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Manager Peter Taylor said: "He's got a little bit of swelling on his knee and we're just waiting to see how it recovers.
"As you'd appreciate, the last three matches that Stuart played, he's probably been our best player so we could do with him at the minute.
"He's a bit doubtful, but we won't know until kick-off time."
Andy Holt would be the obvious replacement, coming in as a straight swap on left wing. Stuart Green, Ryan France, Dean Keates, Andy Dawson, Ryan Williams and Nathan Peat are also options to fill the Northern Irish international's boots.
Meanwhile, Ben Burgess is hopeful of playing despite suffering a broken nose late on in the 1-1 draw at Torquay. In-form substitute Jamie Forrester would come in if the 6'3" striker was ruled out.
Taylor is unlikely to make any other changes in personel, but says he is looking for an improvement on Saturday's mediocre showing: "It says something for our spirit that we kept battling and got a draw. I don't think we would have done that last season. However, our performance was definitely down on the last few weeks.
"I don't expect us to be the best team every week and everywhere we go. There will always be games when other teams put that bit extra in against us and that's what happened on Saturday. We were poor and we know we'll have to play a lot better at Bury."
Expected line-up (4-4-2): Musselwhite; Thelwell, Whittle, Delaney, Dawson; Price, Green, Ashbee, Holt; Allsopp, Burgess.
Subs: Fettis, Hinds, Keates, France, Forrester.