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[Lupo]

At least we haven't rushed into the Saunders appointment after Jeff has a quick game of golf.

That was last year

 

[Alan]

I don't care if Lopetegui is the most pragmatic coach in the world, as long as the players at least look like they know where each other will be at any given moment.

 

[Tony Towner]

I don't care if Lopetegui is the most pragmatic coach in the world, as long as the players at least look like they know where each other will be at any given moment.

I'll wait and see stylewise, remember when we brought him in Lage was supposedly an attacking front foot coach?

 

[Alan]

How could I forget that we spent 80% of training working on the attack?

 

[Carsy]

How could I forget that we spent 80% of training working on the attack?

Defence is the best form of attack?

No, that’s not right …

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Defence is the best form of attack?

No, that’s not right …

True of Wolves for most of the past 5 years though.

 

[Wolftone]

I'll wait and see stylewise, remember when we brought him in Lage was supposedly an attacking front foot coach?

Didn't we have 73 shots in the first three games losing all of them 1-0 in the 21/22 season?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

15 shots on target out of 57.

The most overrated three performances in the world.

There's also some weird crappy narrative that we changed style afterwards, we didn't. Madeley and Spiers even implied we changed from a back four, we never played a back four last season.

At a push I could give you 12 genuinely good performances under Lage. Out of 46. He was dismal.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

I dunno, I turned up to Brentford at home. We were decent for the first 20 minutes then chucked it all away and looked awful and clueless as to what we were doing.

Pretty much the blueprint for Larges tenure was set there

 

[sycophantia]

I dunno, I turned up to Brentford at home. We were decent for the first 20 minutes then chucked it all away and looked awful and clueless as to what we were doing.

Pretty much the blueprint for Larges tenure was set there

That was the game that started my alarm bells going.

 

[Stan Hullis]

His first three league games last season were brilliant - turned up to Leicester away and we looked so dynamic and on the front foot. We just couldn't finish our chances.

Turn the clock forward and we still can't finish our chances, because we stopped trying to create them.

 

[prawnking]

Probably not that important, but he just doesn't have the personality for a number one from what I can see.

Seems (bad) weird and twitchy and he's never been any kind of coherent or inspirational figure. As someone (DW?) said, no gravitas. And all that covering his face with his hand and puffing during a game is a poor look

 

[Paul]

One of the most bizarre moments for me is when Rubens deflected free kick went in against Villa sealing the game, everyone goes barmy apart from Bruno who stands there emotionless staring up into the stand (at what I don't know), at that point, I thought, does this mean anything to him ?

 

[Kenny]

15 shots on target out of 57.

The most overrated three performances in the world.

There's also some weird crappy narrative that we changed style afterwards, we didn't. Madeley and Spiers even implied we changed from a back four, we never played a back four last season.

At a push I could give you 12 genuinely good performances under Lage. Out of 46. He was dismal.

Not overrated at all as you have to remember where we were coming from.

Since Covid football started we had been dull as fuck. Even the 3 games when it resumed where we won, they were hardly get you out of your seat performances. We even had one game in the full Covid season where we had a spell against 9 men inc a rookie keeper and he touched the ball twice.

Spiers and Part Time Madders confusing the pre-season under Lage where he tried the back 4....it was a disaster.

Those 3 games gave us an insight into what we thought we were going to get under Lage - Front foot and pressing teams back. Leicester should have been at least a point, Spurs a point and Utd a win (never forget the penalty we should have been given right after Trincao had missed his one on one...

The turning point was that Brentford game though. Once they put their pressing game into action, we crumbled. Had no out ball or no one to run the ball out from the back. What we had been doing before that point was thrown in the bin.
To a point it worked, because despite performances not being electric, they were functional (except when playing Palace) and got us into the Top 8 and at one point we were all talking about Europe again (some even getting giddy over the Champs League spots).

Then January happened - We got rid of Traore and replaced him with a raw kid and didn't sign a player Lage wanted (got Hwang though, so YAY) and then it fell apart. Lage went into his over speaking bollocks mode, the public calling out of Hoever etc

Leeds game killed the season. A combi of management decisions and our team forgetting they were pro footballers. From that point, we sat on the beach. Season over.

At the end of the season Jeff had to make a choice - sack Lage or back him. I know many on here would have prefered sack, myself included but have sat back and watched enough clubs make up their strategy on a whim at least our chief was prepared to back his decision to employ Lage and finally properly back him.

What should have happened with that backing is a return to how we looked in those opening 3 games. Somehow he managed to make us look worse than in the "on the beach" stage of last season. Some going that.

 

[Kenny]

One of the most bizarre moments for me is when Rubens deflected free kick went in against Villa sealing the game, everyone goes barmy apart from Bruno who stands there emotionless staring up into the stand (at what I don't know), at that point, I thought, does this mean anything to him ?

Don't watch Carlo Ancelotti then on last minute winners then. The master of zero emotion

Bruno had his moments,, on the Villa one his over riding emotion is probably "how the fuck did that happen"

 

[YoungWolf]

His first three league games last season were brilliant - turned up to Leicester away and we looked so dynamic and on the front foot. We just couldn't finish our chances.

Turn the clock forward and we still can't finish our chances, because we stopped trying to create them.

The first half against Leicester was awful but the second half and following three games were positive performances were we looked to have an energy to our game we hadn’t seen in well over a year. Unfortunately some of the key changes against spurs and United fell to Traore and Trincao

 

[YoungWolf]

Don't watch Carlo Ancelotti then on last minute winners then. The master of zero emotion

Bruno had his moments,, on the Villa one his over riding emotion is probably "how the fuck did that happen"

The Villa game sums up a lot of his time here tbf!

 

[Kenny]

The Villa game sums up a lot of his time here tbf!

A comeback and 3 goals! Pretty much the opposite of his time at Wolves

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Being shit for 83 minutes was an accurate summary though.

 

[YoungWolf]

A comeback and 3 goals! Pretty much the opposite of his time at Wolves

Getting the result without deserving it in the slightest and no one really understanding how we’d done it, was more my point…