By J Bateman
October 18 2002

Back to the league after a blank week and back to the pressure's of football for Dave Jones , i hate cliches but here goes "This is a must win game".

Stoke City v Wolverhampton Wanderers          Nationwide League Division 1 At The Brittania Stadium  KO 5-35PM

This game is certainly a game Wolves must win and a game Dave Jones must win , our record going into this game is awful with us only winning 1 in the last 6 games , and if we do god help us lose tommorow it will add more fuel to the fire and more Jones out chants going round the internet and possibly on the terraces.

Wolves haven't faired well at Stoke and will the hosts managerless it 's an even harder task to win there , and with the passionate home crowd in attendance wailing out that god awful Tom Jones song it will be a hard game.

Wolves will be without skipper Paul Butler after he picked up his 5th yellow card in the last home game against Sheff Utd, and Dave Jones is keeping his cards close to his chest to whom he makes skipper in Butlers absence tommorow.
Also still out are Ludo Pollet , Keith Andrews who picked up a shin injury in training today and it might out his possible comeback on hold for the time being , with that pair still injured are Mo Camara and Mark Kennedy who will soon be back in full training with the first team.

Back to the absence of Paul Butler in the heart of defence and Dave Jones could give a debut to 19 year old Northern Ireland U21 Mark Clyde or even push Ivar Ingirmarsson back into defence.

Good news in the Wolves camp could be the return of Colin Cameron who has been out of action for 2 months after a bad knee injury and its a welcome one as well as we need to get out of this bad run and quickly.

Stoke still left shocked by the departure of Steve Cotterill will be relishing playing Wolves tommorow they would reckon they have an indian sign over Wolves in the last few years, and with us not playing to well of late they can possible think they can take 3 pionts from the game.

Stoke will be without on loan Blues striker Tommy Mooney and the injured Chris Iwelumo who is out after a knee injury needed surgery.

Caretaker boss Derek Kevan will welcome back Brynjar Gunnarsson back from suspension after he served a ban after 5 yellow cards as well.

There will be a possible fight for places in the heart of midfield for stoke with Gunnarsson , Karl Henry and James O Connor all fighting for that one place.

Match Prediction

Stoke 0 Wolves 1