What’s your favourite Crest?
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Wolves’ attacking options look like they will be boosted by the possible return of Iwelumo, who’s overcome his ankle twist, and might force Keogh back to the bench. Jarvis will also be pushing for a place as he came through a friendly mid week with no problems. Jones, Kightly and Iwelumo are each on 4 yellows going into the game so they’ll have to be on their best behaviour so as not to be ruled ineligible for the Sheffield United game on boxing day, to lose all three for that game would be a major handicap.

Game predictions? It’s a 2-0 to the Wolves for me, with Kightly to get the first goal.

Elsewhere it’s the battle of second and third with Reading taking on Birmingham in a massive 6 pointer, with you guys voting all this week in this poll, it looks like the majority (74.4%) of you would like a draw…under the proviso we win tomorrow. Thanks to all who voted! I was massively surprised at how the numbers have swollen for these polls since the first one a couple of weeks back, we’ve gone from around 40 to 188! Thanks to everyone who comes on here and gets involved!

Here’s to a good weekend!

Tara-a-bit!

Now, the case for the Birmingham win – Reading remain 7 points behind us, we either stay 6 points ahead at best, 3 points ahead of Birmingham at worst, 4 ahead of Birmingham if we draw and they win, whilst we’ll go 10 clear of Reading if we win, 8 clear if we draw, and remain 7 ahead if we lose.

Reading and Birmingham draw – We win, we go 8 points clear of Birmingham, 9 points clear of Reading, draw, then obviously it stays at 6 and 7 respectively, lose and the gap is narrowed to 5 and 6.

Reading Win – We win, we’ll be 9 points clear of Birmingham, 7 points clear of Reading, draw, we’ll be 7 clear of Birmingham, 5 clear of Reading, or lose, in which case we’ll remain 6 points clear of Birmingham, and 4 clear of Reading.

Right, get your head round that, someone, please if my midnight mental maths is wrong, tell me rather than let me make a tit of myself (mental maths isn’t my strong point at the best of times) and vote below.

I’m personally going to say a draw for those pair and a win for us would be the best case senario, keeping them both at arms length while we move two points further away, but I’ll be interested to see what everyone else thinks, if they’d prefer the psychological effect of Birmingham or Reading getting beat.

Ooooo.

So yes, vote your little hearts out.

Birmingham Vs Reading, what would you like to happen?
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Talking of injuries, we’ve got one of our own to worry about for Saturday, Iwelumo’s emission from the squad on Tuesday wasn’t entirely due to fatigue as we first thought, apparently in a bit of a training ground accident, he’s managed to turn his ankle, so he’s unlikely to feature again on Saturday. This will probably lead to Mick putting out a team much like that of Tuesday, with Keogh looking to build on his solid performance and offer his tireless running and effort to the cause.

Elsewhere in the league, Birmingham travel to Preston, while Reading have Norwich at home. While I’d love to think differently, we know deep down that we really do need a win to keep that breathing space at the top, as those are games that they’ll be favourites to win.

Other bits of Wolves news in a nicely rounded sentence – Wolves’ youth team has a good thing going in the FA Youth Cup, obviously mirroring the success of the senior squad this season, their success has got everyone so excited Blake has decided to say a catchy slogan, while Mick McCarthy is quick to tell all his players he might sell them all if he wants to, which will make Keogh a bit sad, because he only just got up the courage to say that he wanted to give him a selection dilemma, while Matt Hill is happy just to have finally played his first game.

Amazing.

Ooooo look a poll.

Wassa gonna happen?
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“Go to London! I guarantee you’ll either be mugged or not appreciated. Catch the train to London, stopping at Rejection, Disappointment, Backstabbing Central and Shattered Dreams Parkway”

Pretty much sums up every visit I’ve ever had there. People are so inflated, (along with their prices), us softer midlanders are just completely swept up with their lingo, and just confused by the whole experience. So it’s off to London we go, to Loftus Road to be precise, home of Q.P.R the league’s current holders of the all mouth and no trousers trophy, holding onto that mantle ever since August (with skilful boasts such as promising that Zidane would be their next manager), they’ve worked tirelessly in constantly talking themselves up, so much in fact that prior to this game I’d assumed they were in the play-offs right behind us, so you can imagine my surprise to see them occupying our usual territory around this time of year at 10th.

They do have an impressive home record going for them, one loss in 6 and 4 wins make them seem slightly worring as a prospect, beating Birmingham at home during that little spell. Their man to look out for in front of goal is Dexter Blackstock, who’s notched up 8 goals this term in between the mess of their season so far, so he’ll definitely be one player to look out for.

Wolves have improved on their travels of late; recording four wins in the last four away days, notching up 10 goals in the process…typing those kind of stats never gets tiresome. And while we don’t have the top scorer in the league, we do have the 2nd and 4th top scorers, Blake and Iwelumo on a combined 25 goals in the league. The midweek scheduled friendly to give Craddock and Jarvis a run out was cancelled due to weather conditions, so neither of those are any closer to coming back into the squad. Don’t expect a massive overhaul from the Birmingham game.

Q.P.R are a team who have a lot of aspiration but are yet to really hit top gear consistently, but they have done in patches this season, so Wolves will need to be wary of them, they’re capable of getting a result against us especially on home turf. Wolves will have to play the football we know their capable of, defend well and hit them on the counter.

You’ll be able to watch this one on sky too, which is always nice eh?

Fingers cross, it’s a 17:20 Kick off in case any of you are going to watch it…don’t go to the pub too early eh?

Ooooh arrr, a poll. Not one which will set the world a blaze, yet, let’s see how you do. You’ve got till kick off on Saturday to make your prediction!

How do you think we'll do?
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Tarra-a-bit.

Hopefully, this will work. If it does I might make it a “feature” bells and whistles time isn’t it? I don’t know, let’s say 25 or more votes and I’ll do it again?

What's going to happen tomorrow?
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Tarra-a-bit!