JAMES Morrison's chances of playing again this season hang in the balance due to the troublesome heel injury that kept him out of Saturday's 3-0 win over Sunderland.

Antibiotics have now cleared up the infection and his condition is being monitored by Hawthorns medical staff.

At worst, the Scotland international could miss the rest of Albion's Barclays Premier League campaign, while a positive prognosis could see him return to action as early as Saturday's trip to Tottenham (ko 3pm).

"I think it's a wait-and-see scenario with Mozza," said Tony Mowbray.

"The best-case scenario is he feels fine and has a chance for the weekend.

"The worst-case scenario is he isn't fine and it could be weeks and weeks.

"He's been on antibiotics and they have basically done the job.

"It was as bad a blister as you've seen, with skin growing over skin over skin.

"It became infected and the antibiotics have cleaned the infection up.

"All the soreness and redness has dissipated.

"But let's wait and see.

"The medical people might need to go in and scrape some of the dead skin away.

"If that's the case then he'll need a period of recuperation.

"It's not an operation. It's just a procedure to remove dead skin.

"Let's wait and see."

Mowbray admits the hamstring injury that forced Abdoulaye Meite off at half-time against the Black Cats summed up the Ivory Coast international's frustrating injury-hit season.

"I think Meite has a minor hamstring strain," the Albion chief added.

"That is a wait-and-see scenario for us as well.

"Unfortunately for Abou, it's either been his calf or his hamstring.

"We'll see whether it's a two-week thing or eight weeks.

"The good thing was the timing of Shelton Martis getting back fit.

"I thought he did very, very well in the second half against Sunderland.

"Abou's not happy that he's not been fit all season.

"It's not ideal for me or the team.

"It's been a frustrating year for us all with Abou.

"On Saturday, he strained a few fibres in his hamstring.

"We have to accept that and deal with the consequences, as we have done for most of the year."