Slusarski up for challenge

BARTOSZ Slusarski is challenging for a debut in the survival scrap with Blackpool on Saturday as the Owls grapple with fresh injury problems.

Brian Laws will need to make late checks on Deon Burton (eye injury) and Wade Small (hamstring) before deciding on his line-up.

Both suffered problems in the 1-1 draw with Plymouth.

Graham Kavanagh, Steve Watson and Richard Hinds missed the Plymouth match and are rated as 50-50.

Burton has suffered a scratch on his eyeball for the third time in a year and the club will need to make sure that his vision is not impaired come the weekend.

Laws, though not saying whether or not Slusarski will start, admitted that he is in contention: "He's done very well; he feels very confident and thinks he is ready."

The Owls manager shrugged off the injury problems: "We're used to them."

Laws has been satisfied with the general play of strikers Burton and Ben Sahar but, in a quest for a scoring touch, brought on Slusarski for Sahar in the 64th minute against Plymouth and admitted afterwards that he should have made a change sooner.

Slusarski was signed in March on loan from West Brom for the rest of the season.

Meanwhile, publishing firm Dunwoody have apologised to fans for the non-delivery of Plymouth match programmes, which was forced by the closure of their printers. A Plymouth programme will be given free to anyone who buys a programme for the Norwich game on May 4.