Wolves 5 v 10 Swindon

We often end up with different opinions after a game GB but I think I agree with pretty much all of your points here.

David Davis has in my opinion been excellent so far this season and has been offering more than Henry in terms of winning tackles and powering forward. But yesterday he was dreadful. His passing was terrible and he was caught in possession a few times. But not sure I would drop him after one poor game when it has followed 4 or 5 good performances.

I also agree that Danny Betth was head and shoulders better than our other defenders yesterday and I was far from convinced about Ricketts as a centre back. I am not a fan of Stearman but I would make him first choice alongside Batth at the moment.

For the first time yesterday I would be critical of the way Jackett set the team up. Playing Sako in a more central role just didn't work for me and gave us no width and we were regularly without an outlet when we tried to get out of defence. We were crying out for someone like Ismael to come on but unfortunately he too was very poor when he came on. But at least McDonald had more opportunity to play when we moved to a less narrow formation.

Although it would be incredibly positive a line up including Sigurdarson, Doyle, Griffiths and Sako would give a much better balance than we saw yesterday, and I would retain Davis and McDonald in the middle.

In the last home League game Crawley deserved a point and yesterday Swindon deserved all three, so it was reassuring to hear Jackett saying that we should not kid ourselves into thinking the way we played yesterday was good enough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COvt3d5rXTE

Excellent set up by Griffiths for Doyle's goal and Foley took his goal really well. But not sure we will see many better goals at Molineux this season than Swindon's second

my team for the next game would be:

ikeme
doherty batth stearman golbourne
zeli kmac davis sako
doyle griffiths

or possibly evans in place of davis. i've been very impressed with evans so far this season and think he may actually make a better holding CM than davis in future. but both of them will be prone to errors while they are learning and the fans need to be patient and supportive, not immediately look for the next target of abuse if we give the ball away, or dog forbid actually lose a match this season!

we might also try siggy at RM (or interchanging with doyle in more of a front three) ahead of zeli if he can provide a bit more cover on the rhs for doherty.

agree with yr view above DJ - and it was one of my comments live from the game yesterday - this was jackett's worst game so far in respect his own management decisions. the changes in defence weren't necessary and weakened the side. the formation was lopsided and if we are going to play sako CM, then we need to consider 451 or some other system instead of starting with 4 central midfielders as we did yesterday.

How did the midfield operate yesterday?
Was it a diamond of sorts with a reliance on Doherty and Golbourne to overlap?

Personally i would have kept the back four which has served us well so far, but it seems that KJ really rates Golbourne.
I would like to have Doyle Siggy and Griffiths on the pitch at the same time.

i think golbourne looks a better bet than ricketts right now at LB. i think stears looks better than ticketts as CB. this might put the club in a difficult position in the coming weeks. i hope KJ is not going to mess around too much trying to shoehorn players into the side just because of who they are or whether he signed them or not. pick them on form and fitness and don't try to over think the set up.

the midfield had no discernible shape. sako was mostly central and a lot of good stiff flowed through him in that position. the other kind of fitted around that but it wasn't easy to say we had any real formation. when zeli came on we had a wide right man and outlet - although he was a lot more pace than quality yesterday and seemed to be overplaying. contrast the wasteful zeli with the calm siggy on the RHS who teed up our third with a beautiful pass to foley.

kmac did some good last ditch defensive stuff in our own box but never really got out from under sako's shadow most of the first hour. evans was neat and tidy in the main but with the odd stray pass. davis the opposite. but for much of the game our midfielders were so cramped they marked themselves out of the match and allowed swindon the space down the channels to slide passes in behind them and around the full backs.

Get in,who cares if they had more attempts, we scored one more than they did and that's all that matters, I'll take every game like yesterday's till the end of the season.

= champions

Get in lovin it at the moment yow cor beat winnin.

Roll on Tuesday.

Wins are indeed wins Perton, but we need to improve by the sounds of it, we won't keep winning games like this if we don't get a formation we want to stick with.

Cheers GB, sounds a bit of a midfield clusterfúck to me then.........Kmac seems like the perfect example of a box to box midfielder, now its a case of fitting the others around him.

Well at least its a good dilemma to have overall, and we do have impact from the bench, something we were badly lacking a few years back.

With the performances over the last two home games then a defeat or two is just around the corner unless we improve. So no good saying its only the result that matters. I don't think Jackett got things right with the midfield set up yesterday. The narrow style had a bit of Solbakken about it at times and we could never get a passing game going cause we rarely had anyone in space. We won the game only because we had more quality in the final third than Swindon had.

85 points for a top two guaranteed place.

Can't see us not winning another 23 games - even if we lose the rest we are up.

On paper it looks that easy unc, but the games have to be played and anything can happen, red cards, injuries etc etc.