Steve Bull: Wolves can't afford to let standards slip now

After five successive victories everyone was probably expecting us to win, but a few of them didn’t turn up and they were punished, writes Steve Bull.

You should never turn up to a game thinking you don’t have to fight to win, especially against a team like Bristol City scrapping for their lives.

We’re not safe just yet – if we can win five in a row then so can the teams around us – so I’d like to see us get over the mathematical line as soon as possible.

Another win, two at the most, will secure it and we can properly start concentrating on next season.

We certainly don’t want to get going into the last three or four games with a six or seven-point gap to the bottom three, especially seen as we play Blackburn next weekend.

Ideally, safety would be sorted out before then because the last thing we need is a nervous six-pointer at Molineux.

So let’s see what they can do over the Easter weekend in what are two big tests against Brighton and Leeds.

It’d be nice to take a bit of momentum into the summer with a few more wins in our last six matches.

There’s another tough test today with the league leaders coming to town.

We always seen to raise our game against the bigger teams, like against Newcastle, Stoke and Liverpool this season, so let’s hope we can do so again and put a dent in their promotion campaign.

Brighton and Leeds are both good footballing sides and four points from those two would be a great return. Paul Lambert said this week that consistency is going to be crucial if Wolves are going to finish high up next season and he’s right. If we can’t grind out results when we’re not playing well we’ll get nowhere.

If you look at Brighton, they won’t have lost many games this season – if any – but just not turning up, like we did at Bristol City.

And I think a lot of our players who are new to the league will be learning it’s about performing week after week, whether it’s Grimsby away on a Tuesday night or Newcastle at home on a Saturday, you treat them all the same and give 100 per cent.

Players like Ivan Cavaleiro, Lee Evans, Jon Dadi Bodvarsson, even Kortney Hause, none of these guys have played a full 46-game Championship season.

Nouha Dicko has been trying to get back to his best after his big injury, Andreas Weimann hasn’t played a huge amount of football in the past couple of years and Helder Costa is new to the league too, not that you’d know it with how well he’s played.

So it bodes well for next year that these guys should all be better off for this season.

It’s been a struggle in the league and obviously things looked a bit hairy a few weeks ago but there are a lot of plusses to come out of the season.

Personally, I think we’ll have a good chance of giving it a right go next year provided the right players are signed in the summer.

I don’t think we need a huge amount of signings but they’ve got to be in the right areas.

It depends what you want, but I’d be putting a centre half, a box-to-box central midfielder and a goalkeeper – all with loads of experience – at the top of my list.

The strikers haven’t scored many thing year and that’s a question for Lambert – does he see Dicko, Bodvarsson, Weimann and Joe Mason having enough goals in them?

If they all played to their potential then they would, so Lambert either needs to work out how to get the best out of them or pay good money for a new striker.

Jordan Graham and Michal Zyro continued their injury comebacks this week, which is great to see.

They could both play a big role next season, it’s the old cliché of them being like a new signing.

They, and a lot of others, need a full pre-season under their belts and come back flying in August.