Show Some Pride, Passion And Fight! Wigan Preview
Cort..Fit Again
By Scott Cooper
September 10 2004
WE'VE had enough! The excuses must end, the football must improve and the first win of the season must come at Molineux tomorrow. There is no room for anything other than a win. And that win must be at the expense of Wigan.
| MATCH DAY INFO | |
| FIXTURE | Wolves Vs WIgan |
| STADIUM | Molineux Stadium |
| LOCATION | Wolverhampton |
| COMPETITION | The Championship |
| DATE | 11.09.04 |
| KICK OFF | 15:00 |
WE'VE had enough! The excuses must end, the football must improve and the first win of the season must come at Molineux tomorrow. There is no room for anything other than a win. And that win must be at the expense of Wigan.
If they thought we'd forgive and forget over the two-week international break, they were wrong. Very wrong. If anything, the two week break hasn't done the fans much good. The reason? The Masters.
Last weekend Wolves Fan's watched a team of ten battle, fight and show passion for the gold shirt. With a chap called Bully in attack, Wolves got through to the final. They lost the final to Chelsea, but they left the field with their heads held high, their pride intact and a cheer from the Wolves fans who attended.
The expensive Wolves first team, which has had almost £27M spent on in the last four season's must look up the word pride, must look up the word battle and must look up the word fight. We've seen none of it yet and tomorrow is time for the players to show the 21,000 season ticket holders why they get paid ridiculous amounts of money to play football on a Saturday.
Jones has seen his team filled with injuries. Lescott, Murray, Ganea, Kennedy, Cooper, Sturridge, Cort, Bjorklund, Naylor, Edward, Ndah and Cameron have all spent a lot of the season injured. Ganea, Edwards and Kennedy are all still injured, with the latter back in 3 weeks whilst Ganea will miss the whole season and Edwards will be out until the new year, but the majority of the first team is now back.
Carl Cort, Seol, Murray could all make their first starts of the season against a determined Wigan side.
Wigan are built upon a solid defence, with former Blackburn Rovers 'keeper Filan between the sticks. Former Bolton workhorse Frandsen holds up the midfield whilst winger Gary Teale will cause naylor all sorts of problems on the left.
The squad Jones will have available tomorrow will hold nine past or present full Internationals, whilst a further three sit in the treatment room.
It's time for three points..........NOW
| Who's Hot, Who's Not. | |
| Hot | Carl Cort - Cort is expected to start his first game of the season after being out injured. |
| Not | Vio Ganea - Out injured for the season. |
| Crocked | Ndah, Kennedy, Ganea, Edwards |
| Possible Line-Up | Jones, Naylor, Clyde, Craddock, Lescott, Cameron, Newton, Olofinjana, Ince, Miller, Cort |
| Subs (From) | Oakes, Murray, Cooper, Bjorklund, Clarke, Clingan, Andrews, Mulligan, Seol |
| Prediction League Latest * | Home Win
- 60% Draw - 13% Away Win - 26% |
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