PAUL Anderson faces six months out after City confirmed he had broken his right leg.

The winger was understood to be in good spirits when he was rushed into hospital after suffering the injury in Saturday's 2-0 home loss to Peterborough.

But according to medical staff, the typical recovery time for a broken tibia would take Anderson until March before he is able to take any pressure on it.

Anderson later tweeted: "Thanks everyone for your kind get well messages. Absolutely gutted but can only look forward now."

His long-term absence adds to the problems for Phil Parkinson, who is ready to make changes at Colchester tomorrow after questioning City's lack of intensity against Posh.

Parkinson, who kept his players in the dressing room for half an hour afterwards, said: "It's a quick turnaround but I'm glad we've got another game.

"We've got a few bumps and bruises but we also need to have a good think about the selection. I didn't feel there was enough fight to get back into the game from us.

"Last week, when we conceded a couple of goals against Sheffield United, we responded really well. We came back into it and should have won the game.

"But we didn't on Saturday and ran out of ideas. We lost our way and I need to look at that.

"It happens in football – you concede goals and players go off injured. But the stuffing was knocked out of us too much.

"It wasn't a real Bradford City performance, where we're getting crosses in the box and making the opposition defend. I thought we made it too easy for them."

Parkinson was unhappy at City's lack of tempo as Peterborough slowed the game down. He also felt his side were let down by the standard of crossing.

"We knew with their system, Peterborough would have a lot of the ball in the middle of the pitch," he said.

"Equally we thought we could get dominance in wide areas and it was down to the quality of the ball into the box – and that wasn't good enough.

"(James) Hanson had a header first half and the set-play delivery from Evo (Lee Evans) was good. But in general play, too many of our crosses were poor.

"When you have the two contrasting systems, you've got to be patient when they've got the ball because they have the extra man in there.

"But when we've got it, we had to switch it quickly and I don't think we got enough quality in that for our strikers.

"We needed to speed the game up. But Brad Jones' service from the back was slow and we were too deliberate with throw-ins.

"We needed to create an atmosphere and an intensity to get at a team that were tiring. We weren't able to do that."

Parkinson singled out Evans for the quality of the midfielder's set-pieces – and again felt they deserved better from his team-mates.

"I'm going to look at every single one again to see if we could do more to get on the end of them," said the City boss.

"I'm not sure we are doing enough because that is Premier League delivery that Evo is putting in the box."