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Edwards set for comeback at Villa
Friday 12th March 2010, 12:35PM GMT.
Wolves midfielder Dave Edwards is set to make his first-team comeback in the West Midlands derby at Villa next Saturday.
The Wales international returned to full training on Monday for his first week’s complete session work for three months, after being sidelined with an ankle injury.
Boss Mick McCarthy said: “Dave Edwards is training. He’s not fit for this weekend, but he might be next weekend. That would be a real plus.”
Edwards did not expect to be in senior contention until the last five games of the season, which would have ruled him out until the Staffordshire derby against Stoke on April 3. But this latest bulletin means the 24-year-old could be back in action much sooner.
Exiled striker Stefan Maierhofer is also back in contention, after coming through training yesterday with no reaction to his ankle injury.
But it is the form of another big striker, Chris Iwelumo, that is also occupying McCarthy’s mind.
The club have to decide whether to recall the Scotland international, or allow him to extend his stay beyond the agreed 28 days after the weekend.
McCarthy said: “I haven’t made a decision yet. We could loan him with a 24-hour recall after the first 28 days. He’s sharper. He needed the games.”
Iwelumo is due to play the last game of his scheduled stint tomorrow at Reading, after which McCarthy has to decide what to do.
But the manager was nonetheless thrilled to see Iwelumo score the winner at Crystal Palace in midweek, especially after driving all the way to Selhurst Park to watch the game.
He said: “The game was poor and the goal was like a polished gem in comparision. It was an unbelievable piece of quality in a hard fought, scrappy game with not a great deal of quality.”
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yer it be nice to have dave edwards back it will be a big boost for us he cant do any worser than the others playing
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Mick, bring Big Chris back as you said he’s sharper now scored a couple of goals,which will have done his confidence good surely the time is right to get him back even if its only on the bench. As our other strikers are either off-form or coming back from injury and Sam Vokes is still learning. WE need ALL our fit / sharp players playing for US not other clubs teams, who knows Big Chris could be the player that keeps us in the PL, he’s big and strong and good target man for Kevin Doyle / Jarvis / Andy Keogh to feed off.
GOOD LUCK FOR SATURDAY LADS UTW
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Get big Chris back. With the injury problems this season he needed games. I think he can create problems at premier level and be a handfull. Doyle would appreciate a target man alongside. Lets go two up top in these winnable games and go for it. If we are going to go down lets not go down in a negative manner. Oh yeah, still get rid of the ignoramous in charge – go down or not!!
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Edwards before he got injured at Spurs showed real quailty, all we need now is Kights to come back, hopefully then we might score a goal…
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Why is everyone clouded by the idea of playing 4-4-2. We have created more chances and looked much harder to breakdown since going 4-5-1 and with Edwards back we may be able to convert this formation to 4-3-3 more naturally when we have the ball. Bring Chris back for impact off the bench when the matches get scrappy, we can stay up if the players keep the faith. Up the wolves
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Great!!!!!!!!!!
HE WAS ONLY A SUB LAST SEASON
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Agreed Greg. 4 5 1 is NOT negative if you play it in the correct way and in Jarvo and Guedioura we can as they are attacking options. Let go 2 up top againt Burnley, lose 3-0 and then we can all say we went down fighting. Oh no sorry then it would be MICKS AN IDIOT, WHAT DID HE DO THAT FOR WHAN WE HAVE BEEN PLAYING WELL WITH 4 5 1 !
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5 and 7, Greg/Truth ive not said go 4-4-2 all ive said is play Chris Iwelumo as a target man, and play Doyle left and Jarvis right instead of Foley, who i would revert back to Left-back drop Ward.still 4-5-1 but i believe Chris is a better and stronger target man than Doyle who like ive said before can feed off him with Jarvis and the other midfielders.
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Go 4-4-2 with zubar and craddock the big men leading the attack
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MM will make no changes. We can’t go gung-ho at Burnley, not with their home record. The 4-5-1 we’ve been playing is good enough to take three points provided we keep the general form we’ve been showing recently.
Dave Edwards return will be a boost in a couple of weeks time. Someone said on these boards recently that he couldn’t trap a bag of cement. That’s a piece of nonsense, his strength is picking up the ball and running into the spaces. Just the answer for our right side would you not say ?
Let’s take 3 claret and blue scalps …starting today !
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as i said in august last year, we will survive comfortably jarvis 0-1, come on me babbies
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and now look whats happened , the anti mick brigade will be depressed tonight its 2-0 , lol
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