Wolves down the plughole...Enough watery metaphors already!

...Lost at sea.
...All at sea.
...Becalmed.
...Rudderless

On the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking it seems appropriate to continue with the watery  metaphors when it comes to Wolves this season.

Yesterday was the chance to grab a lifeline--or a liferaft if you will---in their fight against relegation.All the teams above us lost and we were live on ESPN after those results were known.If ever we needed a win it was now...

Stoke away is difficult,they play an in- your- face- high tempo game usually and get good backing from a voracious home crowd.But for the first half hour the home team seemed strangely subdued and the crowd was silent.

For the third game on the trot we took the lead--Michael Kightly scoring with a pass that evaded both Dave Edwards and the Stoke keeper---For the third game on the trot though taking the lead was the start of our problems...

No matter how badly Stoke are playing the one thing everyone knows is not to give away needless free kicks around your own box as they're experts in dead ball situations.Maybe the Wolves players have'nt been watching their games these last three seasons as that's exactly what we did.We payed the price as they got both their goals from these situations...

This was our sixth straight defeat on the bounce,but arguably we should, or could,have got three wins out of the last three games.  The last three opponents were average at best and were there for the taking. However it's obvious our players don't have the  ability to kill a game once taking the lead.

It's also plainly obvious that the current manager,Terry Conner,is way out of his depth.We're basically playing the same moribund football that we were producing under Mick McCarthy but without the added ingredient MM bought which was getting every last ounce out of the players.TC does'nt appear to have that in him...

But in saying that no team can hope to establish themselves as a viable Premiership team by workrate and heart alone.There has to be a modicum of Premiership quality amongst the players too and sadly many of ours are lacking that.

This also leads to a problem for next season in the Championship.Many of the players there---Let's assume we manage to keep hold of them---are excellent at that level and could well do a good job in attempting to get us back in the Premiership at the first go---I know it won't be easy but it's certainly achievable providing they are'nt too mentally scarred by relegation---But they need a good strong manager with new ideas' to show them the way.

If that is achieved we then need to be ruthless and replace many of them with better quality players.No room for sentiment now i'm afraid...

Until that us Wolves fans will have to suffer through relegation and the barbs of our rivals.We're a thick skinned lot though and the Summer months will be spent licking our wounds and looking forward to trips to Brighton,West Ham,Blackpool and er,Millwall...etc

So what's the future going to hold? Do we sink without trace or Sail happily towards a new dawn?

I have no idea frankly but i know one thing...I'll be there with them all the way...

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