Aston Villa v Wolves Post-Match Thread

[Sexual Ealing]

I still remember looking at Molineux Micks (I had no idea they had so many Irish fans) a few years ago, and someone wrote: "our fans need to understand we're not competing with the likes of Albion and Villa anymore. Real Madrid are our rivals now." And bloody hell, he was right. Sorry, not Real Madrid, Oxford United.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

https://youtu.be/ohHToKw7yjI?si=SCzTdoDoulef0ORc

3:40 "Villa's not our main rivals, its always been Albion, I quite like Villa".

When Uncle Jorge rode into town these ****** spunked there pants quicker than anything to manufacture a rivalry with us. Now they're back on their way to a decade plus in the lower Leagues with a squad of players that even the most die hard Wolves fans wouldn't recognise if they walked past them in the Mander Center, and all of a sudden the 'rivalry' is brushed under the carpet as if it never happened. Monumental bell ends.

That video just confirms my theory that at least 50% of Wolves fans are called Craig.

[VILLA MOLE]

I still remember looking at Molineux Micks (I had no idea they had so many Irish fans) a few years ago, and someone wrote: "our fans need to understand we're not competing with the likes of Albion and Villa anymore. Real Madrid are our rivals now." And bloody hell, he was right. Sorry, not Real Madrid, Oxford United.

Also when we first came back up and we signed loads of players that were dismissed by them as they were after a different calibre of player - levels !

Now I had no issue with them before that, even felt sorry for them when there pitch was miles from the main stand and the other 3 sides shut

Don't think they will be back for a while

[Brazilian Villain]

I still remember looking at Molineux Micks (I had no idea they had so many Irish fans) a few years ago, and someone wrote: "our fans need to understand we're not competing with the likes of Albion and Villa anymore. Real Madrid are our rivals now." And bloody hell, he was right. Sorry, not Real Madrid, Oxford United.

Was it Longford Wolf? I've only ever encountered one Wolves top over here (same with Blues).

[Richard E]

We had more points than Wolves have now after one game in 15/16!

I think they'll win a few and probably get up to about 20 points.

We got more points from yesterday’s game alone than wolves have got all season!

[Rudy Can't Fail]

A hard fought victory with a great goal by Kamara who up until that point had been sluggish. I thought Rogers had a poor game, he is so sloppy at times, in fact I think that’s him, do something brilliant which everyone remembers and for the rest of the game be wasteful or worse, a liability.
Wolves were decent without having any end product the Martinez saves aside. They won’t, but I hope they find some form to make a good fight to stay up.
McGinn was easily player of the match, he’s so good followed by Martinez.

Nailed it for me, Bren. The points you make about Rogers is something I've noted, we all know he has talent but he's either brilliant or a liability. We seem to ignore his lack of pass completion and point the finger at Watkins for not scoring but for too many games they're both so ineffective they may as well not be on the pitch. In Watkins' defence he's largely relying on Rogers for the pass.

For two players that dream of going to the World Cup, on current form they should be looking to buy tickets rather than hope they get selected. I still think Unai needs to play Watkins and Malen together as neither is best suited to playing as the lone striker. The question then is who do you drop to accommodate the additional striker? Maybe sticking Rogers on the left would help but then you still need a hard working 10 in front of Youri and Kamara. On current form only a lunatic would drop SJM and despite not having a great game, Buendia as he offers us so much.

[Concrete Tom]

Thought occurred to me that Strand Laursen could do a job for us. Having resisted the Jaudis this summer, can't see them being able to keep hold of him in January. What's the going rate?

I really like him as well.

Agreed, he would be a very good acquisition if we could get him.

Am I missing something.
Has scored 1 goal this season. And that was from the penalty spot.

We could do with someone able to score from the penalty spot...

[rob_bridge]

I still remember looking at Molineux Micks (I had no idea they had so many Irish fans) a few years ago, and someone wrote: "our fans need to understand we're not competing with the likes of Albion and Villa anymore. Real Madrid are our rivals now." And bloody hell, he was right. Sorry, not Real Madrid, Oxford United.

Was it Longford Wolf? I've only ever encountered one Wolves top over here (same with Blues).

What a bunch of clueless idiots. Surely Nobody is That Thick.

Real's rivals are Barca, Atletico and the Enormo Club CL regulars like PSG, Liverpool, Bayern. They have about 12m fans in Spain alone

Even if Villa won 6 Premier Leagues and 3 Champions Leagues in the next decade, we'd still at best have about 20% of their global 'fan' base.

[LeeB]

I still remember looking at Molineux Micks (I had no idea they had so many Irish fans) a few years ago, and someone wrote: "our fans need to understand we're not competing with the likes of Albion and Villa anymore. Real Madrid are our rivals now." And bloody hell, he was right. Sorry, not Real Madrid, Oxford United.

Was it Longford Wolf? I've only ever encountered one Wolves top over here (same with Blues).

What a bunch of clueless idiots. Surely Nobody is That Thick.

Real's rivals are Barca, Atletico and the Enormo Club CL regulars like PSG, Liverpool, Bayern. They have about 12m fans in Spain alone

Even if Villa won 6 Premier Leagues and 3 Champions Leagues in the next decade, we'd still at best have about 20% of their global 'fan' base.

You've not been to Wolverhampton then?

[PeterWithesShin]

It's that they turned into such massive twats thinking they were going to massively expand the ground and become a European super power and their constant "mind the gap", "levels" etc that makes them being so comically shit so very enjoyable.

[paul_e]

It's that they turned into such massive twats thinking they were going to massively expand the ground and become a European super power and their constant "mind the gap", "levels" etc that makes them being so comically shit so very enjoyable.

That and the fact that none of them seemed to realise that what is happening now was inevitable given how they were operating. Many people tried to warn them that basing your entire strategy on being friendly with an agent wasn't a long-term strategy and they just wouldn't hear it.

[Drummond]

Did what we needed to do. They were overly physical, and we tried not to get involved so no injuries. Sancho seems to be a leader.

Ugly game but a lot of our focus and priority this week falls on Wednesday and Saturday.

Sorry, should have been a semi colon after that bit to explain the Sancho reference.

[Somniloquism]

I think the other issues is the same as we had with Xia, one rule change from Beijing and suddenly they don't have the liquid cash to spend at a football club. (Also Covid really knocked their spending from 2022 as well).

[paul_e]

I think the other issues is the same as we had with Xia, one rule change from Beijing and suddenly they don't have the liquid cash to spend at a football club. (Also Covid really knocked their spending from 2022 as well).

Absolutely , but even without that just being a finishing school for Mendes clients was always a risk.

[rob_bridge]

I still remember looking at Molineux Micks (I had no idea they had so many Irish fans) a few years ago, and someone wrote: "our fans need to understand we're not competing with the likes of Albion and Villa anymore. Real Madrid are our rivals now." And bloody hell, he was right. Sorry, not Real Madrid, Oxford United.

Was it Longford Wolf? I've only ever encountered one Wolves top over here (same with Blues).

What a bunch of clueless idiots. Surely Nobody is That Thick.

Real's rivals are Barca, Atletico and the Enormo Club CL regulars like PSG, Liverpool, Bayern. They have about 12m fans in Spain alone

Even if Villa won 6 Premier Leagues and 3 Champions Leagues in the next decade, we'd still at best have about 20% of their global 'fan' base.

You've not been to Wolverhampton then?

I did the Birmingham and Black Country half marathon twice. Starts in Wolverhampton city centre. Finishes NIA. The first 2-3km I covered were the quickest.
I assume they go in that direction because nobody would sign up if the route was reversed.