Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Wolves new signing predicts goals
Wolves’ new signing David Edwards today declared: “I’m your goal-scoring midfielder” as he reflected on his promotion to the Championship.
Edwards watched Saturday’s 3-0 defeat against Crystal Palace at Molineux when Mick McCarthy’s men wasted numerous chances.
The £675,000 signing has carved a reputation for breaking into the box and scoring his fair share of goals.
The 24 year old midfielder is determined to provide the same service at Molineux.
“I love to break forward – whenever the ball is out wide – I want to get in there and score goals,” said Edwards.
“Whenever crosses come in, I want to be there as third striker trying to get on the end of things.
“I always set myself a target at the start of the season and I’ve six already so I’m looking to make that double figures.”
Edwards misses out on one of the matches of his life tonight after moving from Luton, who face an FA Cup third-round replay against Liverpool at Anfield.
But the Welsh international has no regrets and is already convinced he made the right move.
“I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Luton – they are a real family club,” he said.
“But I hope with the money they have raised from selling me it has helped them, because they are in a terrible situation.”
As the lowest scorers in the Championship, Wolves have struggled to find the net from all departments this season.
Last season, Seyi Olofinjana scored nine from midfield, but the Nigerian is currently away on African Nations Cup duty with his country and is not expected back until the end of the month at the earliest.
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In fairness – get 5 before the end of the season and you’ll probably finish leading scorer!
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hope hes not been driving to luton and back, dont want him coming off at half time because he is to tired !
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Wolves’ new signing David Edwards today declared: “I’m your goal-scoring midfielder” as he reflected on his promotion to the Championship.
This means he will be playing in goal to give Hennesy a rest.. Muppet has been looking for that someone until Mat is able to resume his playing career
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He has aged 3 years from last week already!
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Just heard Billy Davis dropped out of race for Scottish job, having talks with undisclosed club, it won’t be for Toon job so you never know. As for Edwards lets hope he right, but if that the case he might end up playing along side of Rosa in reserves!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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“I’m your goal-scoring midfielder”
Hope this boast doesn’t come back & bite him on the bum!
On a jovial note, Wolves current form reminds me of an old joke:
Husband & wife getting divorced.
Judge says to son” Do you want to live with mummy”? Boy answers No,because she beats me!
Judge asks do you want to live with daddy? Again boy replies No,because he beats me!
Judge asks “Well, if you don’t want to live with mummy & don’t want to live with daddy, who do you want to live with?
Boy answers “Wolves, ’cause they don’t beat ANYONE”!
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Lets hope so kid.
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come on guys enough!!!
no matter how much we wolves fans moan its not going to get MM out. they are not going to change manager until the end of season, then they can get in the likes of ince etc.
SO WE HAVE TO GET BEHIND THE PLAYERS ON THE FIELD!!! no good boohing them, that will just make them play worse….and knock any cofidence they have left….
SO COME ON WOLVES!!! YOU NEVER KNOW ITS A FUNNY OLD GAME!
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I like the attitude.
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Wants to be the third striker, god is there another two in the box????????
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Wolves new signing predicts goals
Me? I predict a further drop in gates.MM has got his head in the sand & relys on players who will ultimately get him the sack!
The play offs are not quite out of reach, but I would not hold my breath.
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hope hes right but knowing mick he,ll need a few games in the reserves first and if he scores goals in the first team he will be dropped…a bit of advice for dave u wont be able to get to far forward cus mm will have u defending instead mark my words this is a bad move for u if u want to attack and get goals that style of play will b coached out ov u soon enough
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hell!! an attacking minded player that likes to attack and score goals…GOOOOAAAALLL.SCUNTHORPE 0 WOLVES 3 (EASTWOOD 15.BLAKE39 EDWARDS 69)..YES THAT SEEMS O.
K..
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You’d better not get scoring goals Dave or you’ll dropped before you can say “put a shift in” :-0
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YOU best not have to much qaulity dave as you will be sat next to jarvis and freddy on the bench!
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I predict sitting on the bench.
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Hope you can get used to playing on the wing or in defence and don’t forget….putting a shift in is far more important than scoring and setting up goals
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yes totaly agree wolf. But as your not irish you could warm the bench with jarvis you know two of the best players we have. oh dont forget to congratulate wardy on getting in the x11
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If he gives the Wolves fans what they want good luck to him, but he will have to score an awful lot of goals to make some of the fans happy. Maybe he could show the strikers how it is done in training.
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hope fully he will be what is missing but as for breaking in to the box to get on thee end of a cross from the wing? we havent got a winger now kites is injured
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I hope he can achieve his ambition.
He will have to score an awful lot of goals to make some of the Wolves fans happy.
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“Whenever crosses come in, I want to be there as third striker trying to get on the end of things…. who are the other two then ??
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welcome, Eddie the manager likes to play players who don’t drive flashy cars up and down motorways too much so best sell the 2CV that Luton bought ya!
No more motorway drivin for you my friend. Its too strenous…got it?
Also if you don’t score or have an off day expect to spend the next 4 games on the bench or proving your fitness in the reserves, where you might score lots of goals but won’t be recalled for 4 months.
If you’ve not yet played for Sunderland or got an irish passport then opportunities will be limited, but at least we’ll pay you for being here. You can help the youth team to develop on Sundays.
The fans…we’re a fickle bunch noted for it and proud of it aswell so don’t worry about getting booed its not peronal or your fault, blame MM for subbing you in the first half. Rest assured, we will too.
Enjoy your stay…if you succeed those mighty west country giants Bristol City will be in for ya in the Summer and you can join a club with ambition.
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too slow hb that was already said on post 9 pay attention muppet
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Yeh whatever
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A goal scoring midfielder? Great! We have some great goal scoring forwards, but… IF we play players in their correct positions we should start achieving again. Like the sounds this young man is making and hope he allowed to play to his strengths.
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before we get carried away he has scored 16 goals in 136 league appearances, now I realise thats more than WW are likely to score in the next 136 matches under MM but…
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PERHAPS YOU CAN SHOW THE FORWARDS HOW TO DO IT Mr EDWARDS!
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thats it then Mad MM will play him centre forward in his first game, and then he will be sent to the bench, to have a rest,then coached by connor he will then get a slight injury, then work with Daley, and thats it mate welcome to the good ship WW, next year you will be going back to Luton to play in the 1st Division
IN MICK SOME OF YOU IDIOTS TRUST God help you you are supposed to take the blindfold of when you go into the ground and please stop talking of just 4 points of the play offs you have to win games to be in the play offs lets face it can you see you selfs winning with mad Mick Keep it up MM this just gets better
Going up Going up
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Hes 21 jeesss!!!!
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Happy Baggie – point well made.
We need to get down the geriatric ward and get ourselves one of Kevin Phillips mates.
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where’s breen when u need him
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DAVE i can predict GOALS too but hopefully they are scored for wolves and not against us.I like your enthusiasm though. Tell you what i’ll get p….d if you score against scunny saturday i Think mc arthy will too!!!
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Mick’s problem is he needs to get back to the aggressive wing play we had last season. A good service to forwards. That’s what was lacking.
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Bold comment and just what we need IMO. kightly, jarvis, edwards and henry in midfield, sounds pretty good to me
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A lot of fans moaning about players playing out of position, and i’m not disagreeing with that, but I think it’s kind of ironic that most fans want jarvis playing on the left (as he did at gillingham) despite the fact he’s a right footer.
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Lets hope he walks the walk!
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We could do with one more goal scoring midfielder – someone like Commons from Forest.
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Well said Deeps, i’ll second that!
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Just a quick question to anyone who might no the answer. How old is this guy? the express and star seem to have had him as a 21 yr old a 22 yr old and he’s currently a 24yr old?
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wolf66 lmao brilliant and very true
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Welcome to Wolves David. You say you are the Goal scoring midfielder then get out there and stuff all who come to Mol. Good luck mate. Ignore the negative idiots.
Good luck fella.
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Everybody knows what I think of M&M and their incompetent manangement of our club, but this is the first intelligent signing that they have made this season, and it could start to produce results, if only MM can make up his mind which are his two best strikers. It’s only a glimmer of hope, but this is real hope and not the oversold hype of last weekend.
Can I suggest that the criteria for the strikers is “Who scores the goals” and not “who runs around most?” I don’t care if they lies down for a snooze for 80 minutes if they scores goals in the remaining time.
Mr Morgan does not seem to want to sack the incompetent duo, so as fans, we will be forced to endure the deadly duo until the end of the season, when they will surely have to go, after once again failing to earn promotion.
Of course, the failure will then be described by them as the fault of the fans. Both of the M&M duo are serial failures, yet they keep finding clubs that can be duped into hiring them. Wolves are their latest victims. Just look at their records of disaster and sackings, and you can see that the same has happened here again. They continuously play on the loyalty of the fans to the club.
The boss is Mr Morgan and he will see the light eventually.
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I have posted several ’sack MM’ posts and still feel he has to go. What I have never done in the thirty years I stood on the terraces was boo a Wolves player. Stop it now. I once stood on an open Carlisle terrace on a Tuesday night in the pouring rain and I think we lost 3-1, we sang our heads off. Next home game I want to read about you lifting the roof off. Get behind them from the first whistle and I believe you will see a miracle. If you are going to boo please stay at home and stop bringing shame to our club.
Wolves forever.
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Hey up! Ive had nowt to cheer about since Dec 1st! I might as well go and watch the mighty imps!
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potter and henry asked when mick took the team go-karting if they could go backwards because it to risky going forwards
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yeah, yeah, whatever.Heard it all before.Dont forget , if you score 4 goals, you will end up on Muppets bench
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I’ve lost nearly all my faith in MM,but i’m holding on for dear life to what morsel i’ve got left.PLEASE MM,if your reading this,PLEASE,drop D.ward,Bothroyd and Potter.For crying out loud-give Freddy a sodding go.What has Jarvis done to upset you? You bought him-play him!Stop playing S.Ward on the left! Stop it now!For crying out loud-your testing us fans to the limit! I can’t get to to many games because of work.I’ve seen 6 games.We have lost 2 and drawn 4.We have scored 2 goals.Drop Elliott and sell him-even i can see he is hopelessly out of his depth and Jay can’t give a damn.Please get yourself a decent assistant-Rob Kelly or similar-not Connor.Thankyou-because bi’m ,like all the rest of my family,are at breaking point.If someone at the club is reading this,please show it to Mick as i’m deadly serious.Thankyou.
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Great an attacking midfielder…So who exactly is going to feed these attacking players when the rest of the team are shackled in defense in fear of being dropped to the bench because MM doesnt think they’ve put there “shift in”!!!
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Great another attacking midfielder…So who exactly is going to feed these attacking players when the rest of the team are shackled in defense in fear of being dropped to the bench because MM doesnt think they’ve put there “shift in”!!!
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will the sheep give him time to settle
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Time to start getting behind the team now as they try and turn the season around. Morgan has ambition as he’s spend over £2 Million in January. MM might not be everyone’s favourate at the moment but booing is so detrimental to the team why bother, we might as well wear baggies shirts to the match if we keep having such a go at the manager and team, but its same old story with players finding it hard to perform in front of demanding fans. Lay off them and start showing support for the old gold and black
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he is 21
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I am worried there are other back room problems no doubt not at playing level but senior managerial level. It’s in need of a root and branch sort out and SM has to grasp the nettle and make positive changes to the make up of the managerial staff, if we are to succeed. You have a current Senior Management Team that don’t know what is required to get the club into gear for a long term premiership club. This attitude needs to change, a shake up is long over due.
Spending money is one way of showing you’re committed to change but it will not solve problems the have beset this club for 20 decades now. How often have you heard, we are prepared and ready for the Prem we have all the facilities and aspirations…now asnswer this where are we now? where are we likely to be next season?? More than a mismatch if you ask me..
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Exclusive ‘Wolves Players take delivery of sponsored cars’
‘Darren Potter and Karl Henry have just taken delivery of their new sponsored BMW’s, the stylish models have had all forward gears removed, keeping reverse but also have a unique sideways gear to suit their playing style!
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As fat Ron Atkinson used to say :
“dont tell me,show me”.
He has set himself up for a big fall.If he goes 2 or 3 games without scoring the fickle boo-boys will start again.Obviously he can talk the talk,can he walk the walk ?
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18. Is 5 really an waful lot of goals?
19. Yes we have, Jarvi. But he is too busy keeping the bench warm. I suspect Edwards will be doing the same
21. Tracking back
22. Brilliant
31. Wake up, what has Breen got to do with this
35. He can player either wing withthe same effect, however Thick Mick does not think like we fans do
54. Really funny
55. Well said, there are too many players being interviewed by the E&S and asked the same questions and they all give similar answers
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“Wolves new signing predicts goals”
You saw three on saturday – how many more can you let in ??
LOVIN IT !!
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HAPPY-CRAPPIE-NICE TO SEE YOU ARE OUT OF THE GUTTER ONCE AGAIN! CRETIN
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Happy, very good your teams bad run will come peaking to early, then I will be LOVIN IT HA HA
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56 Dudzie Wolf 5 goals would be nice but have you just had a dream and did you wake up sweating.
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jean wilf – for the last time, the caps lock button os on the left next to your lard sandwich !
59 – peaked ?? Its not a peak – this is how we actually play – grat innit !
LOVIN IT !
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