I put goodwillie in my fantasy football team. a hatrick on his debut.

i can see the headlines now....

'good willie, poor micky'....rovers stun mccarthys men in seven goal rout'

too optimistic??

Three points definately required in this fixture. No ifs or buts or maybes, this is a game we should be and ned to be winning at home. But there are no easy games at this level and we will need to play well at both ends and and take our chances to win.

I personally think our early season fixtures are quite good as long as we are quickly up to speed.

We have Villa, Fulham, Newcastle, QPR and Norwich as our first five away games and although we often struggle at Villa and Fulham, have a great record at Newcastle and should be confident at the newly promoted teams. It could be far worse and we could reasonably expect points in all these games if playing well.

Meanwhile at home, Wolves, Everton, Arsenal, City and Spurs looks a little daunting at face value, but when thinking it through there is no reason if playing well that we cannot beat Wolves and Everton and pick up points in at least one of the other three games, especially at home.

We have avoided the big teams away, which are almost guaranteed defeats nowadays and have some easier teams to target. At home we should have a chance against all we play even though we will start as underdogs in three of them.

Many say Kean comes across well in the media and sounds good in press conferences, although I beg to differ. I have heard enough about 'penalty box entries' to last a lifetime. Time to walk the walk and stop spouting as far as I am concerned and get the players playing like they could before he was recruited.

Entirely agree OOJW that we simply have to beat Wolves and should do. Not in a must wing relegation sense, but it is at home to a team we are better than on paper and in reality. We've got a good record against them since they came back up and thrashed them back in May.

You're right about the away games, just our home games are particularly tough, although we should get something against Everton, depends how Spurs and Arsenal turn up but City are tough.

Villa may be a bogey ground but if we get a win and take our confidence down there the ground will be a melting pot of fan pressure for McCleish. Hated already, if we get a goal...

Just hoping for a good start and to really crack on this season.

I have a bad feeling this season,I hope im wrong.Wolves will be the start of our demise,all the feel good factors and new signings.and leavings,I still feel we are a club in turmoil,again I hope im wrong.Wolves will win or draw as we are notorious starters.

Well seeing that in my oppinion ,we start off the season tomorrow with a worst squad than we ended last season,i am going for at best a draw but indeed i fear the worst and Wolves could win this one,on the last game of the season in the first half every shot we took was a goal 3-0 half time,second half they were the better side,this will not be an easy win be sure of that guys.

Does a Robinson goal kick not count as a 'penalty box entry'?

Are we going long ball?

I demand to know!

If we aren't in the top 10 after 10 games then it's bottom six for us, or bottom one...

Does our defence minus Samba and Nelsen scare the bejesus out of anyone else?

Salgado --- Hanley --- Givet --- Olsson

Is what I assume it will be. Olsson's better at left-wing, Givet's better at left-back, Hanley might turn out decent but is currently as raw as they come. The only player I'm confident with is nearly 36

Givet is most certainly better at CB than LB.

Well we'll have to agree to disagree on that one, he's not terrible as a centre half but his positioning, aerial presence and apparent lack of organisational ability worry me. He's not gonna look after Hanley like Nelsen or Samba would.

We could move Sally to cb and play an attacking Brazillian right back, or play super Miles Anderson at left back...