Wolves boss Mick McCarthy conceded the match with Plymouth summed up his side's season after their promotion ambitions ended for another year.An 87th-minute strike from Seyi Olofinjana handed them a 1-0 victory at Molineux, but it was not enough as Wanderers missed out on a place in the Championship play-offs by the most slender of margins.

Crystal Palace's win over Burnley ensured they could not be caught but Watford's 1-1 draw at Blackpool meant victory by a three-goal margin would have been enough for McCarthy's side to snatch sixth spot.

Instead, they were forced to settle for seventh spot, level on points with the Hornets who boasted a superior goal difference of just one goal.

It was not the first time this season they paid for their profligacy with Michael Kightly and Andy Keogh particularly culpable.

"If we had nicked it 1-0 then I guess we wouldn't be feeling so bad but we haven't nicked it 1-0, we have had loads of chances and not managed to score three goals - but then we have not done that too often this season to be fair," McCarthy said.

"That one game has been a reflection on the 46 this season when we have been dominant and not scored."

McCarthy refused to claim bad luck was to blame for his side's failure to reach the play-offs for a second successive season but he did go as far as saying good luck had been in short measure.

"I have only walked off the pitch once and thought we were lucky there and that was Blackpool at home," he added.

"I can't remember one other game where I have thought 'that was a fortunate result'.

"That's not me bemoaning it as bad luck, I just don't think we have had too much good luck.

"I think the lads have worked their socks off, as a team we have had 19 team clean sheets.

"Quite clearly we have not put the ball in the net often enough yet even today we have created loads of chances."

And while McCarthy hinted at changes next season he insisted he had no regrets over the current campaign.

"I have done everything I possibly could. I don't go home and regret things. If I could have done something better or different in my opinion or changed something then I would have done," he said

"There will be changes. Players come, players go.

"In my own head the nucleus of the players will be staying. I think there is a lot of them new into their careers at this level.

"Some of the games we have played recently are the biggest games they have ever played."

Opposite number Paul Sturrock bemoaned his side's defending for Olofinjana's late goal after the Nigerian raced through unmarked to convert Freddy Eastwood's pass.

"Our goalkeeper can't think of a save that he's had to make in the 90 minutes," he said.

"He's finished up with the one opportunity through the middle and other than that I don't think there's anything come at him that he has had to make an incredible save from."

The Scot's day was soured further by an injury to skipper Krisztian Timar, who was carried off after a collision with Olofinjana.

Sturrock added: "We don't know how serious it is, he has been rushed to hospital but it doesn't look good.

"It would be very unprofessional for me to try and guess what it is so we will wait and see what the specialists come back with."

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