Wolves' Conor Coady: Let's stick to our principles
Conor Coady has called for Wolves to stick to their principles as they bid to bounce back from a first defeat of the season.
Cardiff City ended Wolves' 100 per cent record when winning 2-1 at Molineux on Saturday.
The utility man felt Wolves were 'sucked in' to playing Cardiff's tactics – and encouraged his team mates to play their own game in future.
"I feel like we need to learn to stick to our own game plan," captain Coady said. "We know what we want to do and how we want to play.
"We've got to learn to concentrate on ourselves, not get sucked into their line and how much they're kicking lads and different things. We've got to keep doing what we're doing.
"Stick to what we know and how we play.
"We stood up to them in parts but I felt we got sucked into their game in parts as well.
"It's deflating. We've made a really good start this season.
"They came to upset us and disrupt us and they did it quite well to be fair to them.
"We know how Neil Warnock's team play, we knew it'd be physical and tough and they were going to bang it long.
"That's what they did but they've gone away with the three points."
Wolves travel to Southampton on Wednesday in the Carabao Cup and then face Brentford at Griffin Park on Saturday.
Coady – who said Saturday's referee Scott Duncan was 'very naive' – said Wolves weren't viewing the Southampton clash as a 'free hit' – and would be going to win.
"It's about us getting back on the bike and going again," he added.
"We weren't going to go the full season without getting beat. In previous seasons when we've been beaten it's happened again and again – if we want to do anything this season we need to start winning games after we've been beat.
"We want to go there and win. We pride ourselves on putting on a good show. we want to carry on improving and that's by winning games."
On the referee Coady added: "Listen, referees have a tough job these days. I thought he was very naive at times to be honest in terms of the way they were time wasting and different things but we knew what they were going to do – it was up to us to try and stop that.
"We could have had a bit of help from him but we never. It was one of those things, they have a tough job nowadays and I'm not going to start arguing with him.
"We've got to override that, not get involved in the drama and just keep on playing our stuff.
"I don't think the new lads struggled with it. We saw clips of Cardiff and we knew what we were in for.
"It's about being above it and not worrying."
