Kenny Jackett pleased with Wolves' best start for 64 years
Kenny Jackett said from the off that he would assess Wolves' start after 10 games – and they face Coventry on Saturday buoyed by their best opening in 64 years.
Jackett's side have made the second-best start in the club's history by winning eight and drawing one of their first 10 league games – albeit at third-tier level. Only Stan Cullis's men of 1949-50, who were pipped to the League title by Portsmouth on goal average that season, have bettered it, winning eight and drawing two in the same period.
This season's results better Cullis's next best start of 1962-63 and Dave Jones's 2001-02 side, who both won seven and drew three only to finish fifth and third respectively.
In the 12 seasons Wolves either won a title or were promoted, the best starts were made by Cullis's League champions of 1957-58 and Mick McCarthy's 2008-09 Championship winners, both with seven wins and a draw from 10. And after two seasons of relegation that saw Wolves concede 151 times, Jackett must be comforted by the goals against tally.
It stands at just six – the second-best in Molineux history at this stage after Graham Hawkins's 1982-83 Second Division promotion winners, who had been breached just four times after 10 games.
Despite their record-challenging start, Wolves remain third in League One, four points behind leaders Leyton Orient and three adrift of second-placed Peterborough but with a game in hand. Jackett is just relieved to be so close to the pacesetters after a summer of change which saw more than 20 players depart and just four arrive.
"I'm pleased we're within touching distance," said the head coach.
"After 10 games, we couldn't have got promoted but we could have been out of it.
"There are some good signs for us going forwards and some things we need to improve on.
"It's very important we identify those correctly internally and make the right decisions and work very hard to continue to improve."
