[WakeyTerrier]

When & Where

Saturday 20th Feb 2016 15:00ko at the John Smiths Stadium



The Big Build Up
This weekend we play host to our friends from Wolverhampton in what can only be described as a mid table clash both in terms of League position and current form. 
Town come into this weekends game after beating Forest away last weekend which by all accounts was the perfect away performance, and Wagner even described it as the best since his arrival and as far as I'm aware we have no new injury problems so I can't see too many changes in the line up, maybe Paterson back in?
Wolves however will be missing James Henry who departed the PNE game with hamstring trouble and he'll be out for about 3 weeks. Mike Williamson won't play either as Buzz Lightyear says he needs a reserve game under his belt before coming back to first team action


Managers Comments
David Wagner-taken from Twitter
To follow


Kenny Jackett- to follow

Form Guide
Last 6 League games
Town currently sit 13th in the form table with th following record
WDLLLW 7pts

Wolverhampton currently sit 16th with the following record
WLDDDL 6pts

Towns last 6 home games have produced(league only)
P6W3D1L2 F14 A7 Pts10

Whilst Wolverhampton last 6 away have been
P6W3D2L1 F7 A6 Pts11

As tight as a gnats....


Teams
Based on last time out (Forest away)
Steer
Smith,Hudson,Lynch,Husband
Billing,Hogg
Bunn,Matmour,Lolley
Wells

Wolves (PNE home) 4-3-3
Ikeme
Iorfa,Batth,Ebanks-Landell,Doherty
Coady,Price,Saville
Henry,Siguardason,Van La Parra

They Played for Both

Conor Coady
Just the 1 season at Town having signed from Liverpool for a reported £500k
Conor made 45 appearances and scored 3 goals before moving onto Wolves where he has yet to score despite 23 games

Benik Afobe
Benik joined Town on loan in the 2010/11 season where he spent much of his time playing up front on his own and even keeping goal machine Jordan Rhodes out of the starting eleven. 28 games in total for the Terriers with a return of 5 goals.
During the 2014/15 season Benik joined Wolves for a fee believed to be about £2million and he scored 22 goals in 46 games before moving onto Bournemouth for £10million this last January.


Adam 'Stepover kid' Hammill.
Wolves signed the stepover kid from Barnsley when they met the £500k release in his contract, however he only made 23 appearances for Wolves scoring 0 goals before Town took a chance on him. He was decent in his first season but faded badly, 66games  with a return of 6 goals
Now plying his trade at Barnsley and providing he stays free will be playing in the JPT final at Wembley next month.


Chris Marsden
arrived at Town in 1988 and grew as a player in time 121 games for the Terriers with 9 goals but turned in some terrific performances, strangely loaned to Premiership Cov City if I remember correctly 
Just 8 games for Wolves with 0 goals 
Went on to play premiership football for Southampton, here he is doing his best John Barnes impression


Mel Eves
Blast from the past, come on then...who remembers him?
Mel was a local Wolves lad made 180 appearances for them scoring 44 goals between 1975 and 1984.
Towards the end of his Wolves career he joined Town on loan in 84 scoring 4 goals in 7 games but despite that form we never got round to signing him up


Wakeys Big Match prediction
A tough one to call, down at Wolves we started brightly but failed to take our chances and ended up soundly beaten. I'm going to stick my neck out and go for a tight 2-1 home victory

[MNTerrier]

Only change i can see is as you say Paterson for Matmour, i see no reason to change anything else

[theo_luddite]

Mel Eves? - yup, old enough to remember him. 

Lots of disconchuntlement with Jackett and the Board down in these here parts of Middle England. 

Coady has gone from 3 Man-of-the-Match performances to being labelled a waste of money by some numpties that can't see the big picture. Some nugget down at Wolves reckons Benik wasn't trying for them this season - in that case can we have the 2 goals back he scored against us please? 

Common denominator in my eyes is said Mr. Jackett. Gets the team playing well then starts pushing square pegs into round holes. Afobe scores, drops him, picks ALF. ALF scores, drops him, picks Afobe. Play them together and it works? Ooh, bugger, don't do that again. Repeat ad nauseum through the midfield and defense. Keep him there Mr. Morgan & Mr. Moxey, he's doing a sound job for the rest of us.

A repeat of Forest please - or even the way we ripped them apart in the first half a couple of seasons back. Only lets not be hanging on for a 2-1 win in the second half this time.

[themaclad]

Wolves were woeful last Saturday, Jackett is under pressure you should win this

[theo_luddite]

PS - unless Mason is injured/suspended he will probably play up front - but then again he got dropped after scoring in his first game too. Henry is injured and won't travel.

[Lord Snooty]

Nice one, Wakey.

Yes I remember Mel Eves's loan at Leeds Road. He was one of the best loan signings we had. Seem to remember him scoring a couple in a victory over the Champions of Europe.

[MNTerrier]

when people start saying this is one we should win i start to get nervous, thats usually when we lose

[Lord Snooty]

Darren Bullock at Canalside tomorrow. 

[jjamez]

Hopefully we can get our own back for earlier in the season. We were absolutely woeful there, it may have been because we were wearing camouflage but still that was probably the worst performance this season.

Need to put a run together now and have a positive end to the season

[sloppyattheback]

We dug in when we had to, rode our luck at the back on a couple of occasions and as usual our final ball let us down more than once so 0-0 at HT was fair.

The goal was a great sweeping move with Wells having time to take a couple of touches, Bunny fluffed a one on one lofting it over when he could have carried it another 10-15 yards moments later to kill of the game and you feared it might come back to bite us.

At the death the Dog Heads had a couple of chances but they didnt have their shooting boots on thankfully, Steer made a couple of fine saves and clearances from a poor Huddy back header, a parry that they blasted over from close range. Their 1800 support weren't impressed with the performance against lickle ol' Udders made it known out loud.

Certainly not the team that thumped us at home last year and cruised past us early in the season, thankfully we're neither of those either under DW and he had fight and spirit deserved a share of the spoils, but all 3 was a Brucey Bonus.

It's nice to get 3 points based on the performance, a better team would have punished us, they came on strong 2nd half but the introduction of Ali Baba and Elvis for Dolly and Pato was the right move.