SWINDON Town club captain Angus MacDonald has dislocated his collarbone, but a date for his return is not known, according to head coach Scott Lindsey.

MacDonald sustained the injury in the latter stages of the 2-1 defeat to Northampton Town at the County Ground on Saturday.

After soldiering on through the final few moments, the 29-year-old walked off grimacing with his arm up in an improvised sling made from his shirt.

Dislocated collarbones typically take around six to eight weeks to fully heal without surgery, but Lindsey said it was “too early” to set a timetable on when MacDonald could be called upon again.

Providing an injury update on his squad ahead of Town’s clash with Newport County on Tuesday night, Lindsey confirmed everyone is fit and available aside from MacDonald and Tomi Adeloye.

He said: “It’s not great news on Angus, unfortunately. He’s dislocated his collarbone, so that’s quite a significant injury.

“It’s too early to make a prognosis on that in terms of time, but it is quite a bad one. Hopefully, having spoken to the medical staff, he won’t have to have an operation. But it’s not a great piece of news.

“He played the last three or four minutes of Saturday’s game after picking up the injury, so credit to him for that.

“Otherwise, Tom Clayton is good to go. Mathieu Baudry had a sickness bug coming into the game last weekend, so we had to remove him from the squad, but he’s absolutely fine now.”

With MacDonald set to be out for a number of weeks, Tom Clayton will require a new centre-back partner after starting the past eight League Two games with the club captain. Swindon have conceded seven goals in that time while picking up 15 points.

Asked whether he was concerned that a new man in the heart of defence could disrupt the rhythm that the Town defence has been playing with recently, Lindsey said: “I’m hoping it won’t affect us at all because we’ve got good players ready to come in.

“We’ve got real strength in depth, in terms of our defensive unit. I really trust the players who haven’t played a lot because we do a lot of work with them.

“We don’t just work on the starting XI all the time for this exact reason. We have an injury, we need to put another one, and they need to be game-ready by understanding everything we’ve been working on.

“I’m confident that whoever I pick will come in and do a decent job like Angus has.”