Source: PA
Thompson suffer County blow
Notts County captain John Thompson is suspended for the trip to Hartlepool.
The defender was sent off during the home defeat to Southampton on Saturday and must serve a one-match ban.
Lee Hughes is available again after the striker served his one-match suspension against the Saints.
New loan signings Sam Sodje, Stephen Darby and Thomas Ince could be involved. Centre-half Sodje has signed a deal until the summer of 2012, while Darby and Ince, son of Magpies manager Paul, are on loan from Liverpool until January.
Midfielder Neal Bishop and striker Ben Burgess remain doubts with knee and calf problems respectively.
Notts have played at Hartlepool 11 times in all competitions and only emerged victorious once, on their first-ever visit in 1959.
