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Albion boss backs team to go up
Monday 7th April 2008, 2:31PM BST.
Albion boss Tony Mowbray urged his downhearted players to continue chasing their “pot of gold” and backed them to break their hoodoo at the new Wembley.
Mowbray knows his team could return to Wembley for the third time in a year if they miss out on automatic promotion and are forced back into the play-offs.
And Mowbray insisted he would relish a return despite seeing his side beaten 1-0 at the national stadium by both Derby in last year’s play-offs and Portsmouth on Saturday.
“If it’s the play-offs, it’s the play-offs,” said a philosophical Mowbray.
“It’s a very tough league we’re in and there are a lot of teams up there scrapping to get into the top two. If we win our game in hand we will go top of the table.
“We’ve got some tough, tough games to come.
“We’re away at Blackpool on Tuesday, then Watford before we’re away at our rivals Wolves the following Tuesday.
“The games are just coming thick and fast and it’s one every three days from now on in.
“Let’s hope there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for us this year.
“We’ll be back at Wembley one day and, if it’s this year, hopefully it will be third time lucky.
“But let’s hope we don’t come back here this year.
“I was more disappointed with the result rather than the way our team played.
“Our team can play like that most weeks because that’s the way we play football.
“The disappointment is that we didn’t win the game and that a team that scored so many goals this season didn’t threaten their goal enough.”
Mowbray, meanwhile, backed his side to deal quickly with Saturday’s disappointment and bounce back strongly in the Championship, starting at Blackpool tomorrow night.
“It was important to come out of the game with a belief and confidence,” he said.
“It would have been very disappointing to have come out of it having not performed and been beaten comfortably and having to pick the players up for the last six league games.
“The message coming loud out of the dressing room is that we’re ready.
“We have six games to go and let’s earn the right to go and play the likes of Portsmouth week in, week out.”
And Mowbray refused to point the finger of blame at referee Howard Webb, despite the Baggies’ disappointment at Milan Baros’s handball in the build-up to Nwankwo Kanu’s winner.
“Milan Baros had a few sneaky handballs and got booked for one,” said Mowbray.
“Whether he did for the goal or not I don’t know. It’s no good me sitting here and complaining about a handball because it’s a goal.
“There’s nothing we can do about that. Good luck to Portsmouth in the final because they haven’t been there for a long time and we wish them all the best.
“They’ll be up against a Championship team who I’m sure will acquit themselves very well on the day.
“We’ll get on with our league programme. The players are very disappointed.
“They felt they applied themselves well to the game. You hope to come to these games and play well but obviously you come to win.”
See also: Albion at Wembley: Minute by minute
Wembley heartache for West Brom
Albion fans board Wembley coaches
West Brom fans head for Wembley
West Brom fans make exodus to Wembley
West Brom 0 Portsmouth 1 – in pictures
West Brom 0 Portsmouth 1 – pictures 2
Albion fans: FA Cup reaction
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MOWBRY BACKS YO TO GO UP THE CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE…HA,HA,HA
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Doubt it…Got no bottle
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The Megson way is a complete contrast to the Mowbray way. I can understand the argument to a degree, and Megson’s way is far more effective in this league, which is why Bristol City and Stoke are utilising their resources a little better than we probably are.
BUT, Tony Mowbray’s brief as manager is to get this club into the Premiership again and giving us a chance to survive there.
If we were to somehow revert back to the Megson way, we may well battle to another promotion, but we’ll not stand a chance in the Premiership, as has been proved by every club that’s gone up and played that way, and we’ll have not progressed anywhere in 6 or 7 seasons.
This team can survive in the Premiership. Instead of moaning and knocking what was a gallant performance against a very good side, lets get behind them for 6 of the most important games in the club’s history.
To the bitter Wolves posts on here, get a grip, you make yourselves look silly by devoting so much time to us.
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gold&black.
You’re still an as****e!
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YES MIGHT AS WELL TRY AND MAKE IT A HAT TRICK. 3 APPEARANCES AND 3 LOSES.
BUT WOLVES ON THE OTHER HAND WILL SHOW YOU HOW IT’S DONE..WHEN WE BEAT STOKE OR WATFORD IN THE PLAY OFF FINAL.
GOIN’ TO THE PREMIER LEAGUE THE MCARTHY WAY..IN STYLE OF COURSE..OH YES.
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Trying to get Saturday in proportion. We lost a fairly even game by the odd goal. If we’d have scored we would probably have won. This was against the sixth best team in the Premier League. If we go up is there a lot to be frightened of? Judging on this the answer is no.
Tony is right not to take automatic for granted but it is still in our own hands, how many teams would settle for that? The mad results once teams get to the top IE Bristol City on Saturday make it a lottery but if our players can keep going and we avoid too many injuries we can do it.
By the way. Is the Prem as good as everyone says it is and is the Championship as bad? Considering this seasons cup results. What do others think?
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Have you noticed that the pot TM is after is in Wolves colours?
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The real Bully.
I dont think this league is any good.
Your lot are by far the best attacking team(unfortunately for you defending is also important) but you didnt muster up a single shot on target. Portsmouth probably havent played much worse than they did in the 1st half yet still didnt concede.
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I thought Wolves were orange and black,
my wedding ring is gold and that looks
nothing like the colour of your shirts.
Dream on Dingles,Boing Boing
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9 Fancy cming all the way from Coventry to watch that Sandwell lot!!
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3.
Facts are proving that you are bottling it.
on saturday it reminded me of when Twaddle was at Molineux.
playing the opposition off the park but nothing in the final third.
you need to battle your way out of this division and if you think your current squad would survive in the prem you are not very bright you would need to buy an awfull lot of players. yes you did outplay portsmouth but just a couple of points,
1. Pompey played well under par.
2. who won.
3. Barnsley beat Liverpool and Chelsea so how good a team would they be in the prem.
fact is you played one prem team and lost and before you all go on about Wolves yes we failed in the cup but we also went out to a team who are in the final.
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9. its called the color gold you idiot.;
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Things to look forward to in the close season:
1. WBA promotion automatically or via play-offs
2. Wolves promotion via play-offs (and stretching it automatically..)
3. Derby on 15th April
4. Our best player returning from injury in time for the play-offs to link up with SEB, Keogh and Jarvis to dump the other teams the way we did in 2003.
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LCW
I see you are on here with more confrontational
remarks.
In an earlier blog i challenged you to back up a comment you made,
i asked if you could actually debate in a eloquent manner………you dont have a clue!!
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To the bitter Wolves posts on here, your really making yourselves look silly by devoting so much time to us, you are obsessed with us! If we beat Blackpool and go top tomorrow, what will you say then? It says a lot about how rubbish Wolves are when the HIGHLIGHT of your season is US getting to Wembley. LMAO at Wolves losers.
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oh yes lets look at the facts shall we michael.we win our game in hand to go into an automatic promotion place,we beat you next week to put you out of the playoff race,and you go back to your own sad little dingle message board to discuss how it all went wrong.bye bye michael.
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8 Southern.
I know what you’re saying but I don’t think you give the Pompey defence enough credit. They have the next England right back. An ex England CH who’s not only got the T-shirt but probably designed it and despite what we all say about him the best keeper in England. The other two ain’t bad either. The goal which should have been disallowed could just as easily have gone our way and we’d be in Europe next season. Not complaining though, as the Stones said ‘you can’t always get what you want.’ But if we get up I hope we can prove a few doubters wrong.
PS. Baggies fans. Typical quiet efficient game by Clem. He’s brought such a steadying influence to our much maligned defence.
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wolves fans, keep to your own teams comments
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15. We don’t look as silly as you lot bragging about doing the double the mowbray way blah blah. The reason there are so many wolves posts is because they are merely rubbing your noses in it. And it seems to be working. lol! Watch yer back Albion because the Wolves are hitting form.
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ha ha! small club west brom reduce ticket prices to 10 quid for the last 2 home games and introduce kids for a quid!
i would have though a fa cup semi final team playing the best football the world has ever seen would be putting the “sold out” boards up?
shows how small u r! the brazilian football u say u play ca even fetch the crowds in!
smaller than wolves…………always have bin ………..always will be!
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Michael.
Your a shining example of how “Care in the Community” isn’t working!!..Isn’t it time for your shift at Lidl?…Boing Boing!!!
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20- So small and insignificant you and your croonies spend half the day writing on our board.
You’re sad, the lot of you.
You think you’re so much bigger, but in truth we’re roughly the same size despite you having about 3 times the catchment area.
Before you harp on about attendances, check which of us has the highest record attendances, and have a think about Bury at home in 1986.
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20. Just sent an email to Jez Moxey requesting that he considers raising the admission prices by a tenner because Wolves fans like EdWolf on the E&S message board consider themselves to be a much bigger club than West Bromwich Albion. So filling a similar size ground and gaining extra revenue will be no problem then.
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16.
even if you dobeat us that doesnt mean we wont make the playoffs.
and its not bye bye because im not going anywhere.
last week the facts where according to you lot.
where going to win the FA cup.
you’ve played one prem tean and lost. yes you did outplay them. but they hads the better chances. that doesn’t mean you will cope in the prem. its played over a season not one game.
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Firstly I would like to apologise for all rubbish posted on this site by my fellow Wolves fans! I have no doubt in my mind that Albion will achieve automatic promotion because they have the best team in this division and deserve to be promoted on merit. Hopefully we can follow in your footsteps and win promotion via the playoffs it would be great to go back to the days of Wolves, Albion, Birmingham & Villa all competing in the same league. Good luck for the rest of the season but I hope we stuff you at Molineux
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21. pathetic!!
thats all your worth.
isnt it time for you to sign on.
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Nice one Warren!
I have kept a few 4th Division Programmes for a laugh and just smirk at the attendances for this “Big Club”…We get bigger crowds at the hot dog stand than the Wolves got….Shame on you Wolves fans for deserting your club in its hour of need!!!…Tut Tut..
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one way or another we will be in the prem next year FACT.looking forward to playing the man utds and chelseas of the prem instead of the boring wolves and stokies….DOING THE MIDLANDS PROUD THE MOWBRAY WAY,,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,OH YES
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As a wolves fan who went to watch you on saturday i hope I can give you a honest assesment. You did keep the ball very well and your passing and movement was fantastic in the first half especially, but it wal all to slow and in the wrong areas of the pitch. You were great up until the final third where there was no penetration. When miller came on you looked forward earlier and although he is as one footed as paul cook was you looked more potent. I think if you had got the ball quicker earlier in the first half Portsmouth would have struggled. Mowbray should also have switched widemen as both brunt and morrison struggled against the impressive Johnson. It was a good game and as a team your not far away, but remember Keily had about 4 saves to make and james had one. If defoe had been playing it might have been more as Baros the cheat was aweful. I do hope you go up automatic but lose to us next week.
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i doh care if they put the prices up 30 quid! i’ve got plenty cash due to my excellent job! i’m not on 12grand a year as a admin clerk like you!
we’re not the same size at all and u know it!
we’re gettin 2 1/2 thousand more every week than u and your playin like brazil apparently!!??? lol
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michael michael michael……..thought you had gone back to school today ?? the good thing is when we go up we WILL buy a lot of quality players, like this season spending 11 million…..now when your in the same division next season will your saviour spend millions ?? Didnt think so, got any change from that tenna ?? Now run along and do your maths homework……if there were 11 dingles then paul robinson scratched one dingles ankle, how many dingles are left……..
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Dingles when was the last time you where at wembley
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SAT 5 APR lunchtime
Oh what a wonderful day
tescos closed due to all their carrier bags being wet with tears
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I can’t wait for next tuesday, we can finsh this once andf for all. We stay top your seasons over.
Job Done
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MM is so desperate to get into the premier he wants the lowest points in a season back again after Derby have took it off him
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boggie fans..we only come on here to take the proverbial, no other reason. we chat amongst ourselves on our boards, then come over here to laugh at the boggie braggers when it all goes pear shaped.
besides there’s plenty of your lot on our boards so you must love us too. so don’t dish it out if you can’t it back.
it’s local rivalry and feelings between wolves and albion fans will never change..enjoy it..we do.
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MM wants to take the Dingles back so he can break Derby County lowest points total that he held prior to this season.You lot are so jealous of living in our shadow
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It’s in the box where it counts baggies not out, we let you play first half and James never got his kit dirty.
As for the fans why were you so quiet???
See you at Wembley. Well on the telly for you lot..LOL
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28.
your club is so small it doesn’t have a shadow.
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Edwolf ,one season in top flight football in 24 years,more seasons in division 4 with crowds of 3000.Of course you were there.You are such a big club.Get your”you have let us down again”banner ready,you’re gonna need it.GOING NOWHERE THE DINGLE WAY
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KEN HAWTHORN…Thank you for the compiment
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Wonder what the crowds would have been like if Sandwell Town had been 6th from bottom of the 4th division in 1986 having just lost to Chorley in the FA Cup 1st round? Just a thought…..
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WBA WERE GOING TO WIN THE LEAGUE & THE CUP TO DO THE DOUBLE! THEY ARE NOW WEMBLEY’S BIGGEST FLOPS
AND PROMOTION IS LOOKING A BIT FAR OFF AT THE MOMENT. SO MUCH FOR TERRYWALLIES BRAZIL BOINK.
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20, Since when have Wolves been bigger than Albion? Post war maybe ha ha ha ha. Your recent history is lame compared to ours, we will be back in the Prem next season and most likely stay up, with the way we play suited to the prem. Wern’t you in divison 4 not so long ago? Sherpa van ha ha ha ha….booing the manager and players every week….NO Premiership quality players….I rest my case idiot!
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Baggies fans, it’s disappointing to lose but we played well. Lets get behind the team and get them up to the prem where we know we have a great chance with TM in charge.
Wolves fans, get real. Half of you are deluded and obsessed with the Baggies. Concentrate on your own team. You might just make the play offs thanks to Merlin Mick. The true supporters who backed him deserve it, the rest of you don’t.
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32 – when was the last you won at wembley, now there’s a pub quiz question.
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27
Oh yes and if you were in the lower league you would be getting big crowds? No of course not.
History tells you that the Wolves have ALWAYS attracted bigger crowds when there is a similar positon between the gold and black and the deckchairs.
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ed wolf 30 correct me arnt you a city compared to west brom only a small town surrounded by to prem clubs for a city dont say much for your gates about the same as norwich
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It`s typical of these comments pages, your bigger we`re bigger, go back to your own pages, exactly the same things said to each other on both teams pages.
The fact is WBA have the better team at the moment, they will go up automatically and deserve to.
Another fact is Wolves are building a team that is capable of challenging the best, Playoffs are now very attainable and who knows we could having childish little arguments about both our Premiership games very soon.
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To all the dingles posting on this website, do these scores meaning anything to you :
3-0
3-0
0-1
3-2
1-0
0-0
Short memories ah !
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Mowbray had to come out with the statement needs to get your guys back on track.
Hope we have a good time on the 15th and the result is Gold, but those top two places are open to the current top 5, unless we can go unbeaten.
Lets hope one of us makes it.
Up the Wolves
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Michael.
Your gaffers been on from Lidl…Shelves need stackin..Apparently Wolves Toilet roll is selling out fast….Come on..chop, chop!!!
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HappyBaggie.
you havent got a clue what morgan is going to spend, and one thing for sure is he wont be having a loan to lower our capacity.
and to all you sandwell fans saying the two clubs are about the same size. grow up you keep going on about all this great football you are playing and how you are the best team in the division but you are having to lower ticket prices.
we don’t need to.
thats fact.
if sandwell was in the fourth division like us the club wouldn’t exist anymore.
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30. Do we care about you getting two and a half thousand fans more than us at the moment?
Answer : Not in the slightest. In fact I’m glad you have managed to regain your support when the majority of supporters in Wolverhampton deserted your club over twenty years ago.
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youve got to laugh at the dingles aint you ? they are so full of envy its sad ! youve got your cup final next week be happy with that ! whatever happens to us this season weve attempted to play football in every game and have entertained everywhere weve gone, you can’t say that about many teams in this division
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not one to gloat, however, YOUR NOT IN THE PLAY OFFS ANY MORE…..ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Micheal i look forward to your witty reply.
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Jonno29uk/Redge999.
Thanks for introducing a sense of sanity to counter some of the comments from your fellow Wolves supporters.
I really cannot understand the ‘twisted’ logic from some of them.
Why they have to comment on any Albion article is beyond me.
Ihave never commented on any Wolves articles because for the simple reason THAT should be left to Wolves supporters…shouldn’t it?
Good natured banter i can accept BUT some of the ‘rubbish’ (not my words remember) is just that.
Let both sets of sipporters worry about their own teams and not belittle every article published simply because it’s seen as being ‘clever’.
The same applies to Albion fans don’t hurry to your PC every day to discover a story that cooncerning Wolves.
What’s the point? “Were’e bigger than you” “We’re better than you”..NA-Na Na Na Na.
Let both sets of supporters acknowlege the fact that both teams have talented players, plus some not so good (!) that way the seemingly inborn feeling of jealousy, bordered on ‘hatred’ could be avoided.
I now await comments from those who enjoy nothing better than slagging off the team they DON’T support!
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By the way mark d,have you forgotten that WOLVES took 49,000 to Wembley when we were in our dark days ?
If your team of London Losers would have been in our situation back then,you would have no doubt folded. Wolves will NEVER EVER DIE.
live with it thicko
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Oh what great role models you all are to the next generation. There’s always going to be friction between the two teams because the Dingles are always going to revert to mindless sarcasm and think it’s wit. They don’t have the intelligence to have an intellectual arguement and the people who keep answering them are just stooping to their level – in the gutter. Ignore them and maybe they’ll go away. It’s like a school bully – if they stop getting a reaction out of you they’ll go and bother someone else!!!!!!!!
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31……………how sad are you?
The game of football is meant to be full of skill, not full of hatchet men, and youre gloating over a “player” who deliberately tries to injure another player?
The game doesnt need players like Robinson, and these boards dont need posts like that,
get a life!
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southbank barmy army,,well said muppet i totally agree if you cant take the banter go and play somewhere else…GOING UP IN STYLE THE MOWBRAY WAY ,,,OH YES..
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In a way I can understand a lot of the wolves comments on here. Wouldn’t YOU be bitter if your local rivals have been consistently better than you since the turn of the millenium? Think about this – the majority of kids now in Black Country primary schools have NEVER known Wolves to have a team anywhere near as good as the Baggies. Think about what it must be like to keep trying to convince your increasingly confused son that the team you keep calling all the names under the sun are so inferior to your beloved Wolves despite all the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Soul destroying. So yeah, I think I’d be bitter too if my teams biggest rivals kept putting us in the shadows with higher place finishes, scinitlating football and considerably more success in the local derbies. Fortunately my teams biggest rivals are Wolves so it hasn’t been an issue for nigh on ten years! Boing Boing!
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38 Pompey Kings.
Reason our fans were so quiet was distance. We were down the other end from you, believe it or not our fans sounded much louder to me. Let me explain, did you notice the players down the other end looked smaller than the ones at your end. Perspective, smaller, further away. Try it in the pub, listen to the bloke next to you then try to hear someone on the other side of the room. Who said bumkins are thick.
PS. Grow up and don’t think that you have to try to put the other team down to praise your own. Both teams played well and cancelled each other out. You got lucky with a dodgy decision, that’s life, get over it.
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44 PTBW.
Don’t know if we will go up automatic but I totally agree with your post. It takes a long time to read through the drivel on here to get to the worthwhile ones
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48,maduke,if we hadent have helped you out by giving you 2 players you would have folded now show sum respect to your superiors boing boing
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27- Then why have we got higher record attendances Nottswolf?
With a catchment area of Shropshire, South Staffs and half the Black Country you should be 3 times the size of us.
In todays climate, none of us will be truly big clubs in a playing sense ever again. Only problem is, you silly dingles are too silly to realise it and truly believe you’ve a divine right to be gracing the top flight, hence so many self-destruct buttons from you boys in the last decade and a half when you put so much pressure on your own team. When will you ever learn?
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Wiseguy.
2 questions. Do you know what “post war” means and do you even know when the 2nd world war was??
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Bolton wolf. Quite agree that no-one wants to see players injured. However Robinson is a committed player. I think it could be argued that whether he sets out to crock players. On the other side of the coin he is a million miles away from the Kevin Muscat you lot used to cheer.
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I come on this site normally for a laugh and wind up the Sandwell Sado’s.
I also go on the Wolves site for the same reason.
Being an “independant” I will make the following comment.
There is in my opinion a more intelligent lot from the Dingles as they are called than the Sandwells. Lets face it just look at the posts by Terry, Worcester, Happy, Real Bully and many more and you will see how I have reached that conclusion.
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bolton wolf………i didnt see Robo try and injure another player during our last game, just a 50/50 challenge, and there is no stopping Robbo in full flight ! ? Bolton and Gobin, havnt seen your name before, so welcome (as everyone else says) to the word “banter”……except for mental michael who takes his comments a bit far……
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69. GOBIN GOBIN…Grade “F” was it in English literature?..Never mind mate..they’re advertising at Lidl again…Perhaps if we flush long enough you’ll go away…..
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Kan-u go up, Kan-u ever win at new Wembley, Kan-u win at Molineux next week, Kan-u please stop crying, can you get over selling Kanu.
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Dingles Dingles whats the score
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FUNNY REALLY NOT THAT LONG AGO WOLVES FANS WERE CALLING FOR MM HEAD
WHAT A JOKE THEY ARE
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69. Gobby.
I suppose you’re on here because as usual at this time of the season the wheels have come off your ‘title challenge.’On top of this your annual defeat to the Blues is due.
I was about to have a metaphorical pop at you but fortunately Terry, Worcester and Happy held me back, reminding me that it’s wrong to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
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75. Held u Back from what?Incidentally my team is TOP of the league at present!!
71. You are obviously too thick to realise that GOBIN is an anagram of BOING.
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34 nailed it on the head! 38 talkin rubbish, sorry cant let saturday go. What happened 2 the albion/pompey unity of the great escape? You lot was quiet! You only made a noise when u scored. And your faces on the coaches back home, u looked more miserable than us lot. If that was us we would’ve been goin mad! Now just have ur precious cup for your small club! We’ve won it 5 times anyway! As for tuesday weve just gotta win, cant loose else the dingles will have taken 4 points off us. As hard as it is 2 believe
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Its great revisiting these old pages and reading all the bragging from the dingles – will they never learn.
Makes me feel warm all over…
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