Wolves 3 Liverpool 0 (Feb 4 2023)

Pearce: Jurgen, it was the worst game of football I’ve ever seen in my life.

Klopp: Oh, come on. What about the game we played against Brighton three weeks ago?

From mentality monsters to mentality muppets.

We share your pain, Dave.

Not that you want to see it (or maybe you do?) but, I dont see any arguments amongst the players when we are conceeding these early goals and playing poorly. Matip was like 'Oh well, there's my cleansheet bonus gone, Doesnt matter how many more we conceed now'! The only time I remember seeing a player 'having a go' at a teammates is when Milner had a go at Alli after we conceeded a goal or Hendo is on the pitch giving a few others a bit of grief.

Where's the fire in the belly from the players? Trent stands there and shakes his head when he's subbed off. If you're angry at being subbed off, show it but make sure next time you take to the pitch, you put in a lung bursting performance so if you are subbed off, it's because you've given everything and not another poor performance.

I dont get how we can conceed early goals in games so often. How many is it now this season alone? Professional pride should have fired the boys up to the position they go on the field determined not to conceed.

When they're in the tunnel waiting to come out, they're all stood there like zombies. They need to get like the team in Rome in 84 who psyched the Roma players out by singing 'I dont know what it is but I love it!

Half the problem, well, all the problem actually is from the kick off we want to play the ball around and keep possession. Keeping possession is important, I get that but, invariably, we pass the ball around and slowly work it back to Alli. It just invites the oppos onto us. Alli then tries to find a team mate with the outside of his boot and it ends up either going out for a throw or to the oppos.

Just stop playing the ball around and across our 18 yard box. It's school boy stuff and one of the first things to get drilled into school kids: dont play the ball square across the 18 yard line!

Im really sick of the state of our finishing, Oppo keepers must love playing against us right now because we either give them an afternoon off or, our shots are bread and butter to them like during the pre match warm up when they're just putting shots within easy reach of the keeper to get him warmed up.

Thoroughly depressing!

I’m just aghast at how Julen Lopetegui was able to second guess we’d go 4  - 3 - 3 

“Does that brilliant plan involve, climbing over the trenches and walking slowly towards the enemy?’ Bkackadder. 

Depressingly accurate account

At least it’s giving the Inside Wolves team a bit of a break.

12 hours ago, tlw content said:

 

 

Hello darkness my old friend. Every away game now. That’s three in a row where we’ve conceded three and been embarrassed. At least Brentford and Brighton are in the top half, Wolves were in the bottom three. Then again, at least we did our bit to keep Everton down there, unlike Arsenal, the blueshite enabling pricks.

 

I say that, but next Monday I might be throwing that label at Klopp and our lads too. Right now I wouldn’t bet on us beating anybody. On current form we might be the worst team in the league. Seriously. Southampton are bottom, but would you back us to beat them right now? I wouldn’t. We’re awful. We literally don’t do anything well anymore. We defend badly. We don’t score. We don’t control games. Nothing is working and the tiny steps forward we’ve made recently were wiped out within 12 catastrophic minutes here.

 

We actually won here a couple of weeks ago with a weakened team. Some of that weakened team have kept their places, as they should have, yet here we are, with the line up that I think most of us would have gone with, completely throwing up all over ourselves and yet again losing to a team in the bottom three. If you’re in the relegation zone there’s no better tonic than a game against our boys. Dyche probably can’t wait to get stuck into us. I guarantee his team talk will revolve on how fucking soft we are and how we’ll crumble under pressure. That’s what I’d be saying if I was him.

 

Wolves weren’t even any good and that’s not sour grapes. When I’m impressed with an opponent I’ll say so. Brighton were very impressive, you can’t say otherwise. Most of the other teams to beat us have just made sure they did nothing stupid and then waited for the mistakes to come. That’s all Wolves did. There was nothing especially impressive about it. They just took most of their chances and kept mistakes to a minimum. We could learn a lot from that, especially the taking chances part. I’ll get to that shortly because to be honest I’m fucking seething about that side of things.

 

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You’ll be negged soon for not supporting the team.

Nice one Dave, you’re basically articulating the pain that all of us are feeling at the moment. It’s almost laughable how bad this team of club legends have become. And that’s what the majority of them are which makes it worse and utterly unfathomable. Defence is shot, MF is a disgrace - yeah young Bajčetic is doing ok but he’s a half-decent flower (not a rose yet) among an acre of fucking weeds right now. Let’s face it, an 18yr old who wouldn’t have made the match-day squad much of last season is our only glimmer of hope! Up front, Mo’s been shite for a year now, but isn’t helped by being played wide; I’m running out of hope/patience with Darwin. I said in a post after the Brentford game that his finishing is fucking killing us and nothing’s changed. And now we’ve dropped Gakpo into this sea of mediocrity and truthfully, I don’t know what he is or is supposed to be doing. It’s a monumental shit-show across the club, owners, players and. - yes, let’s be honest! - Klopp and the back room staff. You build from strength and our time to do that was 2019-2022 and we did fuck all except sit on our hands. How many elite players are looking at us now and thinking ‘yeah, I fancy some of that’?  We had the money for Tchouaméni (is he clairvoyant by the way?), but when he bailed we threw our toys out of the pram screaming “if I can’t get the latest PS5 I don’t want anything!!” What the fuck was all that about, an A list club that didn’t have a plan B??! I know the MF won’t necessarily cure the problems up front, but it sure as shit would make us tighter at the back. I’m looking for positives and the only ones I can see are 3 or 4 of the injured guys coming back in but who knows what level they’ll be at? Why can’t it be late May right now…

1 hour ago, Marcas said:

Nice one Dave, you’re basically articulating the pain that all of us are feeling at the moment. It’s almost laughable how bad this team of club legends have become. And that’s what the majority of them are which makes it worse and utterly unfathomable. Defence is shot, MF is a disgrace - yeah young Bajčetic is doing ok but he’s a half-decent flower (not a rose yet) among an acre of fucking weeds right now. Let’s face it, an 18yr old who wouldn’t have made the match-day squad much of last season is our only glimmer of hope! Up front, Mo’s been shite for a year now, but isn’t helped by being played wide; I’m running out of hope/patience with Darwin. I said in a post after the Brentford game that his finishing is fucking killing us and nothing’s changed. And now we’ve dropped Gakpo into this sea of mediocrity and truthfully, I don’t know what he is or is supposed to be doing. It’s a monumental shit-show across the club, owners, players and. - yes, let’s be honest! - Klopp and the back room staff. You build from strength and our time to do that was 2019-2022 and we did fuck all except sit on our hands. How many elite players are looking at us now and thinking ‘yeah, I fancy some of that’?  We had the money for Tchouaméni (is he clairvoyant by the way?), but when he bailed we threw our toys out of the pram screaming “if I can’t get the latest PS5 I don’t want anything!!” What the fuck was all that about, an A list club that didn’t have a plan B??! I know the MF won’t necessarily cure the problems up front, but it sure as shit would make us tighter at the back. I’m looking for positives and the only ones I can see are 3 or 4 of the injured guys coming back in but who knows what level they’ll be at? Why can’t it be late May right now…

I wouldn’t hope May comes too fast. Carrying on like this we will face a relegation dogfight.

Excellent. Maybe Dave should do next Monday’s team talk, convey to the players the emotions we’re all feeling right now. There seems to be a lack of leadership on the pitch right now, with the natural leaders from the last few years injured or on the periphery (or in Rome).

I dont think we appreciate how shit Wolves are. It terrifies me, completely mediocre sides are humiliating us. Where are our points coming from? when our world class players look championship level.

You mentioned beating Wolves with a weakened side, but they were basically Wolves Reserves and we were under the cosh for a a fair period.

6 hours ago, DaveT said:

Excellent. Maybe Dave should do next Monday’s team talk, convey to the players the emotions we’re all feeling right now. There seems to be a lack of leadership on the pitch right now, with the natural leaders from the last few years injured or on the periphery (or in Rome).

Wouldn't go well. I doubt the forwards would respond positively to "if any of you cunts misses a one v one with the keeper tonight, don't come back into this dressing room because I'll be waiting here with a baseball bat. Darwin, you're my boy but that goes for you as well"

Easy to say Mo has got credit in the bank, but massively overdrawn for me. Needs to step up and lead by example. Love to see his smile but right now it's not funny.

You lose that credit in the bank when you hold out to be the highest paid player at the club and then you don't deliver. If you want to be paid like you're "the man" then you have to deliver like you're "the man" otherwise you'll get criticised for it and rightly so.

His performances since the world cup break have been fucking woeful and he needs to step it up massively.

Spot on about Keitas shooting. It's feeble. My eight year old son strikes the ball much better.

15 minutes ago, Gumsy said:

Spot on about Keitas shooting. It's feeble. My eight year old son strikes the ball much better.

The entire teams shooting is terrible I've said for a couple of years our kits should resemble a storm troopers. We were class at creating lots of opportunities and by fuck we needed them. I'm so pissed off at our players striking a ball, you know they will miss.  Fucking poop!

Great counter attack!