Three days after it was revealed that fellow centre back - and vice captain - Steve Payne could be out for up to two months with an ankle problem, Barras suffered a shoulder injury.

Barras, who had knee surgery in the summer after suffering a knee injury in pre-season, left the ground with his arm in a sling.

And Vince now faces an anxious wait to see how long this latest setback will keep the 37-year-old out of action.

"My vice captain is out for eight weeks and now we think the club captain will be out for a while too," said Vince who also has Ross Clegg, Neil Ross and back-up keeper Phil Senior sidelined.

"The amount of injuries we have is absolutely ridiculous. The list is growing and growing.

"Tony is a big player for us and I just can't believe it.

"We are not sure whether he dislocated his shoulder and it went back in or whether he has broken anything.

"We hope he just stretched all the ligaments."

Town won through to a first round Shay clash with Curzon Ashton on November 4 with two goals from Ashley Stott.

But Vince was not entirely impressed by his side's performance.

"We didn't really get going," he said. "It was a typical League Cup game and it is a good job we got through.

"I wasn't best pleased with the performance.

"We didn't do the things we are good at doing.

"We didn't create space, we didn't have players finding space, the ball wasn't held up up front."

Vince added that he was still expecting more from Stott.

"Ashley needs to be a bit better," said Vince. "But we need to play to his strengths.

"We have seen he can score and he got two very well taken goals last night.

"He has seven now and is on target to reach what we set him.

"I know there has been some criticism that we set him the target and it might be too much pressure.

"But it is not for a player of his quality."