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Wolves' 2015-16 season - in numbers

Wolves correspondent Tim Spiers does some number crunching to tell the story of the season.

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140,000,000

Increase in pounds of Steve Morgan's personal fortune, up to £880m in the past year.

Benik Afobe was sold to Bournemouth in January

Fee paid in pounds by Bournemouth to buy striker Benik Afobe (£1m went to Arsenal) just 12 months after Wolves bought him for £2m.

2,000,000

Fee in pounds received for 2014/15 player of the season Richard Stearman, sold for footballing reasons.

250,000

Amount in pounds needed to fund a statue of Sir Jack Hayward.

20,156

Average Molineux attendance this season, down from 22,423 last year.

13,100

Number of people who signed a petition opposing Wolves' three-year shirt sponsorship deal with The Money Shop.

1,661

Drop in Early Bird season ticket sales from the previous year's figure, with 10,121 renewing before the March deadline.

531

Number of times a tweet by Wayne Rooney praising Wolves youngster Niall Ennis' goal for England Under-17s was retweeted.

366

Minutes without a goal for any team at Molineux before Michael Turner put through his own net for Sheffield Wednesday on the final day of the season.

Just 291 went to Middlesbrough - and watched Wolves lose 2-1

Fans who attended the televised Friday night trip to Middlesbrough, the club's lowest away league following since away records began.

66

League games started by the seven permanent signings Wolves made this season, half of which were by Conor Coady. The others - Jed Wallace, Nathan Byrne, Sylvain Deslandes, Joe Mason, Michal Zyro and Mike Williamson - started 33 games between them after signing permanently.

65

Years, and counting, that Wolves haven't won an away game at Middlesbrough.

49

Yellow cards picked up in their 46 league games (and one red) putting them second in the Championship 'fair play' table behind Burnley.

48

Hours between Steve Morgan being verbally abused by fans at Preston, and Wolves announcing he was putting the club up for sale.

46

Kenny Jackett's win percentage as Wolves boss (down from 54 per cent in his first two seasons, after registering a 32 per cent win percentage in 2015/16).

45

Hours between Kortney Hause posting pictures of the 2016/17 kits on Snapchat and him being dropped from the first team.

Wolves have struggled for goals without Afobe, Sako and Dicko

Goals lost from the 2014/15 season in the absences of Bakary Sako, Benik Afobe and the injured Nouha Dicko.

28

Hours that Bjorn Sigurdarson has played without scoring a goal for Wolves.

25

Win percentage without Jordan Graham in the team. During his 11 appearances Wolves' win percentage was 45 per cent.

25

Games started in succession by Matt Doherty between December 20 and the end of the season - his longest ever run in the Wolves team.

20

Average age of the back four fielded away at Hull City in April (Matt Doherty, Dominic Iorfa, Kortney Hause and Sylvain Deslandes).

14

Games selected for live television coverage by Sky Sports.

Number of injuries suffered that led to first-team players missing six weeks of action or longer.

12

Number of days for which young striker Bright Enobakhare went AWOL from the club.

10

First team players to sign new contracts from last July onwards (Nouha Dicko, Jack Price, Kevin McDonald, Dominic Iorfa, James Henry, David Edwards, Matt Doherty, Ethan Ebanks-Landell, Kortney Hause and Jordan Graham).

9

League goals scored by top scorer Benik Afobe (or 7 from James Henry, just counting players still at the club). The last time a Wolves top scorer didn't reach double figures at this level was in 2006/07 (Seyi Olofinjana and Jay Bothroyd, also with 9).

8

Assists made by Jordan Graham in his first 11 league appearances for the club, before injury ruled him out until next year.

8

Goalless draws during the season, equalling a club record in a single league season (shared with the 1923/24 and 2007/08 seasons).

Dominic Iorfa is an England Under-21 regular - but also took part in a training session with Roy Hodgson's senior squad in September

Months between Dominic Iorfa making his Wolves debut (December 2014) and training with the full England squad (September 2015).

7

Caps won by new Nigeria international goalkeeper Carl Ikeme.

6

Days between Chris Iwelumo being hired as under-18 boss and then resigning, stating that he wasn't up to the demands of the role.

6

Appearances made during a four-year Wolves career by £2.5m signing Razak Boukari, who is expected to be released this summer.

5

Goals in 19 appearances by George Saville as he returned to the first team after 15 months out of favour.

4

Wins in Wolves' final 19 matches of the season.

4

Vice-presidents at the club after the legendary Ron Flowers was bestowed with the honour (he joins Steve Bull, Robert Plant and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint).

4

Tweets fired off by Benik Afobe is response to stinging criticism from Jez Moxey and Kevin Thelwell, who accused him of not trying. "I won't let my reputation be tarnished," Afobe said.

Mason celebrates his debut goal

Minute in which both Bright Enobakhare and Joe Mason netted on their Wolves debuts.

2

Loan signings who were sent back to their parent clubs early (Sheyi Ojo and Grant Holt).

1

League titles won by Wolves players this season, after young goalkeeper Jon Flatt helped Cheltenham Town finish top of the National League during a 10-game loan spell.

1

Number of players to start 40 league games or more. Dominic Iorfa started 42 matches, with Danny Batth (38), Conor Coady (33) and James Henry (33) the next highest.

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