SWINDON Town chairman Lee Power said he never contemplated hitting the panic button after an injury-blighted opening to their League One campaign.

Having endured a difficult summer of recruiting, players finally started flowing through the doors of the County Ground on the eve of their opening game of the season.

However, the groin injury picked up by Raphael Branco in pre-season was compounded by the loss of Jonathan Obika.

That was followed by new signing Lloyd Jones failing to make it through the EFL Cup tie with Queens Park Rangers before Luke Norris hobbled off just 21 minutes into his league debut on the trip away to Chesterfield.

As a result, head coach Luke Williams has had to adjust his systems and settle for square pegs in round holes.

However, unlike last season when a growing injury list saw Swindon’s campaign get de-railed before it had begun, Town have been able to grind out two victories and a hard-fought draw from their opening four league fixtures.

With Bristol Rovers heading to the County Ground tomorrow, the injury woes look to be easing, with Obika and Branco the only two players likely to miss out and Power said he never contemplated making rash moves in the transfer window to get a quick fix.

“We knew, because of personnel wise and injuries, that the first three or four games would be difficult for us because we had players playing out of position,” he told BBC Wiltshire.

“The players that we wanted to bring in, we couldn’t bring in in time because clubs wouldn’t release them, there is nothing we could do.

“Rather than just bring someone in and rush and miss out on the ones we wanted, we had to wait.

“When we did bring them in, Lloyd (Jones) and Luke (Norris), they get injured, what can you do?

“QPR was one of those that in hindsight, we said to Luke that it would have been nice if we could have gone there, lost 1-0, and not picked up the injuries.

“It’s one of those things where you want to win every game so you try your best, you get into extra time, you get your penalties and then you miss out, so it was probably the worst scenario.

“That’s football. The lads have done great and the only blip would be Chesterfield.

“I think everyone wrote us off against Gillingham with a really understrength team and we had no forward in the building.

“In the end, what we had to do was come up with a formation which was unusual to the players and probably the supporters but we battled out a 1-1 draw with the team who were top of the league.

“We’ve got a few people back in and hopefully we should see things return to normal.”