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Holloway said: "On and off the field we're a total contrast.
"Some of the Cardiff players' names will be heard of and a few of mine won't be.
"When we meet in the middle who knows what is going to happen.
"If you look at everybody's reputation Dave has already done it so you would give them the result and let them celebrate.
"But football isn't like that is it? Where you start is not important, it is where you want to end.
"My players are really hungry, some of their players have already done more than mine but that doesn't mean that is where they are going to finish.
"Their club has moved forward at such a fantastic rate, they've sold most of their young starlets for astronomical amounts of money and well done to them for producing them in the first place.
"In the meantime while that's happened they've still got a fantastic team on the pitch with some unbelievably talented players in it.
"The ground has come leaping forward, the training ground has come leaping forward and yet they are almost in a financial meltdown, which a lot of clubs have done.
"We are the total opposite to that, we have got a fantastic team on the pitch and we haven't got any debts. So you couldn't get two bigger contrasts."
Dave Jones took Wolverhampton Wanderers to the Premiership through the play-offs in 2003. Holloway lost a play off final that year, the day before when Cardiff beat Q.P.R.
"Dave knows that his Wolves team could do it, does he know his Cardiff team can do it? I don't think so yet because they haven't beaten my team," added Holloway. "Just because you look back at someone else's past does that mean they have an advantage over us? I don't know.
"He might know how this week works and what to do better than me but I think we've got it right.
"What it comes down to is Dave's belief in his team, my belief in my team and who handles the situation best and who performs on the day."
He added: "We are going to try and go out there and continue to earn a reputation of playing some attacking football no matter what the score is. It could potentially be one of the best games at this showcase final there has ever been. If it ends 5-4 I don't really care provided we get the five.
"That's how we are going to go up against them and I know Dave is going to be likewise.
"We've outscored Cardiff this year, if you look at the play-off games we've scored more goals than them.