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[Lycan]

I'm excited in the sense that I feel he'll at the very least have us competitive again and give us our Wolves back. He's a man that the players will respect and want to fight for so I can't see us being as much of a pushover any more.

This season is now about pushing away from the relegation places and laying the foundations for next season. If the level of investment continues through the next 2 windows (you'd imagine it will seeing as Lope will have his own targets and Neves will be leaving in one of them) and he hasn't got us in contention for Europe then that's the time to start to question him. Until then I'm just happy that we're going to have a legitimate football manager in charge instead of an over-promoted PE teacher.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Yep.

Sick of not really wanting to watch us. Being angry at the manager is great for comedy value but it's really wearing.

 

[Lupo]

I'm excited in the sense that I feel he'll at the very least have us competitive again and give us our Wolves back. He's a man that the players will respect and want to fight for so I can't see us being as much of a pushover any more.

This season is now about pushing away from the relegation places and laying the foundations for next season. If the level of investment continues through the next 2 windows (you'd imagine it will seeing as Lope will have his own targets and Neves will be leaving in one of them) and he hasn't got us in contention for Europe then that's the time to start to question him. Until then I'm just happy that we're going to have a legitimate football manager in charge instead of an over-promoted PE teacher.

Maybe attracting The Lop will appeal to Neves as the pair seem to be close and it signals intent on our part attracting a manager of his calibre. I too am looking forward to having a respected, bona fide leader again and one thing is for certain, he won't be a nodding patsy like his predecessor and I'm sure Jeff knows that a character like him will need backing. Maybe we will see some Spanish players incoming

 

[BillyDee]

Maybe attracting The Lop will appeal to Neves as the pair seem to be close and it signals intent on our part attracting a manager of his calibre.

My hope too is that this may delay the inevitable departure of Rubes.
(As well as, you know, us being less shit and that...)

 

[Kenny]

Time to roll out my yearly "Just accept it, Ruben is off next summer". Getting bored of that being wrong tbh

If the stuff over this summer is to believed, he will be a Barca player next year.

 

[Derby Wolf]

So Sa triple flapping, Saiss backwards slicing a simple clearance and Mout looking at 3 players and then bollocking it 40 yards beyond them all is because of how we set up?
How about, Lage made a fuck up and the players made fuck ups. They were as big an embarrassment as their manager in that 2nd half. Not having them hidden behind Lage on that one.
They crumbled and gave up

Agree for the most part but; Saiss looked concussed after being clattered and we've seen time and time again players clearly injured that haven't been protected by that clown. We had Kilman, Toti and Marçal on the bench so, personally I would absolve Saiss of guilt.

That being said, you can't reconcile that second half defensive display with Coady being an exceptional communicator and organiser.

 

[Lupo]

What's funny @MARKakaJIM ?

 

[Tony Towner]

What's funny @MARKakaJIM ?

The way he's wired

 

[MARKakaJIM]

What's funny @MARKakaJIM ?

The thing that made me laugh.

 

[Lupo]

The thing that made me laugh.

I'm sure, my post was hilarious

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Still laughing at Lage being one of the worst managers the Premier League has seen in the last decade, Mark?

 

[PuntsWolf]

I don’t want to go over old ground when he’s been sacked but those 3 games were overblown a little bit.

As YW says we weren’t great in that first half and then we’re better in the second. But this is almost standard when you are losing a game? Our success was pretty much limited to Traore though.

Spurs we conceded and early goal and they sat back. Classic Nuno. Again a lot of our intensity and success was via Traore.

United is fair enough. But again success was mostly through Traore against their non existent midfield and even Trincao managed to take advantage against powder puff opposition.

Basically all our success/threat was through the undefendable Traore. He stops playing/stops being ‘effective’ (making us look a threat without doing anything tangible) and we are toothless.

The looking attacking was more to do with the game scripts and Traore than anything else.

 

[Tredman]

Still laughing at Lage being one of the worst managers the Premier League has seen in the last decade, Mark?

Pah, its the players fault and Lage needed more time.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

If only they'd done some HR assessments straight out of a handbook from 1996.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

If it is Lopetegui, he'll be our most decorated manager of all time won't he?

 

[Alan]

If only they'd done some HR assessments straight out of a handbook from 1996.

"Don't hit on the tea lady more than twice a day..."

 

[Tony Towner]

If it is Lopetegui, he'll be our most decorated manager of all time won't he?

Lambert won a European Cup, but he didn't like to talk about it

 

[BillyDee]

Frank Buckley was a Major..?

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Frank Buckley was a Major..?

Very good

 

[Tredman]

"Don't hit on the tea lady more than twice a day..."

Why did no one tell Walter?