Jamie O’Hara today insisted Wolves are getting their priorities right this season.

Wolves have beaten Blackburn, Fulham, Wigan and Sunderland and drawn against Swansea – all teams expected to be around them in the Premier League table.

Famously, Mick McCarthy’s men beat big guns Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City and Liverpool last term, but Wigan, Blackburn and Bolton did the double over them and relegated West Ham and Blackpool took four and three points respectively off the men in gold and black.

And it also took until the last month of the campaign before Wolves redressed the balance somewhat with wins against mid-table finishers Albion and Sunderland.

Saturday’s 4-1 defeat at Manchester United was Wolves’ sixth successive away reverse but that sequence includes trips to Liverpool, Manchester City, Everton and Chelsea, but O’Hara isn’t unduly concerned as they are damaging their rivals by picking up points against them instead.

“I said to the boys after Saturday’s game that we beat teams such as Man United and Liverpool last season but did not win the games we probably needed to,” said the midfielder.

“This season it seems to be the other way around – we seem to be beating the teams around us, but not getting the right results against the big clubs.

“I’ll take that all day long because if we beat the teams around us, that’s what we need to do to stay in this league and they’re the six-pointers.”

Meanwhile, O’Hara revealed that, like six-goal top scorer Steven Fletcher, he is developing a telepathy with in-form winger Matt Jarvis.

“I thought Matt Jarvis was absolutely brilliant – he really gave Chris Smalling the runaround,” said O’Hara of Jarvis’ performance on Saturday.

“It’s been superb for me because I know where he is – sometimes I don’t even need to look.”