Michael Kightly remains bang on course to complete an ahead-of-schedule comeback next weekend.
And that will be the best possible news for a Wolves squad desperate to get out of their system the two-game fall from grace before the international break.
Key-man Kightly was originally ruled out for longer after suffering a pulled hamstring against Reading, but Steve Kemp, the head of the club’s medical department, reports swift progress from the England under- 21 star.
Kightly is already back out on the training ground at Compton and Kemp says: “Michael’s responding to treatment well and is outside running and progressing well, so, fingers crossed, he should be back in full training in time for the Coventry game.”
That will be just what Wolves need to hear after those back-to-back defeats by Reading and Swansea added pressure to the comeback derby against Coventry at Molineux a week today.
“You want to be top of the league,” says defender Neill Collins.
“Everyone says you don’t look at the league table too much in terms of thinking you’re going to get promoted and that’s right.
“But we enjoyed being top and if you told me we’d be top of the table all the way through the season I’d take that! The longer we’d stayed top of the league the better we’d have done, so obviously we are going to try and get back there.
“It’s annoying because even if we could have taken a point at Swansea we’d have been top of the league.
“The international break is good in terms of getting players back and fit but by the same token footballers are desperate to go out and prove people wrong after a bad result.”
But Collins believes Coventry will face a Wolves team a little wiser for the experience gleaned from those two defeats following seven successive victories.
He added: “With each defeat you always look at it and think about what went wrong. It has made us more determined not to let it happen again. Often you learn more from a defeat than you do a victory. We’ve learned a lot from the last two games.”
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Pleased to hear Kites is close to returning to full fitness,once we have most of the injured players available we should get back on track,still think we need to sort out the defence,maybe giving shackell a full debut.
At last!! Some good news!
Lets hope there’s no fresh injury news from today!
I just hope he’s not being rushed back like last season. I’ve had a hamstring injury, it hurt like hell and took longer than a month to heel. But then I’m not a professional so….
So, Neil, given that you learn from every defeat, I presume after the Reading match that the team got together and agreed that they had to concentrate more from the first whistle so that they did’t give away any soft, early goals!
We learn a little with every defeat? Cripes, we must be the wisest team in the country, perrenial under achievers that we are! Years of underachievement, lets hope this is our year.
come on !up the wolves xx
Loved your incisive comment, Molly …..but
A little more viciousness and a lot more bite, if you please.
We are the dogheads after all and our bark has been worse than our bite for too long.
Hopefully he doesnt rush back. We need him to be fit in the long term, not just for the next game.
Collins is rubbish. If he wants to be top of the league he should play at a level more suited to his talent, i.e. the Blue Square Premier.
Great News-Keep our fingers crossed-Crazey Dave
great news but mm has got to get a backup plan in place before the next injury if mm is not going to go long term then a replacement who will do a good job for one half would be gray he will run all day and show the young one up
until the reading and swansea i thought great this is our year. i think we need to look at the depth it proved we have not got the strenth in the squad to replace the injured 1st team players.
i realy hope it was a blip but my heart sez thats our weakness. great to here kites on way back.
9 you forgot S Ward he could go to the Sunday league with his dad MM
As for top of the league, WHAT with our strikers missing open goals for their country we have no chance,get a life Mick and leave..
OK READING AND SWANSEA WERE DEPRESSING..BUT FOLLOWING THE BREAK THE COVENTRY GAME IS MASSIVE.
WIN IT AND THOSE TWO GAMES COULD BE LOOKED ON AS A BLIP..PLAY POORLY AND LOSE OR DRAW..WELL COULD BE LAST SEASON ALL OVER AGAIN.
SO GOOD PERFORMANCE AND 3 POINTS SATURDAY..AND ALL WILL BE WELL AGAIN.
COME ON WOLVES. MAKE US PROUD!!
Comment 14, you really are thick!
Its YOU who should get a life, and isnt it time you came out!
Can you guess who the first goal scorer will be?
17 - Yes first goalscorer will be Big Chris from two yards. Dont worry bout Freddie, he wont have a kick, will offer what he normally offers teams FRUSTRATION!
No16 you should come out OUT of that sordid little world that you live in,I`ve read lots of your comments in the past and they amount to a person that is blinkered in every sense of the word.Grow up and start acting your age not your shoe size
OOhhh Touchy Comment 14 & 19. I have obvious struck a nerve with you. Nothing to be ashamed of. Go back to colouring with your crayon little boy and leave the grown up conversations to like minded adults who have Wolves to their hearts. For the sake of a player who has started off like a house on fire and is vilified by these so called “experts” its muppets like you who is the disease this club breeds. One mistake by our talisman striker and its Micks got to go. STUPID FOOL!
Wylie old dog…. call yourself a fan.. your a joke mate…
Has anyone spotted OUR WEEKEST LINK!
Mr Collins, step foreward or backwards UGH.