Good shout. Hopefully the goal he conjured up (albeit not given to him) will give him more confidence.
Afternoon Lover, well said. Passing, and possession has improved apparently. Do you remember a few seasons ago, the squad was worn out by Christmas because they could not keep hold of the ball, and were chasing for 90 mins, and it burnt the squad out!!! Shame we can't wipe out the first four games of the season. Blimey, weren't we bottom of the league for a while?
Chief football writer Phil Hay gives the match marks for Saturday's victory at Molineux: Rob Green - Safe hands throughout and pulled off a big save from Teixeira late in the first half. Only the odd kick went astray. 7/10 Luke Ayling - Possibly the most underrated of Monk’s signings. Caught out on a few occasions but showed huge amounts of energy and was so often in the right place at the right time. 8/10 Kyle Bartley - Injuries have weakened Nouha Dicko’s game but he still had the potential to be a menace and Bartley kept him pretty quiet. 7/10 Pontus Jansson - Typical Jansson, with headers, interceptions and big tackles, despite being crunched twice in the first half. 8/10 Charlie Taylor - There were good aspects to his performance but still that feeling that Taylor is some way below his best. 6/10 Eunan O’Kane - A key factor in the result. His effort was superb and he looks every bit as good a holding midfielder as Liam Bridcutt. 9/10 Kalvin Phillips - There were periods of the match where he struggled to get a foot on the ball but better spells too. 6/10 Ronaldo Vieira - Looks so comfortable on the ball and it could be argued that he deserves a run on the back of this display. Hernandez wasn’t missed. 7/10 Hadi Sacko - Probably picked the wrong option with the chip which hit the crossbar but ran all day and was ruthless with Doherty’s mistake. 7/10 Kemar Roofe - Another step forward for him and while the winning effort went down as an own goal, his presence in the box helped to force it. 6/10 Chris Wood - Played as well as he could have done given the amount of service he had and very nearly claimed a second goal. 7/10 Substitutes: Alex Mowatt (for Vieira, 85) - Monk’s substitutions were under scrutiny but Wolves failed to build up a proper head of steam at the end. 5/10 Liam Cooper (for Sacko, 88) - Was given a bit of defending to do but with the exception of one chance, Leeds were comfortable enough. 5/10 Souleymane Doukara (for Wood, 90) - A change which wasted time as much anything. And there was no harm in that. 5/10 Subs (not used): Marco Silvestri, Lewie Coyle, Matt Grimes, Marcus Antonsson.
Loverboy, we don't have the players for a plan b just yet ... tell you what, let's say we were 1-0 down at Wolves with 20 mins to go, what would your plan b have been? as for Phil Hay, total waste of space and you have to laugh at how he does his ratings ... no doubt at the end of the season he will take all his ratings and give us their average scores for the year, so how can he give Cooper 5/10 for playing a handful of minutes, and Doukara 5/10 for playing a handful of seconds? Fool Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
If you took half of this team which is back 4 plus O'Kane and factored in Graysons midfield and strikers we would win the league. So we are halfway a decent side, a side who is capable of winning any game in this league but struggle because we dont score enough. Clayton, Delph, Howson, Beckford, McCormack, Gradel, Snodgrass. Championship winning team. But as Billy says we dont have the players for plan B yet so with luck Cellino is going to stump up for the final push in January. If he does I believe all those who want shut of him should decide to pack it in and say they were wrong
Sorry Doc, I think you've got a short memory. Delph, Howson, & particularly Clayton were young players who blew hot & cold - some more than others. I think you may have fallen into the trap of assessing them on the basis of their later playing days, rather than when they wore our shirt. Even Snoddy & Gradel blew hot & cold. McContract gave us 2 good season & 2 howlers, & Beckford even had to get farmed out. I think there's a wee touch of the rose-tinted spectacles here.
