Mick McCarthy today turned to ProZone to show Wolves are not as bad as they seem.
The Wolves boss is still baffled at Saturday’s 3-0 home defeat against Crystal Palace and has turned to the football analysis experts to reveal his team are getting everything right but for their finishing.
“I said after the game on Saturday I didn’t know how we lost it,” said McCarthy.
“But they scored three goals and we didn’t. They took their chances.
“In terms of us being so bad, apparently we had 19 shots, they had 10.
“We had nine on target they had six. Possession, 59 per cent against 41 per cent in our favour.
“Crosses: 36 to 12, penalty area entries: 48 us, 24 them. Final third entries: 93 us, 80 them, passes completed: 345 for us against 117.
“It makes no difference because we’ve lost but in terms of us being so bad I think it shows that it wasn’t quite like that.
“It does show how stats can lie - anyone who saw these stats would not believe a 3-0 defeat for us.
“It also emphasises not everything is wrong, because unfortunately when you’ve had the run we’ve had, everything gets analysed, criticised and nothing’s right, from the very top down to the bottom, but that’s not the case.
“Make no mistake, Palace produced a good away performance and took their chances, all credit to them.”
The boss added: “I don’t want anyone giving it, ‘McCarthy bemoans his luck’ because I don’t do that.
“The first goal was a great strike but we defended it poorly, we were too deep.
“The second goal came from a shot going nowhere - not even going to reach Wayne Hennessey - but it hit Neill Collins on the back of the foot and went straight to Scannell.
“And we knew when the third one went in we might as well have blown the whistle because it really was one of those days.”
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Granted good stats, however, its the ones that go in the net that count. Keep going and it will be the Relgation Zone staring at you. The other stats are better, like 7 points from 27……or 24 league goals this season…..
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Bottom line is they scored Three we scored none. Work on the old Stan Cullis theory score one more than them and its three points and not none.
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Well, that makes it all ok then!!
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Mick turning into Hoddle!!
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Now he really is losing the plot. He’s playing football manager ‘08 really!
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At the end of the day all the record books will show is that the final score was Wolves 0 Crystal Palace 3.
Stop papering over the cracks and looking for excuses Mick!
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and reward them with a go karting session!!! WHAT’S GOING ON!!!!?
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At the end of the day the record books will show the scoreline of Wolves 3 Crystal Palace 3.
Stop papering over the cracks and find excuses Mick. The stats at the moment show that we are the lowest scores in the division and that we have played more games than goals scored. I don’t see you mentioning that Stat!
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im guessing in 36 crosses they counting every time wardy has a blocked cross which is every attempt.
and why cant they get this through their thick skulls one stat which matters
and thats the scoreline
whats use us having 98% possession 1000 shots to 1shot and losing 1-0
i remember them lot down the road beating mancity without even having a shot
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Answer this one Mick…
According to your wonderful statstical analysis software ‘PRO-ZONE’ we completed 345 passes…
Does it tell you exactly how many of them were FORWARD passes???
I’ll bet the answer is less than twenty!
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Even good teams get freak results like this once in a while, & the timing of this one couldn’t have been worse. The new signings gave a bit of hope & belief that MM actually knew what he was doing, & it this was going to be a turning point in the season. Now this one result has become a turning point point for all the wrong reasons. Even pro MM fans…like Blog Nathan..have had enough. Nathan’s not fickle, he’s clearly been pushed beyond his tolerance level. So if the likes of Nathan’s are publically not happy…then who is? Its a spiralling crisis so its no wonder MM is trying hard to convince us that things aren’t as bad as they seem.
One good thing Mick, us fickle fans will soon be back on the bandwagon if you could just come up with a convincing win.
Simon
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I do think stats lie. I suspect a lot of superiority happened after Palace had sewn the match up and took their foot off the gas. I think Palace always looked like winning the game.
Rather than demonstrating that we weren’t so bad I do think that they should be giving Mick another message. In the 2nd half we moved away from the initial team set up with Henry and Ward on the wings and Bothroyd up front. We later had Jarvis and Bothroyd playing wide and Eastwood and Keogh up front. We also adopted a much more cavalier approach and looked a far better team.
I hope what Mick takes from these stats is a willingness to play more adventurously from the beginning. Lets have Jarvis and Kightly (when fit) on the wings and any two from Ebanks Blake, Eastwood and Keogh up front.
With that set up not only would we win the stats, we would also score goals, win matches and be entertaining.
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other stats are play your players in there positions and dint keep picking your favourites ( s ward )
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The Prozone is as good as saying if we keep a clean sheet and score we will get the 3 points. Reality is NO SERVICE!! We might have entered the box more than palace but we never can get the ball between those white things!
P.S. If the guy who sits in front of me reads these pages (thats Steve Bull upper J6) leaving after the second goal goes in shows no loyalty!! you’ll be getting some abuse at the Sheffield game!!!
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i wonder how all the wolves midfield players got on in the karting, i bet they had trouble goin forward as they only know how to go sideways !!!!!
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BUT WHO GOT THE THREE GOALS AND POINTS YOU IDIOT..CANT BELIEVE WHAT RUBBISH HE COMES OUT WITH SOMETIMES.
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Though it said Mick turns to Prozac for support!
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No i agree with Mick, it’s not that bad, just look at the stats, 9 chances on goal, none scored when palace managed a 50% conversion rate for their six shots on goal.(Mick you are in cloud cuckoo land)
But on another note, Mick is here for the long run whether you like what is happening or not, so we really have got to get behind the team 150%.
We don’t want the 3 M’s to have any reason to have a go at the fans come the end of the season and club has not achieved its objectives set out at the beginning..
I think that was top two by Mick and Morgan. “Promotion is the only Option” or words to that effect.
I can see the headlines now, “THE FANS HAVE ONLY THEMSELVES TO BLAME FOR DAMAGING THE PLAYERS CONFIDENCE”. When we know that the problems have been the bewildering decisions by both the board and the management team.
So come on you Gold and Black Army, lets raise the roof. Then hopefully the players will raise thier performance and give us a goal.
C’Mon The Wolves, Keep the Faith
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as the gokarts do, keep going round in circles,that dopey mick same old rubbish at the end of another defeat,WAKE UP MR MORGAN AND SMELL THE COFFEE,GOKARTING I WOULD OF MADE THEM WATCH HOW CRAP WE WHERE OVER THE LAST SIX GAMES TIME AFTER TIME JUST TO LET THEM KNOW HOW THE FANS FEEL.
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Fair play with the stats Mick I’d have them the other way round with us scoring 3 goals. we need to be more clinical!!
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mad mick mad mick,,your football team needs football practice and what do you do,,,take them for a driving lesson,,,brilliant.im so glad your wolves manager and not ours…
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Shooting practice would be more suited dont you think Stato?
Beggers belief, I simply cannot comprehend these last two articles!
Bet Potter and Henry came last, couldnt find forward gear!!!!!
Absolute joker
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Micks turned to prozone and the fans have turned to prozac !
Apparently he is considering trying either Tomb Raider or Super mario next - mug.
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The phrase “clutching at straws” springs to mind!!
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sad thing is MM does not read any of this, not only is it very funny, but very close to the truth. Simple game made very complicated by people trying to defend failure.
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wolvesmod he didnt reward then with it at all
it was planned by grahem stack and out of training time
but MM this is not really relvent
crack on saturday 3-0 to us
i want keogh 2 score theres nothing like a striker scoring against his old club
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What this stats thing also emphasise (and Mick wont tell you this) is that their shots and crosses were lower in number but better in terms of skill and accuracy. I can cross a ball and I can shoot, but not necessarily up the the standard of a Championship team.
A “penalty are entry” doesn’t mean much does it. A completed pass is not of much use in your own half or in the middle third (but better than giving it away - granted).
I think most people accept that 0-3 was not a fair reflection of the game. So there’s no need to blind us with stats from this particular game. I bet the stats from the Hull game aren’t such pleasant reading.
And if you are going to advertise stats. Let us know which players have had the most shots on target and then divide that by minutes on the pitch. I might be wrong, but I’d say Freddy was top. You need to shoot to score.
“There are lies, damn lies and statistics.”
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With quotes like “I tink I know what I am doing” and I dont how we lost that” were doomed
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hopppy-boggie first to comment as per, can i ask you a question Hoppy-boggy why are you so obsessed with everything wolves, don,t you think we already know our goal ratio, don,t you think we already understand our points, are you that thick that you actually think us Wolves supporters don,t understand how poor we are, or do you get some sort of ego and identity pointing out the obvious, final simple question why the interest in Wolves, why can,t you concentrate on your own west birmingham albion, or are you so insecure you feel a need to glout about wolves form, you need to find an hobby old pal, and move on, your becoming very obsessed and anyone can see it
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Too little Too late.
You may have the backing of Morgan. But you’ve lost the fans.
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Well done Mick.Showing and more importantly using these stats is demonstrating that we’re on the track.All the top teams in the uk use this system.It can’t show the difference between forward and other passes which is a shame but the stats for the pen’ area are really illuminating.The team,regardless of score,are not doing too many things wrong.
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You don’t need Prozone to give you the stats that count Crystal Palace scored 3 goals we scored 0.
Here’s another - we haven’t won a league game since the 1st December. 4 points from 24 is yet another stat that really counts.
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I much prefer your record books Wokker (8) - where do you get them from?
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shouldn,t this headline read
BOSS TURNS TO PROZAC FOR SUPPORT!!!!!!!!???????
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They scored 3 and we scored none you muppet.
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I’ve just got in from work from doing a 8 1/2 hour day and find the squad have had a nice day out go-carting, i must be doing something wrong. right thats it I’m only working 4 hours a day hopefully my manager will send me go-carting anyone care to do the same.
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Keegan for Newcastle. Bring back Graham Turner I say.
Only joking. C’mon Mick.
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Did he say he had turned to proZone or prozac ?
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In that case then Mick can we have the stats for the season then? because regardless if we would have won the game based on those stats then how many would we have lost on pro-zone?
Don;t hide behind technology because it won’t do you any favours, we need points you know that we know that so work on putting the ball in the back of the net!!
Lets turn it round
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Unfortunately Mick, with prozone stats they class a hearder from the half way line as a shot on target.
The problem with our shots on target is that thay are 40 yards out and straight at the goal keeper. Either that or it is that weak the keeper simply catches it or picks it up.
Palace, apart from their wonder third goal, got themselves into dangerous positions and put our defence under the kind of pressure we can only dream about at the moment.
here’s a stat for you- From the last 10 goals conceded, 50% of them have been due to un-neccessary errors or fouls conceded by Neill Collins. Yet you still continue to play him. I’m a centre half in a Sunday league team and if i did that I would on the bench at the very best.
The first goal for palace was due to hot head collins with his arms all around their bloke. The Cambridge goal that almost had you the sack was, surprise surprise, the fault of Collins. The penalty at Albion, Collins. The list is endless.
I don’t need prozone to tell me that this guy is a liabilty.
Of all these so called successful passes. How many were searching balls down the channels searching for space behind their defence?
How many of the so called 36 crosses were fromthe byline with wip and quality?
Of the 93 final third entries, how many were a forward having to receive the ball short in front of four defenders?
Don’t come trying to baffle a public and fanbase with statistics that blatantly do not tell the truth. We are not thick.
Do not treat us with contempt and disrespect after the awful performances you are dishing out. It is not our fault, it is yours and your players. All we want is for our team to show some guile and creativity. Take your ’shift’ mentality back to the dark ages and motivate these players to produce what they’re paid to do.
How dare you try and blame the fans of this great club. We will be here long after you’ve sold your nice country house and gone back up north.
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Last match was not a bad performance.
I am glad that MM is looking inte the statistics of Wolves performances. Hope he has seen how poorly the central midfield performs referring to assists. That is the key to understanding why Wolves underachieves.
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Score 24 goals and we can go karting 2nd half of season score less than 24 goals and we will go to the Carrabian… I can live with that Gizza Job mighty muppet. I will run around for 90 mins kick the ball anywhere but goalbound-no problem -
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19 shots scored 0 palace 10 shots scored 3 says it all we cant hit a barn door if were sitting on the padlock.but the same strikers will be missing the same shots next match and the next etc.
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WHOS MM TRYING TO CONVINCE
HIS TEAM SELECTION WAS WRONG YET AGAIN ALONG WITH HIS CHOICE OF SUBS
DONT MATTER WHATEVER HE SAYS ITS IN THE RECORD BOOKS AS WOLVES 0 PALACE 3
SIMPLE AS THAT
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Sorry to bring the go-carting up again but what a great gesture to give the players the well earned bonus for all their hard work!!maybe the board could sanction something for the fans for being very supportive!! come on jez if we cant beat you we’ll join you.
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MICK TRY LOOKING AT YOUR TEAM SELECTION STATS AND YOUR CHOICE OF SUB STATS
YOUR NOT CONVINCING ME ONE LITTLE BIT
IT WAS 3-0 END OF STORY
GET A GRIP
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E & S headline Saturday night will be :
Wolves Fans turn to PROZAC for support!!!!!
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What’s the old saying?
“There are lies”
“Damn Lies”
“And statistics”
Mick you have now got the hat trick, which is more than I can say for your strikers.
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Mick just play a settled side with players playing in the right position thats all we ask
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“Boss turns to Prozac” would be a more likely headline!
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mick has aready turned into hoddle playing players out of position forwards out on the wings with no one in the box playing the ball square and back and looking at how much they had the ball and not where it counts THE BALL IN THE BACK OF THE NET
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MICK has already turned into hoddle playing players out out position forwards on the wings with no one in the box ,playing the ball square and back all the time and looking at how long we kept the ball instead of the main thing PUTTING THE BALL IN THE BACK OF NET,then there,s always buying blank forwards who can score at other clubs but not for wolves and why LOOK AT THE TRAINING STAFF who have seen managers come and goand they,re still there holding the club back get rib of these and watch us improve
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Here’s some stats for you mick!
24 goals from 27 matches- lowest in the championship. 7th worst record in all 4 divisions!
12th in the championship - 11 points of automatic.
I do believe at the start of the season you stated that you were happy with the sqaud you’ve got and were confident of getting a top 2 finish.
Im fed up of hearing how hard your working and the only thing wrong is we don’t put the ball in the net.
I could make a long list of what your doing wrong starting with team selection,Tactics,style of play,man management and the ability to make changes when things not going to plan.
Think your grasping at straws trying to get the fans to change their opinion because the stats look good. Can’t remember a wolves manager who is so full of himself in the press when clearly your not doing a very good job.I get so infuriated listening to your press conferences and reading your statements in press,there full of bull!
If mm stays in charge i will not waste my money renewing my season ticket next year. Struggling to go at the moment.
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I am not here to wind Wolves fans up but (why is there always a but?)
It does not matter what “prozone” shows .
Albion Legend Ronnie Allen once wrote a book entitled “It’s goals that count” I suggest MM you read it and stop hiding behind nonsence stats.
Regards
Baggie Boy
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What the hell are you talking about?
Why are the players going go karting? when there should be putting things right at the training ground!!
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MM turns to Prozone and the fans turn to Prozac
PLOT LOST MM
Not many places left to hide MM
Why not try Championship Manager - you may get some ideas on tactics!!!
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Mick;
Plse don’t mention your favourite comment after we have visited Scunny on Saturday………………
I WOULD HAVE SETTLED FOR A POINT BEFORE THE START!!!!!
We usually hear this when we’ve played teams that we should have buried,but managed to snatch dismal draws.
But,looks like Boss Morgan thinks we’re going to the Premier with Mick.
More chance of Mourinho assisting Charlie Blakemore at Chasetown!!!!!
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forget stats they mean nothing , if you want to know the problem , pick the right team and change your style of play , play the best 11 in there right positions , then you will get somewhere, lol you suppose to be the manager not your fans , get a life thick mick before its too late.
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this takes the biscuit, its like a politician using them to make them look good or trying to show that they are doing a good job.
but we all know statistics can be used many ways and wolves ones are lack of goals and points.
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A dinosaur clutching at straws. Bye bye Mick.
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You lot suck as fans!
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ProZone Mick? Try ProZack you wally. Who said that ‘Colemanball?: “If the ball had gone into the back of the net it would have been a goal”. Was it MM?
We just gotta get whoever makes M&Ms to sponsor our shirts. We have Mad Mick, Miserly Moxey and now Missing Morgan (Oh and the Miserable Masses booing their own team - shame). Of course if you stand on your head, as all real Wolves supporters do, you have WW, thank goodness. Keep taking the prozac Mick, I do every Saturday after reading the teamsheet.
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Rubbish stuff MM — the final whimpering bleat of any beleagured manager is using pro-zone stats as an blag to suggest “we wos robbed”.
Virtually all home teams have more possesion and shots on goal — that’s what home teams do!
Crystal Palace worked the ball effectively — bided their time –and struck efficiently and effectively at the right moments.
After 10 minutes — before their first goal — my heart had sunk. They just looked a better team than us.
It’s not about stats — its about the team that looks the most confident. Its the way they work the ball when they have it. It’s about what they do when they don’t have it. It’s about keeping shape — blocking the other team off in defense — and ‘keeping your shape’. CP did all that — it’s not rocket science — it’s text book training ground stuff.
Wolves huffed and puffed — but did not look at all confident, Many of the players did not seem to want the ball — or know what to do with it when they’d got it.
Lack of passing in the middle - lack of movement up front.
Our opponents looked far more capapble of winning the game than us — no matter what the stats say.
I despair — if MM can’t see what every fsn can see — what’s right under his nose — I despair.
But it can be turned around — we’re getting a few new players who have good credentials by all accounts. With fresh blood and a more realistic perspective of our strengths and weaknesses — a change in tactics — players operating in their specialist positions — a few wins — more confidence and we can challenge for the play-offs.
Thsi isn’t a great footballing league — so we can do it. But With this coaching team? I’m not at all confident
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It looks like he’s here for the long haul so we may as well get used to it and support him. I don’t believe anybody really wants us to lose so he’ll lose his job. reluctantly I think we need to get behind him and the team and support them to the hilt.
Nil illigitimum carborundum
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Most of the team are on prozac by the looks so why not try prozone, sounds better!
The REAL stats are there… way down the league! any more figures and stupid MM will think we are in the top two….. the old “why not baffle them with bs!” move.. ain’t fooled me for a nanosecond…
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btw … why are the boys going go-karting !!!??? shouldnt they be getting smacked on the hand with rulers ??
i hope it increases team morale and they start winning
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Talking of stats Wolves fans are voting with thier feet because 1,678 tickets for Scunthorpe away Saturday 19th/01 2008 were sold out by Wednesday 16th/01 2008. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THEY MAY GIVE MORE ALLOCATION OF AWAY SEATS???
I really want to go!!
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“… in terms of us being so bad I think it shows that it wasn’t quite like that …”
Well actually to me it does show we are bad because by these stats we were better in most areas but still lost the game. It shows that given a better rub of the green we failed to do anything of worth with it, and much worse we lost 3-0, not 1-0, not 2-0, but 3-0. Is that not the haul mark of a bad team, no matter what the reason, and we can debate that till the cows come home?
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If the so called wolves fans who cannot stop moaning, Ask yourselves if you are really fans at all, True fans get behind their team good run bad run win or loose,
SO COME ON GIVE THEM YOUR TOTAL SUPPORT.
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Here is another stat, we are 12th they are 6th. The table does not lie. Perhaps he should turn to Prozone for stats over the last 8 games excl Cambridge as they cannot count in all this
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it makes me laugh that wolves fans are now logging on to e&s and pretending to be albion fans!!!!posting comments like mowbray out?? dont they make you laugh! jealous maybe??? i fink so…please all wolves fans get a life! BOING BOING - Mowbray = Genius!
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super seb is gonna do the business 4 ya ay he. answer: no u ay got any ppl providin 4 him. to be honest i feel sorry for the poor bloke hes actually a half descent player.
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Wardy gives his all, but his all isnt good enough. . . Freddy loked good when he came on I thought.
And the people booing jay should be ashamed of themselves. He had a stinker fair play. But I’ve never known a club to do it as bad as us.
I had an argument with this irish guy on the same row as me. . . because he booed him. DISGRACE!!
I know a lot of you think McCarthy isnt the bloke to take us forward. . .Last season we OVERACHEIVED!
We are starting to see that a bit more now. Id stick by Mick for a while the last thing we want to do is a ‘Newcaatle’
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Heard were have just had a bid accepted for Walsall’s left back Daniel Fox on WM, if thats true he will sign for us. Colchester are the other club so why would he move all the the way there when they are worse than us? Wouldn’t make sense.
DANIEL FOX IS OUR THIRD SIGNING
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Mick the real stat’s that count are no wins in eight games, 8 goals in 14 games and no midfield to create anything for the countless number of forwards.
What’s it like in cloud cuckoo land Mr McCarthy?
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lol hes fetching a shrink in boing boing
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No.5
This is football manager ‘08! It’s only in a game that means nothing where you would try putting 4 strikers on in a desperate attempt to somehow score and win the game.
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agree with 10. stat this - how many goals / assists Ward chipped in with this term ? its favoritism’ costing you Mick.
Ponder this..
I reckon Ebanks-Bank wont score 15 this season, and that includes his Plymouth tally.
What a sickener Keegan going to Toon, was kinda hoping Morgan would find room for his idol.
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Hi MM, PRO ROSA ZONE HERE. How about competant creative, but non irish midfielder calling. Good stiker combo required? Perm any 2 from 5. OK?
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clutching at straws there MM and wolves
hate to say it but happy baggie is right
“its the ones that go in the net that count”
prozone protects borderline results initially
i.e
champ/lg vs uefa
euro vs prem
auto vs playoff
… we are way off ANY!
and lack or evidence of success long term
but this shows the prior
(plus from experience look at your prozone staff - some are brill others are nowt more than 1st year graduates)
also to note (i stand corrected wolves)
Jones prozone IN
Hoddle prozone upgraded
Moxey/Hoddle prozone downgraded
McCarthy/Hoddle prozone out
McCarthy prozone in
Make up you mind guys
from FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE PRO-ZONE IS WORTH ITs WEIGHT IN GOLD
JUST WITHOUT
ONE OF THEIR FIRST CLASS CONSULTANTS ITS WORTHLESS
their experts from the lower klevels are useless !!! i’ve met some
get a good year 4 from wolves uni stats course to interpret the stats with MM and crew
i hope mick is the right man
but i am beginning to doubt it
6 from 9 for me
OR ELSE
big sam for me
(unnatractive or winning i want winning)
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Hit the road Jack - sorry - Mick
go-carting ?????????
compton frozen over ???????????????
waterlogged ?????????????
bothroyd due as massage ???????????
keogh missing bossom buddy sharpe ???????????
how about finishing ???????????
Mick i so badly wanna believe in you
genuine guy
100% heart
genuine
…… so for me
ONE LAST THROW OF THE DICE
NOWT TO LOSE
(1)jarvis or edwards left wing (give jarvis a good chance my pref if kights is out lets see if he has a right peg ????)
(2)s.edwards (stuff the booh boys play him in his rightfull position - never done anything wrong upfront) alomg with freddy
if they fail (which i doubt:swap with sharpe from the blades)
(3)keogh & elliot in reserve (2 hard workers - 1 big 1 small - what else can you as for - bully rolled into 2 HINT HINT!!!!!!!
Come on mick u can do it !!!!!!!!!!!
Wipe your tactics board clean and start again
But please please please ……………….
s.ward and eastwood upfront for at least 3 matches
then when kights and george are back wolves will roar !!!!!!!
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345 passes and no goals???!! If you can’t learn something from that statistic Mick, you never will??!! More games than goals…..Nice one….let’s celebrate and go Karting! If we keep it up, he might throw in a trip to the British Grand Prix this summer!!!
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MM, by your words you are found out and your words prove you are indeed a muppet.
Far from showing we are good, the prozone stats. prove just how bad we really are. They clearly demonstrate just how inefficient and unproductive we are. As big as those figures appear, they produced 0 goals; ergo, our efficiency/production is 0%.
Passes: Us 345, them 117. If they had completed 345 passes they would have scored 6.
Crosses: Us 36, them 12; our production 0%, theirs 25%. If they had crossed 36 times they would have scored 9.
Since you are a muppet, in future I am going to call you Kermit.
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AS MANY COACHES SAY “PASS THE BALL INTO THE NET” NOW THAT WOULD BE A STAT WORTH SEEING.
LETS HOPE NEW BLOOD ARE PLAYED AND WE CAN GET GOING AGAIN. COME ON LADS WE NEED SOME POINTS QUICKLY.
JAMIE LANYON PARK CORNWALL
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Look what Pro-Zone did for Alladyce. Wot crap. Stats are irrelevant. We need to score more than them-simple
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DUH!
MM turns to Prozone…. WHAT FOR!!! We lost, no matter how you dress it up, we lost, we got out fought, out paced, Warnock tactics were spot on and we were rubbish. What is the point of him banging on about Prozone. No one uses it anymore, they had it at the villa and the 1st day O’Neill took over he had it ripped out of the dressing room. MM you are a hoddle clone, a waste of financial resource, why won’t wolves ever ever learn. You win football matches by picking your best and strongest fit 11. i.e picking players who are in form and are picked on their merits. Drop players like, S Ward, D Ward, Collins, Henry, Elliott, and have faith in adopting a more attacking formation which served us so well last season.
MICK OUT!!!
As for Go-Karting as a reward for getting spanked 0-3 at home is a real kick in the teeth of hard working fans who pay good money to watch dross! If my staff underperformed, they wouldnt be going go-karting thats for sure!
MICK OUT!!!
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Mick,
Someone once said “There are Lies, Lies and Damned Lies and then there are Statistics.” The only stats that matter is Wolves 0 Palace 3, Palace 3 points, Wolves zilch, zero.
The only true facts are we lost, they won, end of.
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Patience sheep, give the manager and the team time.Support the boys.
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29 - post 1 wasn’t me… try reading the name before spouting off.
You accuse me of being a closet wolves fan - but you are just another obssessed closet Happy_baggie fan !
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Well said Happy !! post 29 must be on the prozac so dont worry. I wonder where the wolves players are going today on their school trip after their go-carting session ?? cadburys world ?? lego land ??
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Happier - they asked to go somewhere they have never been - so MM took them into the top 2 for a quick look around !!
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rumour has it that merlin mick is actually the stig from top gear ?? the top two is pushing it, maybe just outside the playoffs, so 9th. dizzy heights. they have gone paint balling today, however they still have problems shooting……
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I think what he may be trying to achieve with ‘Pro-Zone’ and karting is to rebuild the confidence of a bunch of blokes which has been shattered by the whingeing minority and the albion fans that tend to post on this site.
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93 - boo hoo… I’m all upset now, can I go to the seaside ?
They are grown men who are highly paid to play football - how bad can life be ?
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Happy,ill get my spade…….
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C’mon Mick, sort it out!
At this rate we’ll need to make a bigger comeback than Lazarus!
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Stats say 7 points from 27. 24 goals all season….. Mick say’s in The Daily Star he ain’t bothered about all these blogs eitehr but there are a lot of die hard fans writing on here now. Get it right or get out MM. Paul Ince 4 EVER..
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what a joke,mick you should have asked the fans in the ground they could have told you it was the crap finishing
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My bird was hoping MM was turning to Boyzone. Me I am more of a Take That fan!
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Gosh! I thought i was reading the ‘Spongebob Squarepants scripts’
when the two dump Baggies nitwits,’ Happy and Happier!’
Are both of you twins? Must have been contaminated sperms i guess.
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hoppy boggie and hoppier boggie you need to get a room together,and don’t forget the chocies on valentines day muppets.
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“Mick should stay, end of! a lot of managers make mistakes, an although mick makes a few subs that, i do disagree with, he is doing his job. I cant think of anyone better we could have, who Would come to us. Big sam isnt going to come, its a step in the wrong direction for him. Its nice to hear that we are gunna turn out dwn scunthorpe, tickets sold out yday. All we need is him to gamble an stick with two strikers for at least 5-6 games, because their never going to gell in one game, and for bothroyd, he is a talented player, but he is doing my head in and would love for him to leave because he is usless, at the moment. Anywayz up the wolves!”
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Happy Boggie….took you long enough,mind you I did leave a big enough clue,the amount of idiots like you that replied to my other name was unbelievable….what a bunch you are…..p.s. its jobs night tonight, you ought to get one… come on you Wolves
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Well he really has lost the plot now. Does MM really expect us to accept this?
This just gets worse and worse. What an embarrasment.
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Those of you who check our site will know where I’m coming from, (we’ve recently had some of you knuckle draggers on there under assumed names posting Mowbray out messages.) Anyway I couldn’t be bothered using a false name so here goes. I be a genuwin Wulvs fan and I fink Souper Murlin Mick the Mesier doin grate job evryfink wunderful goin in rite direxun we must kepe him for eva. Apologies to Kent Wolf, Realist,Lincoln and the other normal ones, you know who you are.
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brum brum…..beep beep……lets turn the custard cream bowl into a racing track……now that would provide entertainment……ready freddy go……
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How many of those passes were to hennessey?
And does MM not take into account that when they go 2-0 up they sit back and let us attack a bit more?
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103 - no idea what you are on about… i think most people guessed it was a moron that was using false names - and you proved us right.
Well done - you must be very proud.
What a wag you are.
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Prozone is a crutch for those with no tactical understanding. Managers at Arsenal,Chelsea,Man U,Liverpool and dare I say even Sandwell Town spending hours looking at last weeks result on their game consols …I think not.
While we are at it a Message For Mr Connor…If you need to turn over 4 or 5 pages of foolscap with MM looking over your shoulder before making every substitution neither of you are good enough simple as that!
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Will all armchair Wolves fans stop moaning and get behind the team!
Yes we’re playing bad and I wasn’t happy with the 3-0 defeat but we’ll turn the corner and finish in the playoffs, mark my words.
Then all the moaners will say “I told you we should have stuck with Mick”.
It’s no good changing managers every season because then they have to bring in their own staff and players who then take a few seasons to gel.
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Pretty desperate stuff from MM,obviously thinks he is playing Champ Manager 08!How about the “goals for” stat then?Should really change yer name to “Wolves 0″ now .Another stat is that WBA scored 100 league goals last season.Another is that weve scored 59 already this season.Another is that our goal differance is greater than your goals for tally.Anothet is that we are top and you are not. Enough stats now mm?
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