Blog: It's great being a Wolves fan

In my last blog I perhaps foolishly spoke about Wolves exposing Birmingham as an average team,

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If I was honest I didn't really believe that before the game and I certainly didn't think that Blues were an average side at the final whistle.

Perhaps this season's form has gone to my head a little, but I did enjoy winding up a few Birmingham fans in the last blog by talking about the lack of attendance at St Andrews and the evil ewok they have playing up front. Perhaps it was a bit juvenile, but am I bothered though?

A cracking game that hopefully showed some of the watching TV public that there is more to English football than just the Premiership.

Stephen Ward continues to look more at home every game he plays at left back and I thought he was exceptional on Saturday. But for me the real star of the show was Richard Stearman who put in an immense performance despite his error which led to the goal.

For the Blues I thought McFadden's creativity, passing and crossing was superb and you can see why he has commanded big transfer fees. And if Phillips hadn't of gone off with a dodgy case of the 'umpa lumpas', which I think is Latin for dodgy stomach, then who knows if Jerome would have come on and scored?

Working in Coventry , I'm not surrounded by many Wolves fans, apart from a chap called Russell who sits a couple of rows back, both at work and in the Steve Bull stand. So those other football fans I work with who know my footballing allegiance are all saying the same thing to me that Wolves are nailed on for promotion.

There, I've said it, it's out there. The majority of Wolves fan are still acting all coy and pessimistic and harking back to 2002 when we blew that massive lead in the league to the stripy lot down the road and finished 3rd. The class of 2002 had star pupils such as Rae, Lescott and Cameron and were a decent side but I think they lacked some of the energy, pace and attacking capabilities of today's Wolves side.

I also think we have better strength in depth in perhaps every department. Would you swap Kennedy and Newton for Kites and Jarvis? How about Blake and Sturridge for Iwelumo and SEB? Nor me.

We should all be excited about the prospect of promotion. Ok, it's December and there are five months of league games to go, but should we be as cautious and as pessimistic as the majority of us are, just because that's the norm in football?

When my Coventry colleagues ask me about promotion, I might as well just have a recorded message ready to play them; "There is still 5 months to go and we could still pick up injuries to key players and one team always makes a sprint for the line and we have been here before and it all went belly up, etc etc."

I might actually start saying, "Yes, promotion is a good possibility, because you know what, we are a really good side who play attractive football and score bags of goals. Our defence is starting to look really solid and the team looks fitter and stronger than I have ever seen a Wolves team before."

Try saying it yourself when anybody mentions the 'p' word. Don't be afraid.

Congrats to Mick for a fully deserved manager of the month award and I would put money on Iwelumo to also grab the player of the month for November.

And so on to tomorrow when we take on the might of the richest football club in the world, QPR.

They don't seem to have got it quite right down at Lofus Road , but Paulo Sousa's men have a good record at home and will be a tough side to beat. It's rumoured that we have been chasing Dexter Blackstock for a long time, so it will be interesting to see what sort of game he has against his potential employers.

I won't make any wild or over zealous predictions this week. We know we could go down there and pick up another 3 points, but I think a point is the most likely result.

Anybody out there still think we should swap MM for Ince? I'm on about the Eighteenth slice of my humble pie after calling for Mick's head last season. That's why I write a free blog for a local newspaper and Mick manages the greatest football team in the world.

Have a bostin' weekend. C'mon on me babbies!