Wolves boss Gary O'Neil has offered a boost to local lad Joe Hodge.

O'Neil admits he expects the fit-again midfielder to have a big first team role to play this season.

He said, “'Hodgy' [Joe Hodge] will be back in and around it and has been training for the last few days, which is positive, and the rest of the players seem fine.

“We've just made it more intense, I don't know about the length or duration, but the intensity is definitely higher and having looked at the numbers they were producing before I got here to what we're doing now.

"Training is a bit more intense than it was, but we just do things slightly differently to how they were doing them, so there's an adaptation that needed to take place and hopefully we'll start to see the effect of that fitness-wise."