Wolves manager Mick McCarthy today revealed details of the siege mentality that is driving his side to rebuild their promotion challenge.
McCarthy lifted the lid on the hurt in the Molineux dressing room after criticism from fans and media during their seven-match win-less run.
And the manager believes the upset in the camp has made them even more determined to fight back and return to the promotion places.
“I’d like to think it’s a characteristic of all the team’s I’ve had that they have a team spirit and camaraderie,” said McCarthy.
“It is easy to have it when you’re winning.Everybody wants to be involved and everybody is chirping and coming in with a spring in their step.
“When you’re not winning it can be difficult. People turn on the players very quickly.
“I know one or two of them were a little bit upset at things that were said in the local media.
“They were not happy about it at all but it might not have done them any harm. Maybe sometimes things said about you rankle.
“As much as they gave all the players all the plaudits last season, you could see before the seventh game it was turning.
“When that happens they soon find out who their pals are and all their pals are in that dressing room.
“That has been proven by the team spirit they’ve got because they have all stuck together and I am delighted.”
And McCarthy reckons the adversity of the last six weeks has brought out the best in his players.
“You only get that siege mentality if you are close,” he said.
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Here we go again.
Another day another load of Merlin excuses.
having a laugh aint you mick?? if there was any team spirit they wouldn,t play like muppets every week and also the major point I wish to make is that they would be WINNING games
THERES ONLY ONE PAUL INCE THERES ONLY ONE GUVNOR!!!!!!
Need super glue to keep his ass in his own seat!
Sticking together? The wolves mesage: “lets all be mediocre, not confine it to a few, let the whole team be together!” What a load of bull….
It’s all true, Mick took them all to see riverdance on Saturday!
Good on ya Mick. I don’t know why the term supporters is used for alot of clubs. Newcastle fans are so used to moaning they can’t stop. they just want manager after manager to fails so they can have a good moan. I’m starting to think wolves are the same. Wolves SUPPORTERS should support wolves. Mick is the manager and I will always back the manger untill, the BOARD DECIDES TO SACK THEM
All teams go on bad runs. You have to give teams & managers time. Lets stop shooting ourselves in the foot and get behind the team… I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again STOP MOANING!!!!!
MCcarthy take the ireland job, sam allardyce with sammy lee as his assistant to wolves. Mick has taken us as far as he can. WOLVES TIL I DIE
The recent history of football in general and Wolves in particular is that changing Managers is often the problem, not the solution!
When we started last season as relegation favourites, no one expected Mick to get us to the play-offs and I think thats the least we’ll do this season.
Its a great time to SUPPORT the Wolves, at the start of the Morgan-era.
Keep the faith, support the manager and the players!
7 - please hurry up & die then!
Stop Moaning!
Always jumping on to MM’s words.
If any of us had performed like that lot have over the last SEVEN GAMES, we would have been sacked by our employers. Feelings don’t come into it when you are playing A MANS game. Just get on with what you are paid for, and heed the warnings.
the idea of replacing mick with lump it up field sam and little podgy lee is as funny as it is sad..hopefully with these signings 2day we will start to fell a bit more positive and push on up the league..weve got a guy that wanted the job when most people wouldnt have touched it with a barge pole..for that and last season i will be grateful to him however this season transpires.
Mmm, The three fingers he’s holding up in the pic, does it mean he’ll have that many strikers on the bench next match?
Lets all hope these new signings are the remaining pieces of the jigsaw & not a knee jerk reaction to our recent form.
On a serious note,I would be tempted to bring in Sam Allardyce in an advisory capacity!
This is a time when everyone associated with Wolves needs our help. Any more criticism, however justified it is, will only make the situation worse.
Lets stop moaning and show our support.
Some of our fans say MM moans a lot, try looking in the mirror.
the dressing room sticks together as no matter how bad collins, MM’s greatest ever signing(s ward) and his lovechild (s.elliot) play they know they are the first names on the team sheet. oh well as long as they “put in a shift”.
sveiki abdonwolf, ka klajas? kas ir tava vards un ka tu dzive? nice to see you,ve learnt Latviesu Valoda, loti loti labi!! so we,ve signed Ebanks Blake, I don,t suppose it will be too long before McCarthy demoralises him as much as all the others at the Molanyway mate ar labu nacht!
Solihull Wolves, Where did you get the idea that last season we were relegation favourites? I don,t recall relegation being mentioned at all, correct me if I am wrong but where did you get this information from?
8 - I’ve supported Wolves all my life (despite living in boggie infested Dudley) & it’s as good a time to support wolves as it’s ever been. There can be only one club & that club is Wolves
Come on then MM prove us all wrong and we will forgive you for the crap you have served up over the last couple of months.
I hope this is not the end of the spending spree as we still need a winger and 2 defenders or are craddock and breen comming back god help us.
8: it aint that great, has been a season to help me finally quit supporting the club I unfortunately followed blindly for 30 years! Now last nights Tottenham Arsenal game was quality. Shame we don’t have irish Robbie keane quality to hand!
When will these wolves fan realise that this club has neither the ambition nor interest in progression. To mention this team in the same breath as the premiership is ludicrous. We have had three international managers in recent times and are no further forward as a team or club, than when Graham Turner was manager.
MM has created a team of headless chickens.
If MM wants any sugestions as to who he should buy, I would recommend West Brom chief scout or even the manager and his assistant for starters. Where were wolves when Philips, Miller, Teixeira, Brunt, Koren and Morrison were available.
I would suggest that MM puts in a “good shift” and finds some real players with heart and ability.
4.0m spent on strikers and no goals tells its own story MM has lost the plot.
Gutted Wolf (yet again)
Why haven’t we seen this siege mentality on the pitch then.
Your all talk mm and most of it comes out of your rear.
Like stephen ward has been your best find and neill collins has does brilliant since he came to the club.
A couple of new signings is always a nice sign. Ebanks-Blake is an outstanding young talent - he tore us to bits, twice, last season.
I don’t know this Edwards kid, at least MM is sticking to the young & hungry stance, we’ve seen too many over-the-hill/over-paid players at Molinuex.
I’d rather get promoted next season or even the season after and stay up with a Tean that’s been built, not bought.
UP THE WOLVES!!!
moan moan moan!!!
you dont become a bad manager over night. MM is a good manager. can you bunch of muppets not see that we are not a big club? can you not see that we are better off not sackign the manager when we go through a bad spell?
can you not see that the team need to develop and learn?
can you not see that your mrs is probably having an affair with your neighbour?!
And so the mindless moaning starts again. Keep this up and you’ll all forget what it’s like to not moan, even when we’re winning.
Changing managers at the drop of a hat is stupid - it does not bring success. Managers need time to build teams. McCarthy performed a miracle at this club last year. So the team has hit a bad patch. Very very few are the teams that don’t
This is the time to support and encourage even more than usual, not moan and blame.
be constructive, be helpful and support the team properly.
How can anyone in their right mind call themselves a supporter when they boo the team.
Doing that is just a gift to any opposition team. They come to Molineux, use tactics to frustrate the home team and know that the crowd will turn on them.
It makes real sense getting on the player’s backs and moaning, doesn’t it? And yet they call themselves supporters.
Some so-called Walsall fans wanted Money sacked 5 weeks into the season. Bet they’re really pleased with how clever they were!
Support the team!
Best Wishes
David
can we get this great team spirit from the dressing room onto the pitch its been mising all season not just last 7 games.
i hope the new signings will make the difference but i thought the same when eastwood arrived.every week i keep hoping
come on the wolves
STOP MOANING AND BACK THEM!!!!
“McCarthy reckons the adversity of the last six weeks has brought out the best in his players”. It would be interesing for Mick to tell us how this has been manifested. It certainly hasn’t been by playing well in matches, based on the evidence of the last couple of home games. What do they do - get together and tell each other how wonderful they all are?
newcastle get rid of big sam, 11th in the prem and there still not happy, do we have to start sounding like the moaning geordie’s. its still ten times better than when twaddle was in charge. then we did have something to moan about !!!
come on you wolves !!!
p.s looks like weve picked up a couple of good young signings today, fingers crosssed !!! this latvian on trial looks quite handy. no old crocks after a fat pay check !!!!
post 8 could not have said it better.solihull wolves.get behind wolves not against.great post
As the season is still in progress, let’s not be divided and give the support that is needed.
Wolves is not far off the playoff position and if they get their act together and march on with grit,determination and with luck on the side, then perhaps the aim for promotion is still up for grabs.
Up the Wolves.
God when is all this moaning going to stop?????? Lets stop and have a think aboput who is being negative here……Mick or the ‘fans’?
GET BEHIND THE TEAM.
Who remembers the season we got promoted? It was the same lot of moaners who wanted Jones out at this stage of the season. We were in a WORSE position and got promoted.
Look at last season and where Mick has taken us since he took over after Hoddle had left the club in a right mess. How can you possibly have a go after a little dodgy run which ALL teams go through at some point in the season.
People were even saying yesterday about this lad from Luton stuff like oh he’ll be no good, negative, defensive and all that………surely we should wait until we actually see him play. Stuff like that sums up the attitude of too many of our fans. If we want to get promoted, lets let the players play, Mick manage and us GET BEHIND THE TEAM.
Those of you old enough to have got rid of your cot toys (not many, by the moaning and whinging on this page) will remember Alex Ferguson’s ‘bad patch’ at Utd, when he was going to be sacked. I think a cup win was the impetus for…well, the rest is history. I’m not claiming a hatful of titles are just around the corner, but let’s please move on from the constant mindless knee jerk “get another manager” nonsense. I still believe we can get promoted. Then, the club will need to spend a fortune. They know that - they didn’t last time, and we all know how much fun that season was.
Come on true fans - get behind the players. Is it any wonder Molineux has never really been the fortress it should be.
(Regular match goer since 1976).
MM LETS HEAR LESS OF THIS CONSTANT TALKING AND SEE MORE OUT ON THE PITCH.
YOU KEEP TALKING A GOOD GAME, WE WANT TO SEE ONE!!!! NOT LOADS OF BULL
winchester wolves, please please please come back down to EARTH we are not living in CLOUD CUCKOO LAND! I would give you 10/1 odds that we do not get promoted this season. I,ve been a regular match goer since 1962 and I have seen some rubbish served up at the Molineux over the years, this bunch of muppets we have at the moment (Kites and Hennessey excepted) are as bad if not worse than the drivel we were forced to watch during the Bhatti Bros reign! Sorry but Muppet Mick is not the manager to take this club forward, neither is Moxey the right person to be employed as our CEO, if Mr Morgan has any sense then he will rid our beloved Wolves of these two clowns and bring in his own people as even I despite all the rumoours, believe that all is not well behind the scenes at the Mol.
As for Big Sam coming to the Mol I don,t think that will ever happen, but, I do believe that some time soon we will see Paul Ince installed as manager.