FC Halifax Town: Wild hoping to have trio available for trip to Barnet

Hyde is nearing his comeback from a hamstring injury sustained against Solihull Moors on December 15, Williams has missed the last two games due to swelling on his ankle, while Noble-Lazarus has struggled for fitness since joining Town in the summer and is yet to make his competitive debut.

“They’ll all be in contention, whether they’ll be in the squad or not we’ll see,” he said.

The trip to Barnet will be Town’s first game for a week after Tuesday’s postponement of the Hartlepool match and Town’s game-free weekend due to Chesterfield’s involvement in the FA Trophy.

“It is what it is, there’s nothing we can do about the weather,” Wild said of this week’s postponement due to the heavy snow in Calderdale.

“We’re in the lucky position that we’ve played as many or more games than anyone else so if they are off it’s not going to cause us too much of a headache in terms of a fixture pile-up.

“It gives us a chance for a break. The players have now got a couple of days off to rest and recover from what’s been a busy few weeks.

“Then come the weekend we’ll be building up to Tuesday night and hopefully have a couple of injured boys with a few more days in their legs.”

The Town boss is still working on bringing a central midfielder in to replace the injured Luke Summerfield.

“We’re trying to, we know exactly who we want, we’ll have to be patient to try and get exactly who we want,” he said.

“You’ve got to factor in, as well as finances, the absolute nonsense that’s going on at the moment (referring to the vote over the fate of the National League season), so that’ll have a bearing on what we do as well.”

On captain Nathan Clarke, Wild said: “He’s progressing, he’s back on the grass doing straight line running, and doing a lot of bike and strength work in the gym.

“Week by week, we hope to progress him.”

Wild says striker Matty Stenson is due to report back with the group next week.

“He’ll be back with boys come Monday, which is great, it’s another lad back around the group,” he said.

“He’ll have a rigorous schedule from Aaron (Scholes, physio) to get him back to where he needs to be.”

On midfielder Kian Spence, Wild said: “Kian’s had his op so he was back with us on Monday.

“We reckon he’s about seven weeks away.”

And on Summerfield, the Town boss said: “He sees the surgeon on Thursday, so we’ll have everything confirmed in terms of his rehab programme etc, and hopefully there’s no more bad news.”