Great game I thought. A battling performance again, but I was sometimes frustrated at the slow tippy-tappy build up, and it was telling how a couple of quick through balls setup both our goals. Brilliant passes from Deeney and Gwaddyoora for the goals. But we didn't give the ball away so often, I thought, even though we were back-heeling and trying flicks all over the park. I still feel that there is a lack of movement from the front two and a lack of support when the ball is out wide. It means that, if Paredes doesn't just knock to sideways or back, he can only hit and hope into the box. Time and time again, Paredes was given the ball but was provided with no forward options. Deeney made a good run for him on one occasion, and Paredes found him nicely. Had Troy controlled it, he would have been one on one with the keeper. I still thought he had a good game, though particularly in the first half. He was annoyed at being subbed though! It is so obvious that Matej has got his confidence back. The brilliant first touch and early shot for the goal were sublime. I wish he could sometimes hold the ball up, rather than always trying the first time flick pass when he gets it, but he is a solid and exciting alternative to Ighalo now. I also though Ben Watson had a good game, and Hoban did reasonable well in first half against a good winger, but was continually being stretched. I thought maybe he would be replaced by Motta early in the 2nd half. Difficult to gauge how loud our fans were as we were in a long, narrow section along the length of the pitch. It was hard to get the whole section involved at the same time. All in all, a good performance from our lads, I thought!
Watford fans scathing.. Worth a read from wolves fans forum regarding what happened after the game yesterday....... http://www.molineuxmix.co.uk/vb/showthread.php?t=92299
Ollys Wolves really do have a nasty following, a friend of mine in is 40's now and a wolves season ticket holder, who used to be a lad years ago, says it is a new generation of young fans trying to make a name for themselves, most of them don't even go to the games. It's shows what they are like when they pick on the scarfers and a man who had gone with his partner, they will run a mile when millwall or birmingham go there. Hope those who did get a slap are ok and not seriously Injured. A lot of the new generation of wannabe hoolighans will consider it a result if a dozen blokes jump on 2 blokes. At least the watford trouble at the first game of the season was lads on lads who both wanted it. I heard a dozen on so watford fans jumped and couple of innocent charlton fans as well
Interesting; it's not seen as safe to sing about your team outside of the ground? Bloody hell. And none them appear to think that's an issue.
Unbelievable isn't it? Just a couple of weeks a go I was walking along vicarage road with my son pre match against Norwich and suddenly a load of Norwich fans started singing loudly. They were not in danger of 'getting their heads kicked in' (and rightly so) for 'singing loudly' as one wolves fan put it. Seems that some wolves fans need to join the 21st century!
From Watford police ... the Watford fan that was assaulted yesterday remains in Hospital with serious head injuries. I hope he makes a speedy recovery.......
I'm more surprised that some wolves fans on the forum are denying that Wolverhampton is the pisshole of the world!
Went to wolves in the 80s FA cup. We beat them 3-1 I think and Andy Gray was playing for them. They didn't take kindly to being beaten by a lower league team. It really kicked off afterwards with pitched battles all over the place and not a copper in sight. Horrible place.
Memories-Poskett got 2 and we won 3-0-they were a top 6 Div 1 side and had just won their League Cup semi. We were in Div 2 having been promoted the previous year and were enjoying a pretty average season having just beaten the mighty Harlow 4-3 in the previous round. I also recall it was pretty rough with a load of Watford/Wolves fighting outside the ground for most of the match up and down some hill as both sides were joined by those who had been thrown out. Their celebrations on reaching a cup final and playing little old watford were cut short as Poskett, Jenkins and Luther cut through them. I seem to remeber there were loads of smashed car windows on the motorway home many of which contained families rather than "lads" so sadly not much has changed in over 30 years given YK's experience yesterday
The exciting thing is next season we could be visiting the Emirates, Old Trafford and St James's Park and not having to worry about places and attitudes such as we endured yesterday.
I hate Wolves. Horrible place. Horrible fans. There are always fans, including grown men, looking for a fight, or smashing cars in (my car window was done in a few years ago). Add that to our record there and it's often a thoroughly depressing day out. However I have been to a few away games where I've witnessed this (taken from their forum) especially against Brentford. Left the Steve Bull to go and pick someone up from the boxes in that stand and obviously there was a flow of Watford coming the opposite way. One in particular was shouting to some Wolves supporters going the opposite direction something along the lines of "come and say that when there's no coppers around". Thing is there weren't any police there as far as I was concerned. It was a real "hold me back hold me back" comment, lame. What they cannot seem to comprehend though is the link that they make between their city being a place where you cannot get away with away shirts and chanting, and the depiction of their place as sc*m. Watford high Street isn't the nicest aesthetically, but you can freely walk and chant after a game with no bother at all.
All clubs have idiots including Watford who have their fair share. The baseball cap brigade(mixture of middle aged and spotty teenagers) that the Wolves refer to did our club no favours yesterday on the train home. Their chosen target an innocent Asian girl sitting in the carriage - comments like f*** off and chanting ISIS is pretty shocking. A few people taped it so surprised not be shown - they would have deserved a good kickin but doubt they would say boo to a goose in Wolverhampton. Apart from that a good day out - the pub behind the station was welcoming before and after(Great Western I think) and the Wolves fans there were fine
Really hope we are not going to see a resurgence of the hooliganism in 70`s and 80`s We dont need these idiots dragging down clubs reputation.
So what did you actually do about this at the time, other than make a mental note to grizzle about it on a messageboard in the morning?
Mindless Wolves fans have put someone in hospital......in a critical condition http://www1.skysports.com/football/...after-assault-in-wolverhampton-after-2-2-draw
corrected...i would contest that the overwhelming majority of Wolves fans are decent, proper football fans. Whomever is responsible for this incident is idiotic thug who happened to have been to a football game...
So you're saying this attack is totally unconnected to football? Just a random attack by someone that has nothing to do with Wolves?
You're being pedantic: read the last bit of my comments again. I'd suggest that this isn't the behaviour of 'football fans'...but the behaviour of idiots who went to a football game. There is a difference.
I understand the point you're trying to make, I think. Except you seem to think that these actions make them somehow not "football fans". It's a similar response to the actions of those Chelsea fans in Paris; "they're not real Chelsea fans". Beating someone up or being racist doesn't make you any less a football fan. If my dentist turned out to be a serial killer, it wouldn't make him any less a dentist. I wouldn't, however, describe his behaviour as indicative of dentists. ..and what I mean by that awful analogy is exactly what you said in your other post: these fans don't speak for the majority of Wolves fans. If the Wolves forum is to be believed, there were some of our fans looking for trouble there also, and they certainly aren't an example of our whole fanbase. Every club has idiots.
possibly...but 99.99(r)% of Wolves fans weren't involved in anyway. I just take exception with the generic grouping of 'fans'; just like when some Watford **** had a bust-up with Huddersfield/Brentford etc and the grouping of Watford Fans assault visitors is applied...you & I are Watford fans and wouldn't dream of a violent assault on another human being just for the sports team they follow.
An action doesn't disassociate the culprit with their group. The attackers were Wolves fans much like the victim is a Watford fan. People who were around at the time say it didn't look good at all. Best wishes, hoping for a speedy recovery so the bloke can enjoy our promotion this season.
Anyhoo...not much chat about the game; a hard fought point that we made look difficult. Parades was the boo-boy, and interested to know why he started over Anya, Layun or even Poodle?
I actually thought Paredes was alright in the second half. The defence as a whole was a bit sloppy at times.
I'm unsure why. I'm not a massive fan of this formation where Hoban plays full back. By the sounds of it he did himself no harm yesterday with his performance, but when you've got 3 ready made wing backs on the bench it clearly makes us too narrow. I'd go with Pudil and Anya personally.
