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Albion boss pledges style
Wednesday 12th March 2008, 11:28AM GMT.
Tony Mowbray has backed his FA Cup heroes to turn on the style when they return to Championship action at The Hawthorns tonight.
The Baggies will look to boost their push for automatic promotion against Crystal Palace three days after booking their place in a Wembley semi-final.
And, after resorting to what Mowbray described as “effective football” to defeat Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship and Bristol Rovers in Sunday’s quarter-final, he is predicting a return to “classic Albion” this evening.
“There is no change in my mindset,” said Mowbray, who admitted he was forced to tailor his preferred passing style to cope with difficult pitches.
“We will play at home tonight and hopefully people will see a very stereotypical Albion performance on a nice pitch which has plenty of grass on it.
“It’s at home, we know we can move the ball around quickly, so there will be no change to the style of play and no adaptation to the philosophy of play.
“We will go and try to win a game as we generally do at home.”
Albion will defend a proud home record in the Championship tonight having lost just twice in 18 matches on home turf so far this season.
They have scored 43 league goals at The Hawthorns and conceded just 17 to keep themselves in the hunt for promotion.
And Mowbray sees no reason to compromise his style of play at home as he has away, although he has hinted he will adopt a “horses for courses” approach for the remainder of the season.
“Our home record has been decent this year so there is no reason to change that,” he said.
“But we talked last week about adapting to the conditions, the pitches, the weather and the opposition’s state of mind.”
Mowbray has some tough selection decisions to make this evening, most notably up front and out wide.
Zoltan Gera, James Morrison and Chris Brunt are competing for two wide midfield positions. And Luke Moore, cup-tied against Bristol is back in contention.
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i cant wait,another feast of champagne football n loads of goals,oh im so happy im a baggie boing boing going to wembley in new suits
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this will be a tough one, as they all are.Especially with their manager.Their wide players will cause us problems so the choice of our wide midfielders for the starting lineup will be interesting.I would like to see Kim on the bench. He looks an exciting prospect ut needs easing in gently.
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This is the game to proove there is no FA cup hangover. If we win this I will be more hopeful of automatic promotion
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Can’t wait for tonight the euphoria around the Albion is buzzing at the minute, expecting a good atmosphere.
Can we start predictions on the attendance tonight
Average for the season 21500 (ish)
Last couple of games 22500 (ish)
Tonight 26000
Lets count all these extra bodies trying to account their 5 league games.
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same here DJ. I would like to see Kim being slowly introduced into the team and make an appearance tonight for maybe the last 20 minutes. I kept looking out for him on Sunday but he didnt get many significant touches.
Hopefully Big Ish can continue where he left off!
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mowbary is the most over rated manager in the england how much money has e spent and 4 wat?wat av u achieved?are u in the premiere no av ur stocks gone up no,ur in the same position as us,u av top quality players but yet ur still not up.
mowbary so small minded and is a usless coach obviously and an idiot.we boing boing ur old lady from all wolves fans
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5.. Dont think ish will have it as easy tonight Palace are a decent side (not that rovers where a poor one) We need to win all our home games.
Our games in hand are Cardiff away and Wolves away both are tough games form means nothing in derby games and the way its going it will be the highlight of there season to beat albion. Ironicly we would do wolves a favour tonight by beating palace. But who cares about other teams Its in our own hands
23/24/25 more points required for promotion.
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Win the 3 games in hand and we go 3 Points clear.
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6 ross,OH THE JEALOUSY OH THE JEALOUSY GOING TO WEMBLEY THE JEALOUS WAY BOING BOING
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6. Small-minded? Idiot? Perfect descriptions of you me thinks!!
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you are all having a go at 6.
but he has got a point, you havent won anything yet.
and its guranteed that if you dont win anything you will all be calling for tony mouldy to be sacked.
you all go on about Villa selling out to the Americans at least someones interested in buying Villa, nobody wants your little town club.
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I do wish the dogheads would not poke there wet noses in these pages.we are not in the same positions at all.I am surprised that the wolves cant see what their future holds,cant Freddy Eastwoods family look into the cristal ball for you?
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This is Mowbrays 1st full season in charge
So i agree he has spent and wasted alot of money, why are we not in the Premier League….ermmmmm COZ THE SEASON AIN’T FINISHED YET YOU DIMWIT!!!!!!
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6 – Not sure what your eating or drinkin for your lunch but it aint legal, you got a blue and white storm comin your way on april 15th, maybe that will sober you up !!!
BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING,WEMBLEY WEMBLEY WEMBLEY HAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAHAAAAA!!!!!
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roscommon_wolf overated? tell me about MM’s signings? mowbray took a squad of individuals, wasn’t scared to tell the primadonnas to go if they didn’t want to stay, made good profit on ALL releases, spent well on a TEAM, a chance to go 3 points clear at the TOP if we win our games in hand, another trip to wembley, over 1million revenue from the cup run, possibility of europe next season. best of all we love it. what have you guys done all season?
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6. You’re right, we’ve acheived nothing! Come May we’ll be Champions AND f.a cup winners!! Goodbye you horrible creatur! ha ha..
2-0 tonight.
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7.
I see where your coming from abour Ish, their is definetly a gulf of class between Palace and the Gas but I think if he does figure he’ll be gunning for more blood.
CAN A SENSIBLE WOLVES FAN PLEASE PUT THAT LITTLE BOY ON COMMENT 5 TO BED PLEASE, HE OBVIOUSLY HASNT GOT A CLUE.
WHAT A PRAT YOU’VE MADE OF YOURSELF.
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BANTER-BANTER all good fun but looking at the present and recent times remember these
We own our ground
We generate our own cash and not rely on Sugar Daddies
We’ve never been sold for a TENNER
Our goal difference is only 6 short of what you have managed ALL season, you might not understand that one
Think about it
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6.. Ive read some rubbish coming out of the mouths of certain Wolves fans but this is probably both the worst and funniest I have read.
I cant decide if you half French with you ‘av’ or if you are just completely bitter and struggle with the English language
We still have a long way to go before the season can be classed as a complete success, but as we all know talking about future potential and excitement is what football football fans live for
Good luck to you in you small minded world
Boing ! Boing !
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Can number 5 please return to the nut house. that is all.
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6-11 i don’t normally kick every dog that barks at me [AND TM] so i wil not.Just suggest the start coming down to the Hawthorns and ENJOY the buzz and the entertainment the joy!because you certainly sound like you are in of it !
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No 6,
Have you been drinking a liquid normally associated with cleaning combs?
As we are no longer on the stock market our shares are frozen, as for the you have not acheieved anything yet, i suppose you are in some way correct, but we are still in may with 11 games to go and a semi final to look forward to.
Personally even if we do not go up this season i would still back Mowbray and look forward to next season safe in the knowledge that it will be just as entertaining as this one. Yes i would be disappointed, but more for the players and staff than myself. This season has been complete value for money and a load of fun.
You will not see me crying at Wembley even if we lose 10-0. Never felt as happy to be a Baggie!!
And to all other baggies i will be in the Sportsman and then the vine tonight, wearing a brown leather jacket and white t-shirt, i answer to the name of bomber or Jarrod, but please do not start moaning to me about the blogs, i already get enough of that of my friends and family!!
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jeez they say mcarthy’s a nutter, but mumbbling mobray is a prize loony tune.
liverpool 1 barnsley 2
barnsley 1 chelsea 0
now that is class in anybody’s book. but yes fair play beating bristol rovers ( who? ) was a real achievement for you.
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id say u really had 2 work hard to beat bristol.u nailed it alright wer just out of the playoff places with an absolutly useless squad while ur only 2nd r 3rd with a multi million pound squad for the last 2 years not getting promoted says alot.we might b doin bad but at least we havint broke the bank to loose in the playoffs every year.mowbary is an idiot mick may be arrogant but at least he admits wen the better team won.ur not gona win the cup not a hope its a laugh that u think u will.
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No 6. Commonrosswolf (No apologies)
Does your carer know you have access
to machinery?
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23 great results, but you had to have a baggie goalie to help you
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Roscommon Wolf: you are a disgrace to Ireland and to Wolves. And you are clearly a bit of a pranny. Enjoy watching us lift the Cup.
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After three straight wins playing what TM calls”effective” although I would call it “commonsence” football,we are now going back to”classic”or would the term be “gung-ho”type football. The majority of supporters going up tonight now believe its going to be one way traffic, could be a bit more pressure on the players but when your followig the Peid Piper who worries about that.
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