Still can't believe we werent awarded a penalty at the end, never seen anything so obvious before. We all just stood there totally dismayed.... sums it all up.
I felt the team generally put in a good shift. Zeng, Soares, Bailey, stood out. Kandol looked pretty slow, caught offside loads , I feel two up front would of given us more possesion overall. Its hard to make the judgement about the defence when your watching from halfway but they were generally dealing with things ok. We did miss Ward, Holland busted a gut as usual. Their crowd really were there 12th man and generated a lot of atmosphere before they scored the 2nd and in the end I feel caused the ref to bottle out of the decision to award an obvious penalty. Charlton looked more consistent, heads didnt go down, the supporters were fully behind the team right to the end.
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But seems luck is not with us at the moment and hasn't been for a while....I know Reading hit the woodwork loads the other night but I'm not going to let that spoil my point!
I'm not clever enought to cut and paste pictures here. But take a look at the pic on the O/S. There's McCarthy in his track suit. And there's Kins in his usual state of semi-nakedness. And in between them stands Parky wearing a suit that even the Oxfam shop would reject (complete wth a Peter Mandelson/geography teacher jumper under it).
Not criticising him, I hasten to add. In fact, I rather admire him for chosing to look like the anti-Mourinho !
I am so frustrated tonight but really proud of my team. We deserved at least a draw, and we would have got it but for bad luck, lack of a goalscorer & terrible refereeing.
If Racon & ZZ had been fit for the season we would not be where we are now. Pardew's decision to sell Iwelumo also looks more & more outrageous as every week goes by.
I'm not clever enought to cut and paste pictures here. But take a look at the pic on the O/S. There's McCarthy in his track suit. And there's Kins in his usual state of semi-nakedness. And in between them stands Parky wearing a suit that even the Oxfam shop would reject (complete wth a Peter Mandelson/geography teacher jumper under it).
Not criticising him, I hasten to add. In fact, I rather admire him for chosing to look like the anti-Mourinho ![/quote]
lol!
In that picture he looks as if he's either hailing a taxi (probably!) or he's about to send kinsella on!
Awful ref. Their players had no idea what the pen was for. To be fair the crowd did not influence him because they weren't claiming it either.
Elliott: 7 cleared his lines well and great save on the pen.
Butterfield: 6 decent shift, did little wrong, but didn't get over halfway much
Youga: 7 frustrated Kightly into a booking and forced him out to the left wing at one where he stood a better chance. Improving.
Hudson: 6.5 solid and none of the horror errors that we've seen this season
Holland 6.5 generally brilliant against Wolves big strikers: conceded an own-goal and "pen" but still came out with his head high.
Soares 5: failed to beat a man all day. Looked lost out wide. Guessing this will be his last game for us.
Bailey 7: tireless, but patently not a left mid. Set up the goal with a nice lay off and put in a number of saving tackles. Fantastic player. Would have scored even higher if he hadn't tucked in so much and left the flank exposed.
ZZ: 7.5 This is what we've missed. Faded towards the end but supported Kandol well. Premiership class touch.
Spring: 6 Back on solid ground. Only tried simple things, but did them well.
Racon: 6.5 With ZZ doing the fancier stuff freed him up to just be neat and tidy which he was.
Kandol 5.5 A bit off the pace. Got little change out of the Wolves defence and was a bit isolated with no obvious wingers as an outlet. Won a great header in the run up to the goal. Caught offside under no pressure when he had acres of space and was looking along the line which, as a professional, should simply not be happening.
Dickson: 5 Saw little of the ball, when he got it his tricks weren't coming off, much to the irritation of our bench. I'm ahuge fan but in honesty did himself few favours
Ambrose: 5 Failed to improve on Soares's contribution. Worked hard, delivered little, unfortunately
Shelvey: Almost no impact in the short time he was on.
The glut of central midfielders is getting beyond a joke. We started with six players for whom that is their natural position. Overall we deserved a bit more from the game, but it's the story of the season. Mental ref did not help, but we just didn't make enough chances. Playing without wingers and one man up front is not sustainable. We had less crosses than a vampire's house.
Unnecessarily harsh, Nigel.
We put in a good shift as someone said, Kandol though must of been caught offside about 8 or 9 times throughout the game, very frustrating because we had some good chances.
How he didn't give the pen is beyond me. Wolves crowd were very good to be fair even when we equalised, I've never known such a muted away support as we had today, it was fairly dire. Reading couldn't of been more different in terms of atmosphere, when ZZ smashed it in i nearly got chucked out for celebrating on the steps - such a joke.
ZZ is a class act, as is Racon. Be a shame to see those two go. Not sure what the point in bringing Jonjo on for a few mins was.
Yep Mort , oops, your correct for Soares read Racon
Wolves were poor. I think they will "do a Derby" next year.
I feel Parky is starting to show he knows what he is doing. While a number of the players playing now will not be with us next year, I feel he will bring in a few good enough at our level to rebuild.
Agree I feel he'll know League One better than Pardew would have, got to be a few good players out there with contracts expiring, just like here.
I'm no big fan of Lloyd Sam but I'd like to see him in the team now. If he wants to he can play a big part in League One. Will be time for him to start living up to his potential and find some consistency with his crossing and start scoring goals.
May of done. Didn't actually get thrown out, but they had words. Ridiculous. Because of the leg room i had my legs out on the steps as i was last on the row, so when i stood up i did so onto the steps, to which they replied ''We need to keep the stairway clear'' - ! Not exactly thousands of us! I stood up to sing VFR and was told to sit down.
all will be revealed in saturdays program;-)
I wasn't in the seat printed on my ticket, i waited until everyone was seated to put myself with the singers, but there weren't any!
In the old covered end, he used to sit in the back row of E Block and kept our whole section updated with the latest scores.