Wolves Vs Watford – Match Preview

By: Toby | January 30th, 2009

And so here come Watford, a game not but two months ago that most Wolves fans would say “BRING ON THE TRUMPETS” to, and they’d have been right, if not slightly confusing if they meant that this was a game which we’d be expecting to win, and win comfortably. But no, no dearest readers, these are troubled times indeed for the old gold, because if you were to believe the great orators of football, namely your mate down the pub, the guy who works at Co-Op and the guy who ends every argument with “WELL I’VE GOT A SEASON TICKET SO I THINK I KNOW” like it’s the answer to something then Wolves aren’t actually top the league, four points clear, we’re actually bottom, about to get relegated, go into administration and about to get burned to the ground by Vikings. What we’re suffering from right now, is what I like to call “fevered over reaction to events that haven’t actually got that bad at all” to give it it’s overtly long and not very catchy tag line.

Let’s face it we’ve been far from epic world beaters for a month now, yet we’re still top of the league, and while that argument is great and good while you’re winning, we haven’t really been doing that, we’ve kinda been drawing and losing and not really playing that well, so my “we’re still top of the league” mantra has been wearing thinner by the week, yet I still cling to it, like it means something, because it does, we’re still 4 points clear. If we’ve learnt anything this season it’s that the Championship is the same it’s ever been, any team can beat any team on its day, look at Blackpool doing the double over Birmingham, Swansea beating both ourselves and Reading. There’s a long way to go and there are going to be many more twists and turns in this season, I’m pretty sure about that. What I do know is that we’ve put ourselves in a great position, I’d rather be shaky and top of the table than shaky and in third, we haven’t so much a mountain to climb, moreover a mountain to try and stay on top of until the rest of the season, the hard work is done. We just need to consolidate.

And where is this consolidating going to start? It starts tomorrow at Watford, we need a result, but even more importantly we need a performance. It’s something I’ve been saying for far too long now but I really want to see a game where we take it by the scruff and don’t let go until we come away with a result, hopefully that’s what we’ll see tomorrow.

Squad wise we’ll be sans Collins, who’s on the naughty step for colourful language and perhaps minus Quashie who was looking tired towards the end of the last game. A side from that we’ll be hopefully lining up at full strength, I’d like to see a Vokes and Blake starting line up, or at the very least Blake and Iwelumo, as much as I love Keogh I think it’s time for the return of the big man little man combination.

Elsewhere the Christophe Berra transfer is turning into a saga.

UPDATE – We’ve agreed a fee and he’s on his way down for a medical. How exciting, I’ve been cruising the Heart’s 606 and they rate him off the pitch as a gentleman as much as they do as a player, it’s music to my ears.

Oh so here we go again, fingers crossed, good luck!

Sorry this is so late, I’ve had a job interview today, if you could keep your collective fingers crossed for me that’d be sensational.

Tarra-a-bit!