Villa 2-3 Wolves: Verdict Thread

[Paul]

This is a good point but I have to reiterate Hwang and Saiss got absolute pelters in the matchday thread, as someone else said Adama gets it more often because we've seen it more often.

So did Donk, someone actually wanted him covered in concrete and thrown in the canal , only mentioned him about four or five times!! Only shut up when people who were actually there said he had a good game.

 

[Alan]

Ain’t no-one going to read the matchday thread after the fact. We’ve all got drains to clean or torture to endure first.

Living it is torture enough!

 

[Alan]

So did Donk, someone actually wanted him covered in concrete and thrown in the canal , only mentioned him about four or five times!! Only shut up when people who were actually there said he had a good game.

I don't think I'm stretching too far to say that it was his best performance for us since Lage was appointed. I really do think he had a promising understanding with Semedo. They worked a couple of give-and-gos that I certainly wouldn't mind seeing more of.

 

[Throbber3]

Match day threads should come with a health warning. That said, you all know what they are going to be like yet you all go and read them.

 

[Dinowolf]

Match day threads should come with a health warning. That said, you all know what they are going to be like yet you all go and read them.

Sometimes there are few alternatives if you want to know what's happening live.
When you later watch a recording, if there's one available, there seems little relationship to what was said on the Match day threads and what actually happened.
I sometimes wonder why people say what they do, maybe frustration or disappointment, but a lot of it is way out of line, and some posters should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[sycophantia]

I accept the downsides of the matchday thread, I understand its a passionate sport and some people over react ..I do it myself. Sometimes it's the best (only) way for me to follow the match

 

[Jinky]

Sometimes there are few alternatives if you want to know what's happening live.
When you later watch a recording, if there's one available, there seems little relationship to what was said on the Match day threads and what actually happened.
I sometimes wonder why people say what they do, maybe frustration or disappointment, but a lot of it is way out of line, and some posters should be ashamed of themselves.

Give us names of those that should be “ashamed”.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

It can’t be just me that finds the debate about the match day threads is becoming tiresome. Posters use them to post in the impassioned moments of the game so a bit of hyperbole in both directions is always likely.

If you don’t like that, and I am well known as not a great fan, the solution is simple. Don’t read it, and wait for the match reaction thread. Leave the match thread for those that want to use it and don’t let it wind you up.

You will feel better for that, and the thread users will feel better for not being moaned at for how the thread develops each game.

 

[Tony Towner]

Adding to the above. I don't really understand the it's the only way I can keep up with the game argument. There isn't any commentary on there just reactions to what people are watching. If you are looking for match updates there are countless better options both on and offline

 

[The Bear]

The match day thread will always be a knee-jerk "in the moment" reaction thread. People use it to vent whilst watching the game, or to share in celebration when we score.

People can have a problem with it but nobody's forcing you to look.

Read some opposition match day threads after a defeat, they're all the same.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

It's each to their own, isn't it. The signal is shite inside Molineux (I can barely send a WhatsApp message let alone read and post on a forum) so no go on home games. For away games...well, I want to watch the match. Not look up at the screen, type up a post, press send, look back at the screen. I'll post what I think after the game - I mean I'm not going to slag off the James Bond film if he hasn't killed enough baddies in the first 40 minutes, I'll see how it finishes. It's not for me, but some like that degree of interaction.

Twitter is a serious cesspit during games, like the transfer window x 1000000000. Don't ever do it.

People do go OTT and it seems to be a competition at times as to who can be the most righteously offended whenever anything goes wrong, but whatever. There is a strange phenomenon where it seems to be people who never/hardly ever go who get the most angry, I've never managed to solve that conundrum. Answers on a postcard.

 

[Paul]

"People do go OTT and it seems to be a competition at times as to who can be the most righteously offended whenever anything goes wrong, but whatever. There is a strange phenomenon where it seems to be people who never/hardly ever go who get the most angry,"

Do you not think there is a correlation between those two sentences?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Yeah, but it doesn't make any sense, does it. Because surely if you've got a time and financial commitment to the cause, you'd get more angry when the product is shit as opposed to someone who doesn't really pay for anything and purely sits on their sofa. Like I'd be a lot more angry if my local closed down than if some random pub I last went in 10 years ago and had no serious intention of going to again closed down. But it seems to be the other way round. I don't know, it's not a judgement, it's an observation.

 

[Haggstone]

I find watching us on the tv is infinitely more frustrating than when at the game. Not sure why or if others find this is the case?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I definitely cannot listen to us on the radio any more, gave that up over a decade ago. It's way too stressful.

If I can't get a stream (and to be honest - you pretty much always can, Saturday was the first league game I haven't watched by some means since Ipswich away in January 2018, and it's because I was away for Mrs DW's birthday, don't think she fancied me being hunched over my phone in a hotel room, swearing away) then I'd rather watch SSN than have audio commentary. It's also been demonstrated on here previously that what they say doesn't necessarily reflect reality, like they'll describe an incident then when everyone who went to the game has got back home, we all say "no, that didn't happen".

 

[sycophantia]

Personally I find the score, important moments etc, come up quicker on the matchday thread than on the BBC or the Wolves app. Dunno why or how people find the time to post stuff when they're at the game but I'm grateful they do

 

[Boozad]

I find watching us on the tv is infinitely more frustrating than when at the game. Not sure why or if others find this is the case?

On the contrary, I get proper wound up at games but at home I might huff and puff a little if things are going badly. I can hardly talk when I get out of a match.

Thankfully I don’t find time for match threads these days whichever way I’m watching.

 

[redvictor]

I tend to only post when the opposition score, or we score, and then only a yes, or bollocks. I listen to the Wolves matchday commentary mostly, interspersed with the BBC live coverage.
It does seem people get embroiled in some shit in the matchday thread, i guess from frustration. I don't pay much mind to it to be honest. It's a place you either go in and go with the flow, or don't go in i guess.
The matchday verdict is a lot better read for me. Everyone has either calmed down (loss), or are still right up there (win).

 

[HanDoJin]

Like many things online, people are very quick to describe everything as "shit." Nuance is almost non-existent. A couple of wayward passes in the first 3 minutes and people are calling for heads to roll. Comments on the match day thread rarely reflect what (I think) I'm seeing but to each their own.

But I think Fabio's great, so what would I know‽



There's another forum I happened upon -not MM -with 35-ish quite young regulars and it is the most toxic place on earth on match day. Makes this place look like a bunch of yoghurt-weaving hippies in comparison.

 

[Throbber3]

There's another forum I happened upon -not MM -with 35-ish quite young regulars and it is the most toxic place on earth on match day. Makes this place look like a bunch of yoghurt-weaving hippies in comparison.

That sounds awful!