What was last season like?
Mark:Bloody awful, but not particularly surprising.
Phil:Worse than most of our previous 12 seasons in this bloody division. A
complete lack of ambition shown by the board in selling Akinbyi just as the
season starts only to replace him with Fat Bob Taylor from Man City who
spent half the season injured or in the pie shop. The shambles at the club
was summed up when our MD Jez Moxey was being interviewed on local radio
saying that Colin Lee wanted to sell Akinbyi, only for Lee to phone up and
say live on air that he didn't want rid of him. Needless to say Colin was
picking up his dole money a few weeks later.
What's next season gonna be like?
Mark:Bloody awful, but not particularly surprising.
Phil:Well at the end of last season the board promised Dave Jones £10mil to
spend and "one big push" for the Premiership, and that 5 new players would
be on board before our pre-season trip to Portugal. Well the players have
now returned from Portugal and so far we've signed Mark Kennedy for 1/5th of
that (looking good so far), errr re-signed Andy Sinton who was out of
contract, let 3 players go on frees... If all goes according to plan and we
sign Collymore expect to see us attracting attention for off the field
activities rather than on the field ones - Collymore, Ketsbaia, Muscat
(bound to maim someone again this season) and Kennedy all have reputations
to uphold. Expectations of the fans currently swings wildly from 1st place
if we can spend the remaining £8mil on a quality forward and ball-winning
midfielder (missing for the past 7 seasons at least) to a relegation battle.
Same old Wolves.
Can you recommend a pub for away fans?
Mark:Great Western, next to railway station. To be honest most pubs outside of
the centre are OK, accept for certain games. (This season: Birmingham,
Coventry, the shit, Forest and Milwall)
Phil:Depends which team you are!! Pubs near the ground are predominantly
home fans only. You're better off stopping somewhere on the way into the
city. The Grapevine on the A449 is a favourite of many travelling fans,
it's a couple of miles out of the city though. If you aren't wearing
colours, support one of the "smaller" teams in the division and there's only
a couple of fans you MAY get served in one of the dozens of bars in the
city, but most have doormen on who will go so far as checking your matchday
ticket!!
What's the nearest railway station?
Phil:Wolverhampton station, 10 minute walk at most. The police are usually
on hand to ensure a safe journey to the ground if you are from one of the
bigger clubs.
Where is the best place to park?
Phil:Probably in one of the many NCP's in the city centre, it's only a 5
minute walk down to the ground from there. Probably a better idea than
parking in the side streets near to the ground, unless you remove all
element of club colours from the car and yourselves as sadly there is still
a neanderthal element attached to the club.
Mark:Why drive from Watford - there are plenty of trains & they are quite cheap?
Soundbites (from assorted Census correspondents)
"Good luck next season, see you in the play-off final!"
"The time has finally come. Wolves to be back where we belong this time next year."
"There will be a strike by referees next season as a result of itv's tv pundits comments over another dubious penalty to liverpool at the kop end."