Might be by myself here, but I think we are just limping along until the finish line. Then in the summer a new owner will come in, along with a new manager - and there will be lots of ins and outs in the playing staff. The likes of Dicko & Graham will be back from injury for pre-season and it'll be next season that we really push on. It could be useful thinking, but that's what I think the plan is. Maybe Kenny has already been given a heads up that this is the plan which is why he's happy to churn out the same anti-football week in week out, just to make sure we do enough not to get dragged in to a relegation battle?
With so many major changes on the horizon, I'm not surprised to see him keep hold of his job for the time being. It seems this season has been written off by everyone.
The problem with that Jinks is it doesn't really hold up against any logic.
- You don't need to play anti-football in this division to limp towards safety, the standard outside the very top teams is not good. We should be good enough to approach games vs the likes of Bolton, Preston, Reading and Huddersfield without ceding the lion's share of possession and hoping to jam a result out of somewhere. In fact scrap "should", I know we're good enough to not have to do that.
- There should be no fear factor regarding relegation, I'm not sure the bottom three are even going to get past 40 points. Even so the best way to achieve safety is to try to pick up three points rather than one. A maverick strategy, sure.
- We don't have the players to Pulis our way to infinite 0-0s and 1-0s. Our goalkeeper makes too many fatal, basic errors, our defence has far too many weak points and our midfield is not physical enough to brute other teams out of games. We got very, very lucky with that little run over Christmas; anyone who saw the games said at the time it was completely unsustainable, if you kept playing that way you would lose more often than not. So it's proving.
- We are currently playing no football, we aren't really even attempting to score away from home and our dismal record at Molineux (on course to be the worst in over 30 years at this level) speaks for itself. This is no way to try to achieve even the limited aim of safety.
- If Ken really does know the game is up for him then surely he has to be using the remaining games as an extended demonstration to other clubs of what he can do. At the moment, on pure footballing merit, the likes of Telford and Bilston Town wouldn't be interested in him because this strategy wouldn't work at any level.
- None of this explains why he isn't giving the likes of Wallace and Byrne a go. No-one is making them out to be something they aren't, but we have a lot of injuries in the attacking areas and neither of them are getting any kind of a chance. How could they possibly be any worse?
- Anti-football or not, there is no reason why terrible footballers such as Doherty, Edwards (when fit) and Coady should be fixtures in our team, they don't help us in any way. You'd struggle to find any Wolves fans who thought those three were better than alternatives we already had/have at the club.
Managers lose the plot and he has lost the plot, I don't buy there being some wider conspiracy at play.