OFFICIAL Wolves match thread

[Brookbonds73]

Dull, drab 1-1 draw which unfortunately buys Moyes a bit more time when he should be out on his arse now.

Indeed he should my learned friend.
I'm going for a 1-0 victory and Marty to be awarded a five year contract extension.

[eskimo joe]

Dull, drab 1-1 draw which unfortunately buys Moyes a bit more time when he should be out on his arse now.

Indeed he should my learned friend.
I'm going for a 1-0 victory and Marty to be awarded a five year contract extension.

Pessimist!

[Ibbyham]

Hope all our players come back unscathed from the boring international matches that are meaningless. We need to start picking up points and our next 3 games are at home against Wolves & Fulham and then away to Southampton. Our only injury is Aguerd and I hope Ben Johnson will be back by the time we played Wolves. Moyes need to change the players in our squad as our last match at Everton, we were absolutely toilet!

Squad

Fabianski

Coufal/Johnson/Ashby bu
Zouma
Kehrer
Cresswell

Rice
Downes

Bowen
Paqueta
Cornets/Benrahma

Antonio/Scamacca

We need to perfoam better and no boring slow start. Wolves are tough to beat especially their defence are very strong. We are 2 points from safety and we don't want to end up what AFC Wimlbedon did last season and so far this season as they are playing crap

COYI!!!!

Frankly my dear , I have as much confidence in that selection/formation getting a decent result ( doubt even with the fifteen we would ) , as I have in Riceascaptain's or Moyes's .

I am not 100% confidence this weekend but hope the new players will start cracking and hope the ref and VAR will not destroyed us.

[palerider]

Dull, drab 1-1 draw which unfortunately buys Moyes a bit more time when he should be out on his arse now.

Indeed he should my learned friend.
I'm going for a 1-0 victory and Marty to be awarded a five year contract extension.

The noshers on KUMB would demand no less my good fellow. Perhaps a statue too.

[dagenhamdave]

Anyone betting on Costa scoring?

[JayK]

Anyone betting on Costa scoring?

And a red

[brookingslovechild]

At the moment no network rail due to strike action on the day of the game.
London Underground will run as normal.

2-1 Us.

Fuck it why not..

Mr Positive DP is rubbing off on me...i'm going..

18-0 to us Creswell with a trio of free kicks and declan finds his shooting boots and scores 15.

(cant find the odds on this anywhere weirdly).

BTW is the official match thread? & if so has ibbs been put on gardening leave after an awful run of results (or does he have until xmas?)

[BlackDiamond]

It's interesting to draw the parallels with David Moyes and Gareth Southgate.

Both stubbornly cling to using out of form favourites, both indecisive and ponderous to react to adversities and both continue to use systems that fail to utilise the best of their available materials.

This has resulted in Southgate being relegated and Moyes residing in the bottom three.

Both to their credit are decent men but both fall several layers below elite football coaches. We might view them as stylistically stunted by the fear of ridicule. They lack the strength to dream.

However the solutions and their redemptions, sit perfectly right under their own noses. No need to go searching it's right there. Available right now.

For Gareth Southgate it's easy - he has the better players. Swap the possession surrendering Raheem Sterling for Bakary Sako and use Harry Kane as a No. 10 and promote the inform Ivan Toney as the No.9.

Then we end up with a front three of Grealish,Toney,Saka
and a very strong midfield of Bellingham,Rice,Kane
We might also restore Trent-Alexander for his laser guided deep assist potential.

While David Moyes would improve matters significantly, by simply dropping the out of form Bowen,Soucek,Coufal.

That would involve shuffling Thilo Kehrer from his West Ham CB position to his German RB position. Promoting Flynn Downes adjacent to Declan Rice and dropping Lucas Paquetá into a deeper starting position affording more space to launch his creative prompts.
Max Cornet would start in the vacated Bowen position.

That only took 10 mins and would improve West Ham and the National team.

So why don't they do it - after all they are both decent men...

[Whiskyman]

It's interesting to draw the parallels with David Moyes and Gareth Southgate.

Both stubbornly cling to using out of form favourites, both indecisive and ponderous to react to adversities and both continue to use systems that fail to utilise the best of their available materials.

This has resulted in Southgate being relegated and Moyes residing in the bottom three.

Both to their credit are decent men but both fall several layers below elite football coaches. We might view them as stylistically stunted by the fear of ridicule. They lack the strength to dream.

However the solutions and their redemptions, sit perfectly right under their own noses. No need to go searching it's right there. Available right now.

For Gareth Southgate it's easy - he has the better players. Swap the possession surrendering Raheem Sterling for Bakary Sako and use Harry Kane as a No. 10 and promote the inform Ivan Toney as the No.9.

Then we end up with a front three of Grealish,Toney,Saka
and a very strong midfield of Bellingham,Rice,Kane
We might also restore Trent-Alexander for his laser guided deep assist potential.

While David Moyes would improve matters significantly, by simply dropping the out of form Bowen,Soucek,Coufal.

That would involve shuffling Thilo Kehrer from his West Ham CB position to his German RB position. Promoting Flynn Downes adjacent to Declan Rice and dropping Lucas Paquetá into a deeper starting position affording more space to launch his creative prompts.
Max Cornet would start in the vacated Bowen position.

That only took 10 mins and would improve West Ham and the National team.

So why don't they do it - after all they are both decent men...

Why indeed ? Perhaps it's because, as you say, they are both well below the level of elite coaches and are scared to deviate from the tried and trusted in case it fails and they are ridiculed.

But isn't the main problem who to replace them with. West Ham are not an elite club which would appeal to an elite coach at the peak of his powers. So we shop at Poundland and not Harrods. And as for England, well, there is such a shortage of talented English coaches we have in the past had to resort to bringing in supposedly top level candidates from Sweden and Italy. Imo a total embarrassment for the country that invented the fucking game. Let's be honest if international sport is to have any relevance whatsoever then surely the head honcho should share nationality with the bloody blokes he is coaching. Otherwise what's the point ?

[BlackDiamond]

Right, it has to be this:

Areola
Kehrer,Dawson,Zouma,Emerson
Downes,Rice
Paquetta
Cornet,Scamacca,Benrahma

If DM selects this lineup...I'll take a fucking knee !