Bom Dia! Welcome to the season one finale at Estadio Molineux, where Nick and his Portuguese Wolves are just in the playoff spots after a mixed season so far. They’ll need a strong finish for a shot at promotion at the first attempt. Can they do it?…

Here’s how things stand with 13 games to go. We’re just inside the playoff spots by a point. Stoke have a game in hand on us, but we still have to play them, as well as Sheffield Utd, Sunderland Norwich, Forest, Reading and Charlton, but let’s take it one game at a time.

We start at home to Oxford, where Coelho and Cavaco put us two to the good. There are a few close shaves, but we make it to half time unscathed, and Coelho wraps it up with 10 minutes to go, to cap a solid win and clean sheet to get this week off to the perfect start.

My head is literally in my hands when we give away a penalty after a lacklustre 80 minutes at The Valley against Charlton, but if one thing has defined us this season, it’s been late goals, and help arrives in the form of a Coelho brace to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat…

For f*ck sake…

Tranmere beat us last time, so I really want to win this one. We pile on the pressure and go ahead, but Segers is sent off and then they turn things around within 3 minutes. Coelho levels, and although Simonsen’s up to his old tricks, Pinto gets the winner. Sweet revenge!

The Frog hops to it and gives us an instant lead at Reading, but despite another 10 shots, we can’t build on our lead before half time. We continue dominating in the 2nd half but a man of the match performance from their keeper keeps it at 1-0. Wins is wins is wins I s’pose…

Segers is suspended, so Carlos starts in goal against Stockport. We’re off the mark thanks to an own goal, and Coelho gets his 32nd goal this season to make it 2-0. Stockport fire their Gannon to get back in it, and despite a late flurry of chances for us, it finishes 2-1…

The next run of games will make or break our season, starting with 2nd-placed Sunderland. We’ve quietly been going about our business and are unbeaten in nine games, winning the last six, so at least we’re in good form for it…

Bully gets us started, but the Black Cats start to purr, and kick our Arce, as they hit four goals in a row. Despite the score, we have plenty of chances but can’t put them away until Coelho finally finds the net with 12 minutes left. Tony Coton won’t have many better games…

We start Terribly at Huddersfield, as Trevor Steven rolls back the years, but we battle back and go in for half time in front. The second half is end-to-end, but it’s us who take the lead as Bully smashes one home and then Luís Fernando comes off the bench to seal the deal.

Revenge is on the agenda against Norwich. Bully fires us ahead but has to wait until the hour for his second. After a goal a piece, the visitors strike again to make it a nervy last 15, but Kubicki makes sure. Can you hear the canaries sing? I can’t hear a f*cking thing…

Next is a Monday night trip to Bramall Lane. Pinto is back, although Dougie had an 8/10 in midfield last match. We’re the better team right up until the hour, when we then proceed to just roll over and let The Blades cut right through us. We never just lose 1-0, do we?

Really not good news…

A draw at home to Stoke will be enough to secure a playoff spot. It’s a drab first half, with just one shot on target from both teams combined, but it’s a different story in the second, and we come to life to give ourselves a shot at promotion. Dare we dream?!

Bully and Dougie open the scoring in the second Black Country derby. Pinto makes it three and The Albion pull one back, but lose their keeper for fouling Bully, who dispatches the penalty himself to seal an emphatic win.

The Haymaker puts Swindon ahead, but Dougie gets us back in it. We keep knocking on the door and have two goals disallowed before Bully Boy makes it 3rd time lucky and grabs the winner with 5 minutes remaining…

No matter how well we’re playing, we’re still capable of throwing in a stinker now and then, and we do just that at Forest, who sweep us aside with relative ease as our season ends in defeat. At least the result hasn’t cost us.

So here’s the final table. Birmingham leapfrog us into 5th, but it doesn’t really matter, and we’re comfortably inside the playoff spots. We finish joint top scorers with table toppers Sheff Utd, but 79 goals conceded is a real problem, but that’s the gamble of the 2-3-1-2-2…

Our efforts win us £475k and a semi final date with pre-billionaire days City…

Straight to the first leg we go. We fly out of the traps and find ourselves 3-0 up at half time after a Kit Symons own goal and a Bully brace. I expect a City backlash in the second half, but we carry on dominating, as The Frog makes it four, and Bully completes his hat trick. It’s a fantastic result, but the job’s only half done.

Hopefully we don’t need any late goals…

The second leg rolls around. City start brightly and we’re behind inside a quarter of an hour. But that’s as good as it gets for them, thanks to Segers, who pulls off a string of fine saves to keep them out. We’re going to Wem-ber-ley!

Where we’ll face Boro, who saw off Birmingham in the other semi…

The big day arrives, and I optimistically check their squad, hoping that some key men are injured or suspended, but no such luck.

It’s the worst possible start, and we’re behind after 5 minutes. We miss a glorious chance on the stroke of half time, only to see them to go straight up the other end and make it 2-0. Bully gives us hope on the hour, but it’s just not our day in the end and we’ll have to it all over again next season. F*********ck!!!

So that’s season one done, and we couldn’t have come much closer to promotion at the first time of asking. It’s disappointing, but hopefully this experience will make the boys more determined than ever next season.

Join me next week as I look to offload some of the deadwood and see what Jorgey Boy can bring in for me over the summer in preparation for season two. Adeus!