Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Aston Villa Pre-Match thread

[Bad English]

We are too inconsistent to be able to predict this with any confidence but generally when we play teams above us in the table we lose.

Consistency hiding in plain sight.

[chrisw1]

Man for man, how many of their players would you want in our starting 11?

Yeah, I think we'll lose too.

[ChicagoLion]

Man for man, how many of their players would you want in our starting 11?

Neto, Neves, Podence, Moutinho.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Podence and Trincao are dangerous,but they'll struggle to score without Raul in the side

[Clark W Griswold]

I know quite a few, coming from over that way. The ones that grate with me are the ones that have come out of the woodwork and it's also my kids mates at school that probably wouldn't have been remotely interested in them had it been 5 or so years ago and that don't know anything other than Wolves being fairly good and generally a bit better than the Villa (completely oblivious to the previous 40 years or so). The ones i've known for a long time as always being Wolves fans are pretty much ok.
Anyway, we'd do well to scrape a point here i think.

[Drummond]

Can't see beyond a defeat. 2-1

[Legion]

2-0.

[manic-road]

1-1

[Smirker]

I know a couple of Wolves fans from school and they are very nice people.

I still hope we will FTF.

3-1 Villa.

[WarszaVillan]

I'm not confident about this one, but it would give the team a real boost to beat someone above us. They always seem to turn it on against us, apart from that great win under Bruce when our coaching staff took the piss.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Man for man, how many of their players would you want in our starting 11?

Neto, Neves, Podence, Moutinho.

Moutinho is a funny one, years ago I saw him break into the Sporting side and although technically gifted, he just looked too small to fulfill his obvious talent. And by small I'm talking Barry Bannan small. According to Wiki there's a 1cm difference between the two (1.70 & 1.69). Both have gone on to have more than decent careers but now every time I see Moutinho on TV he looks way taller than his Sporting days. I think he was 24 when he left Sporting and it's impossible for men to grow taller after the age of 20, so what the hell happened?

He's a cracking little player* who looks after himself as his record shows; over 800 pro-club games and 143 caps for Portugal, 36 in September and still going strong. Not a bad investment by the Dingles, £5m for a player that's averaged over 40 games a season over 4 years there.


*No offence intended, Mazrim.

[LeeB]

Whatever happened to the wee man? Mazrim that is, not Barry Bannan.

[Drummond]

Whatever happened to the wee man? Mazrim that is, not Barry Bannan.

He moved to the good old US of A. Last seen lurking outside West Point furiously tapping away on his phone reporting anyone who didn't salute as they drove past.

[Drummond]

Barry Bannan lives in Sheffield, his child goes to the nursery that my kids went to.

[Pete3206]

I'm after a ticket and a Wolves mate has offered me one next to him. I just can't bring myself to be in the home end.