This was a game of two halves and neither were good.
In the first, Wolves played in reverse gear, barely crossing halfway and inviting Newcastle forward.
And when gold shirts finally did venture upfield in the second, they created little and were continually exposed on the counter.
My feeling is the manager has to take the heat for not changing things before Newcastle struck the decisive blow.
Bruno can point to the paucity of options on the bench with four of his go-to players unavailable, but the shape of the side never felt right so it was disappointing that Plan B failed to materialise.
Defeat would have been easier to swallow had we thrown caution to the wind trying to win, but much like the losses to West Ham and Palace this was a passive surrender with changes only arriving after the damage had been inflicted.
Considering the European places were within reach and a draw did little to aid our cause, why not go to a back four, push onto them and see if they’re good enough to cope?
Why not throw Semedo, Neto and Saiss into the game, get more senior pros onto the pitch and take some risk?
It just felt like a free hit and for reasons unknown we refused to swing.
Individually, I thought Fabio did quite well with limited service and aside from one good run from an otherwise hapless Hwang, was the only player making anything happen.
His smart turn and shot was the sole glimmer of hope offered in Wolves tame attempt to claw their way back into a contest that can be neatly filed away as one to forget.
I don’t think the others were worthy of particular praise or criticism, the combined effort and approach just wasn’t there on the night.
With a fortnight to stew on it and get some bodies back on the pitch, we must hope for better at Burnley.
140 steps. I counted them. Meeting up with Stu, Jen, Ken and Carmen. Standing next to a sweaty guy with a massive belly. Metro to Kingston Park via the Monument was 20 minutes late. A closed A1(M) causing a diversion and getting back home at 0010 hrs were the things I remember.
Oh,yeah, and us passing the ball back all throughout the first half, and not much more drive in the second half. I was frustrated and even more baffled to see Bruno wait until the 75th (ish) minute to put Neto on.
That was embarrassing.
Yes great assessment that. We were totally bereft of threat and punch. Why didn’t we go for it, Newcastle were poor and there for the taking?
We had nothing to lose and they were nervy because they still have relegation fears.
Cundle had some good touches but he didn’t show for the ball enough. There wasn’t an out ball because the front three didn’t try to make things happen, they were anodyne.
This lack in centre midfield and upfront hampered the team because Kilman’s passing was awful first half, Jonny also struggled because of a lack of quality in front of him. You could see the confidence draining out of the team when they realised their best teammates were not there!
Yes people will say we should invest, and it’s evident we need to, but injuries and illness really hit us hard. That Leeds game was season defining.
Hopefully Podence, Dendoncker and Samedo fit for the next game. Also Neto firing more plus Raul, let’s put in a top 6 performance against Burnley. Just go for it Wolves, there’s very little point in being cautious at this stage of the season, the hard work is done, relax and put teams to the sword!
As ever, a great analysis Thomas. Thank you.
Suck it up, buttercup.
Losing a game – on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is being narrowly beaten 1-0 at the Etihad with 10 men after Raul’s red card, and 10 is getting humiliated 5-1, at Molineux, by West Brom ( Mick McCarthy was sacked the very next morning ), this feels like a 5.
Like it or not, losing is a part of competitive sport. Football in this case. There’s no avoiding it. It happens.
The frustration, anger for some, and certainly disappointment for all Wolves fans might be attributed to the manner of the defeat and the circumstances.
Win, and we are sixth with 6 games to go, 3 of them very winnable, 61 points minimum if we were indeed victorious in those 3 games. Europe beckons.
However, lose, playing poorly, and 8th might be the best we can hope for. With a nasty taste of what could have been, if only we had seized the opportunity and tried. Left nothing on the pitch. It wasn’t to be.
There’s some mitigation, mainly in the shape of absentees. No Raul, serving the second of his two game suspension, after his oh so harsh red card. No Neves, following his knee injury, which now looks less serious than first thought. Let’s pray he hasn’t played his last game for Wolves.
No Podence, who has an unspecified foot injury. Boy did we miss him taking the initiative and driving forward. No Dendoncker, who developed an illness in the day or so leading up to the game.
And so we were unable to choose from our winning team from last time out, and perhaps, once again, the lack of sufficient options meant Bruno was unable to pick the team and formation he wanted.
However, we were still very poor. A bad day at the office. It happens. The most important thing is how the team responds.
The very fact that we are sat eighth, so far ahead of the “also rans”, is a testament to our resilience. Our ability to bounce back after a poor performance or a disappointing result. We’ve done it time and time again. That’s why we’re still in the mix for a European spot, although the odds have just lengthened a little. But you have to believe.
I know the very fact that I feel so elated after a win, proud after a performance and disconsolate after a loss is because I love my club. If you feel the same, that’s a good thing.
Make no mistake, no matter what happens in the next month or so, this has been a good season. We’ve moved on from last season’s disappointment. We are punching above our weight. We’ve outperformed expectations.
But, inevitably, money talks in football. Look at the teams above us.
We cannot compete like for like with the Citys, Uniteds, Arsenals and Chelseas of this world. But there we are, sitting at the top table of 8 teams. Before the huge points gap to 9th. Mixing it up with clubs who’s resources are many times that of ours.
We have every chance of building on that next season, closing the gap on the very top teams, taking another step forward on our upward trajectory.
So, when all is said and done, we are gutted. We are angry. We are frustrated. We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and go again.
We are Wolves.
Suck it up, buttercup.
UTW
Liking the ‘Muttleigh Scale’ of losing a game. How about that loss to Leeds – a 7? Obvs home losses have an added tariff. That 4-0 to Burnley last season must be up at 9.
We also need a Mutt Scale for wins though. That 2-0 at Twatihad feat. Super T’s brace must be at MS 10. The win at Arse after Jimis ‘injury’ MS 9.
1 lv.
12 hours door to door. 12 hours of my life I’ll never get back which at my age I can Ill afford!
I just think this performance goes to show, whether due to quality or experience, when or first 11 are unavailable we have a soft underbelly. After a promising start Hwang is proving to be a squad player, and Silva although showing promise is far from ready. Our inability to hold the ball was a worry as were the seemingly regular lapses in concentration by Kilman.
I could kind of see the game plan in the first half – keep the ball and frustrate but that doesn’t work if you keep giving away possession.
Dendonker was a big miss. It just shows the value of someone doing the unfashionable spadework which allows the artists to shine.
Moving on!
My main disappointment last night was Bruno. I`ve always been, and still am, a big supporter of his, given the results obtained with such pathetic support from Fosu,/Shi.
But last night he got just about everything wrong.
A dreadful team selection even allowing for the major injuries issue. Then the use of subs — or lack of !! was abysmal. The game at a very early stage called out for more experience. Why not introduce Saiss to bolster an overrun midfield ? Or, even give Semedo a runout in mid field? Cundle may have promise, but it is very clear that at present he is not up to this level. Then, why leave Neto on the bench for so long when both Trincao and Hwang were so completely ineffective ? Silva had zero support up front for almost the whole game.
Tactics, were dire. We were playing Newcastle, an abjectly poor side !! Yet somehow we gave them as much respect as if they were Real Madrid. We simply gave them the initiative, and spurred on by the Geordie faithful, they took advantage. Eddie Howe could hardly have believed his luck. Nuno, even on his most cautious of days, never resorted to such dire tactics as these.
Then, to add insult to injury, examine Bruno`s post game comments. His claim, that `we controlled the game with and without the ball” beggars belief. In the eyes of almost everyone we controlled nothing from start to finish, We were second best almost throughout. Bruno must have been watching a different match to the rest of us !
Hopefully this was a one off aberration. But who knows. Beaten by both Leeds and N`castle in the space of three games, does not bode well. But then again, if you`re a Wolves supporter, why would you expect anything else ?
Oh and I forgot to mention The T word.
This game was screaming out for someone to run at their defenders in the last half hour. Who do we know who might be capable of that?
A straight swap for Trincao? You must be joking!
Prawny. Never mind what happens to Traore, we should not be remotely considering signing Trincao on a permanent basis. 29 million ? What a joke. The guy adds nothing. Basic errors by the boat load. No end product. Abject work ethic. It`s claimed he dissatisfied at Wolves and wants away. Please, please let this be true.
Then there`s Hwang, He started sufficiently well to give all of us some hope that perhaps we were on our way to solving the lack of goals issue. But since those early days, zilch. He has slowly slipped back, offering little threat. Now it appears we have signed a very average squad player — just what we didn`t need.
He’ll be coming back for sure, he’s only coming off the bench in La Liga games. Dembele is on fire and keeping him out the starting 11. He started in the Europa game but was taken off after 60min.
Shocking. Nothing else
After reading Muttleigh’s reasoned assessment, this comment made me smile. Neither is wrong I guess!
What a load of garbage and that’s saying something was not sure which goal in the first half Wolves were attacking with so many back passes.it did improve slightly better in the second half but just not good enough Neto should have been on a lot sooner couldn’t understand Brunos thinking with the subs so late. Wolves have got to be active in the summer transfer window when you have a bench like that says it all what a small squad does for you when your best players are out.
OK the looneytoones got what they wanted.. another season in the prem so now they can go and spend gazzilions .. im not sure eddy “mommies boy” howe is gonna hack it in the money buys success department.
Wolves were hapless ,lost, wondering around in the desert without a clue which way to go and that I’m afraid is Bruno’s fault c’mon man get a grip you had a few decent subs put em on not sit on your hands hoping for divine intervention anyway I cant stand Newcastle its too far away they should play Scottish football.
All things will be bright and shiny come the Burnley punch-up so maybe sanity will be restored although I am wondering if the flip flops have been taken out the wardrobe already by a few .
Eighth it is then and no Europe to struggle with which with our squad is no bad thing.
Happenstance.
Coincidence.
Enemy Action.
I believe it was James Bond who used this mantra for repeated “wrong” things happening.
Well, I feel it applies to Wolves as well.
Three times in the space of a few weeks we’ve had a chance to go sixth.
Three times we’ve bollixed it up.
That’s enemy action.
Eleven players, plus a manager, cannot all have a collective “ bad day at the orifice” ( oh how I hate that term,) three times in quick succession.
Last night’s aberation cannot even be blamed on the ref.
Or, is it a one man conspiracy by Bruno telling Jeff he needs fresh blood in the summer, and not just from the Mendes veins.
Cannot think of another reason why he did a Jackett and didn’t bring on a sub until the 78th minute.
But, having had my little pity party, my heart does go out to those 50,000 manic Geordies, who have to watch that drivel weekly.
At least we know we can do a lot better.
You watch, six games to go, we’ll lose to Burnleh, Brighton and Norwich and beat Citeh, Chelski and Liverfool!
And, I’ve got four World Cup finalists to root for!
England
USA
Portugal
Mexico
Should clean up at the bookies!
Woeful from start to finish.
Poor team selection.
A baffling array of substitutes. ( Hwang should have been pulled after 15 minutes- Trincao after 30.)
Why bring on striker Campbell then restrict him to the wing?
What’s wrong with Chiquita? Shows real promise but is rarely used. Last night was an ideal opportunity to see him. Would surely have tested Targett and the lanky Dan Burn.
Ait-Nouri brought on at 84 minutes or so. Hardly likely to make a difference, and with Marcel providing some chances from the left.
Newcastle are a poor team of hastily assembled stalwarts, and yet we were lucky to survive a drubbing.
It’s most worrying that we don’t try to impose ourselves on these lesser teams and play to the skills and strengths we know we have. Such sterile performances make it so much harder to get on top of the game.
Have been consistently positive through this season as I believe we have over achieved under Bruno with the resources he has. But last night was absolutely dire and inexcusably so; if the reason was the absence of Neves then we better make sure that we either keep him or spend every penny and much more in the summer on replacing him and upgrading several other the squad .
I can’t see that Trincao has anything to offer over and above what we already have. Traore may or may not come back but his heart hasn’t been in it for some time anyway. And Jiminez is still a good player but a shadow of his former self. How Marcal is picked above Ait-Nouri is a mystery and the short glimpses of the youngsters being tested tells us nothing to date.
The defence needs little attention, but the prospect of a midfield without Neves and/or Moutinho is frightening.
And up front our ongoing inability to score enough goals speaks for itself.
I don’t think I’m on my own in believing that we are at a watershed. Fosun have to decide whether they want to stick or twist. It’s clear that their initial grandiose ambitions were above and beyond their evaluation of the task – Jeff Shi has said as much. So you need to decide whether to twist Guo and Co. and if you want to take the twist option then thanks for your major contribution in restoring the pride of WWFC but please don’t leave us in limbo any longer but cash in on your investment and as soon as it’s opportune to do so. The alternative is a maybe a not so slow decline back into mediocrity or worse.
Because I honesty don’t think that Bruno or anyone else can even hold position without a serious injection of new investment in the playing staff. FFP restrictions no longer apply.
And it’s no good blaming Jeff Shi because clearly the real policy makers are his lords and masters.
It’s make your minds up time because others are catching up and overtaking us rapidly.
Dire, but why was the formation not changed we needed 3 in mid and 2 up top (3 were poor anyway)
Why no Chiquinho?
Why Kilman so casual with his clearances?
Why does Hwang never go in for 50/50 balls ?
Well, you can see why Newcastle are in the bottom half of the table; they’re crap.
But how the hell are we 8th?
Kilman’s mind is clearly somewhere else and poor Luke Cundle looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights. But, it’s unfair to single out individuals as they were all shite last night.
The commentary on TV last night were constantly claiming that the forwards weren’t moving but my impression was that, when they did shout for the ball into space, our midfield insisted on passing sideways or backwards – it’s little wonder our “pass completion” stats look so good.
What happened to those sublime Cody crossfield balls to a wingers feet? You can blame Trincao, Hwang and Silva as much as you want but no one seems able to get the ball to them.
I suspect that most of our bench are barely fit and were there only to make up the numbers. Neto doesn’t look as if he has 90 minutes in him yet and bringing on Campbell looked like desperation.
I don’t know about our players, or the rest of you, but I’m looking forward to this break in fixtures with the Man City match postponed; my blood pressure is worrying my wife.
Thought Trincao was disappointing again but you are absolutely correct the service to the forwards was mon existent.
That’s nothing new. Jota’s last 12 months here were barren in terms of production. Look what he does with some service.
Noted that Jota scored again for Liverpool today. I wonder if Jeff Shi ever reflects on the 3 months in 2019 when he bought Cuitrone for £16.5 million and “sold” (gifted) Jota to Liverpool (on the never never) for £43 million.
Cuitrone is now valued at £4.6 million and Jota must be worth well in excess of £100 million. By marginalising Jota in the second half of the previous season I think Nuno was also culpable in this shambles.
Sheer madness!
As said above anybody in for any position who is not first 11 choice are not good enough.
In addition to this many of the players last night are not good enough for second choice!
I include last nights front three in not being good enough as second choices. They are poor footballers.
Added to that the owners need to look at replacing this manager. He is also not good enough.
He will never be better than Nuno (2 7th place finishes!) and will never win anything in my view.
We are 8th because we are 8th!
If that is good enough for the owners ‘investment / money moving’ business then so be it.
In my (crazy perhaps) view we will win zero until the Special One comes to Loverly Wolverhampton
UTW
The first call of the season (as far as I’m aware)
Good grief man, go and have a lie down!
That should read first call of the season for Bruno’s head.
I’m still recovering from last night’s journey oop north and also need a lie down!
Having heard him say he was going to change to a more attacking formation, scoring more goals and make the players better.
Do you really think he has?
I accept 8th is great compared to a lot but do you think we are we ever going to win anything with him.
If not is just taking part ok ? It’s the hope that kills!
In answer to your initial question – yes he has. We are much more forward looking than we ever were under Nuno and you have to remember that Bruno hasn’t been supported to anything like the same extent as his predecessor in the transfer market. Largely I think because of the financial impact on Fosun’s other businesses in the holiday industry during the lengthy Pandemic period.
Add to that the injury to Raul which means that Bruno hasn’t had a the fully firing Jimenez that Nuno had and also add injuries currently to Neves and recently Podence along with a recovering Neto and you’ll see the reasons behind our stuttering form.
Oh yes, and you say that Nuno had 2 consecutive 7th place finishes. Indeed so, but is there that much difference between finishing 7th and 8th? Particularly when you factor in some of the observations I’ve made above?
Yes. 7th got us into Europe. 8th won’t.
Good grief.
You can’t help but laugh at our laughable efforts to avoid Europe. How we needed an early goal last night and how far we were from going to get it. Not a touch in the box first half, 4 in the second? Bruno was our most animated player and he wasn’t even on the pitch. We did make 50,000 Toon Army very happy though. I’m ok with that.
The Geordies must have been impressed with our inability to pass the ball Forwards towards their actual goal. Equally with the Daley from Woodsy, tumbling like a 15 yr old Roumanian gymnast. That’s what £25 mil gets you.
They really didn’t want to offside that 1st effort. But VAR couldn’t get away with it.
Hard to call it a game of football. But did the Saudi’s pay off the Chinese to ensure their ‘Investment’ wasn’t visiting Sandwell next term? Was my only thought. International politics played out on 7000 square yards of turf. My 2nd thought was ‘Well what are we supporting then?’ An uninterrupted supply of instant noodles is essential to the survival of this country. And gets my vote. Over oil and subsequent loss of travel to away fixtures.
Then I gave up thinking. Let’s move on. To Burnley. Let them win to get Leeds relegated? Bollox to it. Stop digging. We’ve had a good season and some epic games to come.
1 lv & COYW.
What a difference a week makes! After a top first half last week against the Vile, we put in a dreadful first half. We were fortunate to go into the break all square, but then we don’t play much better in the second half. Too many players were well below their best. Our squad players are unable to step up and make the most of their opportunities. If we weren’t pushing for a top 6 or 7 place, we take last nights loss on the chin and hope that the manure and ammers also loose.
We need more resources in midfield and up front m’colleague. The team that we fielded for this match didn’t make good reading beforehand and didn’t produce on the field unsurprisingly.
Rasta your bang on the money with our laughable efforts to avoid Europe next season Bruno knows it would be like the charge of the light brigade … doomed… and he doesn’t want that on his cv.
Our Bruno isn’t daft he knows we don’t have the squad for any sort of assault on any sort of European competition and imo he is doing his very discreet best to avoid it with a creditable 8th place .
Fortunately we have a very nice cushion to play with and can afford daft losses like last night but he will pull the rabbit out when he wants to and that as Clive says will probably be against the big boys just for a bit of kudos more than anything else which inevitably will leave us scratching our heads as to what could have been !!!
It seems Bruno is sending subtle signals to the top about the obvious lack of quality in his squad yes some of the young ones will come good but that’s a few years off and after all if we just come up a tad short that can be sorted pretty quickly with a decent window so is he giving them a nudge or has he lost the plot ???
The former I think.
No mug that Bruno
We’ll have to slug it out with the Midges and Gooners. Both had amusingly shite results this w/e. Can the Spam take advantage ?
18 points to go. Anything can happen. At least you’re not trudging home from Villa Park with no bus fare. 1 lv
How bad are Newcastle. Couldn’t beat, on the night, an inept clueless Wolves, except for a somewhat fortuitous penalty. Definitely a penalty won which is what you get from a player educated by Dyche.
Don’t think Wolves can be this bad again this season.
Wrong tatics to slow to make changes…….but in Bruno’s defence he has callled for and asked for the last two Windows new recruitments, he knows and every Wolves fan knows the squad is simply not good enough bar our best eleven.
You cannot expect to challenge the top six with the squad the size and quality of ours Bruno knows it and Sellears knows it and ive no dout Jeff knows it but what have they done about it………nothing.
And Will carry on being nearly men until Fosun make there mind up on where we go from here because this squad has hit its ceiling.
So who do you propose they get rid of? Neto? Podence? Hwang? Trincao? Silva?
Dendoncker? Marcal? Hoever?
Some players have to leave in order for new ones to come in.
I would like someone to give a realistic list of players who can leave and, remember, Wolves want to develop young players, not just bring in expensive stars.
A few weeks ago I’d have said The Donk, but he put in an effort v. Villa and we missed him last night. Tha youth panicked, we needed a tank.
MGW is putting in performances for the Blades. We had to recall him last season.
Hoever just wants to be back at Liverpool. Or at least playing 1st team, but he doesn’t get much of a look in.
Bruno’s made a bit of noise about this £100 mil for Neves. Preparing us for the worst no doubt.
Despite all the drum banging about our Academy the only player of note who has come through our youth system in recent times is MGW. And the last one who really “made it” is Robbie Keane all those years ago. Plus I can on;y think of Kilman and Neto who have even been “brought on”, Jota and Ait-Nouri were developed but didn’t come in on the cheap .
Our relative success under Fosun has almost totally been down to expensive “incomers” with a very significant input from Jorge Mendes. And I haven’t ‘seen much to indicate that it’s about to change. The only way we are likely to move forwards positively in the short term will be if Fosun retrieve the cheque book from the safe. I would also ask what has Scott Sellars actually contributed. Oh for the days of Dalrymple and Thelwell whose efforts still form the nucleus of our squad.
Meanwhile we will probably have to write off Traore and Cuitrone and hope that Fabio will soon start to justify his fee.
It’s a pretty mixed picture Jeff and it’s make your mind up time Guo – stick or twist (ie. invest or arrange to move on, with our thanks for restoring our club to respectability)’.
Nothing to add about the performance last night which hasn’t been expressed already.
Retention and recruitment has been shaky over the past two transfer windows yet apparently Bruno has handed in his shopping list and has received positive noises from Messrs Sellers and Hobbs. Performances like last night are not deliberate , they happen due to circumstances but the front three were anonymous , even our friend in Barcelona would have got us up the pitch, won a free kick or a corner. Don’t criticise Joao or Luke for passing sideways , it’s because there were no options to pass forwards. The squad isn’t big enough or good enough to cope with missing personnel, selling Ruben through auction is ridiculous if we have any ambition to move forwards, it’s all so annoying as we are so close to being very good. 10 points thrown away in recent weeks and all those great results rendered worthless.
Bruno likes the size of the team and doesn’t want it any larger. He has to learn to live with inevitable injuries.
As others have said spending time and money to watch this terrible performance was such a waste .Certainly the injuries and suspensions do not help but still it was a limp performance .
My main criticism though is the ineptitude of the manger .He could surely see we were nowhere near at it so should have changed it at 60 mins latest but for all his talk of hard work and obsession with the game he is not learning .Many times this season it has been obvious he needed to try to change things with substitutes but still he waits far far too long .
Europe was gone anyway after the Leeds defeat .As Fosun will not be investing properly again we need at least to try to hang on to Neves and Moutinho next season to have any chance of a top half finish .
The teams around us are trying to sabotage our Europe avoidance tactic.
Thank you Everton
Thank you Brighton
Europe spot still on.
.. and Colin has retired so one less hate figure for the bloggers.
Colin?
Work out the anagram of Neil Warnock!
Jeez, I thought you army types were intelligent.
No, sorry, that’s an oxymoron, military intelligence!!
I was thinking of a ref called Colin. Wanker Warnock I had forgotten about. 140 steps ….
The game is so beige now and completely devoid of characters , I’ll miss Colin wanker, the game will too .
Utw
Very disappointed about the performance. But as commented earlier, we have to suck it up and move on!
But on the other hand currently at a beach, so it could be a lot worse!
Looks useless for surfing and hope that’s a shark coming to get you.
surprised no-one seems concerned about the penalty; maybe because our overall play was so disappointing. But I ‘ll always think of that whenever Wood’s name comes up. It was never a penalty.
It was never a penalty. And just because we were so bad as to not even merit a draw it shouldn’t be overlooked. He dived. He should have been booked. Once again VAR let us down. We were crap we didn’t deserve to draw but they won by cheating. Eddie Howe’s diving tactics does it again
I remember when Adama was booked for diving at Arsenal away. When replays showed it was actually a penalty. Makes you wonder doe it.
Been a good season, not good enough for Europe, very angry , fans wanted cundle to start, now slagging him off, get a grip he’s 19 , second game in premier leauge, rant over , wolves aie we
ManU down, Arsenal down, Spurs giving Villa a spanking, so it’s not a complete disaster weekend. Chins up , let’s go again, “Mind the Gap!” , UTW.
It certainly WAS a penalty.
The referee gave it and VAR didn’t argue. (Although that means bugger all).
I’m afraid Jose Sa fell for Wood’s trick.
He went in with his feet, didn’t get anywhere near the ball, but Wood made sure that he left his legs where Sa couldn’t avoid them.
But that just clouds the main story of the game.
In his after match interview, Bruno said that we controlled the first half without the ball. If that means that every time we got possession we made sure that we gave it straight back to them, he was quite right.
That first half should be used to illustrate exactly how not to play against a team who are on the back of a bad result, a bit low on confidence and needing to play at their own tempo with no pressure.
The fact that we never threatened and Newcastle only won with a ‘manufactured’ penalty shows exactly how ordinary they were.
But if they were ordinary, we were plain awful.
The one good thing to come out of it is, that after today’s fixtures, we can still sing:-
“Mind the gap mind the gap Aston Villa.
Mind the gap mind the gap I say.
Mind the gap mind the gap Aston Villa.
It’s getting bigger every f***ing day”.
Let’s be grateful for small mercies.
Todays results make yesterdays shitshow feel even worse
A shot at 6th ? Nah
Gone
Hard to tell from watching the game in TV why we couldn’t escape the press as the camera focused on on our defence and midfield
Can only assume not enough movement up front
It why not Neto
Or Ait Nouri?
It’s cost me a good bottle of red to my Geordie mate and my Ex chortling too
Back to
My old standby
OODCL
Please and soon
Pedro has been carrying niggles. Sometimes you just have to trust Bruno and his staff
Well looking at todays results could we get in the top six without trying or are they all trying to get out of the top six its pass the parcel !!!
Well it is written in the law that Chris Wood scores against us. Even if he got run over by a lorry and had one leg he would still be on the scoresheet. But there is always a silver lining 1. Wood won’t be playing for Burnley in two weeks time 2. The S**t lost today. And we won’t have to have the six fingered inbreds soiling Molineux next season .
Where is Wolfstroker? He did not place a prediction and he has not commented.
Hope all is okay Steve. Tried messaging you too.
Well that was Newcastles easiest game for a while, what’s the point of putting 3 up front if we aren’t really going to get forward with any purpose.
I found myself hoping we could get to the break all square, against a team that had lost their last 3 and were nervous.
Hey ho , it is what it is, unfortunately, by the time we next play , and all around us have played a couple more games, we will be nailed on for eighth, 6-8 points gap both ways..
I just hope we beat li- var- pool last game to keep my mates quiet.
Just on the saise and r, a, n game time, or lack of game time. I believe the reasons being mentioned are that they are both in Ramadan and unable to eat for long periods, hampering their energy levels I suppose!.
Oops, I think I may have gone a tad politically incorrect there! No offence intended though.
Utw
Fugly that was.
Keep your eye on referee and VAR decisions over the remaining games which will influence manc utd” s league position.
I will wager everything will go their way and not just in their own games to make sure they finish in the top six no matter how badly they play.
Brentford v west ham should be interesting
A really disappointing performance BUT Perspective always brings me back to earth…
Man U …. Lost
Sandwell Town … lost
Arsenal … lost
Just needs West Ham to lose and my weekend will seem brighter for the experience…
Looking pretty good with 8 minutes to go.
Yahoo. Wolfstroker is okay. He just said so.
Anyone going to the England v Hungary game on the 14th June. My ticket is on its way.
Well, with those in 5th, 6th and 7th all losing; nothing gained, but also, nothing lost.
Really must get it together here on in and try and grab one of those European slots.
Don’t know about Totteringham Arsenal, Wham and Manu. I think we should be looking out for a late run from Leicester.
My thoughts entirely- and the games against Norwich and Burnley will be hard fought affairs. No easy games and we need to be at it from the first minute for all the remaining matches.
Not sure what to say apart from on to the next game…
At least not a relegation dogfight as in days gone by..
Exit stage left…..
The Leeds manager has just said what very many of us bloggers have thought for ages.
Wolves have made a tactical, or maybe even a strategic, error in placing away fans along the length of the pitch in the Steve Bull lower, in full view of TV cameras and where they can best support their team.
If it is full, all you see are away colours. If it isn’t full, it looks like we can’t fill the ground.
At nearly every other ground, away supporters are hidden up in The Gods or some God forsaken corner of the stadium where they can’t be seen and hardly heard. (Unless you are Wolves away fans of course).
It shouldn’t be beyond the combined brains behind the club to find somewhere that we could put them where they could go unnoticed.
Over to you Jeff.
Asda parking lot seems a good idea, preferably one in Dudley.
You’ve got a point there Doog. (Which is more than we got in Newcastle!). Ar my local club Chelsea the away fans are herded into the South-East corner of the ground, The Shed End, but unofficially known as The Shit End.
Hi doogey woogey
I agree totally..
Wasn’t it planned to put away fans up in the toppest top bit somewhere in the north bank next to the Steve Bull ? stand ?
Or have I spent too long in space?
I think it’s time for re-entry and splashdown.
That’s sounds a bit rude doesn’t it.
Last six games. Three v Chelsea Liverpool Citeh. Deduct at least 3 points for marginal offside red card coady said ref is a twat. And a very marginal penalty.
Good observation. On the positive side- we also have to play Brighton, Burnley and Norwich. – as a point of interest do their fans consider us a top side that will get the marginal decisions? It’s all about perception and I’ll watch the remaining games with that in mind now.
After a serious accident I haven’t been to the golden palace for over six months.
However I am now fit enough for the travelling (bus, taxi, train and shanks pony) and the tension of watching wolves play.
I noticed on my wolves versus brighton ticket new restrictions on bags/rucksacks – max size 21cm by 15cm by 10cm which is much smaller than the rucksack I used to take.
Do other bloggers take bags/rucksacks into the ground and what size bags do they use and have they noticed any increased checking by the entry srewards?
Happy to hear you are recovered from your accident mate.
The checking by stewards always seems very rudimentary and you can bet your life if you are an away fan carrying flares they won’t find them. (Wearing them might be a different matter).
The PMDG’er usually carries a shoulder bag which is big enough for our needs:- a couple of Twixes and some sweets. The people next to us have Thermos flasks and cakes but you can fit them in small bags. What would you need to bring in that would require a rucksack to carry it?
Couple of twixes and sweets? I use that new invention called a pocket.
You haven’t seen how many sweets we carry.
His pockets are deep!!!
I’d highly recommend a Balti pie and a Bovril.
I don’t know if Bruno Baldrick had a cunning plan to lose at Newcastle and therefore unsettle and confuse our immediate competitors above us. Bit like Fergie-style mind-games. Anyhow, it worked, the buggers above us all lost! I’m sure that Baldrick is betting they carry on losing! I bet if we’d won, the same buggers would have won as well. Oh well, fast forward back to square-one a week ago. Forget tearing up your season ticket, we still have chances of Europe, if only a day trip to France!
The EXCELLENT NEWS is that Burnley losing yesterday means we are now mathematically safe from relegation. Which is jolly good.
Thank God!
Perhaps I’ll get a decent night’s sleep now.
its ages until we play again,,,, so I’ll take the time to reach out to anyone (Thomas?) who might be planning a Bloggers’ gig after the final home match vs wurzels on May 15
I’ll be staying at Park View with my son and my girlfriend and am hoping that the annual bloggers’ bash is happening that evening…assume at Novotel
Can anyone provide info?
Interesting stat. Wolves have conceded 7 penalties this season ( 2nd in the table behind Norwich). Which is in fact 25% of total goals conceded. Interesting for the conspiracy theorists (like me). That such a high ratio of goals against are penalties . We have conceded 28. I wager that at least 3 of those penalties were VAR over turnable. But weren’t.
Yup. If they can’t score against us you can bet a soft penalty will be awarded. The match against Citeh was a case in point. Even after losing Jimenez to a ludicrous red card in the first half, Citeh needed help from VAR to beat 10-men Wolves 1-0. Same against Newcastle recently (even though we were dire), it took a soft penalty to beat us. Both of these incidents were away, therefore favouring the home team.
And i reckon after Chelsea Liverpool and Citeh we will be top of the penalties against table !
We’re stull gonna beat them three!
Yes. Three 5-1’s in a row ay it
Nah
Cor see Liverpool scoring against us, look how Jota missed that sitter when we had no keeper in his way!!
Now we have a week where there will be no predictions or game to analyse, so someone, Ben, needs to put summat on the blog to keep our attention.
https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2022/04/14/a-special-time-for-wolves-special-197172-european-heroes/
If you’re in need of some reading, Clive, have a gander at this.
Takes me back to a couple of historic Bloggers’ Ballbashes seeing the likes of Steve Daley and Phil Parkes in full flow.
Not forgetting 1972 of course, which was a vintage year for us.
I went to the Doctors the other day. I said “I’ve only got 59 seconds left to live “. He went “hang on a minute “.
Like us, the old ‘uns am the best.
I went to the doctor’s the other day, with a side of bacon on me back.
I said ” here, cure this”
I went to the doctor the other day, and he said: good news and bad news about your blood tests! So I said, give me the good news doc.
Doctor said, we’re going to name a disease after you…
Went to the doctor’s the other day, I said
“Doctor, I can’t stop feeling my lapels”
He said
” You got cholera”
I went to the Doctors the other day and said ” I can’t stop singing Green Green Grass of Home”. He said “You have got Tom Jones syndrome”. I said “Is it serious ?”. He said ” It’s Not unusual”…
I went to the doctors the other day !
but he’d sold his surgery retired and gone back to India since I booked my appointment
Here we go again.
Whenever there is a two week gap between our fixtures, we are crap next game.
Whenever we go to Burnleh, we are crap.
Whenever we play a team who have just sacked their manager, we are crap.
So, triple whammy next weekend.
Off to Burnleh after a two week break to play a Sean Dick less team.
I fear the worstest!
They will probably have Sam Fucking Allardyce on charge.
In charge
I went to the doctors the other day.
Ha ha ha
Went to the doctors the other day and asked if there was anything he/she could give me to help keep my hair in….
he/she gave me a box.
Afterwards I asked if he/she could give me anything for wind.
he/she gave me a kite.
Why are the Shite playing in gold and black, three nil down at half time. Tesco colours don’t clash with Forest red. WTF.
Jealousy, Witters, Old Boy, jealousy.
Simples
And you really do have too much time on your hands if you are watching that tripe!
Defo’ tripe Clive, I do a lap of the lounge every time they concede , most enjoyable.
Cunning plan by Bruce Baldrick. Knew they would be hammered, so make the Shite look like Wolves to save face. Wasn’t us, mate, wos those there Dingles.
Easter weekend rounded off in style. Forest 4 Sandwell Town 0. Steve Bruce 15 points from 14 games. Relegation form. Hopefully he continues to do just as well next season. I would love to see them go down to League 1 and spend 10 desolate years trying to get back out.
Anybody else looking forward to the start of the last season of ‘Better Call Saul’ on Netflix tonight?
The prequel to ‘Breaking Bad’.
What a superb series!
If you’ve missed the first five seasons you’ve got a treat in store.
Look out for Nacho, one of the bad guys, played by a Carl Ikeme lookalike.
I feel a binge coming on.
So he’s nacho good guy?
I’ll get my coat.
Is the whole of the final season being put up? Or just half of it?
I can never find enough to watch on Netflix to warrant a fulltime subscription so I just get a month when there is something that’s a “must see” and catch up on anything else if I have time.
I agree that Better Call Saul is excellent; the relationship between the McGill brothers is almost Shakespearean.
While I’m here, has anyone being watching the Women’s FA Cup matches?
Professionalism is certainly improving the standard of the football but I’m most taken with the quality of the refereeing.
A few of those officiating would do a much better job than many of the male numpties we get lumbered with week after week,
Mike Dean on VAR at Burnley Sunday. Expect a controversial marginal decision to go against us. Which would be rather unusual.
We may as well bring a handicapping system in, to save all the kerfuffle. So, we kick off with a penalty against us. We know there will be one anyway so we may as well get it over and done with. Saves making all the protests. At least the pundits can all agree then. Then we can give someone a yellow card or two… Wouldn’t feel right playing with 11 men anyway, we’d get in everyone’s way.
Yes. Their bloke Cornet will trip over an innocent greenfly flying about in the centre circle and Dean will award a penalty and send the entire Wolves team off. He will also annex Mander House and set fire to West Park.
Wow I have something in common with Adrian Chiles.
He has a sandwell town crest above a urinal in his house.
I have a sandwell town crest IN a urinal in my house.
Isn’t life strange.
“https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/sandwell/west-bromwich/2022/04/22/adrian-chiles-reveals-his-bathroom-including-urinal-and-west-bromwich-albion-crest/”