Jay and Jack's loan report

Spearing made 39 appearances during a season-long stay at the Reebok Stadium and was voted the club's player of the year by supporters.

Robinson, meanwhile, featured on 11 occasions at Molineux as Wolves were relegated from the Championship.

In a joint interview with the latest edition of the official Liverpool FC magazine, the pair reflected on what they learned from their temporary moves away from Anfield.

Read on for the best of their chat...

On learning...

JS: I don't think it's so much a case of what you learn as just gaining the opportunity to go and play regular football. I sat down with the gaffer at the start of the season and we had a good conversation where we were both really honest. There was no tension - we just agreed that in terms of game-time it was good for me to go and play. I had a few options but I chose Bolton and loved every second of it - playing week in, week out and fighting to try and get in the play-offs.

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JR: Because we were in a relegation battle at Wolves I think you've just got to try and find that little bit extra every week to get those wins. Those wins never came but we tried our best. For me, playing in the Championship was a great experience. Just to get some games in such a hard league like that was fantastic.

On the number of games...

JS: With 46 league games they come around thick and fast. But I found that I preferred it when we were in a routine of Saturday-Tuesday-Saturday-Tuesday because you're going straight into games. When it's Saturday to Saturday there can be a lot of waiting around. But as a team we seemed to impress more when the games were coming regularly and we picked up points in those spells.

JR: It was great for me to have a run of games. It's always difficult when you're not playing regularly, when you train all week then you're sitting on the bench. I think being at Liverpool Football Club at such a young age it's always going to be tough to try and gain a place and cement it, but hopefully in the next few years that will come. It was good to go to a club like Wolverhampton Wanderers and know you can play at that level. I think 10 games in a row was the longest run I've had since I was 16. It was so good to play again like that and it gets your confidence up.

On the differences to the Premier League...

JS: There is a little bit of difference. Every team in the Premier League wants to get the ball down and play and it's a lot faster and sharper. In the Championship when you start getting towards the latter stages of the season, teams become more dogged and work hard to get the results to either get them into the play-offs or away from the relegation zone. Our home form was unbelievable - we won most of our games and that was because we played our football and we had the ideal pitch to play on. Going away from home it was sometimes tough on pitches where we would have to change our game. So there was a little bit of a difference compared to the Premier League, but I wouldn't say it was massive.

JR: They were all good games to play in, hard games. Going on loan is one of the best things I've ever done. It's just different from playing in the U21s, U18s and reserve games. You don't know what it's going to be like until you go out there. If I was asked by another young player who wasn't playing regularly and needed games, I would definitely recommend that they go out on loan.

On the manager's verdict...

JS: We've spoken on a few occasions but there's nothing to report. I'm just going to get myself fit and we'll have another chat in the summer, see what the plan is and go from there.

JR: I spoke to the gaffer and he said he'd watched all the games and they were good competitive matches for me to play in. He suggested that maybe next season it would be good to try and get another loan spell just to get a full season under my belt because I haven't played a lot of games in the last three years. When you play four or five first-team games a season it's difficult to get your confidence up and play well. In those 11 games I had at Wolves it was the best my confidence has been in two or three years. So I'd love to go out on loan again to get a full season. That's the benefit of going out on loan young - you come back and you're still quite young but also have that experience. Mind you, when I got back to Melwood in May I soon remembered how hard the training is here - I was blowing after the first session back!

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