Wolves boss Mick McCarthy insists he does not fear for his Molineux future despite a rising tide of fury from fans at the team’s ailing season.
McCarthy’s wounded side face bottom-club Scunthorpe at Molineux tomorrow night in a Championship match which some view as vital to the continuing welfare of the manager’s reign.
After Saturday’s limp exit from the FA Cup with a performance McCarthy today labelled as the worst of his tenure, Wolves must begin eating into the seven point gap separating them from the play-offs line to keep their season alive.
But it promises to be a challenging night for players and manager after Saturday’s Ninian Park misery concluded with angry fans barracking the players with chants of “You’re not fit to wear the shirt” during the “warm-down.”
McCarthy admits the campaign has reached crunch-point and spoke today of it being time to “put up or shut up.”
But within the club there was “calmness,” he said - a view supported by the Molineux hierarchy who remain intent on resisting the trigger-happy culture of the past.
McCarthy gave short shrift to one BBC radio reporter who tried to quiz him about his future after Saturday’s defeat but today was relaxed enough to talk about the growing criticism from the sidelines.
“I think it’s wrong and unfair they should get you after the game when emotions are running high,” he said.
“I prefer to do live TV and radio, I don’t have a problem with that, but when you have played badly and when you have lost some of you lot try to be smart and try to be clever.
“When it comes out in print, it looks different. But I actually said it with a twinkle in my eye and was having a bit of banter.
“We all know and understand what football managers are. But I do not find myself walking around wondering ‘what if’ about my position. I understand what is being said.
“But I have a great relationship with Steve (Morgan) and Jez (Moxey). We are all trying to do the same thing, we are trying to get Wolves promoted, that’s what I am here for and within that I have their support.
“There’s a calmness within the club, from Steve downwards and I think we will find that calmness is important.
“If at the end it’s not working and you have to end it then so be it. I think you will find the people that count, certainly Steve in terms of business and Jez in terms of the football world, will not listen to outside influences.
“We’re having a tough time at the moment but I don’t suddenly think that I can’t do my job and I still think we can be in the shake up for the play offs.”
McCarthy will make big changes again tomorrow with recent signings Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, Dave Edwards and George Elokobi eligible again and Matt Jarvis in with a chance of overcoming injury.
And he admitted: “We’ve got to win the game. We’ve spoken all season about being a team challenging for promotion but we’re out of it by a stretch and we’ve got to get back in there as soon as possible.
“There are 14 games left. Tomorrow’s game is not a foregone conclusion - there is no such thing in this division. Scunthorpe were two-up at Stoke on Friday.
“But coming on the back of our worst performance I’ve had since I’ve been here, it’s a far from foregone conclusion.
“ If you start looking at the gap it makes you feel worse.
“We just have to concentrate on winning this match andf go on from there.
“From July we’ve been talking about what we want to achieve and now it’s time to put up or shut up.”
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I think MM is one game away from picking up Jobseekers allowance! Lose tomorrow against Scunthorpe and I reckon come the end of the week he will be out! Fed up with it all now! Haven’t felt this bad since the bad old days of the Bhatti brothers!
Maybe Mick should deal with some of the things that really bother us fans rather than keep trying to convince us all is well and we are still in with a shout. By this I mean the difficulties around team selection, the position regarding the absent younger players and Rosa, what is really happing regarding Eastwood, why did he not strengthen the defence?
I do not believe in hiring and firing managers on a short-term basis but Mick’s public statements cause him almost as much trouble as the team’s displays. B honest with us.
There is no doubt that the performances this season have been extremely disappointing and our deterioration since we went 3rd on December 1st has been remarkable . Indeed our form since then has been relegation form and it is only the points collected prior to then , and some of them very lucky , which has kept us away from the bottom 3 . Stoke won more matches in the last week than we have won since the Preston match on Dec.1st and that speaks for itself . However , this has all been said many times by a greta number of fellow fans but I would ask if anyone has a clue , and not mere speculation , about what has happened to Mark Davies . He is not on the injured list anymore , nor has he been for a time , but he doesn’t appear in the reserve squad either . Is he suspended by the club for any reason or is it just that his face does not fit with MM ?
Mick ask how us travelling fans felt after the game on Saturday. Well I can tell you there was no calmness amongst us, just frustration after watching the poorest performance of the season so far against an average championship team.
It will be interesting to see how the players react on Tuesday night after the barracking they received during the warm down, which was very vocal and made a few palyers turn their heads in dis-brief to what they were hearing! It is now a must win game for Mick and his future at the club.
There was no passion or pride in the team on Saturday and god only knows what formation they were meant to be playing as it was a complete shambles.
I have forked out £30 to go to Crystal Palace this coming Saturday. Am I mad to keep watching the rubbish currently being served up by the team? I must be!!!!
I do wish that he would just shut up and ship out.
Is Mr Morgan smiling in the above photo because he is holding MM’s P45 on the one hand, and Incey’s CV in the other?
While the quality of play for the first 20 matches or so was generally average, we at least picked up a decent number of points. In my view, it started to slide when MM criticed the fans for the frustration shown in the last 20 mins of the home match v Barnsley in November when the team seemed intent to throw Barnsley a lifeline in a match where Wolves should have been well out of sight. Then, remember MM´s statement around the WBA match of Wolves having developed so much since we met WBA last season, and after the WBA-match, it has been largely misery with the play more often than not being substandard. While sympathising with MM´s statements in this article, so much has happened this season (Craddock´s loan, Keogh & Elliott “different class”, S Ward “best ever signing”, lack of goals, not rectifying our slow defence before the season or during the transfer window apart from the signing of Elokobi, playing Henry on the right wing at home v Palac,e to name but a few)that I have little belief in MM´s ability to turn things around. The crunch point is that we are where we are in the table having spent £ 7 million since last season, with a terrible number of goals and hardly any comfortable league wins all season (one at home, v. an inept Norwich team), and - remember - having had Hennessy playing very well for most of the matches (where would we have been with a mediocre goalie?). Then, we go out of the FA Cup with the most useless of performances, in a situation where only 2 of other remaining 7 teams in the competition are “unbeatable”. Are we supposed to sit silently and watch this misery continuing??
Drop the deadwood, play Keogh and SEB up front, bring Jarvis and the other cup-tied players in to the side, drop Kyle all together!
‘Nuff said!
the excuses have already come out for tomorrow night!
“Tomorrow’s game is not a foregone conclusion - there is no such thing in this division. Scunthorpe were two-up at Stoke on Friday”
Give me a break. They are bottom of the league for a reason.
What do you think will happen if we lose or draw tomorrow night?
I’ve been offer hospitality, by a friend of mine, for Saturdays game at Crystal Palace.
I have yet to accept his kind offer as I refuse to be further humiliated by another inept performance.
Mick McCarthy’s “talents” are wasted on the Wolves.Why did R.O.I. dispense of his services?
He is more suited to the job of a roadsweeper!
Is there any truth that Sir Jack put clauses in the contracts that guarantee McCarthy’s/Moxey’s jobs?If I was Steve Morgan & this was the case, I’d employ the services of a good solicitor to find me a loophole.Failing this, send them on “Gardening leave” & get IN suitable replacements ASAP.
We’ve not looked like a very good team for long chunks of the season. At the back we’re one speed and I think we lack a leader in the team. However, in some ways Wolves are the Newcastle of the Championship. The fans expectations are so high that I think the players do get intimidated. I also agree that although Mick does say some daft things he is a good manager. I’m bored with us dumping managers. Dave Jones was forced out through fan impatience. We have to hold firm and give him time. It’s easy to say when you don’t fork out your hard earned to watch them though…
I think u’ll find that fans are not an OUTSIDE influence on the club mick. We are the club
I have been a big fan off MM - however now all faith is lost and that seems to be the feeling around the place..
i would leave him in until the end off the season then hopefully take Ince on!
I defied the ridiculous ticket situation on Saturday by standing in the Cardiff terracing. After 15 minutes I wished I had not bothered taking the risk or suffering the expense.
MM is losing it. No Jarvis - one of our most creative players - so we could have had a replacement in Jones, but we let him get cuptied. Craddock had not played in the first team for months, yet we played him with Breen - who had just been back for 1 game. George comes back in, but he has been poor this season and has travelled back from Africa. Then we had the prolific Bothroyd with Kyle up front. What a joke!
I am not saying he is definitely going to be our saviour but we need goals tomorrow. We must go with Ebanks-Blake, Keogh and Eastwood. Jones if Jarvis is not back and I would bring Little back, as Foley needs a breather.
The season is over if we don’t win tomorrow, get something from Palace and hopefully win at Preston. Avery tall order after the pathetic show on Saturday!
Mick,
You must show all the players the MANU match again Arsenal last Saturday. The Manu players didn’t let the opposition settle into any sort of rhythem. They closed them down quickly all over the pitch, gave them no space, tackled aggresively but fairly. That is how to win a match week in week out. Give the opposition no time and as little space as possible. That is what made Arsenal so ordinary even though the have excellent players.
If we are to move forward, we have to take a bloody big leaf out of that book!
Make them watch how its done and then tell them to get out there and DO IT!
Shocking season. Just about everything that has been tried has gone wrong and it is getting worse, much worse. This cannot be allowed to continue, we have pride, we have heart, we are WOLVES. Somebody must be held to be accountable for this debacle of a season, and the time is NOW while there is still some hope in the league to restore some pride and who knows even….. no I can’t even say it!
McCarthy said and I quote; “if at the end it’s not working and you have to end it then so be it.” Does that sound like someone who really cares passionately about his job. If we think he is not up to the job technically and he then loses any passion he might once have had then he has got nothing left to give.
That statement sounds like the last rites to me.
Team for tomorrow and the rest of the season:
GK: Hennessey
RB: Foley
LB: Gray / Elokobi
CB: Breen
CB: Craddock
RM: Jarvis
LM: Jones
CM: Olofinjana
CM: Edwards
ST: Keogh
ST: Ebanks-Blake
Sort it out Mick.
Apparently magic mick enjoys a great relationship with morgan and moxey,perhaps they all get together for tea and cakes on a regular basis.Enough is enough and if he isnt going to get sacked ,as morgan appears more interested in his foreign projects, he needs to be pushed.Surely a protest similar to the one at sheff utd would flush muppet mick and his sunderland dross back to the north sea where they belong.Posters on here and other fans generally agree that merlin has to go, so as fans isnt it time we united after the game to rid ourselves of this clown once and for all.People say scunthorpe is a must win?who cares if we beat woeful scunthorpe who are rock bottom,it will simply paper over the cracks.Get a new man in so he has the rest of the season to assess the squad instead of taking half of next season to realise how many of micks donkeys we need to be shot of.
After watching that shambles on Boxing day at Hull then Saturday’s performance must have been pretty awful to be the worst of the season.
This was so predicatable, we have beeen dire all season. Maybe those Muppet McCarthy lovers like 2468 can follow him in his next venture (when he is sacked) and leave us honest and passionate fans to our beloved club.
It really is time a decent appointment is made and Jez has proved he is not capable of such a thing. Time is running out for Muppet Mick and 2468, told you so ages ago - Muppet.
I have always liked Mick’s honesty and his straight talking style. I also think Morgan giving him a fair chance is good to see.
But do I think he is doing a good job as manager - no. Do i think the club should stick with him any longer - no.
I can’t remeber who wrote this song (before my time I think) but the chorus goes ‘you better go now, go now, go now’. McMuppet take the hint! You’ve lost the fans backing and after the weekends performance probably or hopefully a lot of the players. Only a miracle will save you now MM and even if we do make the play offs it will take a hell of a lot to win back the hearts of a great many of the fans
Well said 21 Brighton Wolf, MM is well past his sell by date, he had the good fortune last season to come into a club that was down on its luck and enjouyed brief success, got lucky with the Kitley signing and thats its. He’s now brought the club to its knees, brought in a load of dross that needs to be shipped out Potter, Breen,Ward, Elliott and Kyle to name but a few.
For God’s sake lets get rid now, wqrite off this season and get a nbew manager who can at least prepare for next years campaign. If not i fear a repeat of this season or maybe worse
Lets stop the incoherant blubbering and lets talk facts people shall we.
I am a big fan of MM,yes the team are playing very very poorly,yes he seems to have lost the plot.However in the context of the last season and half, all weve had is a very poor couple of months. This is also the same period we have been without probably our most influential players such as Kightly. MM had made some big errors with the forward line granted, and it appears very much a Eastwood V MM campaign within the crowd. Howver something must have gone on with him. All the other player seems to relate to MM there has to be something us fans are not aware of. Perhaps being honest with us may help ease the existing sitution( howver it may also affect his possible transfer fee when he goes)
Im as tagged of as much as anyone howver lets judge the guy after a full two seasons here. Most people will agree last year was by far the most enjoyable weve had in donkeys years.Mar Davies, Gleeson etc etc we can all bang on about,but theyre injured and have been for months. So get the fact before posting all the negative tosh.
I am not normally a pathetic “boo-boy” [as decent concerned fans are refered to these days], but in the light of an apparent unwillingness to take any action I am right behind a fans campaign as post 19 suggests. Let’s start tomorrow night. Nothing complicated a simple chant of McCarthy must go should do it.
i think that if morgan and moxey want the hard earned money of the wovles faithful then mick AND the back room staff have to go! mick did fantastic last season but this season has been a washout even though there,s still hope in october i said that mick should go and give someone with fresh ideas a chance if wolves don,t win tuesday then the fans will start mick out.(MICK GET RID OF THE BACK ROOM STAFF THAT HAVE GOT RID OF SO MANY MANAGERS BEFORE YOU IF YOUDO NOT WHAT TO END UP LIKE THEM)
Post 19 & 25:
As loyal fans, I cannot believe that you would lower yourselves to that sort of thing. I mean, chanting for Micks head, protesting even, it just seems pointless. Go tomorrow and support the team. By all means, vent your frustration if the team are not performing, but going in to it saying ‘no matter how we are doing, I will boo’ is stupid! We will never win anything with that attitude.
However, dont get me wrong, I’m just as disillusiioned as you are!
Sorry, steve (post 26)
Players urgently required by Wolves. Note to Football Agents, only put put your clients name forward if, they can put in a shift (skill levels not important), play out of position, played for Sunderland or Ireland, and if a defender must be one paced. Please note gifted Welsh goal scoring strikes should not apply. MM you have lost the plot!
Even if we DID make the play-offs I just could not see this team beating any of the top five in a ‘big pressure’ match. They do not seem to have the mental toughness required. It is VERY intimidating at Ninian Park and the atmosphere was electric. As soon as we kicked off players were panicking and slicing the ball everywhere. We need (at the very least) a strong leader who can put his foot on the ball and say ‘calm down and let’s quieten the crowd a bit’.
Am I wrong? I hope I am!
Come March 15th 2008 and the early bird season ticket sales are down, I wonder how quickly Messers Morgan & Moxey will ship Mad Muppet Mick out of the Molineux door…………….. This has got to be the most dire Wolves team in over 20 yrs…… certainly the worst back four in over 20 yrs……………. No Passion, No Fight, No Skill and No Idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who would take over if/when MM is gone?
Alladyce?
We as fans get wound up easy and need to have patience right now, expectation is probably too high, so we need to take each game as it comes and give our support or nothing will change.
Mick can still save our season, it’s just a matter of confidence with the players, Mick can only pick the team, it’s up to them to get stuck in or score the goals.
Come on Wolves! Now or never…
If we beat the mighty Scunny, who cares?????? Everyone is beating them.
I have to say Micks tactics and player positioning is bizarre and he hasnt worked it out yet that we cant score goals even with 7 strikers at the club that its a midfield problem!!
Defensively pathetic in recent weeks and goal scoring pathetic for best part of 2 seasons……….
Time for a change, Incey in.
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34 - Its not just a matter of confidence, its lack of quality and leadership. This doesnt change with luck.
reply 2 wombournewolf;
if you wont a team 4 rest of season who will wear shirt with pride and perform to their best, get ur team from the true wolves supporters who turn up game in/game out.
the present team av lost the plot.
MM’s shortcomings as a manager have been clearly exposed this season, lack of decisive tactical selections (particularly during a game), continually falling out with players while remaining loyal to journeymen players who will “put in a shift” and a newly found skill of spinning a succession of bad performances into a season of progression. My advice to McCarthy is to start taking responsibility for the mess that he has created and if he can’t do the honourable thing and move on. The same applies to Moxey - whose previous involvement resulting in the Cardiff fans being banned from Molineux - largely caused the Wolves fans to be treated like convicted criminals to get to the game on Saturday. There is a lot wrong with Wolves at the moment that could be made better by treating the fans with some respect rather than the contempt from the Club they currently receive.
So, the majority of bloggers want MM out. OK, but lets face facts then. As we are, with 14 games to go, WE STILL HAVE A CHANCE to make the play-offs. But by sacking MM now will give us two chances - FAT and NO. Come on guys, the glass is half full not half empty! Keep the faith.
The team at the end of last season, needed only a couple of young pacy central defenders and a little bit of fine tuning Unfortunately the manager as steadfastly refused to address
this obvious problem and a number of other bizarre decisions have made him unfit for the Molineux position. His after match comments where the straw that broke the camels back as far as I am concerned;where he appeared to exonerate himself from Saturday’s pathetic performance
36 IDLE IDLE IDLE ECT NO SKILL NO PRIDE
If wolves cant beat scunny then I am sorry there is no excuse. MM has to leave this club. No point in saying “its still to play for” the picture of Steve morgan in the E&S shows to me he aint best pleased with the garbage that was on show. Ian Rush I am sure will have a choice words in his ear…
MICK HAS TO BE SACKED!
PAUL INCE NEEDS TO BE THE NEXT MANAGER. To inject passion, drive, committment and develop a team of winners. After all he has played with the best and managed by the best!
MENTAL MICKY OUT!
I was fortunate enough to miss the Cardiff game but heard it on the radio, which was bad enough.I was amazed to see Kevin Kyle up front on his own and the general muddled thinking that seemed to permeate through to the players. It is no coincidence that the season seems to have taken a serious downturn since the exit of Taff Evans and the promotion of Terry Connor to asisstant. It’s win or bust tomorrow night for me. I have been patient with MM but that is now wearing thin. Too many games where we don’t create anything, too many games where we don’t score (I looked at our 32 league games the other day and FOURTEEN of them have ended without a goal scored by Wolves). Clearly, something is wrong with this team. The last 10 away games have yielded only 3 goals. Even Scunthorpe have scored more and they are bottom. The atmosphere is going to be dreadful tomorrow night, the longer we go without scoring. Something has got to give. I fear it will be MM’s job.
BYE Mick !
Colley Gate Wolf:
It was the only No1 by the Moody Blues:Go Now!
How very apt!
Stef from Bromley:
I’ve got to admire your optimism, but hopefully McCarthy,Connor & Moxey all on borrowed time.
Can i say to all those that call for a demo…..
You dont even make your voices heard in the groud. Lots of whingeing to the bloke sitting next to you, but thats it.
Alright, I wasnt at Cardiff, but I was at Blackpool and the games b4 that, and no chanting, no “Mick Must Go” etc etc
Could this be because in truth the majority of fans are grateful to Mick and want to give him a chance, and so the others sound off on the safety of the Web? A demo? Give me strength.
its so difficult to argue with all the above words he appears to buy players he likes instead of skill all these forwards and no goals
i am irish but sack the manager my dad would do a bettter job
Here we go you lot whinging again you lot only love the club when we win what about love them when we lose we are all hurting at the moment and dont say manager has to go… He puts the players on the pitch yes so it’s up to them they have to perform they are are the ones to hold respobsible so all you doom and gloomer put a sock in it…and yes i am a season ticket holder
I am sick of the pond life that feels it can dictate to the generally supportive majority who are prepared to be patient and watch a young Wolves team develop going through its inevitable ups and downs what ought to happen at Molineux. Their boos and catcalls discourage the team and lead to crises of confidence. My advice is to go and support someone else.
Decided to miss Cardiff on Saturday, and quite pleased about it ! But will be at Molineux on Tuesday and have a weekender booked to see us at palace. 2 very important games, my mind will be made up then ! But what i fail to understand is where is the passion, drive, energy and tactical nous of the team. It is almost that they are frightened of promotion, as they know they will not be able to hack it in a higher league. Hope Incey does well with MK Dons, may be our blessing in disguise.
It’s obvious where its all gone wrong this season. Look at last season…. Kightley on the right, MacIndoe on the left, loads of attacking options. This season Kites has been out 3 months (and counting) Jarvis has been missing for 3 months also.Henry, potter and seyi george couldn’t pass forward if they had to so its no wonder the forwards can’t score…. they get little or no service. Also agree with the backroom posts, as with other managers before, as soon as conner gets to working with the first team results start to fall off…Yet again we buy players who are great in their first 2 or 3 games then we systematically coach all the good points out of them!! how many times over the last 5 years have we seen that? Do yourself a favour Mick and fire Conner before he gets you fired like all those managers before you!!!
The comments which always annoy me contain the phrase ‘ as simple as that’!
If everything in life was as simple as writing on message boards, we’d all get bored. Managing any football club at any time is not simple. Changing managers, in the past, at Wolves has consistently lost us time and the President’s money.
Changing managers is too often the problem not the solution.
Support the Wolves, Keep the Faith
Why is the board still backing him How long will this go on IT IS US THE FANS THAT CAN STOP THIS DO A SHEFF U AND STOP GOING TO SEE OUR ONCE PROUD TEAM
there is obviously something wrong within the camp that we don`t know about.Until ambition is shown throughout the club I for one will never step inside molineux again.MM MUST GO NOW .AND TAKE SOME OF HIS SIDEKICKS WITH HIM INCLUDING MOXEY.
52. Agree totally.
There is something seriously wrong with our coaching.
Players come to us, play well then all of a sudden their performances go off a cliff.
Eastwood, Foley, Olofinjana to name a few.
Change the coaches not the manager albeit he may still be part of the problem….
Freddy fan 36 spot on why drop freddy when hed was banging in the goals and Championship player of the month. MICK OUT
I am sick and tired Of the rubbish coming from Molineux eg “patience” ,”lets be calm”,” we are making progress” etc etc .The longer we are in this division the harder it will be to get out.The players Mick are buying are not good enough.It really is a case of quantity over quality.
Mike (3) I tried to post the reason but the site will show it. On four occasions previously I have tried to raise the same issue but the site would not show it.
It seems there is heavy censureship here.
Mick, bring in an experienced first team coach, before it’s too late and you end up paying the price (if it’s not too late already). Given the way we are ‘playing’, the chancs of making the play off’s are extremely remote. The moment that becomes mathematically confirmed MM and his coach will be out, giving the new incumbent more than just the close season to seriously mount a challenge next year.
Can anyone confirm what mm’s annual wage is ?
Can anyone confirm what Jez Moxey’s annual wage is ?
Can anyone confirm that s Morgan puchased the trading rights to WWFC not the freehold ?
Does anyone know why M MacIndoe left the club, what was the real reason ?
The fans deserve answers
It would be nice if MM would come out and be honest about the Eastwood situation. Being a Southend girl, (no comments please lads) and a Wolves fan I have followed him for years. He can do it for us, but only if he is given a chance. I use to like MM, but now the team selection seems to have gone to pot. We have no shape, no desire and seem to have forgotten the basics. So what if we beat Scunthorpe tomorrow, they are the bottom of the league it means nothing, they are there for a reason. We will get behind the team, but it is so depressing. My early bird ticket renewal is staying in the drawer at the moment, can’t face the thought of next season.
61
Your questions are irrelevant and your name is offensive.
Are you boing-boing in disguise?
Oooooooo Brighton Wolf. Very touchy. Ain’t been able to get your hands on your partner today. Your the muppet my friend. You don’t know anything about being a proper supporter. You are the type who puts the shirt in the wardrobe when the writing is on the wall. Not me. I’ll wear the badge win lose or draw. I don’t moan, i just get on with it. I’m proud and always will be being a Wolves fan. Thats why i support who we have got at the min. If he goes, he goes. I’ll support the next and the next. Grow up and be an adult.
25billyquietwolf - you start out by saying lets stop this incoherent blubbering - then go on to talk complete rubbish.
It has not been a couple of months of bad form we have only won 2 of our last 13 league games, the same as Scunthorpe. Even before that we were playing really boring football and scraping 1-0 wins against the likes of Burnley and Preston. And we have struggled to score goals for 18 months now, hardly a short term problem.
You say we have been missing some of our most influential players and then go on to list one player. Are we saying that its ok to rely on one player.
The people who are still supporting McCarthy can congratulate themselves on their loyalty, but they are struggling to come up with any logical arguments any more.
Apparantly i need to do this according to Brighton Wolf. MM is a muppet. He is the worst manager we have ever had. I hope he goes and takes his backroom staff with him. Plus his rubbish ex players. I shout all the time at the team and make my fellow fans uncomfortable. This must now make me a passionate supporter. One of a kind. Nobody can doubt me now. What a •••• you are Brighton lol. C’MON WOLVES !!
61. Mcindoe stated that he was leaving to go to a club with more ambition - it looked really funny at the start of the season and raised a lot of laughs. Not so funny now is it?
What’s the difference between Wolves and Bristol City? Bristol no money, small stadium, relatively small fan base - good manager? Ooops just spotted the problem!
Well said wifey. Regardless of back room rivalries, Mick should be big enough to play his best team and that has got to include one Mr Eastwood. Give him 90 mins every game to the end and he will score goals.
i’ll post a serious comment now and stop bein stupid. I agree with most of the above. Its going to be so hard for MM to keep his job if we don’t turn the corner right now. It has been a mess i’m not denying that. It is a shame tho after last seasons journey. What a year it was. People forget that tho. Results do the talking and yes they have not been good enough. Is it all the manager tho when we do make silly silly mistakes like we have. They probably never do them in training. Lose or draw tomorrow then yes i think MM will go. UP THE WOLVES !
Well done Woo, regardless of what has gone on between Mick and Freddy, he should be big enough to pick the best team and that has got to include Mr Eastwood.
If Mick leaves, and he hopefully does sooner rather than later, it would probably leave us with one of the fololowing candidates:
Ian Dowie
Steve McClaren
Chris Coleman
Paul Ince
Sam Allardyce
I could find candidates that I would prefer more than those, but I think those are the ones we would be left with.
MM can’t put goals in the back of the net, changing him will do nothing!!
When competitive football resumed in England in 1946/47, the English International Stan Cullis played just one more season for Wolves in which the club once again narrowly missed out on a first league title. He then announced his retirement due to injury and was appointed assistant to manager Ted Vizard, after having made 171 appearances in total for the club.
In June 1948, aged just 31, Cullis became manager of Wolves and presided over the most successful era in the club’s history.
For Cullis, read Ince. He is in the same mould and has proven he can manage as well as coach and play. Let’s start having some fun again! I am fed up of all this misery!
OUT OF DARKNESS COMETH LIGHT - PAUL INCE!
The majority of the fans arent happy clappers like you post 50 ,you fool.You really are too thick for words if you think micks “young players” as you put it will be anything other than pub quality carp in 5 ,10 or however many years you want us to continue watching this horror show.MICK OUT ASAP
fed up almost as low as when the bhatts nearly killed us off,were is our next win coming from eastwood he’ll be on the bench if lucky kightly out the rest of this season one or two new signing’s waste of money again,if all the fed up like myself boycotted the match tomorrow then it just might wipe that scouse smug smile off morgans face,and he just might wake up and smell the coffee before it’s our coffin.
Looks like we’ve got the 3 wise monkeys!
MM = Hear no evil
JM = Speak no evil
SM = See no evil
Is MM telling the fans to “put up or shut up” he’s lost my respect now. Managers and owners come and go but we still remain!
i have worked in football for more years than i care to remember and on many continents and i have never heard football supporters of a club described as “outside influences” they are an integral part of any club,its life blood in fact, perhaps this arrogance is part of McCarthy’s failure and of course his lack of tactical nous and player selection.
I am a really fed up season ticket holder, I can take no more……. The imbeciles, knuckle draggers, chavs and miserable old dour depresants that follow wolves in the name of supporters really hack me off, what do they expect? Do you really think our squad on paper is a top three side - get a grip lads. Ok MM has lost the plot but we are within a sniff of the play offs! Get behind the lads and SUPPORT for god sake
stuborn,arrogant,poor man management.daft team selections,boring defensive football,weird obsession with 3rd rate irish/sunderland players.worst manager in my 40odd years as a supporter.nothing more to say- goodbye and take that parasite moxey with you.
How do you know that savage 74. You done an official poll at the stadium and round the country wherever Wolves fans shall be. I don’t think you have, have you ??? Your just taking the word of about 200 or so fans who come on here and to be fair the comments of most are very productive but some just go on and on about Eastwood, MM and Moxey etc etc. It gets boring. If you don’t like it then don’t go. Simple as that. It’s not rocket science. You have no right to call someone a fool just because they have a different opinion than yourself. C’MON WOLVES !!!!!!
All you boo boys would be better going else where. Leave Molineux to those who will SUPPORT the team. What Morgon does with his money is up to him, just as it is your choice whether to spend yours going to watch Wolves.
There is not a lot to replace MM with. Only a complete fool could imagine Allerdyce accepting the job. Why would Ince want to come here, to a small time club with an over inflated view of itself? McClaren would be a disaster, too set in his ways, and Dowie iss MM Mk II.
FOR CHRIST`S SAKE PLAY FREEDIE EASTWOOD OR I WILL FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO DO WITH MY HARD EARNED MONEY.LAST CHANCE OR AFTER MORE THAN THIRTY SIX YEARS SUPPORT I AM FINISHED WITH YOU LOSERS.
MM should have gone months ago! We just aint got the right manager for these players to be really good. But I think there are some players that need to get rid of:
Bothroyd
Elliot
Breen
D. Ward
Foley
Olifinjana
We need to get rid of mm and fast because he is downheartening the players i mean take eastwood. He was scoring loads at the start of the season and then mm has to go and have a go at him. I mean what kind of an idiot of a manager would have a go at a player who scored summat like 5 in 4 games. Just show how crap mm really is!!!!Bye bye mick!!!!
Hi Sue D’Nimm ( 59 ) ,
Thanks for trying and I presume that you are aware of the reasons that I fail to understand . In my opinion MD is the best player to come from the academy since Robbie Keane and , although he has been injured , it seems starnge that he hasn’t had a first team start for almost 2 seasons . This time also coincides with MM being the manager and I feel that there must be something between the two of them but may well be totally wrong . It is strange that most of our young players have been shipped out on loan without ever being given a chance and I also feel that this fact MUST have had something to do with Chris Evans leaving . I can only continue to try and find the reason for what is behind many of the strange decisisons that come out of the club .
Down the road here in sunny Sandwell we are laughing at you lot!Thats right-LAUGHING.You lot are a joke,MM in, MM out, MMin, MMout, you get the team you deserve as supporters,and you lot aint got a clue.Dont need to compare our results,we scored 5 on Saturday without breaking sweat.You lot are a laughing stock-keep it up eh!
ref post 25 billyquiet…..
you must be watching a different wolves team to the rest of us then if you think we have had a poor couple of months unless your maths is poor and you think a couple is 4?
we have only performed in one half of a few matches this season, mick did well last season, but he has been given a lot of funds to strengthen the team but i fail to see where this has been improved from last season! foley is my exception but his performances have dipped the last two months.
its has to be down to tactics,team selection and coaching - only one man responsible for that… mick!!. yes we miss kites but wolves are a team we should not be reliant on one player!
we are where we are because that is how good our team is under the present regime…. mid table and no better
63. Sorry you are not happy, I could have called myself, “something wolf” or “wolf something” but no, I wanted to reflect the negative fans in the Billy Wright upper. But tell the truth,Ive never really liked Solihull, but would prefer to keep my comments to myself. I ve never liked WBA, but to be accused of being a “boing-boing” is as funny as this football season has been. My questions are aimed at the idiots who run wwfc and the current mess we are in. If you dont like concerned fans, well I dont really care !
We believe that some of the key issues of this seasons demise are somewhere amongst this little lot:
1) the exit of McIndoe - although some will say he wanted to go - do we really know why - because before the season started Wolves would appear to be a better bet than Bristol City or is there more to it - anyone know anything out there?
2)Our list of injuries - we can remember Spurs had similar “casualty list” until George Graham became Manager and sorted out the real wounded from the “actors” or if genuine injuries , Is it down to the lack of quality in the medical and fitness teams, anyone any ideas/ info?
3) Tactics or serious lack of tactics - Is this down to MM or is it down to TC or formerly Taff Evans anyone have a clue?
4)Why has the centre half positions been so neglected, when last season showed that we seriously need centre halfs with some pace as Breen and Craddock are not getting any younger and seriously lack pace
5) MM stated that we had filled our quota of strikers and gave this as a reason for not going back in for a certain Ishmael Miller from Man City (before he went in for SEB and then Kyle)
MM stated that acquiring Freddie had filled his quota for strikers?
Lets see I Miller Vs K Kyle - No contest - any thoughts?
There are definately many more that we’ve missed but these will do for starters, especially the centre halfs - Interested to know anyones thoughts?
UP THE WOLVES!
George who, Elokobi? Who does he play for then?
72 MM can’t put goal in the back of the net, but he can pick a team that will… currently his team selections are a safer bet for defeat than victory
Wolves Calm?
In my house there is nothing but anger and frustration. How much longer do we have to put up with this agony?
Get us a manager with some class, not just a “safe pair of hands”, we have had enough of them!
Use the cheque book and get us Paul Ince!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Mr Morgan sack the muppet NOW! and bring back the governor who will put pride back into our club.PAUL INCE GO BLACK ARMY
For all you “happy clappers especially you 2468, you lot keep going on about last season. Well let me remind you about last season, mighty muppet had to play our youngsters, he had no choice, and our youngsters played for the shirt, with passion and pride…. Now move on a season mighty muppet has spent 7 million on his own players along with that donkey kyle and look what happens,, I’m sorry but we have not had one game this season when you can say “Wow what a game that was I really enjoyed that”…..
What else to say …. Oh yes MUPPET OUT!!!!
If we don’t win at home tonight against arguably the weakest team in the league then MM has to go its as simple as that if not then there is only one way in which we are heading and that’s down to league one.
The fans have had enough of all the excuses under the sun and if the board are happy with the very mediocre performances we have dished up of late then maybe its time they packed their bags as well as they are obviously more interested in their own livelihood rather than the WWFC.
why don’t we do something different and stick with the manager for a while eg (copple bruce warnock curbishley)
Northlondon Wolf, i understand what u are saying my friend. I agree with it totally. The football has been poor and i’ve agreed that if we draw or lose tonight MM will most probably go. All i’m sayin is its disappointing after last season. We all enjoyed the ride. This is the only bad time at the club MM has had at the club i think. I’m not a happy clapper either like some of u think. I just think that shouting abuse etc is not on. I just support who is at the club as we are Wolves together. It doesn’t mean i’m happy but we are all in it. I pay money for my s.ticket like most of u but does me not being all hostile toward the situation make me a bad fan ? Surely not. Like i’ve said tho north london, i do understand. UP THE WOLVES !
Swiss Baggie 86. I don’t know how old you are, but judging by your standard of writing and grammar, I would have to guess that you are still at primary school. Baggie fans are always welcome here, but do try and post something of a decent standard.
Calm down boys and girls. It’s only a game! Just 22 fellas kicking a bag of wind around. That’s all!
78 - MM & several of the players declared at the dawn of the season that they felt our squad was good enough to achieve automatic promotion. And we are NOT “within a sniff of the play-offs”. Fans can “SUPPORT” til they`re blue in the face - it won`t make any difference if the team hasn`t got the bottle or the ability to win matches.
you will beat relegation certanties scunthorpe 5-0 tonight no problem mick will then be great again and all you harbingers of doom will go away and sulk until saturday, when you may suffer a narrow defeat at the hands of that other idiot warnock where mick will once again lose his merlin tag to have it replaced by his mong tag, you lot need to make your minds up
People saying he should be sacked are insane. Wolves should have been fighting for relegation last season.
Wolves massively overachieved, a point which cannot be emphasised enough. Wolves overachieved on a scale of epic proportions.
This year, so called “fans” should stop and think about where the team was before MM came in. He’s building a team, in football there are no quick fixes. A manager needs at least 5 years. Not even the worlds best with tons of money can do it all in 18 months.
So to all you so called fans, SHUT THE HELL UP AND BACK THE TEAM, OTHERWISE, BACK OFF! AND DONT COME TO GAMES.