MARK Davies has been challenged to prove he can fire Wanderers back up the Championship table.

Fit again after a bruised knee, the mercurial midfielder returned to action from the bench in Tuesday's 2-1 defeat at Charlton.

Neil Lennon is debating whether to launch him from the start against Brentford tomorrow but admits he needs to get more out of the 26-year-old playmaker if he is to fulfil his full potential.

Davies remains a popular figure on the terraces but has started just four of Wanderers' 16 games this season.

Now the new Whites boss, speaking ahead of his first home game in charge, has laid down the gauntlet to his flair players to take charge and lead the club out of the bottom three.

"It is good to have Mark back and I haven’t seen much of him on the pitch, obviously, but I was quite pleased with what I saw against Charlton," he told The Bolton News.

“But now he’s got to come to the party and make a difference. They all have.

"It is the same with Chung-Yong Lee. He is a very good player but there has to be an end product to all that good approach play.

"We need results, it's as simple as that. And I can’t give it to the players, they have to find it themselves and give me some answers on the pitch."

Lennon will assess the fitness of Joe Mason, who pulled out of the squad in midweek with a hamstring strain, and also has Liam Trotter back in the squad after he came through 45 minutes for the development squad on Monday.

The Wanderers boss believes he has a better understanding of his squad after sampling defeat for the first time at The Valley.

“I know the players better now," he said. "I wasn’t disappointed with the performance but I was raging with the result. And that is the be all and end all.

"I said that this is the last time I want to feel like that for a very long time.

"They have got to change. I don't think the mentality is a problem and I definitely don't think it is a fitness thing. There is a will to win - it is just a matter of quality to address now."

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