Tim Nash's daily Wolves tour diary in Ireland

There is a heavy Wolves connection to the player who sadly suffered a broken nose and concussion in Monday's 4-1 friendly win over Shamrock Rovers.

Centre-back Tom Morris, 19, hails from Penkridge – and still bats occasionally for their cricket team - and is a former Wolves season ticket holder taken to his first match at the age of three.

Later a Molineux academy scholar, he recalls Liam McAlinden and Jack Price a year and two years above him respectively and is good friends with keeper Jon Flatt.

Released this summer by Port Vale where he was a first-year professional, he was making his Rovers debut as a trialist after a try-out with Bray Wanderers stalled.

They can't sign players while they have an outstanding debt to pay. Unfortunately, Morris's trial last just 41 seconds.

He was involved in an ugly collision with team-mate, the former Leeds and Cardiff midfielder Stephen McPhail, going for a high ball.

Dad Nic, who now lives in Cheshire but whose family are from Tettenhall, said: "Tom is sore but he received first-class care at the ground and was OK within 30-45 minutes.

"But he's got to go to hospital to have his nose re-set in the next few days."

When he's fit again, Morris is hoping interest from Fleetwood and Wrexham will materialise, and that he can finally win a contract with Bray.

The Wolves family connection mentioned previously in this diary has continued.

First it was the appearance of head coach Kenny Jackett's wife Samantha and sons David and Ryan and Sam Rickett's car trip with his mum Gill to see his sister earlier this week.

Now two more players have been welcome recipients of meetings from their nearest and dearest.

Liam McAlinden's parents James and Edel came to visit their son.

All three enjoyed a catch-up in the sun outside the cafe at the training ground after the players' 90-minute weights session yesterday afternoon, before a leisurely promside walk back to the team hotel.

Liam's parents, who live in Cannock, are staying with Edel's Irish cousins in south Malahide, a short walk north along the seafront.

James's family hail from Northern Ireland, hence Liam's dual nationality qualification.

Later, Matt Doherty's dad Tom – a regular visitor during Wolves' stays at Carton House in recent years - joined his son in the evening for a catch-up in the lobby.

And it's not surprising as the Dohertys live around five miles north of Portmarnock in Swords.