So that's the first Irish game out of the way for Wolves, a blistering second half display and two goals apiece for new boy Freddy Eastwood and Jay Bothroyd clinching a 4-0 win at Bray.
Although the first half wasn't exactly thrill-a-minute, it will have done Wolves no harm at all, and as well as that second half goal blitz they have now kept two clean sheets in two pre-season friendlies.
Bray, a delightful little town about half-an-hour out of Dublin, had staged the friendly as a testimonial for their former striker Kieran 'Tarzan' O'Brien.
Why Tarzan?
Well according to the local Irish journos as a young whippersnapper O'Brien used to swing from tree to tree in a ravine not far from his home.
Marvellous.
Meanwhile there was also an added bonus for the Wolverhampton press core attending the game.
On arrival, the photographers were tipped off by an Irish colleague that new signing Stephen Elliott was at the game.
Within minutes all the necessary photos were in the can and thanks to Wolves' later on an interview was secured with Mick McCarthy's latest signing.
Spare a thought too for Wolves' club secretary Richard Skirrow.
Having flown out in the afternoon to bring the relevant papers to complete the Elliott deal, all was signed and sealed by just after midnight, leaving Skirrow with barely time to say "Make mine a Guinness" before departing back to Molineux in the early hours of the morning.
Meanwhile the mystery of room 303 has been solved.
Amid fears that the untouched newspaper outside the room meant some great horror had befallen the guest inside, turns out it's the current residence of Post & Mail photographer Steve Murphy.
And while that prompted all the usual stereotypical gags about snappers struggling with spelling and long words, Murphy assures me he'd read the same paper down in the restaurant while consuming a herculean breakfast.
Our pictures are in safe hands.