Young Wolves will be worth the wait

Wolves set the standard for what remains of this season with one of their best performances in recent months at Burnley on Saturday. And Gallen said the Turf Moor draw showed just what potential there is in the current crop of youngsters.

"The potential is there," Gallen said. "I'm sure the fans are maybe sick of hearing about it.

"But I would say this – there is a future for a lot of these younger players.

"If you look at the Burnley game in particular, it's the first time for a while I've thought, here we go, there's a future here, there's a future in these lads – and a good future too.

"Unfortunately there have been so many injuries it's disrupted the season, and there have been some other reasons too, but there's a positive outlook.

"If you look at Burnley's team, they're probably what I'd call a 'now' team; in two or three years time I'd wonder where most of those players would be.

"But if you look at our team, in two or three years time our lads will be a lot better. They'll still be around, they'll be playing for someone, hopefully for Wolves, and the improvement will be vast."

Gallen admits he thought Wolves would have been challenging for the top six, but said a lot of factors out of anyone's control have contributed to that not being the case.

He's now keen for Wolves to reproduce their Burnley performance for the rest of the campaign.

"Hopefully it's not a one-off," Gallen added. "We've got to look like that now for the rest of the season. That's the aim. As Danny Batth said, standards have been set.

"It looked like for one of the first times the confidence and spirit collided with the quality that we know we've got."