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Sylvan backed to be 30 goal man
Thursday 12th February 2009, 11:20AM GMT.
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake has been told he’s got another 10 goals in him this season to fire Wolves to automatic promotion.
The 20-goal hitman has been hurting this week after his penalty miss cost Wolves a point at Coventry last Saturday.
A stomach bug then cost him the chance to put the incident behind him on Tuesday, when he was forced to withdraw from the England under-21s squad who lost 3-2 to Ecuador in Spain.
But his Wolves team-mates have rallied to his cause and left-back Stephen Ward reckons the 22-year-old can hit the 30-goal mark, smashing the 23-goal tally that earned him the Championship’s Golden Boot last season.
Ward said: “Definitely – that’s the striker he is. He’s been different class this season and I’ve no doubt he’ll get a few more goals for us over the rest of the season.
“He’s one of the best strikers I’ve ever played with. He’s an out and out goalscorer, he wants to score goals and I think he always will.
“It was unfortunate for him on Saturday, but he’ll definitely bounce back as soon as possible.”
Fifteen-goal strike partner Chris Iwelumo, himself out of sorts after 11 appearances without hitting the net, believes Ebanks-Blake deserves credit for his bravery, in even taking the 94th minute spot-kick.
Iwelumo said: “Of course he’ll bounce back. I think it was a testament to him that he stepped up to take it, but that’s what he’s all about.He’s just got goals in him all the time.”
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sylvan ebanks blake is by far the best striker in the football league.
he will bounce back and soon be banging the goals in!
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He will need more than 10 goals to get us promotion at the rate they going in at the other end!
Still I will take 10 one nils and him scoring the only goals in them! Still only 10 Wins away from promotion!
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If SEB scores 30 goals we will no doubt go up, so keep going mate you can do it!
A few more chipping in won’t hurt either.
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good luck to him, should beat last years 23 easy.
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30 goals wont guarantee wolves promotion. We need to keep a clean sheet, we would be halfway there in winning a match.
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Don’t worry Sylvan, every Wolves fan is behind you. You can miss 10 penalties for all i care. We still won’t boo you. Your safe unlike some of the other half hearted muppets we have at Wolves.
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SEB will score more than 10, so what missed a pen scored a lot more than hes missed.
Lets just get back to playing good football, produce the chances and see what happens.
Onwards and upwards
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The guys a legend. He will bounce back.
As for you Iwelumo… less chat in the local rag, a bit of shooting practice after training wouldnt go a miss!!
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WE’RE DOOMED….!
No we are not. The only sides playing well behind us are the Taffs – Cardiff and Swansea. Blues are not and Reading blow hot and cold.
The Tesco’s went up by scoring enough goals and so shall we but with an even better strike rate.
Ebanks-Blake will get another 10 and Vokes, Iwelumo and Keogh will chip in with another 10 plus I fancy Kites to get into double figures.
STOP THE NEGATIVITY!!!!
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back of the net !
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easily 30 goals, but hey , sylvan, when you get a penalty again with 10 seconds to go, take a 5 yard run up and hit the bloody thing as hard as you can!!! lol.. and number 2, this is about praising a player not slagging off the defence…get behind your team you drip!
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See the great S Ward chipped his comment in,
he is the idiot who teams are targeting the weak link, Not good enough for us along with your brothers Keogh and Collings, when we dont go up and Mad MM gets the sack he can take them 3 with him as part of his payment.
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5. Spot on, clean sheets are the key.
I don’t mind who scores the goals for Wolves even if it is Neil Collins!!!!
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i just hope they have worked out how not to give daft goals away keeper and back 4 note i would get a keeper on loan at burnley will be very hard they are due a win over we
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AGREE WITH WOLVESMOD.. THIS GUY IS PURE CLASS AND DESTINED TO BE ANOTHER WOLVES LEGEND.
SO WHAT IF HE MISSED A PENALTY, THIS GUY IS THE ONLY HOPE WE HAVE OF PROMOTION. AND IF THICK MICK PLAYS YOUNG SAMMY VOKES ALONG SIDE HIM..WE MAY WELL HANG ON TO AN AUTOMATIC PLACE.
EVERY WOLVES FAN KNOWS..IF WE MISS OUT ON PROMOTION THIS SEASON..THE BLAME LIES SQUARELY WITH THICK MICK’S SELECTIONS AND TACTICS..OUR MIDFIELD, DEFENCE AND GOALKEEPER. OUR STRIKERS GOT US TO THE TOP OF THE DIVISION.
OH AND DON’T FORGET US THE FANS..IF IT ALL GOES PEAR SHAPED..IT’LL BE OUR FAULT AS USUAL.
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Maybe if someone from centre midfield supplied him with through balls to run onto instead of playing sidewards and backwards that he would get 35 !! He has had to rely on the wingers or make his goals himself.
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Best striker I’ve seen in a Wolves shirt for many years.
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2. ” still only 10 wins away from promotion ”
Thats about 80 games or two seasons away on current form.
SACK THE MUPPET NOW !!!!
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Make sure you put a good shift in Ebanks or you won’t be offered a new contract.
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blake is the best since the bull,carry on mate and youll have a stand named after you,i dont see people on here giving mick credit for buying the lad,mick must take credit where it is due.we all need to get behind the boys,i travel from scotland down to all the home games to support my team WOLVES,say what you have to after the game,but during lets get behind them.COME ON WE CAN DO IT.
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He is not just a goalscorer though. His all round play is so impressive, he can hold off 2-3 defenders at a time with his stregth, his pace, his vision and awareness are superb. I read today that Wigan want to pay 10mil for him and kightly try 10 mil for sylvan cause this guy would be a handful in the prem and will be for the wolves next season when we are there. My other targets would be:
Gabbidon
Larrssonn
Carsley
Mancienne
Adam Johnson
Tom Huddlestone
Ridgewell
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Fair enough, but need a good contribution from elsewhere. Pin your ears back Mick and start Vokes against Burnley!!! Too many one man contributions in past, Bully, Johnny Richards.
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Seen the rumour about Wigan after Kites and SEB. If we don’t go up I fear they will be lost, otherwise Wigan are living in dreamland, we are a far bigger club than they will ever hope to be. They only entered the Football League in 1978!!!
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With our attacking blend of football another 10 SEB goals are well possible,however we must sort out the defensive problems even if this means sacrifices have to be made especially when playing away from home.6 Home wins 4 away plus 4 draws should see us home.
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Don’t worry Sylvan. We wont boo players who look like they want to score. Just keep putting a shift in thats the main thing
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Mick has blown it for us,constantly changing the side to accomodate his blue eyed uns..Now he has come up with the gem that Sam Vokes is nearing a start.All Keogh had to do is have an OK game against Brum and he was in,and Big Chriss out.Norwich must be laughing their socks off,,four points off us,a million quid for a player,then we give him back to them,what a joke..Iff the league table was for our last ten games we would be closer to bottom than top..And all you so called fans who think its not the thing to get on players backs,think again,,iff players earning top wages,in a great job are not comming up with the goods,kick them off the team,get rid of them,dont pat them on the back,kick them up the backside,thers too much mamby pamby on this site,how many times is it said lets get behind the lads,and how dare you criticize the poor players.Never mind all that,let the players and manager stand up and be counted,they have a great life,let the earn it like we have to,we pay top money,without us fans they would be joining the 2 million looking for jobs.
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No.12 stevebullwolf
Pardon????
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The dreaded kiss of death
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It Must be just me then.
I dont see him as pure class at all. I think he’s
slow to re-act and find him quite cumbersome.
Steve Bull he aint.
Personally, I think his lack of pace would show him up in the premiership.
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the only muppets are the ones who keep knocking mm i dont know why they turn up for matchdays and on web sites they are useless get behind the team
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All the comments we hear a fantastic, must improve, tighten up the defence, stop leaking goals, improve by 5 to 10 perecnt. Fantastic to hear because I don’t douubt each players commitment, and with all that in mind the inevitable turn-around will happen and I predict it will happen from this weekend against Burnley away.
As for SEB fantastic player great goal scorer and good on you for stepping up for the penalty. I was right behind the goal at Coventry when you took it and I thank you for your courage, keep up the good work and I do hope you get to 30 goals for the season if not more.
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11 – Nige I wasnt slagging off the defence. Stating a fact that we will need more than his goals, he has been only one that looks like he is going to score, he cannot take us up alone!
I do support my team going to all home games including any cup match whoever it against. And as many away games I can. Roll on Sheff Weds away after that I wont miss a single kick of our games!
18 – If you look at our remaining games I would say there is 8 matches we can win with “little trouble”
We play 2 twos in bottom 3 at home! 7 against teams in the bottom half (2 at home and 5 away)
Then I was say other 5 are “better” teams than the others but 3 are at home and 2 away! KEEP THE FAITH!
If we beat Blues and Cardiff that could counts as four wins!
12 – go away, S Ward has played well this season!
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100% 26
Iwelumo lose some weight, get your hair dyed Blonde, put some Girl boots on, dont score,dont tackle,Run around like a headless chicken, call Mad MM Dad, and you will be right back in the team, with your new brothers Ward Keogh and Collins, and you will even get a 5 year contract.
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Number 12, everyone, was not me. We have an imposter!
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Have to say i think…
kightly is a beckham type player
and Jarvis is a giggs type player
If we could only get them on form at the same time with the black steve bull up front (SEB) we wont struggle to score !!
Now the PROBLEM… the DEFENCE !
bring kieth cule bk to coach them or something.
Worryingly Stearman (my fav defender) got turned too easily AGAIN for England u21 last night.
Foley im happy with, Ward great if the rest is doing there job so he can go forward with them covering.
Berra / just wish his name was Manciene, not seen enuff to judge yet… but he WILL be judged.
That just leaves Hennesey who id drop IF we had any kind of REAL cover for him… POSSIBLY JOE HART from MAN CITY
BOTH gk and df can only stop leaking goals if they have confidence in each other.
Hennesey needs to be ALOT more vocal and aggressive coming to claim the ball, THEN and ONLY then, you will see a more confident defence too !!!
BRING BOBBY MIMMS (our old gk coach) BACK NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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29.) albion fan, er i mean richwolf
some people can not be pleased. what do you want the lad to do score 60 goals a season ?
bully he aint fair enuff, but name me a striker who comes closer to being compared with oh bully bully than SEB !
if we dont go up id hold out for 10 million for him because thats how much i value him in a wolves shirt not just as a striker.
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laughingwolf
RIDGEWELL HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
You got to be joking!
In fact the rest of the players mentioned would not be at wolves :-
Gabbidon Too Old
Larrssonn Nah, he prob go to Wigan
Carsley We already got 1 brum reject!
Mancienne He’ll go on to be 1st teamer at chelsea
Adam Johnson No chance!
Tom Huddlestone Possibly but far too slow and would not fit in the MM mould of putting in a shift requirements
Ridgewell Please read about Carsley
Best you have a lie down.
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The Coventry keeper must have watched the E-bay videos – straight down the middle every time; even so, if he had bashed it with his usual venom then no chance!!
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Correct me if I am wrong but I think Bully only ever took one penalty for us and he missed it.
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29 – If you aren’t an albion fan, then why o why do you watch wolves?
Ive seen some slow reacting, combersome players in my time, infact – here’s a list :
Mark Atkins
Steve Corica
Steve Claridge
Bob Taylor
Kevin Kyle
Tim Steele
Steve Sledgley
John Paskin
I could go on.
How long have you been watching Wolves to not think this guy is, at the very least & comparativley to past Wolves players, a decent player ???
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I DONT KNOW WHO THE CLOWN POSING AS ME IS BUT HE TALKS SOME RUBBISH…..IVE BEEN IN OZZ FOR 3 MONTHS…I COME BACK AND SOME IDIOT IS POSING AS ME TRYING TO UNDERMINE MY INTELLIGENCE!!!
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Have you all missed it ?
22 Stoke Wolves “Too many one man contributions in the past, Bully, Johnny Richards”
Slightly potty in Stoke,Pal. I seem to remember chaps called Andy Mutch and Derek Dougan.
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Get Collins back in the team for Burnley to shore up the defense.
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29
What planet are you on???
Slow to react?? Unbeleiveable!!!!!
You truly are an absolute clown, who talks cr*p & doesn’t understand what they are watching!!!
Good bye
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Have never commented on this site even though i enjoy reading posts on here, but Rich No.29 has prompted to do so, Do u go to games?? SEB is different class that’s coming from a season ticket holder for the past 10 years who has seen both Bully and SEB play, you are an absolute muppet mate.. absolute muppet
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21. Sorry none of those that you have mentioned haven’t put in a shift for the Black Cats. Are not of Irish descent and are all decent footballers. In other words they don’t fit McCarthy’s profile.
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SEB you better score 40 the way we are playing at the back. Not as though you can rely on Iwelumo to bag his share either is it?
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seb is a class player and a good signing, credit to mick for signing him, hope he does hit 30.there will be a few vultures from the prem circling if we don’t make it to the promised land this season but we must hang on to all our star players promoted or not.still think we failed to capitalise on being 9 points clear at the top by strengthening the midfield,as we desperately need an attacking central midfielder and maybe mancienne as he could also fill in at left back as hill has not impressed me. ward’s done quite well but it would be nice to see someone with a bit of pace as ward struggles against the better players in the division.COME ON WOLVES WE CAN STILL WIN THIS LEAGUE lets just go on one of those unbeaten runs like earlier in the season.
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