Good news, he looks an excellent prospect and seems to be learning and improving every time he comes on. The best thing about him is his down to earth attitude, shame he’s not English.
Is that his sister in the photo? If it is, down Sir Terry, she’s much too young for you.

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Two great posts, The Real Bully Hoo.

I met Chris’s mum, purely by chance, at Portsmouth 2-2 away game towards the end of last season, when he made his debut as a late sub’. She overheard me saying:”I’d have liked to see more of Wood – he made the Portsmouth defence nervous.” We had a long chat and it was both heartening – and a little alarming – to hear what they’ve given up, as a family, to pursue his footballing ambitions. His dad and sister are left on the far side of the world, in lovely Auckland, New Zealand, while his mother acts as cook, carer and chaperone at a rented place in Great Barr. For my money, he looks like a young, raw, Derek Kevan. When he really starts pushing his weight around and gains in confidence, this young lad should be special. His mother was saying that she appreciated the Albion set-up and how much care they took with young players. It was nice to hear. The club is trying to do good things off the pitch which we sometimes don’t appreciate.

On No 2: Yes, outrageous. During the last two weeks, we are also the only championship club not to have enjoyed a ‘summary’ by the useless host and Claridge. To allow such a long session on a 0-0 draw was just a bad production decision and completely ignored the fact that a proportion of viewers would have already watched the live Sky presentation. We also, as licence payers, needed much more on Peterborough’s remarkable fightback. It was THE news story of the day. This, sadly, is not a show which does the Championship or lower leagues proud, but is a mish-mash of second-rate presentation and poor choice of games. It seems to be run by an over-promoted producer without any news sense.

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Wow Garth, I wish I’d said that! The CCC presentation is strictly amateur, a rushed job, not worthy of the old BBC.

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3 Garth.
At the risk of sounding like a mutual admiration society, it was great reading your post. We don’t do too badly on here for informative bloggers (Winslow Wolf recently commented that he comes over our side for constructive debate.) There are the usual suspects, Cyril, Happy, Forever, Ned, Warren etc, that always write interesting posts but I feel that many more have worthwhile knowledge that they don’t realise the rest of us would like to share.
Your points about Chris Wood are really interesting inside story type knowledge and reveal the unsong work that goes on behind the scenes at the club now. Sounds like what the club used to do in the sixties and seventies when our youth scouting ststem brought in young players like Bomber, Asa Hartford, Bryan Robson and Lenny Cantello from far and wide. These were some of the outstanding examples but there were lesser lights that were more than useful, Hughie Reed, Dick Krzywicki, John Trewick etc that all did a job for us.
Meanwhile, come on the rest of you, have a go at a bit more than commenting on the latest game.
On ‘The Football League Show,’ sorry I misnamed it ‘The Championship’ earlier. I said the same as you when it first started. It’s almost as if the BBC got it but didn’t really want it. The whole thing reaks of it being the ugly sister to the premiership MOTD and they’d rather no one saw it. The Beeb do the same with Radio 5, it is totally obsessed with the Prem, mainly the big four.

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Chris has dual nationality British/New Zealand thanks to his English mum and NZ dad

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Winslow Wolf.
If you read this, don’t write off your fellow Wulfies too soon. Have a look at post 42 on the Iwelumo article. Very funny.

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I’m delighted chris wood has signed a new deal,it would be brilliant if paul downing was on a good contract aswell,he is quality.we certainly need players of this calibre for the future no question.

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