Liam Keen and Nathan Judah look at four players who haven't quite hit the heights in a Wolves shirt yet. Can this be their breakthrough season?
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00:00And I'm going to start this with a question to you, actually, and this might backfire on me,
00:03so bear with me. How many appearances in all competitions did Bubba Karchori make for Wolves
00:09last season? Have a guess. Good question.
00:12All competitions. I'll give you a clue on how many of those were Cup games, if you like,
00:18so maybe you can have a guess with me. There are three Cup appearances, two in the Carabao,
00:24one in the FA Cup, and then how many in total, including those three?
00:28I'm going to say, obviously he was injured for quite a lot of that time,
00:33I'm going to say 11 total. He made 27 appearances for Wolves last season.
00:41I'm glad this didn't backfire on me. I'm glad this didn't backfire.
00:44That is surprising. It is surprising. I think people forget
00:47the amount of football he actually did play last season, but the context is important.
00:53There's a lot, and I mean a lot, of late substitute appearances.
00:57Two minutes here and a minute there.
00:58Exactly. And particularly in that early part of the season when
01:02Joao Gomes and Mario Lamina were very much the starting two midfielders, obviously Bubba then
01:08picked up a couple of small injuries, then went away with Marley during January for the Africa
01:12combination. So it was disrupted, his sort of momentum really getting into the first team.
01:18And then another question for you, and I'm not going to make this a habit of questions today,
01:21but Bubba Gartoriore is one that is full of question marks. How old is Bubba Gartoriore?
01:27If you haven't already seen it this morning, if you can remember off the top of your head.
01:31Well, actually...
01:32I hope it's not on your notes.
01:34People think that we don't do a lot of prep here, but it was actually one of my questions to you,
01:40that do you realise, I think that maybe he's 24, 25, Bubba Gartoriore is only 22 years old,
01:47which I think is excellent news. And maybe one that we put a little bit too much pressure on him
01:53when he is one of the very much the young guns.
01:56Exactly. So I think as prepared as we always are, we've managed to somehow be on the same
02:01wavelength. Great minds think alike.
02:03You know it, you know it.
02:05Exactly, exactly. Bubba Gartoriore is a player that, I say I like all of these players individually
02:08for different reasons. And the reasons I like Bubba Gartoriore is he's just likeable. It's
02:15easier to leave it at that. It's fine. He's a nice guy. He goes out there. He's energetic.
02:21He's smile on his face.
02:23He smiles. He's happy to be there. And he goes and he loves playing football.
02:27And he's going to take a couple out.
02:29He had a couple of, you know, limited appearances earlier in the season,
02:35gets a bit more of a run towards the back end of the campaign and does fairly well,
02:38actually, to his credit. Now, on top of that, there are negatives. He's slightly haphazard
02:44at times. I've been quoted as saying, and I'll happily say it again, but I say it with love,
02:49that his second touch is sometimes a tackle. And...
02:56Don't go to the Bellagard household and say that. I say it with love, Bubba,
02:59but two touches and you're having an absolute nightmare.