Nathan Collins

Collins post match interview:

Collins was one of only four players to acknowledge the fans at full-time, as he raised his hands in apology, and the summer signing has now condemned the team’s display on a dismal day at Molineux.

He said: “It’s not good enough. End of. It’s nowhere near where we need to be.

“It’s a shambles, a poor performance. It was embarrassing playing that today, I feel ashamed, for me and the players, and we need a reaction.

“We said it before the game, both boxes, you look at the stats, we’ve had so many chances. We’ve had the better chances probably, but we don’t score a goal, they have five shots and score four goals. Defensively and attacking, we were nowhere near where we needed to be.

“I don’t think it can get much worse, I think we can get better. There’s so much quality in this dressing room to get better and I think we will.

“We’ve gone so low, we can only bounce back up. It’s my job and the other leaders in the group to get us going and get performances out of us.”

When asked about the fans’ frustration, Collins added: “I don’t blame them, they spent good money to come and watch us, and they didn’t deserve that from us, it was embarrassing from us, and they deserve better.

“They deserve for us to at least try hard. We didn’t give them a performance to be proud of.”

Couldnt do much about the 1st & 2nd goals. Should have done better for the 3rd and his positioning was poor for the 4th goal. If he gets back in line with the defender who is attempting to block the cross, he can easily clear it. Maybe he was anticipating a pull back but should be in a better position.

Had a really good game. I thought his confidence had gone after the red but he's getting back to himself.

I haven't seen the general game but Collins must have been bad in general! Lad is getting absolutely lamped by Wolves twitter. Even Semedo isn't getting as much stick.

Edited by kevin100 - 05 Nov 2022 at 7:33pm

Wolves fans seem to think he was a waste of money, maybe the pressure of the transfer and premier league is getting to him. Not long ago we were all thinking Collins and O'Shea would be playing for the top clubs sooner or later. They're both still so young though for centre halves so let's not worry too much yet. 

We tend to overhype all our young players and Collins is no different. His goal vs Ukraine which was in truth a little fortuitous saw the hype machine move into overdrive. There is no doubt he is one of the brightest CB prospects around, but he is 21yo and will be prone to errors as he learns on the job. He has a big month coming up as do all the young Irish at Wolves because Lopetegui will be casting a critical eye ahead of the January window. Anything could happen, he's obviously been given assurances over funding, maybe he decides he wants an experienced CB, who knows? I'd imagine Collins and Kilman are comfortably the youngest CB pairing in the PL.

Trap junior wrote: Nayfin's a good player.  Eel come good.

Was a little weak for the goal just there unfortunately.