This weekend sees Jones' Wolves side face TheFA.com's featured team Leicester City in The FA Cup Fourth Round but he has taken the time to participate in our unique managerial survey, The Gaffer Tapes...

A rugged full-back with Everton, Merseysider Jones made an outstanding success of his first managerial job, taking little Stockport to the League Cup semi-final and making them an established team in the First Division.

Southampton gave him the chance of managing in the Premiership but after he had done important groundwork at the club, he was controversially given 12 months leave of absence to fight child abuse allegations (Jones went on to successfully clear his name in court).

As Glenn Hoddle won the Southampton hot seat on a permanent basis, Wolves gave Jones a chance to resurrect his career. He came desperately close to winning automatic promotion to the Premiership last season but two wins in their last nine games saw them slip out of the top two at the death.

Paul Ince and Denis Irwin were added to the squad this season and the club are on the edge of the play-off positions.

WHAT ARE THE MOST AND LEAST ENJOYABLE PARTS OF YOUR JOB?

Most enjoyable - Simply being involved in football. I love every minute of it, the bits that aren't so nice you accept as being part of the job. I enjoy every aspect of it really and the biggest thing is winning and that is the best feeling in the world. I don't count being as a manager as pressure.

Even when we are losing games and the press are on at you, I still enjoy my job - very much so.

Least enjoyable - It's not a nice thing when you are telling a young player 'sorry, but you are not going to go from being an apprentice to a professional footballer'. That is hard.

I hate the hour before a game as well because there is nothing you can do and you are just desperate for the game to start. Once you give your team out, the players then normally start to prepare themselves.

WHAT IS THE MAJOR DIFFERENCE SINCE YOU WERE A PLAYER?

Money. The amount of money that is around. What the players can earn now at the top level is a massive change although you can't say that's true for all players across the board. I haven't seen anything that new in preparation apart from diet, I was doing aerobics and special stretches in the late 1970s. 

NAME ONE FOOTBALL RULE YOU WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE?

I think when someone is injured and has to come off the pitch. Then they have to walk around to the halfway line, if he is a full back he has one helluva run to get back in position!

I would think that rule hasn't worked, I can't get my head round it. It's as if you are getting punished - it is your player that has been fouled and you end up losing him because he has been hurt.

When I was at Southampton we conceded against Liverpool when we were down to 10 men because one of our players had to go off the pitch.

WHICH OTHER PREMIERSHIP MANAGER YOU MOST ADMIRE?

There are quite a few, Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Bobby Robson are two people that have achieved so much and won vast amounts of trophies, particularly Sir Alex.

Although I don't want to be them, I would certainly like and enjoy to have won what they have won. I still enjoy talking to Sir Alex Ferguson.

When I was at Stockport, I spoke to him many times. I was only at Old Trafford a couple of weeks ago for a reserve game and he gave me a great welcome, they are things you don't forget. Despite what he was won in the game, he still has time for us smaller managers. If you are prepared to listen you can learn an awful lot from a man like him.

I also admired what Kenny Dalglish did as a manager. I would also love to sit down and speak with Arsene Wenger and Gerard Houllier. I did speak to Gerard once and I found him a fascinating person.

WHICH PREMIERSHIP PLAYER YOU WOULD SIGN IF MONEY WAS NO OBJECT?

The biggest one I would like to bring would be Roy Keane. I find him a fantastic player and his drive is fantastic. Talking to Denis Irwin (ex-ManUtd, now at Wolves), I can imagine what it would be like as a player to be in a dressing room with somebody like him.

That is why I brought Paul Ince to Molineux, I think Paul has a similar sort of drive and desire even at the age he is now. I enjoy working with these types of people because they always give you something back and that is important for a manager.

HOW DO THE PLAYERS ADDRESS YOU?

It is boss or gaffer.

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?

"Work, commitment, trust and tempo" - I don't think you can achieve anything unless you play at a certain tempo, that is what we drum into the players.

Dave Jones was talking to Joe Bernstein