Rover Back To Wright The Ship

ONE frustration has followed another for Joe Wright over the last 12 months, but the Doncaster Rovers man is now itching to get back to his best.

The 24-year-old center-back has mainly had a watching brief so far this season after suffering his third setback of the past year in pre-season training, making his first-team return against Portsmouth last month having suffered a knee injury against Hull in July.

But it was last November when Wright, enjoying ‘the best football’ of his career to date, ruptured the anterior talofibular ligament in his ankle, opting not to have surgery at the time so he could return within eight to ten weeks.

Things, however, went from bad to worse for the former Wales U21 international 14 weeks later when he re-ruptured the ligament and was forced to undergo surgery in February.

“It’s been a frustrating 12 months,” he admitted. “I was playing probably the best football of my career leading up to the injury, so it was frustrating for me to be out for such a long time when initially it was only meant to be eight weeks.

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