Given the contrasting fortunes of the two teams, the scene was set for an upset.
Considering the paucity of the Swans’ current team, it would hardly have been a giant killing but the prospect of putting Premier League opposition to the sword was enticing nonetheless.
Unfortunately, some goalkeeping heroics from Kristoffer Nordfeldt deprived us of that opportunity.
Even the most ardent of opposition supporters would agree that this was a game bossed by the home side.
Frankly, we looked streets ahead of Carlos Carvalhal’s team at times and should have been a goal up well in advance of the first contentious decision of the day.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was the ever mercurial Bright Enobakhare that was guilty of spurning the best of a few good goalscoring opportunities.
With the goal seemingly at his mercy courtesy of a rather frenetic first half defensive scramble, he contrived to screw the ball wide.
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It was a glaring blemish on an otherwise enterprising performance, and will no doubt have given Nuno food for thought about where the young forward fits into his long term strategy. Perhaps a loan move would iron out some of the shortcomings that are currently holding him back?
Other fringe players that impressed were Alfred N’Diaye, who did a first rate job of playing the midfield destroyer role. What a complement it is to Ruben Neves and Romain Saiss that he can’t get into the eleven on a regular basis.
Alongside him in midfield was our World Cup winning prodigy Morgan Gibbs-White, who thrilled the home crowd with some really enterprising play that included one truly delicious ball over the top of Swansea’s defence.
Sadly, his was a performance we weren’t able to enjoy for long due to Anthony Taylor’s decision to give Ruben Vinagre his marching orders for a dangerous but unintentional foul on Nathan Dyer.
Vinagre was later joined by Leroy Fer, who saw red for a petulant but ultimately harmless flick of the leg after a mightily impressive Helder Costa managed to evade his initial tackle.
Like many, I at first thought that Vinagre had been most unlucky to be given his marching orders but video replays have proved the decision to be an astute one.
That being said, I will point out that various Wolves players, though mostly Diogo Jota, have been on the receiving end of far worse tackles this season and the culprits – whether playing for Cardiff, Birmingham, Preston or otherwise – have gone unpunished. I’ve no issue with our players being corrected when they fall out of line but find the inconsistency in decision making most frustrating, as I suspect Nuno does too.
That frustrating sideshow aside, it was perhaps the performance of Costa which was the most notable feature of this stalemate.
After a stop-start first half of the season which so recently featured a truly dire showing in our triumph at Bristol City, the winger was back to his diminutive best and often careened past the opposition backline in a manner akin to last season’s vintage.
Hopefully it’s a level he can sustain as competition for places are only set to increase up front on account of the exciting addition of Rafa Mir to our ranks. Though limited to a cameo today, the Spaniard looks as if he possesses the physical attributes needed to add further variety to our attacking play.
Despite the presence of Mir, Costa and Cavaleiro, however, this tie fizzled out into somewhat of a damp squib that is likely to be remembered best for the two sendings off.
Still, encouragement should still be taken from the fact that we once again more than held our own against top flight opposition – albeit one that is likely to be swapping places with us at the season’s end.
Great to see the fringe players getting a game and with the replay another chance to shine.
Good stuff this and the extra game for once is a blessing not a curse.
Well written Ben can’t help but think that the ref wished to be remembered, it is a contact sport and the red had his red card out before even assessing the situation. In my eyes it was a yellow card. Biased as I am thought wolves were by far the better team and think the refs decision changed the game. Definately think we would have seen Morgan Gibbs-Wright for longer prior to the refs decision. COYW
I thoroughly enjoyed the game.
We bossed the majority of it, even when one man short we still looked the better side.
A couple of comments:-
Bright Enokbakhare is a misnomer.
Skilful he is… talented he is… Bright he ain’t.
And I mean that purely in a ‘football brain’ way. I’m not knocking the lad as a person.
Given a choice of what to do with the ball he will almost always make the wrong decision.
I only hope that he will eventually switch on and fulfil his undoubted potential.
Morgan Gibbs-White looked the real deal. Always looking for the ball and using it intelligently.
Big Alf was masterly, Coady was rock solid and it was great to see Costa taking people on again.
That, added to a promising start by the new boy made for a most enjoyable afternoon.
I am going to have a punt on us winning the replay.
Enjoyed the game but as you say we should have been comfortably ahead by the time of the first red .
Bright I am afraid needs to go out on loan ( perhaps somewhere geographically near to reduce disruption for him ) and play first team football regularly in the hope he can find the right ball at the right time more often and shoot properly .At present I see no place for him in a match day squad in the Premier League where we are headed .Or he could convert to being a midfielder who is less called upon actually to score goals .Personally I doubt he will ever be a PL player but hope I am proved wrong .
What’s irking me @the moment is the So called pundits Wright and Savage don’t rate us as premier league quality team.Savage went as far to say bottom 3.he obviously hasn’t watched us live for 90minutes and so pro East Midlands teams.Imo he is no more than a poor mans Stan Collymore.
Mr Savage is just a wind up merchant. He winds people up by making outrageous statements and picking irrelevant arguments hoping that his audience will respond angrily. This, he believes will boost ratings.
Just ignore the pillock.
And very successful he is too.
I wouldn’t worry. When we were struggling in the premier league Savage was on record saying we would stay up. He was wrong then……personally I prefer it when we are written off…thats when we move forward.
I haven’t seen the game, only the highlights on MOTD(apologies for the abbreviation DG). However, from this, and the audio commentary, we could and should, have won. Missed chances plagued us again and the Vinagre sending off certainly didn’t help.
The pundits on MOTD thought the Fer dismissal was completely OTT and Vinagres was correct, although they accepted his action was accidental. Personally, I beg to differ. I feel that Vinagres offense, although ill-timed and perhaps dangerous, was accidental. Fer’s foul on Helder was a deliberate attempt to cheat after being beaten fair and square and, in my eyes, equally worthy of dismissal. You could say it wasn’t a clear goalscoring opportunity, but I’ve seen our Helder score, or almost score, from far less promising situations than that.
Either way, it is what it is and I feel we have just as good a chance of winning the replay as we did this. Better, in fact.
COYW
any ref sending a defender off for stopping Helder score clearly hasn’t seen his one-on-one efforts this season. Still he played really well yesterday..hopefully he has turned a corner
Take your point. He’s not yet got up to speed this season, but my gold-tinted specs only let me see him last season. He was a thing of beauty for sure and will, quite soon I’m sure, return there.
Can’t wait to go up
Can’t wait to beat arsenal … don’t mind the team , just want to rub Ian wrights stupid glasses and podgy fucking face in it . Footballing snob prick
And Leicester fucking city … it will have to be them, cos the ever failing , no matter how much money gets spent on them , Derby county ain’t never going up as long as there s a hole in my arse ( jealous Robbie , by any chance ? )
It ll be wolves top and villa second … savage really hates villa , as got threatened outside the ground once.
Pussy !
He might know about football the the donkey never played any .
They can all fuck off
UTW
Couldn’t of put it better, mate
My main concern yesterday was the crowd. It was a decent turnout but we were uncharacteristically subdued and unnecessarily edgy. It was as if we were watching Lambert’s Wolves, just waiting for the next mistake. Molineux has been uncharacteristically upbeat all season because, let’s face it, there’s not been a great deal to get concerned about, but we were a little too quick to turn on our own yesterday. Nuno’s Wolves and these players shouldn’t be made to pay for decades of disappointment. If we want to attract and retain the best players we need to do our best to support them through thick and not turn on them at the slightest hint of trouble. We were the best team yesterday even with 10 v 11. N’Diaye had a great game, Costa looked much improved, Gibbs-White and Mir looked promising, Norris maintained his 100‰ clean sheet record. It was entertaining but at times you could hear a pin drop. Consider this a pep talk for the twefth man: I think we could do better. UTW.
Could not agree more.
Not pointing fingers at anyone on our blog, but we know there are those reverse snobs out there just waiting to scream “ I told you so” and “ the wheels have come off” at the first bad performance or defeat.
It was another clean sheet, another unbeaten game and another brick in our wall of progress.
Talking of walls, I am 100% behind the idea of a new stadium. Us old farts have memories of the last great team, in the seventies.
Since then we have only had the odd stand out game, and the biggest of those was in Cardiff!
I fondly remember the old Cowshed, crushed against the barriers so tight the only way to relieve myself was through a rolled up newspaper.
The excitement of dodging darts and sharpened pennies, the old, big ones, as they were lovingly lobbed in our direction by hordes of manure fans who were let in our end.
The joy of standing in one of two lines for the two available traps, only to find I had dried up when I got to the bowl. And dog help anyone who needed a crap!!!
No, I dont miss the original stadium, I wont miss the current one, and as long as Molineux is in the name, thats fine by me.
Perhaps a retractable roof, a la USA stadia?
Be great to be able to host other events besides footie, without having to worry about the weather.
Like everything done so far by Fosun, this will be thought through thouroughly.
Nice to see we wont be drawn against Leeds tomorrow!!
Shame, innit?
FOwb
Hi Clive as a really old fart I go back to watching in the late fifties and sixties and have an affection for the Cowshed swaying and crushed but loving it. But I would support wholeheartedly a complete rebuild but only on the present site. The city centre is where football grounds belong, not some soulless retail/industrial centre.
On a lighter note…pulled one of the Swansea girls who travelled down to Molineux yesterday.
Wow, she’s a looker, has she got a sister?
I am putting Mildenhall on notice never to take the piss out of my bird again. Outside on the car park Mildenhall.
I know Swansea is a bit rough! So reckon “Blodwyn” is probably from Llanelli.
Ha ha ha – priceless
BOG
I thought it was a nice little run out for our so called second string,
On saying that we played it the same way as the first team would,Nuno’s got them all singing from the so called hymn book and that speaks volumes.
I thought we played really well without scoring,that said their keeper played well so kept them in the game to our misfortune.
On ex footballers comments I don’t give a flying fuck what they spew,because they’re always ready to knock us when we’re doing well.
Jealousy springs to mind.UTW.
Bright Enobakhare is one of Nuno’s wolf pack and as such gets my 100% unconditional support.
I wish ALL Wolves fans could take the same view.
Unless of course we think criticising, moaning at and generally slagging someone off is going to help a 19 year old’s self confidence.
OODCL
I don’t think that moaning at and generally slagging off ANY player is going to help their confidence.
But, historically, some bloggers have been known to do rather a lot of it.
Criticism of a constructive nature however, is what makes for an interesting blog.
In my humble opinion.
I’ll be first to hold my hand up: Karl Henry, Stephen Ward, Lee Evans, George Saville. All of the above (and more I’m sure) have been the object of my frustration over the years. And, if I’m honest, Bright drives me round the twist. I think our collective frustration was dragging us down and we need to be honest with ourselves. We’ve put up with some overpaid mediocrity but now is not the time. In Nuno we trust.
You can add Danny Batth, Matt Doherty and Conor Coady to that list too, at different times, by many supporters.
Oh, and Dangerous Dave himself of course.
Who, Danny Batth? Really? Don’t believe that for one minute!
On a serious note, I agree that Bright could be helped by a local loan. I see vast potential in the young lad. I also agree he is not yet ready for the PL.
Yeah. The lads an enigma for sure. He shows such skill on the ball, physical strength and pace but at the crucial moment, be it shot or final pass, he just seems to make the wrong decision. Will age and experience improve this vital aspect of his game? Only Nuno knows, not I.
Bright definitely needs proper sustained game time.
It IS frustrating watching him fluff his lines because everything he does up to the point of pulling the trigger is not too bad for somebody who only plays first team football hop-and-a-catch.
As to his age? I can’t say as I really give a monkeys about it; Micky Owen was playing up front for England at his age but we all hit mature at different times and who knows, one day even I might get there!
So, while I agree it’s no good for the kid hearing 30,000 groans at his efforts, I still reckon he’s worth persevering with purely on how he ran himself into the ground against Man City. So is it beyond the ken of Wolves management to ship him out to a Walsall or Vale or Crewe etc, somewhere local that our scouts can keep a close eye on his progress and get him up to speed and firing on all cylinders?
We’ll see soon enough I suppose.
I agree with you that ALL of us should support EVERY member of our team, however well or poorly they may perform in any game. But equally, constructive criticism is surely to be welcomed.
In the case of Bright I, like many others, think that we are doing him a disservice by continuing to play him at a time when quite clearly he is not yet good enough for inclusion in this high quality Wolves side. He is guy with huge potential, and hopefully down the road this will be realized for us. But for now, my view is that his, and club`s interest will be best served by loaning him out to a well run mid table Championship team where he can develop his talents below the radar and without undue pressure.
This is not a slagging off exercise. It is a view constructively expressed which I think is worthy of consideration. However if Bright continues to be selected, no one will be more supportive of him than me. I am a Wolves supporter through and through. Period.
Just got home after another fab weekend in Wolverhampton. Two journeys of less than 2 hours as well. Did have some problems though, we couldn’t check in at the hotel as there were no rooms ready and do you know why ? Because the bloody Wolverhampton Wanderers team and staff had had them the night before. I tell you, The Novotel is going downhill fast if they are letting riff raff like that in the place. Seriously though, it was great to be so close to the people who are making this a season to remember. There was a little lad waiting for the players as they came out of the lift and not one refused to have a selfie with him – good on yer lads. Then the main man came out and went outside away from everyone else for a fag. I said to Sue I have got to have my own selfie just like the ones with Jeff Shi and the world’s most gorgeous woman – Toyah Wilcox. I nipped out to where he was but, do you know what ? I couldn’t bring myself to ask him. I thought that this is his final piece of privacy today and I didn’t want to intrude. Did take some sneaky pics though. On to the ground and it was great to meet up with fellow bloggers in the NBB. Witley and son and Marney for the first time, Matt & Bedders and that dodgy bloke who was handing out envelopes with tickets in near the toilets ! Really enjoyed the game, think we should have won but confident for the replay. Our so called reserves never let us down. Nice to meet up with Dougie post match also. Went for a meal at The Queens Cantonese and met yet another blogger – Cannock Wolves, another really nice Wolves fan. And then a very enjoyable breakfast in the hotel this morning with Exiled and Barbara. So, all in all a fab weekend. Thanks to this blog we have met some great people. Onwards and upwards and Sue and I will see you at Barnsley. One last thing, the highlight of the weekend – listening to StuWolf explaining to his grandson why The South Bank were throwing a blow up sheep about. I think the explanation was “there are lots of sheep in Wales” – feckin priceless.
As requested – the picture of Saint Nuno having his pre match fag at The Novotel.
Great picture Newark.
Priceless – nice work NW
great pap’, Newark!
I agree wholeheartedly with your conclusions.
Yes, Bright has great potential, but at this stage in his career he is simply not good enough for inclusion in a side of this quality. His decision making is poor, nor is he a natural goal scorer. The unfortunate result is that presently he promises much, but is in fact more of a liability than an asset.
Surely it is the time to allow Bright to develop his craft out of the harsh spotlight that is now Wolves. Playing regularly for a mid table championship side, where hopefully he would develop the knack to produce an end product, could work wonders in developing his self belief– particularly in front of goal.
Bright is still young so he has time. I believe that allowing him to develop under the radar now, could pay big dividends for the club in the longer term.
I wonder if Fulham would be interested in taking Bright on loan? They are an excellent footballing side and have successfully developed a number of youngsters in recent seasons.
No worries in the replay. Swansea 2 wolves 8.Bright double hat trick will have the fuckin sheep shagging bastards crying in to their Brains fucking Bitter. Sir Nuno will get sent off. Set fire to the main stand and absail down to Leon Brittons car and smashing the bastard windows in. After this he will rampage through Swansea town centre downing 12 pints of Sagres and chanting Wolves ay We. Apart from that a quiet night really.
That sounds great cheese, shall we bother watching the wolves win or just crack on with that lot ?
I’d had a few jars when I posted that. It is a bit OTT ay it. Hoping for Sandwell at home in 4th round draw. 7pm tonight BBC 2. I think I might go up the pub to watch it. That’s buggered the detox up any Road.
Oh … thought it sounded great , like one of them red letter days .
Tuesday 16th January at 7.45pm, Swansea Sardines v Wolves FA Cup 3rd Round replay.
Anyone going could they get me a programme please? I’ll pay of course.
Meanwhile with the imminent permanent departures of Evans and Price one assumes that a new central attacking midfielder is on his way in. Hopefully a top notch striker too. And as I said ‘top-notch’ that takes Lewis Grabban out of the equation for me.
OODCL
Talking of Wolves 12th man, which we weren’t. Just been on the Ticket site and our next home game zNotts Forest has less than 100 tickets left, whether they will be quiet or sing their feckin heads off Dog knows, but looking like another sell out this season for the Forest, game with two weeks still to go.
Well done New Wolves, youv’e stirred the sleeping giant indeed, your’e getting folk off the armchair and back into the ground.
Fresh rumour tonight,
Miranda of to FC Braga to replace their defender, Mendes assisting. They say it’s nothing to do with the fixing scandal, but they would, wouldn’t they. Not confirmed yet, just surfacing.
Stu .. can you get me a tick
Stu .. can you kindly get me a ticket for Notts Forest game in the Billy Wright Upper …anywhere… just 1 ticket …. +65 rates …
I just can’t access the website online from Dublin for some reason … thanks … Mike
I’ll tr the money to you if you can … the ticket is for Laura ..
I will try Mike,
There are 2 only left in the whole upper tier. But I will try.
Twixfix.
All done, £19.50, had to pay £1.50 for the card, but I get a proper ticket, will collect it tomorrow.
Stu
Thanks so much Stu … I’ll Tr the Wonga tonight when I get back …
Love the way you have quickly picked up the local language, Twixxo.
Tr the Wonga.
Must be the Stephen Ward lovefest influence from a few years ago!
I’ll have you know there’s a statue of Stephen Ward been built in O’Connell St ….the Dubliners love that boy ..why not you..
Ah The Dubliners. I used to quite like them in a baffled sort of way. What was it again? Oh yes Seven Drunken Nights that was it. 1967 I think when I were nowt but a lad. And of course they joined The Pogues on Irish Rover. There was Barney McGee from the banks of the Lee, there was Hogan from County Tyrone, and a chap called McGurk who was scared stiff of work – and my favourite, there was Slugger O’Toole who was drunk as a rule. Could be describing some Bloggers there! Anyway that’s enough of that I’m off to brush up me Yorkshire accent ready for Saturday. Trouble is I always get Yorkshire and Lancashire mixed up. One invented the pudding and the other invented the hot pot. Or Coronation Street? Emmerdale? Who knows. It’s all ‘oop Norf’ to me once you pass Newport Pagnell. Whippets? Are they Yorkshire? Flat caps and clogs. Am I close? Barnstoneworth United that was it. Knew I’d get there eventually. Yorkshire Terriers that’s another one. The Grand Old Duke of York. He had ten thousand men. Dirty devil!
Barnsley away trip Sold Out, another Wolves away sell out this season. About 14 bloggers going with 4600 making up the 12th man.
Also, less than 50 tickets left before the Forest home game is a sell out.
Well done Wolves it just keeps getting better and better.
Come on you bloggers.
Stu,
Make that 16 bloggers
Webbo, his sons Jacko & Danny & moir will be travelling with Tatter. Ope to see you there then.
UTFW
On the subject of us bloggers going to away games, does anyone else think it would be an idea to have a flag done to spread the word ? Me and Sue have had this one done and we are well impressed with it. The Wolves blog emblem, the Portuguese flag etc. Just a thought folks. They are not that expensive.
Well …since you are on the subject , on the last home game , wolves have the flag parade from all their recognized supporters clubs, I could nt help but think last year ,that wolves blog should have been represented. I
know it’s not recognized as such by the club as such but I think it would help show a modern acknowledgement of how fans from all corners of the planet have found a new way of supporting the Wolves
Wolves are providing free coach travel to the Swansea replay.
Looks like a must, but last time I went there I took my daughter for her 15th B’dai (11 yrs ago) and 3 of her mates!
We lost 3:1 (if memory is right) we played shite (well we did back then didn’t we) and then the fekin sheep shaggin twats kept us locked inside 20ft barriers whilst it was pissin it down.
Fekin bathtubs.
The 12th man (well maybe not quite 12th) we a little grumpy & the girls were shittin it.
Then 4 hrs to get ome.
And that’s why they can stick that fek-eyed dragon up their arse ?
Cup Draw this evening. Who do you fancy after we’ve seen off the Swans?
West Brom for me. Home or away, really doesn’t matter. Easy passage to the 5th round. 🙂
So we have a replay which I suspect neither club really wanted……but Albion away would do nicely
FA cup replays – I used to love ‘em. On Monday 1st February 1965 at 15.31 (precisely) on the Light Programme the BBC broadcast the draw for the 5th Round of the Football Association Cup which followed 30 minutes of Victor Sylvester and his orchestra. The plummy voice of the BBC presenter announced the draw would be made from Lancaster Gate.
School finished at 4.10 and afternoon break was around 2.30 so we could only imagine how it came over on the transistor radio…..First out of the hat
“Number one…………..Aston Villa will play number 12………………Rotherham United or Wolverhampton Wanderers”.
Those of us who supported Wolves in Class One Silver at High Arcal Grammar School in Sedgley waited agog for the 4.10 bell so we could dash out/home to find out the draw and oh boy we were made up but first of all we had to beat Rotherham in the 4th round reply at Millmoor which we duly did thanks to the three “W’s” Wagstaffe Wharton and Woodruff.
So the die was cast – Villa v Wolves. The first match at Villa Park ended 1-1 (52,000), the reply at Molineux ended 0-0 (48,000) so it was into the Hawthorns for the second replay.
On a bitterly cold night with snow carpeting the pitch I stood on the Birmingham Road terrace as a brilliant hat trick from Hughie Mcllmoyle blew Villa away and Wolves were through to face Manchester United in the quarter finals.
Fast forward a couple of seasons to January 1967. Oldham v Wolves at Boundary Park, the second highest (professional) football ground in the country nestling underneath the Pennines in the grubby cotton town of “I told ‘em – Oldham”.
Wolves 2-0 down with barely 120 seconds on the clock – step up Bailey and (Bobby) Thomson and bingo we have a replay. I can say without any fear of contradiction that I stayed until the end and went bananas – unlike the huge Wolves following who had pissed off back to the coaches.
The draw for the fourth round was on Monday 30th January 1967 at 12.31 – precisely – on the BBC Light Programme midway through the Siiiiiiiiiiiimmmoooon Dee show.
This was slap bang in the middle of school dinner time so along with Roger and Wally and Graham Walker etc we huddled around my Christmas pressie from Granddad and Grandma – a fabulous transistor radio (I was going to say tranny radio but no doubt this would have brought howls of protest from the snowflake generation) with one of those huge dials on the front. We were 11th out of the hat ……
“Number 32……………….Wolverhampton Wanderers or Oldham Athletic v Number 5……………..Everton – Everton – the cup holders at Molineux – (the numbers may be a bit awry).
Bloody stroll on (then) mighty Everton, but first of all we had to despatch Oldham.
On Wednesday 1st February in front of nearly 40,000 under the Molineux lights Wolves romped home 4-1.
Everton arrived and after a nerve shredding match spent crammed in the North Bank, heart beating like a piston the match ended 1-1 with 53,439 jammed inside Molineux.
So another replay at Goodison where Wolves Wembley dream ended 3-1 as 60,000 sardined inside the ground.
Just a few memories of FA cup replays bloggers
The FA cup holds so many wonderful memories and was certainly an undeniable crowd puller as enormous attendances populated every stadium in those days. I absolutely loved the “magic of the cup” and I partly blame Manchester United and the Football Association (who asked them to go for a “remuneration”) for its demise when they decided not to participate as FA cup HOLDERS in the 1999-2000 competition to play in some nonsensical and arsehole competition in Brazil (the FIFA World Club championship – no me neither).
Now…well as the weekend attendances prove the FA Cup has nowhere near the crowd pulling power, especially for clubs in the top two divisions. However it still has some magic when 4th tier Coventry beat Stoke, Forest blew away Arsenal and Villa were thumped 3-1 at home by Peterborough who had 4,500 supporters at Villa Park. (Cup upsets are smashing as long as Wolves are not on the receiving end….). Add on the 7,500 that followed Luton to Newcastle and yes some magic does still remain.
Naturally everybody wants a ticket for the quarters or semis or the final itself…….
See you at Barnsley fellow bloggers and have a great week.
BOG
BOG, me and Geoff Palmers bruuver Woger we’re at all three of those games at Millmoor, Oldham and Everton,
Travelled on Don Everalls coaches we did.
Oh happy feckin days.
Oh for eternal youth, it were wonderfust.
Memories please leave me alone – and yes oh for eternal youth Stu. I love reminiscing with like minded supporters and looking ahead to what looks like a golden future.
It’s just wonderful to have memories that we can both cherish following our beloved Wolves. Right now it simply unbelievable Stu.
Hope to see you at Barnsley.
All the best
BOG.
I remember them three games too. The Oldham game I remember well as the radio had said we were 0-2 down and as a ten year old I remember the tears whelling up inside me and resigned myself to defeat as I watched the vidi-printer clattering out the full time scores on the BBC. Then it came. Old….ham 2 W…….olves….2. I was over the moon! Can that really be 51 years ago?
It bloody well is BW. 51 years bejesus.
No doubt we will share further memories on the (3) trains to Barnsley on Saturday as well as debating how far in the Champions League Nuno will take us in 2/3 seasons from now.
I still cannot believe it frankly – the difference at Molineux from the last few seasons to this is quite remarkable.
We are even the talk of the Robinsons pool shower area here in Bedford for heavens sake!
Our postman is Brecon Way is an avid Tottenham supporter and he is looking forward to playing Wolves at the “New Lane” and beating us soundly. Oh yea?
See you Saturday about 8.30 – did you realise it will take longer to get to Oakwell than fly to Madrid from Luton for our first Champions League fixture?
Three trains – we must be barmy
BOG.
I worked for Don Everall ..they used to take the limiter off so a few coaches could do 90mph up and down the M6 full up with Wolves supporters..used to stop for a beer too…
I’ve seen a convoy of 30 coaches..76 went to the Wembley league cup final ..even the one which couldn’t get 1st gear…..
SS – were you working for Don Everall when the coaches were wrecked at Newcastle in August 1970?
Along with a couple of mates – Dave Evans (aka The Captain) and Johnny Hoare from Upper Gornal) we dived for cover as countless bricks and an iron spike ripped from the surrounding metal fence came through the windows.
It was quite hectic for a while.
BOG
Hi BOG,
I was on the same coach !!
We travelled back to Nottingham if I remember correctly and changed coaches there so the last hour or so was relatively comfortable. No-one had a coat because it was August and it was feckin freezing all the way back with no windows. I managed to cuddle up to a girl I knew on the coach and we “kept each other warm” – Ahh , happy memories!!!
Hi Cannock Wolf
What a coincidence – and yes we had reached Nottingham before we embarked onto the relief coaches.
It was the first match of the season and nice and sunny but with no windows you are right it was bloody freezing on the trek back home. I certainly was not going to snuggle up to my mates!! Lucky you with a nice lady next to you! Question is did you meet up again?
Of course in those days the A1 was not the two or three lane arterial road it is today and the M1 did not go north of Leeds. Newcastle (plus Sunderland and Middlesbrough) were a real ballsache to reach.
In fact the North East and especially Newcastle was a desolate crap hole cut off from the rest of the country – as depicted in the 70’s classic film Get Carter.
We lost 3-2.
Like an idiot I went to St James again in August 1972 in a mates Triumph Herald.
Three of us stood in the Gallowgate and the driver Ken got pissed on. He was an army PT instructor and took no shit. Hence he banjoed the offender.
Idle Geordies could not be bothered to go to the toilet.
We lost 2-1….!
Nice to look back 45 years and have a laugh about it.
All the best
BOG
Hi BOG,
The girl in question was just a “mate” who lived locally to me in Wednesfield so I used to see her occasionally but, as a shy 16 year old, it never went any further. In those days I was definitely a product of an all boys, Catholic Grammar school education and I was painfully shy. My abiding memory of that day is the fact that my dad had to take us up to Falkland Street coach park at about 6:30am because the coaches were leaving at 7:00am. You are right about the A1 but imagine taking 7 hours to get from Wolvo to Newcastle !!!!
Try telling that to the youth of today – they just won’t believe you (Copyright: M Python)
Cheers
Cannock
BOG and StuWolf, we must be of an age.
I was at these games, I rarely missed a Cup tie in those days. The Villa games, the Oldham games, the Everton games, the Man U home games then onto the Hull City 3-1 at Boothferry Park and the Burnley 3-0 at Turf Moor and the Norwich 5-1, all great memories.
The Cup meant a great deal to us all then. And more often than not everybody played their best 11 against yours. No question about it.
I even went to the Man City v Everton 6th round second replay that was switched to Molineux at the last minute (because Ewood Park was under snow). Because it was a Cup game!
Memories of the Oldham game. Well, a school mate had a car (yup, rich bastard)! So five of us piled in and I travelled the M6 for the first time (with HGVs occasionally in the third lane!).
It was a gloriously sunny day although it was January. We were in amongst the Oldham fans behind the goal mouth where all the goals were scored.
David Best was in goal, the Oldham fans were telling us “he’s the best goalie outside the First Division” and “he can’t be beat by a shot outside the penalty area”.
Well, big surprise, because he let two in that day. I went berserk and managed to down two Oldham fans with my elbows on the second goal. I didn’t realise this until later when my mates told me, they were ready to run, they thought I’d cause a riot.
Memories of the Everton home game. Everton were cup holders, only let in 8 goals in the First Division, we were Second Division in about third place.
We went a goal up and then, in the second half, there was that rocket Ernie Hunt shot that Gordon West somehow managed to catch, flying horizontally across the goal in the North Bank end. When Alex Young retired he was still talking about it as the greatest save ever.
And, with minutes left, Alan Ball engineered a penalty by dodging in between two Wolves defenders and falling over on the very edge of the area. The replay was pretty much a formality, sadly.
I know, I was younger then, but they were great days with packed crowds with deafening support with adrenaline pumping, two teams slugging it out, each wanting to win, each with dreams of Wembley glory.
It’ll all be back again very soon, I’m sure, starting 17 January. So please Nuno, take it as seriously as we fans do. Play you best. Go for a unique double. Give us all new FA Cup memories to talk about in 50 years time.
Wonderful memories Netherton.
Thanks for sharing.
Oh yes THAT save from Ernie Hunt.
Right in front of the hollering North Bank.
I was bereft when Wolves sold our Ernie to…..,Everton who then sold him to Coventry where he scored that free kick goal with Willie Carr v ……, Everton. If I recall correctly he part owned a coffee bar in Wolvo with Mike Bailey.
Onto the here and now and how refreshing to be a Wolves supporter on the cusp of something amazing.
Would not have had it any other way.
However lovely to share memories with another 60 + supporter Netherton.
BOG
That Alan Ball penalty still rankles. I blame Review for bringing a lot of the gamesmanship into British football like feigning injury or taking the ball into the corner to waste time. Or worst of all spreading the fouls between different players so the best opponent is clattered and no individual gets booked. BUT that Ball penalty was the first time I had seen an English player (and world cup hero to boot) cheat to get a penalty. Perhaps he had learned from the Argentina quarter final. Anyway it broke my heart but maybe prepared me for what was to come. Worth remembering though that was nearly fifty years ago
As they say, there’s nothing really new under the sun.
Very kind of Wolves to provide free coach travel for supporters to Swansea.
I’ll be waiting at the end of our road to be picked up. (No, not in that way you smutty lot).
Do you think the Satnav signal will stretch as far as Melksham?
You show your stocking tops Doog and I’m sure you’ll get the response you deserve…
Good though innit? I mean, how many other teams transport their fans for free? It’s a great gesture by the club in keeping with our general push for the top and greatness.
As I’m just off the A465, the main east-West across Wales to Swansea, I reckon the coaches will pass close to my house…..hmmm high heels and stockings?
i.e. coming from the Midlands, the A465 is the main east-west route across Wales to Swansea.
Don’t tell us, tell the coach driver!
Got to win that replay as we can walk to Notts County from here. Fond memories of Meadow Lane, in fact I was there for an FA Cup tie in the late 70’s or early 80’s sitting on what you could only describe as scaffold planks. Also tried to climb a floodlight pylon at another game and got lathered in anti vandal paint. Those were the days – my friend. Don’t hate them like the muppets across the river though. Did I ever mention that I don’t like Forest………………………………
A dream tie Newark? Just need Wolves to beat Swansea.
I think you may have mentioned once or twice earlier this season Newark when we met up at the City Ground.
In fact I think you mentioned it all afternoon.
Indeed judging by your celebrations at the final whistle I would imagine everybody in the stadium had some notion you actually did not particularly like Forest…..
Good on yer – see you Saturday.
Bedford Wolf and me are on the 9.04 Bedford to Leicester then Leicester to Sheffield then Sheffield to Barnsley – quicker getting to Vladivostok.
BOG
We can meet up at the Navigation lol
Notts County away. Could be worse. Always a good day out in Nottingham. The ‘you fat bastard’ abuse of goalies began at Notts County. Steve Cherry in goal for them. League cup tie Meadow Lane 1991/1992 or summat. Big away end as well. Could be a good one.
He always took in good spirit though, Steve Cherry. Top bloke.
Notts, County a…………2 games spring to mind Sherpa Van Semi final first leg and when Guy Wittingham was on loan with us we won 2.0 Graham Taylor was in the hot seat.
Notts County away if we get past Swansea? I’ll take that gladly. WBA have a tough one!
Anyone see Bakary Sako’s thunderbolt of a goal for Palace tonight? We always knew he had that in his locker. He’s then one that got away, the best of the Sako, Afobe, Dicko trio. Still, we’re better off today.
Just got in from a gruelling trip around the Guinness brewery to find it’s Notts County away , provided of course there isn’t an upset in the replay.
I’m up for that Stuey my son … so we’ll see what the ticket arrangements are on the 17th.
Have only just seen limited highlights of Saturday but it looked like the alamo and we had all of the arrows….
Newark … had a great night at the Quays Restaurant… Thanks for the tip off …
Off to bed now as I’m Bushmill ed…
Good draw Notts County worth 8-10 thousand away fans but we have to win in sheep land though..
This draw as regards Bright he surely must be put into the Danny Batth catagory of play him he’s not up to it let’s hope the damage isn’t too much to us..
In his case he seems to be myopic in front of goal with a shovel foot..
Enough is enough ….do a Leon Clarke bye bye and let him become another leading league top scorer elsewhere….
Thank you Jack Price, wish you every success in Colorado, man and boy a Wolves player who gave everything.
Good Luck.
Jack will fit in in Colarado, they all have beards there, bloody freezing.
Pricey and Macca were brilliant in our Div one year, our most enjoyable season for many years.
Jack will do well there, its Wolf country. Thanks for the memories.
Started the day catching up with a couple of my brothers and a nephew having a nice meal at the crown in tettenhall, never been before but could recommend it , then to my first game in two years, so I was always going to enjoy it
Plus points
1 the first half hour , not looking out of place at all considering premier opposition, Gibbs-White looks a great prospect ( found out later in the day that my nephew is his agent) in fact he said Gibbs-White doesn’t realise how good he is yet,
1 putting some faces to a few bloggers Whitley, the newerks and stu ( the ticket master , cheers again mate) hopefully catch a few more at Barnsley
3 being a south banker back in the day , I always enjoyed being close th the away supporters so I liked having the Swansea fans in the north bank as it added to the atmosphere
Minus points
1 it was fuckin freezing
Sold out for Barnsley and can’t wait to get in with the away fans oh and hopefully see a goal please
Utw
Marney,
Are you here for the Swansea replay?
That would be a good one to catch and with free coach travel, it makes it worth going all that way.
See you at Barnsley mate.
Wear something warm.
Hi stu , when I booked this little trip I added a couple of days in case the game was switched for tv but never considered the replay ,’doh , unfortunately I’ll be taking off just as the second half starts and won’t know the score for another 13 house !
It would have been a good bonus game though!
Went in for tickets today, Wolves only asked for
1000, at 10-30am they had filled 6 coaches, the
queue was out the door.
They maybe have to ask for more I think.
COMBambinos
Good luck to Jack Price I’ve been to Denver fecking freezing makes our weather look tropical. If I was going to the States it would have to be to LA Galaxy where it’s nice and warm…….still Jack always tryed his best and when paired with Mac Donald in that League One season was awesome.
All the best….!
I`d already checked East Midlands train times this morning, and viewed hotel prices in Swansea for the night of the replay, with an early train back to Chesterfield the next day, before I heard about the free bus travel offer. Would have been a sentimental trip as I lived in Swansea and my 3 children were born there over 25 years ago. Took `em all to Swansea the weekend of the 4/4 draw last time we were in the prem, so happy memories of South Wales in general.
As for the free bus service from Wolverhampton, no good to me as i`d still have to get back to Notts or Chesterfield after the bus got back to the Mol. I`m also hosting a midday event at work with the local Mayor attending on the day of the replay so with some reluctance and probably more relief I`ve scotched the idea of travelling to the match.
My abiding memory of football and Swansea were the days Cardiff City came to town and their so called fans arriving late afternoon for an evening kick off and caused carnage on the walk from the station to the ground, smashing office windows and doors and attacking any cars in their way, while all the supermarkets enroute would block their entrances with stacked high shopping trolleys,. The Swansea fans returned the compliment in Cardiff of course when they played the away fixture – hope those days have gone though.
Living in Nottingham a fourth round game at Meadow Lane would be a massive bonus, I used to help referee their academy sides on a Sunday morning when I was lot younger and fitter, so always had a soft spot for the club. I reckon we`d easily fill the one end behind the goal with 4000 plus seats. Happy days.
Hang in to yer hats guys and gals….
https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/ac-milan-reject-sensational-wolves-bid-for-international-striker/
Nuno talking about HIS WAY at Wolves and Mollyno 🙂
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/this-way-ill-teach-them-14133051
They’ll get him but it will cost 40 million. Leo might want to reconsider signing permanently if he is going to be second choice.
If I am reincarnated it will be as Nunos beard and Steve Bulls right boot. A sort of Nuno Santo – Bull Hybrid. Or summat,
Unfortunately, I don’t think you get the choice of who, or what you’re reincarnated as.
You’ll probably end up as Tony Pulis’ old jock strap!
For all you Brizzle fans out there……
“Nothing to be ashamed about losing to the best team in the country.
But that was 3 games ago they need to get over it”….
Farewell Ray Thomas
Lots of people thought Moody Blues were pretentious, and overly self indulgent.
Not me.
Loved ‘em to bits.
Had all their records and they are/were one of my all time fave bands.
We are all getting up there in years, and we all owe a life, but it dont make it any easier.
RIP Ray.
“Forever Autumn” without him that’s for sure. R.I.P. Tommo.
“Nights in white satin”
How many women have been woo’d to that amazing song.
RIP Ray Thomas, you are and were ,part of my life.
Always thought “Knights in White Satin” sounded like a Monty Python skit.
I’m always mulling on any ideas that might suit Wolves. We all agree we need another striker. Doesn’t have to be PL standard but a good Championship standard (ala Grabben, Gayle, Afobe). Anyone like that would do. We are also blessed with a solid defence so we could afford to loan out Bright and Hause. How about a straight swap – 2 for 1 till season’s end?? Everyone would be happy eh? Although having said that I cannot see them use Bright if they are willing to loan a forward.
Ah well – back to the drawing board 🙁
I disagree. Anything short of EPL quality at this stage would be a total waste of money IMHO. Wolves should be thinking about competing in the top half of the EPL next season. Afobe is definitely not that quality player. I hope we aim higher. Just my 2p.
Go Wolves
Fully agree GoWolves. We need a quality CF for the EPL, that is why I mentioned the likes of Grabben, Gayle and Afobe as loans till the end of season. They are proven championship players, yet proven PL failures. It will be easier to get a quality CF in summer. To be honest I think MIr/Bonatini at CF with Costa and Jota either side will do nicely. I am more concerned about our midfield as the level drops significantly if Saiss/Neves are missing.
Afobe?
Fuckin’ Afobe?
That treacherous bastard?
He couldn’t wait to go to a Prem team, ANY Prem team, and look where it’s got him.
Not a regular starter…..for fuckin’ Boredmouth.
Serves the fucker right.
As ye sew, so ye shall suffer on the south coast with relegation, back to the level you belong, second division crap.
I agree with our San Diego friend, only top quality Prem type players are wanted.
Would any of you trade Jota, Neves or Big Wily for our previous superstars, Afobe, Sako, Dicko or Edwards?
Thought not.
Don’t respond,Doogle!!
Interesting article in the Mirror talking about the current financial set-up at AC Milan and why Andre Silva trading them for Wolves is not such a shock. I remember the Milan days of Van Basten and Gullit yet now they sound a mess. When the original rumours a Chinese takeover at wolves were circulating the rumours indicated that the new owners may be taking over at Milan. Well a few learning points there then. Firstly not all Chinese investment is a gift from the gods. Secondly we have secured the best of the Chinese investors not just in the West Midlands but also in western Europe. Thirdly and most bizarrely, part of our current positive FFP position is due to the solid financial state Morgan left us in – ripe for a positive investment. Funny old game.
Agreed that we have landed the best Chinese owner by a country mile. Who has the worst in this country? My guess is WBA. Their owner bought in at £150m-£180m, for a potential championship club. Fosun bought in at Wolves for £30mil, a PL club in waiting. The WBA owner seems clueless, cheque book locked away, watching his team go down. Unless they sell Jonny Evans they can’t buy and Pardew will have to look to the loan market for strikers.
I’m reluctant to give Steve Morgan much credit for the positive FFP situation he bequeathed. After all, he didn’t exactly have to be persuaded NOT to spend, did he? There was no danger in Morgan over-spending!
Another allocation of 1000 tickets for Swansea. With free travel …..fill your boots!
Spare a thought for the poor Villa fans! They have been moaning on Twitter that they are scrambling down the back of the sofa to raise transfer funds and meanwhile Wolves are bidding tens of millions for young strikers. There are Chinese owners and there are Chinese owners…
I’m almost getting used to seeing us bracketed in with top four PL clubs in transfer rumour headlines.
I think The Vile are hamstrung by FFP though rather than the owner, after excessive profligacy previously. As has been shown many times in the past, profligacy is fine as long as you achieve your aims. If you don’t, it’s an awfully long way down. If the Vile don’t make it this season, they could be outta the big time for a long time hence.
So Barnsley away is sold out. 4,700 of us will be there.
Forest at home is sold out for home fans.
Sheff Utd at home, even though it is on the telly, already has around 23,000 of the 27,000-odd home seats sold.
Wonder if those twats Morgan and Moxey ever think to themselves “if only we’d understood football in general and Wolves in particular and spent the time and money to get the fans onside and things right on the pitch we could have been looking at full houses and promotion with all the untold riches those things bring”?
Doubt it.
Too small minded. Too ignorant. Too arrogant.
OODCL
Too Crooked……
Too Fat and Too Scouse…….
Two faced!!!!!!!
Too feking late.
I do not believe they had the gumption to realise their misgivings.
Two fat bastardios…….
Too-ra-loo-la, too-ra-loo-la, too-ra-lie-ay!
I see that Lee Evans has got off on the wrong foot with his new club Sheffield Utd.
He referred to them as ‘Massive’ when, as everybody knows, it’s Sheffield Wednesday that are ‘Massive’.
Sheffield Utd, apparently, are ‘Mighty’.
I wonder what that makes Wolverhampton Wanderers?
Mightily massive?
Or
Massively mighty.
It might not mean much to a lot of the younger bloggers, but I’d like to mention the passing of Cyril Beavon.
His first club was Wolves, but I knew him from my VERY early football watching days at The Manor Ground, then home of Oxford United.
He was a very classy full back who could have played at a much higher level but was loyal to Oxford for ten years, while they rose from the Southern League to the old Division Two.
Loyal club man and true gent.
The Shite and the Geordies want connor Cody !!!
I trust Mr Cody has more brains than to take them seriously seeing as they both stand a good chance of swapping places with us next season.
Why the hell these clubs think they are an attraction simply because they in the premier league (just about) is beyond me.
Now if it was citeh or united or arsenal or someone like that then if I was Cody I would consider it but BLOODY ALBION it could really be taken as an insult he is much too good for them and 2/3 rds of the prem and so are the rest of our superb team as we will definitely find out next season .
This is where we find out if Fosun are serious, which I am convinced they are, whether Nuno rates Coady for the Prem, and if contracts mean anything anymore.
Personally, I think Coady knows which side of his toast has the silver lining, and should be looking to do for us what Emlyn Hughes did for Liverpool…………………..help win the European Cup, soon!
I’d sell him for 50 million pounds.
Maybe. But you don’t own him. 🙂
If I were Coady I would stay. After all City et al are going to be surprised how good we are when we go up.
So here’s the question. If we really want to reach the top 4 or 6, wouldn’t a world class striker be important?
Wolves should do everything they can to bring in Andre Silva, including selling some top prospects or even one of the new guys.
I think that a Portuguese national team striker is more important than having Costa or Saiss, for example.
As Winwood said “While you see a chance, take it” , one may not come around again for a couple of years.
Dim Tim Spiers just written Wolves are in for James Maddison from Naaarich.
Was told that last night so may be some mileage in that one too.
Personally I think it’s all total Botox.
No one of any use to us is going anywhere for any amount.
We simply don’t need the money.
These players know where we are going.
If I was a top player not happy where I was and wolves came in for me I would be on the next bus to wolvo..
We are going to be in that top echelon of clubs before much longer and the football world knows it.
Silva will come and so will many others
There’s a guy called the realist who posts on Wolves rumours, when he say’s something, he’s pretty reliable, he stated, “Silva is a goer”, folk om there have been shooting him down, but he’s sticking with it. So I’m tingling a little in the nether regions.
Bloody television and their gazillions of pounds!
The trip to Fulham on Saturday, February 24, will now kick off at 5.30pm – as will the home game against Reading on Saturday, March 3.
Wolves’ away game against Leeds United will go ahead on Wednesday, March 7, with a 7.45pm kick-off.
All three games on the Sky tele-box.
Ruined the Fulham game for me. We normally get up to London about 11 and get on it straight away. With a 3 o’clock kick-off I can just about cope. 4 hours drinking I can just about manage these days. But there is no way I can last 6 and a half hours and still be capable of watching a game of football!
OODCL
You’d better cancel the Sunderland trip then, cause Clivey 5-0 is now coming to the Hilton, Garden Inn Hotel, possibly Doogle and Sue also, so that looks like being attended by about 30 of us. So, it could become the Bloggers Ballbash in Sunderland, our first away doo. I’m looking out my bigboy Vodka drinking trousers as I won’t be driving.
And Witley and London Wolves Loyal were also talking about booking the Hilton Garden too so never mind the drinking trousers you’ll need a whole fecking drinking suit!
Is it the Saturday (5th May) that we are getting together? Prior to the sunday match?
If so I will book a room too.
That’s the one, arrive Saturday, match on Sunday.
In between, Alcohol celebrations.
https://www.google.ca/amp/www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/wolves-transfer-news-rumours-target-14138854.amp
“Wolverhampton Wanderers are among a clutch of English teams interested in signing Porto’s Brazilian left-back Alex Telles, according to reports in Portugal.”
Can someone kindly copy this onto to the Barnsley Preview …..
To all bloggers going to Barnsley….
I met a Barnsley Publican (Paul) yesterday who runs …. The Dove Inn….. it’s 5 mins from the ground …real ale ….and they’re happy for away fans to drink there.
He’s a nice friendly fella so if you need a welcoming, thirst quenching drink …. or just want a top up on the 10 tinnies you’ve already downed ….pop in.
Funny thing was though … he was suggesting a Barnsley surprise win ….. loff …. I nearly dropped me wallet…