The TWF End of Season Awards, 2023/24

[Deutsch Wolf]

Player of the Season:

Goal of the Season:

Top three games:

Worst three games:

Three areas to prioritise in the summer (name specific targets if you like):

Three players to get rid of:

Marks out of 10 for Gary O'Neil:

Instinctive predicted finish for 2024/25:

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Player of the Season: Lemina (despite a drop off in the final month or two)

Goal of the Season: Sarabia vs Spurs

Top three games: Tottenham (H), Man City (H), Chelsea (A)

Worst three games: Bournemouth (H), Coventry (H), Crystal Palace (A)

Three areas to prioritise in the summer (name specific targets if you like): CH, ST (in addition to Che Adams), and CH again

Three players to get rid of: Kilman, Guedes, Silva

Marks out of 10 for Gary O'Neil: 7

Instinctive predicted finish for 2024/25: 14th again

 

[WVWolf]

Player of the Season: Cunha

Goal of the Season: Sarabia vs Spurs

Top three games: West Brom (A), Chelsea (A), Everton (H)

Worst three games: Coventry (H), West Ham (A), Bournemouth (H)

Three areas to prioritise in the summer (name specific targets if you like): Centre-back (as well as keeping Mosquera and giving him a new contract), Striker (as well as Che Adams), Winger

Three players to get rid of: Guedes, Silva, S. Bueno

Marks out of 10 for Gary O'Neil: 7

Instinctive predicted finish for 2024/25: 16th

 

[Sniffer]

Player of the Season: J Gomes

Goal of the Season: Hwang (Newcastle)

Top game: Manchester City (H)

Worst game: Coventry (H)

Three areas to prioritise in the summer (name specific targets if you like): Centre Half, Central Striker, Wide Forward (If Neto goes) - All need to be genuine first players not squad fillers.

Three players to get rid of: Silva, Guedes, Bellagarde

Marks out of 10 for Gary O'Neil: 7/10

Instinctive predicted finish for 2024/25: 15th

 

[The Bear]

Player of the Season:

Matheus Cunha

Goal of the Season:

Pablo Sarabia vs Spurs

Top three games:

Man City (H)
Spurs (H)
Chelsea (A)

Worst three games:

Ipswich (H) FA Cup
West Ham (A)
Bournemouth (H)

Three areas to prioritise in the summer (name specific targets if you like):

CB, Striker, Attacker - In that order

Three players to get rid of:

Guedes, Podence and Silva.

Marks out of 10 for Gary O'Neil:

6.5 - Promising signs and has the team playing decent attacking stuff, but sometimes sets up the team a bit naively defensively

Instinctive predicted finish for 2024/25:

12th. With no idea of incomings/outgoings yet it's hard to say if we'll be in trouble or have a better chance at getting and remaining inside the top 10.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Player of the Season: Cunha

Goal of the Season: Hwang v Newcastle

Top three games: Spurs (H), Chelsea (A), Man City (H)

Worst three games: Coventry (H), West Ham (A), Crystal Palace (H)

Three areas to prioritise in the summer (name specific targets if you like): 2 x Centre Backs and a Striker

Three players to get rid of: Kilman, Fabio & Guedes.

Marks out of 10 for Gary O'Neil: 6.5

Instinctive predicted finish for 2024/25: 13th.

 

[Alan]

Player of the Season:
- Went for Cunha on the poll but am leaning toward Lemons here.

Goal of the Season:
- Hwang v. Newcastle

Top three games:
- Chelsea away, Spurs at home, Chelsea at home

Worst three games:
- I dunno man, when we were bad we were bad and it happened more than 3 times

Three areas to prioritise in the summer (name specific targets if you like):
- CB, CB, CF

Three players to get rid of:
- Copping out, but Pod, Silva, and Guedes

Marks out of 10 for Gary O'Neil:
- 5/10

Instinctive predicted finish for 2024/25:
- 16th

 

[jd1981]

Player of the Season: Cunha

Goal of the Season: Gomes v Spurs

Top three games: City (h), Chelsea(a) Spurs(h)

Worst three games: BHA (h) Coventry (h) Bournemouth (h)

Three areas to prioritise in the summer (name specific targets if you like): CH x2 CF

Three players to get rid of: Fabio, Guedes Doherty

Marks out of 10 for Gary O'Neil: 7

Instinctive predicted finish for 2024/25: 17th

 

[Tom Hark]

Player of the Season: Lemina

Goal of the Season: Cunha v Forest

Top three games: City (h), Liverpool (h) Man Utd (a)

Worst three games: Ipswich (a) Coventry (h) Bournemouth (h)

Three areas to prioritise in the summer (name specific targets if you like): CH, CF, LWB

Three players to get rid of: Fabio, Guedes, Doherty

Marks out of 10 for Gary O'Neil: 7

Instinctive predicted finish for 2024/25: Unlucky 13th

 

[Johnny75]

Player of the Season: Cunha

Goal of the Season: Sarabia vs Spurs

Top three games: Spurs (H), Chelsea (A), Everton (H)

Worst three games: Coventry (H), Brentford (H), BHA (H)

Three areas to prioritise in the summer (name specific targets if you like): CB - an organiser like Harwood-Belis, Striker - a Boniface type, LWB so we can release RAN into the front 3 and see his true potential. And a new defensive coach.

Three players to get rid of: Silva, Podence, Guedes - wankers. (Kilman and Doc the next two cabs off that rank)

Marks out of 10 for Gary O'Neil: 5, started badly got better when Burchnall was brought in, but is in a Lage-esque funk he's not shown any signs of how to get out of. Defensively abysmal, needs a new coach for that aspect of the game.

Instinctive predicted finish for 2024/25: 16th

 

[Woburn Wolf]

Player of the Season: Lemina (despite a drop off in the final month or two)

Goal of the Season: Sarabia vs Spurs

Top three games: Tottenham (H), Man City (H), Chelsea (A)

Worst three games: Bournemouth (H), Coventry (H), Crystal Palace (A)

Three areas to prioritise in the summer (name specific targets if you like): CH, ST (in addition to Che Adams), and CH again

Three players to get rid of: Kilman, Guedes, Silva

Marks out of 10 for Gary O'Neil: 7

Instinctive predicted finish for 2024/25: 14th again

I agree with everything except us ending 14th. I think we will do better than that.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Marks out of 10 for Gary O'Neil: 5, started badly got better when Burchnall was brought in, but is in a Lage-esque funk he's not shown any signs of how to get out of. Defensively abysmal, needs a new coach for that aspect of the game.

Shockingly. Lage actually won slightly more points in the last 10 games of the 21/22 season than GON has in his last 10 games. Lage even won more points in the first 9 games of the 22/23 season before he was sacked! Shows how bad we have been.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Shockingly. Lage actually won slightly more points in the last 10 games of the 21/22 season than GON has in his last 10 games. Lage even won more points in the first 9 games of the 22/23 season before he was sacked! Shows how bad we have been.

Lage had Ruben Neves, Willy Boly, Joao Moutinho, etc etc etc.

And played football that I wouldn't subject Jake Humphrey or Ggreg Wallace to.

 

[Kenny]

And played football that I wouldn't subject Jake Humphrey or Ggreg Wallace to.

LIES

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Just to clarify, I wasn’t suggesting that GON is worse than Lage!

 

[Tony Towner]

3 players to get rid of Kilman, Max Kilman, Maximilan Kilman

 

[Templeton Peck]

Player of the Season: Lemina

Goal of the Season: Sarabia v Spurs

Top three games: Spurs H, City H, Chelsea A

Worst three games: Coventry, Bournemouth H, Brighton H

Three areas to prioritise in the summer (name specific targets if you like): CB, CF x 2

Three players to get rid of: Doherty, Silva, Kilman

Marks out of 10 for Gary O'Neil: 8

Instinctive predicted finish for 2024/25: 15th

 

[Johnny75]

3 players to get rid of Kilman, Max Kilman, Maximilan Kilman

The Grant Schapps of Wolves

 

[White Wolf]

Player of the Season: Cunha

Goal of the Season: Sarabia v Tottenham

Top three games: Spurs home, Chelsea away, West Brom away

Worst three games: Coventry home, Brighton home, Ipswich away

Three areas to prioritise in the summer (name specific targets if you like): Striker, CB x2

Three players to get rid of: Kilman, Doherty, Fabio Silva

Marks out of 10 for Gary O'Neil: 5/10

Instinctive predicted finish for 2024/25: 17th

 

[Mel Evo]

Player: Lemina

Goal: Sarabia V Spurs - and boy was it good

Top games: Spurs (home), Everton (home), Chelsea (away)

Worst games: Coventry, Palace, Bournemouth

Get rid of: Kilman - everything else is noise compared to the utterly weird decision we’ve made to hobble ourselves by building around him (to hold him up). I’ve even heard self-styled ‘tellers like it is’ saying we can’t demote him now, just think what it would do to his confidence. Good lord, why should Britain tremble with such ruthless decision makers walking the land?

GON: 6/10. Not going for a 0.5 I’ve rounded down, but fair to acknowledge he’s exceeded expectations and that’s easy to overlook now given the product served up for a few months (yes, months for me).

Instinctive prediction: 16th. A lot of trepidation about our recruitment ‘strategy’ for me. Not a great fan of the ‘desperate to be here, manager can work with him’ noises. I’d rather we settled on, ‘could be a game changer, possesses real quality, takes us forward’.