Martin Swain: Whatever has happened to Kevin Doyle?
Jody Craddock has persuaded head coach and captain, Kenny Jackett and Samuel Ricketts, to face a fans' Q&A next month in aid of his testimonial.
What a prime opportunity, folks, to see if they can throw any light on a question which must be baffling all at the club. What on earth has happened to Kevin Doyle?
I mean, who is this chap still nominally occupying the No. 29 shirt and what has he done with the real guy? Because while the Ireland international striker never had the type of game to single-handedly take teams apart, he is surely, surely better than sitting forlornly on a bench unable to find a place in a League One attack.
Or so you would have thought. But Doyle's story is one of a sad, inexorable decline from the garlands thrown in his path by grateful Wolves fans after those Herculean solo performances as Mick McCarthy's lone striker in 2009-10, so instrumental in shepherding the team to Premier League safety.
Remember those days? McCarthy even got into trouble with the traditionalists that season when he famously hailed one 'Doyler' showing against Liverpool by declaring: "I'm not sure there can have been a better centre-forward's performance at Molineux than Doyle's."
