Live Match Discussion 2022/23

[big mean bunny]

The Cov striker has done nothing that would convince me he isn't a Hugill type so far, he looks so stiff and immobile.

I get my 45 min scouting report of watching on the tele isn't worth that much...

 

[Alan]

Luton's stadium isn't big enough for the Premier League to allow them to play there?

 

[Jinky]

Fuck man, honestly that was the most shattering, exhausting experience of my life. It's impossible to put that experience into words. In terms of the emotional explosion, it's even above the play off final for me, it was off the scale.*

I was on friendly, texting terms with Matt Grayson who was comms director at the time. Morgan said to him "what do we need to do to make sure we don't got through that again", and still ended up fucking it up.

*i know there's often a bit of stuff between the ST vs IPTV crowds. I don't buy into the thought that 'it' means more to one than the other, or even that the live perspective on the game is more valuable than the TV one. But the isolated experience, that emotional roller coaster of a 90 minutes, or in some cases a whole season coming down to that 90 minutes...or even that 10 minutes at the end. Sheesh. Like if we said that next season wolves were to win the FA Cup. We'd all be fucking delighted, ecstatic, euphoric. Whether it was sat with a couple of mates, or a big old event at somebody's house or whatever. But if you were at your mates house with your ten best mates in the world, you'd still swap it for being at Wembley even on your own for a day like that.

Not even sure what I'm saying there tbh, but there we go. I think it basically comes down to the massively controversial take of "being live at the event of a football match of massive and lasting significance is better than not being there", which doesn't feel particularly worth typing, but then no matter how good your writing you can't quite capture it anyway

Jesus, how much have you had to drink?!

Whoever goes up here will be eaten alive in the PL. I can’t remember a passage of play where either team have put together over 10 passes. I also feel like a lot of Luton‘s ‘on the edge’ stuff would be given as fouls/cards in the PL.

 

[Jack Regan]

Luton's stadium isn't big enough for the Premier League to allow them to play there?

Think it's the facilities for media etc that's the problem rather than the ground size/capacity.

Gonna cost £10million to get it up to scratch apparently.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Luton's stadium isn't big enough for the Premier League to allow them to play there?

It's only marginally smaller than Bournemouth's, that isn't the issue.

It does need around £10m of work immediately before August, they've priced it all in. It's a genuine relic. And not in a nice way, don't let anyone tell you it's "authentic" or "real football". It's fucking shit and one of the worst grounds I have ever been to, may even be the worst one I've been to that's still in existence.

 

[Alan]

"Good job earning your way into the Premier League via a fair competition, that'll just be 10m..."

I guess I get it but seems fucked to a degree.

 

[Jinky]

"Good job earning your way into the Premier League via a fair competition, that'll just be 10m..."

I guess I get it but seems fucked to a degree.

Just a drop in the ocean compared to what they’ll get for making it to the PL.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

"Good job earning your way into the Premier League via a fair competition, that'll just be 10m..."

I guess I get it but seems fucked to a degree.

Pretty unique situation, bear in mind they first wanted to move from Kenilworth Road in the 1950s!

One side is currently just 1980s executive boxes. That needs to go. They have no proper media facilities, the dressing rooms are miles off, the floodlights are way short of spec, they don't have even close to the camera positions to make VAR viable, it all adds up.

Molineux is fine and all that (even the Steve Bull wouldn't be in the five worst stands in the league, and it's older than me and ageing less well) and we still had to spend a fair bit in 2018.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

@Del Woppio

Since you asked about Final Day drama, it reminds me that I really landed on Wolves as my club precisely because of the emotions surrounding it. It was Stephen Hunt's goal against Blackburn and the subsequent reaction in the stands (me: "why's everyone going so nuts? They're still losing?") that really sold me.

I've probably told that story before but not really pieced together the Final Day spice.

I was in the Steve Bull for that one and that Hunt goal was right in front of us.
The mental in the crowd for that was something else, I ended up in the next row down. And the Steve Bull is a pretty reserved stand.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Must be more annoying having to spend that cash on a ground that you're already planning on moving out of, and perhaps already would've if things had gone to plan.

 

[Alan]

Pretty unique situation, bear in mind they first wanted to move from Kenilworth Road in the 1950s!

One side is currently just 1980s executive boxes. That needs to go. They have no proper media facilities, the dressing rooms are miles off, the floodlights are way short of spec, they don't have even close to the camera positions to make VAR viable, it all adds up.

Molineux is fine and all that (even the Steve Bull wouldn't be in the five worst stands in the league, and it's older than me and ageing less well) and we still had to spend a fair bit in 2018.

For sure, if the facilities desperately need updating then it is what it is, really.

Where do they get the money for that sort of thing from? I guess in my head I'm used to the parasitic fuckers who own teams here and typically force the price of such things onto the local taxpayers.

 

[AndyWolves]

For sure, if the facilities desperately need updating then it is what it is, really.

Where do they get the money for that sort of thing from? I guess in my head I'm used to the parasitic fuckers who own teams here and typically force the price of such things onto the local taxpayers.

People like Macquarie I would have thought, borrow against future pl payments

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

All out of the money you get for going up.

Finish rock bottom on 0 points next season and you'll still "earn" a minimum of £170m across three seasons. Of course clubs burn through most of it on new players.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Must be more annoying having to spend that cash on a ground that you're already planning on moving out of, and perhaps already would've if things had gone to plan.

Think they have committed to making as much of it as possible transferrable to the new ground. Whenever that happens, they can announce target dates all they like but nothing has started yet, they've got as far as identifying the site, you and I both know that means it's not imminent.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Think they have committed to making as much of it as possible transferrable to the new ground. Whenever that happens, they can announce target dates all they like but nothing has started yet, they've got as far as identifying the site, you and I both know that means it's not imminent.

They've had outline planning permission for years but it's part of a wider development which presumably involves other parties than the club so not quite as simple as them pushing the button and getting it going. Been various mixes of retail and residential proposed to go around the stadium, obviously not been a great climate for the former in recent years to get any tenants to nail their colours to the mast.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Whilst the individual quality of Luton players isn't great at all.

As a collective, at home, with that vile long ball game and hard press they will create some upsets.

They'll still struggle to get 25 points. But they will have 3 or 4 shock wins.

They look absolutely fucking horrible to play against.

It's been a while since a genuine physical, long ball team like this were in the Prem?

(Assuming Luton hold their lead)

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Whilst the individual quality of Luton players isn't great at all.

As a collective, at home, with that vile long ball game and hard press they will create some upsets.

They'll still struggle to get 25 points. But they will have 3 or 4 shock wins.

They look absolutely fucking horrible to play against.

It's been a while since a genuine physical, long ball team like this were in the Prem?

(Assuming Luton hold their lead)

Warnock's Cardiff probably. Sticking that fat cunt Callum Paterson up top to barge into keepers. Playing for long throws and free kicks on halfway.

 

[AndyWolves]

Whilst the individual quality of Luton players isn't great at all.

As a collective, at home, with that vile long ball game and hard press they will create some upsets.

They'll still struggle to get 25 points. But they will have 3 or 4 shock wins.

They look absolutely fucking horrible to play against.

It's been a while since a genuine physical, long ball team like this were in the Prem?

(Assuming Luton hold their lead)

I wouldn't call beating us a shock!

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Gyokeres finally getting some support but still looks miles short of PL quality.

 

[Mel Evo]

My first game at the Sanchez Pizjuan - Mir has just bagged right in front of us inside 5 minutes. Ridiculous!! Having fessed up our link to the guys around us in the stands we’re obviously the official lucky charms now