Bully: Foz will always be in Wolves' thoughts

John 'Foz' Hendley was part of the furniture at Molineux and he'll be sorely missed.

He was a very good friend and I know I speak for so many of my old team mates – Stowelly, Mutchy, Cooky, Thommo and many more – when I say he was on a par with any of us for what he did for Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Foz was delighted with how the team are doing and hopefully they can finish the job for him and win promotion.

We will always keep him in our thoughts.

He'll have certainly been chuffed with how Wolves had done over Christmas, winning an incredible 10 points out of a possible 12 despite having some very tricky games.

They've still mostly been in second gear but I think we saw the 'real Wolves' for the last 20 minutes at Bristol City once they'd gone down to 10 men.

And then it was there it patches during yet another victory on Tuesday night over Brentford.

What Nuno will want now is for that level to be reproduced over 90 minutes.

The lead at the top of the table is huge but he'll be urging them not to take their foot off the gas.

It's amazing how well they're doing. You could take a month's worth of football out their calendar and they could still be in the promotion place.

We all keep thinking when is that banana skin coming, will it be Millwall away, Bristol City away...but no, it's not happened yet, they've been relentless.

No one's shouting about it yet though and that Champagne will stay on ice right until the very end. It's still definitely 'if', not 'when', we go up.

Today's game against Swansea will probably see a number of fringe players get a chance. To be honest it's not like me to say it, but I'm not hugely bothered what happens today. We're 12 points clear in the league and I want to be 15, 18, or 21 clear in April. The FA Cup is secondary this year.

If you're bottom of the league you might want to play a strong team to play your way out of form, but the situation Wolves are in I'd rather play a weakened team.

New signing Rafa Mir came in this week and was handed the number nine shirt...he's got a right weight on his shoulders!!

No seriously, all he's got to do is come here and produce what Nuno wants him to do. I look forward to seeing how he gets on.