DERBY COUNTY striker Luke Varney comes straight into the Seasiders starting line up for Pool's first home Premier League game of the season.

The forward who joined the club on a season long loan replaces Ludovic Sylvestre in the starting line up whilst Brett Ormerod deputises for the injured Marlon Harewood.

Pool line up: Gilks, Baptiste, Cathcart, Evatt, Crainey, Adam, Vaughan, Grandin, Varney, Taylor-Fletcher, Ormerod Subs: Halstead, Eardley, Keinan, Euell, Sylvestre, Basham, Demontagnac