Tony Mowbray today told Luke Moore he has a vital role to play in Albion’s promotion challenge as the forgotten striker prepared to come in from the cold tonight.
The on-loan forward returns to contention at Blackpool this evening after missing the Baggies’ last four matches following his red card in his first start against Leicester.
And Mowbray reckons the England under-21 hitman could become a key figure in the final six games of the season.
“I’m glad to have as many players fit as we can because we are going to need them over the next month or so,” said Mowbray. “Luke is back in contention. He has been training for the last few weeks and let’s hope he has a goalscoring role to play in the next month.”From my perspective he has nothing to prove. I hope he can be a success for us, work hard and score goals. From his own perspective people would have to ask him what he feels
“I just hope he can contribute through a period in which we will definitely need him. Luke’s mood doesn’t generally change.
“He is very much the same day in, day out, so I haven’t noted anything about his mood.
“But I hope if he gets the opportunity to play then he comes alive and does what he is best at, which is scoring goals.”
Moore will be the only fresh figure in Mowbray’s squad tonight as Albion embark on their sixth match in 24 days.
And Mowbray has again claimed the heavy fixture schedule damages entertainment levels in the Championship.
But he has refused to offer the pile-up of matches as an excuse for any defeats in the final six matches of the season.
“We have just come out of a run of five games in 15 days and that is the nature of the league we’re playing in,” he said.
“We’re not the only team doing it so there will be no excuses. We just have to be ready for it.
“I think teams are asked to play too often and to expect teams to perform at the same level week in, week out is very difficult.
“But everybody else in our league is doing it so there are no complaints and we just have to get on with it.”
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and his record for you is ???
would be suprise if he gets a look in ahead of the other three.
hooray..red cards back.. just what you need to inspire the troops for the final push.
like the rest of your sorry band of no hopers, he’s about as useful as a chocolate fireguard.
i’m glad he’s back though, what a boost for blackpool. your gonna lose again hahahaha.
going to the premier the mcarthy way..in style of course..oh yes.
THE SOUTHBANK..BARMY ARMY.
time to deliver luke,come on mate you can do it boing boing
1+2 = so so jealous!!!!
southbank barmy army….u’ve done nuffin but talk rubbish for days!….its nice to see how interested you are in albion???
BOING BOING!!!!!!!Premiership here we come!!!!!
TM’s gotta be joking, this villa reject got no fight, no passion, nothing. Villa will be laughing all the way to the bank if we shell out £3.5 million for this waste of space. TM nooooooo
southbank barmy army -
shall we look at the league table again? and you call us a ’sorry band of no hopers’?
Your making yourself look silly mate, i’d pack in if I were you
READ SLOWLY SO YOU UNDERSTAND. CAN YOU EXPLAIN HOW SCORING 47 GOALS IS GOING UP IN STYLE. ARE YOU HAVING A LAUGH DINGLE BREATH.
I,m going to the game, Moore is idle…and he is going to hold the team back, I would sooner see Big Darren Moore playing up front, or even Roger Moore, Dudley Moor, or Ilkley Moore Bar tat. not that I,m predujice.
4.
jealous of someone that as not done anything for you apart from get sent off.
how stupid do you sound.
i thought you lot said something about 3 prem quality strikers. oh yeah they have forgotten where the goals are.
southbank barmy army I have seen many of your anti mccarthy posts over the few weeks, you`ve been quite nasty to him, wanting him sacked.have you written him an apology? didn`t think so, wolves don`t need your sort, please keep away.
i can’t believe it, a few weeks away from the forums and i come back and we’ve fallen apart, all the baggies slating the guy just keep it hush, how is someone supposed to get off the mark when he is judged from the beginning, i’ll be totally honest, i looked at the first paragraph of this story and smiled to myself after realising we’d forgotten about Moore,
come on now lad, shove these words down their throats!!
let southbank barmy army be
“our sorry band of no hopers”
he’s quite right only the out and out scum pond life could be doing worse, that would be truly pathetic, quite right
what with wolves top scorers in football, top of the league and having had a great cup run they can crow because they deserve it
no wait, they haven’t got any of those at all, none.
guess he thinks wolves are out and out scum pond life, bit harsh on wolves when he’s actually a fan of theirs, but its his scale not mine.
nice to see you back michael.stil dont seem to make much sense though.i notice that your team are no longer a top six club,what a shame.like i have told you before ,we go top tonight and you continue your slide into obscurity.bye bye michael.
10# R SOLE.
my opinions on mcarthy haven’t or won’t change. but to late to change things this season. if he can get us up, then the guv’nor can come in and keep us up..enough said.
as for the rest of you.. TRUTH HURTS DOESN’T IT..i tell it like i see it..unlike you deluded fools who still think your a good team.
wolves will beat you on the 15th, seb will take your hermm defence apart. then let’s look at the table shall we..
BOING BOING SPLATTTT..GOIN NOWHERE THE MOWBRAY..AS USUAL..OH YES.
Havn’t you Wolves fans noticed that you’re not even in the play-off places so why don’t you concern yourselves with that fact before you comment on The Albion!!
natalie k ..why thank you for your support, obviously you have a soft spot for wolves fans. you being a lady i won’t bother to reply.. other than to say, if your going to blackpool pop onto the pier and see the physic there..from what i hear it’s about the closest you’ll ever get to a medium.
THE SOUTHBANK..BARMY ARMY!!!!!!!!!!!
2, HOW DUMB ARE YOU? (sorry band of no hopers) you really are a dumb, oh so dumb dingle.
don’t u boggies have nothing to talk about wots going on with your team instead of slating wolves fans.how sad you all are and tonight damn lucky blackpool were all over you.
16/ I think the first slating in this topic came in the second post from…you got……….. it a W####s fan.
So we may have been lucky. Equally at other times we have been unlucky…as have Wolves or any other team. It balances out in May.
16. I can only assume from your name that this is a joke.
You’ve come on an Albion site that’s full of snide comments from Wolves fans to accuse our fans of having nothing to do but slate Wolves fans.RSVP.