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I think we'd l be happy if we reigned at the Amex.
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[Albion] Graham Potter's Wolves Press Conference
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I think we'd l be happy if we reigned at the Amex.
How ravaged with Covid do you think Wolves would have to be in order to call this off?
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You’d do well to listen to the interview. Welbeck had a knock. Maupay gets fatigued easily. Connelly not fit. What’s he supposed to do?
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I did listen to the interview. I'm questioning the decisionaking and how we worked this out beyond just the Arsenal game
You fundamentally missed my point. Maupay could have played one and Welbeck the other. But he put all his eggs in the West Ham basket. We also have to question why Maupay doesn't have the ability to play both games (and potentially rest this one against Wolves). Why is he not fitter from training so far.
As I mentioned, Leeds played both games with full teams. Arsenal made one change. How is our team so much less fit? What's going on in training?
Let’s see how Leeds do against Spurs at lunchtime Saturday. I think they’ll get smashed.
Spurs had a game off in the middle, ridiculous comparison.
I'd also take winning one game and losing one over losing both...
Has Noo Noo registered himself as Wolves 4th choice goalkeeper yet?
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vegster
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I think Steve Bull will be getting his boots out of the back of the wardrobe as we speak ! He'd certainly fancy his chances of a brace for sure.
"We're gonna play rush goalie, ok?"
Most of them are!
Icy Gull
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We could have been out of sight at half time so blame it on shit finishing imo. The A team subs, when they came on also did **** all
We controlled the game but didn't make clear cut chances. And if we had an actual striker on the pitch maybe we could have taken one of those half chances...
We had 4 strikers on the bench and brought 1 on. Hardly a statement of intent to attack... And we took of Mac Allister who was our most creative player.
I don't really understand what you're trying to say tbh. It's a little confused.
Meade's Ball
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Not exactly a fascinating 24 minutes, but semi-interesting to hear about him trying to give players in the squad their chance. He said that was out of fairness, and i didn't realise that had much of a place in football, and certainly not in the industry itself. I hope decency doesn't prove to hinder us at all. This doesn't mean a wish for Potter's beastliness and having a team of scything and diving Burnleyans, but he has to carefully manage the craving of respectability as a human and that of the maker of winners.
Rougly this:
- Journalist asking about the injury situation, saying "you already ruled out Tariq Lamptey". GP says Lallana is a little bit of a doubt, same with Danny Welbeck. Looking a bit better for Aaron Connolly.
- Same guy then asks if a win against Wolves would be the perfect start to the new year. Potter says yes! (you ****ing moron) and that he doesnt need to elaborate too much on that question. He clearly found the question funny though.
- Bla bla is covid a concern? Bla bla covid is a concern to everyone.
- Window is opening. Journo asks about the plans for Moder, Potter says he will join in the next few days and that they are going to assess him. Journo also asks about Tau and Potter says the plan is that he will be returning but that they need to solve the work permit thing but that he is optimistic about it (Its just paperwork but Id look dumb if I was wrong so lets keep it at that).
- Potter goes on to say that the squad got a lot of players, 28 (too many), and that they will see if they can move around (sell) some of them.
- Journo asks about New Years resolution, GP says that he wants to improve (and I know how ****ing angry some get from hearing that phrase mohahahah).
- Journo asks what he could have done better in 2020, GP says "quite a lot" but that improvement comes through making mistakes and make brave decisions. Speaks about 2020 and that on a personal level he lost his father, world went into covid... and that he finished the season with the most points in the clubs PL history (dont forget that you moaning little *****). "Performances have improved, problem we got is that the results havent matched the performances".
- Journo asks "in recent weeks, in terms of team selections, have you tinkered too much?", Potter looks like he is going to blow up and asks, in an annoyed manner, "You would have to define tinker for me".
The journalist, now afraid and wetting his bed, says pretty much the same thing, and when GP asks for examples he goes on to mention Ben White playing right back and Ali J starting up front. Potter says "tinkering" is a (condescending) phrase out there, a media phrase. He says he would like to play Tariq Lamptey, "but obviously he is injured and you have to find another solution" (you dumb son a bitch Lenny Rider riding muppet of a fraud) and explains why BW started against West Ham.
He then says he would like to play Danny Welbeck but that they had two games in three days and he has a history of injury, so it wouldnt be sensible to start him. Connolly wasnt fully fit and while he could have played Maupster, he too had played against Wham. Says they didnt rest as many players last season and that it resulted in fatigue.
GP then goes into more about the "tinkering" myth saying that theyve pretty much kept the same back three, kept March and Lamptey on the wing backs, kept Bissouma - and that March and Bissouma played the best they probably ever played.
- The journo asks if they have tried anything to change the home results like training at the Amex. Potter says the groundsmen wouldnt be too happy if they trained at the Amex (they already hate us, have you seen how they use the sprinklers before every ****ing game WHAT UP WITH THAT DING DONG DING DONG). Says it not a nice a nice statistic and that there is no defense to it - "we dont like it at all" (its ****ing annoying), also says though that theyve drawn a lot of games that we should have won. But no, its not good enough and it must improve.
- Says bla bla about Wolves
- After a lot of bla bla about nothing, someone asks GP if its the most challenging period of his manager career. GP says "yeah I would say that it is" and then goes on to elaborate on it.
- Finally someone asks "do you have a message for the fans for 2021?" and GP says, and I quote in full:
"I would personally say thank you to the ones who has supported me, there is quite a few out there who has supported me through a difficult year. Ive bumped into a lot of supporters and they talk about, like, they can understand where were going and they understand whats happening and they want us to do well, you can sense that. And you know, I also want to promise them that we will be fighting every day to keep improving the team. Supporters have been great to me, you know, fantastic, so - like I said, its been a difficult year. But I understand that not everyone is happy and you are not ever really going to get in a situation when thats the case. But the majority has been amazing and I would like to thank them for that."
Icy Gull
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What I’m saying is that I trust our manager. The pathetic and abusive posts when the team was announced were an embarrassment to me. We did enough in the first half to be winning the game, from all the comments pre match Potter had thrown the game as fans toys also flew out the pram.
There were a raft of posts about how we’d “thrown the game” before a ball was kicked. What a crock of shite
Just maybe Alex was knackered having not played for weeks? Ali J was playing as a striker and he did get shots off which was more than Maupay managed when he came on too
Is that clearer?