Mick: Make it one to remember

Mick McCarthy has urged his team not to ease off in their promotion push after warning: "No-one will remember this run if we don't go up."

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Wolves travel to struggling Luton on Saturday on the back of four straight wins and looking set to make it five on the spin – but the Wolves manager insists his players can't get over-confident.

"We have achieved a nice little run to get us in a position and that is something," he said. "But at the end of the season, if we're not in the play-offs nobody's going to look back and think 'what an achievement'. We want to be able to look back and think that run got us into the play-offs.

"The players all know that I'm not going to get carried away or let anyone else get carried away. But the players aren't like that.

"They're a great bunch, hard-working, a solid group of players ,so I'm not having to go round telling them those sorts of things all the time."

McCarthy says he always had confidence that his players could bounce back from the FA Cup disaster against Albion last month.

"I wasn't getting flustered about it and neither were the players, and, in fact for 43 minutes of that game we'd done ok. I said when we'd played them there that anyone who finishes above them will win the league and I still think that now.

"I wasn't getting upset or worried and thinking the season had gone belly-up for us because it hadn't and I've been proved right."

* Former Wolves striker Leon Clarke is on the move again after making a loan switch to League One side Oldham. Clarke has moved from Sheffield Wednesday for a month to get first-team football and improve his fitness. He left Molineux in January in a move worth around £300,000.

"Leon Clarke has asked to go out on loan because he wants to get four or five games under his belt," said Owls boss Brian Laws.