Steven was due to play at Cheltenham, but he felt a sharp pain in the other leg to the injury he suffered with earlier in the season and it was enough to keep out of the game at Whaddon Road," physio Tony Flynn told the official website.

"He was very close to being fit and available and there was a possibility that he would have got through the game without any repercussions.

"If it had been the last game of the season and had no game for a while after, we might have risked him.

"Although there was that possibility that he would get through the match, there was also a danger that playing would have aggravated it further and put him out for four to six weeks.

"Bearing in mind that we have got potentially ten games in that period, we felt it was better to leave him out for one game and get him right."

We'll have full squad news on Saturday's game very soon.