Wolves 3 – 3 Norwich (& Keith Woolmer) Oh…and my 100th Post! Hurrah!

By: Toby | February 3rd, 2009

Well that’s how I see it anyway, he was utterly shocking from start to finish tonight, his game was riddled with more errors than our defence, and that’s saying something. To put it quite simply Keith Woolmer was utterly abysmal tonight, he might as well have not bothered turning up, I don’t know why we bothered clearing the pitch.

This game if nothing else highlighted exactly why we’ve spent 2.5 million on a defender, because at times we were utterly terrible at the back, school boy errors, misplaced back passes, lack of communication and all round general buffoonery on such a level that at times last night we were rendered utterly embarrassing to watch, we didn’t look like the team at the top of the league. With performances like that at the back, we won’t be for much longer. I think I speak for the Wolves fans collective when I say bring on the Berra, I hope and pray he’s the answer to the gaping holes in our defence, much like Mancienne was. Oh for the chance of getting him back on loan for the rest of the season…we can but hope.

It’s a shame really that the defence aspired to such ham-fistery because this game could have easily have been a sweeping eulogy to the one man goal machine Sylvan Ebanks Blake who notched up his 18th, 19th and 20th goals tonight, in a classic poachers evening. Wolves finally have a striker who you can expect twenty upwards a season from, and were it not for him tonight we’d be looking down the barrel of the result which would surely be almost too much to stomach. To be honest, only taking one point from six against Norwich this season is hard enough to take, but I’m not sure I’d have been able to handle coming home empty handed twice.

I don’t usually question Mick when it comes to decisions, and this is only a small question, rather than a full on gripe, but with 5 minutes to go, slinging on Big Chris (which I’m all for) and taking off Jarvis seems utterly mad. If anyone’s going to supply Iwelumo with the chances to score, it’s going to be Jarvis! I was left scratching my head over that one, that is, if I had a spare five from fuming over the referee, who at times didn’t even want Wolves to have corners or throw ins, even when they were obvious, the boys having to rely on assistant referees to overrule the plonker in the black, Respect Campaign? How many times have we had duff refs this season? Too many. If I acted that much of a tool in my job they’d have me out of there faster than I can change a keg, and I can change a keg faster than Bruce Lee.

So here we are, match facts for those of you itching for that kind of thing, Wolves lined up with a side unchanged from Saturday, aside from Jarvis coming in for Reid.

————-Hennessey
Foley—Stearman—Craddock—Ward
Kightly—Henry– David Jones–Jarvis
——-Ebanks-Blake—- Keogh

Wolves took the lead on the 25th minute, after looking, to be honest, second best for the opening stages, with Ebanks slotting in after good work from Kightly and Jarvis. Unfortunately, and not for the first time, we managed to kick off and concede pretty much straight away. Norwich looked from then on the more likely to score again, Wolves pretty much just about managing to hang on till half time. Things weren’t helped by the loss of Kightly on the 39th minute. He seemed to fall on his shoulder awkwardly (I’ve heard rumours of a dislocation). This had a two stroke effect, in removing our talisman Wolves were lopsided and demoralised, let’s hope he’s not out for too long.

I don’t know what Mick said to them at half time but it certainly didn’t work as Wolves managed two minutes before Carl Cort managed to do something useful at the Molineux for the first time in his career and score, it’s just a shame he could never turn it on like that with us. Norwich fans shouldn’t get too excited, he’ll be out of the rest of the season soon enough. So there we are, behind by a goal, what happened next was nothing short of inspiring.

Within the space of three minutes Ebanks Blake dragged Wolves level, and then ahead. The man is simply a brilliant striker. Both goals poachers efforts, inside the box, another assist for Jarvis on the second and Wolves were back in control…for NINE minutes. For the love of God, if Mick does nothing in training this week it should be to slap each and every one of the players around the face when they go ahead because by crikey these lads need to wake up when they take the lead. I’ve lost count the amount of times we’ve taken the lead only to be pegged back. The game was an utter hum-dinger for shots, just look at the gamecast, it’s off the chart with what we usually see in a game!

And so that’s how it finished, 3-3. Still enough time for our Keith to bottle a blatant second yellow for Croft and a hand ball, but let’s not split hairs eh? A brilliant game for the neutral then? I dare say a brilliant game for a Norwich supporter. I’ve got no idea how they found themselves in 20th prior to this game, they’re one of the most attacking sides we’ve seen down the Molineux all season.

Oh, this is my 100th post since starting this blog in October for those of you who are counting, hello to those of you who’ve read from the start, hello to those of you who are new! Thank you for reading the words that I put up on here and thank you for the feedback! I love writing this blog, even when we churn out performances like tonight and I love hearing from you in the comment box!

So, let’s move on. We’re a game ahead of the rest of the top four and find ourselves five points clear of Reading and seven clear of Birmingham. Which isn’t the end of the World, because if we’ve learnt anything this season, it’s than anyone can beat anyone!

So here’s to Saturday! And another 100 posts!

Highlights up when they drop!

Tarra-a-bit!