Dale Tonge will miss Saturday's match with Luton Town at Oakwell sustaining an injury to his toe.
He should be fit for the big trip to Sheffield Wednesday on 14th October
Rick Holden told
www.barnsleyfc.co.uk"Dale has been ruled out until the Sheffield Wednesday match because of a problem with his big toe. He got a kick and aggravated his sesamoid - which is a small, pea-sized calcium deposit just behind the big toe.
"Normally this is non-functional until it is aggravated and then can become very painful. We have to make sure that Dale is fully pain free and then he should be raring to go".
Meanwhile midfielder Nicky Wroe will play in tonight's reserve game with Sheffield United despite trouble with both his knees.
Rick Holden told www.barnsleyfc.co.uk
"Nicky is struggling a little at the moment and has problems with both knees. He compressed his right knee in a challenge and we have sent him for a MRI scan which, thankfully, showed only bone bruising.
"We suspect his left knee - on which he had an operation last season - has flared up again simply because he is not playing a lot of football.
"Again it is down to the hard ground and, when you are not involved every week, you do find that there are more problems with your joints. We were the same at Oldham when we had not played on the plastic pitch for a couple of weeks".