Wolves 2 Manchester City 1
Saturday 30th October 2010, 5:10PM BST.
Wolves ended their 11-week wait for a victory with a famous win over moneybags Manchester City.
Mick McCarthy’s men staged a spirited comeback at Molineux to defeat City, with goals from Nenad Milijas and David Edwards.
They had trailed to Emmanuel Adebayor’s 22nd-minute penalty but Milijas equalised before half-time.
And a fine display by Wolves, aided by a tame effort from City, handed McCarthy’s side their first league win since the opening day of the season.
Wolves had to weather an early storm from City with Mario Balotelli twice failing to make the most of good opportunities in the box.
But they looked to have found a foothold in the game when they found themselves behind from the spot.
Jerome Boateng released David Silva, who burst into the box and went down under a naive challenge from Richard Stearman.
Adebayor kept his cool from 12 yards to find the net to the left of goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann.
However, Wolves finally got into their stride and David Edwards twice went close to an equaliser.
First the midfielder saw his looping header from a Matt Jarvis cross turned behind by a flying Joe Hart, then from the resulting corner, taken by Jarvis, Edwards’ glancing header hit Hart’s right-hand upright.
But they were level on the half-hour when the excellent Jarvis found space on the left and his cross deflected into the path of Milijas on the edge of the box.
The Serbian made no mistake, sweeping home left-footed shot with the diving Hart at full stretch.
Just before City might have regained their lead when Adebayor outjumped Christophe Berra to meet a Balotelli cross but sent a header wide.
It was Wolves who made the running at the start of the second-half and they claimed a deserved lead on 57 minutes with the help of some slopping City defending.
Kolo Toure dealt poorly with a lofted ball into the box by Kevin Foley, it dropped for Kevin Doyle and his shot was parried by Hart into the path of Edwards, who could not miss.
City showed little desire to claw their way back but they did threaten when a shot by Silva was turned around the post by the diving Hahnemann.
James Milner sent a curling shot high and wide and Jerome Boateng fired well over from a half-cleared set-piece.
Adebayor then miscued a shot horribly over the bar after a run and cross by substitute Adam Johnson.
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Well done (admittedly against a team that’s only won once since January without Tevez!!), now if Spurs can beat or draw with Man U, we have the chance to go joint third, cheers!
Boing Boing
don’t know if this well get past the Stasi as I am being censored at the moment.
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What a fantastic result. Where are the doomsayers now? Great win, and I expect more of the same when we return to Old Trafford next week. Come on you Wolves!
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Well done Wolves, keep it up.
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To all the doom and gloom fans. What have you got to say now?
As the saying goes “if you have nothing good to say,then say nothing at all”
Great result, great manager
K.T.F. Longford Wolf.
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Sorry to Dave Edwards, when I saw he was in the line up I was not happy. Well done mate a goal and hit the woodwork twice. Shut me up good and proper. Great team performance, proud of the lot if em. Done the blues now bring on the reds.
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Get rid of Doyle and bring back Freddie Eastwood.
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What a great result for the great gold and black. The wolf pack beating hundreds of millions worth of so called football stars. Also all the doubters of mick mcarthy, wait till the end of the season them make your comments.
Come on you wolvessssssssssssssssssssss.
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Excellent……now for Manu !!!!
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What sounded like a good performance has at last yeilded a result! and against a team that cost in the region of 400 million! we are still in a relegation scrap so lets not get carried away but if we keep playing like we have been over the last couple of weeks then maybe we’ll pull clear with something to spare. up the wolves!
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Great result, do have faith with Hunt. I live near Hull and all my mates in the pub tell me he is a great player. He just needs a few games. Great to see Mick’s finally had faith in Milijas. I still think Van Damme would give us a bit more. But we are going in the right direction.
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The game wasn´t on ESPN and the internet connection was none existent to read the live commentry, do sky have a package to watch all the Premiership games, if so will somebody tell me, its doing my swede not being able to watch the Gold and Black. Anyway it seems things went right for once.
I haven´t even seen the team selection but was happy to be sent a txt to say that Nenad was playing, wasn´t too happy to learn that Edwards was included in the starting line up but it just shows how wrong you can be.
Fantastic result lads congratulations to M.M. keep the faith and please Mick keep Milijas playing he will get better and better and create plays that we haven´t seen from any Wolves player in ages.
Bring on Arsenal, I would love to see them turned over at the Mol.
Frustrated Brazil Wolf.
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YIPPEE Looking forward to Match of the Day tonight.Fabulous performance… lets start thinking about Europe ;-)
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Umph! That’s the sound of City’s falling back down to earth with a thud! Actually, the Old Gold and Black were deserved winners and the money-bags side could not have been more skint for better ideas than running in straight lines and looking, well, fairly ordainary. If I were this sheik or filthy wealthy Saudi business man, I would roar my displeasure, with no disrespect to Mick and his boy’s golden effort. City have earned nothing in the game since their bank account came a croppers, through any real good old fashioned graft and endeavor, whereas superb Wolves have, and today’s result bares that out! UTW!
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Good win,shame it dont tek you out the bottom 3,you did us a favour to,thanks, aye boing boing
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Come on you lot remember ONE SWALLOW does not herald SPRING.
Still only one place from bottom place!!!!
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Great performance today – possibly our best since we got promoted. Milijas, Jarvo,Doyle, Foley and Berra were all excellent but we did not have one weak link.
I thought we were in a tough day during the first 15 minutes but credit to the lads for the way we got back into the game…….and no late goal against this week!
Hopefully, this will give us a much needed confidence boost and we can begin to climb the table.
UTW
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Our best performance in the premier league ever. Well done lads…and a big thumbs up for foley. He was premier class today.
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Get rid of Doyle? Doyle is excellent, selfless, and there is more to come. Eastwood would not compete at this level.
Slopping defending, eh, writes, the journalist….interesting concept.
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no, 1, terrible moniker, Clear off back to your own weak side. You wont catch any of us posting daft posts on your site. Hurts you though, dont it ? You av had your massive slice of early season luck, and we havent. All of a sudden you aint that far ahead. Early days yet baggy boy. Class will tell in the end.
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Excellent to get a win!!
Let’s not get carried away, remember burnley beat man utd and look what happened to them, still 19th but things are looking up!!
Only bad point is Stears who could have cost us the game, put molo in with berra!!
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4-3-3! MILIJAS! I’ve been saying it for weeks.
This guy makes us tick. No other player would have finished that chance. He’s to good to leave out just coz he doesn’t always put a shift in. Better than Barry and Miliner. Keep him in Mick!
Hunt brought us balance and Edwards had a good game in a position that suited him.
Defense was immense until Elokobi came on!
Keep this up and win the winnable games, we’ll be ok!
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R.I.P to the man who died today at moli, they said he had a heart attack? we did win but thats extreme, can you imagine the puns from the baggies, my thoughts are with his family
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Incredible. Our two best players were arguably Edwards and Stearman, who looked rock solid at the back, and even Ward played a blinder. Add to that superb performances from Foley, Hahnemann, Berra, Doyle, Milijas, Elokobi when he came on, and as ever Jarvis, and you’ve got 25’791 grinning mugs (minus however many City brought, if indeed they brought any, I certainly couldn’t hear them). They never looked like scoring and the penalty was a ridiculously soft one too.
Thank God for that. Hopefully the fella who had a heart attack will get well soon too.
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Great team result see what happens when you put a bit of creativity in midfield.
The only complaint I have is the pre match build up………….there isnt one.We should be playing good pre match music to build up an electric atmosphere prior to kick off,but there is just nothing.
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just goes to prove that money doesn’t buy results,a brillant result for the wolves bring on man utd,arsenal.keep the faith and up the wolves
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That was a long time coming. Very happy for Mick and the players! Listened to it on the radio and ended up rolling on the floor in ecstacy and agony waiting for the final whistle. My 8 year old (Wolves fan apprentice) looked at me like I was insane……….Well done Wolves.
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Brilliant result and totally deserved from what I have been told. If we play like the last two games against the teams in the lower half of the league then surely safety and mid table will be ours come the end of the season.!!!!
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lets just enjoy this for what it is our second win of the season,but what a win.along way to go,the only way is up and we must have a lot more games like this.make us dream make us dream!!!!!!
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I have become a doom merchant because of the absence of players who can create. Milijas is such a player as is Edwards. Look what happens when we play them.
A long way to go but a distinct light at the end of the tunnel.
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Team played above themselves, and it shows what can be done when the Wolves hunt as a pack!
Jarvis played a blinder, starting to be his normal game, so much that was good emulated from him.
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At last! Not the win. Milijas playing and was that Doyle behind Hunt up front? Got the jitters when Mick started getting scratty and started to bring on the defenders. Would have preferred Fletcher on for Hunt so we did not have to go back to the back foot for the last 30 mins, but at last we hold out.
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Fabulous result. Kick on now, two points from next two and then a run of wins will take us into europe. Excellent weekend.
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He just can’t help it can he?
Negative Mick I mean.
We were winning and playing well and he slips into his usual negative mode and took a forward off and replaced him with a defender.
What does that say to the opposition?
What does it say about MM…..NEGATIVE.
THE BEST FORM OF DEFFENCE IS ATTACK.
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Well, got to join in the praise for a fine victory. They say City weren´t up to much but no side is if you give them a real good game. The most important thing is to take the attitude shown today to the next level, which is to kill off teams like Blackburn, B´pool, Bolton & Wigan. We´re in a micro league which is Wolveswinnable if we can also scalp a few of the bigwigs along the way. Build on that.
My wolves wish list is:
1 That Nenad becomes a regular to emulate Mike Bailey
2 Micko finally understand that to attack gives us a chance.
3 To settle for a draw (The England disease in the Robson era) offers no future.
4 That I´d have been there at the Mol today.
Old Gold forever!!
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We have been playing well for sometime now without getting a result. Today we got our just reward.
Full marks to the defence for keeping the City attackers to half chances for most of the game. Berra and Stearman seem to be building good understanding.
Jarvis had another impressive game.
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Well done Wolves, great performance and,well done Mick for giving Milijas a chance, he is quality!!!. Not sure about Elekobi (at all) but over Van Dame????? MICK, if we play our better players, preferably in the right positions, we will be fine, UTW
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Good result for you lot today – no doubt your next loss and you will all be calling for mad micks head again….enjoy
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fantastic result, but where was the crowd 25,900 thats disapointing but the ones that were there made it a fantastic atmosphere well done mick and the lads.
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Lone wolf , apart from the Man u game all our points have been well deserved, huge slice of luck ? don’t think so where as you lot got all you deserved! including your 3 points today
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Watched the game on Fox.Good result and most unusual, the ball went our way a bit.
A solid/skilled performance.
A steady stream of points and up the table we can go.
Keep it up lads.
Howling in NC.
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Well, its about time a decent performance yielded an even better result over the last few gloomy months.
I know its been tough recently and will probably be a long old season, but lets enjoy the moment and then look forward to moving out the bottom 3 in November (not saying which part of November!!!!). We will be staying up.
Well done lads – you did everyone damn proud today!
WE ARE WOLVES!!!
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First 15 mins clenching below the waist. Penalty ? Ref biased…again .Backs against the wall end of the second half..Great win but no ‘super Mick’ We can beat Manchester United and Arsenal have faith
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Well done to the team, it was good to see Mick letting of some steam at the end.
Foley was excellent back to something like we know he can play, let’s hope he is left alone now to play in his best position.
When Zubar is fit he should play at CB, alongside Mouyo
Edwards had a much better game and deserved his reward.
Jarvis is better every week, and thank goodness that Miljias was picked.
The ref also needs a mention as he let the game flow.
As well as we did today and deserved our result, it is still not the best team we can put out, we are very exposed in defence.
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A well deserved result today after a full 90 minutes performance from everyone. To me, its no accident that we look much better with Milijas in the middle – more of the same please!!! MM- if it is not broke please do not fix it!!!
Jarvis turned in another very good performance. I just wish that Doyle ( and our other strikers) would start getting on the end of his supply of crosses and finish the goddamn ball!!! I have never doubted Doyle’s effort, distribution and control but if you are a striker you simply have to score goals.
Mancini has to be questioned – his failure to start Adam Johnson game after game is baffling. Johnson is easily the best winger in the League. He kept Ballotelli on and took Adebyour off ( replaced by Zabaleta???)
The lads were full value today- Man U and Arsenal next – no worries!!!
COME ON YOU WOLVES!!!
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Yet more humble pie for the doom and gloom boys and Mick haters.
You boys must get sick of being proved wrong time and time again.
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First and foremost FANTASTIC result well done lads.
Secondly yes I have been calling for a change in Manager and yes I STILL believe that we need one. However I have always said that I like the guy and I would love it if he proved me wrong.
One result doesnt make a season, but this result couldnt have come at a better team. Remeber that sucess breeds sucess.
However the team is looking more balanced with Hunt and at last Nenad seems to have gotten his chance.
Please Mick keep a balanced and attacking side and play the players in the positions that suit them.
As Neil young once said ” Its better to burn out than to fade away”
RIP to the poor guy who died. Thoughts to the friends and family.
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1. do you realize how stupid you look. yeah Man City are nothing without Tevez.
couldnt just say well done could you.
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Come out come out where ever you are??!!
All the MM knockers that is…… wonderful performance this week, matched with a well deserved three points, following good but ultimately pointless performances in the last 7 days. Why cant we play this well against the lesser sides? could N’castle or Villa or West Ham have kept up with us if we preformed like this… ? i dont think so !
No.6 .. care in the community clearly is not working for you!
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It is performances and results like that which make you wonder if we are in a ‘false position’ at the moment.
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Watched the game on TV.Good result & performance.Keep it up!A long way to go yet!
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No 21.JDW, So have i ,You and I,have been saying for a long time to play Milijas instead of Jones, ive also said Edwards is a better player than people give him credit for. especially when playing a more central role in midfield ,he’s got a good engine who can get box-box,which enables him to score the odd goal not bad for an x Shrewsbury Town lad,who cost ‘peanuts’ compared to the opposition Midfielders today?. Great team performance today and Fantastic support from the ‘LOYAL FANS’,who sounded so loud on the radio.UTW
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Cheers – what an intro to a Saturday evening! Great result, we’ve had this coming. Myself, and a few othes on here, have been calling for Milijas the last few weeks, and look what happens. As always, some questions on the team selection, but hey, it worked out in the end. Out of darkness … UTW!
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Saw the game live on FOX Soccer Plus – a performance to be proud of! More please.
One life, one club. COME ON YOU WOLVES!
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I am still absolutely buzzing brilliant result and fair play to all the fans who sang “if that was us we’d get sent off”. That tackle was just as bad as Karl Henry at Wigan, but I am not really bothered cause we played against the most expensive football team in the country and won.
All the lads deserve praise today well played
My scarf says “WE BELIEVE IN YOU” and I do, if we carry on playing like that we have not got a problem. In Mick and the lads I trust.
WELL DONE!
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Hello, hello, it’s happy clapper night, ‘Mick and the lads’ night. Let me bring a bit of reality to the party. The Premier League is littered with examples of plucky minnows pulling off a good performance and a good result against the big boys, it doesn’t mean diddly squat. So before you start rushing off to the clubshop to buy your ‘Wolves 2 Manchester City 1′ commemorative T-shirts, remember that one swallow doesn’t make a summer, and I for one think that Man City are in turmoil at the moment. The truth remains that we have a manager who is totally inept at this level, he is also stubborn and arrogant, (it wouldn’t surprise me if he dropped Miljas next week). I will inevitably get the rants about how I don’t support the team and how the club don’t need fans like me, but I think you will find that I will be exonerated at the end of the season. I bleed old gold and black, but it seems futile to use blind faith to the detriment of our progress as a Premier League side. We should never accept mediocrity, and that’s what we have with the current management.
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5 fouls in 90 minutes. What’s going on. This isn’t the wolves we know? This late night/early morning here in Melbourne makes up a bit for grumpy Sundays after Wigan, Spurs games especially. More positive footballing performances like the last 3 should get us into mid table. More likely to do 2am kick offs to watch this kind of stuff.
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“To all the doom and gloom fans. What have you got to say now?”
Yes a great result – what has changed, MM has suddenly realised that plan A, that he has been using until the last two games was going to get us relegated. At last we are playing football, not looking like a long ball from the back is our only idea.
The difference is Hunt and Milijas (Plus other players playing really well.)
I would bet my season ticket if I had one, that these four “difficult” games were a great place to experiment with a new style of playing, actually keeping the ball and passing it around…… never saw that in the earlier games.
If the style of play had stayed the same we were only going in one direction.
So to all of you who are saying please look how well we are playing – it is only because the style of play has changed, and it had to.
Is this the dawning of the age when football will be a pleasure to watch I really hope so.
Because what I was watching before, made my brain hurt – how could the beautiful game be so bad.
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15 – you clearly can’t tell the difference between swallow and a cuckoo (look in the mirror!).
Thanks lads for a great afternoon and a group of players who can demonstrate the importance of teamwork, and no small degree of class (especially Doyle and Jarvis).
I am waiting for the apologies from Bob, SBWAL, Rich64 etc to Stearman, Edwards and Ward – all excellent today. Maybe you can look back to last April to see what you wrote about Mick then? Will you ever tire of being wrong?
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Well done and thanks for the fantastic display and result Wolves. This win has been coming for a week as Chelsea and Man. United were both extended. By the way many didn’t know that if United changed the 11 against Wolves there were 7 changes to Wolves line-up last Tuesday. And dom’t forget that they had Carrick, Park, Brown, Rafael and Hernandez who all played against Spurs yesterday.
Thanks for making it a happy weekend Wolves to all your fans around the world!
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Sorry to here about about the Wolves fan who died today,condolances to his family.
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Congratulations to Mick and the lads. Beautiful team effort.
Was lucky to see game in Toronto, and it was absolutely first class. Only 3 points between 19th. and 8th. place.
UP YOU WOLVES.
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Super performance today Miljas looked a class act.Edwards had arguably his best game in a Wolves shirt.Don’t expext to much next saturday, Clattenburg what a joke of a ref but that’s what you expect at Man U.
Result today kept us in the pack need to focus on Bolton now need 3 points off them and hopefully start the climb up the table.
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As others have said a great performance and well deserved but lets all enjoy it but not get carried away, lets remember that was our lowest attendance of the season for a reason.
I still think bringing Elokobi on was a mistake and nearly cost us as he just dosnt know how to stay in his position, think Van Damme is finished at Wolves before he’s started, I would have much prefered him to have come on for Hunt and just switch with Jarvo,..instead of moving Ward into the middle, meaning 2 players suddenly have to start playing in different positions?…just my views
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Apologies, a week or so back I wrote that we would pick up 3 points from our matches with Utd/City/Goons…. looks like it might be more!
Great team spirit… for once it was USA that worried me most.
Hunt & Jones give 120% which makes up for Milijas and justifies his sweet left foot. Actually, our left wing looked lethal with Jarvis on fire.
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A great way to make an old wolf very happy, keep it up and hopefully much more the same to come… Hunt makes the difference, he is a confident competitor… Wolves to the core…
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Hey Milijas’s left foot at 6 – get a life and support your own team .. because it’s not Wolves ..
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you idiot ..
What a fantastic result and did we out play them or what .. Come on Blackpool ..
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Well done Wolves.This past couple of weeks have shown an improvement in Play and if we can keep this up we can`t go far wrong,who knows I might start warming towards Mad Mick.I must be losing it I even thought Ward played well yesterday.
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Waitress!! Waitress!!! Can I have some more of that lovely tasting humble pie??
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From the Blue and White side of the blackcountry: Well done to the Wolves a great result for you. Looking forward to lots of Premiership needle matches for may years to come. Easy to be critical of Mick , but the last two matches have shown how well you can play and I think it is worth keeping the faith.
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well said No.4 Rob Cleary, i thought Edwards,Berra,Foley and Stearman were great, they’ve all come in for a lot of stick on here,give credit where it’s due!!!!!!!!
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19) can you smell what you are shoveling, “clear off back to your own weak side”???? what planet you on that you can possibly justify that comment, no daft posts on our side? (Lone Wolf your posts are, biased, daft, objectionable and ill thought out which every side you post on).
How can the result possibly hurt me? when it gives us the opportunity Monday to get in a Champions League spot?????? that comment alone shows you mentality, as obviously if the tables was reversed you would rather see your Wolves lose, rather than giving an advantage to Albion, that is very, very sad, but highlights better than anything the bile and hate that consumes you. I would NEVER want Albion to lose. If you honestly believe we have come as far as we have this season purely on luck, Im afraid you obviously have no grasp of the concept of the Premier League, sure you can ride your luck and get a break in a game, may be even a couple, but you cant base a quarter of a season on luck!
As for the daft moniker, do you realise how many times we have gone behind this season, only to come back stronger in the second half and win, check the stats your self.
To the more leveled Wolves fans, I say once again, great result, for both of us.
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I’d be very disappointed if anyone from our side tried to make a joke out of that.
Very sad thing to happen.
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Great to see Boggies fans on here feeling nervous. A huge slice of early season luck like Hull and Burnley whilst Wolves have our best players returning who have not been available so far. Once injuries, suspensions and a few defeats kick-in RDM your inexperienced manager will run out of ideas and we will see who is laughing, class will tell in the end.
By the time the derby comes around we will be very close in the table and come May we will will finish a good few places infront.
Brunt to Liverpool in Jan? Scharner on a free to one of his desired clubs? Carson dropping his clangers?!
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Well done Wolves. Three good performances in a week I reckon. If you go for it you can get results – as long as MM doesnt revert to type. West Midlands putting the frighteners on the one eyed Mancs up here!
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Attention Mr.Mick McCarthy !!
Please make the first name on the next team sheet: MILIJAS !!!
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You are a sad man.
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this is for brazillian wolf if you go to myp2p on your pc you can watch every game in premier for free there is about a 2 minute delay in viewing but hey its free and you can watch the glorious wolves and quickley turn off when the baggies are on!!!!!!!!!! up the wolves keep it up and stay up good luck lads
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Brilliant performance. Doyler was immense yesterday and can surely do a job in 4-5-1 formation away to Man U. Also Mancienne and the tackle of the season is another highlight for me and the camaraderie on the pitch was great to see. Also very nice to see Sir Jack after the final whistle. Wish he would come to see every home game if that’s the result! Fancy us for a draw now at Man U. They are not the team of a season or two ago. Only a matter of time now until we overtake the boggies. Only low point yesterday was the rather disappointing attendance but that’s understandable given our run of poor results and will get better.
Fight, fight wherever you may be.
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Great win but McCarthy attempted to sabotage the victory yet again by bringing on two defenders for attackers, when will he learn that the best form of defence is attack.
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GREAT RESULT and well done Wolves. But as MM said, we “shouldn´t get too carried away,” even if it was against Man City. Let´s get real about it instead hey?
City were, by their own managers admission, a very poor side despite looking dangerous during the opening 15 minutes.
Good job for us in my view because if they´d have had a sharper pair of strikers we´d have been murdered, let´s face it.
At times our defense was woeful. Almost non existent. There was one horrendous moment when two gold shirts and our goalkeaper all went for the same ball which shamefully none of them got, thankfully Adebayor was as bad as our lot were and he didn´t get it either. I don´t know why Mancini left it so long before bringing on Johnson, another stroke of good fortune again for us.
We were blessed with it yesterday and maybe our luck is finally turning but luck isn´t enough either. We still need a decent center half and a proper left back, I really do believe if Johnson had started the game Ward would have been turned embarrasingly inside out far too often. We were flattered by that win. Don´t let´s kid ourselves.
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Funny how they played well when Sir Jack was at the game.
Why haven’t they done this before now?
The team is clearly inconsistent – that means at this moment in time still relegation fodder.
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Nice win, goes to show what can be done when football is allowed to blossom by giving your flair players a free rein and not being ultra defensive.
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Rob,
You are what I call a ” Yes fan “.
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MlF,
Why get rid of Doyle, all he needs ( Like I’ve stated before ) is a damn good rest.
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GaBa,
I’ve stated before: It isn’t how much you spend, it’s what you buy. Ditto, BBTW.
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Lonley wolf,
Still hurting, Shame. Your team has had a fabulous win and that’s all you have to post.
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hasd,
Hope the the gent recovers.
No I can’t imagine the puns from us. Maybe you can fill us in.
JtH.
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it as been coming we ave now got two hard games but the way we are playing with the pride so come on wolves keep it up lads we beat a team individuals and joleen knows he is wolves threw and threw
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Well done Wolves, definately a result to build from. Obviously playing Milijas seems to have done the trick and I hear good things of Foley and Jarvis. Go for it against Man U and Arsenal and win lose or draw you can keep the momentum. Good luck for the season except against the Baggies of course. Thats for all of the proper fans.
Now for Lone wolf. Why don’t you just want to enjoy this great result? Do you really think a club can get 7 lucky results one after the other? The proof is in the pudding mate. And your ab solutely right class will tell in the end, for both Albion and Wolves.
Comiserations to the family of the gentleman who had a heart attack.
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Excellent result and performance, fully deserved. Well done guys.
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After three great performances recently,perhaps some of the moronic comments about Kevin Foley will stop.
Back to his rightful position at right-back.
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Been saying it all along; MM best manager we’ve had in years. Where are all the moaners now?
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first off all great game and result, secondly i still cant believe people are moaning about things, the forever my glass is half empty bunch really need to give it a rest, support the team,get behind us or just go away, and yea i know you are all allowed an opinion but so am i and my opinion is that you whingers should go back to playing dungeons and dragons and leave the real games to us fans, bit harsh? have i crossed the line? get over it. i believe mick do what he does best and get us into 12th or 13th position, promotion, safety, then consolidation,what more do real fans expect realistically ? champions league and the prem title ? if we did win those in the next 3 years some of you would still moan that we didnt keep a clean sheet and paul ince would of done a better job!!!
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Great win, a good passing display, all the lads showed spirit, if they keep this up there is no danger of us going down.
So much for Manchester spend a lot City, Spend over 300 million, give the players 200 thousand a week wages, but without team spirit and fight it means nothing.
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J.T.H. Me a yes fan? Why? because i don’t believe in slagging the team or individual players off if they are not doing well, it does not help anybody. Best of luck for the rest of the season.
Longford Wolf.
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88, YOU haven´t been reading many of these comments, have you? One win doesn´t make a great manager. City were a bit more than shambolic weren´t they, that wasn´t Mickos doing, it was there own undoing. Like Someone already posted, if Johnson had started the game Ward would have cost us the points. Why was he even playing? Because MM couldn´t find a decent left back all summer. Was he even looking? The gaffer got us a win, did he? Fantastic, how we needed it. So, this post makes me a moaner does it? 12 wins in how many Prem games for the best manager we´ve had in years………do me a favour.
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I do agree with 87, and if we can bring in Zubar CB, Mouyo CB, give Stearman more games at CB as Berra cannot jump more than 2 ft,George a decent run at LB. Drop Henry (who is totally ineffective) for Manciene, carry on with Milijas and bring SEB in to get on the end of 2 flying wingers we will start to climb the table and give the bigger teams a fright.
Will he do it, stop crazy subs, probably not however I would love to see that happen.
Good luck to the team and fans next week.
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19) and 74) Lone Wolf and laughinwolf, are you related? or one person with a schizophrenic personality? we cant you just enjoy your result, rather than worrying about the Albion in every post you write?
48) if you can read, I think you will find I said well done, and the rest of the comment was fact, not conjecture, so what was stupid about that? now who looks a silly billy?
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I would so love to see an appology from the ney sayers that doubted Hunt would be back by the end of October! as i said many moons ago he would be terrorising premiership defenses and so he is…..Jarvis is on fire too, just hope his form continues, it would be a travisty if he aint called up for England for that friendly against France. Doyle really needs a goal though.
I got a feeling that November will be a good month for us. a point at man u would be a result, and i would love to beat the Arsenal at the moly. ive lost count the amount of times they’ve broken my heart!
up the mighty wolves.
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….Also i notice that Sunderland have had 6 bookings and a sending off in there game against newcastle today, i wonder if they will be vilified as badly as we were!
coincidence its NUFC the common denominator! i think not!
up the wolves…….
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Great performance, had Wolves fans around the world on the edge of our seats! Well done to MM and the boys. Especially Milijas who is not afraid to have a crack on goal ( ie Chelsea last week). This week he got the spoils. Nice one!
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fantastic result, excellent attitude and passion! what more could we ask for. wasnt a weak link in the side today and although the stearman tackle was not needed, he made up for with an awesome display against possibly the leagues best forwards!oh….one more thing…wheres all the moaners gone?? sure youll be back next saturday if we dont get a result at old trafford! the lads need support in this tough run of games, not people on there back! UTW!!
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The Wolves team that beat Man City yesterday was made up entirely of players brought to the club by Mick McCarthy.
The moaners can swipe at team selection and substitutions but you can’t deny that Mick is building a Premiership squad to make every Wolves fan proud.
UTW
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Isle of Wight Wolves, are you serious?
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Well done boys
Just proved my point from a couple of week a go we MUST play we 3 in the middle of the park & we can give anyone a game.
Hunt & Jarvis were great, as was Edwards & Foley particular.
Unusually our worst player was Hannemann, just as well he didn’t have a save to make.
They may have masses of £££££ but they have no heart or honesty & I would imagine the ‘old school’ city fans wouldn’t be happy with that lot, I know I wouldn’t be & based on yesterday who I’d prefer to support, our boys playing with loads of passion evry time!!!!
The ‘fans’ that couldn’t be bothered weren’t missed, he ones who were there were fantastic, especially the south back, keep that siege mentality going, boys!!!!
Overall well done to all concerned, inc MM.
KTF
Wolvsforever
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English-ex?ile, second word is OFF, we have a great win and still you have to have a pop at Mick – what a moron- same goes for all the other MM knockers.
Has for the crappie fans, your site must be boring if you have to come on our’s plus even were we are in the league we can still hurt you, you will have many, many more sleepless nights before the seasons end,”running” scared – watch out there’s a WOLF about and he’s coming to get yah.
WE ARE WOLVES………………
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Dave Edwards can´t even put on a his tie properly, how he managed to put away that goal speaks volumes about how useless City were on Saturday. No offense Dave. Professional as you are you have to take these things in yer stride. Out in a shift and all that, right Mick?
The 2-1 result flattered Wolves and MM and showed yet again that money can´t buy success. 40 million hasn´t hasn´t scratched the surface for us yet.
Nenad Milijas is the way forward better late than never. Guys got quality written all over him.
Give him Lescott along side and you´d be talking. Trouble with MM is he can´t hack anyone who threatens his position and of course if you don´t give respect you surely won´t get it back. Nuff said.
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WELL DONE;Mick McCarthy,Terry Connor and all the players.Especially pleased for Dave Edwards and Richard Stearman.It was good to hear MOTD’s Dixon praising Mick’s tactics and also Jo Lescott’s comments on how Terry Connor greatly helped his development.
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Great result. Predicted a 2-1 win on Wednesday but didn’t really believe we could it. Thought the worse was to come when the first goal went in. What a comeback.
Side look balanced today and someone who can hold the ball in the middle. Doyle had his best game so far this season.
Even Ward out in a good shift.
The only thing I am a little worried about is the fear on occasion to put a tackle in. There were a number of 50/50 put Henry and Foley backed out. I’m pretty sure that this is due to the poor press. Small point overall.
Well to to MM and the players. Made my 3 hour journey home pleasurable.
UTW
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I`m Mick McCarthy’s baby.
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It doesn’t get any better than this.
Everything was against us including the referee.
We went a goal down against some of the best players in the world.
The richest club in the world was beaten by the greatest club in the world.
Forever Wolves.
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like most baggie fans will say congrats on great win,just goes to prove a team will always beat a team of individuals.So long as we finish above you and we BOTH stay up,a perfect season.Boing boing
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Fantastic result. I predicted we would need 2 goals to win . see my comments under ” national conspriracy” by tim spiers.
It was an excellent all round performance but we benefitted from Tevez and De jong being injured. Mancini got it badly wrong to our advantage and should have played Johnson instead of balotelli and viera should also have played.
Edwards seemed to raise his game against his good friend Hart in goal.He got several good attempts on goal before scoring. He has shown now he can do it but really has to do it more often . For the first time since we got promoted we had 2 players attacking from both wings in jarvis and now hunt which was exciting and made a real difference.
I alway keep saying how important Miljas is to this team and our chances of staying up and he showed it. We dont have any other player I can think of who would have taken that shot on, got it on target and scored against a top class keeper like hart.
I’m pleased for MM and the club. its only one win and we cant get carried away but we have played well for several weeks and got nothing until this week and really deserve it.
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no suprise that milijas was on. . . great result none-the-less.
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Well done Wolves. What a performance. Great credit to McCarthy for his team selection. Most of us would not have selected that team to play City. Good to seeing 3 improved performances on the trot by Foley, and Edwards seeing making a big effort to get into the box. I am so pleased for him he got the winner.Milias really needed that game. He is a v good player who really must step it up for us consistently now. Great team performance and wonderful to hear Molineux rocking. That’s why I go to football.
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Notts wolf 56 Lincoln wolf 92. Do us all a favour and stay in the East Midlands or where ever you claim to come from. You quite clearly don’t understand what’s going on here.
Bestdressedwolf 103 Not sure what you’re trying to say. Would help if you learned how to put the letters in the right order.
Some inspiring performances. If Milijas can continue in this vein we need him in the team. Has he cut down on the fags ? Thought Mick got it right when he subbed him, he was starting to ‘blow’.
Question for Mancini. Why didn’t Adam Johnson start? He nearly changed the game.
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A great result and at last Milijas getting some pitch time and to great result. However McCarthy did still worry me taking off attacking players and putting on defenders we had 7 defenders on the pitch at full time. I’m pleased it payed off this time but we we’re so deep at the end because of this we’ve lost 10 points in the last few minutes i’d just like to see us attack more when we take a lead. Good result though hopefully we can get at least something out of the next 2 games.
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So after our second win of the season that has catapulted us up to …. er nowhere, the Happy Clappers are swinging from the chanderliers proclaiming that us doomers/REALISTS were wrong all along and MM is afterall the new Shankly.
All that happened is that Mercenary City rolled up in Wolvo in total disaray and we took advantage and rightly so. We actualy played a couple of players in their best positions, not to mention giving the best ball player in the club a start! Don’t forget Blackpool would have turned them over 2 weeks ago if it were not for 2 or 3 refereeing shockers.
Why oh why though did MM see fit to alter the system and go ultra defensive with over 25 MINUTES TO GO ?? We were on top and under no real threat until the tactical genius cast his magic and immediately put us under immense pressure……we undoubtably would have been punished 9 times out of 10 for such a move, luckily for us the Billionaires left their diamond encrusted shooting boots back at their mansions.
Did the tescos stop at 1-0 recently at The Emirates ?? if they had of done they would have lost !!
Don’t get me wrong, it was a great result for Wolves and a ‘victory for football’ that had me jumping around the South Bank like a lunatic having cut a holiday short to be there, but please, don’t patronise me and my fellow realists by insisting this one result means Mick is Cloughie in disguise. If we are mid-table come Jan/Feb, I may listen to the argument and admit that he spent his £35m wisely and Ward actually is a left back!
p.s. 25,000 ?? Category ‘A’ game prices, in a recession, during half-term, Christmas approaching and the game is available to watch in most pub/clubs and on the internet…… over to you Mr. Moxey !!!!
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A good win and the team played with grit and determination.
Consistency must be maintained for the team to further progress on their march out from the relegation zone.
They must continue to believe in their abiltiy and strength,they must be second to none in their attitude and thought in securing their position as a Premier league team.
Up the Wolves…….
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I would just like to congratulate the team on a terrific performance, and I would also like to distance myself from the comments of another lincolnwolf on here (No. 91)
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great win and performance,but lets get it right
we have the players but muppet mick does not
play them or if not in right position. we all
know milijas is class but taken 10 games for
him to get chance.but elokobi not up to it.
and stearman plays the ball out,not like berra/craddock who jut hoff it.and the only time before when we played well was with 2wide
players like saterday.but must sought out l/b
big problem but we have bought a lot of defender so get right mm and we can stay up.
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A few points on this, firstly a great result and deserved based on recent performances.
To all those claiming tactical genius re shouting for Milijas for weeks – the guy has not been fit. Simple as. He seems to be approaching full fitness now, and McCarthy plays him. Do any of you really believe we can carry a 50% fit playmaker in this league ? With Henry and Edwards either side, we give him license to go forward, but he’s still got to work and he now at a point where he can do that.
Henry – for those callig him the crab / the barber, you will have noticed during the first goal that our 12 pass build up included 3 passes from Henry that all went forward. He made numerous other forward direct passes to Edwards / milijas who both seemed to be getting in to good attacking positions. When the pass is on, he can make it, and 433 / 451 gives our midfield that oppurtunity.
Lastly, lets not get carried away here. Im pleased as punch for McCarthy and the players, but if you offered me a point now from the next two games – Id probably take it. Im not saying we cant win one of the next two, but its doubtful, and therefore we are still gonna be at the sticky end of the table.
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Well done wolves, great result, this season seems to be shaping up to be a belter! what price an albion vs wolves europa league tie next season????
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one minus point about saturday.
We keep giving silly penalties away and dont seem to be learning to stay on our feet in the box.Its cost us in other games like west ham, but we did exceptionally well on saturday to come back
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This is worth reading:
“Mick McCarthy out-manoeuvred the Italian by exploiting the wings that Mancini’s narrow formation neglected… Wolves won because their players knew their roles and played them diligently. It is testament to the unity of purpose that McCarthy has instilled that even with the team in the relegation zone, having failed to secure the results their performances have merited, Wolves have not lost faith, sniped at each other or resorted to individualistic play. Despite their position, they at least, look like a team on the up” (The Guardian)
The MOTD pundits said much the same thing.
Those 3 points should be enough to keep us in touch regardless of the next 2 games. As Toronto Wolf (61) pointed out, we’re only 3 points away from Fulham, who are 9th.
The seven games after that will make or break the season. And with Hunt and Milijas fully fit, there’s no reason why we can’t prosper.
Keep The Faith.
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Best performance since West Ham last year. Looks like we’ve finally got Milijas fit enough for the Premiership. Side much better balanced with Hunt, Jarvis wide and Doyle up front. Great result.
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Do me a favour even WBA beat Man City in the league Cup.
Lets be honest they are in turmoil, but a win is a win, if Wolves lose next Two games then the Gap will be there.
Taxi!
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licolnwolf, are you serious? Farmer Tedm ight help if you could get your numbers right or don´t you like Chris Hoggard either?
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yes lincon wolf it does make you a moaner, but dont worry i have been on ebay and ordered you a moon on a stick, you can have it for xmas, us realistic fans will settle with mick and the lads as they are all we need
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Baggies fan here; I watched on a live stream and Wolves were the better side by some way, its sometimes hard to tell in games like this whether one side is playing well or the other poorly but the lack of workrate from the billionaires was obvious. They stood off Wolves and allowed you to pass at will (to their cost!) – there’s something wrong at City, so much money spent but they’re not a team. Tevez and Adam Johnson seem to be the only ones with the right level of desire amongst them. Nevertheless a great win for Wolves and if Jarvis and Doyle stay fit you won’t be in the bottom 3 for long.
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Please do not get carried away, there is still a lot to do despite the improvemnt against a side which appears to have internal troubles.
The defence is still prone, as the three defenders all stood watching each other, good job Man City were asleep. Note, in those early minutes Wolves were on their back foot and for once, a little bit of luck went our way.
Never the less, they did play good football for most part of the match, but they still tend to stand a watch when they should be screaming for the ball.
Milijas was always avaiable and he got into the those areas that can hurt the opposition. A mention of Henry, he was OK and so he should be, he is captain and they lead by example, or should do.
Why are their moaners,no such thing. They are people who have a differing view of events.
Once again,well done but do not rest on your laurels! Note the goal differnce, it is not very good. Note the number of places Liverpool have jumped with their win
For statiticians. It is not the number of times a ball is touched or passed. A player can touch a ball one hundred times, it is what happens at the end of the sequence that counts.
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ean33,
check post 126.
Ex wolf cub has it right, we are all entitled to our opinions. Doubtless however you won´t think so but with your clearly superior knowledge you should know what to do with your moon on a stick when you get it. I´ll stay with my beliefs thanks.
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Big victory and a good performance, Jarvis is in his best form to date and surely a England call will come if he keeps it up, no doubt he will. Good to see Edwards get the winner, he’s had a lot of stick for being a hard working player who can’t pass, he is a short passer and his game is making runs into the box where he’s probably the best midfielder for this role, it’s ironic that he got so much stick and when Milijias plays people see his creative talent and make comment but with the added view he’s lazy, players can’t win either way can they. I have never brought this fitness rubbish to me it’s that he hasn’t been favoured and Mick had no choice to play him at Chelsea, good performance kept him in and even better one in this game, well taken goal, very good build play. Personally I wouldn’t thrown Henry back in so easily but he did good, but I still worry when Mick makes those substitutes, one or two have already noted above when Milijias went off we couldn’t keep hold of the ball and Jarvis could of taken the ball into corner flag in those dying minutes we don’t want to do that against Arsenal if we were to get into winning position to get 3 points of the Gunners.
The result keeps us in touching distance with the pack above, the way form was never going to be the same as of the last season so more home wins especially the ones we would expect to win are a must. confidence boost for Old Trafford, just put another good performance to take into the Arsenal game.
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137 posts – no Bob, no Rich64, no SBWAL. What a joy! To all the moaners who have been on – yes I know its only 3 points and we have work to do. We are still 19th. However the way out is sticking together and being positive – just like the team, management and crowd on Saturday.
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71, 93, Terrible moniker. Sombeody has upset him aint they? Why come on other folks sites if all its gona do is upset ya ? Goes on a bit though dont he ? Hed been sobbin all day that the man wouldnt put his posts on. So when he does get to say summet he acusses me an laffin wolf of being schizophrenic, when he should be addressing his own paranoia. Some folks just aint got a sence of humour. UP THE WOLVES !
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Excellent performance, but why does MM insist on tikering with the team when we have the upper hand. Jarvis was most effective down the left hand side, so what does MM do sends him over onto the right so WARD can play on the left and he was like a fish out of water.JARVIS did nothing and went off. Why did he keep WARD on the pitch? or even select him?
Mancienne plays left back for England so why does he not play him? its simple it would mean no place for WARD.
When will MM learn that if we attack teams we might win more games!!! I still think he should be replaced too negative.
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