I hope we don’t smash the salopian ’s by too many....I always liked Sam Ricketts!
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Shrewsbury Town midfielder David Edwards is ruled out of a return to former club Wolves in the FA Cup with a groin injury.
The League One side are also without Shaun Whalley and Aaron Amadi-Holloway.
Wolves will be without defender Willy Boly who is serving a three-game ban for his red card against Manchester City earlier this month.
Wolves are likely to make changes with John Ruddy, Morgan Gibbs-White and Adama Traore in contention to start.
The horse riding manager aiming to upset his former club Wolves
What the managers said:
Shrewsbury Town boss Sam Ricketts, who played for Wolves until 2015: "We're known as little Shrewsbury and Wolves are eighth in the Premier League and trying to get into Europe.
"No-one expects us to get through because of the gulf between the clubs. Having played there and coached at the academy, there are a lot of connections but in football you cannot really look back too much."
"I'm going into Saturday's game to try and win."
Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo: "We have a tough challenge, we cannot think about anything ahead of it. The cups and these games are unpredictable, we have prepared knowing we have to maintain our high standards and compete.
"We don't think about the result, we know what we have to do - compete, play and be intense."
MATCH FACTS
Shrewsbury and Wolves last met in the 2013-14 season in League One, with the Shrews failing to score in either game (D1 L1).
Wolves have only faced Shrewsbury in the FA Cup once before, winning a quarter-final replay in the 1978-79 season.
Shrewsbury have been eliminated in five of their last six FA Cup ties against top-flight opposition, winning the other 2-1 against Everton in January 2003.
Wolves have only progressed from three of their last 13 FA Cup fourth round ties, though they did win their most recent tie at this stage in 2016-17 against Liverpool.
This is Wolves' first FA Cup tie against a side from a lower division since January 2013, when they faced non-league Luton Town and lost 1-0.
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posted on 27/1/19
I'm cool Amiga and have zero doubt we will beat them in the replay but I am just disappointed with the lack of appetite shown by the fringe players yesterday.
posted on 27/1/19
Stoke would have been equally confident. Pride before a fall etc.
posted on 27/1/19
We will beat them, put your house on it
posted on 27/1/19
Give that a miss if you don't mind
posted on 27/1/19
Wolves now 4th favourite to lift the FA cup <maigic>
posted on 28/1/19
I wouldn't be so sure, Ive a feeling that, a cold Tuesday night, half empty stadium, just the kind of situation that we dont react well to. If we put out a strong side playing with the right attitude we should win well, but if not then we could be in trouble.
There's a strong argument for playing the strongest side possible in the cup now and giving the squad players a run out in league games, even if only from the bench.
posted on 28/1/19
Would go with that Goldie, for today at least
posted on 28/1/19
Might feel differently tomorrow
posted on 28/1/19
Difficult balance to meet really. Personally I would like us to achieve the highest league position possible, but of course would love to see us in a Cup Final. The two league games this week will have a bearing on the league position and I wouldn't like to see us field anything other than our best 11 in those. And the difference between finishing 7th or 8th and finishing 12th or 13th could have an effect on the quality of player we can bring in next summer. And if we instead fielded the strongest team in the Cup then got a 6th round draw at Man City, we might end up with a disappointing end to the season with a limited cup run and a bottom half league position.
I think Nuno is doing the correct thing and I think we would have beaten Shrewsbury comfortably on Saturday if we had just played a centre forward rather than two wide players up front. Hopefully we will bring cover for Jiminez in this week, or if not I would rather see Bonatini than two wide players in the replay. I don't think it was lack of effort, or even a particularly poor performance that caused us to not win on Saturday, I just think until Jiminez came on it was a poorly balanced team up front
posted on 28/1/19
Been over to that elitist forum only to discover that we've beaten Shrewsbury in the replay.