Well that's screwed the weekend up for us all....again.

Realistically, how long does Parish give Woy? He couldn't motivate an inmate to walk out of an open prison.

No shots on goal, gutless display in the midfield and the usual crab football before lumping it forward to players who can't hold it up.

Only the league to play for and I can see us being sucked into a relegation fight.......without any fight.

Fully expected for it to be an appalling game today so watched Lord of the Rings instead.

Biggest disappointed for me is Sakho has (of course) picked up an injury after only 45 mins. Now we'll be even less likely to shift him off the books.

Couldn't care less about being out of the cup tbh but a timely reminder of how much investment the wider squad requires.

Edited by samprior (08 Jan 2021 11.04pm)

He's too slow and the older lads in J Mac, Luka and Schlupp are better at moving the ball forward despite their age IMO.

A progressive coach is going to need better players and not a squad of thirty plus average players who got run off the pitch by a youthful 10 man Aston Villa.

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Absolutely smashed by a two bob outfit!!! Disgraceful!!! Sack the lot of them, starting with that idiot Roy Hodgson!!! Then kick out Steve Parish!!! And those U.S. tossers!!! There for the taking!!! Such an easy game, all we needed to do was attack, attack, attack......

It was Wolverhampton Wanderers. Away. They have pumped a fair few quid into the team. I really despair of the 'supporters' these days.

And ffs stop using the word "turgid". I wouldn't mind if we did play turgidly, but that is not possible.

Absolutely no disgrace in losing to an full strength Wolves team. Not having a shot on target and playing the way we did, however, is disgraceful.

In a cup match you may a well have a bloody go. Instead we done the usual tactic of trying to hang in the game by doing nothing then waking up in the 80th min when it’s too late.

Edited by Mathers (08 Jan 2021 11.41pm)

When I say progressive I can't imagine Roy blending U23 players with senior players and evolving the playing staff that way.

It does seem weird to imagine players knowingly pass the ball backwards and sideways with the understanding that this ball they're playing is just continuing the awful prospects of them as a team achieving anything, why would a team on the pitch do that? Why would a player knowingly reduce their individual value by continuing to play this way with the double whammy of not personally going on a cup run or to see themselves involved in a squad that is very well placed in the league, the very same can be said for the manager.

I saw a very brief change just after Zaha came on when he actually closed down and won the ball from one of their players as he tried to move forward and suddenly we were at them and they didn't seem so happy when he put a wonderful pacey ball behind their defence, it was a very brief moment but it showed an awful lot to me that Benteke and Batshuayi totally failed to show any attempt to close any of their play down and to show any intention of getting into their faces,
So did Zaha show his contempt towards his managers orders to allow them to have the freedom to just room at will by forcing one of them to make a mistake and then attack as he did or did he play as his manager informed him to?

I feel the ability to do what Zaha did was because he had the ability to do it also the criticism aimed at Eze is not justified because he appeared to be willing to run forward with the ball as did Ayew but only towards half time did he start to play this way and then quite a few times during the second half, I thought Ayew looked our most dangerous player.

I see Hodgson is saying we lost to a Wolves wonder goal. Might be better if he explained why we allowed him the time and space to take that shot. If Mitchell and Schlupp had been down the left side I’m fairly sure they would have been tight on the scorer. Eze in my mind was the culprit in giving him that space to shot. All goals come from mistakes but that was lower league defending. In truth the whole 90 plus minutes were poor by us and we got what we deserved :-(

Eze needs to contribute more from a defensive standpoint but I am not suggesting he should be turned into a defensive midfielder!
Probably about 2 or 3 years ago whilst at QPR, it was said that he needed to improve his work off the ball and that they needed to add discipline and workrate to his game.

Edited by Willo (09 Jan 2021 12.16am)

I feel as you know that our players as a whole are simply not able to match the fitness and abilities of many other teams in this league and Wolves have proven this twice now this season. We have to keep our energies for the more important issues of surviving this season to be able to re group with much change before the start of next season. We have really hit a wall with this squad now and do nothing with it is going to cost us dearly next season.

Tonights line up probably had one of our lowest average age in months.

One 31 year old.

Sakho, McCarthy, Benteke, and PVA are all 30 but only used on a rotational basis.

The record for most distance covered in a Premier League game was set this year by James Milner.

Peak fitness is meant to be between 27 and 29 with peak endurance not reached until 35.

An aging squad isn't an excuse for tonights performance with 0 shots on goal.