Albion manager Tony Mowbray is warning Premier League rivals his team are ready to shock them.
The Baggies boss, who is refusing to set his sights merely on survival, is adamant his side can compete with the vast majority of Premier League opponents.
He said: “I can go on about bravado or about finishing 17th but football is about the ball, the grass and the players and we have nothing to fear.
“We go into the league looking forward to it and we’ll enjoy it. We have good players who have shown that when we have the ball then we can compete with most teams.
“I don’t want to harp on about it but Portsmouth finished eighth or ninth and for more than an hour in the FA Cup semi-final you wouldn’t have thought Portsmouth were better than us.
“Why should we fear anything? Yes, when we play Arsenal, Man United, Liverpool and Chelsea then, yes, on those days we will find out what the Premier League is all about.
“But I would suggest they are not typical days in the Premier League. There will be 30 games where we have just as good a chance as the opposition.
“Our aim this season is to be competitive. I want the team to show their true qualities.
“I do hope and believe that we can compete in the league. We will have good days and not-so-good days and we will see how it goes.
“I don’t want to say we’re aiming for 17th because that sets you off on a negative footing. You expect to lose a lot of games if you finish 17th.”
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If this guy was a woman id be down on my knees proposing. You,ve got to love what this guy talks about. personally i cant wait to get started, lovin it bagggggiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssss
“Football is about the ball, the grass and the players”
I’m havin that on a tee-shirt !!
i agree with that, you will shock them with how bad you are defensively and without your 2 best players, I won’t be shocked thoiugh ill be enjoying watching the wolves at the golden palace getting promoted and look forward to the last game on match of the day and you getting beat heavily!
Rock on Tone! you tell’em
the game against pompey you kept possesion but apart from hitting the bar once didnt even threaten and your 2 best players have now lost, pompey also didnt have their full side out, cup tied, suspended, injured and they won without even trying
Tony Mobray just get’s better and better.
told ya day i, i cant wait top 4 finish for us,i wonder who we will be playin at wembley this year aye boing boing europe the MOWBURY WAY
I will keep my predictions under wraps until i know what the squad looks like by mid August.
I really thought we would have witnessed more in bound signings than we have at this time, i know everyone keeps saying it is still early and nobody is doing a lot of business yet, but hey, pre season has started.
Peace, pull your finger out, Mowbray gave you his list of targets over a month ago!!
Albion will surely shock their rivals alright. Shockingly poor. LOL. Let the goals flood in to that old blokes net! Will they beat the Derby tally?
Well said ToMo.
Bring ‘em on!
good attitude mowbray lets perform an shut them idiots up in wolverhampton wen were still in the premier league and they finish mid table
LoffingWilf
Did you copy and paste that article from a post you put on here this time last year (excluding the match of the day bit)
going down.that’s all.
7. Nice One Terry.
But,surely we’ll be playing on the moon before you lot are a settled TopFour team.
Ya not serious about another Wembley defeat surely!!!
Good Luck in Premier mate.
2. Happy - I want one of those aswell, start the trend!!!
with the loss of gera and phillips and our gain of vokes, jones and stearman I actually think we are a better side than you currently. Tony I didn’t copy it mate cause you hadn’t played pompey this time last year?! numpty. Do you baggies think you will beat derbys points total? come on lets hear some predictions?
13. Dont be so negative, I know youre struggling to sign anybody of any ability, and youve little faith in the manager, but I dont think you’ll get relegated, but niether will you make the playoffs
Happy_braggie said;
“I love the baggies - but even i admit in the premier league disco we are a bit of a five pinter.”
I’m havin that on a tee-shirt !!
baggies will finish rock BOTTOM! and i for one cant wait. we’ll be taking 6 points off you tesco bags!
Mowbray’s been there and done it. He knows what winning in the prem is all about. We all know we need some quality additions, we’ll be fine. I’m predicting 12th.
Cheap words! players leaving for the Championship and no replacements Hmmmmmmmmmmmm!
The ghost of 4-5-1 with Campbell upfront has just been laid to rest.
Premier League Fear Factor football is just a distant memory.
With Mowbrays attitude were going to have a right go at it. Time will tell if we are good enough to compete week in, week out but aslong as the side play the right way I believe we will be more than ok.
Any bets for a UEFA place.. or am I really dreaming !!!???
TO 5. LAUGHING WOLF
Portsmouth won without even trying?
I presume you don’t mean the FA cup semi final Portsmouth game at Wembley, that Albion dominated, apart from the Portsmouth goal that was handball. I’ll be looking forward to seeing Wolves on match of the day. Oh no wait, you’re still in the championship aren’t you? Enjoy Swansea away.
Loffin
If you job as an investment analyst is in danger,
due to the current economic crisis, you could make a good living as a human anesthetic.
It’s true we appeared to match Portsmouth, but as some Wolves “fans” have pointed out we didn’t hurt them too much for all our posession. Trying to be postive, but 17th would still be a massive acheivement in the real world.
Well my orange mates, you would love to have the chance to battle against he elite in the prem. Lets face it though, that is not going to happen anytime soon. Enjoy losing to Swansea, Barnsley and now the Blues have signed Phillips you can kiss those 6 points goodbye as well. Sad Orange losers
Hi folks I’m a long time reader, first time contributer. re 13: Yes, you probably will! 3 & 5 Laughing stock, I’m a big supporter of care in the community and thats just what you neeed if you really believe your own deluded drivel! In ToMo we trust!
Wolves fans - Do you wish you had Mowbray as manager, rather than Mccarthy? No brainer!
Happy Baggie
X Large???
and when you order it get me one with the slogan “Im yours for the porn kings shilling”
Terry wants one that says “No steps im drinking”
Terry Wills wants one with “Drinks are on Bomber,literally”
laughingwolf
Im glad you are awake for the last game on match of the day, i usually sit down after a few beers looking forward to watching Lineker and Hansen disecting some of the best football in the world.
I watch the first game, then…….ddddddd der derrddder, i awake to find i have slept like a baby right upto the time the bloody music comes on.
Why is it the music always wakes you up???
Bomber, I would suggest (I love that phrase lol) that not many teams that won promotion to the Prem had secured a lot of their targets by mid July. These things take time.
Patience my fellow Premiership Baggies, signings are on the horizon…
Oh, and as for our bitter friends from Staffordshire, I am looking forward to watching your “highlights” on The Championship on Sunday mornings!! No doubt one of those highlights will be Super Kev finding the Molineux net once again.
any one can talk the talk we shall see WOLVES FOR EVER
anyonecan talk the talk we shall see WOLVES FOREVER
warns premier rivals …DONT MAKE ME LAUGH.. crap manager but he’s a good comedian
You have to laugh at the dingle doghead fans who always come on here, shouting their mouths off about how rubbish we are, how we are gonna get relegated with less than 10 points etc etc, it does make me smile… How pathetic their lives must be, Lets be honest dingles… Your support a dour team of hoofers, you lot turn and boo your players and manager if your not winning after 25 mins, Youve had 1 year of prem football in the last how many years? 19 - 20? you lot have bugger all to shout about, i cant think of more than 2 players in your entire club that would get into our team. hennesey yes maybe, kightly on the bench, if that, Your a poxy club with no hope, miserable fans, crap players and an eejit of a manager..
Now you have to look up yet again at the mighty albion playing in a league you lot only dream of.. your going no where again this year so get your signs out “Youve let us down again” or maybe the “save the wolves” buckets i used to see around wolverhampton in the 80s, begging for money in buckets lol hahaha oh hahaha oh god, what a club, what fans… what idiots..
Close your green envious eyes and consentrate on your own tripe.. The Albion are moving forward and getting further away from you each year in quality, financially, well everything really so bye bye dingles bye bye… Your nothing to us, not even a rival really, but im glad your lifes are do dull with no hope for any glory that you just have to go on and on about the albion hahaha pathetic!!
Boing Boing Premier League
Now he’s warned them, it won’t be a shock will it?
Do think he’s got a good attitude though.
Prediction time then Loffingfilth -
WBA - 15th
Wolves - 8th
5pinter - still better being found attractive after 5 pints than not being invited to the DISCO!
To people who actually make sense, does anyone think that if Mogga tried it, he actually would walk on water?! What a bloke?! Keep football simple and play to your strengths.
35 haha, yes we got idiot fans, but think you’ve just highlighted that you have some too. Thought you might be able to get that chip off your shoulder, seen as your team are on the up, but evidently not.
Oh and it’s 1 in 24 years.
9. Spoken like a true monkey!!!
21. Left for chumpionship cause we’re goin to the next level!!!
Goodbye sorry sorry dingles…… love it…
Remember guys when Robson sent an under strength team to Chelsea?? I was fuming, imagine the message it sent out to the players!!??
The manager has so much faith in this crop of players it will reap rewards!!!
Didn think football was that difficult to work out. your fans really do have a lot too look forward too if its that simple lol
lookin 4ward to seen you pikees gettin thrashed week in week out he he he
boing bog bog pikees
oh you fellow PIKEES
cant wait to see you lot gettin thrashed week in week out lol he he
boing bog bog PIKEES lol
I for one hope that ToMo is correct. I would like to think that the Baggies can stay in the Prem and Wolves can join them. Both clubs are big enough to be in the top league.
35 - made my day. Well said mate.
Its good to hear positive vibes, even on players we have lost ToMo has managed to put a brave face on it and wish them well. There are 10 very average sides in the premiership and only the top 4 teams are really above that average. it will be a pleasure to see us go at it rather than the pathetic surrender of the last effort.
1 THING 2 SAY 2 ALL DINGLES….
ALBION = PREMIERSHIP
DINGLES = CHAMPIONSHIP
(NOW GET OVER IT AND STOP BEING SO JEALOUS!!!)
BOING BOING!!!!(LEAVING THE JEALOUS DINGLES BEHIND…AGAIN!!!!!)
PS…NO.16..laughingwolf—YOUR TEAMS BETTER THEN OURS??????HAHAHAHAHAHAHA THAT WAS A GOOD 1!!KEEP DREAMING!!
24 wba I deal with the global economy not just britain. My prediction is albion 20th wolves 2nd. fa cup 3rd round albion 0-2 wolves. to those albion fans saying no wolves players would get into the albion side kightly (rm) ebanks blake (fw) hennessey (gk) craddock (cb) although old he is still bettter than clem or hold on have you got any other centre halves? leaving the sinking ship the phillips, gera and alby way!
35. financially? hence why you have no shirt sponsor, you cant get 6 figures even though your in the premier league, your chairman has the club up for sale, you had to give away 3000 tickets to schools, you are reducing the capacity by 800 seats your 3 best players have left because you couldnt offer them the money they deserved along with the list the year before and you a minimum transfer budget? We know wolves always have been and always will be bigger and better club with a better stadium bigger support and ina years time playing in a better league!
Wolventino - what are you going on about?
‘Fellow PIKEES’
‘Boing bog bog PIKEES lol’
It may be that I have missed out on something, as I am as Adam said yesterday a schoolboy, at the age of 25, but this does not constitute a sentence, or even words……do you need the toilet?
Bomber - I’m a svelte large actually….
I’m ordering laughed at wolf one with “Fatty Robinson failed a medical” on it…
I will also get Jez Moxey one (xxxxxxl) with “Please buy a ticket” on it.
Oh and one for MM saying “I like em young and hungry” !!
re: 40 & 41 Wolventino: I’m sure you are indeed looking forward to watching us every week! The Baggies brand of beautiful football does far surpass the “putting a shift in” drivel you’re used to being fed at the custard bowl. As for getting thrashed week in week out you can keep your Max Mosely fantasies to yourself! Don’t know if ToMo can walk on water, but he can certainly walk on custard! In ToMo we trust.
wolventino
You are a genius, as much as we value your intellectual contribution on these pages we all feel it better if you were maybe in your lab producing a cure for cancer!!
35.
For someone who doesnt care about the Wolves, you just spent an awful long time writing about us.
All that hatred isnt good mate. You having problems at home??
Boing Boing
Won the championship, semi finals of the cup already spent 10 million and going to spend more, and wolves try to claim they are now better than us becuase they have signed some lower league players and three players who all only started in some of our games, the best one of whom is near to a career ending injury have gone! You wouldn’t credit it if you hadn’t read it with your own eyes. I’m copying this page down and I intend to post it later this season. I haven’t laughed so much at such unevidenced arrogance in years. Especially laughingwolf. Its my turn to look forward to the laugh…
oh my god the rest of the prem must be scared.
he actualy contradicts himself by sprouting crap and then saying football is played with a ball and grass and players.
my god i see why you worship him couldnt have worked that out without him telling us.
i word “DOOMED”
Why do you even bother replying to that loffin at wolf just ignore his rather boring and non football related post. I am sure once he is ignored long enough he will crawl back under his rock.
35.
I was going to reply to some of the green eye brigade but you’ve said it all. What a splendid effort. Fantastic.
9.
Are you a monkey or are you a man. We should be told.
35; Calm down lad, you’ll make yourself poorly.
47 LW.
Are you Fred Elliot, I say are you Fred Elliot. You seem to suffer from an illness that causes you to repeat everything over and over again. This wouldn’t be so tiresome if any of it were true. Saying it won’t make it so, no matter how many times you repeat yourself. Try thinking up something original to say about us or, and this could be really revolutionary, write something positive about your own team. Ah, I see your problem. Carry on repeating.
Sorry, i’m still laughing at our resident thicko and his global economy comment…..
55 - hello jester boy….. whats an “i” word ??
Oh no, laughed at wolf and jester boy on the same page - my screen is getting dimmer as we speak….
mowbray has to buy some players now and peace has to get his money out nevermind making all these statements ive been a season ticket holder for 20 years and i am really concerned how things are going this summer we dont have any centre halves at the club apart from barnett and clement pele and martis we have to sort things out now we need quality
55 Michael.
Shouldn’t that i word be ii words ‘jest doomed.’ I won’t even try to analyse where the ’sprouting crap’ comes from. You are a very strange person.
Meanwhile our mighty neighbours are organising the celebrations to commemorate the 20th anniversary of their last major achievement. Winning the Sherpa Van Trophy. I’m just sooooooooooooooooooooo jealous.
PS They’re having trouble locating two of the players. I’d suggest they’re in hiding out of embarrassment.
Happy
I think 35 should get “I hate Wolves, but I don’t care about them”. Contradiction maybe.
Jester boy - i word “DUMBED” !
Bully
I think our former object of ridicule, old micky boy, is trying for another shot at the title, he has been completely usurped in the banality stakes by the laughing one.
“I deal with the global economy” OMG for the sake of his investors, if his knowledge of the economy rivals that of his football, the will all be in the poor house.
46,47 - Shadrag, we’re ALL bored now.
7 Do you know who your manager is?
If so try to spell it correctly…
The Premier League don’t even know you have been promoted yet…they don’t care you are just a team passing through.
Said it on here a few times since we won promotion, and i still insist this team is gonna stay up - yes it may at times be a struggle but ultimately i think somewhere between 10th (at a push!) and 15th will be where we finish up. Have total faith in TM, best manager at Albion i can ever remember!!
Stop taking the michael out of errmm michael, laughing wolf i ignore, but michael always manages to brighten my day, jest leave him alone.
The comments on here today are born out of frustration on both sides of the fence, come everyone love thy neighbour!!
Although saying that my neighbour looks like a bulldog chewing on a wasp with a limp, mind you that limp will slow her down!!!
47.
Sold for a £10
Club loses millions year on year
You’d be bankrupt without 2 sugar daddies
Fleeced Sir Jack of £40million and still lagging behind Baggies progress
Only ever been promoted to prem once and that was via the playoffs.
Came bottom of Prem.
You play boring football.
Outsiders for promotion next year, promotion unlikely
14000 Season tickets , LOL, and prob less next time (Big club , LOL)
Beaten by the Baggies in 10 of last 17 meetings
Won only 2 of those 17.
You have Chaucer as a sponsor, LOL
You have Moxey as a CEO, LOL
You have McCarthy as a manager, LOL.
You’re owned by a Liverpool fan, LOL.
Sir Tony Midas Mowbray we love you. Again you speak truth and common sense, you should be Prime minister.
Just to point out to Wolves fans ( as simple as possible) that it makes no difference how many points you get in the league, it is where you finish in relation to the other teams.
So Derby got 11 points and finished bottom last season.
2003-2004 season Wolves got 33 points and finished bottom.
Without kicking a ball and with no points Albion are already 18th in the Premier league.
Wolves are 24th bottom of the Championship.
IT’S BOSTIN BEING A BAGGIE !!!
37. so walking on water makes sense then.
Happy do you actually have a life your on here all day every day.
and because you obviously never press the wrong key on your keyboard it was meant to be a 1.
mind you spending that much time using your keyboard and obviously having all the time in the world to check you’ve typed everything in right its no wonder you never type anything in wrong.
Get a life away from your keyboard(sad man)
56. why are hes posts not football related?
oh yes because they are about Sandwell town.
59. i seem to recall that most of what Laughingwolf as written is actually true.
you don’t have a shirt sponsor.
your best players are leaving.
you couldn’t sell enough tickets.
all this came from your chairman and the club.
so how is LW making it up.
35, you are totally deluded! You have a tight chairman and you’ve signed Moore, a real potent threat upfront lol and Bednar will be out of his depth. You couldn’t even sign a ex rochdale reject! And you have lost your best players who intrestingly bail after you get promoted. Enjoy your last slot on match of the day because it won’t last. You even thought you enticed a billionaire, thats the biggest laugh of them all. And when you get relegated due to a very prudent chairmen, you’ll be fighting to keep hold of Mowbray who will probably leave and join a club who is ambitious and well established in the prem. If i was you, i wouldn’t be so cocky until you’ve achieved something because the hard work starts now for you lot.
mowbray will get the sack come end of season i just wonder what you lot will have to say.
Oh laughing wolf do stop my side’s hurting I’m laughing that much. I’m not sure you even know what the word financial means!!
Just change your name to laughing stock, just like your team!!
has the song goes help wolves need somebody yeah tony mowbary we love you yeah yeah
Bet the premier league is scared stiff!!!
19. Villamidkings. Wonder where you’ll finish now Melberg and Barry have gone!! I can feel the win at Villa Park already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
premier league check list
1, a footballing team from the black country-check
2, strong fan base from staffordshire - check
3, a team who plays in gold & black - check
GOOD LUCK TO THE BAGGIES,STOKE AND HULL FOR THE COMING SEASON,DINGLES YOU CAN ALL DREAM ON.
Bottom that’s where you’ll finish!! At least we’re guaranteed 6 points off you which should see us finish just above you!!!!
Who on god’s earth does this mumbling fool think he is????? Even Kevin Phillips thought you weren’t up to the challenge, so left for a bigger club!
As a club you really do have delusions of grandeur! We ain’t no big club, we don’t have an illusrious history, we’re just here to enjoy the ride! And enjoy it we will!!!! So pull youselves out of your own backsides and get a grip!
YOU’LL NEVER BEAT THE POTTERS!
82. Every team has a bogey. You are ours. I suspect though there will be 16 bogey teams for you to play in the Prem. Last September/October, your lot were calling for your manager’s head because you were losing at home and playing boring football. Now all is forgiven, BUT FRAGILE mate. If he doesn’t do well early on, you’ll be after his blood again just like Derby did with poor old Davies. He was sacked for promotion with a poor team, not knighted for achieving the impossible!
It makes me laugh when i see Wolves fans come on here and have a go at the Baggies.
Whichever way you cut it Wolves would much prefer to be playing in the prem rather than the Championship. And as for the financial argument - well there isn’t one - 60+M ovewr the next 3 years, including balloon payments, compared to what exactly??????
I would suggest Wolves fans channel there energies into their own club and the shortfalls there - Craddock as cente half LOL - rather than try and deflect their issues towards us.
Oh yes - I have got my ticket to the emirates -sorry guys who are you playing on the first day of the season?????
7 Terry.
That’s it. Enough’s enough. You are now banned from using that bait. Can’t believe you’re still reeling them in with it after all this time. You’ve won the WBAAA angling championship for the umpteenth year running. Now leave it. LOL.
MIGHTY POTTERS - Correct! You are not a big club and you don`t have an illustrious history, infact you have no history at all. You`ve just scraped promotion with an average gate of 14,000. God help you next season your long ball, ugly, timewasting, long throw in style has no place in football. Now run along and keep out the black country business.
looks like i hit a sore point with the comedians…LMAO
match of the day atleast we wil be on it hahahaha
86. Well said Micky Wolf. Bit unusal to agree with a wolves fan. Stoke are a crap club with no fans.
Great stuff Baggies and Wolves fans. Very entertaining.
Stoke and Villa? Oh dear.
71.and the council own the ground,so mollypoo is a parks picth….