Comeback in sight for Alan Moogan at Telford
AFC Telford United are playing a waiting game on player-coach Alan Moogan as the midfielder nears a return after three months out with a groin injury.
The 29-year-old enters the last week of his rehabilitation holding out hope of being fit for the big Boxing Day game away to Hednesford Town.
It seems an age since Moogan went off hurt in the 2-1 Skrill Conference North win at Gloucester City on Saturday August 25, with a groin problem that required surgery.
The Professional Footballers Association stumped up for the cash for him to go under the knife in October, where he was ordered to completely rest for some weeks afterwards.
He then worked his way back to full fitness while keeping himself busy with his coaching duties, but is nearly ready to rejoin the fray.
Manager Liam Watson will be monitoring the player's progress as they head into the festive period and will use him if needed.
He said: "Alan has had a couple of injections now to get the swelling down and he's getting there, we are going into the Christmas period and he needs games.
"It's one of them we will have to assess as we go along, he's probably about seven days away from being fully fit but it's more about how you react the next day.
"He's there or thereabouts, not a million miles away, and if there's one person I would throw in, it would be him. I think he would use his experience.
"But if we get to the turn of the year and we haven't called upon him and we then get him back, it's only going to make us stronger."
Transfer-listed winger Sean Cooke could make his second debut for AFC Flyde this afternoon at King's Lynn Town in the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League.
The paperwork should be completed for Cooke to rejoin the club he left in the summer on a month's loan by the time the game kicks off.
