One was a screening of the same highlights-package film that was shown at the recent Player of the Year awards evening at Telford International Centre, the other was more personal - the chance to have their picture taken with the Championship trophy.

The busy session, with freelance photographer Dave Bagnall, followed a tour of the Sir Jack Hayward Training Ground, the meeting having been held there as a change from the usual Molineux setting.

In the absence of Jez Moxey, Wolves' Head of Marketing & Communications Matt Grayson said the Chief Executive had been 'locked in a room with agents for the last week' and confirmed that Owner and Chairman Steve Morgan had already said that funds would be available for new players. But he also stressed the quality of the club's core young squad. Richard Harries was told that both Bosman frees and players under contract elsewhere were being considered.

Matt said announcements would be made in due course on total season ticket sales, which were looking good, also on match-by-match prices for 2009-10 and about how many away season tickets would be made available.

In response to Tim Richards' question about ground improvements, Matt said: "Temporary seating will be coming back - 846 seats between the Billy Wright and Jack Harris Stands. That's all the temporary seating we can get in. The space and access aren't good enough between the Jack Harris and Steve Bull Stands."

Matt told Alan Gripton that the video walls wouldn't be in use next season, although adverts would be draped on the existing structures to guarantee they weren't totally redundant. And one corner of the ground might house a Sky Sports studio. Chris Cox was told that any talk of the Stan Cullis Stand being closed for a year at some stage for rebuilding was jumping the gun and Parliament members would be consulted before any such decision.

Tim Richards said he had had to wait four years to buy a season ticket for his son next to him in the Steve Bull Upper because, in the pecking order, he was behind season ticket holders wishing to relocate. Matt said: "It's a question of getting the balance right between our season ticket holders, who are the lifeblood, and fans who are being introduced to the club for the first time."

Gerry Collins pointed out that next season's inevitably bigger crowds made it more important for the turnstile operation to run more smoothly as there had often been long queues outside the Billy Wright Stand 15 minutes before kick-off. Another Parliament member, Kulbinder Kular, himself a turnstile operator, said most turnstiles opened 90 minutes before kick-off but he believed queues were longer because around 60 per cent of spectators probably arrived in the last 20 minutes before kick-off.

MATCH-DAY 'EXTRAS'

James Fielden asked about the adaptation of 'The Impossible Dream' as an anthem at the end of the season and was told by Matt Grayson: "A group of fans approached us after starting a thread on Molineux Mix saying they wanted a terrace anthem and would we support it? We saw that a significant number of fans got involved. It's the club's role to support fans in a fantastic democratic effort like that. We helped them with the cards with the lyrics on but it was completely their own time and effort. Some fans liked it, some didn't."

Ryan Leister said the song was highly appropriate for the time of season but wasn't sure about it long-term while Rod Palmer complained it was too long and not as rousing as songs by Stoke and West Ham fans, who belted out only the chorus of 'Delilah' and 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles.' Mark Cadman chipped in: "We are missing a trick here. One of the world's greatest composers (Elgar) was a Wolves fan."

John Meaney said the waving of flags at the Doncaster game had made the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end and reminded him of the play-off final at Cardiff. "Are there any plans to repeat it in future?" he asked. "If Manchester United and Arsenal come here and see a sea of gold and black, it might give us an edge." Matt replied: "There's a feeling the atmosphere will take care of itself to a degree but the reaction to chucking in a quid was really positive, although we lost a bit of money on doing it. It's often better if fans come up with ideas, like a 'wear gold and black' day, and we support them. The ball's in your court."

Dave Bissell was told that the flag-waving had had a 'massive impact' on the players, many of whom had produced a sharp intake of breath when asked about it afterwards. Matt again thanked the volunteers who had helped distribute flags and said they were being given tickets to the club's pre-season home game.

One idea from the floor was for flags to carry the name of the game so they could be kept as souvenirs but James Fielden suggested fans might keep the one they have and then be urged to take it to a certain game, so the club didn't need to manufacture new ones each time.

Wilf Hadley asked why the victory parade had been scrapped - a question to which Matt replied: "We wanted to do it but would have been organising an event for 95-120,000 people at a few days' notice - and the responsibility for any kind of accident would have been on us. We talked to the safety group and Jez talked the possible route over with the police and other authorities. To have had it straight after the Doncaster game would have encouraged ticketless fans to come to the stadium. For lots of legal and safety reasons, it couldn't happen. I know Peterborough and Burton had them but each club is different and you make decisions to the best of your ability, having assessed all the risks and issues."

James Fielden said there was a danger anyway of Wolves' success being over-celebrated whereas in 2003 a parade was a spur-of-the-moment act after a cup final. Les Hughes said he had been glad to see the trophy last night as he didn't see much of it on the presentation day because of all the flags!

Gerry Collins argued that the invasion at Barnsley was just as dangerous as a parade while Muriel Bates asked what would have happened had the League deducted points. Matt said: "It was a step too far and we're not happy at having had Wolves' name mentioned in the same sentence as trouble and mounted police. But we were very thankful to fans for staying off the pitch at the Doncaster game. That helped those who were watching in West Park as well."

Members raised other concerns from the Barnsley game. Laurence Westwood said there was dreadful crushing in the toilets and Matt promised to add that complaint to the others he'd had on the same subject and refer them to Oakwell. Sally Hanbury knew someone who leaned out to take a picture just before Kyel Reid's equaliser, got knocked on to the perimeter track and was arrested.

To Muriel Bates' enquiry about an update on the on-going concerns about the shortage of car parking space round Molineux, Matt said the club had received 2,900 responses to a Wolves Travel Survey and said the matter was still high priority. He said hard data was still being collected.

ACADEMY SPOTLIGHT

The first part of the meeting had been taken up with an address by Kevin Thelwell, who is a year into his job as Wolves' Academy Manager, having previously worked with the likes of Chris Gunter and Aaron Ramsey at the Football Association of Wales.

He told Kulbinder Kular that the chance to work with better players, coupled with the club's fantastic traditions, had prompted him to move to the West Midlands.

He identified his main aims as developing players for first-team football but also ensuring that the academic element was good enough to guarantee that full-time scholars who didn't make it had something to fall back on.

"If there's a block at the top end, it can be worthless," he said. "But, if the kids are good enough, I'm sure our manager will play them. You can see our team is built on youth." He also advised a note of patience by telling the meeting that David Beckham didn't make his debut until 20 and Edwin van der Saar had played only 19 games before he was 24. "The majority of lads are making their debut at 20ish in the Premier," he added.

Ryan Leister was told that keeping young players' feet on the ground was difficult if there was Press speculation linking them with other clubs while Jon Maslen-Jones was informed that the up-side of promotion for the Academy was the glamour that helped with recruitment and the fact that the department had more tools for the job.

John Meaney asked whether scholars still did odd jobs and Kevin replied that they kept the dressing rooms clean and cleaned boots. "Four of our boys trained recently with the first team and came back as different boys," he added. "That's a benefit of the Academy set-up being with the first-team one."

In answer to a question by Kulbinder Kular, Kevin said the top clubs may have budgets six or seven times higher than Wolves' but that the resources at his department's disposal 'give us the chance to achieve what we want to achieve. Do clubs with higher budgets necessarily use them better? I'd say no.'

Kevin told Wilf Hadley that he been to Wolves' partner club Ujpest in Budapest and would be going again next season. He was looking for players to possibly bring to Wolves and also supporting any, such as Scott Malone, who 'has had a terrific experience' after going to Hungary on loan.

Chris Cox enquired about the rules governing catchment areas and the signing of lads, and was told: "Under-12s have to live within an hour of a club, 13s-16s an hour and a half and, at 16, they can live anywhere."

Kevin told James Fielden that 72 applications had been received for the job of Under-18 Manager and a short-list of six drawn up ready for interviewing very soon. He then told Rod Palmer that Wolves had appointed a Technical Development Manager, although he disagreed that English players were behind their foreign counterparts in terms of technique. "Tactically, we may need a bit of improvement but technically we are fine," he suggested. "If we're not already there, we are getting very close."

Jon Maslen-Jones, having been to watch Academy games, said it had improved beyond recognition from three years ago and Matt Grayson pointed out that Kevin was held in such esteem in the game that he was due to talk on a panel with Trevor Brooking at Walsall.

Matt asked the meeting how the Academy's profile could be improved and thanked Richard Harries for suggesting highlights of their games be put on the club's website. He said Premier League football increased the likelihood of more clips and features being shown and said he would report back on the matter to the next meeting.

ANY OTHER BUSINESS

Kulbinder Kular said he feared the club were pricing out young fans by charging them full rates when they turned 17 and complained that families like his, who have had season tickets in the Jack Harris Stand for six years, were in danger of being broken up. He said the price per game at Molineux was rising sharply, given that there were only 19 home matches in the Premier League, and felt Wolves' charges didn't compare well with Aston Villa's and Birmingham's. He sensed a danger of fans in the 17-21 age category being lost.

Martyn Edwards said he had a 16-year-old son who had been attending games for ten years and wondered what could be done for him to lessen the jump in price that will come when he turns 17. "It's unfair to virtually double the price - especially if there's more than one child," he said. Matt Grayson replied: "We believe our policy is fair and transparent. I honestly believe that if you look across the whole of our pricing scheme, including the early bird and family football offers, we give value that stands up against any other club."

Anne Pearce said her son had got a job while he was at college to pay for his Wolves watching while John Meaney said it was a fact of life generally that, when you turn 17, you start paying adult prices. Roger Fellows said fans had to consider that the quality of Premier League games was likely to be much higher than those in the Championship - an observation relevant to Peter Bagley's claim of 'general disappointment at the 30 per cent hike in prices when a lot of clubs had frozen or dropped them.' Matt pointed out that 70 per cent of Wolves' fans would be watching Premier League football next season for the price of Championship football.

Laurence Westwood said some fans were upset at the use of red and blue in the logo of new main club sponsors Sporting Bet but Matt replied: "When you have a big company putting a lot of money in, it becomes a question of balance. Sportingbet have been absolutely fantastic with us and we've already developed an excellent working relationship.. It was their suggestion that we provide a choice of logo on junior and mini-kits, either Sportingbet or the Wolves Community Trust logo. As a result we are now the first club in football to provide a choice. A lot of people say they like the shirt as it is and the sales are very good."

Ryan Leister complained about the high cost of getting through to the ticket office by phone, only to then be told all operators were busy, and Gerry Collins said he felt the standard of ball boys and girls had to improve next season. But Matt retorted: "I'm really surprised by that. Even referees have said how good they were. They were great." He pointed out that there's no multi-ball system in the Premier League and that existing ball boys and girls had first refusal on the same duties next season. Roger Fellows complimented the club on producing an excellent final programme of the season without increasing the price.