Wolves correspondent Tim Nash brings you day five of his daily diary from Australia – starring a paternal Michael Kightly, a flustered Perth Glory owner and big bowls of fruit.

At 23, Michael Kightly doesn’t appear to be showing paternal feelings.

Well, at least he wasn’t until yesterday, when he joined team-mates Greg Halford and Andrew Surman at the Caversham Wildlife Park, about half an hour outside Perth.

The trio got to hold koala bears and had their pictures taken with kangeroos as well as looking at wombats, Tasmanian devils and a huge parrot.

But it seems it was the koalas – one of which was called Karen – that really got to Kightly’s heart.

He was heard to say: “They were so lovely, there were just like babies. They were clinging on to me and cuddling up to me.”

It was a lovely contrast to the training sessions.

While Wolves were working out in front of 80-odd fans at the WACA, Perth Glory were in more primitive surroundings.

Glory train at the University of Western Australia, just outside Perth city centre.

Excellent pitches they may be but, being so out in the open, it was rather windswept as the players got changed in a hut.

It was still a surprise to be invited by Glory manager Dave Mitchell to share the various bowls of mouthwatering fruit laid on for the players, after speaking to him at length about Mick McCarthy.

No shame on my part. The players might have been tired but I was hungry!

Several hours later, we had the surreal sight of Wolves training under the giant floodlights of the WACA.

The blood pressure of Glory owner Tony Sage would surely have shot up at this spectacle.

The six floodlights cost a combined $600 per hour to run and Sage is footing the bill.