Wolves Banter 2

22 Mar 2026 10:13:01
Does the referee add extra time on after a team has scored a goal? Some highlights see some players go overboard in celebrating a goal. It seems to take forever for the scoring team to return for the kick off.

22 Mar 2026 11:28:55
Certainly hope so, LindsayB. Sometimes it's hard to watch or believe that these are grown men.

25 Mar 2026 22:25:07
I think they do if excessive time is taken in celebrating.

22 Mar 2026 07:39:02
{Ed's Note - BlueNose1878 has posted a new article entitled, Everton Finally Look Like a Proper Unit

21 Mar 2026 16:54:14
So VAR is once more being controversial, wondering if the 19 supporting clubs think about their decision to keep it now?

21 Mar 2026 07:39:03
{Ed's Note - EHL2020 has posted a new article entitled, Rangers and Scotland’s Youth Pathway Problem

20 Mar 2026 19:42:26
So Mane has been called up for the Portuguese U21 squad and a reshuffle of the Academy to create a clearer pathway into first team football is underway.

Christian Preuber, formerly Head Coach of Borussia Dortmund II, is appointed as the new Academy Head of Football with Ian Sharps also promoted to Head of the younger age groups. It appears that the wheels are in motion for Nathan Shi's declared re-organisation plans, at least at Academy level, and not before time as they've not exactly been prolific of late.



Of course, we're all itching for news on what's likely to happen on the business development side of the club plus the first team rebuild, etc, but I suppose they've got all summer for that. Let's hope they get it all done and dusted well before the last day of the window this time.

21 Mar 2026 11:03:17
Exactly four months from today is the tenth anniversary date when the Fosun takeover was announced, Tuesday 21st July. The announcement was so long in coming that Julen Lopetegui pulled out of the running for the Wolves job to manage the Spanish national team instead. We got 'man in a suitcase' Walter Zenga in his place.

After that false start, we bought some of the finest players ever to grace Molineux, and one of the most popular coaches, Nuno. Of course, by now we should have been playing football regularly in Europe according to the ten-year plan.

It's up to Nathan Shi to resurrect those decade-old ambitions.

22 Mar 2026 13:26:28
Borussia Dortmund is a top quality academy and as good as any to model ourselves on.

19 Mar 2026 07:39:02
{Ed's Note - EHL2020 has posted a new article entitled, Why Preseason Conditioning Shapes Tactical Success

18 Mar 2026 06:09:51
I see Kmi has said that the 1st booking Krejci received against Palace was incorrect and ultimately, he shouldn't have been sent off.

We were on top up to that point and on course for 3 points. The sending off had massive implications for us.

But everyone except Wolves voted to keep this useless system in place.

18 Mar 2026 16:46:35
VAR can't change a yellow, I don't think. It's the refs that are the problem.

18 Mar 2026 18:20:21
VAR checks 2nd yellow cards, so you are correct.

However, KMI analyses all key decisions, including VAR decisions, and stated that the 1st yellow card shouldn't have been issued, so Krejci should not have been sent off.

It has cost us 3 points, which may well prove to be vital if we carry on playing as we are.

19 Mar 2026 15:20:43
Did KMI make any judgement on the second foul by Hughes in the first half, when he was already on a yellow, plus the foul that led to our penalty, which should have been a red? Totally robbed that day and, in
my opinion, the worst refereeing I've seen this season.

Gillett, the Aussie, wasn't it? He first came to our notice when he sent off Lemina at Southampton for trying to speak to him!

19 Mar 2026 15:49:40
Sorry, it was Tom Kirk, not Gillett.

17 Mar 2026 07:37:57
Only seen highlights, but looks like we played well. Poor goals conceded, unfortunately, but to score 2 away at Brentford this season is good going.
Maybe we can trust in Rob after all, keep it going please for rest of season. 🤞

17 Mar 2026 10:59:20
A good point away against a team in 7th place. Rob has clearly turned the tide. He took over an unfit, demoralised shambles of a squad. Rome wasn't built in a day. Since the start of the year, his PL stats are: played 12, points 14.

Over a whole season, that equals 44 points and safety. This bodes well for the Championship if Rob is given the opportunity and support.

17 Mar 2026 15:21:45
Deep, excellent post.
However, sadly, the punishment for being relegated, which, as you say, is almost entirely self inflicted and totally baffling, is that you have to hand over most, if not all, of your good players, and for peanuts.
The rumoured price for the best player, ok not everybody on here rates him, but in my view he is a top 4 calibre player, Gomes J, is a pathetic £30 -40m!
Consequently, next season's side will be nothing like the side currently playing.


Thus, whilst the current side, as you say, might be a lower mid-table Prem side, and probably a v good bet to do very well in the Championship, the team Wolves are able to put out after handing over the better players is far from certain to be near the top of the Championship!
Thanks, Jeff!

17 Mar 2026 16:02:28
Watched most of the second half. We looked good at times, unlucky hitting the bar and post.

17 Mar 2026 16:23:36
A good point, Future. All players will take a dramatic pay cut and their values will inevitably drop. Hopefully, Shi 2 will insist that, as players are under contract and the club are not under pressure financially to sell (his words a few months ago), then no one will be sold on the cheap.



Personally, I don't see it as Fosun have run the club over the last few seasons and done nothing but sell us fans short. The squad will be very different come August, so although this squad are now producing, will next season?

17 Mar 2026 17:19:31
Future, it is of course a crying shame that Fosun and Jeff have squandered our PL status. I also blame Vito Pereira, whatever was he thinking in the transfer window last summer? He inherited a team with some exceptional players and yet was acquiescent in selling those players without adequate replacements.

He should have raised merry hell instead. We gave him too much credit for saving us from relegation in the prior season, but that was no big deal with the quality we had then, was it? Obviously a 'yes man'. I hope he takes Forest down.

17 Mar 2026 23:02:11
Deep, once again, an excellent post.
To be fair to Vitor, he made it clear he was totally and utterly pee'd off by Jeff and wanted out, but Jeff wouldn't pay him to go, so he stayed.
However, only in body - bit like several of the players - traffic cone, I'm looking at you!
Disgraceful and disrespectful behaviour by all concerned, showing once again what a toxic mess Wolves have/had become under Jeff.


What I can't understand is how a massive multi-billion company like Fosun can have allowed such mismanagement of a not insignificant business for so long?
How did they fail to see what was screamingly obvious in the accounts, for those that read accounts, and on the pitch, for those that can read football pitches, and in the league table for those that can merely read!

16 Mar 2026 23:58:16
Not many teams come back from two down away at Brentford. It bodes well and shows that Re is on the right track though we shouldn’t have to start playing well when we are two down. Team spirit is good, and they are playing for Re. He couldn’t do much more at the moment but did make a mistake in not going for the FA Cup.

If we can build on what we have, we may have a decent Championship team who can give it a go. There are probably six or seven PL teams who are not as good as us at the moment, but that doesn’t help us in our position.

17 Mar 2026 01:06:29
In New Zealand, I have the privilege of watching all games live. Now, did anyone else notice very few players acknowledged Armstrong after his goal, and none celebrated?
Most strange.

17 Mar 2026 06:52:07
Didn't notice at the time positively negative, but then I was celebrating myself. Looking at the stills this morning, it does seem as if Armstrong himself was subdued in his goal and Mane and Kreiji were the only ones offering a hand of congratulations. I'm sure there was more than that, but maybe lost by TV viewers due to our own excitement and the TV replays etc.
What a game of halves tho? First, we seemed lethargic and careless again, showing why we're bottom of the table. Armstrong tho was having possibly his best game so far and his cracker lifted the spirit just before HT.


In the second, with Mane's removal, who, to be honest, had been very poor, and Angel bolstering MF, we came out fighting. Jackson started putting a shift in, and Hugo had woken up on the left.
So unlucky not to have nicked it. Equally, we were lucky when the Brentford lad shouldered it instead of getting his head to it.
It's all abit too late now, but at least we are still capable of giving it abit of effort for these final games.

17 Mar 2026 07:16:12
Another great comeback, no doubt, Wsd, but why do we seem to need to concede early in order to wake up and start playing?

I've generally not been over impressed with Angel Gomes so far, but his performance second half changed the game, putting some control back into the midfield.



As for Re being the one to get us back up, we'll see, but Fosun will need to play their part and fully back him in the Summer.

17 Mar 2026 10:50:21
Spot on, Longmynd. I understand and sympathise with your reservations about Angel Gomes in his first few matches, and, like you, was much more encouraged by his performance when he came on as sub last night. I wonder if I was maybe being a bit too unrealistic in my expectations of him, taking it for granted he would settle in immediately, and start putting in the sort of performances that earned him a handful of England caps a while ago. He's been playing abroad for a good while now, and the adjustment to the pace and physicality of the Prem almost certainly needs time and another level of fitness.


I think he worked well with Joao and Andre, knitting things together and getting us upfield in a more coherent manner than we managed in the first half, where we either dithered on the ball while trying to play out from the back, or resorted to hoofing it into vacant territory for Armstrong to chase. He strikes me as a fairly diffident sort of character, and maybe he just needs to feel he's totally accepted by his fellow players and fans alike. A few more contributions like last night may just do him the world of good.

16 Mar 2026 22:09:28
2-2 is a fair result. We was very poor first half, Armstrong's goal sparked us, both Armstrong and Tolu both unlucky not to have had a brace.

16 Mar 2026 21:59:20
Shame. We should have won that. Gomes should have come on sooner and Tolu! We needed to attack more second half.