Let's talk about Nuno....

[BGreenWolf]

Can understand many are finding football a bit soulless and quite irrelevant atm but I find its something to look forward to and take my mind off the current situation a little.

100%. At a time where I can't do the vast majority of the things I enjoy, I'll take soulless low-fat football over no football at all.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

I find a lot of the complaints about it not being enjoyable a bit odd to be honest, sure there's no atmosphere and there have been a few odd results some of which probably aided by the lack of influence from the stands but generally speaking it's the same game as it's always been.

Two teams of eleven blokes running about with a ball trying to get the better of one another, perhaps for some of the complainants it's not so much the football itself that provides the enjoyment but the ritual it creates and the even it provides, so now with it stripped back to purely football it's not quite the level of enjoyment they're used to. Can't say I've ever seen the same reservations with music fans who will go to live performances as often as possible but would rather sit at home in silence than listen to a CD or regular theatre goers who would turn their nose up at the prospect of watching a film at home.

 

[Wolvensam]

Noticed a couple on Twitter have said Nuno's football is the worst they've experienced for 15-20 years. I'd put it up there as some of the best to be honest (maybe that's just me!)

 

[Stan Hullis]

Are we not gerrin it down the wings and whipping it in enough?

 

[Law's Bus]

Noticed a couple on Twitter have said Nuno's football is the worst they've experienced for 15-20 years. I'd put it up there as some of the best to be honest (maybe that's just me!)

Clearly they never experienced Wolves prior to Nuno then. Only really Mick's promotion season at its best (for example, the Forest game) has really come near it.

 

[Johnny75]

Noticed a couple on Twitter have said Nuno's football is the worst they've experienced for 15-20 years. I'd put it up there as some of the best to be honest (maybe that's just me!)

These are the same morons who think the club wasn't ready for the PL when we were about to be promoted and thought we'd get gubbed every week so would rather stay in the Championship.

 

[prawnking]

People will always favour criticising that which is fresher in their minds, it's understandable to a degree.

When it's bad (which tbf has only been this season for any kind of prolonged period) it's pretty dull, but generally it's by far the best we've played in the PL, which is what you should be judging it on.

The end of Mick's tenure (coinciding with the decline of Doyle) was much worse, for instance.

I imagine our expectations of competing in the PL are the highest they've ever been too, which has an effect

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Noticed a couple on Twitter have said Nuno's football is the worst they've experienced for 15-20 years. I'd put it up there as some of the best to be honest (maybe that's just me!)

Where do people get this crap from, honestly.

And that idiot isn't even the only one who's played dross in the last 20 years.

 

[Throbber3]

Noticed a couple on Twitter have said Nuno's football is the worst they've experienced for 15-20 years. I'd put it up there as some of the best to be honest (maybe that's just me!)

To coin a phrase that I have seen used on here some people need to give their head a wobble.

 

[redvictor]

The people who are saying that bollocks are kids who have never even been to the ground. Plastic fans I think they call them.

 

[t3ch]

how dare you sir

 

[t3ch]

are they talking about premier league or wolves?

if they're wolves fans complaining, I mean... what even is there to say. we were definitely playing beautifully during a free flowing attack to double-relegation, and that wasn't even that long ago, let alone the timespan mentioned.

if they're just talking about teams they've seen in the PL... at least that would make more sense, but still seems a tad hyperbolic

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Didn't Jackett serve up three successive 0-0 draws at home even when we were safe? Whatever it was it was on a completely different level of dull to anything under Nuno.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Even as "Wolves PL only" they'd be wider of the mark than a Dendoncker shot.

2003/4 - we won no away games all season. Not one. Conceded nine in our first two games as well. I watched the 4-3 vs Leicester in full during Lockdown 1 when there was no actual football, the quality was absolutely appalling. Came within seconds of being knocked out of the cup by Kidderminster. Bottom of the league
2009/10 - deliberately playing for 0-0s after we beat West Ham away, and scored 13 goals at home all season. Two of them came in a dead rubber on the final day
2010/11 - there actually were some good displays in this season, along with some terrible rubbish. Like a bad karaoke version of this season, if you like
2011/12 - hmm, yeah. Won the first two games, won three for the entire rest of the season. Stunning scenes. Bottom of the league
2018/19 & 2019/20 - well clearly we haven't been as good this season as we have in Nuno's other two PL efforts (although people forget that we weren't exactly a free-flowing outfit then, and there was enough dross peppered in there that rivals some of the worst displays from this campaign)

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Didn't Jackett serve up three successive 0-0 draws at home even when we were safe? Whatever it was it was on a completely different level of dull to anything under Nuno.

How dare you slander the name of Ken, sir.

It was four straight 0-0s.

 

[t3ch]

Even as "Wolves PL only" they'd be wider of the mark than a Dendoncker shot.

No I meant someone who just watches premier league generally. as in is this a wolves fan vs a football fan. if it's people who actually follow wolves, it's ridiculous bollocks. if it's just some general football fan, I still think it's wrong, but can perhaps find it more understandable.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Oh, ok.

Well in that case we're a million miles better than the excesses of various Pulis teams, just to name one example.

Newcastle under Bruce play objectively worse football right now too.

 

[prawnking]

'Peri peri Pulis' is the worst one I've heard I wonder if people have even seen how Pulis teams play

 

[Wolvensam]

'Peri peri Pulis' is the worst one I've heard I wonder if people have even seen how Pulis teams play

Oh yes, that one is doing the rounds a lot.

McCarthy promotion season aside (and probably Ken's League One promotion season too that we walked) Nuno has played some of the best, tactical, penetrative football I've seen (from a Wolves manager anyway). I wouldn't mind if we'd spent the two seasons prior in the Premier League brushing teams aside 5-0, but we... haven't. We've always gone 1-0 or 2-0 up and sat back/soaked the pressure up.

 

[Johnny75]

'Peri peri Pulis' is the worst one I've heard I wonder if people have even seen how Pulis teams play

I've never understood that.

You can level that Nuno's football isn't exciting at times but it's never been long ball.