The crippling injury list that has hindered Neil Warnock's start to life as Palace manager looks to be abating.

With a London derby against QPR looming, Neil's options look much healthier than they did a week ago.

Mark Kennedy and Paul Ifill both came through Tuesday's draw at match against Cardiff City unscathed, and will provide the manager with the option of injecting some creativity into proceedings.

Clint Hill is in line to make his home debut, despite playing through his debut with the handicap of a calf injury, Besian Idrizaj is likely to be available after suffering concussion at Scunthorpe and David Martin is back training after enduring a bout of flu.

However, Tony Craig (shoulder) and Lee Hills (back) both miss out, as does Paul Dickov, who should be in contention for the trip to Colchester after the international break.

The two-week spell was at the forefront of Neil's mind when he looked ahead to Saturday's game.

He said: "The quicker I get my first win, the better. I want to win before we have a two-week break. QPR are having their best spell of the season, apart from the result the other night, and it's good to have a London derby."

Neil will hope to seal some loan deals during the fortnight but, as he explains, there are obstacles in the way.

"I read that Glenn Roeder had said hat it's difficult to get players in because those from the Premier League are more prepared to play in the reserves because they don't want to travel and stay in a hotel - and he's right," he said.

"I've spoken to two Premier League players who the managers have said I can have, but the players haven't agreed to come - not just to us but to any team in the Championship.

"I find that incredible that they don't want to play first team football. It is money because it shows these players aren't altogether bothered about playing - but then you don't want those kind of players anyhow.

"So when they say that, you thank god that you didn't sign them anyway."

The Eagles boss has been encouraged by the away draws at Scunthorpe and Cardiff, and now wants to turn them into wins.

He added: "Quite honestly, we weren't good enough against Watford and Stoke. If we'd defended against Stoke anything like the way we defended against Cardiff, we would have won because they only had three efforts on goal.

"We've worked hard on the defence and sorted that out, but we've got to score more goals with what we've got at the club. But if we can't, we'll have to bring someone else in because we have to score more goals.

"I said I'd give them 5 games and, to be fair, I've given everyone a shot. I don't think anybody can say I haven't given them a chance - including the kids.

"Attendances will increase when we give the fans something to shout about. The ones that are coming, the loyal ones, can see a change. They just have to have faith in me.

"I don;t think any team's too good to go down - I'm not even thinking about that. The sooner we get stabilised, the sooner we can blood some of the younger lads over the last 10 to 15 games at the end of the season. That's my intention.

"At the beginning, I don;t think one or two of the players expressed themselves, but we are improving on that.

"I feel every game we played we could have won, including Watford. If we sort ourselves out, in a few weeks' time we could win games like that."