Gillingham head coach Stephen Clemence with an injury update on striker Josh Andrews ahead of a match at Morecambe and a decision to make after Conor Masterson’s return from suspension

Gillingham striker Josh Andrews could feature for the first time this weekend at Morecambe.

Head coach Stephen Clemence revealed today (Thursday) that the 22-year-old could be in the matchday squad after progressing well with his injury rehab in the past few days.

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Since his move from Birmingham City on February 1, Andrews hasn't featured after picking up a muscle strain on his comeback from a hip injury, which he sustained while playing on loan at Accrington Stanley in early December.

The Gills badly need goals and points with seven games left and Clemence will be relishing the chance to include his big striker at the weekend. It’s expected he’d feature on the bench initially.

“Josh Andrews is in contention,” the manager confirmed.

“He has trained all week, he is getting assessed every day, so we will see.

“It has been a big blow for me, we signed three strikers in January and two of them I haven’t seen play much at all. They have been big misses for the squad.”

It’s been a much better week on the Gills training ground, a week on from a sickness bug that went through the squad, leaving up to nine missing.

All but one of those players - who Clemence declined to name - are now back training although many have come back in less than perfect condition.

Clemence said: “There have been more players to train and it has been nice to have a full week with them. We’ve managed to do some good work with them.

“The start of the week we were assessing where they were at, because one or two had lost quite a bit of weight and had only just started eating again, but we are in a lot better place than we were last weekend.”

Defender Conor Masterson is back from suspension which gives Clemence