Wolves Academy Thread

[Wellen Wolf]

The yoof that is Tom King playing in the whatever they call the Sherpa Van Trophy these days game v Vale tonight.

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Twice so far he has looked like a parks player. Kicked the ball softly into touch once and was poor in an aerial challenge.

 

[Wellen Wolf]

1-0 Edozie.

 

[Wellen Wolf]

King is having a stinker with his distribution.

 

[Wellen Wolf]

HT. Winning 1-0.

 

[Wellen Wolf]

1-1. Being dominated this half.

 

[Wellen Wolf]

Interesting change with Holman and Farmer coming on at 73 minutes. White and Angel off. This half has been rally wishy washy from Wolves as PV have raised their game. It's been like attack against defence so at least Collins has tried to change things around.

 

[Tony Towner]

Interesting change with Holman and Farmer

The club are out on them then if the younger players are starting ahead of them. Age group football is brutal

 

[Wellen Wolf]

Wonder strike from Holman after sloppy PV defensive work. 2-1 to the good guys. ;-) 85 mins. No penalties now......?

 

[Wellen Wolf]

Jeez. 2-2. Scrambled goal after spill from....... King.

 

[Wellen Wolf]

Whittingham. Hopeless last few seconds corner hit short and then belts the recovered ball over the back. WTF.
Penalties for extra point.

 

[Jinky]

Lost 5-4 on pens.

 

[Wellen Wolf]

Lost the penalties 4-5. Whittingham and Farmer wishy washy with theirs saved.
Overall a useful experience for our youngsters against senior lower league pros one of whom has played 400+ games.
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[big mean bunny]

Ah didn't realise I could have watched that. Will keep an eye out for the remaining games then as presume they will also be shown on Sky Sports+

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Brilliant goal by Holman.

King's bantz must be off the scale as he is a truly terrible keeper.

 

[Wellen Wolf]

Brilliant goal by Holman.

King's bantz must be off the scale as he is a truly terrible keeper.

Holman certainly showed a determined attitude, his penalty was very sharp too. As for King, that was an appalling show. It would be interesting to know what the Academy players think about it all, but, of course they know to keep their trap shut. We are being taken for a ride with this cowboy.

 

[Johnny75]

Holman certainly showed a determined attitude, his penalty was very sharp too. As for King, that was an appalling show. It would be interesting to know what the Academy players think about it all, but, of course they know to keep their trap shut. We are being taken for a ride with this cowboy.

Holman showed he had played senior football albeit at National League South level. He has a sharpness and desire to get a shot off and was far more effective than Angel who he replaced.

We played an old school Nuno 3-4-3 with Pond in the middle of the back 3. The front 3 were all narrow with the width from two very high wingbacks. Attacking was at a premium and very little of it looked like creating a shot.

The passing was nice and neat but at times very safe against a PV side that seemed allergic to tackling in the first half. Still PV should've been 3 up at HT

As soon as PV upped the pace in the second half we were chasing shadows and they should've been out of sight by the time Holman and Farmer came on. Both direct and both immediately caused problems.

I hope the first team don't go with this 3-4-3 style as it doesn't fit the players we have particularly well as we'd have to drop one of our strongest players in midfield and we don't have the depth at CB. Attacking wise it's so negatively played it would be Lage levels of tedium.

Our U21's are not great, there isn't one where you'd say they're close to the first team. Lots will make a decent career at a lower level.

 

[Kenny]

Holman showed he had played senior football albeit at National League South level. He has a sharpness and desire to get a shot off and was far more effective than Angel who he replaced.

I may be way off but thought it was odd we never pushed him into the first team when we ran out of forwards. He got on the bench a few times but out of all the young lads, he was at least used dealing with experienced CB's. Just feel he would have had added more value in the 11 v Coventry than Fraser did

 

[Tony Towner]

I have a feeling that us not signing a forward last January and Fraser's move to Shrewsbury therefore being pulled will prove to be a pivotal moment in his career. Not going there, playing for our first team, looking completely out of his depth, potentially knocking his confidence has resulted in the best loan we can get him is to a piss poor league off anybody's radar. There's a parallel world where he went there, scored 10 goals and now is on loan in the Championship (or was dropped after 2 games for not being good enough)

 

[Alan]

I have a feeling that us not signing a forward last January and Fraser's move to Shrewsbury therefore being pulled will prove to be a pivotal moment in his career. Not going there, playing for our first team, looking completely out of his depth, potentially knocking his confidence has resulted in the best loan we can get him is to a piss poor league off anybody's radar. There's a parallel world where he went there, scored 10 goals and now is on loan in the Championship (or was dropped after 2 games for not being good enough)

It’s really fascinating to me how differently this is viewed vs what I expect the “American” (massively generalized obv) view of it to be. In terms of Fraser’s Prem minutes specifically.

Not meaning to imply rightness or wrongness. Just an observation.

 

[Johnny75]

I may be way off but thought it was odd we never pushed him into the first team when we ran out of forwards. He got on the bench a few times but out of all the young lads, he was at least used dealing with experienced CB's. Just feel he would have had added more value in the 11 v Coventry than Fraser did

He certainly would have been better than Fraser but GoN wants a big unit up front.

The club are being weird with the youth at the moment in that they seem to be prioritising physical attributes over ability and Holman is quick but not a lot else physically but he has that natural strikers instinct the club don't seem to value for some reason.

I don't think he's ready now but a good loan to a lg1/2 club would do him the world of good as our youth team isn't any good for him at the moment.

GoN also strikes me as the type of manager who values picking experience over youth. Nothing wrong with that but it does stifle players and if the club want to buy low to sell high GoN is going to have to change his approach.