Peter Odemwingie all set for Albion
Wednesday 30th March 2011, 11:30AM BST.
Peter Odemwingie is on course to lead the Albion attack against Liverpool despite concerns over a thigh injury.
The Nigeria international is back with the Baggies after leaving his country’s national squad, whose medics had expressed fears of a possible torn thigh muscle.
But Baggies boss Roy Hodgson reckons Odemwingie, who was excused from Nigeria’s 3-0 win over Kenya last night, will be ready to face the Reds at the Hawthorns on Saturday.
Hodgson said: “Peter is OK. He trained yesterday, as did Youssouf Mulumbu. It was good to have them back. They have got a day off to rest today, which they probably need as they both travelled.
“So, by tomorrow they will be fully fit.”
Mulumbu has also returned to Albion after spending the weekend with DR Congo, while James Morrison is back after playing for Scotland against Brazil with a bandage protecting a head wound sustained against Arsenal.
Paul Scharner is fit despite also taking a blow to the head against the Gunners and Graham Dorrans is progressing well after an ankle injury but is unlikely to be ready for the weekend.
Hodgson said: “Scharner was declared fit the day after coming off with injury. Morrison’s injury was worse and he stayed back an extra day before travelling.
“He had the stitches out yesterday. It’s a nasty wound and he now has a big black eye because the blood has come down from the wound.
“But he looks worse than he is. He’s fit and trained yesterday. Graham is improving. It’s positive but we can’t put a date on his return.
“At the end of last week, it looked less positive than now which is good news – in three days we’re stepping in the right direction. It was quite a serious ankle ligament injury.
“He is walking better and jogging but the medical staff are being circumspect with him, because we don’t want him to break down again.”
Albion youngsters Kayleden Brown and Sam Mantom have also joined the list of walking wounded.
Hodgson said: “Brown has a problem with his groin and had to pull out of the Wales under-19s.
“Mantom had a knee ligament problem at start of the season and caught a ball on the end of his toe that pushed his knee back a little bit.
“He tweaked the ligament but should be back in training by the end of the week.”
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It’s nice to hear our manager say the medical staff are being circumspect with Dorrens.
Apparently when Mick was asked if his medical team were circumspect he relied as far as he knew none of them were jewish !!
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Glad to here the good news on our players. Thanks Nigeria for having Osaze health in mind.
Blast, England were winning before that Jarvis came on. Looks like Carol the carthorse will play against us. Must close down as I’m changing to B.T. Infinity.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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A draw against Liverpool at the weekend would be a great result for us. But you never know if Jonas and the boys at the back can stand firm we might even nick it. But with their strike-force we can’t afford to make ANY mistakes at the back.
Speaking to some Blackpool fans the other day, they are convinced we are going down with a bang and they will survive easily. Don’t worry I told them what we think of them and what could happen. I explained that they shouldn’t have been allowed to enter the PL with a ramshackled stadium like that. To be honest I’d prefer them to go down rather than Wolves.
Keep the faith ALBION fans – still plenty of points to play for. (Forever WBA – BOING BOING!!!)
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Just what we want to hear,several of our key players declared fully fit or on the mend,and a strong,positive Manager in charge of these lads-
so whoever we have to play against for the remainder of this season-
BRING ‘EM ON!!!
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2 JtH-
The team Jarvis was playing for last night were winning 1-0,but after being under severe pressure for most of the second half,they conceded a last minute equaliser to make the score 1-1.
A microphone on the edge of the pitch then picked up Jarvis’ voice crying out ‘Oh no! Not again!!’.
Whatever could he mean?
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Cantello,
The ghost of Vela and he will be ghosting through their defence in the “Return of Vela”.
What beautiful, silky skills from Ghana, real class, no wonder Jarvis was mesmerized.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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Agree excellent news of players returning we
definately need the key guys very much hope GD
is back soon he looked good at stoke defend as
we did v Arsenal then weve got a chance wolves
fortunate to play pool n chelsea when these two were out of sorts. Carrol looked works league when last at our place didnt impress at
Wembley Suarez the danger, very impressed with
Luiz Chelsea. Hoping our brave lads will battle for Roy v Liverpool.
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1. If you must crack a joke at least try and spell our players name right. Dorrans.
2,5 & 6. I wish we had players with enough calibre to get into the England squad but we don’t. As an England fan I thought Jarvis was excellent when he came on and Englands future looks bright with the talented youngsters coming through.
I was having a discussion with my friends during the England game last night and we were on the topic of if we are relegated how much do you think we would get for players like Mulumbu, Olsson and St.Peter?
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some mothers do av um.
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1973
I agree wholeheartedly with you, I’m sure one glance across at the talent Wolves have- Henry, Elokobi, Berra, Stearman, Foley and S Ward- leaves most Baggies drooling with envy.
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Sorry got cut off there. My friend Laughing Wolf said that apparently some mugs paid £7 million for a striker that scored 8 goals for a relegated team last year and Baggie Bird said in that case St Peter should be worth a small fortune.
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10. I wouldn’t mind them lad especially Henry and he has been in the last few preliminary England squads, Berra is a Scottish international better than Tamas and Pablo, Stearman is a good young player and Foley is a ROI international who is better than Zuiv or the angry Mexican! Swings and roundabouts I’m sure they’d love Mulumbu in their squad.
Very difficult run-in but we haven’t picked up enough points against the weaker sides so were going to have to try and do it the hard way.
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11. If your talking about Fletcher I think it was 12 goals for Burnley which is more than St.Peter and he didn’t take penalties like St.Peter tries to.
I suppose with 8 games left and it being so tight we will find out who has the better side in a short while, I hope it’s us but I am not overly confident like Brunt is not overly bothered with being Captain.
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1973 Baggie,
Go back to your Wolf friends, you are an imposter…Muppett
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10. OK,I’m just joking with you-of course we wouldn’t want those wolves players in the Albion squad!
Let’s face it,who would want a bunch of players who have put wolves in the bottom three all season?
Only a joker or an idiot would seriously say they are good,when they are nearly bottom of the pile.
I hope you enjoyed the joke with me.
p.s. when I said Henry has been in the ‘premliminary’ England squad,that means he was taken along to make the tea for the proper players.
Have fun, BOING BOING!
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I noticed on Sunday that Morrison played with a large protective bandage on his face and apparently only had the stitches out yesterday. If he had taken another bad bump on it he could have been out for weeks. Surely risking him in a non competitive friendly was an unwise decision from the Scotland camp. I don’t think there are anymore international breaks before the end of the season so hopefully the players can concentrate on the domestic league which pays their wages.
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1973 Wolf
Fletcher scored 8 in 35 Premier League games for Burnley, Odemwingie has 10 in 25 for Albion, including 1 penalty. That leaves 9 in 25 from open play, still a far superior ratio. Beyond that, I think it’s also fair to say Odemwingie has a lot more to his game and his overall CV, otherwise Fletcher would be getting a game at your place.
If you’re going to try and belittle Albion’s squad, don’t compare their international records as Carson, Shorey (England), Jara (Chile), Tamas (Romania), Meite (Ivory Coast), Ibanez (Spain), Olsson (Sweden), Mulumbu (DR Congo), Dorrans, Morrison (Scotland), Brunt (NI), Tchoyi (Cameroon), Odemwingie (Nigeria), Scharner (Austria) and Cech (Slovakia) hold certainly as much weight as a few Irishmen with a handful of caps and a Guadeloupe international……and to his immense credit Mr Jarvis.
Why not just post under your real name?
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The bragging rites dont start till 22nd may.
“weve been above you all season”, “Looks like we might be dustin off the old passports”, “staying up the RDM way”, “staying up the hodgson way”, “bottom 3 all season, how does it feel dings”, etc etc etc. None of it matters.
While ive been kind/sympathetic to the Baggy cause of late, i cant wait till i can ram all those early boasts down your throats. ( metaforicly speaking )
If you fall AGAIN through the trap door it must rank as one of your most gutting relegations after doing so well last year. I dont want to be so crass as to use the marathon not a sprint thing, but it is only now when things start to tell.
As a great man once said, squeaky bum time !
You only need to get summet from Liverpool,Chelsea,Spurs,Villa (3 pointer) and Wolves and you may just scrape it. Wouldnt bet your lives on it though would ya ?
ps. Well done Jarvo! England out-field international. ( Shouldnt boast )
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Also, may i just add that although the 1973 Baggie thing was in the beguinning funny, it is now starting to get even on my nerves.
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Really hope we can beat the scousers. If im being honest i cant see it though. If they bring there shooting boots we will get ripped apart & it could turn into a cricket score!! Hope im wrong. come on the boys.
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1973, I wouldn’t worry too much about what LW says, the lad has severe mental health issues! I also wouldn’t worry too much about Wolves in general, what with Doyle’s injury seems they placing all their hope on Matt Jarvis.
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I can’t argue with myself can I but it was only 8 league goals. Oh dearie me I’ve gone and done it I get confused with all these differnt colored tablets I’m taking.
As I was saying Mr Warren 1 cap for the ROI is worth a lot mor than 54 for Rumania, 34 for Chile or 24 for Spain. I mean they’re not even British teams are they and look at the competition to be Scotlands centre half, he’s up against 40 year old David Weir and those two blokes from Wigan. I’ve heard from my contact the woman who works in the club shop that Richard Stearman is penciled in for the Switzerland game as well unless Jody Craddock is fit in time.
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For weeks now ive come on this site only to c
U ’1973 baggie’ slagging off the albion with
Comments full of negativity, your the gift tht
Keeps on giving
U obviously must love the albion deep down
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Anyway if your clever enough you will notice i have just wrote the same as what comes out of your mouth on every comment just to get a message across to you
BOING BOING!!
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It’s amazing how many Albion fans come on here just to mention wolves :S concentrate on your own team. If half of you actually attended games instead of spending all of your life on here, then you would probably sell out more than once a season.
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18 lonely-
I might be wrong about this,but I thought the ‘bragging’ actually started last summer?
You remember,when a long line of your guys were ‘paying us a visit’ to say they would be looking down on us from the dizzy prem. heights,something about wolves spending 35 mil.,and bringing a lot more quality into their squad than us?
Apparently,the wolves guys were looking for a possible ‘top half’ finish,while they confidently predicted us to be rooted to the bottom all season.
It seems that over your side,not only do the fans see and hear only what they want to,but they also appear to have very short memories.
Funny that.
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18 lonely-
I hope you catch one of these 70-80lb. carp I here are swimming around in the French lakes.
Just one piece of advice-I’ve found that August is often the best month to catch most fish,so you should go over then instead-
it’s gotta be better than staying here to watch championship footy with yer mates,surely?
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Nice to see a few players from our midlands clubs in the england set up over the last week or so..when i say midlans clubs i mean of course villa and wolves ..how many did u have on the pitch at any time last night?? oh none ..sorry suppose frank carson was in the squad..but we all know thats because paul robinson has turned his abck on england..and matt murray has retired!!
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scousers dont like it up em! come on albion 3 points
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South banker, one player in the England team or 16th in table, which would you rather have?
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Cyril love the story bout you and the parakeet in the paper,when i showed it my missis she said she would like a cockatoo.
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Theres more dingle post on here than ALBION post,think there getting really worried,and so they should be,the end is nigh.
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31. Have you seen our remaining fixtures? I am sure that JP is already in talks with Bolton over Mulumbu, St Peter and Olsson I expect were be stuck with the others in the Championship.
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27, i wonder if you sit in the same seat i sat in when you gave your seats up for a pie n pint so 5,300 ALBION fans cud cheer our team on to a resounding 3-0 hammering.
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yawn…………zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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U keep reffering to years ago when Mick took over with 12 pro’s on their books. You should be thanking them for gifting us a point a couple of months back, I don’t think they’ll be as generous at Molineux infront of the Sky cameras.
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1973
Could you be as generous as to stop boring everyone to tears? I think there’s probably only you left that finds this funny. Even one of your own Lone Wolf’s had enough……
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yawn……..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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I posted a personal message y.day to laughing wolf who is posting as 1973, urging him to seek help.
It didn’t through so I hope the moderators will take the blame when we read about a sad shrivelled figure hunched over a computer in Low Hill library holding conversations with himself using different voices being taken into care.
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All mouth , thats wolves not matter how many times we spank there naughty little bums .They soon forget the pain and become cheeky little rascals again. You got to smile … bless em
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29. I didn’t realise the season ended today..
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38 Happy
I too had a message for 1973 Wulf which wasn’t posted yesterday.
I’ll try again.
Stop it you naughty boy!
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Peter is monster!
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The saddest thing about 1973 (Shadrag) is that he still thinks he winding us up! Love you Shadrag!
Boing Boing!
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No. 40 blahblahblah
I love your name, it fits perfectly with everything we hear from Wulfies on a daily basis. ‘You wait till we overtake you’, ‘We’ve got a bigger ground than you’, ‘MAT JARVIS is going to play for England until he’s 80 years old’. The best bit is that you were implying one of these ‘blah’s'(you wait till we overtake you) in your comment. Classic.
Spot on blahblahblah. You’ve really captured the escence of being a Wolves fan.
Boing Boing
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