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Scharner doubt for Sunderland clash
Wednesday 22nd February 2012, 8:00AM GMT.
West Brom midfielder Paul Scharner looks set to miss Saturday’s Hawthorns clash with Sunderland because of a rib injury.
January signing Keith Andrews is on standby for his first Baggies start as Scharner continues to struggle with the sore ribs that forced him off at half-time in the 5-1 win at Wolves.
Albion are uncertain how long the Austria international will remain sidelined but he seems certain to sit out Saturday’s meeting with the in-form Black Cats.
Baggies boss Roy Hodgson confirmed: “Paul Scharner’s injured. He’s still recovering with the rib problem from the Wolves game.
“Ribs are difficult things. It’s painful but he’s getting better. But how long it’ll take, I don’t know.”
Shane Long is fully fit and available to figure against Sunderland while Hodgson expects to welcome captain Chris Brunt back to full training this week after an ankle injury, although he is refusing to put a date on the winger’s possible return.
“When he comes back to training we will see how he is,” said Hodgson. “He has been out for quite a while so it would be foolish to put a date or time on it.”
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As the article says – ribs are an awkward injury – you can starp em up but breathing is more difficult.
No problems with Andrews stepping in – I think he looks a decent player.
Just been looking at the candidates for the wulfies job – seems Morgan has assembled a line up in his own image….
Wilkins – slaphead
Holloway – slaphead
McDermott – slaphead
Bruce – too much hair and so out the running.
If one of those 3 gets it it will be like watching Grant & Phil Mitchell – Oi Moxey…leave it aaaarrrrrt !!!!!!
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**STRAP*** em up !!!
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Isn’t it nice to have strength in depth. Just as Kev highlighted, headaches and no need for medication. ALBION 3-1 Sunderland.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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Wimabigclubweam.
Just so you know, you have some competition.
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Thirdbestteam
February 21, 2012 at 9:46 pm
164-London Bloke third best team we most certainly are
We were European pionneers long before every other team in England and
Only Man United and Liverpool are bigger then Wolves.
Our name is known all over the world as the “famous Wolves”
And as for the new manager I personally would go for the recently departed England manager…….
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PS.
The bird on the Mature Dating site on the right of this page. If she’s mature then I’m Methuselah and Cyril must be fossilised.
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Reading’s McDermott wont take the wo1-Ves job, he has a better chance of being a Premiership Head Coach next season if he stays where he is. I don’t think Bruce will hang around much longer. Best thing for Morgam to do is look within the club! Clipboard, anyone.
If we hadn’t beaten them 5-1, they wouldn’t be in this predicament. Graert ay et.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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Morgan.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
P.S. I’ve just been informed I’m posting too quickly. Good job I,m not a Secretary.
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4 Bully,
I don’t know if this ‘thirdbestteam’ is for real (could it be Lonely?),but his logic seems to be that because wolves played in other European countries years ago,they are as big as Man.U. And Liverpool,also it makes them ‘famous’ around the world-
Well if I’m not mistaken,apart from Albion touring the United States a long time ago,the Baggies were the first western club to play in both Russia and China,therefore introducing all the Superpowers to football.
This being the case,using the same logic,it must make us the biggest club in the world,and famous across the entire Universe.
Which really is a great responsibility………………
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I think Andrews will be perfect for a battle with Bardsley in the middle as he looks a solid player + has something to prove to us over 90 minutes.
As stated above it’s nice to have a bit of depth and again looks like good old Dan Ashworth has got in the right player at exactly the right time. Wo1ve5 should take a leaf out of our book!
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Just heard that at a recent wo1ve5 home game a £1 coin was thrown on to the pitch.
Police are investigating whether it was a missile or a takeover bid !!!
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McDermott is staying with Reading. wo1-Ves have been back for Curbishley and he doesn’t want to know. Things are looking dire, looks like Bruce is the only one now.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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i know all about rib problems Paul
i just looked at the posts on the Nobody’s Interested in the Wolves Job thread.
mine am killin’ me…
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The Mature Dating site ad has been replaced by a Balti, is this the E&S trying to protect Cyril from too much stimulation?
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Am i the only person who has not turned down the wolves Job ???
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rocket man
yow mek me loff.
wolves ay the third best team either, wim the number one, in the world ever, fact.
and with great power comes responsibility, i told my ethel the same when she had her new dyson last wik.
anyway ive got to go now, ethel caught me on here and she only saw the mature dating site and stormed off. ive tried telling her its a wolves footy site but all she keeps saying is im a mucky old man and dont you remember what the judge said.
anyway wot am yow boggies doin on here?
wolves wolves wolves
wim a big we am
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“Police are investigating whether it was a missile or a takeover bid !!!” Happy, you are in top form lately. My ribs are aching too.
5.TRBH. I haven’t seen the lady in question and I’ve never had a Balti, nor do I intend to. It’s bad enough when I have cottage pie with onions in. Much as I may love it, (the cottage pie), it carries on talking long after I’ve finished. Regarding said lady, always remember, ‘One man’s meat is another man’s poisson’. (Fish for Froggies). I still adore the luscious lady with the luscious legs. See how loyal I am?
Looks like I was right about that O’Hara tackle on Scharner. Not a yellow, a RED !
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I think the funniest thing about this is the fact that Jez Moxey has work for the Wo1ve5 for quite some period of time now and I’ve still seen about 30 posts this week referring to him as Moxley. . . . . . . . . . Not too clever that lot are they?
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Cyril.
It’s not the one that’s on now but one that looks as though she’s in the back yard. Perhaps it’s my eyes getting old but she looks early thirties at most and if that’s mature I suddenly feel very old. But I applaud your fidelity, still no harm in looking is there?
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Om fed up a tellin yo abaht understatin our biggness.
Wim that big that the loiks uv Man Unt un Livapool um in our shadda, un theerefour pale into insignificuce.
Wim gooin throo a ruff pach at the mo, un 2 fingers to them that sez its lastid for fower decades.
One day soon weel rise loike a fenix frum the ashis, an weel show evrybody speshly them tescos the magnitude of our biggness
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19 – “the magnitude of our biggness”… made me spit me coffee out that did.
And people wonder why we get addicted to this site – pure genius !!
My cap is doffed…
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Bomber
Are you still going in the Sportsman on Saturday,if so what time?
Max
Are you going in the Sportsman on Saturday?
or anybody else for that matter.
Adéu
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Yeah – wim sew big arr expeked a shake or sum rich-un will boy us sewn and then wheel show yow just oow is a big club agin.
Luk owt Yurup – wim cumin tow get yew !!!
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Con tell yo ay frum the Black Cuntry, tay ashis it’s ess (Saxsun), ay yo ever eard of an esshole. Cor taych farmers onythin.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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Jack
Corse i ay frum the black cuntry, wolves ay i, staffodshyre tha is.
Un for yower infomashun i no exakly wha an esshole is, un i dow think yo shud tawk abaht moxey in that way.
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Why dow yaw goo and get a bag a suck to keep yams mush kwiyet. goo daaarn yer own end!
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I have just remembered one of Granddad Randle’s naughty comments. He was, for the age, rather forward in observation, lots of smirks and tut-tutting the order of the day.
Lady neighbour, “Tay arf code terday George”.
“Yow shud lap it up then” came the snappy-catch answer.
To ‘lap up’ meant wrap up.
Then there was Auntie Alma, a gentle, hard working ‘cower mekker’, (core maker for the foundries at Walsall Conduits in Dial lane) who spoke much Saxon.
“Yer babbie’s cryin’. “Ar Ah know, Ah’ll biff the little bu**er inna minit”.
“Aw, dow munch ‘im, lap ‘im up un ‘E wow mek no maun”.
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20 Happy,
when you said that quote made you spit your coffee out,you ain’t kiddin’,I did the same meself.
To be honest,every time I thought about it walkin’ around at home,I bust out loffin’,and eventually had to explain to the Wife what it was about.
I really can’t remember when I last heard a better one-line quote.
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15 wimabigclubweam-
when you said your Ethel’s got a new electrical gadget,and she’s happy with it’s powerful ‘suck and blow’ action,I was gonna ask you a question about it,then decided it was wise to keep quiet.
But I will say I’m guessin’ she’s got a permanent smile on ‘er face these days.
Am I right?
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Just one more thing-
Everybody’s talkin’ about this ‘mature dating’ site,and it’s givin’ me the hump (well,that’s the idea…….).
Anyway,I’m none too pleased,’cos it turns out that these Ladiees are bein’ a bit ‘economical’ with the truth,an’ their pictures are not exactly up to date.
I found this out when I tried ringin’ one of ‘em up,and got told that what I thought was the phone number on the photo was actually her age……….
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Rocket, these posts are really deteriorating!
Boing Boing!!
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rocket man
dont talk about ethel like that, it kills me to sit there watching her struggle round with her new dyson.
anyway back to football, walter smith is gonna be our new man, and he is gonna butcher yow lot when we next play yer.
he appreciates ow big the wolves am and it is rumoured that he has turned down the likes of , turkey, ham pshire, and cow denbeef fc to come to us.
when asked whether he would be interested he said, “yes” tham a big club they am.
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Are cor tek all this black countray spake, coming from Brownhills we have a more conservative accent.
On the subject of the mature dating the wench with the mossif bins on is rung un aye her.
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Word has it that wo1•Ves new stand is putting their neighbours in the shade. Wouldn.t think AZDA are particularly bothered.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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30 SB,
I think nearly two weeks without a game has left everybody in limbo,we’m waiting for new stories to ‘ignite’ us for the comin’ weekend.
Now where’s Inside Man when you need him….?
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me new banner now looks like a sign that our local butchers is closed,
walter smith out
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31 wimabigclubweam,
you beat me to it bigman.
I was gonna say last time I saw a picture of Walter Smith was in December,and he was standing next to 25 turkeys.
So when’s the new team photo comin’ out?
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Weemabigclubweam,
Bet ethul is havin a BALL with er new gadgit ay er. Reargards Smithy theyur debaertin who shud pay ees buz fare. Looks loik ets on the vaerge of braerkin daern loik tuthers. Never fret, youmabigclubyoam.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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i cor believe it
the e+s wow let me post on the wolves pages
me own club, ive bin evicted.
dow think i can tek anymore, first everyone says no to bein the new manager, then we resort to recruiting the local butcher, then the e+s shackle the one true voice (me), then ethel leaves me becuz of some daft idea i was on mature dating. com/shazzalovesitruff
what a run of bad luck eh?
and it all started wiv yow lot luckily winning 5-1 with five deflections.
ethel if yam reading this, i miss clicked luv, its all them boggies meking me blood boil teking the mad mick. please come back luv (prefer before dinner time).
if ya dow wannna come back at least tell me how many sugars i have in my cup of tea and where the kettle is.
meks ya realise wats important when the one true love of your life turns round and says no more, so e+s please let me back on the wolves pages.
ps does anyone know how to boil fish fingers?
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38 wimabigclubweam-
if yow try boilin’ fish fingurs,ar’m reportin’ yow to the RSPCA…….
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Im not coming back.
I have had to listen to you drone on for the last thirty years about the Wolves. I have rocked you to sleep after another tearful saturday afternoon for the last time. Last Sunday was the final straw, after coming home and crying into your fish supper so that your chips became soggy you were unbearable to live with. Then came the constant “i cor believe its” every ten minutes after one manager then another turned down your mighty wolves.
Then i caught you on that mature dating website. Just awful, i told you not to go on there but you couldnt help yourself. I have had to leave you before you found me on there. I have been using it for a while now but i havent had any luck. Maybe i should use a different photo next time and take my glasses off.
Also i have never told you this but…………. im an Albion fan. Always have been, but i knew it would hurt to tell you.
I hope you and Walter are happy together, and relegation doesnt hurt too much.
I hope you now realise that yow ay a big club, your just little old wolves. You were famous before you were even born, get a life.
Ps you like your fish fingers lightly boiled for 4 minutes, and you drink coffee no sugar.
Love Ethel boing boing
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38 – please stop mate – I’m supposed to be working but I can’t stop laughing.
You should get write this stuff for telly and get ya own sitcom – you could be the black country version of Mrs Brown’s Boys (sorry, Staffordshire’s version).
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23.Jacques. I did reply to your ‘ess’ being ash from the firegrate, but it hasn’t appeared.
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Cyril,
The ess wont appear, wo1•Ves have got them all and they’ve ordered sackcloth to go into mourning.
B☺ING~~~~B☺ING~~~~J♦H.
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