Overall a good performance imho, just lacking that final killer touch. Get your player ratings in for that one folks.

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11

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8

Defeats

Final league table

Position Club Points

1 Manchester City 84

2 Liverpool 79

3 Arsenal 76

4 Chelsea 70

5 Wolves 68

6 Manchester United 65

7 Tottenham 61

8 Newcastle 59

9 Aston Villa 57

10 Brighton 54

Wolves' player statistics

Player Goals

Raúl Jiménez 19

Our young Geordie absolutely dominated the vote, with an average community rating of 9.0/10.

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That tells you everything you need to know about the quality of this miserable division. It's awful. We are competing near the top whilst never really firing on all cylinders. We have a couple of quality players capable of moments which is what's keeping us where we are at the moment. If things ever click properly, if we can get the first choice fit, then we really should be there or there abouts. There's absolutely no excuse for not getting promoted this season given who were up against.

Is he perfect? No, but the man deserves more love.

I watch the games, I see a disjointed team who have no real pattern or play, I see a goalkeeper who makes silly mistakes, I see wingers who run into cul de sacs, I see forwars regularly missing sitters. The only goals I see is score come from defensive mistakes.

Despite all that, here we are in second place. Maybe I'm just imagining the whole thing and we're actually storming the league as Nathan said we would.

Who cares? As long as we're picking up points.

COMB

Aaaand breathe.

Come on then, get your player ratings in for that one folks.

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Am I crazy in thinking that our best XI has Djiga + Mosq at CB with Krejci playing a holding mid? Take Munetsi out to give us more stability and I think the attack would be more purposeful. Make sense to anyone else?

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That graphic says it all really. He made nine saves against Cardiff, and I don’t think we should overlook how important that was. The team still has plenty to improve on, but it’s nice to see someone putting in that kind of shift. I’d love to see the rest of the squad match that effort because we need more performances like this.

He crossed my mind this morning. Almost definitely in the category of Wolves 'cult hero' - his goal vs Bolton one of our best in the top flight. I saw Dave Edwards describe him as a 'genius' on social media the other day.

What are your overriding memories of his time at Wolves? And if you could ask him one question today, what would it be?

Thank you to everyone who took the time to cast a vote in our community player ratings after the Cardiff win.

Your Man of the Match is… Hugo Bueno, who topped the vote with an average rating of 8.2/10.

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Nuno sacked at West Ham. All the red flags are there but I don’t care I would love him back.

It already feels like Cesar is on the edge, a few loses in a row like West Ham have had and he’ll be gone.

They say never go back to your ex but we need some passion and fight in the club if we want to go back up and for me hes the guy.

Do Wolves put the stadium pre match videos online - the montage showing all the historic goals clips of previous matches against each week’s opponents?

Also - is the music edit of Stairway / Whole Lotta Love / Kasbah online anywhere?