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Wolves 0-4 Burnley: Verdict Thread

Jinky

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I’ve lost count of the number of pundits/experts/journalists etc that have referred to us as “embarrassing” this season.

Slightly concerned about next season. Jeff & co are going to have to invest heavily over the summer and properly get behind Nuno. Then Nuno needs a clear plan of where we go on the pitch from there. But we’re already hearing the “we need to sell before we can buy”, line being put out.

Can’t even be arsed to comment on today’s match, because it was THAT bad.
 
I switched off after 0-2 which I never normally do, but I thought "fuck that" for a change.

Just seen it finished 0-4 so I doubt I missed much.
 
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Terrible performance, but par for the norm on occasions this season.

People expecting serious investment will be seriously disappointed.
 
Terrible performance, but par for the norm on occasions this season.

People expecting serious investment will be seriously disappointed.
Expecting/what’s required are two totally different things.
 
Turgid, dross, inept, shocking and all those words. No idea how they could play that bad as a whole side. RAN maybe the only player who showed any fight. Everyone else was exceptionally bad against a side that had scored 13 goals away in the whole season.

Not sure Nuno has much blame for players who literally walked around the pitch like a training session today. Molineux would have been toxic today, and the team would have deserved every bit of it.
We really would be in trouble if we hadn't "amassed" 41 points so far. Not surprised the pundits laid into us.

Play like that next season and we'll be doing a Sheffield Utd in short order. Better we just move on from this one.
 
Rui - at fault for two of the goals. Wood should not score the first so easily and the corner was in his zone.
Semedo - possibly a bit flat-footed for the second but otherwise not too bad.
RAN - our MOTM by a long way but the bar was lowest ever.
Coady, Saiss, Boly - Collectively achieved the near impossible and made Wood look like prime Ibrahimovic
Neves - barely noticed him.
Dendoncker - summed up by his pathetic attempt to tackle and lost a ball to Brownhill in a manner that a 10 year old would have been disappointed by.
Jose - no service but in moments he was involved did nothing
Pod - rubbish.
Traore - dreadful. Gave ball away time after time and his crossing was pitiful. When a winger has had a key role in more goals against than they have for it is time to move him on.

Subs. Not fair to judge anyone coming on to play alongside the above players today.

To concede first in 21 out of 23 games is unforgivable and there are no signs things will change. Nuno is running out of the goodwill banked in his first three seasons. Injuries have certainly not helped but we still have enough to give Burnley a game. He has the perfect opportunity against Albion to prove he can motivate a team and start banking a bit more credit, much more of the same and he'll be leaving, but not for Spurs...
 
Burnley obviously wanted it more than us, perhaps understandably so, but it's disappointing we weren't prepared to counter this.

It was a shit show, but games like this have happened this season, so I wouldn't necessarily overreact to it.

To me it confirms that if our regulars are 'on the beach' or just mentally shot (the latter seems more likely) then we need to mix it up a little and play a couple more players who should have something to prove.

Not particularly looking forward to the Albion game now...
 
Yeah I am with Jinky, serious investment maybe not, but there needs to begin to be an element of squad turnaround or turnover. We are trapped in transition currently, we need to have learned the lessons of small squads etc, and be smarter about not saddling ourselves with a bench of inexperience that don't seem trusted, 3-0 down with zero options either on the field or the bench who you would really say were going to save a performance like todays.

Bit of a cliche, but Burnley did just want that more today, a lot more.
 
Turgid, dross, inept, shocking and all those words. No idea how they could play that bad as a whole side. RAN maybe the only player who showed any fight. Everyone else was exceptionally bad against a side that had scored 13 goals away in the whole season.

Not sure Nuno has much blame for players who literally walked around the pitch like a training session today. Molineux would have been toxic today, and the team would have deserved every bit of it.
We really would be in trouble if we hadn't "amassed" 41 points so far. Not surprised the pundits laid into us.

Play like that next season and we'll be doing a Sheffield Utd in short order. Better we just move on from this one.
RAN was comfortably our best player today. He is learning & progressing.
 
Burnley wanted it more, which is understandable given our respective positions. However, if roles were reversed I would not see Burnley surrenduring like we did.

Coady is not a PL defender
Traore is all potential with very little delivery
Jose might as well not bothered coming over
Rui doesn't like coming off his line and never has

No sense of plan or cohesion when we had the ball, naive and exposed when we didn't.

Nuno got done by Dyche, again.

Not for the first time this season we looked very disorganised.

Nuno starting to look like he's losing his touch, if we lose to WBA, I think he'll be under very significant pressure
 
Burnley obviously wanted it more than us, perhaps understandably so, but it's disappointing we weren't prepared to counter this.

It was a shit show, but games like this have happened this season, so I wouldn't necessarily overreact to it.

To me it confirms that if our regulars are 'on the beach' or just mentally shot (the latter seems more likely) then we need to mix it up a little and play a couple more players who should have something to prove.

Not particularly looking forward to the Albion game now...
Our best chance of finishing highest up the league seems to be by giving the youth a chance!
 
The plus side was I bet Wood to score and Burnley to win.
 
Our best chance of finishing highest up the league seems to be by giving the youth a chance!

It's weird we haven't done it earlier.

We invest in youth in the summer yet the only player getting significant minutes is RAN, and that's really only because of injury
 
I was hoping this was a bad day at the office, but it wasnt. How the fuck do we expect to beat the stripey bastards next week ???
 
I was hoping this was a bad day at the office, but it wasnt. How the fuck do we expect to beat the stripey bastards next week ???
Play like that and we will get nothing next week. Surely we couldn't play that badly twice in 2 successive games?
 
The difference in approach that players like RAN and Vitinha had to the more experienced players was staggering.

They actually seemed bothered, the rest of them didn't look arsed.
 
About as bad as it gets relative to where we are now.

Burnley were 17th with 13 (thirteen) away goals before today. They've turned up and took us apart. Goals disallowed and plenty of other opportunities besides.


For all the injuries talk, we just have no control of the ball anymore. Year one and two we could knock the ball around. Yes we have injuries but nobody is moving or showing for the ball anymore.

If we weren't converting chances, thats one thing as we're missing a world class striker but we've surrendered any semblance of control, possession or counter attacking.

We can't possibly put all of that on Raul's shoulders.
 
Can the Wolves Forum join the rest of football in a social media blackout next Monday? Please??
 
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