[Minizin]

Shocking. I’m pretty sure tickets were only ever on sale to season ticket holders and members, so who sold Wolves fans the tickets?

Sad thing is I never wanted to go to the game and I’m very glad my friend in the police wasn’t there either.

As for the football - all we lacked was quality up front (BTA’s blaze over the bar summed it up).

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And there’s no defence for the home fans reacting in a family area or lobbing bottles at corners. Why bother going if that’s what you want to do?

[valpayne]

horrible result horrible scenes really sad day

[baggietrousers]

Totally agree, no defense whatsoever for the reactions of the home fans. Passion yes, banter yes, atmosphere yes, but bottle throwing and violence absolutely unacceptable.

[Slick_Footwork]

I'm not as angry as I expected to be after losing, mainly because I think we did as well as we could with the players available...

If both teams had everyone available, I do think we would've given them a real run for their money.

But Dike, Maja, Grady are all big losses to us. Weimann and Ajayi would've arguably played a part too...

We missed that bit of pace, power and quality in forward areas.

BTA, for all his hard work, isn't at the level unfortunately. Poor touch. Doesn't hold the ball. Doesn't see a pass. He even lost his head when the good chance fell to him....

The only thing that really annoyed me was the nature of the first goal. I'm a firm believer that corners should be delivered into the box and always give you a chance to score. To play a soft one like that to the edge against a side who are purely counter attacking was criminal. And its unfortunate because the corner aside, Mowatt along with Yokuslu, were both excellent.

As for the 2nd goal, I think if Griffiths smoothers Cunha after his first touch there's no way he can score there. Either Griffiths beats him to the ball or he's so close that Cunha has nothing to aim at. His indecisiveness made it easy for Cunha. But at the end of the day, he's a young lad, so hopefully he will learn.

All in all, we come out with a bit of credit considering our missing players. And we still have won 80% of the cup ties with them.

As for the trouble...

There's no excuse for throwing things at the players and I do hope the club are able to find and ban whoever did that...

However, if the trouble in the Halfords / Brummy Road corner was down to Wolves fan(s) being in our end, I don't think any blame can be attributed to our fans for that. Our fans are entitled to defend themselves and those around them from opposition fans who would only sit and celebrate in our end with the intention of inciting violence. I'm of the belief that any fan sitting in the wrong end deserve whatever kicking they get.

Let's hope we can see the rest of the window out without any major departures. Despite the result, it shows the players the atmosphere that they could be playing in front of it they can get us promoted.

[Salopbaggie]

I fear for the consequences of todays trouble and really hope that anyone who can name any of those who caused the trouble, make either the club or authorities aware. The potential fallout from this could be catastrophic for the club, potential buyer might pull out and we already know where Lai stands, with only a few days left of the window if this potential buyer pulls out tomorrow....... We could (will) get an extremely big fine from the FA, plus potential partial or total ground closure, again costing us big time, t.v. companies will think twice before televising our games. These troublemakers are not real fans of the club, just brainless morons who should be nowhere near the shrine. So I repeat my plea if you know who they are shop them, they do not warrant your protection for the danger they have put our club in.

[Arcane Astral Aeons]

todays result....forget it
what was saw on national t.v and maybe further afield was disgraceful
dont matter who was to blame!!!!!!
a game of football(yes a game) was ruined by mindless a**holes
excuse me for saying this...but they do not represent our great club
neither do they represent wolves as well(yes They Have Geniune Fans)
mindless idiots who only wanted to cause mayhem...well they certainly did that
hope they are happy
tarnishing a game of football

SHAME

[talkSAFT]

Some totally over-the-top comments here! (Ground-closing??!!) We've got a top reputation compared with most other Clubs and have done for 60+ years (since chanting and Ends took off). D*ngles - on the other hand - have one of the worst reputations, so let's get some perspective. TV coverage didn't show the cause or the sequence, but I'm sure it wouldn't have even started without D*ngle fans going over-the-top.
I hate football violence, and I'm pretty placid, but I'd have naturally gone mad if some D*ngles had somehow got tickets for the Home End and all of a sudden got gobby and celebrated AT OUR END next to me. It's HUMAN NATURE, and part of local rivalry. How it escalated you can only guess. Anyone know?

ps  on another point.....
Stairs:  I'm using asterisks for D*ngles (and I could have really 'offended' by calling them T*tters). Hope that's acceptable. But WHY can I offend Islam, but not Semitism (as per your instructions)?

[BaggieSteve]

I think it was a wretched day for our club. I don’t know what the sanctions will be but I suspect they will be substantial; regardless of the stupidity of Wolves fans sitting in the home end and then celebrating a goal, nothing excuses the violence. We can point to these Wolves fans inciting the trouble but how did they get tickets? We can only assume, at this stage, they were provided through an Albion source.

I’m sure the finger of blame can be pointed in several dire directions but the FA will see us as ultimately to blame for failing to control our supporters. With the sale of the club at a delicate stage, this has not been helpful

[Stairs]

I think it was a wretched day for our club. I don’t know what the sanctions will be but I suspect they will be substantial; regardless of the stupidity of Wolves fans sitting in the home end and then celebrating a goal, nothing excuses the violence. We can point to these Wolves fans inciting the trouble but how did they get tickets? We can only assume, at this stage, they were provided through an Albion source.

I’m sure the finger of blame can be pointed in several dire directions but the FA will see us as ultimately to blame for failing to control our supporters. With the sale of the club at a delicate stage, this has not been helpful

These people are not West Bromwich Albion fans and so when they get life time bans it makes no difference to the club. Better people will be able to take their place.

[Salopbaggie]

Some totally over-the-top comments here! (Ground-closing??!!) We've got a top reputation compared with most other Clubs and have done for 60+ years (since chanting and Ends took off). D*ngles - on the other hand - have one of the worst reputations, so let's get some perspective. TV coverage didn't show the cause or the sequence, but I'm sure it wouldn't have even started without D*ngle fans going over-the-top.
I hate football violence, and I'm pretty placid, but I'd have naturally gone mad if some D*ngles had somehow got tickets for the Home End and all of a sudden got gobby and celebrated AT OUR END next to me. It's HUMAN NATURE, and part of local rivalry. How it escalated you can only guess. Anyone know?

ps  on another point.....
Stairs:  I'm using asterisks for D*ngles (and I could have really 'offended' by calling them T*tters). Hope that's acceptable. But WHY can I offend Islam, but not Semitism (as per your instructions)? 

I assume you mean my comment about ground closure being "over the top". I think you may have taken it out of context I did not mean permanent closure, I assumed that obvious when the bit before it mentioned partial closure, Perhaps a better way of saying it would be games played behind closed doors (closing the ground to fans either partial or fully) and I assure you that is quite possible, so not over the top at all.