[Archived] Preview of Wolves vs. Rovers; 22 May 2011.

[Stavros_BRFC]

Still can't believe it

Well done everybody

Now sign JJ, give Hoilett a 5-year contract and get some proper players in the right positions!

GLAD that Brum went down. Really enjoyed it

[American]

Not sure if this will be viewable by all, but video of the halftime celebrations:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150299593932802&comments

[cruz]

Not sure if this will be viewable by all, but video of the halftime celebrations:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150299593932802&comments

"This video has either been removed from Facebook or is not visible due to privacy settings."

[Josh]

Didn't get home until about half 9, I was shattered. Fair play to the Wolves fans for coming over and celebrating with us, one of the highlights of the day

[sijoco]

Didn't get home until about half 9, I was shattered. Fair play to the Wolves fans for coming over and celebrating with us, one of the highlights of the day

Any more vids of the after match celebrations would be very much appreciated. Couldn't be there for work reasons but was there in spirit. You boys did us proud - players and fans alike

[American]

"This video has either been removed from Facebook or is not visible due to privacy settings."

I'll fix it tomorrow, or post on youtube.

[blue/white]

Evening chaps,

Long time regular lurker and semi frequent poster here.

Just sat watching the highlights of your game from today and thought I'd drop in and say well done on a huge win and thanks for not stuffing up our day!!!!

The decent non thug side of Birmingham had its collective heart in its mouth today as the first half hammering you gave Wolves looked like saving Small Heath from the drop.

I'm delighted you stayed up, delighted you helped send them lot down and delighted we will continue to play you 8 times a season.

Look forward to my annual trip to Ewood next season.

Enjoy the summer.

thanks Trent. Hope Hoully comes back for you!!!

[rovermagic]

Brilliant. Thank God.

Shame for the Donkey lashers - would have been great if Blackpool and wigan coiuld have survived with us.

[Finch]

Steve Kean got us into the mess in the first place. I'm glad we have had decent results in the last few weeks and today but we should have never have been in the mix today when he took over.

I couldn't have put it better myself. I never like to see managers sacked, but he has to go and soon.

Who knows what might have been possible had Sam stayed? The league was tight up until the end - Sunderland won on the last day and jumped 4 places up to 10th. What might we have been able to achieve?

[A cup of beans]

Quick vid I took of us and the wolves fans celebrating. Was an amazing atmosphere all match but the after match was just incredible!! Will never forget it

incredible.. yeah the celebrations were, but cant help thinking if we had sent em down theydve been some real trouble. police and stewards couldnt hold em back. they couldve kicked ten tons of .. out of our players and fans

thankfully though they were celebrations.

best bit about the invasion was mame diouf cowering behind a policeman when they flooded on, and the policeman walked him off! the lad panicked big time.. samba though waded on towards us! salgardo was terrific and i found out 1st hand how fit and muscular he is when he gave me a bear hug! (i think it turned me slightly gay!)

on the game.. best 1st half away display in about 4 years.. and regular travellers will agree no doubt.

hoillet was unplayable.. took his goal brilliantly.. a big talent.

emerton was great generally, and im a big critic of him.. (he's picked the most important games to shine..the last 2) his goal was magic, great technique.

likes scoring against wolves,. thats 3 screamers now!

overall just a great day. now for the summer.

kean still has to go..

waiting for the anchelotti has been spotted in the liverpool hilton with the rao brothers to surface! haha if only! as i said last week.. he'll be roma manager and be unveiled on 7th june!

well done rovers, cant argue that theyve come up trumps when it mattered.. decent run of results and better performances.

[steverovers]

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well done rovers, cant argue that theyve come up trumps when it mattered.. decent run of results and better performances.

Yep, well done when it really mattered. Now lets make sure none of this @#/? happens again!

[USABlue]

Well well well, what a day. Great first half performance totally took me by surprise. I think we have seen some positive things in the last few matches, well since the arse result if you take Everton out of it. I think these players do want to play for Kean, of course we have the theories that the players themselves have been managing themselves, I doubt that. It's been a decent turnaround, I for one thought we were going down after the Fulham result. I started getting a bit nervous at 3-2 but we held out. Sorry for Blackpool, I was really hoping both them and WOlves would survive, I think the lashers are done I just don't see them coming back. Well done to them they definately brightened up the league this season. Well all we have to do now is wait for next season.

[Exiled in Toronto]

Well well well, what a day. Great first half performance totally took me by surprise. I think we have seen some positive things in the last few matches, well since the arse result if you take Everton out of it. I think these players do want to play for Kean, of course we have the theories that the players themselves have been managing themselves, I doubt that. It's been a decent turnaround, I for one thought we were going down after the Fulham result. I started getting a bit nervous at 3-2 but we held out. Sorry for Blackpool, I was really hoping both them and WOlves would survive, I think the lashers are done I just don't see them coming back. Well done to them they definately brightened up the league this season. Well all we have to do now is wait for next season.

And we get to see our beloved Rovers on telly next season! Remember last time in Div One, posting the match video along the chain! I think there's only you and me from then still on here.

[Presty On Tour]

Still Absolutely buzzing!

If someone could bottle the emotion of today and sell it, they would be the richest person on the planet.

[USABlue]

And we get to see our beloved Rovers on telly next season! Remember last time in Div One, posting the match video along the chain! I think there's only you and me from then still on here.

How could I ever forget the videos, the were godsends. Many thanks to you for putting that all together too. I still have the video of the dingle demolition, need to find a place to put it on DVD if possible. I smiled fondly with your remarks about boxing day 76 too though I some how was not nearly as stressed about Wolves equalizing as I was the dingles at the time.

[RevidgeBlue]

Indeed not.... btw was there any booing today in the last 5 minutes when we were trying to run the clock down?

Obviously not because at that stage with either a point or a win we were more than safe! A completely different scenario to the end of the United game.

[RevidgeBlue]

Fantastic day, fantastic performance leading to a completely stress free afternoon.

As is his wont Roberts should have buried a simple one on one for 4-0 in the second half and the score could really have been embarrassing. For large parts of the afternoon it looked like we could be sending Wolves down on goal difference by virtue of giving them a right shoeing. As it was we understandably eased off a tad in the second half but they only got back in the game following a very poor free kick decision from Webb after Jermain Jones made a great tackle. Then Hunt scored a belter to give the scoreline a very flattering look from their point of view. But I never felt we wouldn't win once we'd kicked off.

Junior was absolutely sensational. I'd be more disappointed to see him leave Ewood than Phil Jones in the summer but it goes without saying we need to move heaven and earth to try and keep Robinson, Samba, Phil Jones, Junior and Olsson at the Club. If we can do that the future should be bright. At least the previous owners aren't in charge, if they were the cash signs would be ringing up in their eyes already.

I can never remember a more exciting day of football in forty years than yesterday, and with the way it panned out so stress free it was an absolute privilege to be involved. Just proves once again our League is the best and most exciting in the world regardless of moans about lack of quality.

I'll never forget the lovely but rather false camaraderie at the end as thousands of Wolves fans massed on the pitch facing us at the end to join us in celebration and chants of "We are staying up!" Wouldn't have fancied them at all stood there if we'd stayed up and they'd gone down as looked likely until the 87th minute!

Every so often an afternoon comes along to remind you why you're a football fan and why you put up with all the heartbreak and agony. Yesterday was that afternoon.

Fantastic effort from Steve Kean and the players to get eight points from the last four games after a ten or eleven match losing run. And rarely over the years have I seen the players show such commitment and bottle. Well done.

[Iceman]

I don't drink, but I'm feeling drunk after yesterday

excellent win, but get use to Kean at least for the start of the season. Sky interviewed Venkatesh, and said they are behind Kean as he is energetic and so on.

[RoversSG]

Great game. Never in my wildest dream would i have imagined i would be able to watch the 2nd half calmly on tv without any nervousness or anxiety about relegation

And what is it with Emerton and spectacular long range volley goals against Wolves

[Iceman]

Great game. Never in my wildest dream would i have imagined i would be able to watch the 2nd half calmly on tv without any nervousness or anxiety about relegation

And what is it with Emerton and spectacular long range volley goals against Wolves

apparently, Kangaroos don't like Wolves

[Kremmin]

Feeling like sh1t at work on the back of 4 hrs sleep after being up until 2.30am to watch what was one of the coolest first half performances I can remember by any side with the trap door sat underneath it.

Had five of us around at Dave's place, yelling for Rovers and despite his pessimism, it was an absolute joyride to be virtually home and dried by half-time.

Well done to Jason and Emo who found form at the right end of the season.

Memo to Raos: Keep Junior, Phil Jones, Olsson and Jermaine Jones no matter what the cost.

Robbo - we'd have been down by April if not for you.

Sal - ultimate professional

Big Samba - what a rock he has been since the January dramas. Awesome.

Well done to all the lads for the last month ...

With all that talent ... makes you wonder how we could possibly end up in this mess in the first place ....

Oh yeah, I remember now...

[BuckyRover]

For the last time, we didn't have to beat Bolton, because we couldn't get relegated if we didn't.

Settling for anything less than a win at Wolves puts our future in the hands of other teams and could see us go down there and then. I don't envy Kean, because he's got a very, very difficult task here. He has to make sure we repel a Wolves onslaught - and that's what it will be, because this is a game that Wolves also will see as a game that they must win, while finding some way to score gaols at the other end.

I think you see this really, but can't see fit to put your beloved manager where he might fail.

Seems like den is a convert. Kean showed he can win (another) must win game.

[Beta Ray Bill]

Matt Smith on the red carpet before the BAFTAs was asked what it would mean to him to win Best Actor.

"It'd be a great priviledge, but if you win, you win; if you don't, you don't. But Blackburn have stayed up which is my real victory today!"

Quite surreal.

About 1 min 18secs

[CAPT KAYOS]

Sorry bit of a cock-up. Yeah we should have gone for it, what with Shearer and Andy Mac up front , Bentley and Duffer out wide and Dougie pulling the strings in midfield we're sure to have gotten that all important goal! Let's get real just for once this season- We've scored FOUR goals in the last SEVEN whole games, that is FOUR goals in the last TEN and a HALF hours of football. But you're convinced there was another one right around the corner if only we'd have tried a little bit harder for the last ten minutes. What can I say ? Dream on my friend.

Oh look, was it me dreaming or did we really (as in real) score x3 when we showed some conviction - Who's dreaming now TS (now I wonder what that could stand for)? - looks like you with your fantasist drawback of players of yesteryear

Just shows that it can be done with a bit of self belief and confidence and oh look the point didn't realy matter in the end after all

[roversmum]

Stoke and Bolton have had great seasons and are in the top half of the table; they are 6 points or two wins ahead of Rovers. This is one reason why sacking Sam was so criminal, the current squad would have been certainties for 7th if those loons from Pune hadn't listened to the agent from hell.

Hm, think have missed something here. Stoke and Bolton are three points ahead of us in 14th and 13th in the table I looked at...

i feel sick.

Wuss.

I couldn't have put it better myself. I never like to see managers sacked, but he has to go and soon.

Who knows what might have been possible had Sam stayed? The league was tight up until the end - Sunderland won on the last day and jumped 4 places up to 10th. What might we have been able to achieve?

Oh, my. I don't really care what would have been possible IF Sam had stayed. It doesn't matter any more, the Raos intend to put money in to the club so the big achievement is staying up and we have done that with style. I couldn't have borne much more of those long away trips with little effort and no passion shown - and I do actually like Sam. Could we possibly please put it behind us now and move on? Unless someone has found a way to re-write history????

The plan is obvious. Look at Sir Alex, Aresene Wenger - although the latter may be on borrowed time - the Raos want a long term Manager and stability, not someone who will come to the club and be off in a season or two. They want to build the club. Mistakes have been made but the trick is to learn from your mistakes. Kean was one of the best coaches in the country, now he has his chance to prove he can be one of the best Managers. Perhaps learning on the job in this instance was not the best idea but he has come through and he has to have his chance.

On a side note, the Wolves fans almost gave us a guard of honour as the coaches wended their way out of town they lined the streets waving their flags, clapping and giving us the thumbs-up! Surreal!

Wonderful day yesterday. Thank you Steve and the lads.