Thommo spoilt for choice

Last Updated: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:30
Blackpool

Blackpool caretaker manager Steve Thompson will have a fuller squad to choose from when he takes the reins once more against Wolves in the npower Championship.

Pool's first team was decimated by illness on the eve of last weekend's 2-1 defeat to league leaders Cardiff.

Full-backs Stephen Crainey and Neal Eardley, captain Alex Baptiste and veteran striker Kevin Phillips were all struck down and missed out but are available once more to face Dean Saunders' side.

Nottingham Forest striker Matt Derbyshire is set to be part of the travelling party having joined on loan for the rest of the season.

The Seasiders' two long-term injury victims have suffered mixed fortunes in recent weeks.

Winger Matt Phillips was named among the substitutes against Cardiff given the depleted nature of Thompson's squad and marked his return from a toe problem with a late cameo.

But centre-back Ian Evatt is set to miss the rest of the season after undergoing knee surgery.

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