i think KJ post match comments sum it up perfectly. end to end with chances for both teams to score. we went 2-0 up and then conceded too much possession in the midfield and were not solid enough in parts of the defence.

there'll be plenty of games like that this season especially while we try to bed in a young and/or inexperienced midfield. i'd like to think we won't see the best of this team until the turn of the year, but if we can keep winning games then that will put us in a strong position for the run in as we improve while other teams fade.

what is obvious is that we have individual quality above that of most sides in the league. the likes of crawley are more settled and play as a team. but we will always be able to snatch goals and points whilst we keep doyle, griffiths, siggy and sako all happy and fit.

KJ also makes a very important point in response to some fans who think it is lucky when we defend against attacking sides...it isn't luck that we have two of the best goalkeepers outside of the prem on our books. ikeme had a blinder yesterday but that is what we have trained him and paid him to do for us. it is no more lucky that we have a good keeper than it is that swindon had a decent and settled midfield.

tbf our first defeat, which will happen at some point soon, might help. it will cool the expectations of some fans and will give some of the players a kick up the árse, as complacency seems our biggest danger right now. even griffiths was guilty of that yesterday, squandering two clear chances in the first 45 minutes that would have seen us home and hosed before the half-time oranges had been sliced.

Well put gb, complacency could well be our downfall.
What are your opinions on Batth ? A future England centre half imho.
Also feel sorry for siggy starting on the bench, we look more potent going forward with him in the team, pity we can't find a formation to slot him in the starting line up in place of Davis. Totally different players but if we are going to play this type of football we may as well load the team up with strikers.

batth has been very good so far this season. i thought he was head and shoulders above the rest of the defence yesterday (although golbourne also impressed on home debut at LB). for me, i'd have DB and stearman as our centre backs but the problem there is that our new captain ricketts looks like the man who ought to be dropped...which is going to be difficult. we need to convince batth to sign his new contract because he should easily be starting CB in our side if we go up this season and if we don't we will need to sell him for money not let him go for free.

siggy has a similar problem right now - we won't drop griffiths, i think doyle has been one of our most important players so far this season and weakening the midfield right now might cause us even more problems. i think siggy has to be patient, play a lot of 30 minute cameos, or settle for a wide position for now.

thought sako in a largely CM role had one of his most composed and creative games for wolves. but it left us massively lopsided and meant mcdonald was cramped out of the game for the first hour. KJ has to consider his options carefully here. i suspect sako played that role because he is nursing something, possibly a hamstring or calf injury, as he was very reluctant to get up to a full sprint at any time in the game.

still largely happy and optimistic and we do have the luxury of just going all out attack with a lineup that includes griffiths, doyle, siggy up top supported by zeli and sako on the flanks. to play that way though we are going to have to develop a more solid CM pairing than we have found so far and it is up to the trio of evans, davis and kmac to step up a gear and make themselves automatic choice at the expense of one of the others.

Is Davis becoming Henry? Got slaughtered on all other forums for his inability to do the simple things and some believe he thinks he is much better than he is.

Not sure how that works. Thought him getting injured last season (along with Seb in the same win at Blouse) was the final nail.

Glad that yet another who went confirmed Swindon's superiority for the majority of the game - switched the text blog off at HT because you would have thought it was an Albion wum doing the updates.

BBC said we had 55% possession - sounded like Swindon had nearer 70% for most of the first half and about the same for the second half.

Good job that these pretty footballing sides are cráp at defending and just as bad in front of goal. We should have lost to Crawley (watched that one) and should have been knocked out the JPT by Walsall.

Walsall will beat us on Tuesday, but it doesn't matter. Wolves are going up as Champions regardless. It is next season that KJ is preparing for. He will want three midfielfers between January and next August.

Davis got praise from some around me for his tackling but it was him that gave the ball away in the first place.
If he is going play DM he needs to win the ball and give it to (if possible) one of our players who can actually pass. I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure it was him who had a 30 yard pop at an own goal.
You're right gb we do seem to have an embarrassment of riches, lets hope we can keep them all happy.
DB's contract must be a priority because he will soon be a multi million pound transfer target.

a bad day at work for davis and there was a feeling that the usual elements in the crowd were starting to get on his back a bit. i've seen him play very well and also have these poor matches. he has a few months to establish whether he is going to improve to play at the higher levels he is capable of or whether he will never develop to meet his potential. at his best a more all round performer than KH but at his worst he's as frustrating a player as henry was with as many errors on the ball as good tackles.

still not sure i'd agree that swindon were massively superior. they had the better of the midfield on the day...wolves had the better keeper and forward line. as much as swindon could have scored more, so could we and at the match i always had a sense that we could go up several gears if needed. which is something i haven't felt for the last two seasons. our midfield will gel in time, or KJ will need to replace one or two in january. overall things look good though.

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.