Watching Wolves

[Lord Worcester]

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Brighton always annoys me , 2 points difference and we beat them down there

This is the one that bugs me as well. They were shite. We were better then them. We went down.

[EastbourneBlue]

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They won the Championship in 2017/18 and have since had four seasons in the Premier League, in which they finished 7th, 7th, 13th and 10th. I’d say they’re doing just fine.

They’re a one trick pony, signing Mendes clients. That’ll dry up pretty soon. Oh, and he makes them sign some right duffers sometimes for tens of millions as well when he fancies a pay day.

Have a look a their message board if you want to see how happy they are. They’ve been promised the earth and delivered a meh

[LeningradCowboy]

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Brighton always annoys me , 2 points difference and we beat them down there

Only after they lost to Man City and we beat Man Utd on the final day of the season. They were five points clear of us after 37 games.

[LeningradCowboy]

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I feel the same about Leicester, who we beat over two legs in 2010, in the play-off semi finals. Look how far apart we re now as football clubs.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Leicester will be playing in the Championship next season.

[The Lone Gunman]

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They’re a one trick pony, signing Mendes clients. That’ll dry up pretty soon. Oh, and he makes them sign some right duffers sometimes for tens of millions as well when he fancies a pay day.

I love this kind of stuff. Brilliant. Name any club that does well and there will people saying oh, they’ll go to pot soon enough, it’s only a matter of time, blah blah blah.

Wolves have finished in the Premier League top ten in three of the last four seasons. The lowest they’ve finished is 13th. If they’re a one trick pony, I reckon it’s a pretty decent trick.

[the other bob wilson]

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Only after they lost to Man City and we beat Man Utd on the final day of the season. They were five points clear of us after 37 games.

City started the 18/19 season with Warnock telling us he'd performed a miracle in getting us promoted and with the "plucky little Cardiff" card being played extensively. In our second and third games, we were, apparently, happy with 0-0 draws against sides reduced to ten men for significant portions of the game (the second time against the team which finished well adrift at the bottom of the table). Granted, our fixture list got a lot tougher for a month or so after that, but it was only after luckily beating Brighton in our twelfth match with the season three months old that we seemed to start believing we could stay up.

The damage done already was too great though, we'd left ourselves too much to do - we were nine points behind Brighton going into that game and we spent the rest of the season proving that we were a better team than them and if we'd been a bit more assertive and shown more self belief in certain early season matches, the table might have ended up reflecting that.

That said, you get the feeling we would only have been postponing the inevitable if we'd stayed up that season, whereas Brighton have grown year ion year after their escape.