It was the legendary golfer Gary Player who once said that the harder he worked, the luckier he got.

 

It may be a slight variation on the quote but boss Mick McCarthy believes if Wolves continue their decent run of form then good fortune will also follow.

 

The hard luck stories have come thick and fast in recent weeks, but the defiant boss is still adamant that the team must not get demoralized and instead concentrate on making their own luck.

 

"Of course you've got to have luck sometimes - if the ball goes in off someone's backside, then there has to be an element of good fortune," he said.

 

"But we've got to make our own luck as well - and we will make our own luck playing the way we're playing.

 

"We won't make any luck playing badly, that's for sure.

 

"But without talking about formations, we'll get that luck by playing as well as we're playing.

 

"We're playing well at the moment.

 

"The players have got to believe they can get better playing this way because we're not going to get better by changing it.

 

"We've stayed in games playing this way, instead of being 1-0 down after five minutes and trying to get one back.

 

"And we have created loads of chances.

 

"But we need a break, we need a bit of luck - unlike the David Jones chance on Saturday where there was a deflection and the ball ended up going straight into the keeper's hands.

 

"We had it against us when Manchester City scored following a deflection that took the ball the other way."

 

Quite clearly there are ten massive games standing between what Wolves hope will be the preservation of their Barclays Premier League status for next season.

 

But the boss knows they cannot afford to get too carried away with games in isolation in terms of keeping emotions in check!

 

"They are 10 league games and it's about picking up points," he says.

 

"If you get so up when you win and so down when you lose, there's no point.

 

"It's a season of 38 games that will go to 5pm on May 9. Who's to say it won't go until then?

 

"Who's to say it won't be Michael Kightly who slides one in and keeps us up, or Sam Vokes or Jody Craddock?

 

"Despite how they must be feeling right now, who's to say it won't be that way?

 

"If that happens, all the current results will be forgotten."

 

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