TBH - today didn't really teach us much that we didn't know about Wolves already... Hennessey not really that good, so we are reliant on USA between the sticks.  Van Damme will need time to settle into the English game, as did Zubar 12 months ago.  We still have Hunt, Kightly and Mouyokolo to come into the team. And SEB still can't score for toffee!!  Any injuries to the likes of Doyle will really leave us in the sh1t.

Will be interesting how long Mick sticks with 4-4-2 with the new signings.  We had to move to 4-5-1 last season to grind out results.  Will we be able to push on and play a bit more football this time?  I would guess we'll mix it up more than we were able to last season.

Wolves will be in a relegation scrap for the majority of the season, I don't think there's a Wolves fan out there who expects otherwise.  Our odds are probably just about right - 4th favs. Blackpool can pretty much be discounted.  But then there probably aren't huge differences between West Brom, Wolves, Wigan, Newcastle, Bolton and maybe Stoke and the Hammers.  All of whom will be scrapping for points along the way.  Our target is to finish the highest out of that bunch of teams and ensure at least 2 of them are below us, or 3 if Blackpool beat expectations.

We all hope that the scrap will be over with a few games to go - as a result of being safe rather than doomed by the time we play the Baggies in our next to last home game! 

Our squad IS improved, on paper, on what we had last season, plus they also now have some experience in the top flight, most of our new signings are experienced in the PL too, which will help a little.  This time last year there was only Doyle, USA and Craddock with much in the way of PL experience.

As for going on about the worst PL ever last season. If that was the case, which is debatable, we still finished 15th in that division. We didn't scrape by surviving by the skin of our teeth and just have the 3 worst teams of all time below us.  There were 5 teams worse than us last year.  But don't let facts get in the way!

As I said pre kick-off, I couldn't be backing Wolves today, the result wasn't that much of a surprise.  The bottom end of the PL isn't that much better than the upper reaches of the Championship, which is where Leeds will expect to be in 9 months!  Best of luck to them next season.  For all the banter with Leeds fans, I'd rather be playing Leeds in the PL next season than have a trip to the likes of Wigan.

A nice win for us yesterday, just a shame there were no points at stake.