Wolves 0-1 Nottingham Forest: Verdict Thread

[Deutsch Wolf]

We are a disgracefully poor team. And I mean disgraceful.

I can only think back to the fag end of Kenny Jackett's days when he seemed determined to draw every game 0-0 and we had the likes of Bjorn Sigurdarson, Joe Mason and Jeremy Helan leading our attack. Other than that, in 37 and a half years of watching us, I have never seen a Wolves team less likely to score a goal. Where is the creativity? What is the plan?

It's easy to give Rob Edwards a bit of a free pass but he's also the one who keeps starting three centre halves then having to take one off. Stop doing it, it doesn't stop us conceding and we don't look well organised. It's an extra defender for no reason.

Awful.

Johnstone: Being better than the 2025/26 version of José Sa is no badge of honour and you're not very good. Horrific on the goal. Don't think he'd have got anywhere the disallowed one either.

Mosquera: Moans more than Andy Mutch. Bang average.

Agbadou: Still looks like a bombscare on the ball.

Toti: Good lad, should be starting 10 games max a season at this level. Not 30+.

Tchatchoua: Shite technically and not a very good defender. Still better than the alternatives.

Wolfe: Properly shite technically and not a very good defender. Still better than the alternative.

J Gomes/André: Offer absolutely zero on the ball and aren't doing a spectacular job defensively. Will have as much impact on the World Cup as I will.

Bellegarde: Did at least try to create stuff, from crap positions, he just isn't very good.

Arias: Dreadful. All he's done so far is miss sitters and get in the way. Slow, weak, no skill and a fucking coward.

Strand Larsen: How can you really judge a forward based on that "service".

Subs: Hwang made one good pass so that's his good moment used up for the remainder of 2025. Munetsi came on, wasted a couple of fleeting opportunities and went off injured. Mané fluffed what amounted to probably our second best chance of the entire evening. Hoever actually getting minutes is a damning indictment of where we are. We hoofed it at Tolu a bit and he doesn't look very well suited to that.

Atrocious stuff. I actually don't know how we'll score again let alone win again.

 

[Jinky]

Wolves having a genuine impact on people’s mental health at the moment.

Sounds a bit dramatic, but watching us lose week after week after week, becoming a national laughing stock, breaking every record in the clubs history - and just having owners and a complete CUNT like Jeff Shi overseeing it all while giving zero fucks about the fans, the experience or pretty much anything other than their own bank balance is pretty sickening.

Fair play to those of you that went tonight. I almost wish none of you had and they’d played in an empty stadium. Maybe then they’d get the fucking message. The club are a disgrace. We’ll go down and we won’t be back for a long, long time.

 

[Lycan]

Thoroughly depressing

 

[Templeton Peck]

The only highlight was Munetsi going off injured.

 

[Wolfe]

Rubbish throughout, I said it on the other thread. What were we thinking by bringing Edwards and his batch of nobodies?

 

[Wilf Wolf]

It’s quite incredible how many players we have signed that are completely out of their depth in the PL. I think we’ve now added a manager.

 

[Lycan]

At least it's raining tomorrow

 

[Wolfe]

It’s quite incredible how many players we have signed that are completely out of their depth in the PL. I think we’ve now added a manager.

Of course we have, take a step back and look at it objectively. He’s walked away from a long contract at a high flying club and come here after failing miserably at Luton and Watford. He did to forest green what he did to borough. The man has no moral compass and it’s going to end in tears. I’d rather he took his smarmy arse elsewhere.

 

[Jinky]

I hate all the players. I think, even back to when we were a middling championship team back in the 90’s there were a few players you’d feel some affection towards. Nothing like that now. The whole club is rotten and I hate feeling like I dislike everything to do with it.

We had the world at our feet and Fosun - and in particular, Jeff Shi - have fucked it in more ways than I ever thought possible. I hate them.

 

[Mel Evo]

Fair play to those of you that went tonight. I almost wish none of you had and they’d played in an empty stadium. Maybe then they’d get the fucking message. The club are a disgrace. We’ll go down and we won’t be back for a long, long time.

I wish none of me had gone too.

Disgusting.

How long can Edwards keep overseeing that abomination? That might be the only thing of interest left. He walks around the four stands applauding at the end of the game and some choose to stay and clap him back. But that was dreadful. Dreadful. Surely it’s too long a period of disgrace coming up to last it out. He won’t turn it around. It might not be his fault as such, but to stop this car crash needs experience, gravitas, tactical clarity and resources. He has none of those.

I’m so depressed. At least the test starts in Brisbane this evening so I can get it on the radio later on the drive home. Oh. Bugger!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

We had the world at our feet

We really didn't, this gets vastly overplayed. Which is why people should have enjoyed it more at the time, rather than pissing and moaning all the fucking time.

But they have made a ghastly mess of it, of course.

Lack of ability (because you've bought players ill-equipped for the task) is one thing. There is NO fight amongst this lot whatsoever. Run through any number of past players who got loads of stick at the time - Hennessey, Henry, Ward, Naylor, Craddock, Kennedy, Blake, Stearman, Elokobi, Foley, etc etc - I'd take them a thousand times out of a thousand over this lot.

 

[Lycan]

I wish none of me had gone too.

Disgusting.

How long can Edwards keep overseeing that abomination? That might be the only thing of interest left. He walks around the four stands applauding at the end of the game and some choose to stay and clap him back. But that was dreadful. Dreadful. Surely it’s too long a period of disgrace coming up to last it out. He won’t turn it around. It might not be his fault as such, but to stop this car crash needs experience, gravitas, tactical clarity and resources. He has none of those.

I’m so depressed. At least the test starts in Brisbane this evening so I can get it on the radio later on the drive home. Oh. Bugger!

He was stood in front of the away end on Sunday beating his chest and nodding his head and there were a fair few applauding him back. Far less today. He won't get a round of fucks for a while yet I think but it will come and it won't be pretty. I don't really care about him that much really, I even feel a little bit sorry for him, but he's only got himself to blame.

 

[EnglishBob]

Rubbish throughout, I said it on the other thread. What were we thinking by bringing Edwards and his batch of nobodies?

"What were we thinking", you ask. I would remind you, they tried to bring GON back! Thinking doesn't come into it with Fosun these days. At least not sensible thinking.

Edwards isn't really to blame. Look at the tools he has at his disposal! Absolute garbage players mostly. And who else could we have brought in realistically who you think might've done a better job?

 

[Wolfe]

"What were we thinking", you ask. I would remind you, they tried to being GON back! Thinking doesn't come into it with Fosun these days. At least not sensible thinking.

Edwards isn't really to blame. Look at the tools he has at his disposal! Absolute garbage players mostly. And who else could we have brought in realistically who you think might've done a better job?

Sam Allardyce, would at least get us points.

 

[Jinky]

We really didn't, this gets vastly overplayed. Which is why people should have enjoyed it more at the time, rather than pissing and moaning all the fucking time.

But they have made a ghastly mess of it, of course.

Lack of ability (because you've bought players ill-equipped for the task) is one thing. There is NO fight amongst this lot whatsoever. Run through any number of past players who got loads of stick at the time - Hennessey, Henry, Ward, Naylor, Craddock, Kennedy, Blake, Stearman, Elokobi, Foley, etc etc - I'd take them a thousand times out of a thousand over this lot.

Compared to where we are now, we did.

 

[Derby Wolf]

You could forgive this squad if we were playing League One football 18 months ago. We'd rode a wave of momentum straight up and were promoted without the squad to match.

The fact we have managed to assemble this squad after 8 uninterrupted years in the Premier League is fucking incredible.

 

[Lycan]

Lack of ability (because you've bought players ill-equipped for the task) is one thing. There is NO fight amongst this lot whatsoever. Run through any number of past players who got loads of stick at the time - Hennessey, Henry, Ward, Naylor, Craddock, Kennedy, Blake, Stearman, Elokobi, Foley, etc etc - I'd take them a thousand times out of a thousand over this lot.

These cunts deserve an absolute rollicking. Forget Edwards, he's just an idiot. Even Shi. Yeah, the guy is a vile little cunt. I'm actually more angry at João Gomes rolling around on Sunday while the rest of his teammates are trying to defend, our fucking mutant back 3 failing to win a single header all game against Igor Fucking Jesus and Strand Larsen being a second behind every ball.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

"What were we thinking", you ask. I would remind you, they tried to being GON back! Thinking doesn't come into it with Fosun these days. At least not sensible thinking.

Edwards isn't really to blame. Look at the tools he has at his disposal! Absolute garbage players mostly. And who else could we have brought in realistically who you think might've done a better job?

As I say, no-one is putting a gun to his head and making him play three centre halves, which is a massive issue for us in terms of our work in possession.

Leeds have 14 points from 14 games. They are not very good. Are we going to get 14 points from Rob Edwards between now and the end of the season, it looks fairly unlikely right now.

I'm not digging him out because this isn't a mess of his making, I don't see how he materially improves things though, nothing so far has made me think we're looking appreciably better. By default he hasn't fallen out with the only two functional central midfielders at the club unlike his predecessor and er, that's about it.

 

[Lycan]

"What were we thinking", you ask. I would remind you, they tried to being GON back! Thinking doesn't come into it with Fosun these days. At least not sensible thinking.

Edwards isn't really to blame. Look at the tools he has at his disposal! Absolute garbage players mostly. And who else could we have brought in realistically who you think might've done a better job?

These players are shite, I'll grant you. But Leeds have shit players as well, there's not a single member of their squad that makes me wish I had a ST in the South Stand at Elland Road instead of the South Bank at Molineux. They're 12 points ahead of us, we've only played 14 games and they'll probably go down as well.

 

[AndyWolves]

The lack of ribbing on twitter from other fans shows how desperately poor we are, I think they feel sorry for us