Michael Kightly insists being part of a notable hat trick of being part of the trio of Wolves players included in the PFA's Championship Team of the Year is hopefully just the start of more success to come.

 

Kights, Richard Stearman and Sylvan Ebanks-Blake were part of the three-strong Wolves contingent voted for by the rest of the Championship and indeed part of a healthy sprinkling of the playing staff who attended Sunday night's ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel.

 

And it's a particular boost for the winger who has been forced to sit out the final chunk of the season due to a broken metatarsal sustained in a training game prior to the trip to Birmingham.

 

"It's great that the three of us have all got in and to be honest I was also a bit surprised Kevin Foley wasn't included - he must have been close," says Kights.

 

"It's a great achievement for us all and also for the club as a whole.

 

"It's always particularly nice in these awards that the votes have come from the players you come up against.

 

"It's a sign that other players in the Championship that rate your ability and I'm buzzing to be in there as Sylv and Stears are as well.

 

"I've not been in the team before, in my first year I think I probably arrived too late and then last season I was out for a long time with injury.

 

"But it is one of the goals you set yourself at the start of the season, to try and be thought of as one of the best players in the division and I'm really pleased that it's happened.

 

"It's a good finish to the season for me."

 

Whilst surprised that Kevin didn't manage to land the berth for the best Championship right back, Kights certainly wasn't taken aback by the other two Wolves names who made the final cut.

"Sylvan is a player who scores goals, he always will," he said.

 

"When he first came to the club, you could tell from the first training session that he was going to score goals.

 

"He's been doing so every since and I think he is a player who will do it at the highest level.

 

"He's a Premier League striker in my opinion, and will all the goals he's got this season I think he had to be in the team of the year.

 

 

"And I'm really pleased for Stears particularly because he's been out of the team recently.

 

"I know he's disappointed not to be playing at the moment but he has been a big reason we have got to where we are.

 

"He's been a massive part of it, as has Neill Collins, and the two were the backbone of the team for a long part of the season.

 

"It will give Stears a nice feeling knowing his performances earlier in the season have been noticed and I know he was delighted."

 

But the ambitious winger is certainly not going to rest on his laurels.

 

Already working hard to regain his fitness Kights is itching to get going in the Premier League as both he and Wolves' other young guns aim to prove they can cut the mustard at the highest level.

 

"It's all about taking things one stage at a time," he explained.

 

"All of us would have started the season wanting to get promoted and wanting to be in the Team of the Year and now that's happened you look to the next goal.

 

"We all want to prove ourselves at the highest level, and have now got the chance to do that.

 

"It's great to reflect on what we've achieved this season, but when we come back we'll continue working hard because it's no good just getting to the Premier League, we want to stay there.

 

"It will be a challenge for us all to prove we can play and be successful at the highest level and who knows? If we can establish ourselves then maybe one day we can be aiming to try and get in the Premier League Team of the Year."