Saturday, October 25, 2008

Fatal Flaws- Watford 2 Wolverhampton Wanderers 3

I made the mistake of getting tickets in the Lower Rous as I took my Dad to the game as a birthday treat.

I'd forgotten how shallow the LR is and it didn't help that the people in front of us were up and down more frequently than a whore's drawers (the bloke in front of me's words, not mine). However revenge was gained when one of them tried to climb over into our row (heaven knows why) and got his foot trapped in the seat. He was stranded there for at least a minute like a beached whale whilst his friends tried various ways of rescuing him.

If it had been a boring game this would have livened the proceedings but as it was a game you couldn't take your eyes off it was just annoying.

The team did nothing to change Aidy's opinion that we give away silly goals when we allowed Iwelumo to chest the ball in after less than a minute.

As with Tuesday night we seem to have certain fatal flaws that ensure we don't get three points. Today's was that we never seemed to play well until we were behind. Twice we wrestled our way impressively back into the game but then didn't really look bothered about getting the winner.

Even Tommy Smith got in on the act blazing a penalty over the bar. It feel wrong to criticise Tommy given how he has easily been our best player for the couple of seasons but if you are going to take a pen at least getting it on target. He did kind of make amends with some dazzlingly play once we were 3-2 down but we never managed to get the crucial third goal, and even if we had Wolves probably would've found a fourth.

All in all a frustrating afternoon.