Wolves have received a welcome boost with midfielder Dave Edwards returned to full training for the first time in more than a month.

The Wales international completed his first full session since aggravating his ankle problem several weeks ago.

Edwards initially sustained the injury on December 12 in the 1-0 win at Tottenham and had been expected to be out for eight weeks until he suffered a setback in training.

The midfielder joined Andy Keogh as the second of Wolves’ trio of long term casualties, with the Republic of Ireland international appearing in the last two games as a late substitute despite only returning to full training a day before his 17-minute comeback at Bolton.

Wolves have a reserve fixture at Alvechurch in the Birmingham Senior Cup tomorrow night, but manager Mick McCarthy refuses to put any time limit on when the 24-year-old will be back in action.

He said: “David has trained today. He’s fine and it would be great to get him back playing again. But this was his first day back since he got injured four weeks ago which came after he did the injury in December.

“So he’s had two days’ full training in three months and we’ll just see how he is. I’m not going to make any predictions on Dave.

“It would be lovely to have him back and if he’s back for the last six games of the season, I’d be thrilled because there are games to be won then.”

Edwards was in good form before injury, with McCarthy reckoning the former Shrewsbury and Luton man was Man of the Match at White Hart Lane before hobbling off on the hour mark.

Since then the all-action midfielder has missed 10 League games, the team winning two and drawing two in what is the player’s longest lay-off since he signed for Wolves in January 2008.

Edwards has proved his versatility at Wolves, playing at right-back, wide right and as a support striker as well as his preferred centre midfield role.

Wolves still have Michael Kightly (knees) and Stefan Maierhofer (ankle) sidelined through injury, with the Austrian international still unable to train today.