Wrexham Evening Leader

Jones is raring to go

By RICHARD JONES

21 December 2007

Mark JonesMARK JONES insists he fighting fit and raring to face Rotherham tomorrow.

Wrexham midfielder Jones returned from seven week lay off with a back injury in last weekend's 3-1 defeat against Brentford and also managed a full 90-minutes in a midweek training match against a youthful Everton side.

"I'm don't know if I will be selected yet, but if I get the nod then, fitness wise, I feel okay and I am fine to play for the full 90-minutes if asked to do so," he said.

"The midweek run out against Everton was really important for me. I needed to get a full game under my belt because the match against Brentford was my first time out for a while."

Wrexham boss Brian Little has described Jones' return to fitness as a boost for the team's attacking prowess in midfield, and Jones now wants to repay the faith shown by his gaffer with a good run of form over the hectic festive period.

"The main aim for usnow is to try and get a good amount of points from the games coming up over the busy Christmas period," added Jones.

"But we can only take one game at a time and at the moment we are all fully concentrating on getting a result against Rotherham tomorrow.

"We have been working on a lot of different thing in training in order to try and put things right and hopefully we can put them into good use.

"Rotherham are a decent team but there is never such a thing as an easy game. All we can do is try and look for the win, be attack minded and look to express ourselves."

Meanwhile, Jones and the rest of Wrexham's Welsh international contingent, could be extending their season by another three weeks after the Welsh FA announced two end-of-season friendlies last night.

Wales will play Iceland away on Wednesday, May 28 before flying off to Rotterdam to face Holland on Sunday, June 1.

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