Gone to 3-5-2

Rest of Championship keepers -363 mins Pears - 2 mins 27 secs

I have to say I’m liking the cut of his jib so far. Reminds me of Souey coming in: imposing man, somewhat of a mixed record but old enough to have learnt lessons along the way, quarter of the season to see what he’s got. I would also see the contract situation as an opportunity - last thing you want to hear in a new job is you are stuck with all these dollopers for the foreseeable. I predict we won’t see a Eustace/Kidd arms-windmilling performative appearance on the touchline after 60 mins nor will we ever hear “Pearsy and Picks” again.

Wolves WERE a top club while Waggy was there: league cup winner, Uefa cup finalist, top 5 finishes - the surprise is he was turning out for us a few years later.

ANY decent keeper stops the first two. The first goal would defy belief if it wasn’t Pears: a barely still rolling ball straight to his feet and he literally kicks it in. The second one exposed one of his long term flaws: he has no idea where he should be or even is - he didn’t come out early enough or far enough to narrow the angle, but he came out too far to make it a routine dive save. After that 6 minute shitshow it didn’t matter who’d been picked or how they were playing. He should’ve been benched after losing us the Bristol City match and we’ve zero chance of the playoffs if he isn’t benched now.

Nobody has played well but how much of a morale-killer was that first goal, easily one of Pears top-3 howlers, a pea-roller straight at him.

Never ever! Just ask Bob Paisley.

Refreshing to hear the (interim) manager refer to him as “Augustus” and not “Gusto” or “Kargs”.

That kind of spirit lasted ten years at Wimbledon.

Although he’s no Adam Wharton, I think we’ve been missing Bucko’s forward passing.

You’re right, I’d forgotten that everything written on social media is true! When Cantwell is chasing back in the 89th minute to put in a tackle something big has changed with that group of players. I’m not suggesting give him the job, just do a Tony Parkes.

I don’t think anyone is advocating giving David Lowe a 3-year contract, but I can see advantages in not rushing the appointment. The biggest thing we have going for us now is a dressing room united in their anger at the narrative that John Eustace alone got them into the top 6 and John Eustace doesn’t think they can stay there. I think that anger can get us into the playoffs and the best way to puncture that balloon right now is to bring in a different voice saying different things.

I’m still in the camp of deferring the decision till summer. Any new boss would almost certainly want to make his mark, which means changing things. It’s too late in the season to do anything other than tweak slightly, which Lowe et al did last night anyway. Bet the farm on the extraordinary team spirit we saw last night and playing it more to Mak, the two new forwards just behind him and Cantwell warming the bench. Plus, the two possible outcomes of this season demand two very different managers. If we stay down it’s going to be a rebuild on a small budget. If we go up we need a big name spending a big budget. Best to wait and see.

I can’t recall ever seeing such a dominant performance at both ends of the pitch.

Shout out to the set piece coach for the first goal, Dom’s run from front post to the back of the area wasn’t tracked at all and he put a good header back into the mixer.