Defiant Wolves boss Mick McCarthy today insisted: “We are good enough to go up.”
The Molineux men dropped to 12th in the Championship table after Saturday’s defeat to Stoke, heaping more pressure on the manager ahead of tomorrow’s trip to Blackpool.
But, despite the run of defeats, Wolves remain only two points from the play-offs, and McCarthy insists they retain enough quality and belief to achieve the promotion dream.
“Are we good enough to get in the promotion shake up? Yes we are,” he said today.
“There are definitely things that need to be better – the defending over the last two games hasn’t been great. But we’re very much in that promotion shake-up.
“The automatic promotion places are still a realistic challenge for us and still one that we have to try
“Some people might say I’m talking nonsense, but I hope nobody would expect us to give up on them until they are mathematically impossible.”
Saturday’s 4-2 defeat upped the stakes for tomorrow’s trip to Blackpool, with Wolves in need of a win to halt their losing run and re-ignite their stuttering play-off challenge.
McCarthy woke up yesterday to weekend tabloid reports claiming former Newcastle boss Sam Allardyce is being lined up to take his job if he fails to lead Wolves into the play-offs.
But, despite the mounting pressure, the Wolves boss insists his relationship with owner Steve Morgan remains “fine”.
“Steve was fine after the game, I saw him in the boardroom as I do every week. He’s away for a couple of days now. But my relationship with Steve and Jez is fantastic – I have no problems there.”
McCarthy is choosing to emphasise the positives after the last two games, claiming Wolves didn’t deserve to lose heavily on Saturday.
“The players are disappointed with the way the things have gone in the last two games. We have actually played well in those games – it’s not like we’ve been trounced, despite what the scorelines would suggest,” he said.
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Until Craddock and Kightly are fit again we may as well settle for 12th.
I love these reports on a Monday it really lightens up my day and mick i think you can still do it. Barman i have a pint of whatever Micks on!!!!!! think its must be deicer
STILL GOOD ENOUGH TO GO UP!!! MM you are kidding yourself. The defence is a disgrace, why did you waste money on yet another striker when we are crying out for a central defender. All four goals on saturday were down to mistakes. I have stood up for you until now but enough is enough, go now so we can start re-building for next season. MORGAN IF HE WONT GO, SACK HIM AND GET BIG SAM IN
thats it for this season then.
which other managers are available do you think?
ayeee in agree with comment 1,jst need 2 learn how 2 defend reli simple, basic situations , we have looked okk going 4ward lately. i think kyle will b a gd signing . jst need Jody and Gary bck to tighten up the defence then we can try and push on !
It’s amazing to think that we are only 2 points from the playoffs even when our form as of late has been so poor (with the exception of scunny, sheff weds was a little lucky).
We have got something like 10 points from a possible 32 which is relegation form. Remember a few months ago when Glenn Roeder took over norwich 2nd from bottom and we were sitting pretty near the top, now norwich are only 2 points behind us so there still in the hunt to.
We need to put a few wins together and sharpish. MM should have till the end of the season no matter what, he now has his own squad of players and should be judged on that at the end of the season.
My optimism is fading fast though.
“Some people might say I’m talking nonsense”
One of the most insightful things you’ve said this year Mick.
I think we have a squad capable of a playoff spot. I don’t however think we are making the best of them and it’s obvious where the weak link is.
Away with the fairies.
“thats it for this season then.
which other managers are available do you think?”
Sam Allardyce, Chris Coleman, Iain Dowie…
mick needs to forget his so called match plan on how to try and play and tell the players just to get out there and put the ball in the back of the net from anywhere they can shoot shoot SHOOT then the confindance will start coming back stop playing the ball square and back all the time and start and take players on and get past them give it and gowe can still do it but we need a lot more goals
We do need Kightly, Craddock back and Elkolbi needs to step in. We might need Little back and give Foley a rest.
Albion having a pop? Another great result for the best football team in the division! 3 away defeats on the trot and the pack closing in on you. Worry about yourselves not us.
You talk nonsense Mick!! the thought never crossed our minds honest.
After witnessing us get turned over by an overrated team like Stoke on Saturday, I wouldn’t bank on it Mick.
Our team lacks the individuals willing to shoulder responsibiliy and just get stuck in or have a punt at goal, I’m afraid they are too inexperienced, even the likes of Hull are playing better than us. With a 38 year old up front in Dean Windass, thats the difference, experience, we do not have it..Very dissapointing as I and many other fans thought this could be our season.
I thought it was April Fools Day for a second then!
Yes good idea Mick, all we have to do is win every game for the rest of the season and we can reach automatic places. CLUELESS!
clutching at straws now mick .. haha we can still do it your having a laugh why carnt you just admit that we are a mid table side at best
Steve morgan act now MCCARTHY OUT
I think Wolves fans that the fact we are two points off the play-offs suggests we are in still in mix. Its not rocket science!
Even though we were absolutely disgraceful on Saturday!
The Championship is such a poor league this season that of course Wolves still have a chance. WBA are in the top two but are losing regularly to poor sides, Watford couldn’t buy a win a few weeks ago and are still up there. The problem for any club promoted this season is that they are highly likely to come straight back down again.
A play off place is still not mathematically impossible.Until then, stick with Mick!
Stoke’s fourth goal on saturday cam as the result of a stonewall penalty claim being turned down. Wolves were pushing for the equaliser & didn’t get the break they deserved.
If by chance Wolves do get to Wembley, I wonder how many whingers will still be clambering for tickets?
It’s not over till the Fat Lady sings & she’s not clearing her throat yet!
MM must be in cloud cuckoo land if, after another capitulation, he thinks we can be serious contenders this season.
If I was Mr Morgan, I’d be thinking of timescales for replacement - get on the phone now Mr Morgan and speak to Incey, before I die of old age wating for Wolves to return to the big time……….
If we are medicore mid-table in the Championship it would be a disaster to go up! We’d be even worse whipping boys than Derby!
i don’t understand where all this big sam rubbish is coming from. Its just like all the idiots sayin Freddie, Freddie. Why do you think sam would do an amazing job for us. He is not the answer. He bought rubbish at Newcastle and look where it got him. I believe we have talent at our club and i do believe we have the manager to get the best out of them. At least he is optomistic. I’d hate to have some of you so called fans be manager. Giving up already. Its not over by a long way. I agree results have been bad but come on lets just stay behind the lads and it will turn. We can do it. UP THE WOLVES !!
10 What match plan ?
MM out? What then? Don’t know any other fans that turn against their own as easy as Wolves-supporters! I agree with NathanWolves. Let’s give MM and this team until the end of the season.
Not a cat in hells chance.Even if we do make the play offs we will fail.We are just not good enough.Wehave problems all over the pitch.I know it is early bird time but MM and JM coming out with this sort of tosh is not going to work.
In the post Saturday was Moxey`s early bird data. That set me up for my drive to the match from Nottingham. Good game, nice to see a well organised highly motivated side, with a good defence and making excellent use of dead ball plays, unfortunately it wasn`t Wolves. Who coaches our defenders? MM was a centre half - so no excuses, a bit of pace and athleticism and some proper defending we could have won 2-0, we didn`t - and won`t. The reality is 3 to a full strength watford, 4 to Stoke, we`ll be lucky to see the playoffs, then MM will be away, and I`ll try and find where I put the early bird letter.
I agree with MM that we should not give up until it is impossible to achieve and at the moment it is not impossible but it is no good the team playing good football which we did on Saturday, when we cannot defend. Our defence on Saturday must have gone to sleep. The goals they scored were purely our defences error.
I also agree that we should have had at least two penalties and the amount of times we were fouled and got nothing from the ref was unbelievable.
We have now started to score goals but we are letting too many in.
COME ON THE WOLVES
On another page on the Express & Star site, there was mention of crowd trouble during & following Saturdays game.
These mindless morons should be jailed for the maximum possible period.
Hooliganism belongs in the past. Genuine supporters,myself included would like to dis-associate theselves form these idiots & would someday like to see the re-introduction of standing ares at football arena’s.With the correct policing & stewards this would be possible, therefore allowing working people on low income to take themselves & their families to the games they so badly wish to see!
And people were wondering why Cardiff banned travelling away fans from next weekends game,unless by organised transport?
I was cheered up when I saw a football headline today: “Blackburn open negotiations with McCarthy”. My day was soon ruined when it turned out to be their striker, Benni McCarthy - DAMN!!
MM’s right - we have had an awful run yet still only 3 points off play offs. defending was really bad saturday though, but when Cradoock, Breen and Knightly are back it will be like having 3 new signings, and just at the right time. Still confident of play offs as apart from defending on Saturday it was a good passing performance - would like to see Eastwood on from the off against Blackpool.
I completely disagree with McCarthy - we’re simply not good enough to go up. Another season in the championship beckons.
realsitically there is only one play off place up for grabs i.e 6th,and there are 7 or 8 teams vying for that position with Wolves having the worst current form amongst the lot of them. A couple more defeats and even that will be beyond us so i make that next Tuesday night at 10 o clock when the season will be over and we will have to put up with more drivel about the next season etc
Wolfie are you on the same drugs as MM. WE CAN DO IT. Unless you are going to B&Q it. MM you are talking complete and utter rubbish. You are have lost the plot. I see Coventry have sacked Dowie. There is a no nonsense board, but Morgan will give him to the summer and hopefully he will be sacked!
Yes, let’s bring in big Sam. All we will need to do then is take the roof off each stand. We will need to do that, because we won’t see the ball with them on. It will be high in the air on the end of a defender’s boot. All we will need are 4 defenders and the seven strikers we have, as there is no need for midfileders in big Sam’s style of play. WHY DO YOU THINK NEWCASTLE GOT RID OF HIM?
Dowie would be a good choice. after all, he has just been sacked by Coventry. The reason? The websites quote “Incompetence” as the reason for the sacking. Coventry are hot on our heels in the league. (NOT!!!)
Coleman is free. Sacked by Fulham and Real sociedad in less than a year. He sounds ideal. We could have him here, and you could all boo him out before Christmas, and have yet another one in by the turn of the new year.
Of couse there is Paul Ince. A great ex-player for us, and definitely a good manager for the future. Not currently going through the best of times at the mighty MK Dons. Don’t get me wrong, Incey will be a good manager, but in my opinion, and yours might differ, not ready for the CCC yet.
Billy Davies was chased out of Derby, and they look like doing worse by far than the season you all love to quote for Mick at Sunderland. (Incidentally, Roy Keane has spent over £40 Million at Sunderland, and is still struggling in the lower reaches of the Prem. MM had nowhere near that amount to spend when he was there.)
I believe we should give Mick McCarthy this season and next to see if he can get the team of mainly youngsters up. If he can’t then he should maybe go. Does that mean I think he is the perfect manager? Of course not. He is like the rest of us, he has good and bad days. The idea of young and hungry will work long-term, I believe.
I would love to see CHRIS COLEMAN given the Wolves job. Mick has clearly run out of ideas and has no idea how to turn it around. Big Sam would get us up but we would play ugly football.
We’ve taken 14 points from a possible 45. This moron thinks we can still make automatic places!
Yeah we can but not while you keep picking Kevin Kyle, wake up leave him in blackpool with the rest of the donkeys on the beech!!??
Wolfie2468; I am a confirmed pessimist and cynic. It’s the best state to be in. Life and human nature never fails to disappoint so my days are spent in blissful happiness. Optimists, such as yourself, live a life of constant disappointment and therefore, abject misery.
Mick,
At the beginning of the season We are going to get automatic promotion. January 2008… We can get into the play offs. What are you going to say in May 2008….. We were close to the play offs but just too many errors in defence over the season and not enough chances taken by the forwards. AND dont forget….the crowd were against us. Always a favourite. We have been very average and poor all season NOT just the last few weeks. I for one will not be renewing under the Early Bird whilst MM is still manager. Could not face another season of dismal saturdays like this season. Had enough.
Saturdays performance showed MM’s big weakness, with his transfer window signings…. NO CENTER HALFS ! just another ex Sunderland Donkey… ( seen the miss from 2 yards ?? !! )… No planning for the future…. sure we look better at the back with Breen and Craddock…. but they are not here for the long term now thay are in the sunset of their careers !
MM you HAVE lost the plot !!
Kent Wolf
I disagree with both your postings:
1) Stick with Mick! Why? I couldn’t care tuppence that we’re only 2 points off the play-offs. There’s “realistically” only one play-off place to play for and we’re hardly in pole position.We’re as near the bottom 2 as the top 2 and that’s where MM said we could and should be. He’s had one of the biggest cheque books in the division, great training facilities,massive goodwill and he’s still blown it! The team generally are rubbish and every single thing he’s quoted as saying is along the same lines!
Dowie’s gone, Robson will go later in the week and - in true Manchester bus tradition - MM should be the third!
2) I watched Wolves in the early 70’s. As a kid, I could only see by sitting on a barrier. We had to get to the South Bank at 1.15 to be sure of a barrier and then during the game, every time there was a goal or close call, we’d be swept off and bundled down loads of concrete steps. Very safe and comfortable…not!
The other excitement was two lines of policemen keeping the peace and surges from away fans and back again. Running battles, things being thrown and no-one watching the game.If we go back to terraces, it won’t solve hooligan problems, it will make them worse!
You don’t reduce prices by making people stand….all seater stadia should keep the costs down! It’s greed and vain ambition that drive up prices whether you sit or stand up and I would want my young so to have a good view and be safe rather than endure the conditions I did!
I am not sure if we are good enough to stay in the Championship let alone get promoted. This current squad with this incompetent manager and with the dreaded Moxey, would be slaughtered in the Premier League.
Breretonwolf fully agree with your comments. Trouble is we have been saying for years about getting some young players in and letting them develop and then when we do we, wonder why they are inconsistant and ask for big money signings. Been there done that. Didnt work. Dont agree with every decision MM makes or even with every purchase he has made, but lets be fair, we are in a much better position for the future than we were before he came. Average age of team about 22, five 21 year olds in the starting line up…we CAN still be involved in the Play-Offs, because every one is capable of beating everyone else in the Chumpionship. Lets support the boys and sort the defence, with Kites and Craddock to return we can start to push on. Blackpool and Scunthorpe next two games, we could get good results there. Keep the faith, as hard as it is…
Breretonwolf you make me laugh..
You are as clueless as MM himself.
Give him this year and maybe another? and then maybe sack him?
do me a favour, if we were all as indesicive as you, the world would grind to a halt.
Have no problems with MM till the end of the season or until its mathematically impossible to get into the play offs
BUT even if we do make it by some stroke of luck etc etc
We dont believe that MM has what it takes to keep us in the Prem and this season has more than shown that MM seriously lacks in the tactics department
Steve Morgan would need to bring in fresh faces at the end of the season with or without promotion - as MM and Moxey are not what we consider a “winning formula” or for a better future for Wolves - as past seasons have shown Moxey as “Mr Average” and if all else fails - blame the fans!
It kept him in a job but hopefully SM will wield the axe and bring in his own people to move the club forwards!
As for MM - He stated Top 2 places this season - and Oh dear - It aint happening is it?
If we are lucky enough via play offs - great but win or lose - we really need a management team that knows what they are doing in the Prem with a modest budget to bring in Prem ready players
The past has seen a succession of managers come and go - and oodles of cash spent - surely this was not just down to the managers but a CEO who advised and acted on behalf of SJH and now SM
The only manager that achieved the “holy grail” (Dave Jones) and then didnt get sufficient backing due to an over cautious CEO who pocketd a profit as a result of promotion but did little for the clubs survival chances!
Not someone we would want to rely on in any campaign in the Prem!
So why hold on to the current CEO - who has a track record of failures in his tenure that far outweigh the success - that is fast becoming almost an embarressment to mention
Promotion or not - A BIG brush is now required and positive people with some proven backgrounds are required!!!
NB* We hope that SM is not restricted by the agreement that he struck between himself and SJH to acquire the club - as we seriously need improvement in all areas - commercially and on the field of play!
Chirs Coleman?
Are you having a laugh?? What’s he ever done, other than been sacked in quick succession at the only two clubs he’s ever managed?
Blimey, I’m losing the will to live frankly.
35) “we should give Mick McCarthy this season and next to see if he can get the team of mainly youngsters up.”
I find your comments unbelievable, do you really go to the games?? If so how can you enjoy the football we have played this season. You comment the Big Sam plays high football, well sorry Mick silk style tactics must have passed me by.
We sit back most of the time trying to protect an inadequate defence whilst hopeing we can get a goal on the break.
We have a young team for sure but some are played out of position, some are not given a chance and no one knows why only thick Mick.
I think you would be posting here in three years time when we’re in division 2 saying Mick should still be given time. Question are you related to Mick?
I hear all this about MM out, and we have no experience, somewhat Ironic at this time of year. The Late Great Sir Matt Busby was told “you’ll win nowt with kids” but look at what they were on the brink of, ok for sure we’ll never know but the team was talented beyond it’s tender years and general feeling at that time was fear of what they might achieve…. I’m not comparing talent as the likes of Duncan edwards will never be seen again, but the idea of working with youth and giving the dream/plan a fair crack is well worth it in my humble opinion!
Behind the team behind Mick… Up the Wolves!!!
keep the faith, we now have a young team who will improve,its what we wanted so lets stick with the players.
35 you must be a Baggie fan or an Idiot give this mad man one more season and yes we could be a big team again in the 2nd Division Get a life and a job, hurry up mick needs his car cleaned prat
if comes to it and mccarthy goes but i dont see it happening i would get nigel clough in great footballing manager and if hes only half as good as his dad hes way ahead of mccarthy
when are people going to realise, its not youth that counts , its quality.
Im sick of hearing Young and Hungry, namely coming from the direction of Moxey.
They are young and mediocre in the main. Look at Arsenal, they are young and have quality, we have none.
Its not youth, its down to quality that counts, and will bet you know that 90% of the wolves squd will never kick a ball in the premiership because they aren’t good enough.
Simple.
35.Breretonwolf
Poor old Sam Allardyce, 8 years at Bolton with a top six finish then almost handed the England job a few months at Newcastle, gets the sack and you’ve have rubbished him.
I’m not saying that he would be a good choice but I think the style of football that he chose to play was effective and has taken Bolton literally to the next league.
Your opinion of Sam or any of the others that you mention is purely subjective. Where as the majority that would like to see the back of McCarthy at least are basing their arguments on what they see in front of them every game!
It may be that McCarthy will do just as you say and turn things round. I think that he should be given time until it is impossible to reach the play off places and if he fails then should be shown the door.
I like big Sam but I feel that it may be time to bring in a manager who is young and hungry for success. We haven’t tried that root yet. But knowing Wolves, they would mess that up too!
Do you really think that MM will be given another season - come on!
What do you base your evidence on regarding Ince? Keane hadn’t managed in the championship before and he seems to be doing ok.
Do you wait for young managers to be snapped up by other championship clubs before you consider them or perhaps we should take a risk for once and change the record? At some point Wolves have to make an investment, to stay in the premier league you have to spend, if they had backed Dave Jones then we might still be there now?
You say that he will bring the youngsters on next season, I believe he is more likely to send them out on loan! I know for a fact he is still looking at strikers! Just how bad does it have to get?
All………..since when did jody craddock become our centre half saviour??? Not so long ago he wern’t even here!!!!!!!! Someone said earlier…..MM is a centre half……….yet he fails to recognise one of our many achillies heels????
Says it all really. Honesty will only get you so far………persona, creativity and vast experience are all requirements for success at this level……MM aint got it!! Another year in division 2 whilst the yo-yo baggies succeed again!
I’ve been on these pages before and predicted that 75 points would be the requirement for the play offs, but have now decided that perhaps something as low as 68 or 69 points may squeeze you in to 6th place this year given that all the teams are much of a muchness. As woeful as the season has been so far, a play off place is still a real possibility should Wolves be able to obtain the 25 or 26 points required from the last 15 games. We all know the problems awaiting should a miracle happen and we did manage to get promoted.
After Saturday, “pub team” would be to harsh, but “pub team” tactics might be about right !
Im sorry Mick but we, plain & simple, are not good enough to get promoted. Come to think of it we don’t deserve it.
If all we’ve got to look forward to is either Breen or Craddock returning to give us stability at the back then there’s something wrong.
We should of either spent big money on 2 quick central defenders who can use this year & next to gel together.
Instead the realisation will hit home at the end of the season when we have missed out again & then the defenders will be bought. TOO LATE!!!
Mick needs to sit in the stands & use an ear piece like so many managers do these days. He will see it as we see it then.
53 could not agree with you more mate.This young and hungry rubbish is just another example of the spin sent out by the club in an attempt to persuade fans to purchase a season ticket for next year.Moxey was at it last week with his “lets be patient” crap.The longer we remain out of the top flight the more difficult it will be to get back.I have said this many times on this website but I do not believe the club has the ambition or the managerial expertise to get us promoted.
`Morgan take note Cov have had the balls to sack Dowie and they’re only 8 points behind us with a game in hand.
Mick
It’s a simple game. Just take a look at Newcastle. Good going forward, poor defending. Take a look at Man City, good defending, weak upfront and they won…!
Built from the back, create chances from midfield and anyone can score.
Or have I missed something ?
We played better on Sat and lost than when we have won 1-0. We should not have lost, that was a pen, it would have been 3-3, all the boo boys would have to have thought of another reason to have a go. Kyle did what he was signed on loan for…. to set up goals, he set up 2!!!! Ok he missed a sitter but havn`t ALL of our strikers missed sitters, none excludes even Freddie. All of you calling for a new manager, there is not one out there that I would want. Big sam…. hoof ball, maybe Ince if anyone but unproven and now struggling with the mighty MK!!! We now have a young squad…. what everyone has been wanting. Trouble is with youth is that they take time to mature, OK we have a s%!t defence, but when Craddock comes back he will make a big difference, Come on lads MM is not gonna get sacked no matter how many of you boo boys cry, lets hope for the playoffs, get behind the team, we are Dingles and they are renowned for sticking together no matter what happens, lets get behined them no matter what. You have got to admit the football is getting better than earlier in the season when it was pretty dire, but we have been there before and got through it….as a team
If MM thinks this defence is good enough he lives in cuckoo land.Everybody knows that we needed acouple more defenders during the transfer window but MM didn`t seem to think so.The players are feeling the pressure due to his lack of ability and its obvious that he doesn`t have the knowhow.I will say it again,Mr.Morgan get rid of him and bring in Allardyce before its too late.Lets see some ambition.If you want something to laugh about just read the boing boing`s letters,what a aload of idots, but then ,we already know what they`ve got for brains.
Brereton wolf ,Are you magic micks secret love child?You state big sam plays long ball football,WHO CARES!HE GUIDED A CLUB LIKE BOLTON TO THE TOP 8 OF THE PREMIERSHIP PRACTICALLY EVERY SEASON AND ARE NOW CURRENTLY IN EUROPE,WHERE THE HELL ARE WE????Mid table in the fizzy pop league and no doubt you will tell us all we are playing silky skilled football under merlin so its ok.The young and hungry policy is just another con to get us to buy the early bird so that perhaps in many years time when we are all dead,wolves may push on for promotion. The early bird season ticket deal for the long since deceased will be soon introduced with moxeys voice playing into the coffins telling us “WE CAN STILL DO IT”.Well Ive had enough and until the club shows some ambition and appoints a decent manager ,I wont renew my early bird
Chris Coleman would be a great choice, but it looks like Coventry are after him as well.
Come on Steve Morgan! Sack the clown and bring in Coleman asap!
62 do you actually go to games?would 3-3 against Stoke have been a good result, is Craddock going to save MM’s skin, isn’t this the same Craddock that MM shunted out to Stoke on loan? Lets face it Wolves are a poor outfit with a poor manager, we are destined for mid table mediocrity is that what you really want?
bring in a few DECENT defenders that are not clumsy and are actually CAPABLE of playing football not try n get a full team of strikers and we would be challenging for top spot not sitting at 12th!!you have done it for me mick!!!! McCARTHY OUT!
No. 46 Bridget & Tony - coudn’t agree any more very accurate and pesuasive comments. Wasn’t It our Mr Moxey who decided to keep Glenda before he walked out with no time to prepare for the new season. So this is a Chief Executive who knows exactly when to hire and fire and even after Hoddle left didn’t dear old Jez try to contact him to see if he woudn’t mind staying. The only reason for too many firings is because the appointment isn’t right in the first place.
And secondly all this talk about the penalties that should have been given totally misses the point. Wolves lost because of schoolboy defending as they did against Watford and the one conceded against Sheff Wed.
lets do something good for once, get hold of chris coleman, a proven premier league manager with real ambition. please mr morgan, surely you’d like to see some return for your £7m investment this year!
Whether you love or loathe MM, it is not right to sack him at this stage of the season.
There is not a manager out there who will do better then MM for the remainder of the season with the players at his disposal.
MM has to have to the end of the season, only then can he be judged. He has entirely his own team/squad now and if he can’t deliver with that squad come May I am all for a new manager!
I suppose some of you are worried that he IS going to get us in the playoffs and maybe even promotion. You are more worried because you don’t think he is a premiership manager and we will do a “sunderland”.
By george i think i’ve got it!!!!
that should say is NOT a premiership manager
WW are now a big joke, how anyone can say that we still have a chance of play offs go back to the asylum, take a long hard look at the team at the next game, there is no talent at all, then think if by some luck we went up can you image what this idiot MM would do to us
ignore 71, i did’nt make a mistake as i thought i did. My woman’s multi tasking skills have desserted me today!
It makes me smile, CHRIS COLEMAN?
what a nightmare. If someone can tell me what he’s done and where he has been successful, I might back down, but what ??? come on!
Id rather have MM and I think hes rubbish!
Blimey, lets take a risk and go for Incey.
No Sue 39 i think your wrong. I think your comment is obviously a cry for help as you must feel suicidal with an attitude to life like that. I pity u so much. You been to see a doctor at all ? As for super 39 i can understand the frustration but seriously, if its still possible u must still hope for the best. If you didn’t you would be so passionate about it. We can do it. We are good enough. UP THE WOLVES !
” some people may think I am talking non sense!” Finally the penny drops for MM.
He is top of the charts for nonsensical stuff this season.
Did well last year due to lack of choices so he couldn’t meddle too much.
Coleman, Big Sam, whoever……….
Im not happy with this rubbish at present. Ive not been happy all season not just since the slide.
If by chance Wolves do get to Wembley, I wonder how many whingers will still be clambering for tickets?
It’s not over till the Fat Lady sings & she’s not clearing her throat yet!
C’mon me babbies!
Changing the manager now or at the end of the season is that the answer?I think the problems at Wolves are so deep it would not make a scrap of difference.Fans Parliament, Early bird Schemes etc are just smoke screens to mask the reality of our situation.
The next 2 games should be the make or break point for MM. If we can’t get 6 points out of the next 2 games we will just have to accept mid table mediocrity. P.S. What’s all this Chris Coleman rubbish? He’s done absolutely nothing except get sacked twice in as many years! Take a punt at Billy Davies, Paul Ince or a Big Sam, Paul Ince combo
Just seen that Coventry seem to know what to do with the manager of a woefully underperforming team!
Wolveswolves; I think Brereton is MM.
Nobody decent available to manage the team until the end of the season, so let’s get behind the shirt and suffer!
You heard it here first: By the end of the season Newcastle will have sacked Kevin Keegan, so he will be available to take over then!
Not a chance MM, not whilst you are playing too many players out of position, and certainly not whilst you are playing too many “centre forwards” in the same team.
We give away too many soft free kicks in dangerour areas and defend poorly from set pieces.
Dream on then for 2009/2010!
I don’t know for the life of me how he thinks were doin well at the moment?? some players need to be dropped to let them know they aren’t guaranteed a place!! for example karl henry, actually that’s about it, he’s not worthy of a 1st team place let alone the captaincy. stokes last goal on saturday. . .why not just bring him down? it was the last second of the game and u had foley back with ya so he wouldn’t of got sent off. MICK GOTTA GO
Send Muppet Mick to Sunderalnd (he thinks his managing their reserves)or Coventry, anywhere but our beloved WOLVES> Jez out as well, you only neeed look at Stoke to realise what a half decent manager can do, problem is we have not recruited one for many years.
BIG SAM BIG SAM BIG SAM BIG SAM BIG SAM BIG SAM BIG SAM BIG SAM BIG SAM BIG SAM BIG SAM BIG SAM BIG SAM BIG SAM BIG SAM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Frankly I can’t remember when our back 4 looked so poor. We don’t have a decent centre half at the club - Craddock is merely the best of a very bad bunch. Gray is slower than Mcnamara and I rate Little higher than Foley. And can someone tell me why, when Keogh finally finds his goal touch, MM pushes him out wide???? Defeats at Blackpool and Cardiff and the fat lady will be singing away !!!
Looks like Mick’s got a new favourite strike partnership in Ebanks-Blake and Kyle. He says on the bbc that it will take time for them to develop an understanding. Which is running out very quickly! How many times so far this season has he said this? Looks like long ball for the rest of the season. Hopefully the new Coventry manager will do us a favour and re-call Kyle! What’s happened to the Ebanks-Blake and Keogh partnership, which looked promising.
MM ??? INCE yes!
God forbid we go up this year! Imagine that in 2010 we are heading back down with less points than Derby instead of going up with Paul Ince leading us to glory. No longer care if we sack Micky Mouse now or in April/May our season was over in November. The Championship is so bad that if we get the right man managing next season we can have it wrapped up by Christmas and we can all head to Stafford to watch our real hero do his stuff. Good luck Bully I will watch you all the way.
I could do a better job. Well… certainly not worse!
Why all the surprise with the defence? we havnt had one for years!! when MM made Breen skipper for the season i lost interest
this season is over we have no chance of promotion.
we have an outside chance of a playoff place but we may be chasing the the 6th position as the others are pulling away and we are not getting enough points.
mick has had money to spend and completely changed the team from last season and we have gone backwards. i have been very unhappy most of this season withy mick and how we have played but we will have to wait till summer and hope morgan can clean the place out of all the deadwood from ceo, manager, coaches and players.
will give support as always and hope we can improve win some games and get into playoffs but i seriously can’t see it.
#48 and 51.
Are you not in Div 2 now?? You must mean “A big team in Div 3.
Just forget it Mick!On the season’s performances we’re not good enough.If we were to get promotion to the Premier,how many points would we get with that team.
Dream on Mick!
Aucklandkiwiwolf
We need defenders, amazing how Mark Little is playing terrific football at Northampton Town, just like Daniel Jones did. We need him back and then with luck Mick wil play then both. Ive seen both perform for Northampton and they honestly put our current full backs to shame.
Northampton’s Stuart Gray has faith in them, and reading about Northampton, its no coincidence they are unbeaten in the 5 games since Little arrived. Its time to give both these exceptionally talented full backs there place in the first team.
1) nothing wrong with chris coleman-dont think anyone here can comment on his managerial carreer in spain, and at Fulham, he did a great job, keeping them in the prem year after year on a shoestring. He was sacked after one bad run.
2)agree with 70), no point sacking mick just yet. its his squad of players thats been built up, so give him till playoffs are out of reach, and then look for someone who has the quality to get us up-that is unless mick gets us into the playoffs…
No. 35 Breretonwolf. You are so right. I couldn’t agree with you more. I give you 5 stars.
We need Big Sam now. Get rid of the clown McCarthy. If we don’t win soon we will be in the relegation fight. Jez get rid of him now why we still have a chance.
If MM picks the right team we will make the play offs
you cant sort out your strikers,and we cant sort out our defence,,swap anyone ?
Are you a prat kent wolf wembley talk, when you see your doctor ask him to look at your head,and give you some decent specs, with happy clappers like you this club will never get into the prem
Short-termism. We are not winning, so sack the manager. It’s worked so well in the past, so let’s continue with it.
I get accused of being a Mick McCarthy love child, a relative, or even Mick himself. I can see Mick McCarthy’s faults as well as you can. The defence needs sorting, but how unlucky to lose the experienced defenders, Craddock and Breen at the same time? When you do have a young side it is a must that you have a few experienced heads to temper the naivety of younger players. Breen and Craddock would be that. Where better to have that than at the back, where the experienced players can see what is happening, and direct the youth. (They don’t need the legs to bomb around everywhere. They need a brain that sees things, and get the players with legs to do the running. We lost both long-term, and at the same time.) It does not take intelligence to knock everything you see. If you are going to knock, let’s at least see sensible suggestions that need to happen on the field for sorting the problems. I don’t notice the cheap shot merchants, Sue D’Nimm, etc giving solutions. They sit there sniping at others, but offer nothing other than “play Freddy” or “sack Mick.” Cheap shots are a way of hiding any real understanding. All you have to do is suggest that people are “relatives of Mick,” or “don’t know what they are talking about.” The sheep will do the rest. Abdonwolf and I don’t always agree, but at least he does talk football, and gives arguments for his beliefs. I can respect people like that.
What I can’t go for is the short-termism that keeps us thinking that changing managers every couple of years is the way forward. The successful teams don’t change managers like changing their socks. Alex Ferguson (no I am not saying MM is in the same league as him) took seven years to win a title with man Utd. They were going to get rid of him (fan “power”) if they lost a cup game to Forest. They stuck with him, and voila, they start winning. Dave Jones got us to the Prem, and was sacked half a season or less after us coming down. Why? The boo boys again. He was sacked way too soon. Graham Tayler was sacked. Why? The same boo boys who say to play the young players coming through the academy. Taylor was the manager that really started the academy. The list goes on. (and on and on…) We have a manager that has said it would take three years to get us up with going for youth. We can’t play them all, so he sends those he considers not yet ready to lower leagues for experience. Jones and Little have done well at Northampton, and will be used when they are ready. There is a big gulf though between Northampton and the Championship. We have to ewean young players in. If you have a baby (and my wife and I have had six) you don’t give him or her solids straight away. You progress the food gradually. That is what McCarthy wants to do with these young players. I may be a mindless idiot hwen compared with “super brains” like Sue D’Nimm, (Stifled laughter) but I do try to look at things long-term. I just don’t see that we would be well-served by getting rid of MM now. What happens if he goes now? Someone else comes in with a new idea, and we are back at square one. Give them six months, and the boo-boys will start on them. (Yes, even Incey if he had a bad run. (I do believe he is one for the future. So was Bryan Robson at Middlesborough.)
Breretonwolf, not much to add other than you must enjoy paying through the nose for season tickets to watch us play Scunthorpe and Morecombe.
Good enugh to GO UP.
Good enough to go up where Mick?
Up the Street? Up the Stairs?
Up in the Air? Up on the Roof?
The only place you ought to go Mick is UP THE ROAD with your P45.
Brereton Wolf, well said and very true, unfortunately very few boo boys will see it that way.
105, I’m a Wolves fan. I will watch them wherever and whenever they play. Some folks believe I am blind, but I see the faults. The way to overcome faults is consistency, and perseverance, not changing manager after manager. Each manager brings a new style, so you are back to square one each time. (It’s called a paradigm shift in business terms. “When a paradigm shift occurs, everything reverts to zero.”)
went to blackpool last night the ref spoilt a naff game
we have good points but a helll of alot of bad points get out mick
WHY DO WOLVES HAVE MANAGERS WHO TRY TO INSULT THE FANS INTELLIGENTS ITS TIME FOR MICK MCARTHEY TO GO HE IS RUNNING OUT OF EXCUSES HE HAS SPENT 7 MILLION POUNDS AND WE ARE WORSE THEN LAST SEASON. WE ARE THE LAUGHING JOKE OF MIDLANDS FOOTBALL. PS TAKE MOXEY WITH YOU AS WELL.
Brereton I agree that changing a manager every time the club has a bad run is not a good idea. It is also not a good idea to stick with a manager that is taking the club in the wrong direction.
McCarthy did a really good short term job to take Wolves to the play offs after they had lost so many key players. He also did a good job for one season at Sunderland. But there are no indications he has what it takes to lead Wolves to the next level.
Wolves have struggled to score goals for 18 months now, that is not a short term problem. He signed Eastwood to solve the problem then dropped him after he had scored 4 goals in three games. Recently Keogh has finally started scoring so he has moved him to the wing. Now he is playing a new striker who averages one goal every 11 games in his career.
Defensively we have a good record under McCarthy but only because we usually set up the midfield to focus on protecting the defence rather than supporting the attack and being creative. This has lead to very poor entertainment this season. Recently his team selections have been more positive and the frailties of the defence are there for all to see. The fact that we are desperate for Craddock and Breen to return shows the lack of progress we have made in strengthening the defence.
We have now won 2 out of our last 13 league games. That is on a par with Scunthorpe and worse than Colchester. Am I really having too high expectations to say we should be doing better than these teams?
To me there is no question that this club needs a bright new manager who can take the club forward in a way that leaves us with a chance of staying in the Premier League when we get there. Anyone who went to Blackpool the other night will tell you that if by some miracle we go up this year then we will be no better than Derby in the Premier League. And McCarthy was happy with the performance and saw it as Wolves making progress!