Elliot Watt and Alex Gilliead could return quickly, but Bradford City will be more wary of Charles Vernam Yorkshire News

Watt missed Saturday’s 2-1 loss to Port Vale through injury, and fellow midfielder Gilliead did not feature in the last two, but both are back in training.

Forward Vernam’s 20 minutes off the bench was his first appearance since January.

“We’ll likely get Elliott and Alex Gilliead back, but the other injuries we had are still absent,” Hughes revealed.

“We had 22 players (training) today (Thursday). We still have some long-term injury problems.

“They haven’t missed much football and are back training with the group so we hope there won’t be any reaction.

“We’ll have no qualms about putting them back directly if we think it’s the right pick.

“Maybe it’s a little different for people like Charles Vernam, who had a long-term injury. He came in last week and had an instant impact, so he’s in my thoughts, but we’re aware he hasn’t had much.” football and the 20 minutes or so was probably more than we expected he would have to play in his first game back, so we’re still a little bit wary of Charles.

“We have a good support staff here and I get good information about their loads and the amount of work they should be exposed to. I take that into account, but sometimes as a manager you have to ignore all of that and go with your gut.” feeling.

“But I try to avoid that because sometimes that can compromise a player and we’re not in that situation, we’ve got good numbers. If we have to give the guys a little bit of extra time to make sure they’re okay, that’s what we’ll do. “.