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 […]
Newcastle United Vs Wolves Preview
The gap to sixth is only two points, but it will still take a strong finish to make it into the European places. By my reckoning, something like 62 points is going to be the minimum requirement and that means four wins and a draw at least from the remaining seven games. The obvious route […]
Wolves 2 Newcastle 1
A bit like my cocker spaniel Jake, it’s hard not to love these Wolves. Everything they do is with the best intentions, but you never feel you can relax when you’re watching for fear that they’ll do something unfathomably stupid. This was a spectacle that induced plenty of smiles, mingled with a similar amount of […]
Wolves Vs Newcastle Preview
Winning at Southampton felt like getting our head above the water. The question is – can we now start to swim? It was similar post-Watford of course, only for Brentford to drag us back below the surface. If we don’t want to be floating in and around the bottom three all season, we need to […]
Newcastle United 1 Wolves 1
Nights out in Newcastle are often unpredictable. Not for Wolves. As the Sky Sports statisticians pointed out before kick-off, a draw was always the most likely outcome. Given the Toon’s torrid run of form, it’d be fair to view the result as a missed opportunity to get another three points on the board. But, in […]
Newcastle United Vs Wolves Preview
Whether or not you subscribe to the view that we were lucky to beat Leeds, nobody can deny performances have improved. I still think we’re disjointed in certain areas and there isn’t the understanding between players that often comes with time. In that respect, a full week on the training ground should have been beneficial […]