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Palace 0 Wolves 2 – report
Saturday 23rd February 2008, 7:00PM GMT.
Crystal Palace 0 Wolves 2
Wolves kept their promotion dream alive with a crucial win at Selhurst Park.
A superb Michael Gray goal on 76 minutes lifted a drab encounter before substitute Kevin Kyle wrapped up the points with a minute remaining.
Gray’s outstanding curling shot was a bolt out of the blue in a game of few chances but there will be few of a gold and black persuasion complaining about the performance as Wolves close the gap between them and the play-offs.
Boss Mick McCarthy had opted to strengthen the spine of his side by playing 4-5-1 from the start and it paid off with a resolute defensive effort for the first three quarters of the game.
And when Gray cut in from the left after Darren Potter’s strike had cannoned off a Palace defender and lifted the ball over Speroni it gave Wolves a crucial break through.
Up to that point Wolves had looked unlikely to make a break through with only Elliott’s long range shot which was tipped over by Speroni and Jody Craddock’s header from the resulting corner to show for their efforts.
But Palace had hardly threatened either and apart from a few half chances they rarely troubled Wayne Hennessey in the Wolves goal.
After Gray’s strike The Eagles mounted a brief counter attack but it was Wolves who got the decisive goal when Collin’s through ball was latched onto by substitute Kevin Kyle and he turned and shot past Speroni.
Wolves stood firm at the end and apart from an injury to Hennessey which saw him taken off after being barged in the box.
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Come on you Wolves…..don’t stop believing!!!
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Back in business !!! hopefully confidence is back and good to see Kyle get his first goal
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Not a team selection I thought would reap dividends but an excellent win. Be nice to think this could lead to a change of fortunes but Wolves fans know not to get too encouraged by one result. But as ever we live in hope.
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good game well done
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Great result, hope Wayne is OK.
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Excellent result. Well done Mick and the team. We never doubted you.
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Great result. Please repeat for the next 13 games lads!
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Kuqi on the transfer list. Yes please, I think he would be a good target man for us.
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Well done MM and the lads – confidence is everything so lets build on this – Potter assist for Gray and Collins assist for Kyle – anything is possible!
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.. it was a good win, but premiership hopes alive, way toooo many pies and pints to say that. We still have a terrible team, unreliable and uncertain.
If we pull our belts in and realise we will be in the championship league next season we will allow ourself a certain amount of satisfaction. This year moving up isn’t going to happen.
Always great to win, but we have already won a few this season only to find MM lose his way for the next game.
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great game more of the same for the rest of the season
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Best goal I’ve seen this season. ‘Superb’ sum it up precisely and for me as good as Ronaldo’s a couple of weeks ago. Kyles effort wasn’t bad either a classic counter attack which can often be easier to miss than score but he took it well. Hope Hennessy’s not too bad took a real clattering but didn’t wimp about it like their goalie Speroni just like my old gran.
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Hoorar.. finally Kyle is off the mark..
After missing soo many clear cut chances he finally manages to score a goal.. and a pretty decent sounding one. well done.. now lets see some more of the same please :)
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This was the first time all of Micks signings and Craddock and Breen have come together and we win. Not very pretty as someone said earlier this week but we won.
Maybe this is yet another false dawn but we are very hard to score against when C and B are about and now we do have players who worry defenders and who know where the goal is. we are also pretty er forceful when competing for the ball. Several Palce players will be nursing bruises this evening.
What a day. better not get carriued away but it just might be that mick has a team that can push up the league.
Roll on Colchester. great little town and several very pleasant pubs….See you there
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What? No Baggie fans on here crowing?
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Don’t know about anyone else, but Wolves won, Baggies lost and the missus is going out for the day……..should be a very nice Sunday.
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I went. A very very poor match, but we ground at the win, we deserved and have at least given ourselves something to start building from [again]. The combination of Craddock & Breen looks more than good enough for this league, fingers crossed that they can last till the end of an extended season. Interesting to see how patient Palace fans are compared to us at home. If we had set-up and played like that [they looked like they were playing away] the booing and abuse would have kicked in within 15 mins. However the Palace, aside of frustration with Kuqi, are accepting that this is work in progress. We need to adjust otherwise I have a nasty feeling that next season Palace will be competing fo promotion while we are playing out another typical Wolves campaign.
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this does not change anything.looking beyond the score,more weird team selections players and positions.a boring/negative performance and two great strikes does not mean we can suddenly score goals.potter,kyle,elliot,collins,breen,gray still not good enough for this division never mind the prem.performance no better than lots of games we lost.mm and moxey must go,this just delays things!
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easwood 4eva!!
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Not bad’ not bad at all a very much improved performance and a confidence boost not only for the manager, players,but the fans also. what a difference a win does for moral,lets all unite for the club until the end of the season we need to give them 100% backing, then we can reflect on what might be or what could have been.
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good win down there. but still need to be more dangerous attacking. thought gray and elokobi were superb down the left. when jarvis fit worth considering playing him down the right while kightly out. up the wolves!
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C’mon you Wolves! Nice results. Just hoping MM
plays the winning team unless injuries permits.
Cheers!
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Why complain about the selection. Against palace whose attack is pretty good, it was sensible to pack the midfireld. We still had better chances than them. It was going to be an ugly game and Micks selection meant that we were prepared for it. Give credit when it’s due. MICK GOT IT RIGHT
PS Nathan Blogger….get prepared to eat your words…
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Baggies fan, not on here crowing, not much to crow about today. Nice to see the genuine fans on here, all the idiots are over on our site spouting the usual hate filled rubbish. Good day for you, let’s hope for more for both of us and for West Midlands football.
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Fans from both my teams (Wolves in football and the Montreal Canadiens in ice hockey) are the same: the team loses one game and everybody wants to sack the coach. They win the next game and everyone unites behind him…
I guess that’s called “passionate fans”, not a bad thing I suppose.
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good result in a dull match,it had 0-0 written all over it before Gray’s wonder strike, still I will take the points and pray that it continues at Colchester next week.Come on you Wolves !!!!!!!!!
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That game as paul franks and the w.m. team said before michael gray scored his long range screamer was one of the worst games they,ve ever seen? Okay, fair play it was a good result but how come neil collins comes straight back into the team? we once again play no natural wingers? before anyone moans! what about Elliott bennett? on loan and being treated just like dan jones,mark little,mark davies, and steven gleeson? I cant believe that steven gleeson has been sent to hereford? Your trying to tell me that Karl Henry? Darren Potter? have more of a chance of playing in the premier league than him? one lucky result does not change the season around in my opinion, We are not going to improve long term with this joke in charge, and most wolves fans must agree? For gods sake we have seven strikers at the club and we are the worst scorers in the league? And before any mccarthy lover, reponds i have been watching wolves since 1986, and this is the most down ive ever felt!
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Th result was positive but from now till the end of the season we need to grind results out just to get some confidence back, still think we have thrown the season away a long time ago and unless we do as per previous sentence then we’ll stay mid table
Is this not what Stoke have been doing for a while now? Look where they are, but then their players play in their own positions and to their strengths so not worth dreaming too highly
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I hate to say this, and it might sound bizarre, but this is the worst possible result we could have hoped for. A reprieve for McCarthy is not what we needed. Two goals scored by his old Sunderland mates gives him temporary justification for his ridiculous team selections over the last few months. I still believe that last season was an aberration, he bought players and they played a brand of football that wasn’t planned. This season we are seeing the brand of football that MM wants to see. Any reprieve for Mick McCarthy is a delay in our great club’s progress. I keep asking myself why I can be disappointed with Wolves winning, I hope I have explained why.
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14. Roll on Colchester. great little town and several very pleasant pubs… See you there
You must be joking lol…
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where are the Nitwits now???
Kiwiwolffffffffff
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Went to the match, poor poor match, BUT credit where credit is due, wolves dug out a win and at least there is some fight yesterday!!
So well done wolves.
ps
Still want MM OUT LOL!
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I want to believe mick, that this is the turnaround we have all been praying for.
You did so much good work last season bailing out a sinkinng ship (thanks hoddle), i want wolves to work for you and you to work for wolves.
But please offload TC he doesnt exactly have a good track-record at wolves.
At least you have chosen not to bear with ward at the back, turning to the trusted ‘war-horses’ of craddock and breen, who can never be accused of giving less than 100%
‘One swallow doesnt make a summer’ however a result over mr warnock away deserves alot of credit.
YET … if we lose either breen or craddock and dont get support in on loan we are resigned to mid-table.
Best of luck MM and the lads, give us something this season and save your job then we can ick on next season.
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one sunny day does not make a summer.
In Mick we don’t trust
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poor game….very very strange team selection…..
BUT WE WON!!!
i guess towards this end of the season thats all that counts…
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Joking apart, it was a good result for the boys from the Black Country.
On a serious note,lets spare a thought for the Arsenal player,Eduardo.In my 50 of watching the beautiful game,this was the ugliest injury I’ve had the misfortune to have witnessed.It’s going to be a long road back, but lets wish him (& Gazza)a full & speedy recovery!
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stop going on about eastwood there is a reason he is not playing him
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Cpt wolves said;
So you think we will beat Palace 2-0 tomorrow? What has Mick achieved this season, let alone in the last 2 months?
Listen to the interlectual!
Come on me babbies.
I see the Albion in disguise bloggers are quiet!
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Tracey Smith said “reponds i have been watching wolves since 1986, and this is the most down ive ever felt” So Tracey were you there on November 24, 1986? How did you feel then?? BTW I have been supporting since 1954 (the Honved game), I have seen better times, much better times, but come on give them a chance!
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A Wolves win!
Great, that makes 12 wins out of 33 attempts!
Another 7 or 8 wins might see us into the play offs. It was a terrible game and had mid-table written all over it. At least one of our strikers actually scored a goal!
Michael Gray has a chance of player of the season for me!
Sandwell Massive, I really wish you would change the record regarding people who would like to see the back of McCarthy. It doesn’t make them Albion fans. Why don’t you stop drawing attention to the fact that you can’t spell and behave like a 10 year old?
I won’t be posting again today so you have got the chance to crow all you like – child!
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Went to your game with a mate who is a ww fan tell you what both you and palace would not last 2 weeks in the prem both of you were crap total. Some of you on this site have never seen any decent football or are blind and just told you play well, your team are a shamble, lets face it many of them are failed mackems, who came down with your idiot manager having gained the lowest ever points in the prem, this is why MM signed them so that If and it would be a massive if you ever gain promotion MM can then come back down with WW gaining that award lowest points from his beloved Sunderland, wake up and start watching proper football, you lot amaze me 1 win and look at you on here you must be the thickest people in football Division 2 teams have more ideas
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39 Rolls:
I know Wolves lost 0-3 at home to Wrexham on the 22nd,closely followed by the cup defeat we don’t like to talk about,by the same score!
Tracy, get over it.
NO-ONE DIED!
I offered a free ticket to anyone who would be kind enough to give me a lift there,but no one took me up on it.
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KENT, CAN YOU SHUT UP ABOUT THAT FREE TICKET,THE REASON NO ONE GIVE YOU A LIFT IS CUZ NOBODY WENT BOING BOING
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Hammer to Hammer.
11 lines and only 1 full stop.
You think we’re thick!!
Mug
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o.k. we lost lets see were both teams are at the end of the season i still see us gaining promotion and lets face it we are in a better position than you at the moment, you beat palace good result carry it on now, MM will now play gray centre forward, Hammer to hammer i agree i think that any teams other than us who go up will struggle, and yes they are all thick and know nowt about fooball listen to them on here 1 game and they think they have won the league, they have been starved of any wins for so long,Mad MM said again he never looks at the league tables wonder why, forget any good young winger coming to you he wants to better is football life not destroy it, never mind you still have that best ever signing S Ward to come back, that game we lost will do us good and get us back to winning ways. Get well kent wolf good fellow fans no one took your offer up because they all sit at home and listen on the radio Breretonwolf LCW bet they have never been outside W-Ton
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It’s great to see a general sea-change in the mood of those posting after this win against Palace away. Perhaps we are in a good position to mount a gradual charge up the league. Whereas the baggies might just be showing signs of creaking a little under the expectation they have created for themselves. Don’t be surprised if we manage to finish above them, stranger things have happened. Come on you Wolves!
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Get well kent wolf good fellow fans no one took your offer up because they all sit at home and listen on the radio Breretonwolf LCW bet they have never been outside W-Ton
WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT BAGGY1???
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45. Baggy1
You have got a good team, but that doesn’t mean that you will go up!
You probably had the best squad last season too, but you failed then!
For what it’s worth I think you will still go up automatically this season, but I also don’t think you can afford to loose too many more games.
I think Watford will do ok if they go up and a couple of others (Ipswitch, Charlton). I think that everything about this league is over hyped. There are no really good teams this season, No run away leaders in the Bolton/Reading mold. Those are the type of teams that tend to survive promotion!
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terrywalsallbaggie:
SAYS THE BLOKE WHO JUMPED ON THE FREE COACHES THE OTHER WEEK
Glass houses & stones spring to mind!
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terrywalsallbaggie:
Instead of having a pop at my dad (kent wolf),why not have a pop at your own “armchair” good time fans, who are more mobile than him & only go to the “Big games”?
He’s got hospital appointments coming out of his ears, more medication than a pharmacy & could do without the childish rants of people like you!
I WAS going to go the 180 miles to his place in Kent this weekend from my house in Dudley,and take him to the match but some thieving b****** though it would be fun to go joy-riding in my car on thursday night!
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47 there you go you have won 1 game now lets see how you get on in the next 4/5.
Your stupid fans have already gor you in the playoffs, we have not blown it at all sooner be in our position than yours.
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kent 49,but i pay every other week,the free coaches are just a thank you for our fantastic away support every week which your club can only dream off,boing boing going up the MOWBURY WAY
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terrywalsallbaggie:
You still didn’t answer his daughter!
BTW, Who IS Mowbury?
I thought Tony Mowbray managed “your” team?
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fantastic away support every week?
Wolves average gate:23,328
WBA average gate: 21,401
I rest my case!
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50 barns,im not havin a pop at him,im just sayin,we know hes disabled he tells us every day,sorry to hear bout your car,you should have put a wolves sticker in the back they wudent have nicked it then boing boing
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54 kent,i said away suppport,considering your a city and we a suburb of brum man for man or women for women kid for kid i think that gives us a better home average dont you boing boing going up the MOWBURY WAY
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Given that the population of Wolverhampton is nearly twice that of West Bromwich, coupled to the proximity of your closest neighbours Villa,Blues & Walsall, you do have a valid point!
I never thought I’d see the day I was agreeing with TWB!
Just 2 slightly annoying things however,your manager’s name is MOWBRAY & do you have to end EVERY statement with BOING BOING?
p.s. She did have a Wolves sticker in the back window & kiddy seats in the back!
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get well kent sincerely feel sorry for you mate.
But i bet you felt a liitle better with the results on sat, never mind we will soon put a end to that mate, are you making the trip up for the derby ? cant beleive no wolves fans went to palace, i think they got a little mixed up they all ended up out side buck palace with there scarfs in the mini van they hired for the trip. All we are doing is giving the other teams a chance before we take the laegue by force
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kent 57,i knew youd come round to my way of thinking in the end,GOING UP THE MOWBURY WAY BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING
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terrywalsallbaggie:
BORING,BORING,BORING,BORING,BORING!
Even I could’ve predicted that!
baggy 1:Operation/Hospitals permitting.
My mom still lives in Tipton & all my family still live in the Black Country!
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kent should have had a pictiure of MM in the window saying players needed no one would have gone near it, unless it was stolen while in sunderland
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48, Abdomenwolf, I thourght you wasnt posting again today?
The Albion have lost as many games as us now, the difference is, if we don’t go up we wont loose our players.
Whats your plan B Terrysmallsallbaggie?
Going up the Mowbray way….cryin at Wembley again?
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62 your right there,nobody wants them,and most will retire boing boing
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Well done Wolves.something to build on and a agood confidence booster.Keep up the good work.
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