Monday 30 March 2015 12:08, UK
Tom Bradshaw is facing another fitness fight to return for Walsall's survival battle.
The 16-goal top scorer missed Saturday's 1-0 defeat at Chesterfield as he continues to be plagued by hamstring problems. Bradshaw was a major doubt for Walsall's 2-0 Johnstone's Paint Trophy defeat to Bristol City earlier this month and is now struggling ahead of Friday's visit of Notts County. The Saddlers are just three points above the League One relegation zone and boss Dean Smith admitted they must play the waiting game with the striker. "I honesty don't know at the moment," Smith told the Wolverhampton Express & Star. "We will just have to wait for this week and see how he is. "He pulled up in training on Thursday. There was no problem on Tuesday but he pulled up on Thursday, feeling his hamstring again. "I suppose it was always a risk playing him at Wembley but two days after he trains and gets through it okay. "Unfortunately on Thursday he felt it again and he didn't make Saturday. "It is one which is going to have to be continually assessed because he has had too many niggles of this kind. It is frustrating for him and us. "I don't think (there is any more we can do), he is doing all his injury prevention work and all his strengthening. "He has obviously had a weakness in that area and (physio) Jon Whitney has been working hard to get him through that weakness."
