Sat 1st March 2014, Wolves v Port Vale, Pre Match, Match itself

[Fosse69]

New ground for some, a new looking ground from the 3-3 draw in 1988, as is VP. Let us hope we rise to the occasion.

[philpvfc]

The one most of us have been looking forward to all season.

 

Let's have a sell out and make it a fun day whatever the result.

[Conrad]

Just noticed the title of the thread, hope we don't need the sas.:nailbiting:

[Hagrid]

So we're up against 2nd in the table, who beat Brentford 3-0 away and beat us 3-0 when we played them at home.

 

We've played awful since the start of 2014 in the league, have scored 1 in 3, our best defender stretchered off.

 

:(

[Emile]

Neal

Yates, grimmer, davis, dicko

JMW, knott, loft, taylor

lines

pope

 

Don't really see a point in playing any of the other strikers, as they can't play together or they're not very good.

Perhaps lines can get close to pope and play some interesting balls for him.

Loft and knott combined can do grifts job a lot better than he can, and play two wingers to actually put the ball in for pope.

[valiant_593]

JMW cant play, were playing with 10 men if JMW is on.

[Lady_Vale]

You just can't see how we can get anything at Wolves playing like this. We'd need to rely on Wolves having a stinker when at our best let alone playing like a poor league 2 side.

[valiant_593]

putting my money on 5-0

[Rampant Zebra]

Can't see Vale scoring 5, lol

[BurslemFinest]

Neal

Yates, grimmer, davis, dicko

JMW, knott, loft, taylor

lines

pope

 

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Don't really see a point in playing any of the other strikers, as they can't play together or they're not very good.

Perhaps lines can get close to pope and play some interesting balls for him.

Loft and knott combined can do grifts job a lot better than he can, and play two wingers to actually put the ball in for pope.

 

Grimmer has got to be any early doubt for this 1! Anyone heard anything on the injury?

[TylerB]

If they're at it and score early then it really could be cringeworthy stuff. They obviously have players with bags more of ability than ours as our budget does not compete with theirs, but hopefully we can at least match them in attitude and application and not roll over and have to suffer a reach around.

[Bernie's evil]

putting my money on 5-0

Im for 7 - 0 for wolves, cant see vale getting anything from this game, confidence must be low !

[mitchpvfc]

Toughest team to pick all season for me. Whether we attack or sit back, I really cant see us picking up a result at the moment. With Grimmer now looking to miss the trip, i'd go with:

 

Neal

 

Yates Duffy Davis Dickinson

 

Birchall Lines Griff Knott Loft

 

Pope

 

Bench: Johnson, Robertson, Jones, Dodds, JMW, Tomlin, Hugill.

 

- Duffy in for a bit more pace to try and handle their striker Nouha Dicko who has bags of it. A bit of communication will be useful too! Robertson on the bench for cover.

 

- Birchall to protect Yates from getting murdered by either Sako or Jacobs.

 

- Knott looked tidy today. Him in a 5 could be interesting as he could easily move in behind Pope and get balls into him when attacking. Hopefully he can get a few shots away too.

 

- Loft back to left midfield where he looked comfortable earlier on in the season.

 

- Pope up top on his own. May look negative but are any of the others looking to contribute with goals? Can all make an impact when coming on however. Birchall and Loft providing good crosses could cause them problems if Tom's up for it.

 

They play 4-5-1 usually and if we play 4-4-2, we would get demolished, simple as that. Just go and match them I say and see what happens...

[Santa]

Will be one of either two things.

 

Either very, very messy - or an incredible win against the form book and all the odds.

 

In the old days we always used to give Wolves a game when they (and by 'they' I'm mainly referring to Mark McGhee) thought that all they had to do was turn up.

[pvfcrule]

We are going get thrashed if we play like today!! I'm going but not holding out fr much though!