Bristol City manager Steve Cotterill has admitted to being left 'frustrated' by the one-game ban handed to midfielder Marlon Pack.

The automatic suspension was triggered as a result of the yellow card picked up in the 3-0 defeat to Rotherham United at the weekend - his fifth caution of the campaign.

Cotterill will now be without Pack for the meeting with Blackburn Rovers next Saturday, while Nathan Baker and Jonathan Kodjia are also early fitness doubts.

Speaking to the club's official website, the Robins chief said: "It's frustrating because he's been on four bookings for a long time and it's been hanging over him.

"It was actually the final game in which a booking would have triggered the ban; had he made it through the weekend he would have been okay."

City find themselves just one point above the drop zone following a run of one win in their last seven outings.