Barnet’s Michael Gash won the League Two Player of the Month award for September.

The on-loan Queens Park Rangers player was one of four put forward for the prize along with Gash, who won it after scoring four times in five games. Accrington Stanley’s Matt Crooks and Mansfield Town’s Krystian Pearce were the other nominees in contention.

Harriman has been a real star for Wanderers marauding up and down the right side of the pitch this season and he capped his sparkling September with a stunning 25-yard volleyed winner against Cambridge United – a goal that took Wanderers to the top of League Two.

But he has not played since that heady night on September 29, suffering a groin injury towards the end of that match and having to be substituted.

Harriman had hoped to get away without missing any games but the strain is worse than he first thought and he has been absent for the last two fixtures.

His absence has coincided with back-to-back defeats for Wanderers as they were knocked off the top of League Two with a 3-2 home defeat against Northampton Town on Saturday and then knocked out of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy at the second round stage on Tuesday night after a 2-0 reversal at Bristol Rovers.

Now Blues say they cannot put a time on his recovery.

But they have been cheered by the postponement of tomorrow’s League Two match back at Bristol Rovers, the scene of their midweek cup exit, which buys them another week in their race to get him back on the field again.

Boss Gareth Ainsworth said: “Last year we were fantastically lucky with injuries, we hardly had any. This year we have got three or four that we could do without and it’s taking its toll a little bit.”

Alongside Harriman, Wanderers also have skipper Paul Hayes struggling with an Achilles injury that the club can’t put a timescale on while centre-half Anthony Stewart is looking at a Christmas comeback.