This was supposed to be the game that saw us climb a little bit away from the relegation zone and provide a platform for the rest of the season.Instead Wolves formation of an all out attacking 4-3-3 handed the game to our biggest local rivals on a plate.I bet their boss Roy Hodgson could'nt believe his luck when he saw we only had three in midfield.
The Black Country Derby is the oldest footballing rivalry in the world and i have seen many of them but i can't recall ever seeing my team so out played by West Brom,even in their hayday of Robson,Cunningham,Regis and co we at least gave them a hard battle,but yesterday we never had a prayer...
From the very first whistle we were on the back foot and it was only the magnificent goalkeeping of Hennessey kept us at one goal down approaching half-time.
Unbelievably we managed to get an equaliser just before the break when Fletcher fashioned a fine goal out of nothing.The general feeling was that we had got away with blue murder and surely the manager would now begin the second half with another midfielder in place of the ineffective Ebanks Blake.However he did'nt and after a few minutes of pressure from us the West Brom midfield took over again and dominated the rest of the game...
Defensively we were terrible but i put the blame on that down to McCarthy's refusal to play a fourth midfielder which would've offered our defence a barrier to their attacks,they came at us at will and it was only a matter of time till the floodgates opened...However nobody can tolerate the way we capitulated to concede four goals in the second half.
Let's be honest it could have easily been double figures.That's how abject our performance was...
As i live 120 miles away from the area i at least don't have to face any gloating West Brom fans,a tiny personal crumb of comfort.I feel sorry for my fellow Wolves fans who'll have to endure weeks of micky taking from that lot...
West Midlands Police show McCarthy how to pack a midfield...
So us Wolves fans have to now lick our wounds and hope our team can bounce back from this humiliation at the hands of our nearest and (not so)dearest rivals.Can we?
At the moment i'm doubtful...
It hurts...It hurts like hell...
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