Video: Bogey team hold no fear for Kenny Jackett
Like most football managers, Kenny Jackett pays little attention to previous records or terms like 'bogey team'.
That's probably just as well, as Wolves' record at Bolton over the past two decades is something which would easily give him cause for concern.
They haven't won a league game there since the Lancashire club played at Burnden Park, when a Guy Whittingham double and an Andy Thompson strike earned a 3-1 win in February 1994.
Since then, a 2-1 FA Cup victory in January 1999 is the only anomaly on a record which otherwise has yielded zero success.
Not that those statistics are of any interest to Jackett, of course.
"I don't pay attention to records like that," he says. "It is what it is.
"Games in the Championship are difficult, whoever you have got.
"Home or away, they are tough games and we want to be good enough to win on a consistent basis.
"We won last time out and are pleased with that. We want to follow up with another one on Saturday, if possible."
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Indeed, tomorrow would seem the ideal opportunity to end the wait for a league win at the Macron Stadium.
The hosts sit bottom but one of the Championship, winless and having mustered only one goal.
It's a record Jackett is placing little emphasis on.
"It seems like they have been playing well," he said. "Looking at their squad, they have a strong one, as do the vast majority of clubs in the Championship.
"The games are always tight and we want to find the winning equation ourselves.
"We want to play with confidence and an attacking ability, if at all possible."
A need to blend attractive play with positive results has been frequently repeated by Jackett in recent weeks.
By the same token, the head coach is all too aware his side are yet to keep a clean sheet this season and with skipper Danny Batth still a little way off full fitness, the emphasis is on youngsters like Dominic Iorfa, Kortney Hause and Ethan Ebanks-Landell to step up and lead.
"It is not an issue, the inexperience," he said. "They are young but they are good. A lot has been made of inexperience but we have quite a few young players.
"The others are ready, it is their time. They are good enough and will only get better."
He went on: "We want to play a good brand of football and we want to be able to pass the ball.
"We want to try and go at sides – that is not to the detriment of being defensively solid but we have a philosophy and a way of playing.
"We want to cultivate that, while realising winning on a regular basis and making sure you are strong enough physically to help you find the right equation.
"It feels a competitive division, particularly this year."
Jackett must decide whether to hand Adam Le Fondre his first start in a Wolves shirt or adapt tactics to cope with the loss of Nouha Dicko.
Le Fondre, on loan from Cardiff, returns to the club for whom he scored eight goals during a loan spell in the second half of last season and is eager to pick up where he left off last time against Charlton, when he scored a late winner.
"It is a big opportunity, whether he comes off the bench or starts," said Jackett. "This next run of games brings him closer to it and is exactly the reason why you need strength in depth.
"He (Le Fondre) has got a proven goalscoring record everywhere bar Cardiff, for whatever reason.
"He'll have his own opinions on that but whatever the case it did not quite work out there for him. That is to our advantage. It means we have got him.
"He has scored goals everywhere and so far, in the bits and pieces he has played for us he looks like a striker who knows the Championship.
"He knows what he is doing and is in the right place at the right time.
"He brings an experience that we need up there.
"We feel he has fitted in well and is ready to go."
