Adam Hinshelwood is poised for his first appearance for 11 months for relegation-haunted Albion at Norwich tomorrow night.

He is an almost certain starter at Carrow Road as Dean Hammond serves a one-match suspension and Seb Carole has an ankle injury.

Hinshelwood, who can play in defence or midfield, suffered serious knee damage against Reading last March.

He was an unused substitute for the second game running in Saturday's expensive 2-1 home defeat against relegation rivals Leicester, in which the Seagulls conceded two goals in the opening five minutes.

Hammond was sent-off by ref eree Steve Tanner a minute from time for a second bookable offence, both of them fouls on Leicester midfielder Joey Gudjonsson.

Manager Mark McGhee was unhappy with the second caution, which robs him of Hammond tomorrow night.

He said: "Dean is sensible. He knows if he brings him down he is sent-off. He (Gudjonsson) ran across his path. Dean did everything he could not to bring him down and I think the ref was hard on him."

Joe Gatting, 18, made his full debut up front, while coach Dean White was away on another scouting mission for a striker.

McGhee said: "We are running out of options. We've tried every nook and cranny and we have not managed to do anything. We will continue to look, of course. At the moment I've resigned myself to working with the players here.

"We are trying to conjure a combination of centre forwards and I thought Joe and Gary Hart did quite well. Losing was nothing to do with them, it was to do with the quality of our defending in the first five minutes."

Albion head for mid-table Norwich five points adrift of safety. McGhee said: "They are struggling but they will see us as fodder, a team they can recover against.

"We don't see it like that. We will go there to play but, of course, it will be a difficult game."