Wolves v Pups Post-Match Thread

[wittonwarrior]

Playing a flat back four with whelan in no man’s  Land is bound to leave you with nothing.  Adomah have to track back just to get the ball is wrong. 

If we can see it why can’t bruce

[Legion]

Somethingorotherlights

[ChicagoLion]

I thought a Kodija looked disinterested, Whelan was over run and our shape did not help him.I was expecting the problems down our left but I thought Hutton and Albert did ok. Elmo was all over the place.
We got to half time and was hoping he would change it but hey let’s wait until they score.
They obliged.
Bringing a Hogan on is like conceding defeat.
The resources he has available are much better than that performance.

[SoccerHQ]

Wolves were bad enough to finish below us last season.

Obviously they've spent big and spent it on real quality but so have we (last summer aswell).

Embarrassing how big a gulf there was in passing and vision tonight. It's game like this when SB is really shown up as being a dinosaur coach I'm afraid.

Luckily there isn't another team on Wolves level in this league (Sheffield United are more a physical high tempo team) so I suspect we'll go back to grinding results out and hovering between 4th-8th over the next few weeks.

[CT]

Well, well, well........

Well beaten by a decent footballing side who play football on the front foot , with pace and purpose. Passed us off the park - but every team does that.

Surrounded by well pissed people - Fans fighting amongst themselves near us . The extra 2 and a half hours in the pub for a 5.30 kick meant that most the people round where I sat were shitfaced.

The unseasonly well warm weather caught a few out - B O everywhere .

Knew Bruce would go there hoping for a point - don’t remember their keeper making a save .

Yep, there's a rather embarrassing video of our lot fighting amongst themselves.

[adrenachrome]

Completely predictable you just knew Bruce would set us up like that, we should have sacked that idiot when we had the chance.

It was my biggest fear.

I said in the pre match thread I wanted us to have a go and have an attempt at controlling the game. We failed misraebly on both counts. It's simply not in Bruce's management DNA to go to a tough away ground and look to attack.

It will be the same at SHA in two weeks time.

I could cope more with losing 3-2 in an end to end game. That would show we're continuing to improve. Tonight shows we're flat track bullies at this level.

That was pretty much my reaction. One shot on target.

[exiled on the wirral!]

Beaten by a better team, but it's not the end of the world. Even Ron  Saunders who won the league in 81 lost games!. It's a setback but we haven't lost much ground today. Really some people need to calm down..are we expected to go the rest of the season unbeaten?

[sickbeggar]

You look at the other terrible game today Liverpool vs Man U. Now there's a side in Man U who play awful football away, give away possession and let the opposition shoot at will, but come away with something which seems to be Bruce's plan A. Okay so it cost them 500m to do it, but then Liverpool are a bit better than Wolves. How much does it cost to park the bus in the Championship and why can't we do it?

[aj2k77]

The Hogan substitutions are now becoming laughable. It doesn't matter if it's Hogan, a bloke in a wheelchair, Samba or a flag stuck in the pitch we'd still play the exact same way. We are inflexible under Fist face, we go out the way we do and that's that, no matter who plays.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Beaten by a better team, but it's not the end of the world. Even Ron  Saunders who won the league in 81 lost games!. It's a setback but we haven't lost much ground today. Really some people need to calm down..are we expected to go the rest of the season unbeaten?

It's not the loss.It's the abject manner of it.I want to see some form of an idea,a plan, something to look forward to in our outlook and play.But nothing.Nada.Zilch.

[ChicagoLion]

Beaten by a better team, but it's not the end of the world. Even Ron  Saunders who won the league in 81 lost games!. It's a setback but we haven't lost much ground today. Really some people need to calm down..are we expected to go the rest of the season unbeaten?

That’s fine if you like the second division.
Comparing Bruce with Saunders says everything.

[PaulWinch again]

Yep it's very much the manner of the defeat, rather than the defeat.

[ChicagoLion]

Wolves were bad enough to finish below us last season.

Obviously they've spent big and spent it on real quality but so have we (last summer aswell).

Embarrassing how big a gulf there was in passing and vision tonight. It's game like this when SB is really shown up as being a dinosaur coach I'm afraid.

Luckily there isn't another team on Wolves level in this league (Sheffield United are more a physical high tempo team) so I suspect we'll go back to grinding results out and hovering between 4th-8th over the next few weeks.

I am not convinced that Wolves are that great, well coached and organised but they did not look that special.
They did not have to do much to outplay us, we were that bad, sitting back and inviting them onto us.
We were allways outnumbered in midfield and they pushed thier full backs on to occupy our wide players and full backs.
They knew exactly how Bruce would set us up and did what was necessary.

[Clampy]

Beaten by a better team, but it's not the end of the world. Even Ron  Saunders who won the league in 81 lost games!. It's a setback but we haven't lost much ground today. Really some people need to calm down..are we expected to go the rest of the season unbeaten?

Absolutely, or we could mention Hogan and a bloke in a wheelchair. We lost, it happens.

[QuintonVilla]

First proper test for a while and we failed spectacularly. Wolves, fair play to them, they look a million miles ahead of us. Hate to say it but they're the best team we've played since we came down imo and they'll win the league. Today showed why we won't be near the top two however and the play offs is our aim.

They look so much quicker than us both in defence and attack. The concern for me is Small Heath's attack is full of pace and they'll beat us aswell, then we'll be back to square one and everyone will want Bruce Out.

It says everything when Hutton is your best player. Glenn Whelan is absolute shite, the bloke can't run ffs.