ARTICLE: Welcome to Wolves

[ClaretTony]

Another record needs to be broken, it will be 55 years since we last beat them at home in the top division

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[cblantfanclub]

This is the same Wolves who's owners want a top six finish and publicly declared their manager will have an unlimited budget. Makes us look even better for our achievements.Find it hard to welcome these sort of clubs but hey ho that's the future.

[cricketfieldclarets]

Keep the same squad and top half is a reasonable expectation. Sign 16 players and they could do a middlesbrough.

Nothing wrong with their ambition. But no matter who they buy its a bloody tough league. Organisation and team spirit like ours is impossible to buy in one window.

[bobinho]

I doubt you could buy it at all!!

We have something really, really special at the moment, and there is no doubt in my mind this group is over achieving. I know that sounds a bit negative, and I don’t mean it to be, but for us to be comfortably top seven is unbelievable.
I worry that our fans could get a bit like other clubs fans, in that anything less than seventh next season sees the lads getting verbal abuse from the stands.
For me, PL survival next year would leave me elated.

[Sidney1st]

They're like fleas the way they're infesting various social media groups to tell everyone how rich their club is....

They clearly don't understand it isn't the club that's rich

[Gnulty]

I fondly remember that game in 73..good times then and good times now..

[Silkyskills1]

I fondly remember that game in 73..good times then and good times now..

Was that the 2-0 victory at their place very early in the season? Played well that day and Frank Casper scored a great goal........... if that's the right game!
Edit; should have read the article first.

[South West Claret.]

This is the same Wolves who's owners want a top six finish and publicly declared their manager will have an unlimited budget. Makes us look even better for our achievements.Find it hard to welcome these sort of clubs but hey ho that's the future.

Next they will be saying their the team of the 2000’s. Only people of a certain age might get that

[ClaretTony]

I fondly remember that game in 73..good times then and good times now..

We were brilliant that afternoon and Casper turned in probably his best ever performance. Sadly, three days later, Spurs started the knackering process that Leeds finished on him.

[houseboy]

I doubt you could buy it at all!!

We have something really, really special at the moment, and there is no doubt in my mind this group is over achieving. I know that sounds a bit negative, and I don’t mean it to be, but for us to be comfortably top seven is unbelievable.
I worry that our fans could get a bit like other clubs fans, in that anything less than seventh next season sees the lads getting verbal abuse from the stands.
For me, PL survival next year would leave me elated.

I take your point but I think it says more about the quality (or lack of it) in the PL than it does about us. I believe the much vaunted 'best league in the world' tag is nonsense, it's the richest without a doubt but I very much doubt it's the best. Try looking at Germany for instance, and the Italian league is getting back to where it should be after a few years in the doldrums. You could look at Spain but then people say it's a two horse race all the time (it's actually not at the moment), but they regularly have teams in the CL semi-finals. I think the media in this country are very guilty of over-hyping the PL to a level that is now ridiculous.
I'm proud of what we have achieved on our relatively low budget and I don't think we will struggle next season either providing we can keep hold of the one man that has made it all happen. Are we going to ever win the damn thing - probably not unless the money situation changes drastically, but I think we can become a fixture for the foreseeable if we can keep hold of the Dychemeister.

[Silkyskills1]

We were brilliant that afternoon and Casper turned in probably his best ever performance. Sadly, three days later, Spurs started the knackering process that Leeds finished on him.

Yep, home and away Spurs laid into him and of course Leeds' thugs finished the job the following March.

[superdimitri]

I don't think they will do well. Just another QPR.

[DCWat]

I read last week that PL clubs are discussing the agent / club relationship that Wolves has. Be interesting if something comes of that although they’ll still have plenty cash to throw about and their manager will still be a prize bell end.

[Pstotto]

Not sure how this Wolves video managed to make its way to my youtube auto-suggestion pages but it's a really interesting collection of home movie recordings of away days for Wolves during the 1966/67 season.

I'm a real one for ground-spotting but I struggled with all of these, in their 60's condition. Well worth a look for anyone interested in that type of thing:

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I think the video is called Wolves promotion away days 1967.

[ontario claret]

It takes time to build a quality, cohesive squad. But it all starts with the chairman, board, and manager, and they all have to work together. That's why keeping Sir Dyche is the most important thing of all. If you want to spend money, spend it on him.

[Pstotto]

Top jobs in many fields, the money is poor the competition fierce, it's the kudos and spin-offs and ladder stepping-up potential that keeps them coming for the prize. Any starvation of talent however, can be a poor simulacrum because it implies manipulation that most talent would baulk at, as an insult to their being.

[ontario claret]

"Simulacrum"? Under what aegis do you use that word?

[tim_noone]

I wonder if Lady Wolf Laura will surface she was a popular and Regular poster on the Old Msg Board. And she Had a sense of humour.

[Braindead]

File under Bottleboro.

Get promoted, give it the big one about their rich owners fir a few months, buy big in the summer on overpriced nobodies replacing two thirds of their team, carry on giving it large then procede to get dicked every week.

Rinse and repeat.

[KRBFC]

I take your point but I think it says more about the quality (or lack of it) in the PL than it does about us. I believe the much vaunted 'best league in the world' tag is nonsense, it's the richest without a doubt but I very much doubt it's the best. Try looking at Germany for instance, and the Italian league is getting back to where it should be after a few years in the doldrums. You could look at Spain but then people say it's a two horse race all the time (it's actually not at the moment), but they regularly have teams in the CL semi-finals. I think the media in this country are very guilty of over-hyping the PL to a level that is now ridiculous.
I'm proud of what we have achieved on our relatively low budget and I don't think we will struggle next season either providing we can keep hold of the one man that has made it all happen. Are we going to ever win the damn thing - probably not unless the money situation changes drastically, but I think we can become a fixture for the foreseeable if we can keep hold of the Dychemeister.

A point which is irrelevant if you're talking about the quality of the league as a whole because you're only considering 10-15% of the teams in the entire division. Of all the top divisions, the PL is by far the most competitive, does it have the best individual team in world football? no, but that isn't what makes an entire league ''the best''.

The majority of the bottom half teams in the Bundesliga, Serie A and La Liga would struggle in the Championship, the standard near the bottom is so poor because they simply don't have the funding of the bottom PL sides. Would Bayern Munich spank the entire division weekly and be able to rest players every week in the PL? For Bayern, having the title wrapped up by Christmas has to give them an advantage in European competitions, the rest of Europe has a winter break while a full strength Man City are having to scrap for every point against sides like us. Bayern beat Dortmund 6-0 the other week, PSG beat Monaco 7-1 last night. Many managers/players have said the PL is the toughest league in the world and judging by the results they're absolutely correct. The last team to win the PL title back to back was Man United 10 years ago.

[Pstotto]

SPECTRE, Ontario... 'The first is a genuine carrot. The second is a stick masquerading as a carrot.' (Goldfinger)

Burnley are a 24 carrot gold squad.

Wolves are merely mustard...

[RammyClaret61]

Always liked Wolves. Except every time I’ve been to Wolverhampton. Very unfriendly place.

[Sidney1st]

I wonder if Lady Wolf Laura will surface she was a popular and Regular poster on the Old Msg Board. And she Had a sense of humour.

She's doing well in the real world if you're curious.
Married, 2 kids etc.

[Lordlucan]

If Huddersfield stay up, Stevie Kindon is going to be one happy man

[LS7]

55 years

[ontario claret]

My best friend's family when I was growing up were from Stourbridge, in the Black Country. His uncle, who lived just down the street from him (apparently they emigrated as a pack) was a Wolves fan. Ironically, we're losing one Black Country team (West Brom), and gaining another.