| 1-0 Wolves 20:09 - Apr 1 with 14811 views | NeedhamChris |
That league table is abysmal. |  |
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| 1-0 Wolves on 05:05 - Apr 2 with 1654 views | Benters |
| 1-0 Wolves on 21:10 - Apr 1 by MK1 |
Beats constantly slagging off the team I support. |
Great answer ✅ |  |
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| Wolves were a club in crisis on 08:00 - Apr 2 with 1432 views | PrideOfTheEast |
| Wolves were a club in crisis on 22:34 - Apr 1 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
1 season of survival (26/27)
Bi-Lingual coaching staff
International recruitment network
Easy, sorted.
We are too lightweight and championship(ish) to compete. |
Pert speaks several languages fyi | | | |
| 1-0 Wolves on 08:34 - Apr 2 with 1356 views | OldFart71 |
When people say recruitment was bad then I'd like to know who else we could have bought. I don't think Philogene was the right player, not because he won't achieve the potential that the management expect but because we needed someone in midfield. In my humble opinion that has been our biggest problem all season we just haven't been good enough in midfield. Too slow and not powerful enough. Morsy and Loungo are now too old, Phillips not fit when he came to us and has been injured, is now injured and has a suspension also. Taylor hasn't since we got him been good enough and that just leaves Cajuste who has been good but again injury prone. It will be both interesting and defining as to what we do next season with regards to replacements as if we don't get it right we may struggle. Then of course there are other positions where we might sell/will sell who need replacing such as Davis, Hutchinson and Delap. | | | |
| 1-0 Wolves on 09:54 - Apr 2 with 1220 views | longtimefan |
| 1-0 Wolves on 01:18 - Apr 2 by Guthrum |
Radio 5, as I was driving home, their game was starting and the commentators were talking in terms of Arsenal still competing for the title. |
Radio 4 this morning in the 7:30 sports roundup. Said Arsenal win kept their title hopes alive! | | | |
| 1-0 Wolves on 09:55 - Apr 2 with 1219 views | itfcsuth |
| 1-0 Wolves on 23:47 - Apr 1 by TRUE_BLUE123 |
How good are our scouting networks in Europe. I would assume they are very limited comparatively. How many Prem quality players with affordable wage would have been queuing up join us. We only got Cajuste because he failed a medical at Brentford.
Sheffield United got 16 points and conceded 104 goals last year. They are currently top of the Championship. You can can gain momentum pretty fast in that league. We will have one of the best squads and biggest budgets. No logical reason to be down on our chances at all. Just feels like negativity for negativities sake. [Post edited 1 Apr 23:50]
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I don't know how good our scouting network is through Europe, but from evidence I would argue it should be a lot lot better - this isn't about what we are competing against, it's about ourselves giving ourselves the very best opportunity to bridge a big gap, and I don't think we did that to be best of our abilities.
Of course you can go either way when you fall back in to the PL, of course the ambition is to bounce back to the PL immediately, but it also very easy to slip into one of the pack in the Championship again.
It will be a different scenario this time around, teams will be compact, they will raise their levels against us, there will be a different level of pressure and expectation on the group - do I think we have enough minerals and quality to handle that, I'm not convinced at the moment. |  | | |
| 1-0 Wolves on 10:29 - Apr 2 with 1125 views | Churchman |
| 1-0 Wolves on 09:55 - Apr 2 by itfcsuth |
I don't know how good our scouting network is through Europe, but from evidence I would argue it should be a lot lot better - this isn't about what we are competing against, it's about ourselves giving ourselves the very best opportunity to bridge a big gap, and I don't think we did that to be best of our abilities.
Of course you can go either way when you fall back in to the PL, of course the ambition is to bounce back to the PL immediately, but it also very easy to slip into one of the pack in the Championship again.
It will be a different scenario this time around, teams will be compact, they will raise their levels against us, there will be a different level of pressure and expectation on the group - do I think we have enough minerals and quality to handle that, I'm not convinced at the moment. |
A lot of things should be better. The ground, entry to it chaos, the youth team, Cat 1, the 90s training ground, the catering, community work, beer prices, Fanzone tent, toilets, the state of Sir Alf’s statue, U.K. scouting, European scouting.
But we are where we are for a reason that’s been stated many times. There was no point two years ago bothering to set up a European or even better world scouting network for a club in League One. We didn’t even have much of a U.K. scouting network.
How could we have set up a Euro/world network that could ever have brought any tangible benefit for this season? It couldn’t in my view. We had to go with what we had, assets wise, and I’ve actually no problem plundering the best we could afford within the U.K.
it’s not worked out for now (there’s plenty of potential there), but the idea behind it was sound and we did what we could with what we had. Were mistakes made? Of course. I agree with another poster that pointed out our midfield weaknesses as did Mick Mills before Christmas. I was surprised that we were unable to do anything about that in January. Maybe we tried and were unable to secure the right player. That’s for the club to tell us.
But as for signing any old Carlos Kickaball from Real Ale Sociadiddlysquat you need to know what you are doing. The peril of not knowing is signing a Sereni and a George Finidi.
If the club is serious about returning to the PL and doing better, this area for recruitment along with developing our own players are things that are going to have to be done. |  | | |
| 1-0 Wolves on 11:02 - Apr 2 with 1042 views | itfcjoe |
| 1-0 Wolves on 23:47 - Apr 1 by TRUE_BLUE123 |
How good are our scouting networks in Europe. I would assume they are very limited comparatively. How many Prem quality players with affordable wage would have been queuing up join us. We only got Cajuste because he failed a medical at Brentford.
Sheffield United got 16 points and conceded 104 goals last year. They are currently top of the Championship. You can can gain momentum pretty fast in that league. We will have one of the best squads and biggest budgets. No logical reason to be down on our chances at all. Just feels like negativity for negativities sake. [Post edited 1 Apr 23:50]
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"Sheffield United got 16 points and conceded 104 goals last year."
And even with the point deductions it is only Reading when they got 106 points, and Leicester last season who have more points than they have after 39 games so they are on record setting pace after last season's shambles |  |
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| 1-0 Wolves on 11:04 - Apr 2 with 1035 views | tractorboy1978 |
| 1-0 Wolves on 22:17 - Apr 1 by itfcjoe |
Wolves are now on 29 points from 30 games, and were an absolute shower for half a season with in fighting, clearly given up on a manager, no recruitment etc - when they pull it together you realise that they have a 3 Brazilian internationals through the spine of their team, and serious talent levels
It's going to be 40 points to stay up, I don't see any way we could have got close to that. West Ham look bang average under Potter, but better than they did under Lopetegui and you look and they have 34 points from 30 |
I was about to post something similar. We've not been good enough and you can't expect to stay up from a position of 17 points from 29 games, but this season is going to pan out in a way where we had no chance regardless.
Looking forwards, you wonder what hope any promoted club has. Which of the 17 other teams in the league are going to have a 30 point season any time soon? Leeds are perhaps the best equipped if they come up but I think they would get panned as well. The difference in quality is so stark. | | | |
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| 1-0 Wolves on 11:12 - Apr 2 with 992 views | sjg |
| 1-0 Wolves on 08:34 - Apr 2 by OldFart71 |
When people say recruitment was bad then I'd like to know who else we could have bought. I don't think Philogene was the right player, not because he won't achieve the potential that the management expect but because we needed someone in midfield. In my humble opinion that has been our biggest problem all season we just haven't been good enough in midfield. Too slow and not powerful enough. Morsy and Loungo are now too old, Phillips not fit when he came to us and has been injured, is now injured and has a suspension also. Taylor hasn't since we got him been good enough and that just leaves Cajuste who has been good but again injury prone. It will be both interesting and defining as to what we do next season with regards to replacements as if we don't get it right we may struggle. Then of course there are other positions where we might sell/will sell who need replacing such as Davis, Hutchinson and Delap. |
Obviously no one on here can tell you who we should have bought, but the scouts should be able to given that is their full time job! | | | |
| 1-0 Wolves on 11:21 - Apr 2 with 966 views | billlm |
However you want to look at it we've been woeful,
Close the book move on, |  | | |
| 1-0 Wolves on 11:24 - Apr 2 with 942 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
| 1-0 Wolves on 11:02 - Apr 2 by itfcjoe |
"Sheffield United got 16 points and conceded 104 goals last year."
And even with the point deductions it is only Reading when they got 106 points, and Leicester last season who have more points than they have after 39 games so they are on record setting pace after last season's shambles |
I forgot about the points deduction.good point.
That Sheff Utd team got beat 8-0 5-0 5 times 6-0. If anything is going to kill your belief and mentality it should be that. But they are making fairly easy work of the league whilst, from what I’ve seen, not looking that impressive at all. |  |
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| 1-0 Wolves on 14:02 - Apr 2 with 803 views | Churchman |
| 1-0 Wolves on 11:21 - Apr 2 by billlm |
However you want to look at it we've been woeful,
Close the book move on, |
Yes, we have been woeful. But keep the book open and learn from it. Then close it. | | | |
| 1-0 Wolves on 16:44 - Apr 2 with 665 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| 1-0 Wolves on 14:02 - Apr 2 by Churchman |
Yes, we have been woeful. But keep the book open and learn from it. Then close it. |
I think some of the disappointment comes from the fact Town were actually the sexy pick to do quite well, not just our fanbase but from a lot of the neutrals, especially with all of the McKenna links in the summer. Sheffield United 19/20 and Burnley in Europe wasn't that long ago.
We have just had a big dose of reality I guess.
My big fear is the last 5 years is that the gap has really accelerated and got wider and wider with these high spend windows and established clubs. I'd love to see how a lot of the teams 6th - 14th would do in other European top divisions.
If that's the case it's going to be harder to achieve what Bournemouth and Fulham have when bouncing back. I still think the PL will get ripped apart in the next 10 years anyway and a version of the European super league will exist in some form. |  | | |
| Wolves were a club in crisis on 16:59 - Apr 2 with 649 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| Wolves were a club in crisis on 08:00 - Apr 2 by PrideOfTheEast |
Pert speaks several languages fyi |
ah, wasn't aware, thanks. | | | |
| 1-0 Wolves on 17:16 - Apr 2 with 609 views | Axeldalai_lama |
| 1-0 Wolves on 11:12 - Apr 2 by sjg |
Obviously no one on here can tell you who we should have bought, but the scouts should be able to given that is their full time job! |
That's such a cop out though, especially from those who love to pull us to pieces and run down all the transfer decisions and say recruitment was terrible. It's either that we should have bought players who went to play for champions league clubs, or dunno, not my job. Such simple lazy out of context criticism. |  | | |
| 1-0 Wolves on 17:28 - Apr 2 with 592 views | ITFC_History |
| 1-0 Wolves on 11:21 - Apr 2 by billlm |
However you want to look at it we've been woeful,
Close the book move on, |
We have only won two league game at home now in a whole calendar year.
Huddersfield in May
Chelsea in December |  | | |
| 1-0 Wolves on 17:30 - Apr 2 with 581 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| 1-0 Wolves on 17:28 - Apr 2 by ITFC_History |
We have only won two league game at home now in a whole calendar year.
Huddersfield in May
Chelsea in December |
In 2024? That isn't even close to being true (obviously). | | | |
| 1-0 Wolves on 17:32 - Apr 2 with 578 views | HighgateBlue |
Yup, Wolves single-handedly have 10 points from their last 5 games.
The bottom three clubs can muster ONE point between them over the last five games. That is spectacularly bad. |  | | |
| 1-0 Wolves on 17:33 - Apr 2 with 575 views | ITFC_History |
| 1-0 Wolves on 17:30 - Apr 2 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
In 2024? That isn't even close to being true (obviously). |
Soz I meant from 2nd April 2024 to 2nd April 2025 [Post edited 2 Apr 17:34]
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| 1-0 Wolves on 17:35 - Apr 2 with 570 views | algy |
| 1-0 Wolves on 17:30 - Apr 2 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
In 2024? That isn't even close to being true (obviously). |
Depends which month your calendar starts, don't have to starr with January. Fact is we've won 2 home games on the last 365 days. | |
| Veni Vidi Participatur. Now we can get back to competing. |
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| 1-0 Wolves on 17:38 - Apr 2 with 553 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| 1-0 Wolves on 17:35 - Apr 2 by algy |
Depends which month your calendar starts, don't have to starr with January. Fact is we've won 2 home games on the last 365 days. |
Yikes, I guess that is true. I was at both of them and live 4000 miles away. Maybe I should pop back more often. | | | |
| 1-0 Wolves on 17:40 - Apr 2 with 550 views | HighgateBlue |
| 1-0 Wolves on 21:01 - Apr 1 by Guthrum |
Arsenal are that far behind Liverpool, but commentators still think they're in with a chance. |
I'm not sure there are that many who think Arsenal have much of a chance. But in any event, 12 points is 4 wins. Arsenal have won 17 games this season. We've won 3. Arsenal are highly likely to get more than 12 more points this season. We have 1 point in 9 league games. If we get 12 points in 9 it would be a miracle. And of course it still wouldn't be enough.
I appreciate Liverpool are highly unlikely to slip up badly, but if you can't make up the 12 point difference, it doesn't matter what the team above you do. | | | |
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