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Guessing you've gone to this effort for brfcs rather than ja606?

Was hoping to attend the match following the sacking of Kean, but unfortunately not going to be able to make it.

Could be a tricky one, but hopefully a large crowd concentrating on getting fully behind the team, rather than also heckling the manager as well, will provide some inspiration that we appear to have been missing so far this season.

I think Saturday will be rocking, really looking forward to it!

"Guessing you've gone to this effort for brfcs rather than ja606?"

Yes I was asked to preview the Leeds game, but preferred this fixture as I semi-supported Wolves when in Junior School. Still I thought people here may also be interested in the some of the information researched.

Think you could have made a bit more effort research-wise OOJW

Cheers Fetish. There was so much I could have written. The two clubs have an amazing history. Wolves in the 1950,s were something else, 50000 plus gates, floodlights as mentioned encouraged European teams to come and visit and they were competitive in Europe.

OOJW: fab piece of research, thanks for the time and effort to give all footy fans the kind of background we love.

For the record I was at the Maine Rd semi final, we stuffed Shef Wed 2-0 in 1960, a fantastic game in a packed house, but I was considered too young to travel to Wembley. Anyway we couldn't get tickets, even though I has been to every home game and many local aways including the epic FA Cup match at Burnley. There was a lot of bad blood about who did and didn't get tickets. It seemed strange at the time to me, that our neighbors who had not attended a game all season, went to the final with their two kids but he was a director of a Darwen mill and surprise surprise somehow managed to get tickets. I don't think his wife had ever been to any game ever but we saw her there on telly!

I have one more bit of Wolves trivia while we are all feeling the love: the best rose in our garden is called Molineux.Turns out that the grower, David Austin from Albrighton, has been a Wolves fan all his life and wanted to honour their home ground. Nice idea.

So who wants to name a flower after Ewood? If so what kind of plant would it be?

Thanks again OOJW, great piece

Up the new Rovers!
Duggy

I meant to add that as a 14 year old I played in a rough 5 a side at a campground near Coniston against team of students from Wolves area. Playing for them was this old bloke who never broke sweat or ran for anything but was world class compared to us, making us look like high energy idiots. Turns out he was Bill Slater, ex England and Wolves I think, OOJW can you confirm?

A fine read OOJW, its nice to see football being talked about again.
I can add that the baggies seem to think they named the Wolves dingles, which I think is wrong, they aslo call their rivals 'dog heads' and claim they play in the custard bowl, which is slightly amusing only because it is yellow.

Thanks Duggy and Miles for the positive comments. Sorry Duggy I have never heard of Bill Slater and without googling do not know a lot about him.

Very interesting hearing you got tickets for the 1960 semi-final but could not get them for the final. I will have to ask my parents how they got their tickets for the final. I have read elsewhere that ticket confusion and unhappiness with allocations for that game contributed to years of missing fans at Ewood, some of whom never returned.

I have just checked out the league, both teams on 16 points, the same goal difference, Wolves have won one more than us but lost three to our one, draws seem to be keeping us in the top 6 rather than losing, Wolves dont like drawing it seems.
Tomorrow is a big game for both teams, a draw could see them both drop out the top six.
The yam yams tend to be a pretty good crowd and can make some noise, no doubt they wil come up fairly well oiled and loaded on scratchings.
The two clubs both want automatic promotion so this game could get pretty messy, we have got the extra man in theory tomorrow, so should be able to push on for a win, but I cant remember Ewood rocking for the right reasons for a while now, it may be a strange atmosphere, I just hope certain sections of the crowd decide to be negative about Venky's straight away. F them for now , I just want a party atmosphere and a win. Lets make Ewood a good place to go for a change and try and make it a place difficult for the visiting team.

Also, If you could just draw with the dingles please Palace, that would be nice of you.

"I just hope certain sections of the crowd decide to be negative about Venky's straight away. F them for now "

I assume that should read "not"

I, too look forward to a more enjoyable Ewood experience as it's been far too painful for far too long.

C'mon you blues!

Great article oojw. Hoping the crowd are superb tomorrow. A forest fan on another forum praised our support on Wednesday. Come on you blues!

Disappointed with the result......but enjoyed the kean-free poisonous atmosphere.

C'mon you blues...onwards and upwards!