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Iwelumo faces fitness battle
Saturday 11th July 2009, 11:05AM BST.
Wolves could be without striker Chris Iwelumo for up to three months, manager Mick McCarthy has revealed.
The Scotland international striker broke a metatarsal in last night’s 1-0 win against Perth Glory in Australia as the club’s tour got off to the worst possible start.
Iwelumo, who was playing his first game since injuring his medial knee ligaments against Birmingham on April 6, had the news confirmed after x-rays. “He’s broken his metatarsal. I don’t know whether it will be six, eight or 12 weeks, some heal quicker than others,” said McCarthy.
“I’m hugely disappointed, for Chris more than anything. Chris has played all his career in the lower leagues and worked his socks off to get this opportunity of the Premier League and then he breaks his toe.”
Iwelumo becomes the third Wolves player in 11 months to suffer a fracture to the foot after Jody Craddock last August and Michael Kightly in March.
Craddock took 15 weeks to regain full fitness after complications set in, while Kightly hasn’t played yet as he is still easing his way back to full fitness. Iwelumo probably won’t now be fit until October.
“It’s hugely disappointing for me as well because I’ve lost a player for a number of weeks,” added McCarthy.
McCarthy exonerated former Leeds midfielder Jacob Burns, whose clash with Iwelumo caused the injury. “It wasn’t a physical game – it was an accidental clash,” said the boss. “The game was fine – there was no badness in it at all.”
Midfielder Dave Jones also missed the game after coming off early during training earlier in the day with tendonitis to the knee.
McCarthy gave debuts to new signings Kevin Doyle, Nenad Milijas, Marcus Hahnemann, Andrew Surman, Greg Halford and Ronald Zubar, with Surman catching the eye.
But he was far from happy with the performance as Sylvan Ebanks-Blake scored the only goal in the second minute.
“We were hopeless. I hate pre-season,” said McCarthy.
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ah Mick you do make me smile with your comments from time to time. I hope big Chris will be back asap, as although i think Sylvan and Doyle will be our main two, Iwelumo can come on a get the odd goal.
Still think we need Mancienne and another striker, someone like Ashton or Bent.
Come on Mick, another big two signings will give us a real chance!!!
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It’s only our first pre season and MM is already fuming. Easy Easy now Gaffer. Still early days ;).
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Wishing you a full & speedy recovery Big Chris
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I love Mick McCarthy. His personality suits wolves down to the ground. He is the common man, like every wolves fan. Doesnt give non-sensical interviews, powder-puff comments. He’s honest, down to earth and FUNNY. Lets stick behind him all the way this season. We owe him that and we have to be ever so thankful to him and for him everday this season.
Never been as excited and optimistic as a wolves fan before. Mick truely is a magician.
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Did Vokes play?
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Never happy is he our Mick…….love him!
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A cruel blow for Chris in particular. Wishing him a speedy recovery.
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well done lads but we need mancienne and 2 big signings still and we have a real chance we need another strong holding midfielder and a striker incase stuff like this happens yh we got SEB and doyle but what happnes if one of them get injured were only left with vokes and keogh if iwelumo is still injured just a thought ?
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vokes did”nt play.might have a slight knock.
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Buy them all some proper black boots with some protection on the top and nail-in studs, that’ll stop all this nonsense. Get well soon Chris
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lol mick
gd result. nice to hear blakey keogh surman and zubar having gd performances
i think a few more signings would be nice
striker: viduka ashton or someone powerful like them
midfielder: gary o’neil, huddlestone, ledley or someone like that in the centre
defender: mancienne, dunne, steven taylor. anyone of them would be nice
utw
super mick
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“Chris has played all his career in the lower leagues”
And the reason for that: He simply isnt better.
I like Big Chris. He seems like a good guy, and he did score some good goals last year. But he is nowhere near good enough for Premiership football.
I wish him a speedy recovery, then hope he will be soon be on his way out.
I am sorry, but there really is no room for sympathy in the Premiership.
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mc is the man for us no crap just the way it is. hope you have fast recovery chris
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I was at the game and must say that PG gave them a hard time! Wolves still have a lot to do before the season kicks off. There was too much kicking the ball into nowhere, almost like a panic reaction. They need more composer…it will come as the team gels. Keogh was dynamite…he is gonna do well in the EPL!!! It will be interesting to watch how Fulhum come off against PG on Wednesday – they have already lost to new boys Goldcoast United! Wolves have got Queensland Fury just before Fulham come on – 4 hrs of football back to back…wooohoo..
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You have got to love him our super mick always makes you smile. as for big chris we all wish you well m8. and have anyone ov you read teletxt today
again we are linked with night from villa please please do not sign this donky!mancienne and another striker on loan will do for now.
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Yes lets get back to wearing proper boots that offer protection instead of fashion statements – never used to get these injuries in the 60′s and 70′s.
Speedy recovery hoped for with Chris, as although not a gifted player, would be great to bring on last 15 minutes to put himself about in the box and perhaps get on end of some long throw ins from Halford!!
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12
Stay in Sweden, you don’t know what you’re talking about!
Stop slaggin our players, especially one who has been superb since he joined!
Without his goals we wouldn’t have won the league
KTF
Wolves forever
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Don’t Ya Just Love Big Mick … I think Wolves fans should take it as a compliment when he calls us whingers or clowns …THE MAN SAYS WHAT HE THINKS AND DOESN’T SUCK UP TO ANYONE … ASK KEANO
BEST OF LUCK CHRIS AND LETS GET BEHIND MICK A BIT MORE THIS SEASON!!
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Shame about big Chris, he must be truly gutted, didn’t even got to kick a ball in the Premier and he picks up an injury, chin up mate, get yourself back as quick as possible.
As for the result of the game, as we all know the results in pre-season never give a true indication of how a team is going to perform when the games really count, at least the new signing are getting a chance to integrate into the team, we won, but as Mick said it was not a good performance, im sure the lads will be up for it when it counts when the Prem kicks off.
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17,.Grace 12 is entitled to his opinion just as you are,Whether or not big chris will be good enough for the prem time will tell.Agree with most posts on here a good quality striker is needed to have a squad big enough to compete and cover for injuries(as we have already found out).Although we have signed some potentially good players we still have to acquire 1or2 established premiership quality imv.
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17. Dear Grace
FYI The person Copenhagen Wolf may or may not be based in Sweden but may I suggest that Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark. A graceful response would be to apologise for the error.
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17 Dear Grace, please have the good grace to apologise to Copenhagen Wolf for stating that he should stay in Sweden! What an insult! Just like asking a Swede to stay in Copenhagen!
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MM makes me laugh. ‘I hate pre-season’ – well, I’m afraid we can’t do without it, like night follows day!
What is it with these metatarsals? They didn’t materialise until recently.
Is it something in the human body that has just started to grow?
Does it only belong to footballers?
Can I have one?
Answers on a £10 note please.
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We still need the dynamo at centre half! Where can we get another Billy Wright or Mike Bailey from, cheap?
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17. I will start trusting your player judgement when you learn some basic geography.
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A long time Wolves supporter in Perth for 18 years, looking forward to good football, I was very disappointed, neither team needed a goalie.
Not worth the $50 ticket, hope Wednesdays game will be a vast improvement.
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Gents
My apologies for the ‘schoolboy’ geographical error!!!! Doh
What a fool I am!!!
Still don’t like people having a pop at one of our most comitted player over the last 12 mths.
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20, Maltawolves
I thought we had got ourselves a good quality striker, Kevin Doyle???
How many forwards do you want??
Doyle
SEB
Illewemo
Keogh
Vokes
If you look a little further we also hae Ward & Halford who have both played up front, then we have a couple of young lads, junior pro’s. Elliott, I think is one who come on against Barnsley.
So I think we have alot of cover up there, the other thing is that we don’t want to blow our budget in August we may need to invest in January.
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i think it is essential we pick up a striker to replace big Chris, on loan if need be.
i would go for a big clever striker like Viduks who has not been picked up yet.
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Copenhagen Wolf. If you really are in Sweden would you like to share the driving to the home games?
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Perhaps time to bring in another forward to cover Lumes enforced absence – we possibly needed another face in this position anyway, damn shame we didn’t move a bit quicker for Fraizer Campbell.
As regards Leko as well as not being young he is not particualrly hungry either, demanding £30k a week – who does he think he is? McCarthy from the Accies makes much more sense.
Also why do we need Zat Knight? With Mancienne coming at least on loan, Zubar, Stearman, Berra, Craddock, possibly Balde if he cuts the mustard. Someone like Matt Mills would be money better spent than Knight and he would be hungrier you would have thought and probably demand less wages and has more long term potential than Knight.
17) Oh dear oh dear! Well after Perth Glory I suppose our next leg of the Oz Tour is in Auckland (lol).
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“Still don’t like people having a pop at one of our most comitted player over the last 12 mths”
I’m not questioning his commitment. Its second-to-none. However, I am stating the obvious – That he is not good enough for Premiership football. Thats my opinion, and hasnt got anything to do with not appreciating his contribution last season.
I am afraid that we say – Oh well, lets give the likes of Hill, Ward, Iwelumo and Craddock a chance. After all, they did help us get promoted. Then come January, having realized they werent up for it, what are we to do then?
30 – Sorry, but you could drop by Denmark, and then feel free to share the driving;)
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32,
You’re missing the point, which you’d know if you went to as many games as I did last season.
The big fella makes & scores goals, check the stats!!!!!
The guys finishing was 1st class, that’s why he deserves a fair crack of the whip, not just discarded, as you would have.
Watch the end of season dvd & let me know what you think.
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26.Lucky Jim indeed…my ticket was $70 !!
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listening to our aussie friends the team not looking to good,where are all the signings,come on mr morgan pull your finger out and cheque book.
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Even for a pre-season game we were dire. No midfield and panicky defence. Andy Keogh MOTM. Vast Vast improvement required.
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Just a blessing its happened now, rather than the last game of preseason before big kick off!
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went to the training sessions in perth – doyle very rusty, blake only okay, iwelumo was the best but still only ordinary, keogh not impressive. Of the new signings only Surman looked decent. Haneman looked MUCH better in goal than Hennessey. Zubar, Milijas, Balde – forget it, they are not any better than what we already have. Halford looks a decent signing but nothing special. McCarthy is going to have to shrpen this lot up a great deal and make sure he gets his tactics right. Tough season ahead but the team spirit is strong and they appear a committed bunch. Oh yeah Elokobi looked completely out of touch and Ward was relaible which isn’t saying much about the others.
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Hard to see who the starting 11 are going to be, other than Keogh the others including all the new signings were as bad as each other. I’ve endured football in Australia for the last 18yrs and this was the worst game of football I have seen in that time. $70 daylight robbery. However the atmosphere in the northbridge hotel (pub) before the game was magic. Gonna need the fans behind them all season.
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Oh and Stearman was played at right back with balde in the middle in the second half – not good.
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35. Is terry from the tesco pages. As his names is always in capitals and 2 minutes later he always posts in his name. Not too good? Did you go to Histon? didnt you lose to a non-league side. You havnt got a sponsor, all your players want out and you have took a cheap option manager after being turned down by your first 2 choices.
I would like to see us go in for a big target man now Looms is injured. I think a cheeky bid for Kevin Davies? We are still lacking a no nonsense centre half and a strong tackling midfielder. Mancienne would also be a good addition.
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28 Grace,How many strikers do we want? Of the players you mentioned only Doyle has played in the prem.SEB Potentially will score goals,Iwelumo unfortunatly now out until October but is he a prem player?Keogh great heart workhorse but never a prolific goalscorer.Vokes one for the future still learning his trade,What happens in the event of either Doyle or SEB getting a serious injury.You cannot play wait and see in the prem and wait for the January sales.I am sure that i want the same as you sustained premiership football, but i do feel a bit concerned at the lack of back up firepower.
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I was always wondering why my SAT-NAV has problems–Grace is the programmer–Great Grace—
Early days keep calm everybody did MM really say all that–Well he’s in Oz so he can say anything–
Get back here MM lets see you all play—Then we can pass comment–
Bad luck CHRIS but “You will be Back”–Crazey Dave
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Well I guess I already mentioned in these forums that I thought we would need another Striker to cover injuries and we have one already before the season has started.
I know we have numerous strikers on the books, but still feet we need another QUALITY STRIKER for cover for the front two. We need goals in the team from all positions, but especially from coming off the bench and to cover injuries.
I still think we need wing cover and should be looking at experience and DUFF with Ledley in the middle as well.. I think NM will turn out to be an excellent signing and SEB and Doyle need to play at least 10 together to get a partnership going. Just hope neither gets injured!!! :-)
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Billywiseman – trust me they were shocking, even for a preseason friendly they had no skill and the wolves were worse…
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43, Bill
Yeah, sorry mate satnav programming, not my strong point, nor is geography!!!! lol
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Grace,
you missed football as your not one of your strong points also!
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On the subject of Lallana from Southampton.
Why is it we simply bidding for Football League players?
I agree that Doyle and Surman are good signings but Championship and lower can only get you so far whereas we should be looking towards players already playing in the Prem if we want to make a go of it come kickoff.
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back from perth, just a question? what did you expect for £35.00 a rip roaring quality filled 5 goal thriller? seems your still stuck in the 40s me old cobber
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