HARTLEPOOL United's Third Division clash with Bristol Rovers tonight has been given the go-ahead after a pitch inspection this morning.

The Memorial Stadium pitch, where Pool's match was abandoned after 12 minutes in December, underwent an inspection at 9.30am and the pitch was deemed playable despite yesterday's torrential rain.

Speaking prior to this morning's inspection a Rovers spokesman said: "The rain has never stopped for quite some time and at the moment there's water on the pitch."

Pool are unbeaten in their last four League fixtures and Turner wants to see his players carry on where they left off in the 4-1 over Torquay United at Victoria Park.

"At this stage we just want to get the games out of the way as quickly as possible," he said.

"We already have a fixture backlog and we don't want anymore.

"And with the football we are playing at the moment it would be nice just to get out and play again.

"Against Torquay we played some great football and we made Torquay look like a poor team.

"We could have scored more goals and perhaps we should have. But we are playing some excellent stuff at the moment."

Turner is likely to bring back skipper Michael Barron at right-back after a one-match ban.

Barron is expected to be recalled at the expense of Paul Arnison, who filled the captain's void with an impressive display on Saturday.

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