Bucks fear striker crisis

Friday 8th September 2006, 4:48PM BST.

Regular partner Gary Hay is struggling with a groin injury and assistant manager Larry Chambers describes his chances as “very slim indeed”.

It was hoped Justin Marsden, a summer signing from Solihull, might be fit to feature by this weekend, having been sidelined since the end of pre-season by a suspected groin injury of his own.

But a trip to a specialist yesterday brought bad news, with the pacy forward ruled out for up to five weeks after it was discovered he had torn a fibre in his groin.

By CHRIS HUDSON

Read the full story in Friday’s Shropshire Star.

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