By J Bateman
March 7 2003

Brief injury & suspension news for our teams in Nationwide League Division One .

Injury & Suspension News

Bradford

Bradford Midfielder Jamie Lawrence will miss The Bantams home clash against Crystal Palace, after picking up his fifth yellow card of the season .

Leicester

Billy Mckinlay is waiting on a late fitness test to see if he can make the weekends game against Sheffield Wednesday , the Scottish midfielder has been suffering a bruised foot and is 50-50 on making it.

Stoke

Stoke are sweating on the fitness of defender Wayne Thomas , he had to be replaced in Stoke's 1-0 bottom of the table clash after substaing a calf injury.

Rotherham

Ronnie Moore is anxiously waiting till the last minute to see if defensive pair Marvin Bryant and Martin Macintosh can make the weekends game against Brighton , Both Bryant (calf) and Macintosh (ankle) picking the injury's up in 0-0 draw against Walsall.

Millwall

Alan Dunne will be missing the weekends fixture against Walsall after breaking his wrist in the 1-1 draw against Burnley at The New Den in midweek.

Derby

Georgi Kinkladze is sweating on his match fitness and will face a late fitness test to see wether or not he can make Saturdays trip to PNE , he limped out of the East Midlands derby against Leicester and missed the Palace game in midweek with back injury.

Preston

Defender Rob Edwards is battling to get fit for the weekend game at Deepdale against Derby , but boss Craig Brown his defender will overcome a shoulder injury and will take a painkilling injection before hand.

Ipswich

Town are hoping both John Mcgreal (back) and Marcus Bent (hamstring) will both be fit for the home game against Stoke at the weekend.

Crystal Palace

Andy Johnson picked up a  foot injury against Wolves last weekend and was fearing he would miss a few weeks off action for the Eagles , but the speedy forward his hoping he can be fit for the clash against Bradford.