Throwing Bad Money After Good - the EFL and Beyond 2017-18

44 games to go yet. Out with my oldest boy today and we're working hard on managing our expectations

fuck it, be arrogant early pacesetters and enjoy it. It is always much more fun - even if you end up bollocksing it all up by October!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UqMyldS7Q

I can make it even better for you: Paul Gladon (how many games did he play for you last year? Two?) showed Heracles the way today, scoring in a 2-1 shock win against Ajax! Top lad.

there were at least 3 ex-Wolves scored in England today! Vokes for Burnley, Saville for Millwall and Mendez-Laing for Cardiff.

pleased for Gladon, he never got a fair look in for us. bought during the panic spending spree last summer after Fosun took over when i don't even know who was calling the shots but there was clearly no strategy. have no trust in the opinion of Lambert and i don't even know what Zenga's thoughts were tbh.

Gladon wasn't anywhere near Wolves-aiming-for-PL standard, but it's nice to see sub-par players rebound you know, find their place? Little Heracles is a peculiar old club, forever mid table but always up for a fight against the big ones. A club he should feel right at home. Gladon's a hero there after tonight. Even if he plays shit all season, he lead Heracles to a first day win over Ajax, and that's very pleasing and well deserved, because he does work his ass off. Must be those muscles gained at Wolves :)

holy shit

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/dd/d0/ae/ddd0ae018cf71ec61ff650d9e229d25d.gif

I looked but can't find it: where are the EFL highlights broadcast this year? Channel 5? And is it also on during a weekday like today?

It is Channel 5, don't know about midweek shows, doesn't look like there's one tonight

very enjoyable millwall result

Neves mate. Stop it! #wwfc pic.twitter.com/ecTOkUSC9k

— Lee Garratt (@Garratt7) August 15, 2017

That Neves goal was pretty tidy!

bloody hell, it looks like Mick isn't ready for the knacker's yard yet.

ty NV

Neves worth every penny already

Beagrie sacked by sky after domestic abuse case. I am sure this isn't the first time. I can remember a night game against Scunny where he was getting strong verbal abuse while taking corners, people chanting something about him being a wifebeater or a rapist, and that was over ten years ago. Horrible fucking guy, he definitely always had that violent scumbag aura about him.

Our chairman let slip last night that Nahki has gone down the Jordan Rhodes route of chasing bigger money at panicky champo clubs, rather than committing to a season in the bigtime. GL to the little shit, and he might need it - because he also said we can afford to let him rot in the reserves if no move materialises, and he won't be let anywhere near the squad. He has totally overplayed his hand considering how far down the pecking order he has dropped, and might be shocked to find it won't be The Nahki Wells Show even if he goes to "the likes of" Hull, Middlesbro or wherever.

Hmmmmm

next season you'll both be banned from this thread

only just realised EFL radio commentary is now exclusive to TalkSport

fuck that

xp i will happily take the ban if this thread isn't relevant to Wolves next season

I thought all EFL games are video streamed now?

Like legally with that iFollow at the EFL site.

audio only in the UK

lol cya next year villa ;)

"Bruce, preparing for Saturday’s visit of Norwich, said: “The frustration for me is social media now is vile. Thankfully, I don’t read it, but I hear snippets."

Nothing worse than when that happens.

I hope he isn't hearing dead Brucies, that would be scary.

did I really just hear Ipswich have had 11 shots on target this season, and scored 9 of them !

Ah, rats' cocks

Reading bbc's live text it sounded like Cardiff were on top most of the match

League One is ours

Dom is somewhere frowning

cup runs are so passé

Scores against @SouthamptonFC on Monday night for the U23s.

Score against @SouthamptonFC on Weds night for the first team.@1DonovanWilson pic.twitter.com/iN1KuOK48f

— Wolves (@Wolves) August 23, 2017

Chris Samba looking like an actual footballer so far tonight, who'd have thunk

Been a bad first 15 mins but I like Keinan Davies a lot, him and Andre Green have gotta be the development projects this season

Steve Bruce picks a back three for the first time, realises after 20 mins that we're being played off the park, switches to a back four leaving a number of players out of position

Awesome to have a manager who knows what he's doing

starting to think his work at Hull was a fluke

can't front like i paid the least attention to his Hull team when they were in the Championship but what he's doing at Villa right now is a disgrace. leaving c. £40 million's worth of attacking talent (some of it's probably worth at least half of the fee!) out of the eleven in order to lock things down by going three at the back against beatable opposition is unforgivable. can't stand all this "he knows his way out of the division" nonsense, there are the players in this Villa squad to really make a go of it if only we had a manager who knew how.

also i take back what i said before about Chris Samba. at times he has looked like a total boss defending inside our area but any time the ball comes within striking distance he hoofs it out for a City goal kick and it's getting to be something of a problem. obviously this shouldn't be a surprise to you or me, any fule will know that the single-minded block is the sum total of his game.

being too cautious was absolutely his biggest fault when City were in the Prem - they'd probably not have got relegated under him if he didn't insist on trying to scrape a draw against teams he should have been trying to beat, but the first time he took them up he had them playing some decent football imo, three at the back but two good flying wing backs, two up front and Thudd given space to play. looks like he can't even marshall a defence properly now altho why you'd want that poisonous narcissist JT anywhere near an actual team god only knows

tho now he's brought Snodgrass in as well as Elmohamady it looks like he's trying to create Hull Mk 2. i think his bottle's completely gone tbh.

well Bruce actually explained during his pre-match interview this evening that JT actually deigned to drive his car all the way to Chesterfield on "the worst night of the year so far" (i think he was talking about the weather) for our recent Caribou Cup game, and he clapped all the young lads on the shoulder and wished them the very best of luck and told them that he was sure that everything would be alright on the night

that's why he's in the team. apparently.

whether it'd make a significant difference to the overall performance having, idk, Tommy Elphick or Mile Jedinak out there clapping shoulders as opposed to England's Beloved John Terry, who can say

for any Spurs fans who may be lurking out there (lol who am i kidding) Josh Onomah just got his first goal for Villa. you'll be pleased to learn that it was a total fluke and in no way connected with any particular skill on the part of the kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ9_TKayu9s

http://www.themag.co.uk/assets/jack-colback-newcastle-united-nufc-600x410.jpg

GUESS WHO'S BACK
GUESS WHO'S BACK
GUESS WHO'S BACK

I am sad that QPR have bought David Wheeler off us. I like him, he used to write pro-Corbyn columns in the Express & Echo. I hope he does well there.

It's an odd feeling - we know perfectly well that the only way for a little club with no rich backers to hold our own even in League 2 is to develop and sell on players. We know that the fact that we're developing a pretty good record in doing so will hopefully make us more attractive to young hopefuls in the future, and hopefully this all works in a virtuous circle. We even have another emerging 16-y-o wonderboy to get excited about just now. For all that, it's still a melancholy feeling to see your best players zooming upwards and offwards to not-quite-as-obscure-obscurity.

Barnes 6/1
Afobe 17/2
Colback 10/11
Rhodes 5/2
Oliveira 9/1
Aboubakar 6/4

god I want Aboubakar so badly

dnw Rhodes tho I believe he's there as a fallback if we can't get anybody with a future

just seen a Villa fan describe Terry as "the signing of the summer", not supposed to laugh this hard at work

:(