[FA Cup 4th Rnd] West Brom 0-2 Wolves: Verdict Thread

[Kenny]

The audio is brilliant

https://twitter.com/x/status/1751674846541406704

Well done

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Well done

And then the resigned "aahhh fucking hell"

Then lots and lots of anger, they don't care about us though, it's all about Villa.

 

[leedswolf]

Also he's 47?

If I look like that in 4 years then I'm going to be very upset. Bully looks in far better nick and he's 60 next year.

I look in better nick than him and my hair is longer too!

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

It's outside of his boot, wrong foot, under pressure and it's 1-0.

As I say, scandalous if he meant it. He should probably have more confidence in his ability on the ball, don't take the safe option so often.

Directly in line with it. In my mind it was 100% intended

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Funny their fans are going on about how much our team cost compared to theirs, the season we played them 5 times and they beat us 4 theirs cost a fortune and ours was Mick's journeymen, football is cyclical you daft bastards.

 

[AndyWolves]

It's outside of his boot, wrong foot, under pressure and it's 1-0.

As I say, scandalous if he meant it. He should probably have more confidence in his ability on the ball, don't take the safe option so often.

I'd say he meant to put it into an area as Cunha was already on his bike. He just got the execution spot on

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Knobhead

Off the pitch
I expected trouble,probably not in the ground and how it panned out ..but unfortunately it has been building due to the time frame/covid/ us “missing” each other.
Quite rightly some will say it doesn’t matter who starts it etc
But when they threw the orange smoke bomb on the pitch …then threw one IN TO THE ALBION FANS the police should have took decisive action …they didn’t they say back and allowed it to ramp up
Albion throwing bottles and then the favour being returned

Absolute top marks for Bartley and the others to run in to that mess because all you care about is the safety of your kids/family shows courage and he /they have gone up in my estimation a lot …
There are all sorts of whispers flying around
Was it a wolves fan?,did someone attack Bartley’s missus,did someone attack a sub,how did they get tickets etc

I don’t know,I hope they find out but what I do know is the police were slow to act,the stewards generally look like they couldn’t cope with a rush of 1 let alone a few hundred and there is now a very real chance that some sort of financial penalty for the sake of the mindless…blows any chance we had of destabilising/a buy out/a promotion .
I’m glad we took the decision not to take the kids today ….yhey wont be going to blues either now…but the FA may decide non of us do.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Voice of reason.

Secondly off the pitch, judging by the amount of chavvy little reprobates in Stone Island gear I was surrounded by walking up Birmingham Road. When you're chanting "W***y w***y Wanderers" at your own fans because you've mistaken them for Wolves fans, you've lost the plot. And that was before getting in the ground.

I don't care if there were Wolves fans in the home end, you stand back and let the police deal with it. You don't go chasing from one stand to the other to wade in. You don't use a shift in police presence to create a problem elsewhere. And you don't throw things at opposition players, even if they're Wolves.

I'm absolutely ashamed to be an Albion fan tonight, we're a national disgrace, and it's the kind of thing that could cost us a very good owner. We're already broke, we don't need the national attention, negative publicity, and inevitable fines.

 

[Jinky]

Saw a video on Twitter (I refuse to call it ‘X’), but my feed refreshed & I lost it so can’t post a link. It basically showed the start of the trouble up at the Wolves fans end, and from what I could see our lot were singing “2-0 on your big day out” and then an Albion fan has completely lost it and swung at a copper. There was then a ruck/mosh-pit surge forward and that’s when the police and Albion fans started fighting.

Showed clearly that it was all on their fans. If I were Wolves, I’d be doing everything to distance ourselves from the trouble and I’m pleased GON said our fans were “well behaved” in his post match presser.

The links posted earlier in the thread seem to show that it was one solitary Wolves fan in the Baggies end, but the aftermath to being ‘outed’ with all their fans spilling on the pitch is an embarrassment. Plus an Albion fan would have had to have sold the ticket to him (or bought it him knowing full well he’d be sat next to them).

I suspect we’ll get a fine for being part of it - but their fans have let themselves down badly today. The bigger picture is they’ll now probably get a fine that the club won’t be able to afford to pay!

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

This one wants GON charged

I’d suggest there will be a few on here who know wolves fans and if they could/did get them a ticket in our end would honestly expect them to behave ?
It could be said that the season ticket holders shouldn’t have sold the tickets on…but if they have lost their jobs/suffered from mortgage interest rates etc etc …and got offered £200 …is it that easy to turn it down?…again with a certain expectation that adults can behave ?
I actually have more issue today with the dingles in the dingles end that saw fit to hurl a flare in to our fans …that is dangerous .

It’ll be interesting to see what the FA do and if they decide to take action against O’Neil when after all that had happened today…he felt it ok to go rev them up a bit more whilst the police were still trying to hold on to some sort of control .

 

[Alan]

I didn't notice Gary do anything incendiary?

 

[AndyWolves]

Shades of Lindsey from Walsall

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I didn't notice Gary do anything incendiary?

It's because he didn't.

This precious darling is referring to GON doing the fist pump thing to the Wolves fans at the end.

 

[Alan]

It's because he didn't.

This precious darling is referring to GON doing the fist pump thing to the Wolves fans at the end.

And I thought I was a snowflake.

 

[leedswolf]

Saw a video on Twitter (I refuse to call it ‘X’)

You just have

 

[Lupo]

I was surprised that GO and the players went to the fans at the end, was expecting them to exit the field as fast as possible but I was pleased they did - GO, his staff, the players and the fans deserved it and nothing wrong either besides, from what I could see most of the Albion lot had left by then

 

[Wolvensam]

I think there’s fault both sides and the attempt to shuffle blame one way or the other is a bit odd - particularly when they’re going so far as to say there’s a cost of living crisis so you can’t blame WBA fans for selling tickets for potentially hundreds, and it isn’t their fault their mate didn’t behave.

You’ve got to be a special kind of weapon to buy a ticket in a home end and celebrate in a local derby, same with throwing missiles into fans. But you’re also a weapon for throwing bottles and coins at opposing players, “invading” the pitch and going so far as to confront a stand of 4,000 Wolves fans. If it was one Wolves fan there was no need for what looked like a hundred Albion fans to get involved - let the stewards escort him or her out.

Bottom line is that Albion shouldn’t have given ST holders the option of an extra ticket. Stick to a loyalty points system for these games and sell tickets to those with purchase history. Who cares if there are empty seats? Empty seats speak more for the disillusion the fanbase has with its current ownership, for which I don’t blame them really.

 

[Kenny]

At least we avoided doing a Newcastle and have a team celebration picture on the pitch.

As there wasn't a pitch invasion at FT it was fair game to stay on and celebrate. Didn't cross any lines in doing so. Certainly wasn't OTT stuff.

 

[jd1981]

The key factor is that the majority of our fans who got tickets through the right channels behaved in a good way.
Fan misbehaving or an away fan in the wrong end is the problem of the home side and security levels of ticketing.
Very little wolves as club can do when a fan gets a ticket from a mate of a mate in the home end.

 

[Wolvensam]

At least we avoided doing a Newcastle and have a team celebration picture on the pitch.

As there wasn't a pitch invasion at FT it was fair game to stay on and celebrate. Didn't cross any lines in doing so. Certainly wasn't OTT stuff.

I don’t really see how any punishment can come Wolves’ way as a club - maybe a lifetime ban for the fan who riled their supporters up but that’s it. Wolves can’t control their fans buying tickets from Albion fans, and Neto and Cunha just gave a bit of banter in their goal celebrations. Nothing more, nothing less.

Albion are going to have a full investigation on their hands and, rivalries aside, I do feel sorry for the loyal supporters of the club and what their club has become. It is being awfully mismanaged.