Reserve game off

Last updated : 30 October 2002 By Tony Scholes
Saturday's youth game against Stockport was predictably called off when Gawthorpe was declared unfit but the reason for tonight's postponement has been given as injuries in Ronnie Jepson's squad.

Basically and embarrassingly we cannot raise a team for the game. We are not sure who is injured, certainly we haven't been told of any injuries, but there again we were led to believe that Coxy was fit for last night and he didn't make the sixteen.

The one injury we do know about is Anthony Shandran's - he had what was initially diagnosed as shin splints but what was in fact a stress fracture and there have been injuries to some of the youth players.

Finances are not good at the Turf and we know the staff have been cut but it is more than worrying that we cannot fulfil our reserve team fixtures.

There is no new date as yet for the game and the next scheduled game is in two weeks time when Barnsley visit the Turf.

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