TRIALISTS John Torrington and Ian Woan will occupy the wide positions but, after the mix-and-match line-ups of the ill-fated Denmark trip, the Bolton team that takes on local side Indiana Blast here tonight will look a bit more like the genuine article.

They still won't be anywhere near full strength since Mark Fish, Jimmy Phillips and Mike Whitlow have not made the trip and Jussi Jaaskelainen and Robbie Elliott are still not quite match fit but the impression is that normal service is gradually being restored.

Per Frandsen and Simon Charlton will make their first appearances after finalising their transfers last week and Dean Holdsworth will get his first pre-season game.

Anthony Barness, who missed a couple of training sessions with a slight hamstring strain, could also be involved while his fellow new arrival, Michael Ricketts - scorer of two goals in a reserve team friendly at Accrington Stanley last week - is likely to get a substitute runout at least.

Jaaskelainen, who is back to full training after recovering from a knee operation, is expected to get his first pre-season start in Sunday's game against the US Under 23 team but Elliott, who needed more surgery to clear a lingering hernia problem, is still sidelined.

Muscle strain

Paul Warhurst has trained but a slight muscle strain means he will undergo a fitness test before Sam Allardyce finalises his team.

"I had too many players unavailable for the Denmark tour," Sam Allardyce said, reflecting on the three defeats - the second and third being six goal hammerings.

"It would have been very rude to have cancelled the trip so we decided the way to approach it was to take what we had available and try to find a player out of the various trialists we had with us.

"But I took too many trialists and, if anybody had to take any blame for that it's me. We had too many strangers playing together - although that's still no excuse for the heavy defeats we took.

"That's made me more determined to get over here, work with the players we've got and to use the games to remind everyone what we were doing so well last year."

Tonight's starting line-up against the Indiana Blast, who beat Cincinnati 1-0 in an A-League Central Division game on Sunday, is likely to be: Banks; O'Kane, Bergsson, Warhurst or Nolan, Charlton; Torrington, Frandsen, Passi, Woan; Holdsworth, Hansen.