There are a couple of players who will benefit more than most from a pause in Chesterfield’s season.

The Spireites beat Accrington Stanley 1-0 on Saturday, a result which kept them in the race for the play-offs. The fight for a place in the top seven is likely to go down to the wire and the Blues are right in the mix, sitting just outside the play-offs on goal difference.

The Blues are not in action this weekend after their home game against Grimsby Town, who currently occupy the last play-off spot in seventh, was postponed because three Mariners’ players have been called-up for their countries during this international break.

With no fixture until Cheltenham Town visit on Good Friday, Chesterfield have an opportunity to give some players a much-needed break so that they are fit and firing for the remainder of the season.

The gap between the Accrington and Cheltenham clashes is 13 days in total so the task for the camp has been deciding which players need a complete rest and which ones will tick over.

Dylan Duffy, it has been revealed, has been playing with tendinitis in his hamstrings since the start of the year. The winger was not going to be included in the squad against Accrington but said he would play through the pain barrier if needed.

“I don’t think he has played a game fully fit for us,” Kieron Dyer told 1866 Sport. “He has been in real pain, real discomfort. But he is such an honest lad and he has been out on the pitch for us.”

Lee Bonis is another player who has not been fully fit because of a swollen ankle. With Will Grigg out for the season with a hamstring injury, Will Dickson was given a rare start at Accrington and he scored the winner.

“His ankle is probably the size of a balloon,” Dyer said on Bonis. “It just shows you how much they care. They are playing when they are nowhere near 100%.”