The Race to be Relegated with Wolves, 24/25 Thread

[ROVERT47]

Wow, it either shows just how much you actually need to spend or they bought shite.

 

[Del Woppio]

Weren't Ipswich back to back promotions though, their squad was shocking. Think soton especially though have underperformed to the spend

 

[jd1981]

The premier is a bit of a shambles this year. Liverpool being so far ahead without really being great I’d go as far to say they’re one of the poorest title winners in the last 20 years along with Leicester. Yes great achievement but by no means a great side. Arsenal are second with no regular striker.
The clutch of sides from 4 down to Fulham can just beat each other with little pattern. The bottom 3 are a disgrace, we’re poor and should be going down but are being given a get out of jail free card.
Beating how shite the bottom 3 were last season takes some doing to.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Ipswich have definitely gone for quantity over quality, no doubt with a view to getting a strong squad for the Championship in the likely event of relegation.

 

[Tony Towner]

I don't think you spend as much as they did if that's the plan. They did it intending to stay up and kept a promise to McKenna to have a go, otherwise he'd have gone to Chelsea. The language coming out of them in the Summer was very different to Luton, who very much were in it for a nice time.

I posted why they signed who they did a week or so ago, so I won't repeat it

 

[big mean bunny]

As poor as the bottom 3 have been, there was a huge part of the season where we looked equal to them. That is where VP gets the credit with me. Whilst it shows the under performance and poor nature of the previous manager, VP still needed to improve it.

Juric has changed Southampton's style and setup and they still look particularly poor, I think overall they are actually marginally better under him when you watch, but without anything to really show for it and still have had some hammerings. And that could have happened to us too to an extent.

 

[HanDoJin]

What’s our worst defeat under VP, a pair of 3-0s? Not sure either of those was really a fair reflection of the games, on balance.

Compare to the nadirs of Lopetegui and GON, lol

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I thought we were poor for too much of the Newcastle and Chelsea games. Doherty capsized us just before HT vs Forest and that was game over. Didn't lay a glove on Fulham second half which was disappointing. Otherwise I've been broadly pleased with how we've played.

Better aesthetically than Lopetegui's home wins for my money (with arguably a worse team).

 

[DogWeasel]

As an aside ive realized that i have no clue who Vitor's backroom staff are, looked on the WW website but no luck.

Anyone?

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I thought we were poor for too much of the Newcastle and Chelsea games. Doherty capsized us just before HT vs Forest and that was game over. Didn't lay a glove on Fulham second half which was disappointing. Otherwise I've been broadly pleased with how we've played.

Better aesthetically than Lopetegui's home wins for my money (with arguably a worse team).

Gotta get a Doc dig in there

 

[jd1981]

VP has stopped the chaos at the club and got things more disciplined.
He’s gos rid of what was clearly a toxic influence in the dressing room too.
It’s just what was needed for a squad that had lost its way and were behaving like adolescence.

 

[Lupo]

Just looked at my stats and Vitor has managed 13 PL games for us - W5 D2 L6 which is identical to Lop's first 13 for us too

Lop won another 14 points from the remaining 10 games. VP has 9 left this season

 

[Mel Evo]

I am sure this will give a few on here a little smile.....

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Rather wish I’d taken a screenshot of that forecast as I guess from the comments at the time it was predicting an expanse of clear water to Ipswich that at the time seemed too good to be true but now simply seems likely?

 

[Lupo]

Rather wish I’d taken a screenshot of that forecast as I guess from the comments at the time it was predicting an expanse of clear water to Ipswich that at the time seemed too good to be true but now simply seems likely?

I did:

 

[Alan]

So we know the player(s) with the most relegations to his name?

 

[KiwiWolf61]

So we know the player(s) with the most relegations to his name?

Nathan Blake and Herman Hreioarsson.

 

[Alan]

Nathan Blake and Herman Hreioarsson.

How many?

This is all a long-winded dig at Kyle Walker-Peters.

 

[KiwiWolf61]

5

 

[Alan]

Cheers, Kiwi.

I do know Google exists, but fuck Google.

 

[KiwiWolf61]

Cheers, Kiwi.

I do know Google exists, but fuck Google.

I actually recalled it when I was preparing the compilation video for Nathan Blake as it was mentioned a couple of times in his bios.