Our readers have been fed plenty of information in the last year or two about the Feeding The Wolves book that expertly tells the Wath Wanderers story.

As a final offering on this subject – for now at least – we despatched John Lalley on Friday to a brief ceremony at Molineux,, where he was delighted to once more find himself in the company of some of the nursery club’s blue-chip graduates.

Steve Daley, Bob Hatton and Gerry Taylor were among the gathering, as were Ron Flowers’ widow and grandson, with authors Ashley Ball and Chris Brook having travelled from South Yorkshire to perform the most pleasant of tasks.

Over to the Express & Star’s long time fan writer, who also went to a related ceremony near Barnsley last May and to a special presentation night in the Stan Cullis Stand a few weeks before that….

‘Wath Wanderers is almost a football gold-mine’ – the words of Stan Cullis expressing his appreciation of the remarkable feeder club which operated from the late 1930s until 1970 under the guidance and supervision of Mark Crook.

This former winger, who played for Wolves under Major Buckley, was instrumental in first identifying promising young players and then nurturing them. The result of his work was quite spectacular. He sent a prodigious 114 Wath inductees into the professional game.

Wolves inevitably became the principal port of call for the conveyor belt of embryonic talent; 39 Wath graduates performed in the first team at Molineux over the years – a testament to Crook’s expertise in identifying raw potential and developing it.

Wolves’ museum in the stand bearing Cullis’s name was the ideal venue two days ago to celebrate the culmination of an outstanding project that was the brainchild of Ashley Ball and Chris Brook. They were present to deliver the proceeds of their excellent publication to representatives of The Wolves Foundation.

Feeding The Wolves is a handsome tribute to Crook and a lavish celebration of the players he discovered. It is an illuminating and fascinating recollection of Wolves nostalgia, meticulously researched and presented – and a unique contribution to Wolves’ memorabilia.

Only 800 copies were printed and every one has been sold, enabling not only the Foundation to benefit but also Brampton United, who play their home fixtures at the Cortonwood Miners Welfare venue, the original home of Wath Wanderers.

To see three players who progressed from Wath to Molineux in attendance was terrific. Bob Hatton, Gerry Taylor and Steve Daley all talk wonderfully about their upbringing in the game and were joined by proud members of Ron Flowers’ family. The England wing-half, of course, was at the very top end of Wath’s most prestigious graduates.

There is a follow-up, also, to the celebratory blue plaque unveiled at Cortonwood 11 months ago by Crook’s grand-daughter in recognition of his achievements. Ashley Ball has revealed that Wolverhampton-based Robin Lumley, the artist who fashioned the plaque, had produced a second copy which will be displayed at Molineux once a suitable location is chosen.

This project may now have been put to bed but Wolves fans have not heard the last of Mark Crook.