Albion boss Tony Mowbray has ordered his players to forget their Carling Cup upset at Hartlepool and refocus on their meeting with former manager Gary Megson.
The Baggies were among three Premier League teams humbled by lower league opposition, as they went down 3-1 in extra time at Victoria Park.
Mowbray has instructed his players not to dwell on the surprise defeat, as they begin preparing for a crucial trip to Megson’s Bolton in the league on Saturday.
He said: “That game is gone. It’s finished with and now we are looking forward to Bolton. A win would have been nice but we can’t dwell on these things.
“The Premier League is our bread and butter and I think we have started very well in that. We are looking forward to every game.”
Mowbray played down the importance of a win for momentum against Hartlepool, after two decent Premier League performances against Arsenal and Everton failed to yield any points.
He said: “Whether you are a media man or a supporter, you want to see results and points on the board.
“But as a manager it’s all about the performances for me. If we play as well as we have done we will win games. It’s just a cliche that winning becomes a habit in the same way losing does.
“If your performance level is poor each week you will lose a lot of games but if your performance level is high you will win your fair share.”
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DISGRACE !!!!!!! SAY NO MORE
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Agreed, you have started well 0 points from 2 games.
Long may you continue to do this well.
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if mowbray thinks ya started well in the prem god knows what the scores will be when u play bad
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More than happy to forget the match and the performance as long it’ NOT reciprocated in ‘Greed League’ games!
That WOULD really mean we are set for a VERY long hard season.
What’s needed is a result and the sooner the better.
Sadly unless there’s a vast improvement from the current strikers, OR the addition of a new as yet unknown signing, i reckon there are lots of ‘heartaches’ in store.
“Come on Baggies” prove me wrong!
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mowbary out
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TM if we keep turning dross like that out much longer, you will be signing on at the dole office !! Us fans dont deserve 2 watch that tripe week in week out, and pay good hard earnt money, couldnt say the players earnt theirs !! Sort it out and do it quickly !!
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Tee Hee
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Embarrasing!!!!!!!!
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Absolutly,these players need to get a grip,else we are going to struggle.£20,000+ a week good grief.It beggars belief.For gord sake sort it lads,give us something to shout about,after all you did go up as CHAMPIONS?.No takers when trying to sell the club,no points,no defence despite spending millions,no strikers,no shirt sponsers,what on earth is happening at WBA?
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where is terry????? In mowbray we trust
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I did predict the score but the e&s might not have liked putting my prediction on i think it cant get anyworse than it is now, you need to sign a striker who can move!!
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Whilst a cup run would have been nice, they’re just a distraction and we have to move on now and think about saturdays game. Time to show Megson how we are a better team now compared to when he managed us (allthough it was Megson who got us on the way up as you would all agree). Good look to hartlepool as they deserved the win. Time to move on now. Bring on the trotters =] BOING BOING!
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Disappointing but that’s football
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SAY NO MORE.
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gonna do a derby!
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“The Premier League is our bread and butter and I think we have started very well in that” VERY WELL hmm not to sure about that Mr Mowbray.
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dissapointing 4 the fans tht traveled tht far 2bh, but lets hope we will get a result at bolton satd , we need a striker not a midfielder (zheng zhi) we alredy hav players tht are alike 2 him !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dissapointing result last night, but as I said yesterday the season begins Saturday at the Reebok, these are the games where we need to be getting results, to take any points of the top 5 teams will be a bonus.
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Think everyone is panicing a bit. Calm down everyone.
We have been narrowly beaten by last years 3rd and 5th place finishing prem teams and played a cup team who were well up for it!!!! I am not too bothered about the cup. We need to get at least 7 points from out next 4 games. BOLTON, W.HAM, BORO, VILLA. These are the teams we need to judge ourselves against. If we get nothing from these games then I will worry then. I think we need a prove nstriker and not a Real Mallorca reserve striker. Heskey, Saha on loan or even Marlon Harewood
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on ceefax this morning mowbray said the dreaded sentence put a shift in
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If you can keep your head when all around you cannot youll be a man my son. Cometh the hour cometh the man,
or just do what all the fans know we need most, sign a proven goalscorer.
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Here’s an opportunity I thought - play the strongest team and really get a good score, raise morale and feel better about the 2 premier defeats. Instead, we got a mixed up team of players, some of whom probably won’t figure in this weekends fixture, so just what was the point?
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who else thinks its a good start to the season?
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Absolutley Awful!!!!
Let’s get it right on Saturday against Bolton..
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2&3.
Your lot did’nt exactly cover themselves
in glory last night! Did they?
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No good Mowbray saying we played well Saturday and if we play like that we’ll win some. Het into the real world scoring goals is a must as the defence is going to give goals away every match. Greenings square balls and slow play will not achieve anything.He must sign a good striker or two. Fancy letting a real goal scorer leave and paying 3m for a bed wetting donkey, he’ll never score from now until Xmas and by then it will be too late
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Disgrace is an understatement! Whoever decided to let Kevin Phillips leave over money will be having many sleepless nights. Its going to cost a lot more than his wages to find a player that can score goals consistently. Mowbray will probably go back to his 4-5-1 or 4-3-2-1 format giving us no chance of winning or even scoring.
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25. that’s as maybe but you lot keep telling us how great you are and how you play brilliant football.
never mind according to you Manager youve started the season really well.
i bet the prem league is realy scared now.
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already forgot ToMo,i see weem sold out agen for saturday eat ya heat out dingles aye boing boing
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I think Tony Mowbray has to get back to basics,
and just play a 4-4-2 against Bolton.
Our best player on the pitch was Luke Moore,he
and Miller could work well togehter.
I`d start with this 11.
carson/
zuiverloon/barnett/meite/robinson/
morrison/koren/greening/do-heon/
moore/miller.
zuiverloon/barnett/meite/robinson/
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TerrySOMBREBaggie. Sold of what? IDEAS
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YOU BOYS TOOK ONE HELL OF A BEATING
GOING DOWN THE MOWBURY WAY
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Spot on 13, their crowd was the 12 man as Mowbray stated on radio, tactically wrong again just like saturday were 2 strikers should have started the second half against a very poor Everton team that we should be aiming to get a draw from at least, and then there’s Luke Moore what a waste of 3 mill, one up front again then saturday hope Miller does’nt get injured or sent off, but i’m sure we will have more positives out of the game. LOL
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How do you think we will get a result over a Megson side?? His teams work hard and close players down and don’t give them time or space to play. There is no way he wants to lose to JPs club!!
Add to that, the fact we have no strikers and give goals away easily!!!
Sadly the result last night was an example of modern day football where the Prem is all and don’t tire yourselves for Saturday lads. Stuff the fans who travel hundreds of miles and pay loads to watch total rubbish.
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Cannot beleive the result for the players we fielded. Alarm bells are really starting to go off, it’s ok people saying don’t panick, we had a shoddy pre season, lost our first 2 games because our manager insists on playing a 4-5-1 and now an embarassing loss at Hartlepool!
I’m glad we’re out the cup as the league is so much more important when its the premiership you’re playin in but it’s still highly embarassin for us.
Come on Mowbray and the players, you can do better than this (I hope)!
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KIDDERMINSTER HARRIERS YOUTH V LYE TOWN YOUTH
AGGBOROUGH TONIGHT 7.30KO
COME ON THE LYE !
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Anyway Wolves fans, who did you lose to last night???
Oh yes Rotherham United, come back and take the p when you beat a half decent team!
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You’re better off out of this competition this season. Who wants to play matches where there is the chance of injuries to key players until you are established in this division. That is your priority this season. I’m sure there’s no need to panic as your performances barring last night, like ourselves, have been promising. Hope you get a win soon as confidence is so important. Good luck, Baggies.
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Didn’t we go through this last year when we got hammerd?
It’s the carling cup for god sake. Im happy we lost now we concentrate on prem.
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37. i must admit you lot are more consistent than us. you are on one hell of a consistent losing streak.
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I don,t think we will win many games if it was correct when W.M radio commentators say players hadn,t turned up.what a lousey attitude Albion players if thats correct.We have no divine right to be where you got playing grat football last season.You must know you have it in you,so come on!!!!
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Come on Baggie supporters get behind the team
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Mowbray has had all summer to sort this defence out and we look worse now then we did last season !! Has there been any work at all done in preseason??
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£40 quid to watch Luke Moore register another blank again, No thanks. Never mind; looks like another dull signing on the horizon. Spent over 20 million but still aint got a goal scorer. Just cant see where the first points are coming from.
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30. Andrew….Isn’t 4 4 2 4 cheating a little and I hadn’t realised that the Baggies were carrying out cloning experiments !!
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look at ya lads, a couple of defeats and a league cup exit and the majority of ya am bricking it. chill out and realise that we’ll come good eventually, i feel for the guys that travelled to Hartlepool but its all about the prem.
confidence guys thats all you need!!!!
boing boing
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It was embarrasing and I think we have to get something from Saturday now. Lack of goals is a big worry, he needs to pick his favourite front two and stick with them.
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Many Wulfies on here and even more Wulfies pretending to be Baggies.
Enjoy it while it lasts. We will get better results. We are adapting to the Prem while fielding a whole lot of new players. These players need time to bed in. Any Muppets who think TM has suddenly become a bad manager should wait a few games. This is a knee jerk reaction from some. Nice to see a more sensible approach from Bomber, Tony and Terry x2.
Keep the faith.
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ToMo says he is not worried,he bl–dy well should be!
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Yes, the gold and black boys were beaten by Rotherham last night, a team that are unbeaten this season. Are Hartlepool unbeaten this season, oh, thats right, they have lost 2 games this season ( and they are only 3 weeks into the start). Just a reminder that the Wolves are unbeaten in the league also.
I for one think TM is doing just a fine job, leave him to it.
Final Note:- i have K Phillips in my dream team and he’s racking up the points for me.
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37. I suppose we could say the same to you eh!!!
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Absolute rubbish, wrong tactics and no leadership from our captain.
The players should forfit their wages and refund the money to all the fans who travelled up last night.
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Message for Mowbray on saturday,
4-4-2 and have a go!
If we go there and play one up front were gonna get spanked.
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Just chill a bit evryones getting a bit worked up. We need 40 points to stay up and thers roughly 108 to play for.
Give Moore a chance in the team before slagging the kid off he’s got 10yrs to catch up with KP. I too believe we need a striker but phillips was not happy to sit on the bench….so you gotta let him go. Trejo from majorca if he came is a very good player. Forget the Saha’s, heskey etc we’re not good enough to attract them YET. More attainable targets from Championship or loan targets from prem are more realistic. Have faith
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37. Astle…..and you beat a half decent team ?
:-)
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TM’s 4-5-1 isn’t the same as B Robson used to play; I’m glad to see Albion dominating possession as they did on Saturday. Quality on the ball will tell; we just need Ish to turn into Cyril and one of the 5 to do what Bomber did. (Yeah I know - high expectations )Early, early days.
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Mogga knows what he is doing quality manager time will tell !?!
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Just how do you think the Bolton fans feel? They lost AT HOME to a 4th Division side. Meggo will be livid and they will be dangerous for 20 minutes or so while they try to please him. Ride that, turn the crowd and we could get something out of it. Meite will either play an absolute blinder or….Let’s hope hey?
Too early to despair yet and we DID play Everton off the pitch except for two clangers of dynamic proportions.
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Its going to be a long hard season i feel
selling KP has ripped the heart out of the team i feel over playing the ball is going to become a issue as the season progresses and JP leadership is increasingly being qeastioned
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Very poor, no excuses.
Once again this season, lack of fire power is highlighted.
To the brain-dead dingles who are on this page taking the P:
Your lack of intelligence and failure to grasp the nature of irony is breathtaking!!! Didn’t your team, the very same night, in the very same competition, also go out to lower league opposition? This after a warning in the last round when you had to have extra-time at Molineux to scrape past the mighty Accrington Stanley!!
Unbelievable! even for you lot!
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The other worrying thing about our loss of form is how are we going to convince good players to join us?
Our defense lacks concentration and continually leaks goals.
Our forwards are firing blanks (why on earth did Albion pay 3million for Moore and let Phillips go? Madness!)and our midfield is congested and lacks imagination.
I wish I could see the “positives” that TM is talking about.
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AussieB. Sorry to disagree with you mate, but there was no ‘loss of form’ against Everton, they hardly had a kick of the ball and their supporters were only heard once they cashed in on the two clangers we dropped. It isn’t easy to play against NINE defenders, (Ten with the goalie). We do lack a sharp edge up front though and that needs remedying quickly.
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Doesn’t anyone remember the FA Cup last year? Getting knocked out by a lower league side isn’t exactly a rarity these days. Back to the league, we’ve just lost by one goal to the 3rd and 5th placed teams from last year, not a spanking by relegation rivals so get a grip people! Everton have one of the best defences in the league so it was always going to be hard to score and you actually have to get the ball off Arsenal to score!
I’m getting deja vu with all these dogheads on here gloating…weren’t you doing the same this time last year? Look what happened then children.
Does make me smile though when they’re banging on about us losing to a lower league team when they got the same treatment! Oh and screemer, it doesn’t matter if Rotherham are unbeaten, you still lost to a League 1 team just like us! Jack*ss.
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why is everyone going on about phillips hes gone get over it, ToMo knows what hes doing weve only played 2 games for god sake agenst two established top 6 premier sides, it dont take the doom merchants long does it,as for phillips banging um in for blues so is earnshaw for forest so lets bring him back if anybody, at least he done the biz in the prem for us,summet phillips as never done,as for hartlepool we was never going to take that competition serious what prem club does,aye boing boing in the prem the MOWBURY WAY
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You have to say this is an insult to the intelligence of the fans. You pay good money to travel and see the team play and to be told we couldnt care less is poor form. No points from 2 games and barely a strike on goal, or a striker who can score for that matter to rub salt into the Baggies wounds. Not good
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Dont think us Wolfies are in much position to take the P as we couldnt score in 120 minutes against a league 2 side. Still, you could argue we didnt lose(the game).
I dont know why you Albion keep going on about all the poor travelling fans, there was only 379 of them. I’m sure your new boy valero could refund all of you with a weeks wages.How did he play by the way?
Just to note the mighty wolves travelling army was over 1000.(ok,its a little further to Hartlepool but I thought you were a big club now??)
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I still think ToMo is the best manager for years and i love him for what he,s trying to do.But still uproven in the BIG LEAGUE.He did well at Hibs,not much to play against except 2 games,Celtic,Rangers.But we don,t want to get left behind early on do we.Lets hope we can pick up some points over the next 2wks.I,ll be in Tenerife but we,ll be paying a fortune for a Enlish paper to see how the Baggies are getting on.
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A perfect time to play bolton on sat and if you dont get at least a point from the game the alarm bells should start ringing. They would be for me now Mowbray has backed his current strikers! None of them are premiership quality. Saturday is a massive game for you lot and wolves could go top results depending!
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Positives from the cup exit -
1. Bostin pies
2 fab showers
3 Great card school on the way home
BONG BONG COME ON DOWN!!
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68. laughingwulf. Like wulfs have got premiership class strikers? I think not!.
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embarassing
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68 - laughing wolf…..
you are right my friend, we need to beat bolton, although they will be coming off the back of an embarassment themselves, could be a good game, might even get more than 45seconds on match of the day……….or maybe not
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MOTD are terrible for the top 4! no.70 obviously the international set-up think we have premiership strikers sylvan ebanks blake has just been called up to the under 21’s and they have dropped luke moore for the last qualifier at wembley against portugal!!! Super tomo this and that when your winning now your going to struggle I hear moans about phillips etc…and you say wolves fans moan?!
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60. We lost on penalties, yes we we’re poor but we didn’t get hammered 3-1 by an equally lower division team, as for being brain dead well pot kettle black, enjoy watching yourselves lose week in week out Bolton 3 We’re Bottom Again 0
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Bad days all around for the midlands teams - as the song says “Things can only get better”
Terrymuppetbaggie - course all the tickets are sold for this w/e the albion are playing premier football - no doubt they would all be gone if it was a CCC match as well wouldn’t they ?
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Actually wolves1877, Rotherham are League 2 not League 1 like Hartlepool. Don’t worry I made the same mistake earlier. It seems you lost to an even lower team.
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il probs get slated 4 this but i hope albion do well nd stay up so we can play em again. gd luck 2 u baggies
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Forget the on field performances. Small Heath fans at Southampton = 500. Tesco fans at Hartlepool = 379. Its official. Small Heath had a bigger away following than Tesco’s. Now thats truly humiliating.
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lets get one thing off our chests once and for all kp chose to leave,HE CHOSE TO LEAVE,lets move on to more pressing things some people are starting to get themselves into a bit of a tizz after so few games. Weve added to the squad which will come good,dont forget we are in the best league ln the world and results in our favour will be hard to come by.WE hit the wood work afew times hpool the other night,if those chances had gone in half these comments would not re here…THE CLUB IS IN SAFE HADS WITH JP&MOGGA,YOUVE SEEN THE LIGHT NOW KEEP THE FAITH…
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ROBBO JUST SIGNED ANEW DEAL
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76. If you read my post AJ i said equally lower team you’re two divisions higher than Hartlepool and Wolves are two divisions higher than Rotherham, and as I said we lost on pens, we didn’t get hammered in open play like you did so I hope that makes it a little clearer for you.
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Wolves1877
Fair enough. But I wouldn’t say we got hammered, the scoreline doesn’t do the game justice, trust me I was there.
We hit the woodwork 5 times in total. True, you don’t go through to the next round or gain points by hitting the frame of the goal but it reminds me of Norwich a few years ago when we played them off the park, hit the woodwrok 7 times and lost 1-0.
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dingles took 19 o roherham were u gettin these figures from
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82. AJ that’s football for you fella the amount of times we’ve both seen our repesticve clubs play teams off the park only to see the other team have 2/3 chances and score all of them, like when we lost 6-0 to southampton a fair score would have been 6-6. People only look at the scoreline though and it’s goals that count no matter how well you’ve played or how badly.
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78,darlo dingle, but small heath and dingletown aint got an away premier league game on saturday aye boing boing
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74:
Hammered? We drew the 90 mins 1-1 (like yourselves 0-0) and hit the woodwork several times but no-one on heres claiming we were unlucky… we were poor, end of.
However, if the extent of your ambitions is being happy going out of the Carling cup to a team 2 divs lower than you, because you at least took them to penalties, then fair enough!!
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Why Mowbray played half the first team i don’t no,this is the one cup we had a chance of winning,Iwatched the highlights,if that lot are squad players then we have no chance of staying up.I have backed mowbury all the way but playing pretty football will not save us from going down, only sticking the ball in the net will do that.On Saturday it will be big boot against pretty football, MEGSONS ugly football against MOWBURYS pretty football lets see who comes out the winner
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86. Did you lose 3-1 yes you did you were poor and got hammered fact. Wolves too were poor and deserved to go out on penalties fact
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86. No i’m not happy about going out to a team two divs below us, no doubts you ain’t either but i couldn’t care less about the cups this year (unless we get you in the FA cup)as i want Wolves to go for auto promotion and that has got to be the main aim just as you lot will forsake cup runs to stay up, correct me if i’m wrong
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Hartlepool are quite a team and scoring two goals has put to rest the theory that Albion will not score many this season. The future is bright the mowbray way.
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FOR GOODNESS SAKE LADS-CALM DOWN.WE DID HIT THE WOODWORK 5 TIMES ,PLAYED OK AND I PROMISE YOU ONE THING—LUKE MOORE WILL SCORE 10 OR MORE PREM GOALS BEFORE JAN 2009.IN T.M WE DO TRUST.I AINT KIDDING ABOUT LUKE,HE WILL BE FULLY FIT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2 YEARS AND COINCIDENTALLY WILL BE ABOUT THE TIME WE PLAY VILLA.IF I,M NOT CORRECT THEN PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME AFTER THE VILLA GAME-BUT NOT BEFORE.KEEP THE FAITH-PLEASE!
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Fancy a wager on that Bob Lowe. I’ll have 50 quid that he doesnt score 10 prem goals b4 january 09.
If you want I’m prepared to wage more.
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As i said pretty football against ugly football and it turned out to be a o-o draw, witch proves if you don’t put the ball in the net no one wins doesn’t matter how you play
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