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Wolves boss Dave Jones has now seen his side start the season with a draw and two wins and six home goals scored. After the game he said,
"Paul Ince looked tired at the end but we had only been hoping to give him 20 minutes and he played most of the match. I thought he did well but it was a good solid professional performance from us when they went down to ten men.
"We were tiring them out and it does help you when you can score after two minutes. They were going to string five across the middle but they were then forced to come out. Then when they went down to ten men, it helped us. We moved the ball well and the third goal typified that.
"We have played three games in six games and I asked for a big effort from the lads. We can now have a rest this week."
He also had words for Stan after the game,
"Stan has got a difficult job on but he will do it.
"He is a close friend of mine and I have a lot of respect for him. For 90 minutes out there I have no sympathy for him but I will always have a beer or two after the game.
"I phoned him last year when Burnley didn't make the play-offs and when we then lost in the play-off he phoned me and said I now knew how he had felt."
Stan certainly has got a difficult job, made more difficult by this defeat,
"Our record here is abysmal and we didn't give ourselves a chance. We conceded a goal in the first minute, the 46th minute and the 90th minute and between all that we had a player sent off. It is difficult enough with 11 but with ten it is very difficult. Wolves are an exceptionally good side and they definitely have the sign over us.
"We came here to play 4-3-3 but got off to a bad start. I thought we did okay but without really looking like getting a goal. It was a fantastic goal by Denis Irwin and you have to give credit where credit is due. Going 2-0 down finished the game as a contest."
"They showed commendable spirit against a very good side. Sometimes it is not losing, it is how you lose.
"I thought they had a go but as soon as the second goal went in, as a contest it was finished. But as a spectacle it was finished in the first ten minutes when Cooky was sent off."
This week we include the report from the Guardian
Wolves can thank Bosman
by Adrian Milledge (Guardian)
Sir Jack Hayward may have ploughed more than £40m into equipping Wolves with a ground fit for the Premiership and assorted teams to try to reach it but the key to the club ending their 19-year exile from the top flight may well lie with three Bosman signings.
The manager Dave Jones, whose £14m investment in players last season failed to secure promotion, looks to have struck gold in the signings of the former Manchester United players Denis Irwin and Paul Ince and the less celebrated Brentford midfielder Ivar Ingimarsson during the summer.
"I have been pleased with all three of my Bosman signings," said Jones. "Paul and Denis have given us more experience and Ivar gets better with every game he plays. He has been called for international duty with Iceland as well, so things could not be going any better for him at the moment."
A sixth-minute injury to Colin Cameron opened the door for Ince to make his debut, which was an hour or so ahead of schedule.
"We were going to bring him on for the last 20 minutes, so he was very tired by the end," Jones explained. "But he needed the outing and helped us give another very professional performance. That's seven points from three games in six days, so I'm very happy with our start to the season."
Jones must also have been delighted with his side's start to the game which, courtesy of some Fred Karno defending, saw them take an early lead when Nathan Blake took advantage of Nikolaos Michopoulos spilling a shot from Cameron.
Wolves were given another helping hand in the seventh minute when Paul Cook was harshly sent off by Jeff Winter for an over-zealous challenge on Alex Rae.
This begged the question, how come Paul Weller escaped punishment for the tackle from behind a minute earlier that put an end to Cameron's participation?
The Teesside official added insult to injury when he awarded a penalty against Steve Davis for handball after the Burnley captain stood no chance of avoiding Kenny Miller's volley.
Justice was done when Michopoulos saved Miller's subsequent penalty but that served only to delay the inevitable as Wolves finally made their numerical superiority tell against opponents who began to wilt in the heat.
Irwin eased the Molineux nerves when he curled home a free-kick before Kevin Cooper added a third from a tight angle after skipping round Michopoulos.
It all added up to a second successive Saturday of frustration for the Burnley manager Stan Ternent, whose side have collected more red cards than goals in the new season, two against one.
Cook's exit followed that of Arthur Gnohere in the opening-day defeat by Brighton but Ternent continued to remain diplomatic.
"It was a late challenge by Cook and I didn't think it was particularly vicious," he said. "But you don't know what instructions referees are working under. As a spectacle, it ruined the game.
"We gave ourselves no chance going a goal down so early in the game.
"Then we had a man sent off. It is difficult enough playing against a team like Wolves when you have 11 men.
"I have got no complaints about the final result. I thought all my players did well and all we can do now is bounce back. We can only improve."