Wolves v Pups Post-Match Thread

[mrfuse]

When did Wolves get good?

They've luckily picked a (seemingly) good manager - it happens for teams every now and then.

They're clearly the best team I've seen this season, and probably an anomaly for the league. They play like that all the time they'll cruise the league.

We're miles behind them. But we're way beyond many others.

Put it behind us and move on to all the other teams we should be beating.

With the money we've spent we should be beating Wolves never mind the other Teams. I didn't think Wolves were that good, we just made them look half decent. If you sit off teams that can finish and let them play you get punished. We got away with it on our recent run because none of those teams actually did anything with the ball.

[Axl Rose]

Plain and simple, boo.

Most of us knew that Bruce wouldn't actually try and win-which is very sad considering the players he has at his disposal.

I thought it would still be a decent game, and hoped my prediction of an exhilarating 3-3 draw would come to fruition. Even if I was secretly hoping for a win, deep down in my heart. Somewhere. Hope often trumps common sense when it comes to my emotions for Villa.

In the end, after a long day at work, and getting home at around midnight, I simply decided, 'no, I'm not going to stay up/get up and watch it. I'll only get irritated. And the football will be dreadful. And Bruce won't look as if he has a clue'.

And so common sense eventually trumped hope.

The highlights, match reports and comments on here suggested we weren't very good. Did we have any chances besides Snodgrass hitting the crossbar?

Very very tired of having Bruce as manager. I don't like him.

We go again? Oh no.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Just watched the post match comments, have to say I'm bit surprised that wasn't "the worst we've played since I got here".

I've decided to avoid listening to anything he has to say. I so wish I didn't care and could simply walk away. But as we all know, we were here before him and we'll be here long after he's gone. The David Davis of football management.

[BC54 VFC]

Awful display, but at least my day wasn't totally spoiled as I then saw a brilliant performance by Dua Lipa (my 2nd this week) at the O2 Academy.

[alftitimus]

 

Well, there you go.

So many acute people, saying they 'expected' the result, because of Steve's football DNA.

I'm inclined to agree with them - I expected it as well.

But witnessing it is sad beyond belief. It's like you sigh and hold your breath when the opposition have the ball, then become ecstatic if one of ours body-blocks or clears it to Row Z.

Small pleasures in an avalanche of despair.

 

I've never been a Terry-Lover, but tried to follow his movements today.
Pretty shocking.
He can't run but stands-Up very bravely in close quarters.imo
2/3 times I noticed that instead of closing down he struggled back to his centre goal position, allowing a continued free run from a player he could have stopped.

He seems intelligent enough to know his limitations, and it may be that intelligence that is allowing him 90 minutes every 7 days...midweeks not included.
But speed, turning... non-existant. We saw him today to actually allow a Wolves player a run into the box, rather than tackle/block, even,  foul....  he just stepped aside and walked.
Walked after him.

Although Steve enjoyed a good Holiday with his son, seducing Terry, on Xia's dosh no doubt, and XIA agreeing a wage package that blew SHA out of the water.

It's another few millions down the drain from the amateurish, NO-IDEA
Mr. Xia.

Steve must be held responsible for his cowardice and lack of confidence....really, our squad is second only to Wolves. In fees / money for players.

Mr Xia was right, September was crucial for us. And it solidified Steve's position.

The rest of the season may matter more.

Teams from Man Utd  to Derby all play the counter-attack, Lambert did it, defend, absorb- spring out.

Steve doesn't seem to have got over the first 2 principles. Unless a desperate hoofball is the 'spring-out' tactic.

Hutton started at last, and his performance, to me was 100% vindication that Steve does have some kind of brain cell...just not many more.

 

[QuintonVilla]

The counter attacking point is spot on. The way he sets us up away from home means we need to be able to counter attack, the trouble is there's zero pace in our team. Our counter attack was smash it up to Davis and hope he holds it up. Wolves attacked with pace, cohesion, passing and movement whereas we genuinely couldn't string three passes together. For the money we've spent the football should be much, much better.

[mr underhill]

normal service resumed.

[ozzjim]

People seem shocked that Wolves are good. They bloody well should be. We may have spent a lot but they have shelled out massive amounts on the Jorge Mendes backdoor project, manager and half the team are essentially champioons league quality and it showed. An agent is in bed with the owners and taking players there that I doubt even knew who wolves were before being told to go there. I expected the result because they have done nothing to try and comply with FFP while we scratched about trying to all summer. The big tests for us are Fulham and Blues. I will wait till after those games before deciding the last 6 weeks were a blip from the norm.

[clash city rocker]

Wolves were the best team. However they are no world beaters but the way we play makes them look better than they are. We didn't pressure them and gave their players time and space so was no wonder that they improved as the game went on. It's like a boxer standing there and just taking punches but throwing any himself eventually there is only going to be one result.

[devilla]

That was the most obvious defeat before the match on paper. Wolves have CL quality forwards, we have Alan fucking Hutton. If we want automatic, going to have to be 2nd. That's very hopeful though.

I think That's unfair to Hutton. He was easily our best player in this one.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

A disappointing, but sadly predictable result yesterday. However it's losses like this that compounds our poor start to the season and lost opportunities against the likes of Hull, Brentford and Borough at home and abject displays like  Reading and Bristol away. Of course we'll lose games (losing to probably the eventual champions being the point in case) but failing to win games that we should take all 3 points from is what's going to cost us.

[olaftab]

Good post alftitmus.

[Bad English]

Good post alftitmus.

You don't read that very often. Rare as white dog shit.

[oldtimernow]

Snodgrass and Elmohamady combined didn't make the attacking equivalent of one player, or when defending the equivalent of one player.

add this to a midfield two against their four and we were under equipped to deal with their breaks,

then add a slow responding middle pair of defenders and what do you get?

[MONCABA]

Disappointed,  yes. Surprised,  no. Bruce has spent our millions very poorly trying to buy the best players from  club's, but not really thinking how he was going to use them. Nuno on the other hand has used his Portuguese connections and George  Mendes to uncover these gems.  Maybe our scouts need to look further afeild.