I’ve never been one for conspiracy theories in football but if there isn’t something sinister going on the standard and consistency of refereeing in the Premier League is simply appalling.
Having swallowed that decision against Matt Doherty that effectively killed off our top-four aspirations, we switch over to see an identical situation where (surprise, surprise) a penalty wasn’t awarded against Man City.
Can anybody please explain this to me?
Guess what? No penalty pic.twitter.com/oHmMHpAjeV
— Jay (@Wolvesjay90) July 15, 2020
Apparently, VAR didn’t even check the above appeal.
Then fast forward 24 hours and they’ve got the microscope out again to rule Jordan Ayew’s goal out for offside against Man Utd.
Whatever anyone wants to say about individual decisions going one way or the other, it’s indisputable to me that the elite are nearly always the benefactors of VAR and common sense has long since left town.
It’s all about trying to finish sixth now and earn that Europa League place for next season outright. Lets hope we’re not ruing any more interference by the time the full time whistle blows at Stamford Bridge.
Crystal Palace
Having seen off Bournemouth in the first game back after the restart it’s been a disastrous spell for Palace who have now accumulated six straight Premier League defeats.
Like Wolves, they can rue some bad luck concerning questionable decisions that have gone against them, but even so, you don’t lose that many consecutive matches if something isn’t going wrong.
I watched the latter stages of their game against Chelsea and still can’t comprehend how they didn’t convert late chances into a well-earned point.
But I think most Palace fans would say that’s been the story of their season. Being competitive in matches, but too often lacking the finish.
They’ve mustered a pretty woeful tally of just 30 goals in the league, with only Norwich (26) scoring less, relying on defensive solidity to edge their way up the table.
If nothing else, it gives them clarity for next season about their summer recruitment priorities but in the here and now Roy Hodgeson will want to address the slide and avoid signing off with a run of 8 defeats.
One significant blow in that respect was the injury to Patrick van Aanholt last night who will almost certainly miss the remainder of the season. Gary Cahill is also out.
The Away End
Some thoughts lifted from the pre-match thread in a popular Palace forum:
A much,much improved performance last night and we were desperately unlucky with the decisions that went against us. Wolves?? They have all to play for,although it would not surprise me if we get a point. 1-1.
Wolves have hardly been awash with goals since the restart, scoring 8 in the 7 games but they have scored in 5 of them. Only the other night I was in conversation with a Wolves supporter,perhaps in his 60s, who has been following the club for years.In his estimation this is the best Wolves team he has seen.
We will win this, always had a good record against wolves, desperately unlucky not to have taken all 3 points from them at the start of the season,
Same as last year- Wolves 0-2 Palace
Wolves 3(VAR/2, Jiminez)-0 Palace
Wolves
Nuno was full of surprises at Turf Moor and despite a somewhat disjointed performance, we should have won the game.
I still don’t like Traore at wingback as he can’t occupy those positions inside where he’s so often so devastating, as we saw in the build up to the Jimenez goal.
Podence tried a lot of things that didn’t come off, but I like that he’s always in the game, always close to making something happen. He linked up well with Jota at times and again I thought the rotation of the front three gave us more attacking potency, albeit without the end product.
Whoever plays, the Burnley game once again underlined how reliant we are on Raul to get things going for us.
If we aren’t able to hold onto him next season, we need to pull another rabbit out of the hat in the transfer window to avoid becoming like Palace – a good team who just don’t score enough goals.
Goals win games and the Mexican accounts for nearly half of ours in the league.
Predictions
Well done to Matt Cook, JackoMac, kiwiwolf, Ash K and vicsmith who all correctly predicted the 1-1 at Turf Moor.
And it’s an extra pat on the back for vicsmith who also takes over at the top of the overall table with just two games to go.
As always, if you want to join in, simply leave your prediction in the comment section below using the boxes provided.
That’s where you’ll find my best guess.
Up The Wolves!
Much like Burnley, games against Palace have a habit of being a slog, probably because both teams prioritise defensive shape and organisation over attacking adventure.
After they play us, they’ve got Spurs on the final day so will have a major say on who finishes sixth.
I’m staying optimistic and hoping the handful of injuries, coupled with bad form opens the door for us to edge them out this time.
I had already blown for a pen on the Doc handball so when VAR checked it they couldn’t overrule me as they didn’t think it a clear and obvious mistake.
Though back in December when my mate Anthony Taylor had already blown the whistle for an offside on Sadio Mane, VAR sensibly intervened and overruled Taylor to award Liverpool the winning goal against you guys.
Are you beginning to understand how this all works?
should have blown for dangerous play against Wood as this occurred before Doc’s handball.
I’m not going to go into VAR again. I’m getting fed of my reports being dominated by it and the dreadful quality of refereeing/lack of consistency.
This SHOULD be three points but we don’t have a great record v Palace and it will be sod’s law if yet another team end their winless win run against us.
I must say that the creativity and movement has returned to our play in the last two matches, it’s been a joy to watch.
Whilst I’m no great fan of Donk in MF, Moutinho’s passing and decision making has been scrappy in recent weeks, so I’d back Neves to take it upon himself to run the show again.
I’d slot Neto back in for Jota as Diogo still isn’t at his sharpest. The interchange between the front 3 for Everton was key to us playing between the lines, and gave Neves plenty of options.
Just hope 6th is in our own hands come Chelsea.
I have always disliked Hodgson. Don’t know if it’s because he looks like an owl (I don’t like owls) or whether it’s because he managed the baggies. Either way I don’t like him.
We are better than them and will be fighting to retain 6th spot.
Thanks to appalling refereeing/VAR this becomes must win.
Palace will be obdurate and awkward, and we will need the front 3 to be firing on all cylinders
Still we are the better team and can/will win this.
By the time we play on Monday, Burnley, Sheff Utd and Spurs will have already played their 37th game; the only other unknown would be Arsenal.
We’ll get told that our guys won’t be paying any attention to the 1st 3 games; yeh right!!!
By losing 2 points the other night we have made it more difficult for ourselves but not unredeemable.
I believe we’ll take all 3 points on Monday night, we may secured 6th place then, bar the Arsenal game on Tuesday – getting squeaky b-m time.
All being said, wouldn’t it be boring knowing we had nothing to fight for. Might like a chance to be bored once in a while.
Spot on Thomas,
I mentioned this at the end of the last thread , I’ts the nonchalance of the commentator too , oh he was probably just protecting his face !!
I also mentioned the use of German var officials replacing our numpties in order to cut out any bias .
I’d suggest doing a swap but that wouldn’t be fair to the poor fans in Germany would it !
Anyway, a win for the boys against woys palace but it won’t be easy
The odd goal in three
Come on you wolves
I wish you hadn’t put that clip up Thomas.
The wound caused by Mike Dean’s AWFUL refereeing decision, which appeared to be (very slowly) healing, has just opened up again and is spurting blood and spitting feathers in all directions.
Someone MUST do something about this before my head explodes.
After the Man City game I should think that Woy feels the same way as I do about referees in general and VAR in particular.
What a load of absolute bollox!!!
Given that we are, arguably, seen to be a bigger club than Palace, let’s just hope that the gits in control of whistle and remote TV screens will favour us over our lowlier opponents.
Although they are from London so that’s that hope gone down the pan.
Nevertheless, I am hoping and expecting a win.
COME ON YOU WOLVES!!!!
PS. Apologies for my slightly fruity language but the whole VAR thing really PISSES ME OFF!
PPS. Sorry about that as well.
PPPS. Bugger it! I’m not sorry at all, just bloody angry!!!
I’m tellin’ the blog police!!!
I thought you WERE the Blog Police.
I were, but I bin defunded!!
I meant Man Utd game of course.
I just can’t get that City handball out of my head!
I think you’ll find DG, that now we’re no longer in a position to push Manure out of the CL places, VAR may be a lot less biased against us. Hope so anyway.
Unless, of course, they want to see Chelski in the top four. Is so, then we are indeed without hope.
With all the tens of thousands of World Wide Wolves fans out there, surely there is someone so technically, electronically smart enough to figure out how to interrupt or totally mess up the var transmissions/communications/links so that nothing gets through to the ref, and he has to actually think for himself.
Wouldn’t that be some think?
Woy.
The epitome of a dinosaur.
May be a nice guy, but should be out grazing with the likes of Big Sam and mcDickwadhead.
We will be too much for them on Monday.
We will win both our remaining league fixtures.
We will finish 6th.
We will go on to stuff Manure in the Europa League, on our way to gloriously lifting the trophy, thereby denying the above mentioned wankers a place in The Champion’s league, coz they will finish fourth.
And they will be cursing their noisy neighbors even more for not being banned!
There .
The Oracle/Old Moore’s Almanac has spoke.
Wolves 5 Palace 1
Making this prediction out of hope rather than expectation.
Watching West Brum tells me the progress we have made and how far we have come in terms of good football. It really is dire drab stuff, Stearmean doing his best to beat the shite for us, misplaced passes, poor tackling, Dog knows how many cards so far due to mis timed tackles.
If it stays this way (1-1) then the shite are into the play offs and that didn’t go too well last time did it.
We have nothing left to play for now other than 6th in the PL and a shot at a European trophy, so all in all we can relax against Palace and concentrate on finding that bloody net. The only difference between us and Man Utd is they want goals, goals, goals and they will all run through a brick wall to achieve it.
So come on Wolves get it together, two games left, then concentrate on the Europa league. Back on the terraces by October says Boris.
Hmmmmm.
Wolves 4
Palace 1
As I’m typing Huddersfield have gone 2-1 against the shite.
All together baggies fans……..
We’re GUTTED!
What a robbery mid-week. 3 vital points in the prediction league snatch from me with 45 seconds remaining. Crushed. Not looking at what anyone else is putting up….
Excuse me for again stating the bleeding obvious but we just need to score a few more goals.
We’re creating plenty, we just need to put a few more away.
Trouble is, at the moment we’re rarely out of sight so teams end up pressing hard for that late goal.
Palace are on the beach already so it’s a win from me.
I feel for Iceni. You had it all wrapped up – just like Wolves did … and then Uncle Mike remembered what I had predicted. Just kidding mate. Really tough luck. Thereagain the comp is now still alive right till the end.
As you say, it does make for an interesting final two guesses! Good luck
I am not all that confident about VAR on Monday v Palace. After all Spurs may need a helping hand in to 6th place by the unseen forces that run the corrupt Prem. Went on Molineux Mix today and there is a league table produced with no VAR. Wolves are actually third in that table. We have been on the rough end of so many shocking decisions. Why do they get the lines out for the likes of Wolves and Palace to check offside but not as happened a couple of games ago for Manure at Brighton? When their player looked more offside than on. Why was Big Willy’s goal ruled out at Leicester when Liverpool had 2 similar incidents against us at Anfield and Molineux and VAR didn’t bother to check them . Why does VAR back up refs penalty decisions , but overturn them for Man City at Molineux. The ref also called handball at Anfield. VAR again overturned. Normally they dont. I could go on. But Palace is a must win. And we will overcome the sinister forces stacked against us and won 2-1.
And f**k VAR. …. NICE news from Huddersfield though this evening. Have the 6 fingered shadow dwellers bottled it. At one point they held a 12 point advantage over the chasing pack. Anyone remember 2002? Is karma repaying us ?
Sepp blatter or his protoges are obviously in control of var and fifa eufa tv contracts.
What other explanation is there for the utter fraudulant decisions being made by the referees and the tossers at stockley park on behalf of the so called super clubs.
To say this cannot be justified is an understatement if this was a trial in a court of law they would all be locked up yet because its football and they make the rules and run an obviously fixed system its a shoulder shrug and live with it .
Your replays of last night are true vindication of fraud .
Yet “they” get away with it because its a decision made by an individual and in his opinion it is what it is .
Bloody hell i wish i could run a fraudulent business making billions and blame any questionable indescretions on my minnions without any re course .
Look people this is becoming so bloody obvious its getting embarrassing .
We are being treated like mugs .. no question !
Breaking up the cartel is getting harder by the day as the huge money is in manc utd and the obvious others being in the champions league not lowly wolves or sheffield utd i mean for christs sake who would want to watch wolves or sheffield apart from us.
The round the world viewers are into the mancs and the others because they are the biggest draw and you cant argue with that.
Its all about the money and we aren’t talking a few bob in an envelope we are into multi multi millons and the boys at the top want the big names to get the big bucks from the tv companies and big money talks hence the situation we seem to have now.
The solution would be to play so well and produce such a world beating side that no matter how many dubious decisions went against you you still won .
Well best of luck with that one.
Best way is to bribe your way in and pour billions around like water and call it sponsorship THAT SEEMS TO WORK.
Any way nuno to smash the shite out of palace in total anger and frustration
I’m not big on conspiracy theories Spikey. Never have been. But when the evidence for what you say is so plain, so clear for all to see, so frequently repeated, it leaves the realm of conspiracy theory and becomes simple logic. I can hardly believe it and certainly don’t want to believe it. But I am beginning to accept the fact of the matter.
If Wolves are ever to achieve they lofty goals and ambitions, they’ll do so despite the Premier League’s distorted version of fair play, rather than because of it.
It would be great to think that 30 000 voices making a hell of a din on Monday night would help the team over the line ( Remember the Play off night v Palace). It’s going to be tight and nervy but we’ll be OK. Just no VAR or last minute dramas please.
So, we may have WBA and Villa with us in the Prem, or neither. Interesting.
I’ll expect us to win on Monday. Podence is getting better; when he’s properly gelled with the other forwards we’ll see some belting football.
Once again the Ref , Stockley Park and the Prem League officials are guilty of bringing the game as we know it into disrepute through the continued use of VAR, the introduction of which is the most discredited decision ever made in the history of our game.
As a result we are left with a must win game against Palace, it should be a breeze but the result will again be tight due to our dismal scoring record this season just 1.28 goals per game. Is that something that needs addressing during the close season?.
Wolves 2 – 0
This should be a good win for Wolves (on paper). My only question is whether we can keep a clean sheet. If Zaha is in form I can see him causing us a problem. But I have faith that all will be well in the end. I agree with the scoreline most put in here as I believe we will get two and lock it up.
Has to be true that more goals would have prevented the disappointments at Sheffield and Burnley. But arguably better defending would also have achieved that outcome.
Two problems with scoring more goals, firstly Nuno is not Keegan, his footballing philosophy is based on shape, frustrating the opposition, restricting their chances and seizing on opposition errors. He will not change. Personally I think our play is a thing of beauty has enabled us to be competitive in every game and achieve minor miracles with limited investment.
Second problem for those shouting for another Raul is, there is a reason the best of Europe are looking at Raul and wishing he was playing for them, because players of his style and ability are as common as drug raids in Toy Story films.it was obvious even to a dimwit like me that against Everton he was running on empty at the end against Everton, much as we love him he is human.
I need to reinforce my respect and admiration for all the current team including the defence. BUT if we are looking to advance based on the Nuno strategy he knows and we know that we have to be able to withstand the late rally. To match physicality and pressure with strength concentration and skill.
Nuno will, in his reflective moments and in discussion with close advisors discuss how the lumbering target that is literally Wood evaded our centre-backs (particularly Willy) TWICE in added on time. He will be even more frustrated at conceding from a bang obvious corner in added time at Sheffield. These are the points in the season that make the difference whether it is a cup semi final of final games of the season and every man has to be up to the job.
Learning from the Podence and Donk signings, don’t expect any new signing to slot right in. But I expect good money to be spent on at least one centre-back by the end of the season. There was a reason Willy was a squad player when Nuno coached him previously. I repeat though I am more than happy with him Saiss and Coady till Nuno identifies an improvement.
At the same time you can understand why midfield options like Gueye are considered, someone in the Makelele role to close down midfield.
Such an approach does also increase the dangers posed by interior refereeing.
Porto fans hated Nuno by the time he left because of this approach, I hoped that Wolves fans would be more accepting given the mountain we continue to climb. I think the majority are and accept the circumstances (even with access to Fosun funds) which dictate a strategy closer to Athletico Madrid than Real Madrid. Maybe also reflect on which Madrid side has had more success against Liverpool recently.
Tough game on Monday against a Palace side who showed some resilience against Man Utd. Hopefully do just enough and avoid injuries for the remaining challenges.
*Inferior not interior refereeing. Though I do wonder if Mike Dean had his head and a VAR camera within an interior part of his anatomy when making the penalty decision.
Spot on Jacko.
Tough game against well organised oponents.
Wolves to edge it, pleeaase!
COMBs!
Crystal Palace are a hard nut to crack and are somewhat a bogey team for us. But they are finding goals hard to come by, without some key players and have little more than pride to play for. I think we’ll find a way through and learn the lessons from Turf Moor to see the game out this time.
I think we need to win this without giving VAR any cause to intervene. Why? Because this is the officials line up & look who’s in charge of VAR for this game!!!
Referee: Peter Bankes. Assistants: Lee Betts, Adrian Holmes. Fourth official: Anthony Taylor. Replacement official: Craig Taylor. VAR: Andre Marriner. Assistant VAR: Stephen Child.
We all know he’s Villa & hates us so we need goals with no possible offsides, hand balls, fouls 30 minutes ago etc etc.
Wolves win.
It’ll be a while before we can invest BIG money in the transfer market because we are restricted by FFP. After all, we don’t want to face the same accusations as Citeh as we wouldn’t get let off with a slap on the wrist. This is where building our popularity in the huge Chinese market is so important.
Meanwhile, our transfer strategy has to be, as it has been so far, one of picking up gems for bargain prices. Running a small squad helps too, as the available monies are spread much less thinly. The last three years have been fantastic with a transfer policy to match. We need Europa League at least to continue the progression.
Let’s go Wolves!
Beginning to think that our results are determined more by the requirements of the Premier League than by our own efforts and ability.
Having said that, we do have a helluva good team.
VAR was supposed to bring consistency to decisions in the game, but it is clearly failing in that respect (as any number of examples from this season will show). The more it is used, the more inconsistencies we see. So why persevere with it ?
I always thought top-4 was a little out of our reach and maybe we aren’t yet ready for a serious crack at the CL, so I’d be happy with 6th and another crack at the EL. That necessitates winning on Monday.
Palace might be on an awful run, but don’t expect them to just lie down and lose. They have quality in Zaha and a decent finisher in Ayew and will be as anxious to end their losing run as we are to collect 3 points which could lead to an edgy match.
One more good win could secure European football again. Again!
Injustice is a powerful incentive. Expecting a fantastic performance.
Oh and… Wobbly Bromwich Albion. Oh dear
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Kindly refer to them as the shit, the shadow dwellers or sandwell town.
Thank you
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Valid points about VAR, Thomas. Currently VAR is about as popular as VAT. It needn’t be. Interpretation of the new handball rule is wildly inconsistent and favours the big teams. I was reading that Varchester United have had the most VAR favours, seven in fact…
Woy is having a bad run at Palace, welegation form in fact! They’re lucky the bad run came late in the season. We owe Woy a 5-1 thrashing for getting Mad Mick the sack, so I’m going to go with Clive on this one. If we’re 5-1 ahead at 85 minutes I give Nuno my full permission to shut up shop and bring a defender on, but not a minute before.
Although Nuno went all out at Burnley the team looked a bit disjointed IMO. Vinagre Pedonce and Adama what looked like down one side they seemed to be not to sure of there roles.
I would go back to the the team that started against Everton Dendonker in midfield to add a bit of bite and then later on if we are cruising change it up a it.
Jota and Raul to start and finish no matter what the score they do more than score goals they hold up the ball and give us an outlet that helps to releave pressure on the defence plus they are our best chance of increasing our score.
Can’t believe we will lose this one, but think we could could concede a goal.
Having just watched Brentford Vs Stoke in the hope they dumped the Shite back into the play offs, it turned into another nightmare result.
But what I did take from watching that was, we are 100 times better off in this league playing football that is just out of this World compared to that dross. How Brentford are up near the top, or even the shite to be perfectly honest is beyond me, that was dire, boring, talentless, disorganised rubbish.
Give me scratting for 6th in the PL and in the last 16 of the EL any day of the week.
Danny Batth got MOTM, Sam Vokes was dragged off, James MacLaine did his usual hacking down and Brentford couldn’t hit a Cows arse with a cricket bat, even at 1 metre from goal.
We messed up .End of. All the poor referees, the iniquities of VAR, the secret plan for world domination of the super teams – if we had won games we drew, kept Sheffield and Burnley out of our box like a good team should this would all be hypothetical.
The reality is, and I say it again, we just aint good enough yet.
Upwards and onwards next season and lets see.
I don’t think you can say ‘we messed up’. Over the course of a season good luck bad luck normally evens itself our. I think it is quite reasonable to say that Wolves are 25/75 in the bad luck regime. There was an article in the Birmingham Evening Mail today (which is probably Villa ) and even that described how Wolves have been badly on the wrong end of some very shocking refereeing decisions. They suggested 9 points. 55 + 9 = 64. Look at the table now.
I’d be delighted with 6th and another Euro spot.
Go Wolves!
There is no question VAR decisions are heavily in favour of the “big six.” Hence all of those terrible decisions against Wolves and Sheffield, and so many in favor of Man U. etc. Hope Leicester make CL, Man U miss out of CL, and both Spurs and Arsenal both miss out on EL! That would make my season!!
Oh by the way, I’m in deepest darkest Spain for the last two matches. If I can’t find a suitable bar can anyone recommend a decent feed that might calm my nerves?
Hesgoal.com will usually stream the match. You can’t guarantee English commentary or that it won’t freeze but it’s free & sort of does the job.
Win no pressure the boys will be steaming after being cheated at Turf Moor.
At The Chipper, Magnolia, Texas, owned by Neil, the A….. fan.
Not a happy bunny tonight!
Wonder why.
This really is a must win game but i always get nervous when playing a team on a long winless run. Palace played ok against United but came out on the wrong side of a couple of VAR decisions. Speaking about VAR still gutted about dropping points against Burnley but as long as it’s 1-0 we always are at risk or something daft happening, in short we need to score more goals. With this in mind i would like to see the same team that played against Everton.
With Palace being a paler version of us in all respects, I do not expect a pushover. Good to see Podence and Neto getting game time and providing more options, perhaps we would score more goals if we were to shoot from distance more often, Traore excepted? Still a very good season whatever the outcome. Used to have time for Hodgson until I heard his ‘resignation speech’ following his final match as England Manager- dereliction of responsibility and quite pathetic imo.
Not a lot to add. I’m with GoWolves, will happily accept 6th and Europe again.
I was amused by 2 articles in the paper. One with Manure claiming the world has a downer on them and V*R never goes in their favour!! Also Carragher ranting on about conspiracy theories and the Prem are not bias to the ‘big 6’
Palace are there to be taken if we play as we have been at the top of our game.
This is the best joke I’ve read in a long time!
Not yet over the Burnley debacle but time to go again. Me with a prediction – can’t remember the last time I got it right – and Wolves with winning ways. So long as VAR not required we have good chance.
Please dog Spurs cock it up against Leicester and we hear less from Windbag Mourinho about Tottenham winning the Europa.
Another tight game, Wolves are destined to win this one.
Lets hope Mrs RJ keeps her legs crossed until after the europa final.
My prediction is Sixth in the premier league with a record point haul and reaching the finals of the europa league — thats not too shabby for my team.
Wonder how Wolves are going to let 50% fans into the mol?
How about odd seats numbers on the first home game and even seat numbers on the next home game?
Pretty c**p if you see Leeds, brighton, burnley etc and miss out on Man City etc.
Let’s play the Everton line up and go at them… no point in ‘control’ and risking late equalizers
4 points should be good for 6 th
Meantime the silver lining to Leeds coming up is being able to welcome Costa and Douglas back to the Mol
Still trying to figure out how Watford Villa and Cheatmouth can all get relegated …next Sunday
Disappointed that Brentford screwed up.. still .. the 6 points from Sandwell next season will Be nice
Oops, put my prediction in the wrong place. Let’s go Wolves!
Spurs now in 6th place. We might as well not bother turning up for our last 2 games. Its nailed on. Watch the VAR machine work its magic. Villa fan Marriner in the corruption box tomorrow night.
So now we know. Sixty-two points (two wins) needed to guarantee snatching 6th place from Spurs and Sixty points (win and a draw) and United or Chelsea to win the cup in order to guarantee a Europa place by snatching 7th place from Sheff Utd or Arsenal.
Plan B is just simply to win the Europa Cup.
Amazing level of involvement even in August. Combined with the launch of VAR this will be a season few Wolves fans forget for a long time.
GOING INTO FINAL TWO GAMES.
1 VIC SMITH=43 =PREDICTION 2-0 TO WOLVES
=2 ICINI WOLF=42= ” 2-0 TO WOLVES
=2 MILDENHALL WOLF=42 ” 2-1 TO WOLVES
4 ADRIAN=39 ” 1-0 TO WOLVES
=5 MATT COOK & KIWI WOLF =38 BUT PREDICTION THIS WEEK SAME AS VIC.
Rumour going round that Mike Dean who is a Tranmere fan has some sort of vendetta against Wolves going back to the old 4th division days in the 80’s. He probably got a kicking in the Mersey Clipper pub outside the ground by the Subway Army!
And now it’s past midnight over there in Neves Neves Land, (see how clever that was, Wendy?) let me be the first to say Happy Dooglemas to the one, the only Dooglegooder!!!
Rumor has it that next year, or the year after, you get a telegram from the Queen, or Boris, or Donald or someone!!
Happy Birthday, old friend, have a great day and don’t stay too sober!
FOwb
Cheers matey!
Nice to speak earlier, and great to hear that you and the lovely Marla might be all canined up again in the near future.
I think the only telegram I will get is from Donald – Duck not Trump.
But I did get a Fortnum and Mason’s hamper from the PMDG’er, which included a rather fine bottle of brandy.
Which will do me nicely!
Spurs have benefited hugely from the Covid break in the season – getting Kane and Son back has turned their season around big time.
Still in our hands at this point, so simply must win
Going for a while a win
For gods sake just win. Any score will do
Well it looks as though the boys will have 2 years of continuous football with the prize for our most likely finishing position of 7th being yet more Europa league qualifiers. Unless, of course, Arsenal win the FA cup or we win the Europa league this season.
Let’s keep things in our own hands by winning the last two games.
Could not agree more Sea Pigeon, but as ever, we really are our own worst enemies.
Interesting piece by Nuno today on Lockdown.
There has to be some reason for our Sloppy last few minute performances against Sheff and Burnley and managerial tactical decisions made in the two games.
Nuno and the players have struggled to see family during the virus, home life is part and parcel of having stability and continuity in your life, so may be that it is affecting them more than we realise.
But, as you say, “winning these last two games would give us some much deserved breathing space”.
Jota and Traore to score Dendonker and Neves in mid
Crystal Palace on the beach
Going for a decent win.
COYW
Pride comes before a fall. Obviously the hours I spent calculating our potential chance to finish in the top 4 was a mistake, I realise that now and I’m sorry. Won’t happen again.
We need to beat these to finish 6th, simple as that. Fingers and toes crossed.
UTW
Just emerging from a darkened room after the injustices of THAT Burnley game. What can I say? Wolves just have to get up and go again.
A year ago today I was in Shanghai celebrating the Asia Trophy win against Man City. Tonight I’ll take a decent win against Palace.
Wolves to win 2 nil
I am happy with that, especially the 2nd half
Back up to 6th. Bring on Chelsea.
Yeah! the result we expected. Nuno’s selection matched my preferred starting 11. And at last my prediction spot-on.
I just love the resilience of our wonderful team. Once again they bounce back from adversity and deliver. Now we have shown we are better than last season. At least 59 points. Bring on Chelsea. They are not much better than us. Only the farcical VAR divides us. I will say now that we will beat them on the final day .
PREDICTION LEAGUE= ONE GAME TO GO=ONLY 3 CAN WIN IT.
=VICSMITH=46=1st
=ICINI WOLF=45=2nd
=MILDENHALL WOLF=44=3rd
Great resolve and persistence by Wolves. Team looked a lot more balanced and Pondence is showing why we paid £18 million for him looks to be a really good technical and skilful footballer.
Re: Prediction League – this week must surely be a record as to the number of 3 pointers achieved by Wolves Predictors. Have fun typing all the names that predicted a 2-0 win. 🙂