v Wolves (h) - 9/2/2025 - FAC4

[Old Codger]

Laboured, lacklustre, leggy, lightweight, leaderless, lost little lads, lacking leverage in losing like languishing laguards. 

BbC showed Waggott several times, looking like some deranged bog eyed escapee from Old Gates.

The manner of the loss wasn't the issue. It was the inevitability of it. Ah well, let's see if JE can steer us to a decent finish. 15 cup finals here we come.

[jim mk2]

Just now, Old Codger said:

Laboured, lacklustre, leggy, lightweight, leaderless, lost little lads, lacking leverage in losing like languishing laguards. 

BbC showed Waggott several times, looking like some deranged bog eyed escapee from Old Gates.

The manner of the loss wasn't the issue. It was the inevitability of it. Ah well, let's see if JE can steer us to a decent finish. 15 cup finals here we come.

You are aware that could be his last game with us? 

[RevidgeBlue]

8 minutes ago, RTM08 said:

Unsurprisingly, taking off the new signings put us back to being appalling moving forwards. Kargbo, Dennis Ribeiro look good, Woodrow was anonymous when he came on. 

I can't believe I'm saying it but Pears has to start if fit.

Cant believe anyone downvoted the comment about Pears - until I checked who it was!

[SpaceBarSlam]

9 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Wonder if its Benson picking the goalkeeper signings 

Toth looks Whalstedt level

He'll be picking the team come Wednesday night. 

[Valconite]

2 minutes ago, SpaceBarSlam said:

He'll be picking the team come Wednesday night. 

Knowing them they really would appoint him as Manager / Head Coach.  Absolutely terrifying

[Old Codger]

2 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

You are aware that could be his last game with us? 

Aye, but Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. Even when the Waggott's welding the knife, 

[Dolly blue]

In truth, we didn’t lay a glove on them. Had our goal stood ( and should have ) it could have been a different story ..but what I can’t hack is our lack of commitment, belief , guts…..It’s not particularly a lack of physical effort …it’s a mentality. 

Orient displayed far more against City, Birmingham displayed far more against Newcastle …Wolves didn’t need to break sweat…we were beaten in the tunnel.

As for JE and his future ..I wish him well . How anyone can come into work , day after day knowing what you’re doing is futile ..he deserves a medal .

Good luck John …you deserve so much more than this shell of a club .

[Old Codger]

Derby know it is £750k to lever JE away from Ewood. Waggott will see it as another nice little coup for his Lords & masters.  Everyone else will know it is yet another shuffle up the gallows staircase for our once proud club.

[sharpysharps86]

In isolation it wasn't a particularly bad performance, but it could've been a heavier defeat in truth. A pretty standard huff and puff with no end product affair. Reminded me a lot of the Burnley defeat last month. Wolves never really got out of 2nd gear, and it could've easily been 4-0.

Kargbo, Dennis and Ribeiro all look like they'll offer something, which is a positive. Can't really judge Woodrow after that as the game had got away from them by the time he came on, and he ended up playing CM for much of his time on the pitch.

Thought Forshaw probably had his best performance today. Not that it says much, but he looked ok for the most part and in some ways id prefer him to start games alongside Travis than the petulant Buckley.

Edited Sunday at 14:48 by sharpysharps86

[martonrover]

10 minutes ago, Old Codger said:

BbC showed Waggott several times, looking like some deranged bog eyed escapee from Old Gates

….. and we also got a rare glimpse of the bigger villain, Suhail, sitting next to him.

As usual, this goes under the radar because no-one except us eagle eyed fans has a clue who he is!

[jim mk2]

Routine for Wolves, at a canter. They didn't need to try very hard, and would have won by more except for poor finishing

Rovers scored a decent early goal that should have stood but apart from that what did we offer? 

Very little. A few crosses that were easily dealt with, a couple of decent shots, but none that troubled the keeper. Where was the desire and pressure and momentum in the second half to try to get back into that game? 

A depressingly low (and depressed) home support made it all so predictable and familiar. 

[Eddie]

Happy to be out of the cup.

No shame in the performance and killed ourselves by letting them score 2 quick goals.

A few positives mixed in with some known negatives. 

Let's see if Eustace will leave. Let's see how quickly the new signings can get up to speed. But there's no reason to be too down about going out to a Premier League side. 

[jim mk2]

1 minute ago, Eddie said:

Happy to be out of the cup.

 

Why would anyone be "happy to be out of the cup"

A ridiculous statement

[philipl]

Not going to beat a PL side when a perfectly good goal is wrongly chalked off and a penalty is not given you. Kargbo was jinking into the penalty area and jinked onto a foot that was never going to get the ball. Plenty of penalties have been awarded in the PL this season for exactly that reason.

Toth should have stopped the first but Cantwell had carelessly lost possession in a dangerous area for the second time in a minute. Forshaw didn't follow his man for their second.

Plenty to be optimistic about the performances of Kargbo, Dennis and Ribeiro- all of whom look plenty good enough for a squad challenging for the play-offs.

[Eddie]

Just now, jim mk2 said:

Why would anyone be "happy to be out of the cup"

A ridiculous statement

Because we have a small squad that is stretched enough as it is. We have a small chance of making the playoffs, an even smaller chance of making our way through them, but a 0% chance of winning the FA Cup. 

It allows us to focus our attention where it matters and to get that tiny bit of extra rest that could prove the difference in one or two matches. 

[miqaayil]

I don't know which game some were watching but the game was stolen from us ...we should have been 2-0 up before the error by toth...after which we lost steam ... we might make playoffs ...but i hope JE don't leave now...

[Bohinen1983]

Kargbo looks quality.. Glad he's tied down to a long term contract.. Buckley looked better having pace to ping it to.. Given Beck, Travis, Pears,  Brittain all sat it out I see a lot to be positive about..  

 

If Eustace decides to sod off bring in a warnock or Cooper on a 6 months contract... Could be an interesting end to the season

 

 

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[philipl]

Russian TV coverage went straight to adverts at the full time whistle.

Did Eustace wave goodbye?

 

 

[sharpysharps86]

3 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Why would anyone be "happy to be out of the cup"

A ridiculous statement

Essentially saying 'happy we lost' 😂.

[Exiled_Rover]

17 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Cant believe anyone downvoted the comment about Pears - until I checked who it was!

Was that error any worse than the errors Pears has committed the last 5 games? No.

Give someone else a try in net - he might get better with more confidence. 

[Hasta]

Personally I thought we did ok considering the number of new signing in there. It was only a 2 minute spell shooting ourselves in the foot that cost us. Up until then we were well in it and should have been infront with the Hyam header. Kagbo looks lively but is clearly going to lack end product. Still, a fast Dolan may be better than a Dolan.

Toth looks a liability and JRC was awful. Ultimately , a bit like against Forest in the league cup QF a few years ago, you just saw the gulf between bottom of Prem and our level.

[Exiled_Rover]

11 minutes ago, Old Codger said:

Derby know it is £750k to lever JE away from Ewood. Waggott will see it as another nice little coup for his Lords & masters.  Everyone else will know it is yet another shuffle up the gallows staircase for our once proud club.

It's not the cost, it's the fact they know they can approach a bigger, more successful club sat in the playoffs confident that they can take their manager.

Beggars belief.

[Hasta]

3 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Because we have a small squad that is stretched enough as it is. We have a small chance of making the playoffs, an even smaller chance of making our way through them, but a 0% chance of winning the FA Cup. 

It allows us to focus our attention where it matters and to get that tiny bit of extra rest that could prove the difference in one or two matches. 

Do you not think we probably need the £200k to £600k we could generate for being on TV against a big club in the next round?

[Eddie]

2 minutes ago, sharpysharps86 said:

Essentially saying 'happy we lost' 😂.

No it isn't. 

[sharpysharps86]

Just now, Hasta said:

Toth looks a liability and JRC was awful

JRC has reverted back to his old form of being absolute crap. He had a spell under JDT were he was one of the first names on the team sheet but like Buckley he has regressed massively.