O'Neil In, Out and Shaking it all about

[Wolvensam]

Did Nuno ever do much mid game in terms of the way we played? Other than bring on another midfielder I don't remember him ever changing the way we played very often.

Usually brought on an extra defender to hold onto leads. Which to be fair we were very good at.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I think any discussion about points VAR has cost us needs to slightly tempered against the points it has probably cost others.

Hate to use the old cliché, but it probably just about evens out in the end. Impossible to say.

Na, not having that, we had several significantly poor decisions go against us.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Usually brought on an extra defender to hold onto leads. Which to be fair we were very good at.

Did it tonight bringing Boly on too.

 

[Alan]

Na, not having that, we had several significantly poor decisions go against us.

Maybe the more appropriate cliché would be “no use crying over spilt milk”

Can only control ourselves.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Yeah. GON has been good but has some way to go to match Nuno 18/19 and 19/20. I felt like those teams could beat anyone on their day

This team has already proven they can too, haven't they?

 

[Wolvensam]

Did it tonight bringing Boly on too.

The man can hold onto a lead most of the time!

To be fair Nuno’s Wolves were just an excellent team unit and the spirit/connection with the fans was the best I’ve known in my time supporting Wolves. It was special. This team aren’t quite that yet but certainly aren’t far off.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Maybe the more appropriate cliché would be “no use crying over spilt milk”

Can only control ourselves.

No one is saying otherwise.

But the quantity of rough decisions against Wolves was so high, that other clubs fans felt that Wolves were hard done by, that does not happen often!

It's totally fair to look at how an extra point at United (still for me the worst decision out of the lot), an extra point at Sheff Utd and an extra point from Fulham would see us, that's not crying over spilt milk.

There is only really Villa when Doc pushed Watkins that we have genuinely got away with one.

 

[Alan]

I at least see your point, even if I don’t fully agree.

No arguing against our rocky relationship with referees recently.

 

[Tony Towner]

What Nuno did well, which McCarthy and Lage couldn't
is when we defended a lead we didn't just drop 10 yards and defend the 6 yard line. There was a plan beyond just putting men behind the ball and going deep. As we know that was tempered a bit with when he chased a game, which often was just unloading every attacking player from the bench and hoping for the best. Concidentally Forest in the Championship was the first time I can remember that happening.

 

[Wolftone]

There's one poster that calls Semedo shit on pretty much every matchday thread, even though he's had a decent season at least defensively. We all have our biases

He had a reasonable game today. He's been pretty good against some of the better sides. Been crap the rest of the time.
Creates next to nothing, is scared of the ball, also ball watches and gets caught under the ball at the far post.
Not really a bias, just an opinion which I think will continue to be proved right. I hope not, I want him to improve, maybe GON might be the man to do it. If so I'll give him all the plaudits in the world.

 

[The Bear]

Does have the best tackle rate outside the top 6 though.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1737090588590141734

 

[GLASGOWOLF]

See, McCarthy and Nuno I didn't mind so much, just repeating clichés and saying nothing whilst fulfilling their obligation. Sometimes Mick would get a bit deep sometimes, but mostly it was just waffle.
With Gazza, a great example last night: apparently none of the squad have ever pressed before until he turned up with this revolutionary new tactic...

R u Johnny in disguise

 

[Wolftone]

Does have the best tackle rate outside the top 6 though.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1737090588590141734

Just feel that for a player of his technical ability he could do so much better, sometimes try that bit harder and put his body on the line.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

There's one poster that calls Semedo shit on pretty much every matchday thread, even though he's had a decent season at least defensively. We all have our biases

There's biases against players you don't rate/like and wanting the team you support to lose to get rid of manager you don't like? They're quite different?

 

[Wolvensam]

Just feel that for a player of his technical ability he could do so much better, sometimes try that bit harder and put his body on the line.

I think we’d potentially struggle to get a better RB/RWB at the moment in our current budget. He’s having a good season this year.

 

[Tony Towner]

There's biases against players you don't rate/like and wanting the team you support to lose to get rid of manager you don't like? They're quite different?

Johnny didn't really want us to lose, he was just digging in. My point was more that when you see something which you think proves a point, particularly on a forum with 25/30 active posters you tend to highlight it. You do it with Sa and Kilman, I just did on another thread about Doyle who I've never really rated. It's what we do.

 

[Wolvensam]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1741179270343377263

I didn’t think this could be true. Turns out, it is.

 

[Wolftone]

Johnny didn't really want us to lose, he was just digging in. My point was more that when you see something which you think proves a point, particularly on a forum with 25/30 active posters you tend to highlight it. You do it with Sa and Kilman, I just did on another thread about Doyle who I've never really rated. It's what we do.

Fair comment that.
We're probably all guilty of it.

I have to go now as my Mrs says I'm just like a big child, going on a football forum all the time

 

[The Bear]

Just feel that for a player of his technical ability he could do so much better, sometimes try that bit harder and put his body on the line.

He's not very good in two areas - the final third and our own back post. Other than that he's a good player.

 

[sycophantia]

Just feel that for a player of his technical ability he could do so much better, sometimes try that bit harder and put his body on the line.

Dont think you can accuse him of not trying, his defensive work is outstanding most of the time, the odd clanger. His attacking play remains poor (although I think he did ok going forward today) and I don't know why, it looks like he just lacks confidence which is odd.