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Plymouth 2 Wolves 2
Saturday 9th August 2008, 3:57PM BST.
The latest news from Home Park as Mick McCarthy’s men kick off their Championship campaign.
16.37: Sub Sam Vokes, on for Ebanks-Blake three minutes earlier, scores for Wolves.
16:33: Ebanks-Blake foiled from three yards by a great save from Stack. Subsequent corner sees Elokobi miss a point-blank header, with Stack pulling off a double save to deny Ebanks-Blake on the rebound.
16: 31: Stearman fouled into the area, referee waves away appeals for the penalty.
16:24: Striker Andy Keogh replaced by Chris Iwelumo, with Jarvis replacing Ward.
16:22: Kightly’s dipping effort has goalkeeper Graham Stack backpeddling to tip over.
16:12: Corner in falls to the unmarked Marcel Seip in the area and he connects to guide the ball past Hennessey. 2-1.
16:02: Second-half kicks off.
15:47: Half-time whistle is blown.
15:45: Fans call for Matt Jarvis to replace left-winger Stephen Ward, who is failing to give left-back George Elokobi the right amount of cover.
15.44: Doumbe fouls Ebanks-Blake. The free kick is taken right-footed by Kightly and punched by Graham Stack.
15.39: Keeper Stack drops a high ball on the goal line but the assistant referee says had earlier crossed the dead ball line. Doumbe heads over Hennessey’s goal from 12 yards.
15.34: Jones fires over from 30 yards.
15.29: Hennessey punches a Plymouth corner.
15.27: Wolves are leading possession now in what is proving an entertaining game, says our man at the game. Ebanks-Blake almost silences the home crowd with a left footed drive from distance which goes over Stack’s goal. Albion are one-nil down at home to Mallorca in their pre-Premier League season friendly, by the way.
15:19: Michael Kightly picks up the ball dropping into the area and lashes a volley into the net. 1-1. A typical bit of Kightly magic, says our man at the ground. The winger had been booked shortly before hand.
15.16: It was the “worst possible start” for Wolves after an impressive pre-season, says our man at the ground. The home team’s tails are up. A similar chance to the goal causes problems for Wolves but the defence manage to clear.
15.10: Plymouth score on seven minutes. Stearman fails to deal with a long ball and Fallon nips in to score past the advancing Hennessey.
15.06: Any tme a certain Wolves striker goes near the ball, boos ring out around Home Park. No prizes for guessing who is the target for the home fans’ groans.
15.05: Some Wolves fans are bullish about their chances today. jean-piere micallef says: “wolves will win 2-0 today.ebanks and iwelumo to score!!”
15.00: We’re off! The season is under way.
14.45: New for this season of Sporting Star – our reporters will be bringing you video reports throughout the day. Tim Nash gets us off the mark from Home Park. Let us know your feedback and stay logged on to Expressandstar.com for plenty of new features: Plymouth Argyle v Wolves – team news
14.35: Team news is in: Plymouth Argyle v Wolves – team news
14.30: Sporting Star is back after the summer break. Is it really three months since Wolves’ play-off hopes were dashed at home to Plymouth? There is a chance to get a positive start when the two sides meet again in Plymouth today. Mick McCarthy kicked off the countdown to Wolves’ curtain-raiser at Plymouth earlier this week by insisting any abuse coming Sylvan Ebanks-Blake’s way “won’t bother him a jot”. Wolves fans – get those comments in.
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See S Ward starts in front of Jarvis what a joke
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Teamnews please! Come on me babbies
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What a shock, he’s started with Ward instead of Jarvis.
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i think ward is a good choice to start as long as jarvo gets some play. i would love to see him run against tired defenders.
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Ward is in due to pre season form. 2 – 0 wolves (Blake 2)
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so what? Ward’s playing, hes been good in preseason – give him a chance.
Why dont ppl like him? just cuz he has a big nose???
Support him!
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just think Jarvis is awesome! awful when he came back from injury but when fully fit devastating with kites….may be a defensive (away game) choice and Jarvis may start at home…
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Good luck to the lads today. a good win for wolves.
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wolves will win 2-0 today.ebanks and iwelumo to score!!
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Alot of goalz been scored already around the championship. Lets bang a few more in wolves x
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1 nil down………so tell us wots new!!!!!!!!
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Go get a centre half Mick!
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what a joke
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deary me, not a very good start.cmon plymouyh!!
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you done well, you hung on on for 7 minutes aye boing boing
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Anyone suprised? No?
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are those empty seats i see behind him aye boing boing
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get the banners out aye boing boing
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MAD MICK OUT??
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come on lads early days, yes we are annoyed already and why s ward is there instead of jarvo il never know… but get behind them! COME ON WOLVES
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Rough few opening minutes, let’s not get negative, just need to settle down after all the pre-season hype and expectation
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Guess all the albion fans on here have such busy lives they can’t make their pre-season friendly. Come on Wolves!
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kightly!!! TOLD YA!!
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Why don’t the Baggy sympathisers get off this site !! Level already now what do you have to say.
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have faith !!
1-1!!
come on me babbies
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First goal for wolves lets see more
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jean perrymicallef sorry darling but your wrong aye boing boing xxxx
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he was offside aye boing boing
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ilove the wolves me,cum on the orange and black
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TerryGONNAGETDESTROYEDBYARSENALbaggy
Sold out mate (Y)
Good result against walsall the other nite tho ye?
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SO GROWNUPS ON HERE AGAIN..WHEN WILL HE GET A LIFE??? MIND YOU HE IS A BAGGIE FAN,AFTER ALL.BET YOU HE IS ON HERE WHEN THEY ARE AT HOME,CAUSE DADDY,WONT TAKE HIM TO THE GAME AHHHHHHHH
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du du du du! michael kightly!
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put the banners away till the next un guz in aye boing kevs comin to get ya
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MICK PLEASE PLEASE SIGN AN EXPERIENCED CENTRE HALF WITH SOME PACE and a BALL WINNING MIDFIELDER (NICK BAILEY?). Craddock is nothing more than a backup, MMs in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks we’ll get promotion with him as a regular.
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did mick not see jarvis’ goal against blackburn?? what a fool!! i won’t be singin super mick anytime soon!
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having to scrounge around on the net to get any info on the wolves match as i m down under with no access to satellite tv , does anyone know the price for the away win as i have had to take 6/4 down here? go on the wolves , stick it up the pasty bashing crack heads !
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at the moment your 18th in the table hardley promotion form is it aye boing boing
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wat a load of rubbish his mick blind or wat we needddddddddddddddddddddd defenders asap we am terrible at the back,and how the hell does stephen ward merit a chance in our side and jarvo dont we am goin nowee with mick in charge mick outttttttttttttttttttt
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Get Jarvis on for Ward.
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Get Collins on at the back to shore up the defence.
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YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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load off crap get ward offfffffffffff
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Get A Flamin CB IN NOW !! Flaming 2-1 .. Down The Mc Carthy Way .. JOKE !! GET JARVIS AND IWELUMO ON !!
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MAKE THAT 19TH,cum on you greensssss aye boing boing
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woeful
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as usual wolves fans = amazing
wolves squad = atrocious
bar Elokobi and kithgly, a pathetic showing.
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get breen in to shore up that defence !! SUPER MICK McCARTHY!!! LOL
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40 – I’ll remind you of that once Adebayor sticks his hat trick in next week.
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we are crap get mick out now,we aint going nowhere at this rate with that muppet in charge,why cant we try and play football like west brom and birmingham,why dident we buy superkev,we got more chance of going down,im fed up already we are useless get the muppett out
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weres jarvo mick outtttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
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yehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh finally takes ward offffffffffffffffffffff
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this is a joke. had full close season to sort out defence – same old story. plymouth are most likely not going to be serious promotion candidates, we should be getting a result here.
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the good news is mick will be off soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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at least mick keeps the baggies fans happy on here….stats with ward..when will he stop playing his mates…
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Wolves are pants – why dont they bring on Smith?
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you cant make it up, good ol’ stack producing a giant perfrormance….
bah!
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Mick persisted with keogh for a whole season. Please don’t make the same mistake this year. Unfortunately we are a one man team. Without kightly we’d go down
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Terry, i will second that…………………..
YYYYYYIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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vokeeeeeeeeeesssssssss!!!!!!!!!!
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2-2 all aboard the band wagon again. you know who you are.
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Get in there!!!
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it shud have bin a free kick aye boing boing
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We have the team, keep positive, first time we are up against it everyone turns on the team and manager. We are back in it and might yet win, keep the faith, football isn’t about never going behind in a game !!
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Vokes the new rooney?
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48,bubwilf,you wont remind me cuz unlike you i shall be there aye boing boing
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terryGROWNUPbaggie, why are you on here? yes WBA are in the prem and all of us fans are jealous and would love to be there in ur place, yes we have been up against a tough plymouth team today at times, but the bottom line is WE are on here today backing our team and discussing our performance from OUR club….why are you here? do you have such no life that all your saturday is spent on ANOTHER teams forum? hope you had a nice day off lol
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65 Terry – you’ll only be there watching Arsenal teaching Mowbray how football should be played.
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Ignore the wind up Sandwell sympathiser comments, they are usually pathetic anyway.
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terryPATHETICALLYIMMATUREboggie, we’ll be having the last laugh next week when your lot are six-nil down at half time against Arsenal, I see you are a REAL baggies fan too, i.e. not at the friendly match.
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66,paddywilf,im here cuz the prem dont start till next week,so i thought id come on and see what the little teams are talking about,yes your on here backing your team next week i shall be at highbury backing my team in the prem aye boing boing
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67,bibwilf,like mediocre relegation certs plymouth have shown you aaye boing boing
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wat a load of rubbish if we am to go up this season we need to win these games and all u fans no it and if mick plays ward blake and keogh next week he needs shooting,i will be starting the chants mick outtttttttttttttttttt useless
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just think if yowd have scored 2 there last season yowd have bin in the playoffs aye boing boing
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ward off…den we start playing..not hard is it mick???? ditch ur mates,,,,,,,,,,
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Very poor defending 2 weeks left sort the defence urgently
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Tough FIRST game, Away from home, very bad conditions, got a point. Happy with that. UP THE WOLVES !!!!
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terry, i honestly wouldnt unrinate on you should u catch aflame. dissapointing 2day, need 2 be winning games like this…
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talksport reporter,wilfs where tacky,disjointed,and lucky,but we already know that dont we aye boing boing
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2-2 It Is Then ..
I STILL WANT A CENTRE HALF IN .. GET THAT E.WARD FROM COVENTRY SCORED TODAY OR A.GERRARD FROM WALSALL BOTH CRACKING CENTRE HALF’S ..
AND MICK START MATTY JARVIS ON THE WING INSTEAD OF BLODDY STEPHEN WARD .. WARDY IS A STRIKER .. NOT A WINGER .. GET IT IN YOU’RE THICK HEAD MICK !! SORT IT OUT MICK YOU DONKEY !!
I LOVE SAM VOKES !!
UP THE WOLVES !!
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im happy with a point, away from home first game of the season at plymouth yea ok they aint huge but every team tries hard especially at home first game of a new campaign!
lets face it from what i heard we were POOR but still got a point better than we got first game of last season!!
defense looked shaky (we need another CB) but look at the difference normally if the front two dont score we are get nothing, but we took off both our 1st choice strikers off and the two who came on changed the game for us and got us something, cant remember the last time that happened??
chin up lads another 45 games to go!
Keep the Faith please, dont start getting on there backs already
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Infuriating does not begin to describe some of you. We go 2-1 down and its MICK OUT! Loyal fans are you? If we start winning I bet you will be first to be singing our praises. Save you pessimism! All in all a satisfactory result!
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“Sam Vokes plays a one-two with Chris Iwelumo before slotting home”.
Who knows, if either of them had had longer on the pitch they might have slotted one or two more home. I cannot understand the logic of persisting with players (Keogh and Ward) who didn’t do well enough last year when there are new (Vokes/Iwelumo) or better (Jarvis) players who should be given their chance while they are fresh and eager to play.
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shatpankwolves said: Aug 9th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
but still got a point better than we got first game of last season!!
You’re right. We should have got three first game last season and after the match Mick said something like there was nothing to worry about, it was how we did over 46 games that mattered. Ultimately, those points cost us the playoffs. Let’s hope we don’t miss by two points or less this year.
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rubbish result really, but promising partnership with Vokes and Iwelumo. I don’t think we’ll struggle with Strikers this season.
Dodgy defense, whats up with Craddock? The most experienced player we’ve got and he sounded terrible.
Conditions as they were don’t help but please Mick get a centre half in with some pace and awareness and play Jarvis instead of Ward.
- We all know Ward is a striker not a winger.
COME ON ME BABBIES!
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terry’s not getting any at home, plus you are extremely think u absolute moron
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E.Ward scored a penalty. Woopey Doo.
A Centre Half from Walsall aint going to take us up.
What you need, is a premiership kid on loan.
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Amazing
No one at the game listening to a radio and the teams crap????
Get a life, anyone heer with these negative comments needs to stay away from the Molineux, you cannot honestly consider yourselves supporters.
Never seem to win in Plymouth a points good.
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Ward over Jarvis. Just the sort of rubbish choices that Mad Mick made all last season, seems that nothing has changed!
I don’t want to see Mick sacked in January… it would be much better in November so that still have a chance of doing something with this season!
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Padwulf or whatever your name is, I suggest you go on any of our articles and see how many immature comments there are from dingles. It’s banter and it looks like you fell for it hook, line and sinker.
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M.J should have started ward no chance. we need a good c/b just shoun today they was pulled all over the place.so please M.M get a c/b in now before its to late.nice one sam.
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a point is away is ok,but the lack of a another centre half to go with stearman is so obvious,craddock is a poor choice as capt as he is not good enough to be in the team,and i don`t understand ward starting above jarvis,i did say this after the blackburn game
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80 shatpankwolves
All last season you made scurrilous attacks at fans who were realistically coming to grips the the sad state of the club.
Once again, this season, you are trying to spin the truth!
Just go away and get a truth pill. Then come back again and earn some respect from the reglar posters!
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Head 2 head
Aug 9, 2008 Championship Plymouth Argyle FC 2 – 2 Wolverhampton
May 4, 2008 Championship Wolverhampton W… 1 – 0 Plymouth Argyle FC
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Jan 7, 2006 FA Cup Wolverhampton W… 1 – 0 Plymouth Argyle FC
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Why on earth should we expect to just go there and beat them, we have not done that for four years!
Good result today I say.
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god sake its first game of season and we got a draw away from home. We are not gona win every game am we. Atleast give chance for the new players to gel in abit before you start slating mick.
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Most fans already seem to have picked up on the basic flaws missed by our management.
Playing a striker on the wing is perhaps less effective than playig a winger on the wing. If you don’t believe in the existing winger, then sign one you do have faith in.
Letting defenders leave the club and not signing any experienced replacements will most likely result in a weaker defence.
All that said, it was the first match of the season and snap judgements are something we Wolves fans are ever so guilty of.
Many positives to be taken from the match, not least of all the fact we managed to avoid defeat at an away match on opening day.
Here’s to another rollercoaster season.
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Here we go another start and everyone complaining.
A draw away from home is a good start for any team. How would you all feel if we lost at home to Doncaster as per the Rams.
Support Mick and the guys that we have especially at home otherwise supporters will be our own worst enemy. Also, take a look at the PAFC official web site and you will read unbiased articles and they were happy to get a point.
Last season you critised Breen yet some of you shout for his recall!!
To fight back twice was a great achievement and remember we have no divine right to get automatic promotion. We were but are no longer ‘the big time charlies’.
Yes the defence sounds a problem but none of the Championship teams have a great defence and even some of you were calling for Collins to be introduced. Come on, in your eyes all we did was give the bloke stick all the time last season
We saw today the importance of a squad and even the chubby SEB being substituted. Support MM and if things are not going well by Xmas yes of course he will be out and replaced by Ince because unfortunately he has have bitten off more than he can chew.
This season is a marathon not a 100 yard sprint.
Wolves fans have a shameful reputation of not supporting their team enough unless they are winning and top of the league.
My prediction is a top six spot but there again many will see that as failure.
Home support is the key and booing players is just childish behaviour.
Get behind them all the time against Sheff Wed and watch out for Leon Clarke, a wounded animal can be very dangerous.
Take care guys from a Wolves supporter of more than 40 years at present based in Seoul – South Korea. My surname is Wagstaff withouT an E and many of you will the remember the great waggy with an E ‘for excellance, entertaining and excitement.
Keep supporting our team and the manager. – Korean Wolf
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82. I agree with you entirely, new players have come in and are eager to play and most are left warming the bench,..my only fear is if Stearman dosnt improve quick he will find himself on the bench and then we know who will be in….Collins!
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