Matt Jarvis eager for Wolves return

Oct 13 2008 B Brian Halford

MATT Jarvis today pledged there will be “no holding back” when he returns to Wolves’ team after the hamstring injury that has brought his season to a juddering halt.

Left-winger Jarvis started the campaign in fine style but was brought, literally, crashing to earth by a torn hamstring against Reading two weeks ago.

With right-winger Michael Kightly also damaging a hamstring during that game, manager Mick McCarthy observed that it showed how hard his wide men work.

And as Jarvis aims to return to first-team contention by December, he revealed that work ethic won’t change. You can’t go past full-backs at half throttle.

“You can’t ever go for anything in a game less than 100 per cent,” Jarvis said. “You give total effort every time you play, that’s how it has to be.

“All the work you do is geared towards matches so when they come around you give everything. There can’t be any holding back.

“I just can’t wait to get back again because I had started the season pretty well.

“My recovery has gone well so far. They said I would be out for eight to 10 weeks and I’m hoping it will be eight. It is a case of setting weekly targets and reaching them every week. So far I have done that.

“I have worked hard in the pool and gym to strengthen it back up again. I am spending as much time, probably more, working than when I am fit.”

The injury is hugely frustrating for the former Gillingham player – and also Wolves’ fans who were seeing what Jarvis could do after his first season at Molineux, last year, was also injury-affected.

“It came right out of the blue,” He said. “I have no history of hamstring problems and had not felt any tightness.

“I was just getting up to full pace and had gone past the defender when I felt like I had been shot. It was very sore and the doctor put the oxygen mask on me which looked dramatic but I think that’s something he had to do – I don’t think I needed it.

“As soon as I went down I was lying there thinking: ‘Oh no – how long am I going to be out for?’ It’s a blow, of course, but you just have to knuckle down, get through it and get back as quickly as you can.”