General Wolves News

[MARKakaJIM]

I went to the Madejski under Hoddle, think it was either the final or penultimate game of the season, Olofinjana had a stormer from memory!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Found our away followings for 08/09:

Plymouth 2,689
Ipswich 1,412
Charlton 2,873
Preston 2,992
Swansea 2,578
Norwich 885
Watford 2,268
Cardiff 314
Southampton 2,849
Sheff Utd 1,488
QPR 1,515
Doncaster 3,216
Blackpool 1,648
Bristol City 1,332
Reading 2,000
Coventry 4,276
Burnley 1,496
Palace 1,226
Sheff Wed 2,695
Forest 5,279
Blues 2,700
Derby 3,100
Barnsley 5,869

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I went to the Madejski under Hoddle, think it was either the final or penultimate game of the season, Olofinjana had a stormer from memory!

Yep. Leon Clarke and Rohan Ricketts on the scoresheet. What a time to be alive.

 

[b3h]

Why so few to Cardiff? It's only an hour away

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Douglas has like 6.

How many have been from dead balls?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Why so few to Cardiff? It's only an hour away

Saturday teatime, on TV and Ninian Park was a fucking hovel

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Why so few to Cardiff? It's only an hour away

An hour? From Wolvo to Cardiff? In what? A helicopter?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

How many have been from dead balls?

Three I think, Hull (for Neves' goal, so he didn't do all that much to contribute there ), Cardiff and PNE were all from open play.

 

[b3h]

An hour? From Wolvo to Cardiff? In what? A helicopter?

*Checks* - OK, 2 hours :icon_lol:

I didn't do Geography at school.

 

[Langers]

Saturday teatime, on TV and Ninian Park was a fucking hovel

Wasn't that a Friday night? 2 of my mates went and had bricks thrown at them. Halcyon days.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Wasn't that a Friday night? 2 of my mates went and had bricks thrown at them. Halcyon days.

100% a Saturday. Don't doubt me, man.

 

[lemonjelly]

 

[Langers]

100% a Saturday. Don't doubt me, man.

Nah, I'm backing away from this - you win. I know better than to try and out-stat you.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Yep. Leon Clarke and Rohan Ricketts on the scoresheet. What a time to be alive.

Think that was my first real away game, previously I'd just tagged along with my dad a couple of times when he used to have his quest to have seen a game at every league club, went down with a couple of school mates on the coach and then were bored to death hanging around the ground until kick-off.

Remember coming away pretty optimistic for the following season and thinking we'd given them a bit of a dicking, then they went and waltzed to the title the following year didn't they?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Think that was my first real away game, previously I'd just tagged along with my dad a couple of times when he used to have his quest to have seen a game at every league club, went down with a couple of school mates on the coach and then were bored to death hanging around the ground until kick-off.

Remember coming away pretty optimistic for the following season and thinking we'd given them a bit of a dicking, then they went and waltzed to the title the following year didn't they?

Yep. I totally gave up on Hoddle when they completely played us off the park on Boxing Day, it was as much of a doing as we gave Villa last month.

 

[Pompey Wolf]

Fair play. Reading is a shitehole and as an away day it has absolutely nothing to offer apart from the chance to watch Wolves.

A testament to Nuno, Fosun and what they're building here.

You mean you aren't into drinking in a Holiday Inn pre-game?

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Why so few to Cardiff? It's only an hour away

Was that around the time where Cardiff and Wolves fans had to be escorted to the stadiums following disturbances at fixtures between the teams. Didn't Wolves fans have to gather at a service station and be taken directly to Cardiffs ground. And the same applied when Cardiff played at Molineux.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Fair play. Reading is a shitehole and as an away day it has absolutely nothing to offer apart from the chance to watch Wolves.

A testament to Nuno, Fosun and what they're building here.

It depends where you visit in Reading. Parts of the old town have a lot to offer, and there are many worse places in the world than Reading.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The problem is that the ground is miles away from the town centre let alone any other area. It's a case of piling onto a shuttle bus which isn't a great experience at all. There is nothing to do anywhere near the stadium.

As for Cardiff: yes, it may well have been a "bubble trip" still. Their fans were banned from Molineux in 2006/7 and I remember us briefly looking into going to the FA Cup game at Ninian Park in Feb 2008 before realising what a ridiculous hassle it would be.

 

[Kenny]

I remember us briefly looking into going to the FA Cup game at Ninian Park in Feb 2008 before realising what a ridiculous hassle it would be.

You had to travel on Official Travel coaches from what I can remember. No tickets sold unless you purchased the travel. Police banned any Wolves fans who travelled any other way.