George Burley could be without Darren Powell tomorrow after the luckless centre half picked up another injury.

Powell's Saints career has been blighted by a series of injury problems and he missed the first three games of this campaign with a ban picked up in pre-season.

The big centre half returned to the side for last weekend's victory against Stoke, but took a whack on the ankle.

He managed to complete the game but is now a major doubt for tomorrow.

Left-back Rudi Skacel is also missing but the good news is the return of Chris Makin who is set to go straight into Powell's place after recovering from a hamstring strain.

Burley said: "Rudi's out for three or four weeks, Chris Makin's trained and hopefully he'll be fine, Darren Powell's a big doubt with his ankle and Claus is still out.

"Darren went off for five minutes and is doubtful, but hopefully he'll be ok".

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