STRIKER Gregg Blundell is doubtful for Chester City’s trip to Salisbury City tonight after suffering a recurrence of his troublesome thigh injury at the weekend.

Blundell missed City’s opening games of the campaign because of the problem, and he looked jaded against Stevenage on Saturday, being substituted midway through the second period.

If the former Darlington striker does miss out then youngster Lloyd Ellams is likely to be drafted into the starting line up.

Chester’s wafer-thin squad desperately needs strengthening, and ex-City manager Graham Barrow has come to the club’s assistance by offering the Deva Stadium outfit a couple of Wigan Athletic reserve team players.

Barrow is now on the coaching staff with the Premier League outfit, and Chester manager Mick Wadsworth will take a look at Wigan’s second string in a match tomorrow.

He said: “I am going to Wigan on Wednesday and I’m taking in lots of games, but it’s difficult at the moment because if I bring in players from a distance we have to arrange financing, housing and hotels.

“The crowds at Chester aren’t very big so that the commitments that we’ve got to staff and players and all the other things that keep a football club running is a really tough job for the board and for the managing director and I sympathise.

“That’s why I don’t jump up and down and demand this and that because it won’t get any of us anywhere.”

Wadsworth added: “The most important thing still is that we have got a football club and that we are competing. What we need is help from clubs like Burnley who have helped us with two lads and now hopefully Wigan will also help us.

“We have to live in the world of the possible and we are doing as much as we can.”

CHESTER CITY (from): Danby, Murphy, Rule, Kelly, Lynch, Ryan, Wilkinson, Kay, Roberts, Ashton, Blundell, Chadwick, Ellams, Owen, Lea, Meynell, Jones, Platt.