LIVE! Match discussion 2014/15

[The Bear]

Delicious backheel by Vio Ganea to set it up.

Great game. Live on Sky and a 3-0 win. I went and sat in the Derby section.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Vio was brilliant. Of course Hoddle decided we didn't need a striker like that and then paid £1.4m for a much worse version of him.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Loved Ganea, absolute hero.

Did alright in the PL and then snapped his cruciate, he would have been dynamite in the Championship

Scored on his return (i think, ran in the crowd and then got sent off, HERO!) and the Hoddle fucked him

 

[Alan]

Seems like we let go of a lot of quality players in the last decade.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Huddlestone was never ours to keep tbf.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Scored on his return (i think, ran in the crowd and then got sent off, HERO!) and the Hoddle fucked him

Got booked for doing that, then got a second yellow for one of his trademark nutbar challenges. I loved him though. Smashing footballer.

 

[Del Woppio]

You could just tell huddlestone had it though. He was brilliant down here.

Vio had everything you need to be a cult hero. Two syllable, singable name, bit mental, brilliant work ethic, passionate, and could score a goal. Perfect.

Alan, reading up and youtubing the golden tit era, specifically around 94/95 would be a great education, and very entertaining. We signed proper top flight players while in this division, Geoff Thomas, Tony Daley, Steven Froggatt, ... They were all absolutely good enough for top half, top flight teams. It's amazing to think of it nowadays, it really is. It's hard to think of comparisons, but it was kind of like us signing routledge, delph and ward prowse, right now. At that time we hadn't been in the top division for years, but had a (comparatively) very modern stadium and a wealthy owner who was happy to spend. It really was a massive, massive opportunity wasted, and probably worthy of its own thread. At one point we had players like Dean Richards (who, rest his soul, would have been an England captain were it not for injuries. Like lescott, but better on the ball), froggy, Daley, Gordon cowans (what a passer), Mark Walters, David kelly, Don goodman - all of whom didn't look out of place in the premier league before or after their spell at wolves. And of course Steve bull, who is genuinely the best forward the top flight never had.

John mcginlay, of Bolton, punched kelly in the face in the second leg of the play offs, didn't get sent off, and scored the winner. To this day, if I saw him in a restaurant with his mom, wife and kids, I'd still have to go and smash a plate over his head. If we'd have gone up that year, with our comparative wealth and those players, we'd be like an Everton type club in stature by now.

So exciting, and so heartbreaking.

 

[Del Woppio]

You could just tell huddlestone had it though. He was brilliant down here.

Vio had everything you need to be a cult hero. Two syllable, singable name, bit mental, brilliant work ethic, passionate, and could score a goal. Perfect.

Alan, reading up and youtubing the golden tit era, specifically around 94/95 would be a great education, and very entertaining. We signed proper top flight players while in this division, Geoff Thomas, Tony Daley, Steven Froggatt, ... They were all absolutely good enough for top half, top flight teams. It's amazing to think of it nowadays, it really is. It's hard to think of comparisons, but it was kind of like us signing routledge, delph and ward prowse, right now. At that time we hadn't been in the top division for years, but had a (comparatively) very modern stadium and a wealthy owner who was happy to spend. It really was a massive, massive opportunity wasted, and probably worthy of its own thread. At one point we had players like Dean Richards (who, rest his soul, would have been an England captain were it not for injuries. Like lescott, but better on the ball), froggy, Daley, Gordon cowans (what a passer), Mark Walters, David kelly, Don goodman - all of whom didn't look out of place in the premier league before or after their spell at wolves. And of course Steve bull, who is genuinely the best forward the top flight never had.

John mcginlay, of Bolton, punched kelly in the face in the second leg of the play offs, didn't get sent off, and scored the winner. To this day, if I saw him in a restaurant with his mom, wife and kids, I'd still have to go and smash a plate over his head. If we'd have gone up that year, with our comparative wealth and those players, we'd be like an Everton type club in stature by now.

So exciting, and so heartbreaking.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Nice summary Del. We really did miss the boat. There's also the argument that we should have done what Jack Walker did at Blackburn, and buy the players in a shit ground rather than dealing with the shitehole ground (and it was, it was a real embarrassment) first.

 

[Del Woppio]

True, but I don't think we could moan about the signings!

This had also reminded me of the goal of the month competition palace had in the quarter final replay...

Palace couldn't fucking buy a goal in the League. Look at the bastard state of that! Comes to something when a cross finished with a diving header is the worst goal of five!

Those were the days....

 

[Langers]

It really was a massive, massive opportunity wasted, and probably worthy of its own thread.

Agreed. Get onto it, Delbert.

 

[Lord Knows]

Huddlestone has to play deep. Fantastic footballer, agree that you need legs around him. Livermore and Diame (if he can be bothered) should be able to provide that. How Hodgson stil refuses to pick him is beyond me though

Diame is a wonderful player, he should be with a top six club not bottom six.

 

[Johnny75]

Diame is a wonderful player, he should be with a top six club not bottom six.

He is a very good player but his attitude stinks sometimes. Got all the gifts but not necessarily the right mental attributes.

 

[YoungWolf]

Diame is a wonderful player, he should be with a top six club not bottom six.

I'm not convinced he is clever enough nor does he have the right attitude

 

[Lord Knows]

I'm not convinced he is clever enough nor does he have the right attitude

Big season for him, does well and a top club could be knocking on his door. Was wasted at West Ham no wonder he had a strop at times.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Diame isn't that good. Has maybe five good games a season and looks dross the rest of the time.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

True, but I don't think we could moan about the signings!

Some of them we could. Like Daley who the medical team advised Taylor not to sign. Or Atkins who was the ultimate cog in a wheel player for Blackburn and predictably looked crap when he wasn't just giving the ball to better players.

Taylor played shite football as well, bad appointment.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Is there a Champions League highlights show on tonight?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Yes.

 

[James]

FFS Adrian Chiles is on my TV screen, I'd rather go back to America and listen to their pundits as they actually aren't bean headed Sandwell fuck faces.