[Salopbaggie]

Under 23 final is being shown live sadly on the wolves website: https://tv.wolves.co.uk/player?feedId=81...0_jfaxmyfi

[Baggie_One]

We win on penalties

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

Decent turnout there! Guess our whippersnappers are more popular than the grizzled old veterans at the moment.

Some of our players swigging the victory champagne need their IDs checked, mind

[Salopbaggie]

To be fair Wolves were the better team and there is a couple of their players who I think would get serious time in our first team, Hodge has an engine and half in him and is an solid midfielder with a fair bit of attacking intent and Campbell caused us so many problems of the wing.  Shame I can not say that any of our players shone in the same way.  An honourable mention for Ashworth, Taylor, Ingram, Teixeira and Faal is the best I could muster.  Their number 6 should have been sent off in the first half for IMO was a deliberate elbow on Teixeira, then again in the second half with a nasty two footer, though he only managed one yellow for the second.  It was amusing to see Teixeira (Who came up to his shoulder) run over and give him a good shove after the second tackle I am not sure who it was on.

Either way 'We Won the Cup, We Won the Cup, Hee Hi Haddeo, We Won the Cup

[wba13]

To be fair Wolves were the better team and there is a couple of their players who I think would get serious time in our first team, Hodge has an engine and half in him and is an solid midfielder with a fair bit of attacking intent and Campbell caused us so many problems of the wing.  Shame I can not say that any of our players shone in the same way.  An honourable mention for Ashworth, Taylor, Ingram, Teixeira and Faal is the best I could muster.  Their number 6 should have been sent off in the first half for IMO was a deliberate elbow on Teixeira, then again in the second half with a nasty two footer, though he only managed one yellow for the second.  It was amusing to see Teixeira (Who came up to his shoulder) run over and give him a good shove after the second tackle I am not sure who it was on.

Either way 'We Won the Cup, We Won the Cup, Hee Hi Haddeo, We Won the Cup     

My granddaughter and I were there last night your being a bit hard on the Albion, we had 8 of our 11local lads within 15 miles of the Hawthorns and the other 3 were from this country. Wolves have players from all over Europe with one player bought for 4.5 mill. Yes technically they were good but want to walk the ball into the net. We also fought wonderfully well. Ted Cann was great and both Taylor and Ashworth will make it at a high level. Remember the ref totally bottled it in the first half with there player not being sent off for an elbow, then the same player nearly cuts Richards in half with a ridiculous tackle. So a player received 1 yellow card for 2 sending off offences. Anyway take nothing away from these youngsters they deserved to win because they never stopped running and believing. Great night to be a baggie.

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

To be fair Wolves were the better team and there is a couple of their players who I think would get serious time in our first team, Hodge has an engine and half in him and is an solid midfielder with a fair bit of attacking intent and Campbell caused us so many problems of the wing.  Shame I can not say that any of our players shone in the same way.  An honourable mention for Ashworth, Taylor, Ingram, Teixeira and Faal is the best I could muster.  Their number 6 should have been sent off in the first half for IMO was a deliberate elbow on Teixeira, then again in the second half with a nasty two footer, though he only managed one yellow for the second.  It was amusing to see Teixeira (Who came up to his shoulder) run over and give him a good shove after the second tackle I am not sure who it was on.

Either way 'We Won the Cup, We Won the Cup, Hee Hi Haddeo, We Won the Cup     

My granddaughter and I were there last night your being a bit hard on the Albion, we had 8 of our 11local lads within 15 miles of the Hawthorns and the other 3 were from this country. Wolves have players from all over Europe with one player bought for 4.5 mill. Yes technically they were good but want to walk the ball into the net. We also fought wonderfully well. Ted Cann was great and both Taylor and Ashworth will make it at a high level. Remember the ref totally bottled it in the first half with there player not being sent off for an elbow, then the same player nearly cuts Richards in half with a ridiculous tackle. So a player received 1 yellow card for 2 sending off offences. Anyway take nothing away from these youngsters they deserved to win because they never stopped running and believing. Great night to be a baggie.

Cheers for that report and the info about the players; it puts an extra shine on us lifting the cup

[Salopbaggie]

To be fair Wolves were the better team and there is a couple of their players who I think would get serious time in our first team, Hodge has an engine and half in him and is an solid midfielder with a fair bit of attacking intent and Campbell caused us so many problems of the wing.  Shame I can not say that any of our players shone in the same way.  An honourable mention for Ashworth, Taylor, Ingram, Teixeira and Faal is the best I could muster.  Their number 6 should have been sent off in the first half for IMO was a deliberate elbow on Teixeira, then again in the second half with a nasty two footer, though he only managed one yellow for the second.  It was amusing to see Teixeira (Who came up to his shoulder) run over and give him a good shove after the second tackle I am not sure who it was on.

Either way 'We Won the Cup, We Won the Cup, Hee Hi Haddeo, We Won the Cup     

My granddaughter and I were there last night your being a bit hard on the Albion, we had 8 of our 11local lads within 15 miles of the Hawthorns and the other 3 were from this country. Wolves have players from all over Europe with one player bought for 4.5 mill. Yes technically they were good but want to walk the ball into the net. We also fought wonderfully well. Ted Cann was great and both Taylor and Ashworth will make it at a high level. Remember the ref totally bottled it in the first half with there player not being sent off for an elbow, then the same player nearly cuts Richards in half with a ridiculous tackle. So a player received 1 yellow card for 2 sending off offences. Anyway take nothing away from these youngsters they deserved to win because they never stopped running and believing. Great night to be a baggie.

I don't think I was being hard on them and I fully understand about the differential in the ability of the players. I am taking nothing away from their effort, which is obvious from the result. All I am saying and you highlight the point I am making yourself, "Wolves have players from all over Europe with one player bought for 4.5 mill." if they did not look so much better, you would not have to justify why they looked better. That does not mean our lads looked bad, just that most did not 'stand out' as much as some of the Wolves players. I fully agree about the sending offs, as I said in my OP.

[Baggiebob(BBB)]

So instead of Bruce looking to buy in players, how many of these youngsters deserve a crack at the 1st team? And do well?