The Future’s bright, the Future’s Evans

My blog on Lee Evans, a young player who was playing in the Conference a couple of seasons ago now in fine form for Wolves.

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Following his contract extension and his recent form, Richard Hobbs takes a look at Lee Evans’ rapid rise from the Conference to the Championship.

Wolves have never really been a club to do a lot of business on transfer deadline day. However, On January 31^st 2013, the club was slowly sliding down the league after appointing Dean Saunders as the forth manager down Molineux in under a year. When Wanderers fans were hoping for a signing that would reignite our increasingly dismal season. What we were greeted was an 18 year old Welshman from 4^th Division outfit Newport County.

At the time it was an underwhelming signing. He was clearly a signing for the future at a time when Wolves needed a level of short-term thinking to get us through to the end of the season without capitulating. And with his name, the signing of Lee Evans made us a…

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The Football Blogging Awards 2014!

As you might be aware, I’ve been doing a lot of writing for Wolves Fancast in the past few months. It’s been great writing about the club I love and after a few tough years, and having this focus in my life has really helped my readjust to moving back in the area for going to university. As well as writing for them, I’ve also starting appearing on their excellent podcast as well. Contrary to my own beliefs, what I’m writing doesn’t appear completely terrible and I have been put forward for an award and the Football Blogging Awards for best new blog and the fancast has been put forward for best podcast! For me to get this award though I need as many people to vote for me as possible and I’d be very appreciative of your support. So here are three methods to vote for me.

1) On the website http://www.footballbloggingawards.co.uk/vote-now/

Fill in your details and put my name in the ‘New’ category. Also if you could put Wolves Fancast in the podcast category I would be very grateful! It will ask you to confirm it via your email address, but it might go to your junk/spam folder instead of your inbox for some reason even though it’s completely safe.

2) Via Facebook – Same as on the website. You have to like the page, but considering how excellent it is it’s more than worth it. https:/www.facebook.com/FootballBloggingAwards/app_126231547426086

3) Via Twitter – If you have a twitter account, click on this link and it will already have what you need to tweet. http://ctt.ec/e9wjE and for the Fancast tweet “I’m voting in @TheFBAs for @WWFCFancast as the Best Football #Podcast”

You’re able to do all three methods so if you are able too, please do more than one method as it means I’ll get more votes, but don’t set up social networking accounts on my behalf!

You can find my blog for Wolves Fancast at http://wolvesfancast.com/category/blogs/richard-hobbs/ if you haven’t read it yet or if want a good read. The podcasts can be found at www.soundcloud.com/wolvesfancast 

If you’re able to forward this on to anyone who’s interested in football or would like to help me out it would mean so much. Everything to do with the site is done on a volunteer basis, and to be even considered is an honour for the hard work everybody puts in to produce quality content. But at the end of the day, it would be very nice to win and with your help, we might be in with a shout. Thank you very much in advance, Richard

6 Possible Loan Signings

Six possible Loan signings I think Wolves could go for.

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With the loan transfer window now open, Richard Hobbs makes a few suggestions of who could be brought in to bolster the squad.

I think the majority of fans will agree we probably need to strengthen in to main areas, in central defence and in attack. Though the back line has been impressive so far this season, we do lack cover if Danny Batth or Richard Stearman were to get injured. Up front, Nouha Dicko is as hard working a striker as you’ll ever see, but he can’t do it all by himself and we do need alternatives to break down the opposition. So here are some players that I believe we would be able to capture on loan in those positions.

Harry Maguire – Hull City

After choosing to sign for Hull this summer over Wolves, there are already rumours circulating that he could be sent out on loan…

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Cheers Stears!

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After his impressive start to the season, Richard Hobbs takes a look at Richard Stearman’s transformation from rough diamond to formidable centre half.

Now in his 7^th year at Molineux, the former Leicester man is in the form of his career as the Wolves back-line boast the best defence in the Championship at this time. But for the club’s long-serving defender, it’s been a tough journey to get to this point.

Signed by Mick McCarthy in 2008 at the age of 21, he had a reputation of a promising defender at both centre half and at right back. Standing at 6ft4, had the height to dominate in the air but, with his long limbs, looked like he’d need to bulk up if he were to out-muscle the opposition. Playing in 37 league games in what was to be a title-winning campaign; Stearman was named in the league’s team of…

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