Town will have midfielder Lee Martin and striker Connor Wickham back from injury ahead of Tuesday’s visit to Peterborough.

Manager Roy Keane says the duo, who have been suffering with hamstring injuries, will come into consideration for his squad for the visit to London Road: "Lee is back in training now and we have Connor Wickham available as well.

"It looks like we will have a full squad available for the game and that's means plenty of competition for places.

"We know it will be a difficult game for us on Tuesday. We have lost and drawn with Peterborough this season and they are fighting for their lives, so we are going to have to roll our sleeves us and compete and show a lot of the positives that we saw against QPR."

Keane has confirmed that keeper Richard Wright is due to see a specialist tomorrow regarding his knee ligament injury and has been pencilled in for next Wednesday’s reserves game at home to Wycombe Wanderers.

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Redmond added 12:52 - Feb 15 Not too bad a bit of pace down the wings and wickham needs more exp and against a team like pboro shuld score or atleast do well
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bluechick added 13:14 - Feb 15 a bit of pace down the wings? He reminds me of bambi! Wickham needs to sit on the bus until we are safe from relegation. Peterboro is not the place for him.
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StowTractorBoy added 13:34 - Feb 15 Sorry but to me Lee Martin has been the biggest waste of money in the Roy Keane era - yes even worse than Priskin. At least Priskin has some history where he has been a success whereas Martin has none. I just hope that if the official transfer fee for Martin is ever published it is not the ridiculous sum of £1.5M as has been mentioned. I did state on here at the beginning of the season the opinion of Forest fans and they were spot on - the bloke offers nothing so please Roy leave him out tomorrow as this is a game for battling not tip toeing around and falling over.

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cbower added 13:39 - Feb 15 Maybe Wickham on the bench as I am not sure of Stead's mindsdet at the moment but I have no enthusiasm for Martin's inclusion in the squad never mind the team. He's just too lightweight and I agree with Bluechick - he is like Bambi! Isn't it strange how nobody has come in for him on loan? - well no, he's useless! Should be some healthy competition for the keeper spot now which is good. Looking forward to 3 more points at the Posh!

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brockleyblueboy added 13:50 - Feb 15 Totally agree with the above comments. This is a game where complacency could be our undoing. we need to grind out a result tonight and I feel to put the inexperienced wickham in would be a mistake. We need to field our strongest side and make sure of all 3 points. The lee martin signing, close but no cigar. Yes he was a man u player but that doesn't instantly mean they are good, other wise why would they sell him. You never know he he gets himself down the gym and bulks up he may come good, but in my opinion not worthy of the bench. Good luck tomorrow night boys 3-1 victory would do nicely

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Surco72 added 14:16 - Feb 15 Fergie didnt have any faith in Martin which is why he only played him once 4 years against Barnet and took him off in that !!! It is the money wasted on him and Priskin which is forcing us to get rid of Stead just to get players in on loan
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brockleyblueboy added 14:23 - Feb 15 Saying that though, if we do sell Stead to save up the cash to get Chopra next season, it would be worth it! He's only going out on loan so he may be back next season for our promotion push.
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biggerblue added 14:57 - Feb 15 I really love the support we bring too our players!!! Unbeliveable !!! Welcome back lads!
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Markie31 added 15:13 - Feb 15 Get them on the bench.....IF we are winning comfortably maybe give them a run out
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ITFCNO1FAN added 15:21 - Feb 15 Wickham and Martin are back, hallelujah we are staying up......in case people don't know sarcasm, that was it.
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Blueknight85 added 15:29 - Feb 15 Cool about time martin turned his skill back on and shut up a few non supportive canary wannabes up and Wickham/Murphy would be worth a look with conner coming off the bench at some point during a rarely seen comfortable lead lol
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brockleyblueboy added 17:15 - Feb 15 Biggerblue look at the biggerblue picture. Totally agree with you that we need to stand by our players but its getting to the business end of the season where we don't have the luxury to try people out or give someone ago. We need to be fielding our best 11 at the time of kick off. From being really confident I actually think the next 3 games will decide our season. win them and we are looking at an outside chance of the play-offs, lose them and relegation is a real possibility.

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legoman added 18:50 - Feb 15 Ive never been keen on stead. Bye. Hope the new boys and Pabs show their experience now. Not keen on Wickam, needs a stick of dynamite lodged somewhere.
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ThatMuhrenCross added 22:41 - Feb 15 Wouldnt mind seeing Lee Martin given a go up front - I think he offers more there.
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Tractorog added 00:53 - Feb 16 I hope Martin finds his form etc. but Bluechick is right... this is no time for experiments this is crucial game.
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