By Ivybridge Wolf
August 25 2019
Wolves have an impressive historical record versus Burnley, won 66, drawn 26 and lost 38 in all matches since they squared up for the very first time on 22nd September 1888. We won 4-0 for the record! Last season we ‘thrashed them’ 1-0 at home, one of the most one sided single goal victories I can remember however they confirmed their ability by a reasonably comfortable 2-0 win at Turf Moor later in the season.
Early days and certainly no pannic, however it would be great to get our first win today and springboard us up the table, in a way only possible at this stage of the season!
An early posting of the match thread today as I’ll be travelling up to Molineux soon, so please feel free to contribute as much as you can during the match. I’ve looked at the forecast which suggests 27C in Wolverhampton and only 22C here in Devon. Seems I’ll be in the right place for a number of reasons.
UTW, enjoy the match, c’mon me babbies!!
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it is a sign of advanced years when you start saying "I remember when ......" but in days gone by, when it required some work, no-one even published a league table before the third, or even fifth fixture. And I am not sure either of our first two games could have been described as stale (bit sluggish in parts maybe) so I am going into this one without the normal trepidation. Nuno will surely have one eye on Torino, whatever he may say otherwise.
Come on Burnley, do your worst!!
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They just put up the stats which said we had 60% possession and a better accuracy of passing.
Let’s see if we can conjure up a bit of fluency. In second half.
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Bennett is having an afternoon to forget too!!
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Bennett is having an afternoon to forget too!!
And so is Jimenez!!
Quote:That’s not accurate BW Neves brought out a save. Pope and B’ley defence are mopping up all the crosses put in from our wings. Raul hits the postBillericay Wolf
BBC stats. show 12 shots by Wolves. 0 on target.
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Undefeated in three!!!!
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Three draws, all with big VAR calls.
Anyway we jumped about five places
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Undefeated in three!!!!
great stuff , lets go undefeated in 38 , with all draws and end up back in the championship :/ 3 points from 9 is borderline relegation form and I'd ignore those stats you're looking at as they're completely inaccurate
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Three draws, all with big VAR calls.
Anyway we jumped about five places
Yes Angry I think we did the majority of the attacking in 2nd half whilst B’ley defended in numbers, so yes I think we deserved to get something from the game, but certainly not three points!!
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Undefeated in three!!!!
great stuff , lets go undefeated in 38 , with all draws and end up back in the championship :/ 3 points from 9 is borderline relegation form and I'd ignore those stats you're looking at as they're completely inaccurate
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And I suppose that our expectations are much higher than they were just a few seasons ago when a draw was consistently seen as a good result.
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And I suppose that our expectations are much higher than they were just a few seasons ago when a draw was consistently seen as a good result.
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And I suppose that our expectations are much higher than they were just a few seasons ago when a draw was consistently seen as a good result.
If you'd told me just over 3 years ago, before the Fosun takeover (yes, it really is that short a time period), having just watched one of our worst seasons from an entertainment viewpoint in living memory, that we'd be a little disappointed having started a second Premier League season with 3 draws, one against Man Utd and one away at Leicester, whilst simultaneously being one home draw/win away from qualifying for the Europa League group stages, I'd have called in the whitecoats.
One word ladies and gentlemen - perspective.
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And I suppose that our expectations are much higher than they were just a few seasons ago when a draw was consistently seen as a good result.
If you'd told me just over 3 years ago, before the Fosun takeover (yes, it really is that short a time period), having just watched one of our worst seasons from an entertainment viewpoint in living memory, that we'd be a little disappointed having started a second Premier League season with 3 draws, one against Man Utd and one away at Leicester, whilst simultaneously being one home draw/win away from qualifying for the Europa League group stages, I'd have called in the whitecoats.
One word ladies and gentlemen - perspective.
I don't think what happened before fosun has any bearing on what perspective we should have, what matters now is we are owned by one of the richest companies in world football and have aspirations to challenge the top 6. I don't see why any fan should be calling white coats on a supporter that is disappointed on failing to beat a united side at home which we beat last season who got d1cked at home by palace and failing to beat a Burnley team on a shoestring budget compared to our club these days and being completely outplayed/outclassed. If we are going to keep harking back to the past for perspective , then we should be pleased to be in the premiership at all as we were league one a few years ago by that logic. The flip side of the coin are very old fans thinking how we were once the finest team in Europe and pioneers of European football in the 1950s which is about as irrelevant to the current day as the Morgan argument for any "perspective" .
I don't look at league tables before around 10 matches have been played, but our performances against United first half and Burnley for 90 minutes have been dreadful and a real step back from last season so far which constitutes disappointment to me unless we once again look back at the past and think " thank Christ we arent playing at goldthorn hill in the 19th century " when it rains as we now have a roof.
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There's no one "getting their knickers in a bunch" over anything. You talk about perspective but then refer to times of Morgan. It's like saying because Saunders is rotting away in prison , wolves are associated with drunk drivers- we have moved on from Saunders, Morgan , Terry Connor and days of the bowler hat at Goldthorn hill with a penny farthing cycling past. There is no perspective in drawing parallels between life at wolves these days and under Steve Morgan and the " wolves way " under Jez Moxey. I don't think it's reasonable for someone to be slightly disappointed with as you alluded to , the summer transfer activity and performances against utd/Burnley using the mantra of " look how bad it was under Morgan". For the record, I'd sooner see us reach the knockout stages of the Europa league than this top ten finish you mention as a supposed target .. what do we get for finishing 10th exactly? There is no discernible difference than 8th and 17th in the league bar a modest sum of "placement money " which goes to shareholders so using tenth as a gauge to a good season from a football purist perspective is probably fair, in the real world it is about as useful as a chocolate teapot... give me the shame of finishing 15th and a good run in the Europa anytime. Burnley finished 7th the season before us and are still regarded as a fairly tinpot club with Dyche performing wonders- if they had been on a decent Europa league run it would have helped their club much more from a reputation point of view than a top ten finish whatever that's supposed to achieve.