Steve Bull: Wolves can make a real fight of promotion if they strengthen in January
Club legend Steve Bull discusses the Championship promote race and the need to strengthen in January in his latest Wolves column.
Wolves are in a good position and I still don’t feel that we’re firing on all cylinders at the moment.
When we do, we’ll start running and hopefully string together a strong run of wins.
It’s a strange league because everybody keeps beating everybody, nobody wants to run away with it for the moment.
Once the first team settles down then they’ll start running away with it, and I’m hoping that’s going to be Wolves.
But it’s going take time. I think the players are starting to understand what the Championship is about.
It’s not just all about playing really nice, pretty football, because you’ve got to mix it up and find the balance between nice football and ugly football.
If we come to Christmas and we’re still in and around the top two in the Championship then I’ll be very happy.
Our best performance so far was in the Black Country derby. It was a very well-thought out game tactically and the players worked extremely hard.
The others have been hit or miss when we’ve dominated games, not scored and then been penalised.
That’s one key area that we can improve. We’re getting the chances, but we just need to put them away and be more ruthless in front of goal.
Our expectations for the team is that we are a Premier League side, but the reality is that we’re not: we’re a Championship side.
We’ve got to get used to that and I just want to say to the fans that we need to be patient and get behind Cesar Peixoto and the players.
The Championship is difficult and Wolves know all too well that is can be challenging to bounce straight back up.
We went down twice in back-to-back seasons in 2012 and 2013 and we’ve got to make sure that we don’t make that same mistake again, which I don’t think we will this year.
There’s enough talent and quality in the side to keep us in the hunt. I certainly think we need to add some Championship players or Premier League players that are on the fringes, who are used to the Championship.
If we do, we could really make a fight for this. Let’s get to Christmas first, see whether we can get in the top two or three without a gap opening.
Then we’ll give it a good go in the New Year but that’s if we spend some more money.
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