It's good to talk...

Thoroughly miserable day for all connected with Wolves yesterday.

A dreadful performance at Cardiff bringing this season's FA Cup run to an end, and not only that, results elsewhere mean Wolves are now seven points off the play-offs and the heat is well and truly on ahead of Tuesday's return to league hostilities with Scunthorpe.

The battle-hardened fans who made the laborious journey to Cardiff via official coaches made their feelings known to the Wolves players as they warmed down, and Mick McCarthy backed their actions as very much merited.

And it's worth pointing out at this juncture that whatever their performances out on the pitch this is a Wolves squad which never shirks its responsibilities of talking to the fans via the press.

McCarthy is obliged to fulfil post-match media duties, an obligation which he meets every time.

The players are under no such remit.

However, when requested, 99 per cent of the time they will answer questions provided there is no genuine reason why they shouldn't.

So down in the bowels of Ninian Park, just outside the dressing room within minutes of full time on Saturday, and indeed fresh from that post-match dressing down from supporters, Karl Henry was both honest and candid as he spoke of the crushing disappointment of Wolves' display.

So too a few minutes later skipper Gary Breen, as he left the ground with the rest of the forlorn squad.

Both Henry and Breen's opinions will appear in tomorrow's Birmingham Mail.

That may only be a small thing, and of course supporters would much rather the players do their talking out on the pitch rather than after full time.

But while fans can quite rightly hammer the players for the quality of their performances, don't ever think that they don't take their responsibilities seriously and that they don't recognise the disappointment they have caused the fans as well as themselves.

They do, and that is why they admirably face up to us hacks after games like yesterday even though having a tape recorder shoved under their nose is probably the last place they want to be.