No injury worries for Roeder

Last updated : 20 September 2002 By HammersMAD
Roeders one injury concern, defender Tomas Repka, has overcome a knee injury picked up in the game with Spurs at White Hart Lane last Sunday.

"We are positive, the players are positive, and I hope the fans are positive to us on Saturday," Roeder told the clubs official website.

"If we play like we can play, and get the fans on our side, they can be a big factor at Upton Park.

"When our fans are driving us on it does give the lads a lift and I hope they can do that on Saturday, but it is also our responsibility to give them something to cheer and hopefully we will.

"We have a little more strength in depth than last year and that makes it all the more frustrating that we have only picked up one point after five games."

SQUAD: James, Van der Gouw, Schemmel, Pearce, Repka, Dailly, Winterburn, Breen, Cole, Sinclair, Cisse, Carrick, Minto, Garcia, Lomas, Di Canio, Kanoute, Defoe, Camara.