waveney wolf
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Tonight , 7.45 , on TV if you have Box Nation ( 415 on BT for me )
Should be a good watch .
Should be a good watch .
I couldn't work out why eitherBoxNation as in the channel thats supposed to specialise in showing Boxing? random that. But thanks for the heads up
It is a local derby. Maybe they know something we don't?BoxNation as in the channel thats supposed to specialise in showing Boxing? random that. But thanks for the heads up
Ruben seems ok, play has resumed.Ruben down injured, hope he is ok.
They play dull boring football so all our players should be in there.Seems like we have fewer players in the Portugal side now than we did a few years ago.
Nuno Mendes, excellent name. He looks so good for PSG as well. Superb player.Portugal left back is a bit special..Mendes?
Thankyou.Portugal lost 1-0.
Neves has been class this season for us. Who else from the Wolves played tonight?
I thought the game seemed to by -pass him 2nd half but he was prowling around in front of the back 4. Having said that you can see he is a special player; he tackles, he passes, he keeps the game moving forward. He's a class act. As said above that 20 year old LB Mendes is some player. Neves was the only Wolves player tonight but Vitinha came on 2nd half and looked lively tbh. Shame it did not work out at Wolves as he too looks a player.Neves has been class this season for us. Who else from the Wolves played tonight?
I was in Berlin for Frank Turner's Lost Evenings Festival at the Columbiahalle venue. I saw that The Blarney Irish bar was your Berlin Wolves meeting place for games and wandered down hoping to watch the City game there with a few fans, but sadly they didn't open for the early game. Went there on there Sunday though, landlord was great, playing loads of great music.Thanks for the reminder waveney wolf, I shall watch it on DAZN here in Germany.
A fully fit Neto has the same aggression and skill, the difference between the two is that Jota is a much better finisher.When you see the skill and aggression of Jota you realise we've never really replaced him with the same quality.
And Jota is much stronger but a fully fit Neto is faster, IMO. It used to amaze me how defenders couldn't knock Jota off the ball despite being twice his size.A fully fit Neto has the same aggression and skill, the difference between the two is that Jota is a much better finisher.
Similar players but play it in a different way for sure. As you say Jota is stronger, but Neto is quicker. Jota is a more direct runner with the ball at his feet than Neto but Neto has more of a “trick” to get round players.And Jota is much stronger but a fully fit Neto is faster, IMO. It used to amaze me how defenders couldn't knock Jota off the ball despite being twice his size.
Spot on regarding Neto's finishing, he's almost trying to be too good with it and aiming too much for the corners. If he's missing the target as regularly as he is and I was a coach, I would be telling him to get his head down and go low and hard but less in the corners. I thought this about Traore last season too, just put your foot through it and make sure it's on target at the very least.Similar players but play it in a different way for sure. As you say Jota is stronger, but Neto is quicker. Jota is a more direct runner with the ball at his feet than Neto but Neto has more of a “trick” to get round players.
The frustration with Neto (which he’s shown this season) is his shooting is about 6 inches off being brilliant, so many shots agonisingly close to be being in the back of the net.
And Jota is much stronger but a fully fit Neto is faster, IMO. It used to amaze me how defenders couldn't knock Jota off the ball despite being twice his size.
He needs to do one of two things for me. 1) as you say put it target regardless or 2) take a bit of power off it and actually put it in the corner. At the moment he’s trying to do both with every shot and getting it slightly wrong.Spot on regarding Neto's finishing, he's almost trying to be too good with it and aiming too much for the corners. If he's missing the target as regularly as he is and I was a coach, I would be telling him to get his head down and go low and hard but less in the corners. I thought this about Traore last season too, just put your foot through it and make sure it's on target at the very least.
He’s a modern Wayne Rooney, seems to score his goals in purple patchesYes, was clear from pretty much his first match for us that he was a special player. Even though long gone now, can't have anything but respect and good feelings to a player who gave some of the very best, most memorable, moments for Wolves in the past 40 years. Saw him on TV a couple of times before he signed, playing in the Champions league and he looked a special talent then, too, probably aged 17 or 18.
The thing about his finishing - he can be a bit dodgy at times! Goes through phases of being far from clinical. Missed plenty of sitters for us (still does), though invariably makes up for it with a scorcher sooner or later.
We really do need Neto to step up his finishing by quite a long way, for him to become the equivalent.
Thanks Ebbo. Ecky the Blarney manager, generally opens the Blarney late afternoons, unless Liverpool or Man Utd are playing.I was in Berlin for Frank Turner's Lost Evenings Festival at the Columbiahalle venue. I saw that The Blarney Irish bar was your Berlin Wolves meeting place for games and wandered down hoping to watch the City game there with a few fans, but sadly they didn't open for the early game. Went there on there Sunday though, landlord was great, playing loads of great music.
It is not a matter of low fee, he should never been sold no matter what. On this issue Nuno was at fault, he did not give him enough match time.Jota is two footed. Mistake selling him and for such a low fee.
Ecky was great, really hospitable. Played loads of old punk, ska and rock stuff and requests. We went back in after the gig on Sunday and he stayed open late for us.Thanks Ebbo. Ecky the Blarney manager, generally opens the Blarney late afternoons, unless Liverpool or Man Utd are playing.
Reason is, he works very late till 4am at weekends, so needs his sleep, despite living above the pub you visited.
Members here have German Sky, watch Wolves games from home these days, we have only met twice in the Blarney since Covid started.
We plan to get our pub meets going again but many members have families, kids, have got use to watching on Sky, and for some it's a good hour away.
Ecky and me, share the same music tastes from the mid 70s and 80s, so I can imagine he played some great stuff. Hope you had a great time in Berlin.