Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Coventry go cool on Eastwood
Coventry are cooling on their interest in Wolves striker Freddy Eastwood after opening moves to land one of two other targets instead.
The Molineux club’s Championship neighbours were ready to buy the transfer-listed Eastwood for £1m.
Wolves are holding out to recoup the £1.5m they shelled out to Southend for the 24-year-old last summer.
Coventry, anxious to get their summer recruitment under way, are now making moves to pursue an alternative solution to their search for more goal power.
Bolton’s Heidar Helguson and Southampton’s Polish international striker Grzegorz Rasiak, who finished last season on loan at the Reebok, are options.
This development will be of concern to Eastwood, who had seen Coventry as his most likely next destination.
Despite speculation suggesting that Crystal Palace, Bristol City and QPR are all interested, it is only Chris Coleman who has been prepared to put money on the table.
Towards the end of last season, Wolves had agreed a sale to Coventry which would have given them their money back.
That broke down, amid much bitterness, when manager Mick McCarthy had a change of mind.
Coventry – having survived the relegation peril in which they were locked at that time – now feel less inclined to match the full £1.5m.
The prospect of a disenchanted Eastwood beginning pre-season training still looking for a move will put pressure on Wolves to strike a deal, as they continue their own hunt for fresh faces.
One of their targets, Kyle Lafferty, has moved a step closer to a Burnley exit as the club concede the striker’s demand for a new start sets the stage for a sale to either Wolves or Celtic.
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YIPEEEEEE…. a freddie story…. the ensuing 289 posts will give me something to read when i get back from our promotion party later.
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Please someone take him!
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Interesting….. but I doubt Freddie will stay. Why dont we offer Elliott & S.Ward to coventry instead!
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Well done for holding out for the money we payed for him, don’t let him go for anything less, or put him in the bid for Lafferty instead of Elliot?
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ive decided wot to wear tonite,i shall wear my baggie hat,baggie top,baggie y fronts,baggie shorts,baggie socks,baggie trainers,baggie watch,baggie,neckliss,baggie bracelet,might even tek me baggie bananna aye boing boing
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Why does no-one want this goalscoring enigma? He is a goal machine, ok he was poor for Southend for the last 6 months he was there and he hasnt scored in over 2,000 mintes on the pitch for us, but I cannot forget THAT GOAL V Sheff Weds, awesome. Their loss is our gain – FREDDY FREDDY FREDDY!!!
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are those empty seats i see behind him aye boing boing
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LETS SWOP HIM FOR PHILLIPS!!!!!!!!!!!
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aint freddie abit young for the golden oldies aye boing boing
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n03,why don’t we pay coventry to take s.ward & elliott?
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send him the other way for lafferty!….its a no brainer! he still has a good reputation, so burnley will bite our hands off!
elliot can sell pies in the southbank a bit longer!
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i hear staford rangers are after a striker!.
off you go freddie, im sure they wouldnt mind you parking your caravan close by either.
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Happy_braggie, it’s because we have lots of supporters.
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Happy_Baggie, you can’t really call 2 drippin’ butties, 4 cocktail sausages and a bottle of IrnBru sitting on a bench outside Smethwick job centre a party, surely?
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Don’t worry happy baggie – we’ll probably still be postng by the time you get relegated
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6,piebank, he sounds like a real goal machine daint score for soufend for 6months aint scored for you in 2,000 minutes i cant believe nobody wants him,if only hed have bin abit more prolific youd have been in the play offs aye boing boing
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Catman get a life…Freddy the Shed will score a shed load of goals for someone next season…i only hope it’s us.
There’s something wrong at a club when they can’t get a proven goal scorer to hit the back of the net.
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6. Whatever you’re taking, have you got any left and can I buy some off you?
Never did I think the words ‘goal scoring enigma’ and freddy eastwood appear in the same sentence.
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pretty boy get a life !!!!!!!!!!!!
you will be the first one crying next season when your getting battered every week.
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5.ive decided wot to wear tonite,i shall wear my baggie hat,baggie top,baggie y fronts,baggie shorts,baggie socks,baggie trainers,baggie watch,baggie,neckliss,baggie bracelet,might even tek me baggie bananna aye boing boing
What a PLANK
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He will go to Cardiff.
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So Wolves, Cardiff, Bristol and Coventry dont want him, maybe we should look at the premier league instead, these CCC clubs have no clue.
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11) how do you work out he has a good reputation. There was only you lot thought he was any good and then it was only half of you. i think the rest of the football comunity is aware he is rubbish. You couldn’t give him away
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Judging from terryPRETTYBOYbaggies attire, I would say he must be a Smethwick Chav. Mind you, the baggies watch sounds rather alluring. Next time i’m in a West Bromwich jewellery shop (scarce I know) I’ll look out for one.
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14 – I’m sure you will all be moaning till the end of time…
14 – thats classed as a Harvester in wolverhampton !!
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Its supply and demand here, Coventry know Thick Mick and the fat controller want to sell so why should they pay exactly what we want.
I’m afraid we have to cut our losses if we want to get rid.
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How about we keep a proven goalscorer like Freddy
- Grays Athletic (Games 55 / Goals 34)
- Southend (Games 115 / Goals 53)
And sack off our interest in Lafferty (another
forward who can’t actually score)
- Burnley (Games 82 / Goals 10)
- Darlington (loan) (Games 9 / Goals 3)
Give Freddy a proper chance – no one can argue
that he has not been given a fair crack of the whip!
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Happy – I’m glad that you have finally confirmed what the rest of us have known all along, which is that you are a closet Wolves supporter. Well how else could you explain your admission that you will be spending time reading through a never-ending list of Freddy Eastwood posts on a Wolves messageboard?
Anyway, enjoy your get-together this evening – am sure it’ll be a blast! PS when you see Terry, ask him if he’s single – he sounds like someone I’d like to get to know better! ;)
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17 does’nt no what a football is freddy scoring goals never will happen aye boing boing
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5. Are you mental? what the hell are you on about?
Coventry are cheapos, they can’t afford Eastwood that’s the only reason they’re cooling their interest.
Hold out for 2mill nvm 1.5mill. Someone who will cough up the dough will offer that and We have a while before the preparation for the new season, so whats the rush? I personally still want Freddy at wolves, but we may as well get some profit off him if he is going.
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You could sell one get one free. ie sell Freddie and give them Ward, Collins or Elliot
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Y dont you all get off Steven Elliots back… He will play up front this season (Probably off the bench) but get behind him I remember watching him and KEOGH UP FRONT WHEN THEY SIGNED AND THEY REMINDED ME SO MUCH OF BULL AND MUTCH WITH THERE MOVEMENT
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yes probably terry cos that game was gainst reading pre seaon friendly last year and thats the away end. best get some work done as i have a job terry you no terry job????
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In fact forget wat I said it daint make sense…
I was on about s ward and Keogh
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On a completely different thread, who the hell is voting for John Terry to be England captain. He is so far short of that role it is untrue, he kicks and screams to get his own way like a spoilt brat, and goes into a sulk and cries when things don’t work out.
He is no leader of men, he is just a sad reflection of where the game has ended up
When Gazza cried at the world cup it was exuasable as he was a young lad who through his own fault had lost his place in the World Cup final. Since then the list of players who have blubbed over the slightest set back is getting annoying. I mean I don’t cry at every set back I suffer in business, why should they?
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Just sell him for gods sake
i want him to stay and do well, but that isnt going to happen with mick here. longer deal not solved the cheaper deal will be at knockdown price to beat the window
sell £2m
buy
aaron mclean or lafferty
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Happy_Baggie, i guess you were trying to think of an upmarket establishment as a sarcastic response but that was about as imaginative as you could get what with you coming from the hole that Sandwell blights this country with
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Greg 28 – I like the wolves page cos it gets me off to sleep a treat.
As for terry – come along and ask him yourself…
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We could with freddy to give Serjil a bit of competition in the reserves
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Freddy is one of the best strikers to ever grace the molineux turf. Skill, Poise and a great attitude has made the boo boys chant his name. He could have been the next Bully … we all know that. WBA are just waiting for the excitement to die down and then they will snatch him for 500K. And then he will become the “anti-bully” and the south bank will lament their sad loss. See you as one of the top scorers in the Prem’ Freddy you will always be in our thoughs.
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Oi pretty boy baggie (7) You shouldn’t be talking about empty seats when you had a lower average attendance than us. Particularly when you consider your season against ours!!!! You should have had a full house every week with that brand of football – you lot don’t deserve to keep Mowbray. Which phone box are you having your party in? – You & Happy in your paper hats – I bet it’s a thrill a minute!!!
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because i dont have job thats why happy aye boing boing
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No 4. Wanderer89 – That is the best suggestion ive heard. It would tie up the lafferty and freddie saga’s in one go. Mind you, we’d still be lumped with elliot!
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No.32 ? Are you seriously comparing bully with elliot? The mind boggles..
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all coventry are trying to do is drive the price down to below 1 million.
lets face it they know wolves don’t want him or to be more precise mick doesn’t. they also know freddie is so disenchanted with how he’s been treated at wolves i’m sure he would go anywhere. and i am sure wherever he goes he will score a sackfull of goals.
and i for one cannot see why we would want kyle lafferty, and the money we are offering for him is ridiculously high.
sorry i don’t trust mick to spend our money wisely. we need some quality and we must not spend silly money like previous managers on unproven players like lafferty.
and just another point could you imagine where we would be now with paul ince as manager. we’ve missed the boat now.
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36 – no, just somewhere you would have heard of – and you have !
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pa read 34.
What I meant was Steven Ward and Keogh looked class when they first arrived…
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What’s this about Wolves holding out to recoup £1.5mil for Freddy Eastwood? A year ago Moxey swore we hadn’t paid that much for him!!! It was Southend chairman Ron Martin who said we paid £1.5mil, and Moxey strongly denied it!
Let’s say we paid £1.25mil plus add-ons for appearances–which will have come to approximately £0. Wolves paid that after Freddy had been a regular in the Championship for Southend and scored 53 goals in 115 games for them. How can you expect another team now to pay the same price for a reserve who’s only scored a handful of goals this season?
Also, Eastwood has already completed one year of a five-year contract, so the price should come down about one-fifth. Remember, in four years time he would be going on a Bosman for nowt! Moxey should snap off Coventry’s hand if they’ve offered £950,000, never mind £1mil.
If we go on in this way, Wolves are going to be stuck with a player McCarthy hates and short of funds for new purchases. The way Moxey conducts business, or rather fails to conduct business, dumbfounds me! IMHO, he’s full of boastful, self-contradictory nonsense!
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Someone please buy him! BRING IN THE LAFF!
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48 – PAH ?? Who actually says PAH ??
Its right up there with “EEK” and “GUFFAW” – its abit like wolves superiority over albion – it doesn’t exist.
Doh !
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I can imagine an Albion promotion party… jelly and ice cream and pass the parcel. Head of the table – Mowbray ‘the cabbage patch doll’. Make sure your home by 10.
Back to the serious business. We should not be letting Eastwood go on the cheap. Ok he has not set the world alight at Wolves, as he was not given a run, but he impresses for Wales!
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Terry I forgot you had a class act playing up front for you last season … Luke Moore. That prolific he could not hit Hartson’s backside!£3.5 million well spent and to think the Vile will probably be using it to sign some quality like Sidwell. Mugs…!
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50 – yeah but can you imagine a wolves party – sour grapes and humble pie and a game of pass the blame…. what a blast.
i see post 48 has now been removed – so the moderators have finally twigged that you don’t spell twit with an A…. well done guys.
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I would bet my life on the fact he aint going nowhere… calm down…
Tie all the young guns to deals they want and will be happy with for a couple of years…
Cant wait for 9th August…
UP THE WOLVES AND CHILLAX FELLA’S… He aint leaving he loves this club!
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Let’s have a guess at what games will be played at tonight’s big “party”.
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Luke moore is better than eastwood and can actually score goals unlike the gypsy and some one tell why the dole office computer is so slow aye boing boing
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Just sell him for £1million and give it up as a bad lot. The sooner he is gone the better for all.
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Pin the tail on the donkey?
I’ll leave the rest of you to decide which one(s)
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54 –
1. pin the tail on (insert any wolves player’s name)
2. Blind mans bluff (or “the team sheet” as Mick calls it)
3. Hide and seek – or as kightly calls it – facing paul robinson.
hope that helps….
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Musical (empty) chairs?
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Well said, Adam (49)! In 1989-90, the year before Hayward took over, we were 10th in this division; in 1999-2000, the year before Moxey came, we were 6th; last season we were 7th .
We could do with a Laff !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Musical statues? (your defence as Torres, Rooney etc. dance through)
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Pass the parcel/buck
Peace to MOWBURY (terry) and back to Peace
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We were going to get a clown in – but apparently mick’s got a meeting with Kightly tonight.
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27… I think that speak sense, A proven goalscorer has to be given a chance, however an argument to this could be Nathan ‘Lazy Bones’ Ellington who scored for fun at Wigan before joining us then……say no more!
Good luck next season boys, would seriously like you guys to come up and us to stay up, then we can show these high spending Northerners/Southerners where to place to be is.
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The longer this goes on the more MM seems right. If he is that good why isn’t anyone snatching out hands off?
He obviously has a reputation – no smoke without fire etc
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We were also going to invite the wolves fans cos we heard you always supply the boos.
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We could play murder in the dark – be a change from murdering you on the pitch !
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Will bomber be serving the squash and ice cream and keeping Terry and Worcester from playing kiss chase with Happy?
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judging by the grammar and spelling there’s a good posibility Terryuglyboybaggie failed the audition for “Are you smarter than a 10 year old”.
He’s only a sandwell supporter because he probably wore his older brothers clothes.Baggie trousers etc;
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PP – This is a serious discussion forum, which attracts the opinion of some of the deepest thinking wolves fans on the planet. Please keep your unfunny ideas to youself.
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To Terrygolumboggie re 41- Do you really see being unemployed as something to brag about or was it a pathetic attempt at a witty comeback to 33?
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50.. Home by 10 , would that be so they sould polish the Championship Trophy
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Why don’t we just loan him out and see if he really is as good as people here claim? That way we can either do a Craddock and welcome him back or flog him for £2m+ as a successful goalscorer – hopefully to the Premiership. Everyone’s a winner!
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52) Could response for a change!
But Terry do you honestly think that Luke Moore is better than Eastwood. You have started early for your party and had too many e-numbers. A very poor signing and I am sure a lot of Albion fans agree with me deep down. Bednar deserves his chance for the goals last season. Luke Moore deserves and is nothing. A goalscoring prodigy in Vile reserves and lost his way!
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A few stats:
Eastwood
Average goals pr.game
Eastwood
Grays – 0,6
Southend – 0,4
Wolves – 0,3 (from the 10 games he has started)
Keogh
Scunthorpe – 0,2
Wolves – 0,2
Ebanks-Blake
Plymouth – 0,2
Wolves – 0,6
Elliott
Sunderland – 0,2
Wolves – 0,1
Stephen Ward
Bohemians – 0,2
Wolves – 0,06
Looking at new boy Vokes and target Lafferty the stats looks like this:
Sam Vokes
Bournemouth – 0,2
Kyle Lafferty
Burnley – 0,1
What is it that McCarthy can’t see?
Selling him for less than 1,5 would be nothing but a disaster and 1 mio is plain robbery considering that Elliott cost 1,1.
It would suit McCarthy if he admitted his mistake and gave Eastwood another chance.
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7 you lot should know a lot about empty seats, you have enough of them!
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Imagine the fashion at the party tonight. Albion you recollect were voted the worst dressed fans in the country. Wurzel Gummidge wore better clobber.
Terry will be there tonight with his 3 star jumper, bat winged collared shirt, side pockets and cornish pasty shoes. Smethwick’s finest. What an outfit!
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77 – NO THATS ME ACTUALLY.
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Eastwood is rubbish and should be sold for no less than the price on a new Caravan, the super deluxe 2000 with the onbaord toilet would be nice!
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51,rob, if tony mowbury say hes worth 3 million then id go along with him rather than listen to a part time championship dingle fan aye boing boing
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77,rob,but i will be there,yes i will at the promotion party aye boing boing
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68,POOp,if you saw worcester youd want to play kisschase with him, aye boing boing
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74 rob,but we want moore you dont want eastwood,lets wait n see shall we im sure mr mowbury is a better judge than you aye boing boing
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71 den, i dont explain myself or circumstances to anyone worry about your own life mate, aye boing boing
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id like to play leap frog im just abit worried gary cooper mite be there tho, ouch aye boing boing
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i cant find my after shave aye boing boing splash it all over
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80)Do you think Tony Mowbray is god…? One of the players you had to rely on to go up was Clement and Mowbray did a Craddock with him and realised he made a mistake. He will have to earn his stripes next season. It’s all well and good playing the attractive football with a sieve like defence but you are up against far superior opposition. Gera will be off and then like the Wolves he must make the right signings.
I will put my self in the firing line and say it is extremely unlikely that Moore can hit 10 in the Premiership. He is no better than any of our first choice strikers for starters.
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LUKE MOORE OR FREDDY EASTWOOD?
I really thought that Mowbray had made a big
mistake in the signing of Luke Moore,but after
watching him in his last few games,you could
see the quality in his movement,and he actually
looked like scoring,next season you dingles will
beable to watch MATCH OF THE DAY and see a class striker at work,cause there aint no way
J.PEACE would of spent 3M on a dud.
And as for EASTWOOD I told you at the start of
the season that he would not score more than
3 goals,and I was right.
And the reason he didnt score many goals is
due to the fact that your midfield is c***!,
thats why EBANKS-BLAKE scores so many goals,
because he can create for himself.
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87,rob,yes i do,clement was loaned out to get fit craddock was loaned out cuz in mick we trust said he wore good enuff,vast diffrence,as for moore and your so called strikers moore can actually play football,and just who are your first choice strikers, aye boing boing this shud be fun,
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77 aint that fashionable anymore??
Happy just stop it and go and get ready, i bet as a kid you used to pull the legs off daddy long legs??
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84 Terry- that’s probably for the best you don’t explain yourself, saves the emabarrasment eh. Also I have no worries but thank you for the suggestion.
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Proof Pudding Eating
To all the Southbank subversives who were chanting for Freddy every time we missed a chance it would appear that your golden cow is not worth much at all.
Considering he was “your” reason for us not going up, othe people don’t seem to hold the same view, apparently he’s only worth £1m and interest has been and gone.
Hopefully he will go somewhere and next season you can chant for players who are contributing, rather than those that aren’t/
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How can we pay £1.5M for Freddy, leave him to rot all season long and then expect to recoup every penny. For Freddy’s sake let him go for £1M and stop being so greedy! He could so easily have proved his worth and then some so it’s our own fault his valuation has dropped.
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I would let freddie go for one mil if they promise to take elliot and s.ward free.
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Make a note in your diary for the big
ALBION RELEGATION PARTY
coming your way this time next year,bring your hankies you bunch of tosers.
Question- What is the only good thing to come out of west bromwich?
Answer – The road to Wolverhampton
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Freddy is BETTER than Keogh
now i’ll just wait for an irrate Keogh fan to start giving me some poor reasons as to why i’m wrong…
this seems all that ever happens on Freddy stories comments now…oh dear
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Often wish I had HB’s time on my hands, I assume he actually goes on his own site? Anyway, Freddy and Mick is bad chemistry so one has to go and it aint goint ot be Mick. So let Jez do his job, he is a cool headed business man who knows the transfer game, he will wait and as club’s get a bit panicky towards the start of the season he will recover the 1.5Mill, knowing Jez he might even get a bit more. Everything working nice for us for a change, Ince going to take one more step nearer the hot seat. Just cannot wait for August and watching the Baggies get hammered week in, week out. I even began to feel sorry for Derby but I managed to pull myself together and enjoy their demise. Best of all for me last season was Bristol losing in the final, one season wonders Mr. McIndoe.
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terryPRETTYBOYbaggie
mate get a life, or is it the fact that the albion comments are boring you enough that you cant resist some interesting wolves chat… someone wants to come out the closet… don’t be shy terryPRETTYBOYbaggie
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I have a life but no job Jon thanks foer supporting meh aye boing boing
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leaving for a big club..lol
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Hey Prettboy (a contradiction straight away!)
Why don’t you get a job, learn to spell and learn something about football!! This time next year the Tesco bags will be back in the championship, will be looking for a new manager and you will be crying in to you iron brew…you muppet!!
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102 – even if that did happen – we would STILL be better than you….
You should enjoy next season without the usual embarrasment of having us come to your ground and humiliate you… we will leave that to Doncaster this year.
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Keep him mcarthy he just needs a good run for a couple of games and he will get ya the goals. This kid as soon as he scores 1 he will get confidence like how he was at the start of the season lat year. He went offish cause of mcarthy havin a go at him and not playing. Any player would lose confidence if something like that was said when he was scorin loads of goals. If u ask me the only man who should go is mcarthy.GET HIM OUT MORGAN!!!!!!
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id say to coventry give us fox and dann, dann and elliott ward or fox and elliott ward straight swap for freddy id be well chuffed with any of the above combinations for freddy id even throw in our elliott in for him or even swap d.ward for his brother elliott!!
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We should keep eastwood not go for lafferty but still get another striker. Eren derdiyok from fc basel would be a good signing. Come on mcarthy get players from out of england start scouting europe.
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also with mario mandzukic from dinamo zagreb that would be two good signings includin derdiyok.
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102,rainfield, in the net you go, aye boing boing
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Comment 105 – Wishfull thinking regarding Dann and Fox
MM ONLY wants players that can put in a “shift” not ones that have any talent as he cant manage those!!
Is Freddie being touted by the club for more money than we paid out for him??? Is that the reason why we are finding it hard to sell him???
Typical double standards if that’s the case! Not good enough for Wolves BUT pay us more than we paid out for him?
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You heard it here first!
There is now panic at the Molineux due to the lack of season ticket sales.
Well down on last season, and more like the last season after Glenda.
Rumour is that they will spin it by saying that they will now start promising to listen to the fans, while they carry on regardless anyway.
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Terry Baggie,
You are really sad!
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111,supper, how can i be sad im a baggie fan and weev just had a party,aye boing boing up the MOWBURY WAY
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103. Shut it you idiot, you didn’t humiliate us last season at all, you just think you did. Albion will always be in Wolves’ shadow, I’m sick of saying it now.
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113 – you should be sick of it – its pathetic.
How can any club in the prem be in the shadow of a mediocre championship club ??
Even ignoring the fact that we have whupped you 9 times out of 10 over the last few years, we have moved so far ahead of you that I can hardly see you now.
Now go away and cry like a sad little wulfie. Bow wow.
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113 unloyal, OH YES WE DID AYE BOING BOING
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The only thing bigger at your ground are your Mouths.
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horizontal reminded for kids Behind as proud places up across We need rewarding for a while, every I was
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117 – well said.
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117, DID YOW GUU TO THE SERME SKOOWL AS ME AYE BOING BOING
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Terry – We know who you support BUT Are you a pirate??? Aye ;-)
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