Gold Wolves seats make way for black

The first seat has been installed on the new North Bank at Molineux, as the club revealed today temporary black seating will be in place in the lower tier for the season.

Workers are on target to release the lower tier of the new two-tier Stan Cullis stand for the Premier League game against Tottenham Hotspur on September 10.

Around 3,700 seats will be made available to fans for that match as the temporary seats have been delivered.

They will be ripped out and replaced with the club's familiar gold seating next summer, when the entire stand is due to be completed.

The temporary seats arrived yesterday and the first was immediately screwed in. The remainder will be installed in the next fortnight. Richard Lakin, project manager with contractors Buckingham, which is charged with the £16million rebuild of the Stan Cullis, said work was also well under way preparing the concourse areas beneath the lower tier.

"Everything is currently running to programme," he said today.

"As people may have seen from viewing the webcam, the structural steel pre-cast insulation for the lower tier is now complete.

"We started taking delivery of the seats on Monday which are to be installed over the next two weeks.

"And underneath the lower tier we have commenced work on the toilets and the kiosks and the block work ready for the handover in early September.

"Over the next few weeks, fans will see the black temporary seats being installed while the hoarding will go up on the back of the elevation and the new handrails will be fitted into place.

"The permanent seats are in fabrication at the moment and for the temporary handover we are using readily available black seats, which will be changed prior to full completion of the stand."

Wolves will play their first home match of the club's unprecedented third successive Premier League season, against Fulham, on Sunday.

Mick McCarthy's side got the campaign off to a winning start at Blackburn at the weekend.