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Albion learn from Luke Moore flop
Wednesday 8th September 2010, 10:59AM BST.
Albion chairman Jeremy Peace admits the club’s Luke Moore nightmare has helped shape a new transfer strategy at the Hawthorns.
The Baggies are preparing to take a hit on the £3.5million former Villa striker, now on the outside looking in after being omitted from Albion’s 25-man Premier League squad.
That has left the one-time England prospect looking for a career-rescuing loan to the Championship or beyond, while wearing the label of the club’s most expensive flop.
Peace admits the loss his club will suffer on a striker whose five goals have each cost Albion £700,000 has shaped future transfer planning.
The Baggies have focused this summer’s search on players who did not command big transfer fees, helping the club extend its wages package.
Peace says: “We’ve had Luke who came in for £3.5million, Leon Barnett who came in for £2.9million, although to be fair they were a few years ago.
“People make mistakes but I’m sure we’ll be fine from now. There will always be mistakes in the transfer market but hopefully we can cut down on them. It’s part of the club moving on and getting stronger.
“Perhaps it’s because of what we paid for Luke that this is one of the reasons we’re not paying big transfer fees, but now looking at paying more on wages.”
Sporting and technical director Dan Ashworth has sympathy for the 24-year-old, who was given a fresh chance by head coach Roberto Di Matteo a year ago but faded as the promotion line neared.
Ashworth is still optimistic Moore will find a fresh start elsewhere – Ipswich are among the interested parties – and said: “We’ve had some interest in Luke but not a firm offer.
“Ideally we want to get him out on loan and I’m sure we will.”
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Be honest he’s ready for footballs knackers yard.
~~~~BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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JP……The man who never made a mistake either never made a decision or never lived. The important part of making mistakes is learning from them and not repeating them (to oftern).
We have moved on enormously in the last few years and now have the best squad since the 70s (on paper). We now have to get on the pitch and do the business. No one can say the Chairman, Dan Ashworth and Manager (Coach) hav’nt done there bit now its for the players when they cross that “white line”.
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what about the valero flop! another 5m wasted! thats 11.5m wasted!
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Seriously, we need to move on from this situation. I do feel some sympathy for Luke, yes he has been a poor addition to the team and yes he has cost the club a lot of money, but lets move on.
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Can’t help feeling a bit sorry for him hearing this sort of stuff.
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i think weev got off light compared to wolfs,they have spent millions on strikers who cant score,voaks,fletcher,blake,doyul,at least we can off load him, whos gunna buy there players, they stuck with um, aye boing boing
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Do McDonalds take loanings ?
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I know i am going to wind up the Peace brigade, but was it not Mr Peace who saddled us with Moore in the Davies deal ?.
Mr Peace then states the club has learned from previous mistakes but did we not try and sign Djemba Djemba this summer ?.
I await my punishment.
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It could have been worse.So far,the ‘new’ wolves strikers are probably averaging about £5 million per goal.Oh dear.
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luke moore came in as part of the curtis davies deal !!! so neither villa or us did any good, moore is so frustrating he easily has the ability but not the motivation i would bet he will be succesful elsewhere !!!!( in his first ganes he hit the bar and the post if those had gone in who knows!!!!)
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Wall Heath
Come on lets be fair, nobody knows how Djemba-Djemba would’ve got on. He’s admitting there have been mistakes (and always will be), we’ve tried doing it differently and arguably done some good business this summer, I’m not sure what you would expect him to say or do?
My only gripe with this article is that whether we like it or not, Moore and Barnett are still Albion players, and worst-case scenario may still have a part to play if we suffer badly with injuries and suspensions. It strikes me as odd for JP to hang those two out to dry whilst they’re still at the club.
P.S. Did Peace choose Moore?? Maybe you know something I don’t, but as far as I was aware, JP doesn’t identify our transfer targets?
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Cantello Rocket 78
Ebanks Blake – Cost £1.5M average just under £4,000 a goal, probably worth £5 million?
Doyle – Cost £6.5M avergae £700,000 a goal. worth £9 – 12M?
Fletcher – unfair to comment after a few games…fair enough?
This is not a Baggies V Wolves thing, you’ve got Luke Moore worth a few pence at most and Graham Dorrans cost next to nothing worth £7 Million? This is just facts which you dont seem to have!! Just a lazy post!
For what Its worth I think we’ll both stop up.
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SIR TERRY BAGGIE
Youre even worse…shouldnt you be back at School by now?
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Come on, be fair it is wrong to compare Curtis and Luke. Luke isn’t as skilled as Curtis at shooting his mouth off and lacks the ability to stroke his own ego so effectively.
The Villians thought they’d killed two birds with one stone; got rid of a problem and brought a star of the future. The Albion thought they’d recreate characters from English literature – Scrooge and Dr Doolittle.
Both came to regret their haste.
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9 Yeah, it could be worse we could have a goals for 1 – goals against 7 record so far!
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Sad baggie, valero has been sold back for a slight profit, genius by peace. Anyway, forget moore, scharner is the man. What a fantastic signing, this guy will make us tick. Paul scharner, player of the season, get your specs and coloured wigs ready for the last away game. Legend already.
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Valero is a skillful player who is suited to Spanish football and not the Premiership. We received loan fees for him last season and will, it seems, eventually make a profit, albeit after a few years. Not quite the same as losing probably over 2.5 million on Moore plus his wages over three years. Then again, Villa will have to take a massive loss on Curtis Davis. He isn’t the player they thought he was!
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On the other Albion article by Dan Ashworth which we are not able to comment on, it is nice to actually have some information from people at the club which helps us to understand what they are thinking and how things are done. I know they can’t give information all the time especially who they are chasing in the transfer market, for fear of alerting other clubs, as has happened a few times, but a bit more information released at times uring the season would help relieve some of the frustration we fans feel when we know absolutely nothing
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WHAT!?! i love him (sob)
you’re all wrong!
our luke will come good, just you wait…
ALWAYS believe in luke moore
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13, mr fickle, the truth hurts does it,it will hurt even more when we send you down aye boing boing
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15,dont worry we will soon turn that round against yow bunch of league 2 players, aye boing boing
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12. You may as well save your breath with Cantello. Attempting to talk reason with him (?) is futile I’m afraid…
I think the less said about Terry (JTH?) the better..
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WARREN
I have been led to believe that Moore was a makeweight in the Davies deal and was a player that Mowbray did not want.
As for Djemba Djemba i am just glad he did not come and yes we have signed some good players since that farcial incident.
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I feel sorry for luke because he is a championship league player and you should keep him cos you will be in it next year hay terry boggie.
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TB – Is it only the back of your head that you use when typing posts on the E&S blogs? Most of your drivel makes no sense whatsoever…
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3. We made a profit on him.
There will always be some money wasted, but that happens at every club.
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We can all make mistakes with players. I know it its important to you lot because you cant AFFORD to. Where as we, on the other hand…..CAN. Still smileing ( Think ive got a catch phrase )Gota be betta than boing boing, thats sooo last year
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22 billyfish-I find it a bit rich that you come on the Albion posts each day having a pop at everyone connected to the club,yet when I have a go back,you say I can’t be reasoned with?Maybe your time would be better spent elsewhere,like finding out why wolves have lost 1,500 season ticket holders this season,while Albion have 1,500 new season holders?Wait a minute…could it be….?
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luke moore from day 1 was a waste of space time and money,someone somewhere is laughing his head off,3.5 million plus 1 mill wages grand fraud if ever i saw it ,good luck too him anyway he has milked the golden cow
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i reckon once he goes on loan he will be on fire, watch this space!!!!!
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No 8 you are dead right mate it was Mr Peace that brought Luke Moore to the Baggies not the Manager, it was all tied up with Curtis deal, not initially but later. Though Robson wanted Barnett. The latter did not work out which happens but the former was never that good at Villa.
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I do feel sorry for Moore having all this stick off us(then again the most prospering moment was when he hit the post against liverpool 2 seasons ago).
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Warren
Again away too long to reply in the same story. That pub you mentioned sounds great. I’m not sure how you can let me know which pub in Failsworth it is but I can asure you me and the wife will be taking a few more weekend excursion’s to that area this season.
Thanks for the tip!
As for Luke Moore, I’m a big fan of JP and his astute business sense but I’m not sure describing Moore as an expensive mistake will get the phone ringing off the hook. Or mybe this is part of a cunning plan.
Boing Boing.
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Let’s get things in perspective. Tony Mowbray had his team play football the way it SHOULD be played, going all out to win. In today’s football you can have 80% possession and lose 1-0. Parking the bus is the order of the day. I don’t like it, but we’re stuck with it. JP backed Mowbray above and beyond the call of duty, but we did get two visits to Wembley plus a promotion and it was fun. Great fun. There were more than enough dodgy purchases to frighten the life out of an accountant, yet somehow, we stayed viable as a Company. That was no accident and also just imagine the howls of frustration and rage had JP NOT backed him. We’ve just built the equivalent of The Queen Mary and yet the flak until days ago was non-stop! Whether Mowbray wanted Luke Moore or not is irrelevant. With his background we thought he’d come good in a pure footballing team. Nor will I subscribe to the ‘Davies was useless’ school. He wasn’t, he was a potential England player but his head got too big for his hat and blurred his vision. Barnett was a bit of a gamble in that Luton finding TWO top class centre halves so easily was a big ask. He may yet make a fine Championship player but that’s not to be sniffed at. We’ve got three points out of nine and still some frightening away matches in the immediate future. We, the crowd, must hold our nerve, keep positive, because the team is going to get a thorough examination. Roberto will have his methods tested too. It will be white knuckle for a few weeks.
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Peace seems to forget how many clubs we have sold duds to for inflated prices.
Greening
Koumas
Davies
kamara
Valero
Robinson
Non of the above have better their careers away from use. Greening has a europa league runners up medal but he was a sub for the whole season.
Its swings and roundabouts and we got lumbered with moore, who was a make weight for a vastly overpriced davies.
Its unfair of peace to mention barnett, he figured heavily for us until last season and has contributed to our uprising.
My mrs brother went to ask moore for his shirt after a game last season, didnt give him the shirt but gave him £40 to buy a new one from the club shop. He asked David Bentley a few seasons ago for a augograph, he pushed past him and nearly knocked him over.
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Why are we trying to cover for Luke.
He is not interested is a pretty poor stiker no one in the Championship will be interested. Probably conference is his level. Tell it straight even the manager tried to cover for him. A poor signing by JP as part of the Davies deal, went wrong get rid. Attitude stinks, dont want him around reserves or kids to disrupt them.
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I dont actually think Luke Moore is as bad
as people are making out,the kid tryed his
heart out last season and if it wasnt for him
hitting the post and bar on the odd occasion
he could easily have hit double figures.
If Albion fans want to see a lazy,always injured,cant be botherd,one footed turkey,
then take a look at Ishamel Miller.
How did our fans expect Luke Moore to perform
at 100% when they were booing the guy before he even stepped out on the feild.If I was a
Championship manager I`d snap him up quickly
as he`s got pace,2 decent feet,and can be
very good at linking the play.
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MY ALBION TEAM FOR SPURS:
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CARSON
JARA+TAMAS+OLSSON+SHOREY
S.REID+MULUMBU+DORRANS+SCHARNER+BRUNT
ODEMWINGIE.
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SUBS:MYHILL+IBANEZ+BARNES+TCHOYI+BEDNAR
ZUIVERLOON+FORTUNE.
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22 BillytheFish.
How you can come on here and accuse anybody after your recent childish spat with JackTheHat is, well! beyond words.Just grow up and keep to the dark side.
I would like to join the debate but I’ve got a plane to catch,see you all Saturday.
Adeu
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27.LoneWolf. Look sonny, we are being EXTREMELY tolerant with your somewhat childish comments and can SMILE at your wonderful new catchphrase which is so funny I almost wet myself laughing, (not too difficult at my age), but FOR THE LOVE OF MICMAC STOP PUTTING AN ‘e’ IN ‘SMILING’.
It’s making you seem illiterate and driving me to drink.
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27 lonewolf-I know most clubs make mistakes in buying certain players,but who can you blame at wolves for buying a mistaken COMPLETE SQUAD??
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27 lone wolf-I notice you didn’t answer my questions from a previous thread-if wolves are so ‘big and rich’,how come Albion beat you almost every time we play?And are you embarrassed that such a ‘big’ club as wolves have massively underachieved for years?You’re not lost for words,are you?
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it comes to summut wen im getin insults about my post off billy the crab, aye boing boing
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i know we go on about Luke moore but we all knew how bad he was, maybe the wolfs can explain why the next best thing since sliced bread and future ingland super star kites is being loaned out to a league 1 club,aye boing boing,ps dont mention Robbo
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43 . Bit like your sooper midfielder, subbed twice already and showing he is out of his depth…
As for Robbo? Well let’s wait until Henry gets hold of your triangle priddy fotball playing midfielders shall we?
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I bet 6ft4 eyes of blue Scharner is quacking in his boots at the thought of facing lenny,AYE BOING BOING UP THE TABLE THE RDM WAY IN STYLE OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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Is that the one who has a clause in his contract that he can leave when he’s had enough? What is it, 20k a week, he can leave when he wants, and promised a midfield role (rather than defence where Wigan fans reckon he’s a better player) What did you do? let him right his own contract??
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billythepish, wait till Scharner gets hold of Henry. Oh boy he going to be crying like a baby. And should Henry dare to try his 2 footed leg breakers on Somen Tchoyi then he better be looking over his shoulder rest of the game.
You see you haven`t met our big boys yet have you. Thats right we`ve bought 2 talented, hard as nails giants to protect our tippy tappy whizkids, who in turn will feed the ball to the fastest, trickiest forward you`ve ever seen. Correct, we`re talking the one and only Odemwingie.
Think its going to take more than your headless chicken Henry to stop us, but good luck all the same.
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It’s not just Moore though is it ? Flops’R'Us are also trying desperately to unload Cox and Kiwi. No lessons learned there then JP !
You lot ought to do something about Jack the Hat. He keeps coming onto our site with what he seriously thinks is humour. He’s a complete embarrassment to you…even worse he sometimes tries to give his opinion on football.Actually thats quite funny he does keep us in the black country amused.
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heres a thing for ya,billy the squid is insulting me one minute next minute hes tryin to make conversation with me,i know they all love me really aye boing boing
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47, im loving it,game set n match hey billy eel aye boing boing
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dont mention Jordao aye boing boing shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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47. Who are you trying to convince? me or yourself? lol
You’ve biught two ‘big boys’ have you? lol…
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35 JD
Whilst i agree with you about securing inflated fees for the above players, i couldn`t disagree with you more about them being duds.
With the exception of Valero (Who, incidently has bettered himself away from the Hawthorns)
served us VERY well in their time with us.
DLB
I agree with you also about some of the treatment Moore got.
However you then invalidate a good point by a vitriolic attack on Miller, it`s all a bit duplicitous.
44 Harry the Haddock
I could point out the flaws in your comment, but it`s pointless.
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BillythePish – haha thats a better name, much more apt.
Hey billypish is karla Henry really your best player?? puts a good shift in does he? I think your midfield is light years behind albions and I fear for your survival this year. You must win your home games against bottom half teams, and you might have done if karla had put his foot on the ball, looked up and passed it to a forward. But oh no this guy chrges round winning throw ins for the other side. Is he really your best player??
Should be quite funny watching scharner against him.
Is he really your best player??
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well come on billy the puffafish,is he really your best player,aye boing boing
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Yeah!It was probably a bit harsh on Ishmael
Miller but its so frustrating with Albion
fans always getting on Moore`s back,I woudlnt
mind but when Miller trips over the ball or
miss palces a pass our fans wouldnt bat an
eye lid.
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MY ALBION TEAMS FOR SPURS:
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CARSON,JARA,TAMAS,OLSSON,SHOREY,
BRUNT,MULUMBU,DORRANS,THOMAS,ODEMWINGIE,
FORTUNE.
SUBS:MYHILL,IBANEZ,S.REID,SCHARNER,TCHOYI,
BARNES,BEDNAR.
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CARSON,JARA,TAMAS,OLSSON,SHOREY,
BRUNT,MULUMBU,SCHARNER,THOMAS,DORRANS,
ODEMWINGIE.
SUBS:MYHILL,IBANEZ,S.REID,TCHOYI,BARNES,
BEDNAR,FORTUNE.
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48 cuddles-do you realise the rubbish you come out with?You say we are desperate to unload the ‘kiwi’.This is Chris Wood,who is only 18,and recently turned the Italian defence inside out at the world cup finals.There are 10 championship clubs that want him on loan,he is a hot prospect,the kid has got class-AND,to show the quality of Albion’s squad,he is our SEVENTH choice striker.Of course,wolves have four strikers,including blues reserve Bent…ha ha ha!
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Dave, Terry
I think that was Kightly or Matt Murray
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57. I think in the attacking department Wolves are well equipped. I would love Ebanks Blake, Fletcher or Doyle at Albion and from a footballing point of view they are better than Bednar, Cox and Fortune but Karl Henry is no Paul Scharner!
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Where’s that General off Monty Python’s Flying Circus that used walk on and say ‘stop it this is getting silly’ when you need him?
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59
I have my suspicions, but ignoring those for the time being.
Ebanks Blake.
He is now the new, next best thing.
However, a few short months ago he was useless acording to most Wolves fans (something uniquley typicaly wolf)
Fletcher
he did very well at Burnley, time will tell if he can have the same impact at Wolves, who are not so expansive as Burnley were.
Doyle
Absolute quality, he could walk into far better teams than the Wolves.
To quote Del Boy, he is the creme-del-a-menth, so i would agree in his case.
Bednar managed to score a few goals during our last sortie in the Premier league, probably equivelent to the above mentioned.
Cox hasn`t had too many games, so a little unfair to judge, but i think he does have the attributes.
Fortune will be a big player for us this year.
And finaly, may i remind you of Odemwingie and Thcoyi,
both of whom i would rather have than E Blake and Fletcher.
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61. Wolves fan in peace here.
How were Burnley more expansive? Wolves have played 4-4-2 in every game this season and we are unbeaten and scored in every match?
Odemwingie – Hasnt ever played at a decent club and only TIME will tell if he is good enough.
Thcoyi – As you open admitted yourself you never saw him play before he joined Albion so blue n white tinted glasses on there I think.
From an unbias point of view the only Albion players that could get into Wolves team are Morrison (whilst Hunt is injured) and that is it. Dorrans will find the step up hard as the championship was woeful last season hence Blackpools promotion with the same side that nearly got relegated the season before.
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For all connoiseurs of irony.
Have a look at Wolves site, the article about Jezz explaining their drop in season tickets this year.
Laughing Wolf having a go at Jack the Hat for supposedly posting under a false name.
Wonder how he came by that idea Shadrag?
Priceless.
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57) Sprocket 78. Even England could have turned that Italian defence inside out. The Kiwi’s did as well as they did because of their defence not one flash in the pan from a novice.
What about Cox then ?
As for Bent, too early to judge, but, he wasn’t half bad at Everton and as a fourth striker he’ll be more than useful thank you very much. When RDM approached the Blouses he didn’t want to go to the HawHawHawthornes, or didn’t you hear that ?
I presume Jack the Hat is away at the library looking up big words.
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Worrow LAUGHINGWOLF,
Back again with your stupid remarks.
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sos,
We’ll see how your lot get on with CELSEA and how many players you have left on the park at full time, parking the bus or not.
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Billyfishy,
The way you go on about Sir Terry and myself,
Then state” the less said about us the better
Is showing up your ” FORKED TOUNGE “.
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Whats “Biught” LoL.
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Henry will soon be having his shower then?,
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CR 78,
Yes it is, they’ve decided they want to watch FOOTBALL.
(46)
Would Sharner say he liked midfield if he was better at defending ?. PLONKER.
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CD,
Cox and Wood are better than any kids wolves
have got coming through.
So you don’t like me on your site giving my
opinion, Yeh. Just like you’re on here giving yours, you mean?. Another unbalanced Mind.
~~~~BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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62
Back to you in peace.
Yes you are unbeaten, and yes you have scored in every game thus far, and yes you have had a solid start to the season, fair play.
With all due respect, you have yet to play any of the percieved leading lights of the division, where i expect you will do a little bit of Bus parking.
Burnley, to their downfall, employed a similarly flawed tactic as we did on our previous Pemiership campaign.
Mowburyesque gung-ho.
Against Sunderland and Liverpool, Odemwingie genuinely looked “the part” but you are right, time will indeed tell.
As with Tchoyi (whom incidently i had seen before, so i am unsure when i admitted never having seen him) but what i have seen i WOULD rather have those two than Blake and Fletcher.
Loved the bit about blue n white tinted spectacles, followed by your unbiased opinion that only Morrison, whilst Hunt is injured would get into your team.
Obviously they do these tinted specs in Gold n Black too.
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65. Scharner couldnt get into Wigans midfield and they played him at centre back as he is better in that position.
66. Who would be your suggestions that would get into wolves starting 11? I think Shorey probably would at the moment.
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WELL BILLYTHETROUT IS HE aye boing boing
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62 Unbeaten Wolf
I fail to see your reason in believing that only James Morrison would get into the Wolves team. The whole of the Albion squad is packed with international talent and will improve with experience of playing in the Premier League. In addition to that the quality of football played at The Hawthorns is as different to chalk from cheese compared with the fare your lot serve up , which is probably why your season ticket sales have dipped. Before you quote the economic situation ,it’s no different in West Bromwich or other parts of the Black Country. People will not pay hard to find money to watch rubbish which is mostly what you served up last season.
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they really need that 40,000 seater stadium dont they, must be having more Jehovers witness meetings, aye boing boing
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Unbeaten Wolf
Peter Odemwingie has played for Lille in the
UEFA Champions league knockout stages against
AC MILAN at the San Siro stadium where he scored 2 goals for them,Lokomotiv Moscow was
another club he played for scoring bag fulls
of goals with the likes of Birmingham and
Spurs lodging 8M pound bids.
His International record is pretty impressive
with him been named one of the best 11 players
to be involved in the 2010 African Nations Cup
and having World Cup experience in this years
competion.
You may have noticed that all Albion fans are
exited by the addition of Peter Odemwingie
and its down to fact that we know he`s going
to be one of the best players ever to grace
the Hawthorns turf.Wolves fans can keep the
old crock Fletcher and Doyle because Albion
have an even better talent who only cost 2.5M,
but do let that fool you cause if he was 5
years younger you would be looking at a 10M
football player.
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65. dunno whats celsea?
rofl..
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72 billjellyfish, where you been last few hours,organising your end of season party,it wont be long now will it we already in september, aye boing boing
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billthecod, we have sold more season tickets than you FACT,proper fans wud sooner see proper football than a bus parked up,FACT aye boing boing
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Dear Billythefish.
It’s a good job you’re not righting, sorry writing anybodys contract.
No one would be able to understand it!!
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Off topic i know, but how can the likes of W.b.a. and Wolves ever compete with the likes of Mufc, Real madrid Barca ect ? WE MERGE ! 1. first we play our home games at our brand new state of the art ground ( thanks stevo ) 2. we sell your ground and with the proffits we will buy a second hand burger van for out side of the Mol. Or we could play it clever and wait for the scrap metal price to rise again and make a killing with all that corrugated steel. 3. We loan out all your players to lower leauges where they will feel more at home. 4. What strip do we play in ? Well, we need one thats world famous and looks great. Gold and black it is then. Just to fair to you stripies, the wash tag in the back of the shirts can be Blue n white stripes. 5. THE BIG ONE. What shall we call ourselves ? West brom wanderers or Wolverhampton Albion dont sound rite does it / So we take the W from West, get rid of the W from Wolverhampton and put your W there insted. Sounds good to me. What do you think ?
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65) Jack the Hat
On the contrary, I love you on our site, showing what a complete ignoramus you are. Keep the stuff coming it’s better than anything I used to read in the Beano.
Don’t worry you’re not alone read 69).
You have a rival. Holding my sides here !
And unbalanced mind ? Don’t mistake me for a Tesco season ticket holder.
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billy the smelly kipper, yam goin’ down with blackpool & the ‘ammers! yam wont come back up, you’ll be back in the bottom divisions soon like the good old days in the 80′s until we gave you bully to save ya!!
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4-4-2 Wolf
HAHNEMANN,ZUBAR,CRADDOCK,BERRA,S.WARD,
VAN DAMME,JONES,HENRY,JARVIS,DOYLE,
EBANKS-BLAKE.
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That Wolves team doesnt exactly fill me with
fear,all of those players are the ones from
last season apart from Van Damme.I cant wait
until you play a footballing side like Fulham
then lets see if the dingles are as cocky when
they give you a 3-1 beating.
If youre telling me you wouldnt take
MORRISON,BRUNT,DORRANS,JARA,CECH,SHOREY,then
you would be telling porky pies.
I JUST WISH ALBION HAD MARCUS BENT THOUGH!!!
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Bully,
You’ve got to read it to believe it. The times I post on the dark side using my own
“nom de guerre” and out of the blue LAUGHINGWOLF
has another brainstorm. Obviously his mental health problem hasn’t been rectified.
Thats wolves cheapo early-bird season tickets
gone for next season. Expect another ten thousand more empty seats. They’ll be closing
one of theit stands down and only open it when we visit. All the best.
~~~~BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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Something more important than all the above stuff. Ron Hatpins has got the credit for signing Cyrille Regis yet again! HE won’t deny it because it would look like he made at least ONE good signing for the Albion. Cyrille was signed by RONNIE ALLEN. GOT IT ?
RONNIE ALLEN. In case you missed that:
RONNIE ALLEN SIGNED CYRILLE REGIS FOR ALBION !
There, now I feel better.
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To all the Wolves fans that are saying Scharner is a better defender than midfeilder.
Wigan had a talented group of players last season and have done for a good few years now.
They still have a pretty decent squad but they have fallen short of thier potential. They have money and they have talent so the only reason for thier short comings must be atributed to mis-management.
Martinez played Scharner out of position even though the player knew he was better employed in a midfeild role. The result is a team who end up fighting relegation when they should’ve been comfortable.
RDM is no fool. He will play Scharner where he thinks he will be effective and I trust his decision.
Also, can Wolves fans stop saying that Wigan dropped Scharner when he refused to re-sign for them and ended up coming to us? It just shows the lack of real knowlege some people come onto this site and comment with.
I don’t doubt that Doyle is a fantastic striker, SEB was cracking at championship level but he won’t carry on his purple patch for long in the prem but Fletcher is not the player you seem to think he is.
Beware the Baggies Wolves fans, I think you’ve written us off too soon.
Boing Boing
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Love the fact that you have resorted to name calling, shows you don’t really have an argument!!
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You don’t need long drawn out reasons, I feel sorry for him’s and oh jp this jp that.
Villa off loaded him to us for the same reason we want to offload him now. In professional footballing terms :-
HE’s CRAP !
and
WE WERE SUCKERED (BIG TIME)!
End of story.
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Morning Cyril – I would normally never question anything you say on these pages as your memory is far better than mine – but I always thought it was John Giles who signed Big Cyrille after Ronnie Allen “spotted” him…. but I may well be wrong (again).
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Anybody know who signed Cyril regis,aye boing boing
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76 Lonewolf (I wonder why you are alone?). Your spelling is atrocious, the confusion of your mind, total, your concepts of humour childish. Oh and by the way, et cetera is Latin for ‘and the rest’. It is abbreviated to ‘etc’, not ‘ect’, an abbreviation for
Electro Convulsive Therapy. You might like to look into that. It can, properly administered,
return one to a semblance of normality, away from the meanderings of the misguided mind.
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76 lonewolf-it’s amusing to see your pathetic attempts at ‘clever’ wind-ups,but whenever I ask why Albion keep beating wolves year after year,or why your ‘magnificent’ wunderers have massively underachieved (even wasting millions of Sir Jack’s money)for so long,you go verrrrry quiet.Still,you have to come over here,because it seems thousands of season ticket holders are deserting you,so you need someone to talk to.
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84. Morning Happy. I did a longish email to E&S explaining the sort of point you mention.
John Giles was in the process of resigning at the Albion because he wanted a bigger say and I think, a directorship. Ronnie had spotted Cyrille at Hayes and wanted the club to sign him, but at £5,000 they were not interested. Ronnie then said he’d pay the 5 grand himself and lease him to the club. So the club paid up. Technically, you are right, but I doubt Johnny was very interested by then. Now, I am digging back a bit, but I have had this argument with several newspapers, all of whom have retracted and corrected. Nothing has changed, as yet, in the article above this one. I wait with bated breath!
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Sir Terence. It was Ronnie allen mate. I thought I had mentioned somewhere before, but I might be mistaken. Anyway, in case I didn’t,
IT WAS RONNIE ALLEN !
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Jack The Hat, Terry Baggie – learn how to spell, for God’s sake.
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Cyril.
I wrote a post agreeing with you last night but it disappeared. It stated that BFR tends to ‘allow’ the media to give him the credit for putting that great side together. In reality he only signed Brendan Batson the rest were already there.
I think that during Johnny Giles time, although he was manager he worked with Ronnie Allen like Clough and Taylor. Ronnie went out and spotted the players and Johnny worked with them on the training pitch.
It was a tremendous combination and had we kept it together longer, I suppose if the board had a bit more ambition or JG a bit less, who knows how far they might have taken us. I blame the dark days of the nineties on BFR’s spend, spend, spend regime and the fact that he jettisoned our extremely successful youth system. He was only interested in ready made players.
Why did you get me back on this subject Cyril? You know what I’m like.
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87. Cyril. Just keeping busy thats all. Didnt mean to wind u up so much. calm you skin down pal, maybee take a pill or sommett. And relax
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91. ain’t you worked it out yet, they are the same person
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