Albion boss Steve Coppell has challenged one of the fringe players to show they can fill Paul Brooker's boots.

Brooker is banned for Albion's Sky televised visit to Wolves on Monday following his red card at Crystal Palace.

That creates a vacancy on the left flank and Coppell will run the rule over a number of potential contenders in the reserves against Plymouth at Worthing tomorrow night.

Consecutive postponements against Portsmouth and Bristol City have prevented Coppell seeing the reserves in meaningful action since taking charge four weeks ago.

"I will watch the game on Wednesday," he said. "If you asked me now who I am going to play I wouldn't know, so there is a place for somebody to grab hold of. That gives a lot of people an opportunity."

John Piercy and Nathan Jones, two of the leading candidates for Brooker's role, trained yesterday and they could feature in the squad tomorrow night.

Piercy has been out for six weeks with an ankle injury which has restricted the former Spurs midfielder to only two first team starts.

Jones has not figured since suffering knee ligament damage for the second time this season at Rotherham on September 21.

Three other casualties, Robbie Pethick (foot), Steve Melton (thigh) and Geoff Pitcher (heel) are back in full training. They could also get an opportunity to impress the manager tomorrow night.

Captain Danny Cullip is expected to miss training for a couple of days with a hip problem, but he will be fit to face Wolves.

Coppell is frustrated Brooker will not be available for the trip to Molineux. The former Fulham flyer played a key part in Saturday's 3-2 victory against Bradford at Withdean, which ended a club record equalling run of 12 straight League defeats.

"I very rarely change a winning side, because I think they deserve at least a second bite at the cherry," Coppell said. "I've found in the past it has worked out quite well.

"It's disappointing for Paul. He was instrumental in two of the goals and when he ran the ball at people he looked a top-class player.

"He has an awful lot going for him. There are deficiencies in his game and he knows that, but he was running us out of trouble consistently.

"It was unfortunate that I felt I had to bring him off at the end when Michel Kuipers was sent off. It did not reflect my opinion of his performance."

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