Wolves blog: Power of Kites

The 3-0 win on Tuesday night was predominately down to one player, Michael Kightly, who put in probably the best performance from a Wolves player I've seen all season and he wasn't even fully fit, writes blogger Nathan Lloyd.

We may have been playing a team who's minds were dreaming of Wembley (remind me how they were good enough to get to a final again?). But Kightly's terrific performance added some much needed quality to the Wolves midfield on Tuesday and brought the best out of players like Olofinjana, who hasn't been at his best recently.

It wasn't pleasant to hear the crowd's reaction to the introduction of Elliott and Collins. It's difficult to translate whether the crowd is booing because Freddy isn't coming on or because they dislike the player Mick is bringing on. Either way, I'm not a big fan of booing any player in gold and black.

The pantomime booing that ex-Blues and Albion player Darren Purse received every time he jogged up towards the South Bank was much more amusing. Especially as it was interrupted by cheering for Michael Oakes as he trotted forwards.

So, here we are then. Still in with an unexpected chance of a play-off place. I won't go over all the permutations again, I'm sure you have studied the league and speculated whether Palace will win their 2 remaining fixtures against Hull and Burnley or if Watford will beat Scunthorpe or Blackpool. It is bound to come down to the last game of the season and we all know that we need to win both games to still be in with a shout.

Coventry's 5-1 win mauling of Colchester last Saturday shouldn't mask the fact that they have had an awful season. Colchester had nothing to play for, having already been relegated a few weeks ago. Coventry on the other hand were fighting for their survival and although they are only 3 points above the drop zone, I think they are as good as safe and such do the decent thing and let us win.

With the ever growing traveling army going to the Ricoh Arena on Saturday, I would expect that the Wolves fans should be able to make it seem like a home game. In fact, given how quiet Molineux has been recently, I would expect the noise levels to be much higher.

This is what the play-offs are all about, keeping the excitement going till the very end of the season and if we can get nudge in to that top six; with Kightly back I don't think we should fear any team.

I was fully expecting to start writing my "where did it all go wrong" blog, but it's so much nicer to still be in the thick of it and in with a chance of joining the Albion in the promise land next season.

Oh and a quick thank you to Alfred Camilleri, who is the president of the Maltese Wolves Supporters Club. Alfred is just one of many presidents of Wolves incredible supporter clubs all over the world. He posted me out a copy of the Malta Wolves magazine. I was expecting a black and white photocopied effort. What I received instead was something akin to a matchday program, really superb quality and unlike the Wolves official matchday program, it was readable!

My parents, Carol and Alan are out in Malta this week and Alfred took time out to meet them for a beer (or 7) yesterday, so I thank him for that.

Good luck to the boys tomorrow, I'm confident we can come away with the 3 points to keep us on track.