Wolves want more goals from Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
Striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake was today challenged to give Wolves ‘six of the best’ to beat the drop and justify keeping him in January.
The powerful forward, who is out of contract at the end of the season, heads to Nottingham Forest on Saturday having produced a Man of the Match performance in Tuesday’s 2-0 welcome win at Millwall.
Ebanks-Blake set up David Edwards for the first goal before smashing his 12th and best strike of the season with a superb overhead kick to tame the Lions.
And manager Dean Saunders has laid down the marker for the 26-year-old in the final 10 games after turning down a £1m bid for him from Crystal Palace in the January transfer window.
“If he scores five or six goals between now and the end of the season he will have done his job,” said Saunders. “Some of them will be match-winners like Tuesday night.
“It was instinctive and a great goal. You can’t teach strikers that – you can tell them where to run and what runs to make, but they can work out where the ball is going before everyone else.
“That’s why you have to pay a lot of money for them.”
Ebanks-Blake almost didn’t play on Tuesday because of ongoing niggles to his hamstring, groins and back.
“Sylvan was struggling with his groin on the morning of the game, so I wasn’t sure if he was going to be fit or not,” said Saunders.
“I haven’t started him in every game because of his groins, his hamstrings and his back, so we’re easing him through training. He’s got a ‘glass back’ and I’m surprised he didn’t get carried off after scoring!”
Saunders was also impressed with Ebanks-Blake’s overall workrate for the team after he shouldered much of the responsibility for forward play alongside 20-year-old rookie Jake Cassidy.
“I thought he did brilliantly all the way through – for the first 15-20 minutes, the ball just stuck with him,” said the boss. “He was getting to the ball first – as was Jake – and that’s why we were on top of them.”
Comments for: "Wolves want more goals from Sylvan Ebanks-Blake"
PeteNuts
"I'm surprised he didn't get carried off after scoring."
We don't have anyone on the playing staff who can lift that kind of weight.
I now yield the floor to Lord Molineux, my most ardent follower.
hoppo
Brilliant
Solbakenwasright
You have about half as many followers as Hale and Pace and no where near as much humour!!!
PeteNuts
Brilliant. Now the man who can't spell our last manager's name, or indeed the word "nowhere", thinks he's earned the right to step up. You're an ant squaring up to a boot, fella. Don't test.
bilodave
Well I liked it!
PeteNuts
In addition to being unable to spell, Solbaken is lacking in the sense of humour department. And indeed all other departments.
Mark B
We did not realise we needed more goals from SEB, what a daft headline.
HershamWolf
You seem surprised that journalists are capable of daft headlines, comments, etc.
chris h
If the Board had done their job properly last Aug and signed a quality target man to act as a foil.to win the ball in the area and give SEB knock downs and flick ons: then SEB would have already scored enough goals to ensure our safety in the Championship.This is rank poor executive management.At present we have a rookie doing this job and it will be hit and miss whether we will survive.This is after the football club Wolves 1986 Ltd made over £31m profits in the last 3 financial years.Many other Championship teams have brought in new strikers ,evidently we have spent all our money on bricks.NB 'Fickle' as I predicted would happen many times on here,two years ago .
JJ
Considering Mr Morgan brought the club for a tenner there will have been a number of criteria that needed to be met. £30 Million guaranteed investment has been batted around. No doubt some of those would have been required to be spend on ground improvement. So who's to say Morgan had no choice but to spend it.
I wish people will stop going on about it. Stoke, Norwich, Swansea and West Brom have all spent less on player than we have despite the new stand. Would not building it have meant Mick had an extra £20 Million to spend. No.
chris h
People will be going on about it for an eternity ,because it was so obviously a massive strategic mistake and will now have serious implications on the status of our football club.We had an opportunity to establish ourselves in the Premier,now we are likely to play second fiddle to the Albion for a generation. When the rewards are so great to stay in the Premier they should have concentrated on the team.What other clubs did ,of course, is not the point ,it is what we should have done that matters and we needed to buy better players.Some of us saw it coming especially those who lived through the parallel false claims when they said all the same things just before they built the now named Steve Bull Stand.At least that new stand did need to be built ,but that is not the case for the latest development. On another point are you trying to say Sir Jack gave the club away for a tenner on the condition that the new owner pulled down one of the stands Sir Jack had paid for himself only a few years ago.That of course is nonsense,you are merely trying to justify a massive strategic mistake and one that is ridicled by the rest of the footballing world.
Noisy
Chris - nobody on here has a better grip on the finances (and God knows it's not easy as the owner and CEO seem determined to muddy the waters as much as possible) of the club so in your opinion did they spend all the money on bricks or is a few million still squirrelled away somewhere?
If anyone on here is a recent arrival I can definitely support your assertion that you always said the new stand was a bad investment!
bilodave
Yes I remember Chris and you have been proved right. I was somewhat fooled by the promise that the new stand would not affect the transfer kitty and it was a promise.
Saunders Foot
I also thought SEB had his best game for yonks, and just shaded the man of the match award in front of Roger Johnson. Lets hope he can get that feelin that strikers get from time to time , when they feel they can score every time they play. If we can cast our minds back to SEB 's most prolific time, he had Iwelumo up with him, if we wanna give SEB the benefit of the doubt, he's never had somebody like big Chris since he left, so aiming high balls into him ain't really his game. We all know he can score for fun in this league, but only if the ball can stick in and around the box, Doyle or Siggy can't make it stick, and I think this has been a big problem for us this season. Just wanna say well done to the 800 or so who travelled to Millwall, there's some Stripey Kevin's on the tesco thread tryin to gloat, we think wim mossive, and all that predictable stuff, the trouble is the ones who shout loudest don't go to games, I'm sure they're sponsored by DFS, I know it's for wind up only, but you do get the feelin that nasty inferiority complex keeps showing from time to time. I think match day must be the only time their better halves let em have a drink,lol, they plan it two weeks in advance,ha,ha. Wolves ay we.
Balham Wolf
Just looked at the stats from the game on Tuesday. 2 shots on target 2 shots off target= 4 shots at goal in 90 minutes. Can this be right? If it is there is something fundamentally wrong. Can the management not ask the players to have a few more shots at goal, who knows we may score!? Personally, I think with Henry on the park we will struggle to create enough chances. We cannot rely only on O'Hara to be the creative player. I would prefer Davis or even Doumbia ahead of Henry the crab. Please lets be sensible and not play him.
Bolton wolf
let Doyle out on loan .Dunfermline are in debt thats will be us next season .
HOPPO
Could you repeat that in English Please. ?
Solbakenwasright
Even Swahili would be an improvement!!!
PeteNuts
Says the man who, lest we forget, can't spell our last manager's name correctly. Glass houses, my man!
Solbakenwasright
Isn't it lovely when a nerve gets poked???
PeteNuts
Yeah, and I'm the man doing the poking. Two Ks, yeah?
Keitht44
The best way to get him scoring is to have a strong, attacking midfield that can feed the ball through to his feet as that is where his strength lies rather then crosses from the wings!
Thrhoffsleftsock
The best way for s e b to score is to lock a key in the ball and a balti pie in a locked box in the goal, he can only have the pie when the ball is in the back of the net!
SIMPLES
Adam h
It was a fluke goal against an under performing team.
Calm down people.
cameo
Fluke???? You're obviously someone who doesn't go to any Wolves games and/or are an Albion fan cus SEB has scored some fantastic goals for us, that one might make it into his top 3 but he definately meant it.
Mills wolf
You cant fluke a bycicle kick, you either connect or miss.
Credit to him for trying it when most others wouldnt.
Lets hope for more, stop being negative, we won !!!!
fickle
underperforming team eh? same team that beat boro away 1-2 a week ago and knocked out aston villa f.a.cup 2-1.
a fluke goal? so the three or four passes before the goal were flukes as well?.
me thinks you had a bet on millwall to win and ,because they did'nt your now bitter.
never mind eh onwards and upwards, utw.
Selly park wolf
Well he has to play first Deano!
SEB is our only natural goalscorer whether we like him or not. Personally iv always been a fan of him but a lot of the time he ain't always had the best service.
Pezsco should be playing week in week out to create chances he thrives on but a good source of mine says that part of his loan deal payments are based on appearances and therefore moxey has requested that he don't play him because of that fact.
If that's true, which I'm not saying it is then that is a complete joke!
Tipton
Could someone please explain what Doyle brings to the team?
No pace, no skill, can't shoot, never in the right position, falls over with the slightest touch.
Yes he runs around a lot but I could do that for 10 grand a week!
hoppo
You obviously know nothing about football, when Doyle breaks and heads for goal there's none of his team mates within 30 yards of him,
theyr'e not that quick.
Leveller49
Doyle was great for us 2 years ago but he's been ineffective since
royboywolf
10grand? I think you mean 40grand when in the premier + 20 now we're in the chumpionship what a joke fir a striker who has only scored 5goals all season
hoppo
Don't you mean "for" not "fir"
mossman
He is the best goal scorer we have and looks world class when you compare him with Doyle. However he is fat, not fit and misses more than he gets. Also he can't hold the ball up or win headers. With the type of football Dean Shambles wants to play he needs to grow taller by at least a foot. Past his sell by date like Ward, Error, Henry, Edwards, Foley and silly Hunt.
Crunge
Hamstring, Groins and Back? Wasn`t that a German singing trio back in the fifties?
Maybe not
The Flying Winger
Then get another striker alongside, another drip feed about wanting 2 or 3 loan signings, more jam tomorrow.
Tipton Wolves
I hope there more goals to come Ebank Blake and I hope Doyle and Cassidy will start scoring soon.
BrummieRobWolves
A quality goal on Tuesday but has missed some sitters this season - none worse than the Cardiff one? Someone like SEB should be scoring 20 goals in this divsion and on current form his best partner is Sigurdarson! Whoever plays needs to bang them in, as there are only 2 who are in double figures and I fully expect Sako to score a few more.
We must not get too carried away, as Millwall are in worse form than ourselves. If we get a point on Saturday, we will have done well. Bristol City is a must win plus we will need to get something against Boro, Blues, Huddersfield, Hull, Charlton and Burnley, I suspect - to survive a nightmare season!
BedlamWolf
Surely, SEB and the other strikers are not our main concern? They haven't been good, we all know that, but its the middle of the park where we have been woeful and lost most of our matches. It's in midfield that Deano has yet to get a handle on how best to play with what he's got, and lets face it he ain't got much outside of Sako to hang his (and our) hopes on. Henry is always limited and his all round play has been awful, Hunt looks like a pub footballer, Doumbia is lazy and erratic, O'Hara lacks his old energy, playing too deep and trying to spray around Beckham-like passess.....something tells me he has to start picking Davies in there somewhere, but again he hasn't shown any consistency. It'll be a massive performance to get something at Forest, a point, a clean sheet, heading into BRistol City at home would be a good achievement. Let's just hope and pray. The Old Gold Are Staying Up!
John De Wolf
I'd like to see SEB and Siggy start on Sat. SEB will always score at this level, what we have missed this season is the supply, which is why he's only scored 12 so far.
I'd like to see a striker, midfielder and winger come in on loan if possible - unlikely I know.
Why is it so difficult to get anyone in, is it their perceived lack of commitment of we don't want to pay their wages?
What happened to Jackson from Norwich? He looked a good shout and has something we miss, pace.
ANNIE B
Shut up Saunders; SEB is a waste of a very large space, the lump spent 3 years in the top flight and barely got a look in; He will be off-ski come June, along with the other wasters like Henry, Ward etc, but WWFC fans, the highest paid 3, Doyle, O'Hara and Johnson, all on at least £30k a WEEK, will leech off the fans until contract expiry, as no one wants rubbish like them, even on a tenth of their wages; Nice job there Jeremey Dereck, you certainly earn your £300k a year + same in bonus with that type of mega-incompetence;
Solbakenwasright
Watch out for the spelling police.
You obviously struggle with names!!!
The Spelling Police
Solbakken
Solbakenwasright
No "Solbakenwasright"
It's a word I invented like "moanbag"Remember?
PeteNuts
Shakespeare invented hundreds of words - it's nice that you bracket me alongside him, although I'd argue that he just about shades it.
Two stalkers on these forums now. Man, I am racking them up at the moment.
suzanne virdee
You are a true wit, a half-wit my good man: Perhaps the misspelled names were deliberate as a form of diss, you can use that excuse in your spelling of Solbakken!
Sir Lupi
SEB needs a big target man like Iwulumo was.
Doyle & Siggy are not the answer.
Bemused wolf
Think its more than case of what SEB has missed this season more than what he has scored. Goals for and league position doesn't lie. SEBs finishing was very poor in the Premiership when there was obvious better supply so defeats that theory.
Filthy Wolf
Thank God Doyle was left out. He simply is not the player he was supposed to be - ie. Goalscorer. Ebanks-Blake should be murdering this league, so he really needs this as a kickstart. Lots to do, and we are waiting on other teams to play their extra game, but onwards and upwards please!
THE CORRIDOR OF UNCERTAINTY
Four wins from the remaining ten games please. I will then personally treat SEB to a slap up Aberdeen Angus burger and fries. For SEB to score 12 goals in a season when we haven't actually managed a shot on target in some games is a good effort. Forest here we come. 08.45 from Wolvo - in Nottingham for 10.33 and BEER TIME!!
Sedgley Slayer
For me, the partnership has to be Siggy and SEB.
Siggy has been playing well and has pace whilst hopefully that goal will give SEB a bit more confidence in front of goal.
A point on Saturday would be a decent result. Then its a 6 pointer against Bristol City.
thame wolf
Some on this forum have very short memories with regards Doyle especially around his work rate which is exceptional.
hoppo
Spot on.
karlwolves
seeing some people are having a go,here is my starting line up
gk, ikeme
lb dockerty
rb robinson
cb r.johnson
cb gorks
cm davies
cmo hara
lw sako
rw doyle
cf siggi
cf blakey
i think we need to forget doyler as a goal scorer.but if you analize his play,he good at holding the ball up,good at crossing.
Realistic Wolf
Yet more waffle, talk about stating the ........? obvious. More loan signings on the way? no doubt we will get the same old Moxey rhetoric as he drags his heels until the loan window closes. As for Saunders he is not the answer, in fact he is more like the question. We are weak and non creative in midfield, Henry oh dear, O'hara slow and seems unfit and worse still plays like Beckham. Edwards runs a lot, thats it. Saturday we must have Robinson and Siggy back. Davies has to be worth a shout. As for the Pesczo situation, yet another loanee not even on the bench. Nothing changes does it down at white elephant towers.
christopher
Sounds like he would have failed a fitness test at Palace anyway.
rich5wolves
I agree with couple of posts above. Id give Blake and Siggy a starting role on Saturday.
Cassidy and Dyle as subs. Hunt dropped for Pes.
Id probably be playing Adlene if he was at the club like he should be lol not playing against his team.
AucklandKiwiWolf
It's not telling us anything we didn't know already.One of the main reasons we are where we are is a lack of goal scoring.That's why we are in this mess !In the end it could possibly go down to goals scored whether we stay up or not.
KARLWOLVES
see all the blakey knockers coming out of the wood work.all this crap about being over weight ect,ect. if the man was over weight he wouldnt of scored the goal he did, he certainly wouldnt of been able to get to his feet unaided. some of you are mentioning his stats in the prem,well if you were to look closer ,the 3 years he was in the prem,mad mick hardly
e played him,or if he did there was only him in the box,and his strike partner out on the wing,crossing to a man 5ft or slightly more tall. we all know he aint gonna win many balls inthe air, its when the ball is into feet, he is most dangerous.scoring goals is a confidence thin, and thanks to mad mick, his has been severly damaged. yes he misses some sitters,but so do most strikers,even BULLY. so get off his back,and encourage instead of destroy.
HOPPO
Not overweight ,they are still feeling the aftershocks in the Millwall area,
5.5 on the richter scale.
Idiotspotter
There's one!
KARLWOLVES
see all the blakey knockers coming out of the wood work.all this crap about being over weight ect,ect. if the man was over weight he wouldnt of scored the goal he did, he certainly wouldnt of been able to get to his feet unaided. some of you are mentioning his stats in the prem,well if you were to look closer ,the 3 years he was in the prem,mad mick hardly
played him,or if he did there was only him in the box,and his strike partner out on the wing,crossing to a man 5ft or slightly more tall. we all know he aint gonna win many balls in the air, its when the ball is into feet, he is most dangerous.scoring goals is a confidence thing, and thanks to mad mick, his has been severly damaged. yes he misses some sitters,but so do most strikers,even BULLY. so get off his back,and encourage instead of bringing up unproven facts.
sue
Well said.. He's not overweight.
PeteNuts
"I see all the Blakey knockers coming out of the woodwork. All this crap about being overweight etc etc. If the man was overweight he wouldn't have scored the goal he did, he certainly wouldn't have been able to get to his feet unaided. Some of you are mentioning his stats in the Prem - well, if you were to look closer, the 3 years he was in the Prem, Mad Mick hardly played him, or if he did there was only him in the box, and his strike partner out on the wing, crossing to a man 5ft or slightly more tall [SORRY EVERYBODY, I KIND OF LOST IT THERE, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO SAVE SOME OF THIS STUFF - PN]. We all know he ain't gonna win many balls in the air, it's when the ball is into feet that he is most dangerous. Scoring goals is a confidence thing, and thanks to Mad Mick, his has been severely damaged. Yes, he misses some sitters, but so do most strikers, even Bully. So get off his back and encourage him instead of bringing up unproven facts."
Rolled Gold
The Blakey Knockers are out? Surely you meant "Blakey's knockers are out"
Sorry, couldn't resist!
hoppo
The tremors are still being felt in Millwall from when he hit the deck
paul davo
Now its clear, seb is a walking wreck and it sounds like he will never pass a medical at a new club so its no wonder he has upped his game , don"t get conned into a new contract wolves , it sounds like he"s a burden waiting to happen, but keep scoring seb its pay back time.
barneyanbarker
Why are people knockin SEB about is weight!he has struggled with his back for a few seasons now,which his obviouse affected the way he runs! nothing to do with his weight,do believe needs tall target man to up front with him.Has said before why not give ward a chance!
wednesbury wolves
NICE TO SEE SEB GOAL AT MILLWALL NOW LETS GO TO FOREST AND CONTINUE WE ARE IN A FALSE POSITION IN THE LEAGUE COME ON LET'S GET BEHIND THE BOY'S
snoddy
Yes we are in a false position we should be bottom
Golden Nugget
Spot on Karl. I too get sick of all the uneducated drivel from Peenuts and his ilk
PeteNuts
Three stalkers now. Man, I'm on fire.
anyanka
Four stalkers and counting, last time I came on here I gave you and your gang of Gollums a sound verbal thrashing: How to you spell Troglodytes again? Trogloodytes, Trogolodites..............?
PeteNuts
As I recall I added an extra O, and after you looked up the word online, you were able to correct me.
In the meantime, well done, you've just tried to extract the Michael from me for poor spelling, and in doing so have managed to spell the word "do" incorrectly. Also, you don't write verbal thrashings, you speak them, I think you mean "lexical".
Come at the king, you best not miss.
spikeh
Well other clubs dont seem to have had a problem signing loan players, seems to me its more a case of JM keeping the purse shut while dripping out the occasional bit of spin about looking to bring in players.
Wishformore
Wolves want more goals from SEB is the headline. It is self evident that one would want your strikers to score as many goals as possible. However, in defence of SEB having taken the league stats from the Wolves Website the stats show SEB has a very good goal conversion rate to shots on target = 50%. In comparison the conversion rate for Doyle is only 16%, Sigurdarson 33% and Sako from midfield 20%. I would shout very loudly at Doyle (so called international !!) to improving his stats maybe 5 / 6 goals from him is needed moreover than relying on SEB. I know we have been debating the Griffith situation as long as the season is long, his goal conversion stat is 38%. Whether the scottish premier is a fair comparison with The Championship is a debate in itself however, scoring is no easy job in any league. A near 40% conversion rate in any league cannot be brushed aside as insignificant especially when goalscoring this season has let us down bigtime. I think letting him return this January was a big error of judgment which I hope we won't regret. Its now time for Doylee and Sigi to step up and match the stats of SEB !!! I hope your listening .............................
Boz
If anybody in the current squad can get the goals to keep us up it's SEB. Don't get me wrong, I realise that he hasn't been at his best this season (just like practically every other Wolves player) but he still is our top scorer. I'd like to see SEB partnered more regularly with Siggy as they seem to me to be our best pair of strikers but so far this season they've had very limited opportunities togher as a partnership.
fickle
totally agree karl, the knockers will slag off anything positive about wwfc, remember when wwfc could'nt score never mind draw/win or keep a clean sheet?
and now we are getting draws,scoring,keeping the odd clean sheet, the y have turned their attention to the percieved weakness of the opposition and the negatives of our players.
if wwfc do get a draw or win at forest, i can guarantee you that they will.
1.say forest had an off day.
2.wwfc scored a flukey goal/s.
3.henry meant to pass backwards but ended scoring by mistake.
4.saunders still does'nt know what he is doing and he should walk.
utw.
manc andy
Sounds like our top scorer whom we are placing all our hopes is fit for the knackers yard to hear deano talk,,he carnt be that decrepid or he wouldnt make it up the tunnel,,bad back, hamstrings playing up and dodgy groin, how does he get through the week ?
Wishformore
If you look at the goal conversion ratio to shots on target what emerges will surprise many.
SEB = 50%
Sigurdarson = 33%
Sako = 20%
Doyle = 16%
If anybody has to score 5/6 goals in the run it is more likely to be SEB than the others especially when you compare these stats. However, the very low conversion rate of Doyle is very poor one would think a so called international could do better. I challenge all of them to score 5 each in the run in - god willing that will keep us up.
I don't think goal scoring is easy in any league thus the 38% conversion rate of Griffith is a significant loss to our team especially when every goal is precious now. Letting him return in January was poor judgement - perhaps we should of sent Doylee to Hibs instead of LG !!!
anyanka
Score five or six goals in the run? Me thinks score five or six k.babs in the local grease pit, would be nearer the mark!