Wolves banter 10

13 Sep 2025 18:29:45
.P.s Both linesman could have had done better than Hwang.

13 Sep 2025 19:04:50
I see the Opta super computer is now predicting Wolves for relegation as we had no points after 3 games, now 4 of course. It may seem a bit odd to be making any predictions so early in the season but maybe it heard Jeff's comments that he considers the first 10-15 games as the early part of the season that we may need to settle in the 'new team'.

Having said that it 's probably taken into account the attitude of the owners, recent history, the progressive and ongoing selling off of our best players and the stats of the players we've signed. So does it make it's decisions based on the facts and pure logic and does it lack consideration for 'the human factor' such as players ability to adjust and 'up their game' as it clearly doesn't seem to think this team is good enough at the moment.

It also can't account for Fosun's secret weapon i.e. The January window. If, however, we are struggling by Xmas in the zone, how many more transfer rejections are we likely to incur then? Will our ability to improve the team just diminish further and the computer is predicting that as well? It probably feels we can't keep dodging bullets forever.

We all hope VP can get the nose up but do we have the talent, the reputation or the backing to pull it off? It may be early days for some but wouldn't it have been nice, just for a change, to have some points on the board by now? So yet again we're surrendering the opening games points to the 'it takes time' mantra and although it's how you finish the race not how you start, are we seeing any evidence of the potential for that required level of improvement?

13 Sep 2025 19:04:55
I had a better game than hwang, sitting at home listening to it oxley.
Admittedly he was mentioned more times in the first two minutes than in all the games he's played this year and that was his goal v Everton. Somebody likes him tho!

13 Sep 2025 19:43:01
Shi stated 32, 000 is a big enough stadium, Fosun have assembled a squad to prove him right.

13 Sep 2025 18:28:36
Very worrying that our best players, notably Andre and Joao Gomez are looking increasingly frustrated with the much inferior players around them.

13 Sep 2025 18:10:36
Well that’s 8 prem games in a row now without a win - since the famous 6 in a row in fact and heaven forbid anyone mention the fact that those 6 games were against the worst 6 teams at the time. I mentioned it once and didn’t get away with it.
Championship here we come.
🎶Bring back, bring back, oh bring back our Nuno to us to us.🎶
Except he wouldn’t come back because he’s got too much sense.

13 Sep 2025 19:32:40
Get over Nuno, i'm tired of hearing the same stuck record.

13 Sep 2025 20:25:40
Well said Rated

13 Sep 2025 20:32:45
Same here Rated RKO. It's over, done, history.

13 Sep 2025 20:46:06
I have got over him. That last part of my post was just a tongue in cheek dig at those who slag him off for a supposedly poor last season when we ‘only’ finished 13th.
I expect we’ll be dreaming of a 13th place finish in the premiership for the next few years.
The real point I wanted to make was the first paragraph

13 Sep 2025 23:46:46
Is that a 'dig' at me 3G? Can you show me the post where I 'slag him off'? Thanks.

I did point out that we finished 13th in his last season but that is fact. We also finished 6 places lower than the previous season. Again, fact.

We were also 14 points worse off.

There were other things going on behind the scenes that most fans didn't know about regarding Nunos mental health.

Never have I slagged him off but I also don't like to live in the past. If I did, I'd be shouting for the descendants of Stan Cullis, Billy Wright and Bully to run the club.

14 Sep 2025 03:00:22
His last season with us was the beginning of our decline he had no plan b.

14 Sep 2025 06:55:00
Wandering, ‘slag him off’ is/was a figure of speech. I didn’t mean to offend. Apologies if I did. I accept you have a right to your opinion as I’m sure you accept I have a right to mine. It’s a banter site a so a bit disagreement is natural. The first part of my post about the 6 in a row was a bit of a wind up as well. 😉. Again no real offence intended.
Part of this comes from frustration and hurt which I suspect we are all feeling at the moment.
Let’s not forget the real ones deserving of our angst is Fosun.
After we are all ‘Wolves Ay We’!

14 Sep 2025 07:13:22
We all see things differently Rated. My interpretation was that we were flying high and Santo wanted to re-inforce our progress. For their own reasons, Fosun refused to support him in the transfer market. From then, morale dropped and the same with results.
Since then, the pattern has been the same and if results don't change, we will be needing yet another Coaching Team.

14 Sep 2025 09:14:17
The thing is 3G, although you make some valid points, the people who are 'Nuno back' fail to acknowledge that in Bruno Lages only full season, we finished 10th and he was given no backing either.

14 Sep 2025 20:59:47
Look at the squad Nuno assembled, that Lage inherited and what has been purchased over the past 12 months. It feels like its the office manager not the team managers that have let the club down as its a slow decline in both quality and aspirations.

13 Sep 2025 18:03:56
It's probably been a year since I last posted, but I've been reading all the comments from everyone. I've been watching all the games and I wasn't panicked last year and I'm not in panic mode now.

Although I didn't want to lose Cunha, I think it was the right move since we needed multiple position improvements and need funds to accommodate. I also think selling RAN was the right call as he wasn't really much help defensively and even offensively didn't do much except do some fancy skill moves at times.

I think we did well overall with replacements. It would have been better to have got them in sooner, but that is not always easy. I like the roster now, with a few exceptions (mainly Hwang), but it will take time to completely gel with so many new people.

The offense will take the longest to settle, but JSL with Tolu upfront could be a formidable pairing. I'm excited to see the two of them together at some point. Midfield is pretty solid with lots of options to use. I don't think the defense was so bad today, especially considering the Newcastle offensive firepower. They were always going to get some chances. High ball crosses into the box are just lucky sometimes that they fall into the right spot in between defenders or defenders are outjumped. I like the Mosquera, Agbadou, Toti grouping or the switch with Krejci in the middle.

Keep the faith everyone.give VP some time to mold this team!

13 Sep 2025 19:07:44
Sorry no but that tolu is not a premier league player and none of the other signings either. We are not ok by any means. Can't keep blaming hwang. Toti.munetsi. agbadou bellegarde.are all playing like they don't know each other. Leeds game is massive win and there's hope but losing could be catastrophy and that's when I think vp will walk. This is only my opinion as a wolves fan since 1965. I really do hope I'm wrong

13 Sep 2025 21:26:25
Njwolf.next time u post then wel be in the championship.simple as that.wake up buddy.wer in big trouble this ssn.its easy to see we are clueless.and vp doesn't know his best11 or formation.need a goal and bring on munetsi.sez it all👎

14 Sep 2025 01:22:26
Lexluna. You've already determined Tolu isn't "Premier League quality" based on his first 60 mins or so with a new team in a new league. Ha, ha, ha.

Buxwolf. That may be the case that Wolves don't stay up this year, but I think we will be fine. I don't think VP knows his best 11 yet either, but I think he is getting closer.

13 Sep 2025 17:20:16
Can't score
Can't keep a clean sheet.
Hwang is awful
Agbadou is not up to standard
Trying hard to see some positives but it's hard.
VP pick your starting 11 and let's have some consistency.

13 Sep 2025 17:39:26
Share everyone’s frustration, hard to see any positives, Johnstone and Tolu were ok. Never thought Cunha and RAN would be missed so much, without them we have no creativity, wait a minute a few of us on here did see this coming unfortunately it seems our club didn’t. Very frustrating, long season ahead, not good to watch either, inevitable goal conceded then that is it.

13 Sep 2025 17:40:26
There dosnt seem to be any method to our game nando. Nobody seems to know what to do with the ball in a positive way. Hwang is a waste and a passenger out there. Why is he persisted with?

14 Sep 2025 00:24:38
Spot on Abbey, even the pundits have noticed. It was pointed out at half time today (during the in match commentary) that pundits know how every other team in the Prem is 'trying' to play but they couldn't honestly say what our game plan is?!
Now this isn't a pop at VP as I suspect with the hand he's been dealt he's trying to work that out himself. But how have we signed a £26m CB to start in midfield today?! Upon which note I owe an apology, as I vehemently argued 'why would we sign CB to play in midfield' well it would seem we've done precisely that. The reason I argued it is because it is beyond stupid/desperate to do that, but it would seem that this is the hand VP has been dealt!
I do feel for VP, cause he's a good manager but like EVERY single manager before him (since Nuno) he has been entirely set up to fail by our shockingly poor transfer system. We didn't play badly today but we also never looked like scoring and that's a REAL problem! Worth noting here that Brentford have also been descimated in the transfer window but they still managed to score two today and also take a point! We are in VERY real trouble and anyone that doesn't see that is fooling themselves. We sold our goals and replaced them on the cheap (yet again) sooner or later that will cost you in this league.
BTW I'm not even saying the players we've signed aren't good enough, I honestly couldn't say yet! I'm sure that there's some talent there (I actually thought Tolu looked sharp considering the circumstances, he'd have scored without a brilliant intervention from Schar).
But what I am saying is that signing this many first team players THIS far into the season is clearly a problem! Let's hope VP can work a miracle and bring it all together VERY quickly cause if not I genuinely worry that we might be cut a drift before half of our players will even be up to speed for this league! No pressure then, good luck VP, you can do this (I hope:)! COYW 🐺

13 Sep 2025 17:12:59
Hwang is always awful he's bune idiol I wouldn't play him from start tbf

13 Sep 2025 16:09:22
Half time observations :
Whang awful
Bueno bad defending on wrong side
Krejci in wrong position
Mosquera all over the place
Defence awful
Need.
Arias for Whang
Anybody for Whang
Lopez in midfield Kreji at back
Jackson for Bueno
Wolfe for R.Gomes

13 Sep 2025 16:22:23
I never thought I'd say it, but Sam Johnstone is having a good game.I do still think we can get something out of this game 😕

13 Sep 2025 16:49:50
Whang having his usual game, invisible. I'm surprised VP goes along with having to play him he's a liability. He would be better off leaving him on the bench and just hang his photo in the centre circ!e! Decisions like that ensures we will be relegated. Crazy?

13 Sep 2025 17:00:30
Still not good enough sorry, just not enough chances created. First time we ever lost our 4 opening games, not sure tbh how we improve, not starting Hwang would surely help.

13 Sep 2025 17:19:50
The game after Newcastle scored was over. We had nothing going forward we couldn't put two passes together.
The changes we needed seemed obvious, but we got menetsi and bellegarde until finally lopez and jackson when we looked a little as if we could get a equaliser, but, why oh why do we take an, overhit, short corner in the last minute instead of plonking into the box?
I've never ever been so frustrated by such a lacklustre unambitious performance.
I must give credit where its due though I thought Johnstone proved how good he can be today.
Very despondent at any chance of survival now, the team just are not a team, they're disjointed in movement and position, passing awful and as the commentary said at one point, Arias wasn't expecting the ball from bellegarde, well he b****y well should have been. Is that lack of training, tactics or orders and how much does it reflect on VP?

13 Sep 2025 17:35:04
VP will get the flack Abbey, no doubt, some maybe justified but we all know the real problems run much deeper.

13 Sep 2025 21:33:22
We actually lookwd good for a while.gomez should really hav hada hatrick today.if1 of them had gone in I think we cudv held them out.but we just can't bloody score when we need to.with the chances we have.and none of the new signings look upto it.championship level so wel be ok next ssn.playing wrexham🫣

13 Sep 2025 15:31:18
Carved open like a tin of beans.

13 Sep 2025 15:57:56
How we're Wolves carved open like a tin of beans when it was a corner and he headed in. Explain how were Wolves carved open to me that means they had the ball and a brilliant pass.

13 Sep 2025 16:04:04
Not looking good at HT. Realise Newcastle at home but we still lack creativity.

13 Sep 2025 17:02:50
Because they shouldn't be able to get the cross in and Agbadou shouldn't be SO poor in the air defending the cross!
The defence worries but it's our goals or lack of which will likely send us down!
To make £60+m from Cunha and only replace him with Arias is criminal! And to say all this is VERY predictable would be the understatement of the year! 😭

13 Sep 2025 17:40:28
Some of the same problems as last year already this season. Cannot defend set pieces and crosses.

13 Sep 2025 14:52:20
Interesting line up 3 at the back 3 in mf Kryjci starts with Whang and Tolu up front.

13 Sep 2025 15:01:58
Never predicted this line up 🤞👍

13 Sep 2025 14:30:22
9-0 to Newcastle i've gone for.

13 Sep 2025 16:06:35
Nah.5 nil