Please note that ratings are based on the contribution that each specific player could reasonably be expected to make in the appearances they made.

Left exposed

Wayne Hennessey – Made more saves than any other keeper in the Premiership – not that he had much choice. Personally, I thought he had a strong season that was slightly tarnished by a few soft goals and gaffes. 8/10

Dorus De Vries – Didn’t get a kick in the league until the dying embers. Acquitted himself reasonably, but couldn’t halt the avalanche of goals conceded. 7/10

Carl Ikeme – Got the second half against Wigan, but nothing else. Can’t really judge. 7/10

Kevin Foley – Injuries prevented him having anywhere near the same impact as previous seasons. But even when he did play, he rarely reached the standards he’s capable of. 5/10

Ronald Zubar – Another one plagued by injury for large chunks of the season. Same old Zubar when he was out on the pitch – flitting between sublime and ridiculous.  5.5/10

Matt Doherty – Came on at Anfield and impressed. Not seen much of him since. Obviously has ability but faces stiff competition, particularly if Zubar hangs around next season. 7/10

From bad to worse Roger

Roger Johnson – Looked the business for a handful of games at the start, but soon went bankrupt. Had a mini revival around Christmas, notably away at Arsenal and Spurs before things turned really sour. Hasn’t helped himself with comments on and off the field. 4.5/10

Richard Stearman - Somehow started the season as first choice right-back, but thankfully ended up playing more games in the middle where he belongs. For the most part, he did alright. 5.5/10

Christophe Berra – Impressed me with his consistency throughout the first half of the season. Got on with his job and didn’t make any mistakes. Went downhill badly from December onwards though. 5.5/10

Jody Craddock – Injuries destroyed his season. Only got on the pitch once – at home to Sunderland – but limped off before the end. 7/10

Stephen Ward – Played every minute of the Premier League season. Immense for the first 10 games, but couldn’t maintain the standard and put in some woeful performances when we desperately needed better. Probably the pick of our defenders though, which says it all.  7/10

George Elokobi – With Wardy dominating the left-back slot, poor George didn’t really get a sniff. Looked very poor on the odd occasion he emerged from the bench. Could he do better in the middle? 4/10

Welcome back Kites

Michael Kightly – A small glimmer of hope in an otherwise miserable season? Finally fit again and discovering the form we know he’s capable of. Superb goals that should have proven vital against Aston Villa and Bolton were turned to dust by his team mates inability to defend. 7/10

Stephen Hunt – I remember being very impressed with Hunt in the opening 3 games, but his form went down the toilet with the team. Injuries didn’t help, but are we wrong to expect better? 4.5/10

Adam Hammill – Sure he’s raw, but on the rare occasion he made it onto the pitch, his raw talent was plain to see. I just don’t think Mick had the patience to iron out the kinks. Maybe Ståle does? 5/10

Karl Henry – You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. In the games he was injured or suspended – which were numerous – the midfield was completely lost. Coupled with Frimpong’s injury, his absence was a significant nail in our coffin. I could have strangled him for his petulance in the Villa game. 7/10

Dench today, gone tomorrow

Emmanuel Frimpong – Thought he was our saviour after impressive outings against Chelsea and Spurs, capped by a scintillating 45 minutes at home to Villa. Gone for good a week later at QPR. What might have been hey? 8/10

Nenad Milijas – Nenad must have been on the fags more than usual this season, as he barely got a kick. Why TC never gave him a go as the season quietly slipped away I’ll never know. That said, he was average at best when he did get on. 5/10

Dave Edwards – I love and hate him in almost equal measures. Not the sort of player who can win you a game single-handedly, but always puts in a shift for the team. To his credit, I would say he’s one of only a few players whose standards didn’t drop. 6.5/10

Adlene Guedioura – See ‘Adam Hammill’. 5/10

Eggert Jonnson – It’s not his fault is it? Looked a yard off the pace to me whenever he played though. 4/10

David Davis – Finally made the breakthrough and impressed in the handful of games he played. More to come hopefully. 6.5/10

Jamie O’Hara – The club have openly admitted they put huge faith in the impact he’d have over the course of a full season. He most definitely didn’t live up to the billing. Score some important goals against Wigan and Swansea, but never really got going. Injuries seemed to be a problem throughout. 5/10

That's how we felt Doyler

Matt Jarvis – My personal choice for player of the season. Not always on top form, but the only player capable of dragging us forward and asking a question of the opposition. Starting to score goals now too. A shame he’ll probably leave. 8.5/10

Anthony Forde – Another youngster to make the breakthrough and looked capable enough. Thrown in at the deep end against Arsenal at the Emirates and came through impressively. 7/10

Johnny Gorman – Handed a cameo at Carrow Road as Wolves chased the game, but didn’t really make an impact. Looked ok though. Will he get more action next season? 7/10

Kevin Doyle – Poor. Terrible in fact, by his standard. And it pains me to say that. I don’t know what’s happened to him this season. Goals have always been an issue, but his performance levels have been well below par. Still does his best work alone up front. 3.5/10

SEB – 1 solitary league goal for a player whose all about goals is not a good return. Granted, he only made 22 appearances int total and just 7 starts, but he should have contributed more. 3/10

Steven Fletcher – 12 Premier League goals is an excellent return for Fletch, given the team he was playing in. I would have liked to have seen more from him in terms of overall play, but that’s only because he sets a certain standard. 8/10

Well, those are my marks.

What do you reckon?

Tell me about it lads.

On a day when history was made in a generation defining afternoon of football, I lived outside the bubble of hysteria that consumed a nation, listening instead to Richard Wilford’s dull, lifeless radio commentary from a morgue-like DW Stadium.

Emmerson Boyce - goal machine

Years from now my own son will ask me what it felt like watching the scenes of drama unfold on that fateful Sunday afternoon in May 2012.

I’ll have to tell him I had no idea, as I was listening to an Aylesbury born Barbadian score two goals past us in a 3-2 defeat at Wigan.

And in the most damning indictment on this most miserable season in living memory, I could actually empathise with those patronising national newspaper reporters I used to take issue with so regularly…

…That in the grand scheme of all things Premier, we are nothing more than an irritating inconvenience.

Jeff Stelling may as well screamed out loud when having to check in on the DW Stadium for a Wigan goal update. ‘Does anyone really want to listen to this’, you could hear him think.

Lee Dixon and co over on the Beeb wouldn’t have bothered to go at all, telling anyone sad enough to care to tune in for 30 seconds on Match of the Day later in the evening.

Back on Radio WM, Paul Franks was calling it a shambles and an utter disgrace.

For a brief second my pulse raced from the dull thud of a racehorse in the hope he might be stimulating some sort of discussion.

He was talking about the Villa.

The game typified our entire 2011/12 season, by the sound of Richard Wilford’s drone.

We defended pitifully and packed our team out with faded Championship players who would struggle to get near to their 2008 vintage, let alone teams of varying Premier League quality, as proven by a Lancashire outfit we used to deride as being relegation certs.

Jarvis and Fletcher scored, the only two players guaranteed to leave the club this summer, and we enter the Championship in much the same way we did when Mick McCarthy arrived back in 2006.

Low in expectation, high in desperation, and yearning for another wizard with a magic wand.

Prediction League

Thomas: Congratulations to Kowloon Wolf for winning the 2011/12 Prediction League with an impressive 32 point haul. A prize will be winging it’s way across the globe to you shortly.

Kowloon was also one of the 9 pundits to correctly predict defeat against Wigan without getting the correct score. Only 1 person said 3-2 and that, triumphantly, was me.

Thanks again to everyone for taking part this year, not only in the Prediction League, but everything to do with the blog.

Whether you’ve been logging on daily to leave a comment, or simply picking up the reports via email, you’re the reason we carry on.

Up The Wolves.

Finally, thankfully, mercifully, it’s over.

Winning the reverse fixture. A false dawn.

A campaign that began with bold aspiration, high hopes and Mick McCarthy, ends with apathy, relegation and an unknown Norwegian called Ståle waiting to take the reigns.

You couldn’t make it up.

But as we look expectantly towards a new era, Wigan continue to bask in the most successful of their club’s history.

The job Roberto Martinez has done since taking over nearly 3 years ago is nothing short of remarkable.

Dead, buried and written-off more times than I care to remember, his side have once again defied the odds (and the pundits) by remaining in the Premier League.

Hats off to them I say.

They’ve never once strayed from their footballing principles and have been handsomely rewarded with 6 wins in their last 8 games.

The Team

I can’t see it being a much different eleven to the side that drew with Everton last weekend. The likes of Foley and Jarvis probably won’t be risked given that there’s sweet diddly squat on the outcome. This would be my preferred side:

De Vries, Zubar, Stearman, Elokobi, Ward, Henry, Milijas, Kightly, Hunt, Doyle, Fletcher

Even I look at that side now and think it looks tired. It’s repeating a point that’s been made countless times before, but our options would surely have been significantly stronger with Guedioura and Hammill to choose from. Hopefully Ståle will give those players the crack of the whip they deserve in a gold shirt.

Prediction League

4 people correctly predicted a draw against Everton last time out. However, none got the scoreline.

So it’s a point a piece for Super Kev Doyle, Philly Pete, Exeter Wolf and theDOOGooder.

Big congratulations to Kowloon Wolf who will definitely finish at the top of this year’s Prediction League table. Only a maximum from Exeter Wolf or Ade in China can deny him the title outright this weekend. I’ll make an official announcement in the match report.

And speaking of the match, I think we’re going to end the season appropriately with a defeat.

Wigan will be footloose and fancy free. They’re playing with great confidence at the moment and I think they’ll do enough to get the win. 3-2.

If you’re at the DW on Sunday, have a great time and get behind the lads as you always do. The away support has been top notch all season.

Up The Wolves.

In many ways, Stale Solbakken’s arrival at Molineux couldn’t be more appropriate, could it?

Stale Solbakken

While you can’t please all of the people all of the time, you can at least get every single fan talking with excitement, trepidation and emotion for the foreseeable future, which is already an infinitely more uplifting prospect than this season of shame.

If West Bromwich Albion unveiled a Norwegian of this ilk, many of us would wonder why we never think outside the box.

Unfortunately for Messrs Moxey and Morgan, too many self-inflicted slings and arrows have created more scepticism than acceptance, which is why the bunting and tic-a-tape will have to wait a while longer.

Not least when Terry Connor’s services appear to have been retained, in the most perplexing, infuriating decision which dilutes the element of revolution.

If a new broom has been used to sweep away the cobwebs of a prehistoric era, then why is the winless, deluded Connor anywhere near the coaching set up after everything he’s been associated with this season?

Such negativity is as good as engrained on a cynic like me, so it would do everyone better if I airbrushed the Connor bit and unconditionally got behind the overall decision.

Why not?! With five titles, silverware galore and a fluid, free thinking approach to the game, our new manager sounds more and more desirable with each passing minute.

An onus on effortless formation change to suit the needs of any game sounds far more exciting than the Hennessey hoofball we’ve become conditioned too, and will certainly give Dave Edwards and co something to contemplate.

Here's one for the cynics among you!

While he didn’t set the world alight at Cologne, few managers ever do in that graveyard seat, so all in all, the appointment gets a thumbs-up, albeit tentatively.

Let’s face it, nobody in the North East wanted Pardew anywhere near Newcastle, and acceptance of Brian McDermott was far from universal in Reading back in September.

All we can do is strap ourselves in for the ride, get behind the big man and enjoy!

If it results in us genuinely looking forward to a 3pm kick-off on a Saturday afternoon for the first time in an age, it will do for me.

A bright start, a brief flicker of promise before ultimately descending into complete farce.

Blocked out

If that second half is what TC defines as ‘progress’, I’ll pass thanks.

With our attack completely blunted for the last half an hour, the only thing missing was the customary defensive brainwave to hand the opposition the points they seemed to so desperately crave.

Credit to the back four and indeed the team for that. They defended manfully from the start and made sure that a good Everton side were made to work for their chances.

Elokobi got the biggest cheer of the day, bouncing on to replace the stricken Christophe Berra and capping a fine cameo with a beautifully executed bicycle kick.

Lovely stuff George.

But when the highlight of an afternoon’s football is two drunkards lolloping onto the pitch with a paper cutout of the FA Cup and the South Bank pretending we scored a goal, you know something isn’t quite right.

And as has so often been the case, the quality of the chants emanating from behind the goal was in no way matched by the quality out on the pitch.

Without the forward thrust of Matt Jarvis at their disposal, this Wolves team just appear clueless about how to forge any sort of opening.

Henry and Edwards huffed and puffed in the center of midfield but neither have the vision or technique to open the gates.

The same can be said of the effervescent Stephen Hunt, who showed trademark tenacity but offered little to the game as an attacking force – save for scooping over a rare Wolves chance after an even rarer passing move.

Michael Kightly was also muted. Every time he had the ball he seemed to determined to scamper inside rather than attacking the line, always running into traffic and losing possession. Much more should be expected of him.

Fletcher and Doyle, starved of any real service were dominated by Jagielka on the odd occasion the ball did squirm into the Everton half. You’ll never convince me that they have or ever will forge a fruitful partnership.

In the last two games we’ve seen the major predicament that faces this group of players.

They can either play as they did against Swansea, creating chances but leaving themselves wide open at the back or, as they did yesterday, sit in and make life difficult for the opposition without offering anything going forward.

And as we know, in order to win football matches, you have to strike a balance between attack and defence, which is something that’s currently beyond TC and Wolves as a team.

Surely this much is obvious to our chairman? Or maybe not.

The fans crave decisive leadership and the sense that someone upstairs in our club realises these most fundamental of issues.

Instead, we were rewarded for a season of loyal support with a half-baked lap of honour and silence from the top brass.

Like I say, a befitting conclusion.

Hamstrung by the club’s finances and their ‘sell to buy’ requirements, he’s once again juggled his resources, shuffled the pack and has the Toffees sitting just below the big hitters.

1-0 up at Goodison, only to lose it at the death

He just makes it look so easy too.

Organisation and discipline coupled with astute dealings in the transfer windows and voila! Top half guaranteed.

Nikica Jelavic is the latest bargain-buy, pinched from Rangers in January and already pinging them in left, right and center. He’s got 10 already.

Yakubu, Beckford, Saha and Arteta have all been moved on to balance the books, but that doesn’t seem to have prevented their customary upwards surge in the second-half of the season.

They’re unbeaten in their last 7 Premier League matches, dispatching Fulham 4-0 and taking a point at the Britannia in their most recent outings.

You worry for Wolves against any side that set out their stall and stay organised for 90 minutes. We just have an unwelcome propensity for self-implosion.

The Team

TC went 442 at Swansea last weekend and will probably do the same again. Unless we picked up any injuries I don’t know about, it will likely be the same eleven. I’d like to see an open game, for the sake of entertainment, so I’d go with that team:

De vries, Foley, Stearman, Berra, Ward, Henry, Edwards, Kightly, Jarvis, Doyle, Fletcher

If we do send that team out, I’m fairly certain we’ll concede, so as was the case against Swansea, we’ll need to score a few ourselves to be competitive.

Should the likes of Doyle, Fletcher and Jarvis impress, it wouldn’t surprise me to see any of them in an Everton shirt next season. I think they’re all players who could fit the criteria Moyes would be looking at.

Prediction League

Quite remarkably, nobody went for 4-4 against Swansea. However, 5 people did predict a draw.

So well done to me, Morph, Super Kev Doyle, robin and The Wanderer. Each of us take a point.

I’m hoping for a big performance to sign-off a catastrophic season of home-form and Everton are definitely due a defeat.

So against all logic and everything I’ve written above, I’ll go for a hopeful 3-1 Wolves.

If you’re at Molineux Sunday, have a great time and get behind the lads. I’m hoping we’ll get some words from our chairman after the game, which I think is the least we deserve.

Up The Wolves.

Unless we win one of our last two games, the mighty Leicester City of Trevor Benjamin vintage (2001/02) will have boasted a better campaign than ours, on a positively gargantuan points haul of 28.

If we lose our last two games, even Bradford City’s old duffers of Peter Atherton fame will have outdone us in 2000/01, when they finished bottom with 26 points.

I think, therefore I am a great manager

In a collective Premier League table of 240 teams, our current crop of players currently sit in 237th place.

With 240 lots of 25 man squads, there have been 6,000 squad places to have played in the league, with our 24 men loitering from about 5,900th place.

Add in the heaviest home defeat to WBA since 1962, an all-time record breaking succession of home defeats and the joint worst goals conceded record at home in Premier League history (one goal from Everton will give us the title from Derby outright) and it is fair to surmise that we are shit.

Not just shit, but one of the shittest teams to have ever played in the top flight so far this century.

So when Michael Kightly and Dave Edwards come out and start drooling over Terry Connor like a 12 year-old on his first wankmag, I start to scratch my head.

When Stephen Ward starts talking about a shop window to exploit at the Euros I start to scratch my fist.

And when Terry Connor reckons he’s actually enhanced his chances of a full-time job I scratch my poor, poor eyes to see if these statistics I’ve stumbled upon are actually a figment of my imagination.

To see if a season ticket in my favourite seat is really going to cost me £600 when I tell my little boy that a Ben10 scooter is £100 too much.

Old red eyes is back alright.

And with this sickening torrent of delusional, disturbing bullshit from one of the most hopeless, pathetic group of Premier League failures ever, I think it’s best I just close them tight and dream that I’m living in the real world.

Defensively, we left our calling card.

Too much space, no closing down, non-existent marking.

Down but not out

Stand off. Stand off. Stand off.

It’s amusing to think that last season we were accused of being ‘overly physical’. Without doubt, a major problem with this current Wolves team is their aversion to ruffling feathers.

There’s just no menace, no desire and no hunger to win the ball back. The opposition do what they want.

When that’s the case, good players and good teams punish you. And for 15 traumatic minutes, Swansea did just that.

A fourth goal just before the interval after Steven Fletcher’s fantastic looping header dragged us back into the contest seemed to be the definitive nail in our coffin.

But as bad as the first half was defensively, Wolves trumped that in the second with a fantastic display of attacking football.

All of the goals were well constructed, the pick of the bunch being Dave Edwards cool run and finish after a sumptuous reverse pass from Michael Kightly.

Two other well made and well taken Matt Jarvis goals are proof positive that our offensive players can do enough damage.

The likes of Jarvis, Kightly and Fletcher are good enough for this level.

Our problem is that we’ve just never given them the platform to shine because both individually and as a team, we’re desperately weak in defence.

It’s often said that Wolves lack quality on the ball, but I believe our biggest problem is that we don’t possess enough physically strong players to upset the opposition, thus allowing our better players to show how good they can truly be.

We needed warriors over the summer, players that could add presence and put themselves about.

Presumably, this is what Mick McCarthy hoped Roger Johnson would bring to the fold back in August and what Emmanuel Frimpong would deliver when he arrived in January.

Failure and misfortune are words that immediately come to mind when you evaluate these signings.

They wrap up our season quite nicely too.

I thought they’d follow the much-traveled path of newly promoted sides who try to play football in the Premier League; the road that ultimately saw the likes of Burnley and Blackpool relegated.

Off the hook in the home fixture

But hats off to Brendan Rodgers and his team, they’ve been smarter, cuter and ultimately better than those sides over the course of a season. They deservedly sit comfortably in mid-table, just 3 points behind Liverpool in 8th.

What they’ve achieved in a single top-flight season is something Wolves have failed to do in 3 – find a system of play that works and stick with it.

Regardless of results, injuries and suspensions, they’ve never once flinched from their preferred method and have been handsomely rewarded. Wolves have continued to change shape on an almost weekly basis, too often resembling a group who’ve never played a single game together.

We desperately need a manager who has a clear idea about how he wants the team to play and knows the type of players he needs to achieve it. That, and only that, can bring about a sustained period of success.

Norwich, Newcastle, Stoke, Swansea and even Wigan to an extent are all clear proof of this.

Tomorrow’s game ultimately serves no purpose to either side. A dead-rubber if ever there was one in Premier League terms. Still, the home side will be clear favourites, not least because they’ve only lost 4 times on their own turf all season, plundering 7 wins and 6 draws.

The Team

I’d be keeping a 5-man midfield for this one. Otherwise I just think we’ll be pulled around the pitch as we were for large periods of the reverse fixture. Quite how we salvaged a draw out of that game, I’ll never know. This is my team:

De Vries, Foley, Stearman, Bassong, Ward, Henry, Davis, Milijas, Jarvis, Kightly, Doyle

Poor old Dorus is likely to come in for a bit of stick tomorrow, having left Swansea on a free in the summer. But footballers make these decisions and have to live with the consequences. Hopefully the 10 in front of him can help him out by delivering a result to ease the pain.

I’ve been screaming for Milijas to get a start for weeks, but it doesn’t seem to be happening. What have we got to lose now? Might as well give the bloke a few games to see if he can make an impact.

Doyle for Fletcher up front is just a personal choice. I thought he was superb against Arsenal and subsequently very unlucky to be left out against Sunderland and Man City.

Prediction League

No real surprise that an avalanche of people correctly predicted we’d lost to Man City last weekend. 32 in total.

Only two of those pundits correctly bagged the scoreline though. Or should I say one? sleachy took the cunning step of copying Kowloon Wolf (who leads the overall table) and reaped the benefits for doing so. Both get a 3-point boost.

Well done lads.

I reckon we might get a result in this one. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the old ‘nothing to play for, pressure off’ scenario?

I’ll plump for the same score as the reverse fixture – 2-2.

If you’re heading to Wales tomorrow, have a great time and get behind the lads as you did superbly last weekend as the ship finally sunk.

Up The Wolves.

Busy summer sales ahead?

However, he did correctly acknowledge that the reality of football is that players will come and go at Molineux over the summer as they look to rebuild for life in the Championship.

Transfers are a complicated business though.

Whilst it may appear that certain players will definitely leave, they’re still tied to the club and valuations based on their age, ability and length of contract have to be met in order for a sale to take place.

With this in mind, I’ve done some digging and compiled a list of each and every player in our squad to see if we can systematically deduce who might be heading for the exit this summer. Estimated valuations are purely my own guesswork and are only applied to players I believe will leave.

Wayne Hennessey
In a nutshell: Despite a few gaffes, has enjoyed a strong season. May attract bids, despite his injury. Under contract until 2015 though, so will take a decent bid to lure him away.
Estimated valuation: £3 million – £5 million
Verdict: Leaving

Dorus De Vries
In a nutshell: Hardly played all season but will probably start next term as first choice. Surely a keeper (no pun intended)?
Verdict: Staying

Carl Ikeme
In a nutshell: Hasn’t had a sniff of the first team for a long while and his contract is up in the summer I believe. He’ll surely look for permanent first team football?
Verdict: Leaving

Kevin Foley
In a nutshell: Nowhere near as influential as previous seasons at the club, but exactly the type of proven performer we need in the Championship. Contracted until 2015 and will almost certainly stay.
Verdict: Staying

Desperate to leave?

Ronald Zubar
In a nutshell: The Frenchman has a year to run on his current deal, so would likely be available if someone was interested. I’d like to see him stay as I believe he’d be a real asset given the physical demands of the second tier, but suspect he might leave.
Estimated valuation: £1 million – £2 million
Verdict: Leaving

Jody Craddock
In a nutshell: Jody hardly featured this season, largely because of injuries. His contract is once again up and this is surely the point where the club draw a line under his 9-year stay?
Verdict: Leaving

Roger Johnson
In a nutshell: He’ll almost certainly want a move, but are the club prepared to take a hit on the fee? I can’t really see anyone shelling out the £4.5 million we did last summer. Still has 3 years left on his contract so shouldn’t leave for peanuts though.
Estimated valuation: £1.5 million – £3 million
Verdict: Leaving

Richard Stearman
In a nutshell: With two years to run on his contract, hopefully Stears will stay because he’s another that should be able to cope well in the Championship. Could attract interest though, as he does have talent and still only 25.
Verdict: Staying

Christophe Berra
In a nutshell: There was talk of him being offered a new deal back in January, but I don’t think it materialised. He’s got one year left on his current contract. He’s another who could handle the Championship and I still believe he brings consistency to the back four.
Verdict: Staying

Stephen Ward
In a nutshell: Started the season phenomenally well, but as Wolves wilted so did his improvement. Contracted to the summer of 2015, he may attract bids. For all his critics, he’s still a full international and a capable attacking full-back.
Verdict: Staying

George Elokobi
In a nutshell: Farmed out to Forrest a few months back, you would think George is heading for a permanent exit. However, he still has a year to run on his contract and a new manager might well want him to stay. I have a suspicion he will.
Verdict: Staying

Staying (hopefully)

Michael Kightly
In a nutshell: Finally managed a run of games in a Wolves shirt and looks an infinitely better player for it. Contracted until 2014, he may attract interest but I sincerely hope he stays. A devastating performer in the Championship.
Verdict: Staying

Adam Hammill
In a nutshell: Dismissed to Boro when he almost certainly should have stayed, it’s hard to know what the future holds for Hammill. Again, what will the new manager want to do? I’d be disappointed to see him leave and I reckon he might now hang around.
Verdict: Staying

Karl Henry
In a nutshell: Has two years left on his contract and will be 30 this year. That said, someone in the top flight may be interested given the admirable battling qualities he brings to a team. I think clubs will be interested, but I’d hope he’ll stay.
Verdict: Staying

Nenad Milijas
In a nutshell: Signed a four year deal when he joined from Belgrade, which I believe means he has one more year to run. It’s an interesting one to monitor because he’s never shown a great desire to leave despite failure to hold down a place.
Verdict: Staying

Dave Edwards
In a nutshell: Has a year to run on his contract with the option of a second in the club’s favour. Did well for us last time in the Championship and could be a useful player to have around.
Verdict: Staying

Jamie O’Hara
In a nutshell: My gut instinct is that he’ll want to leave, but he won’t. Penned a 5-year contract last summer meaning he’s still got 4 more years to serve at Molineux. We paid good money and is someone else willing to match the valuation? I don’t think so.
Verdict: Staying

Adlene Guedioura
In a nutshell: Has lit up the Championship by all accounts since moving on loan to Forrest back in January. We should definitely get him back and use him next season, but I suspect he’ll be sold. Has one season left on his contract, so wouldn’t command a hefty fee either.
Estimated valuation: £500K – £1.5 million
Verdict: Leaving

Any takers for Eggert?

Eggert Jonnson
In a nutshell: Eggert will certainly stay, given that he’s only just arrived and hasn’t really done much to attract interest. Hopefully it will become apparent at some point why we signed him int he first place.
Verdict: Staying

Matt Jarvis
In a nutshell: Probably the jewel in our crown. The only England international we’ve had in the last 20 years. We will receive bids for him but surely the valuation has to be right? Still has 3 years left on his contract so we can hold out if needs be.
Estimated valuation: £7 million – £10 million
Verdict: Leaving

Stephen Hunt
In a nutshell: Has a year to run on his contract and if a bid comes in, I think the club would be willing to sell. I suspect he’ll stay though.
Verdict: Staying

Kevin Doyle
In a nutshell: Signed a new deal last summer, which means he’s stuck here until 2015 unless someone is willing to pay decent cash. I still think he’d be a great acquisition for a club willing to play to his strengths. I think he’ll go.
Estimated valuation: £4 million – £5 million
Verdict: Leaving

Fletch staying in the top flight?

Steven Fletcher
In a nutshell: The goals have dried up of late, but already has a return of 10, which is pretty good when you consider the team he’s been playing in. Again, we’ll get bids but what is a fair price? Has two years left on his contract with the option of a third in Wolves favour, so should command decent money.
Estimated valuation: £7 million – £10 million
Verdict: Leaving

Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
In a nutshell: Only has a year to run on his contract but will surely stay, particularly if the above two players leave? With the right service, I’m confident he’ll again score goals for fun in the Championship.
Verdict: Staying

Sam Vokes
In a nutshell: Has a year left on his current deal and could have a role next season, depending on who leaves and who arrives. I think he’ll fancy his chances of playing though, so he’ll likely stay.
Verdict: Staying

The Kids

Danny Batth – Staying
David Davis – Staying
Leigh Griffiths – Leaving
Matt Doherty – Staying
Anthony Forde – Staying
Jamie Reckford – Staying
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing – Leaving
Jake Cassidy – Staying