Tuesday’s postponed game against Scunthorpe reminded me of an old episode of “The Simpsons” writes Wolves blogger Nathan Lloyd.
Bart (Simpson) has an exam on Colonial America coming up, but hasn’t done any revision and prays to God that something will happen to make him miss school the next day so he can have more time to study.
That night, Springfield is hit with a massive blizzard and the schools are closed, giving Bart the time he craves for, which he fails to utilise and flunks the test anyway.
With fans emotions running as high as they are, did Mick pray for a similar thing to happen at Molineux?
With tricky trips to Crystal Palace and Colchester to follow, I doubt he did.
I would have thought that Scunthorpe, currently the Championship’s bottom club, would have been the ideal antidote to our current woes.
It could be that by the time we face Southampton at home on March 4, that Mick’s position at the club could be even more precarious than it currently is, although it would seem precarious only amongst the loyal fans and not with the club.
And we all know just how well this team play against Southampton at Molineux.
The players seem to be well aware of the unrest amongst the majority of the Wolves fans, with a different player coming out almost daily to state that they understand that the pressure is on to turn things around.
Who knows whether this is a PR exercise by the club to try and appease the fans or perhaps some of the players really do care?
Talking of PR; Jez Moxey came out with the dreaded vote of confidence this week for the manager and stated that he is perplexed about questions regarding MM’s future at Wolves.
Sorry Jezza old pal, but if you were actually a footballing chairman, like Ray Ranson down the road at Coventry, you might realise that the majority of football this season has been appalling.
Yes we probably over-achieved last season, but I’m getting a little bit bored with hearing that statement.
This season, Mick really had something to build on, but his catalogue of errors has meant he has gone from hero to zero in mine and I think quite a lot of Wolves fan’s affections.
I have listed them plenty of times in my blogs, so apologises for going over old ground, but lets just have a quick recap of Mick’s mistakes this season; Stephen Ward on the left wing, Karl Henry on the right wing, Neill Collins as left back, Craddock to Stoke, Freddy ignored, moving Keogh to the wing when he finally starts scoring goals as a striker, not buying a centre back, more strikers at the club than Scargill in the 80s, not giving Jones, Gleeson, Little, Rosa or Davies a chance, not looking at the league until May and finally Kevin Kyle.
I’m bound to have missed out a load more, so please feel free to state your own below.
The point is that Jez Moxey may be astute when it comes to running the finances of the club, but I’m sure his footballing knowledge leaves a lot to be desired.
And then Steve Morgan finally breaks his silence and imparts his view on how the season has gone and the criticism that Mick has got.
Morgan blames this season of inadequacies not on McCarthy’s obvious downfalls but instead on a young squad and a barrage of injuries.
He can’t quite make his mind up though, because he also states that we have a big squad and have had some disappointing performances.
Well surely every team suffers injuries and squad players should be of a high enough standard to come in and be close to the level of the player they are replacing?
And I know he is only trying to rally the troops when he (Morgan) says that we should get behind the team rather than booing and berating them.
But the football has been so bad this season that I don’t think the fans can just blindly carry on supporting a team and management that has so badly lost their way.
And I get the feeling that Morgan isn’t a massive McCarthy fan either. He has refused to be drawn on whether Mick will be here in the summer.
We have a big squad and Mick is failing to get the best out of them.
This season we have had to endure one dire underperformance followed by another.
We have seen bewildering match day team selections and extremely poor judgement from Mick when it comes to choosing the right area of the team to strengthen in the January transfer window.
I for one am sick of all the spin and excuses coming from the management, the players and the board at the club.
I’m sick of Mick sending last year’s good young players on loan.
Stephen Gleeson has just gone to Hereford, where no doubt he will shine and then come back to sit in the reserves.
Why can’t someone at the club just be honest and say that for whatever reason, this season has just been awful.
Did somebody say “Early Bird”?
We might only be lying seven points outside the playoffs, but that really doesn’t tell the story of our season.
In terms of quality, this is one of the worst Championships I can remember for a long time.
It should have been the perfect opportunity for us to take the bull by the horns and gain the promotion we all so badly crave.
So with 14 games of the season left, many of which are against better placed teams than us, can we still do it?
Without wanting to sound negative, I don’t think we’ll get in the top 6 come May.
And I don’t want Mick to be here next season.
Good luck to the boys down at Selhurst Park this weekend.
Prove to us all that you are good enough to wear that shirt.
Wolves fans have your say below
90 Comments
Doh!
Lets just get behind the lads on saturday who ever is going.Its a long journey to Palace so lets turn the trip into a good one by celebrating 3 points and cheer who ever MM picks.
Lets stop all this negativity
Come on me babies!
Robbo,
The negativity has come from the manager and the board this season. The fans, I think, have been very realistic.
I for one would like a more dynamic manager than the dour northern monkey we have at the moment.
Thanks Mick for an exciting 2nd half to last season but now it’s time to walk away and give the reigns to someone who won’t discard good young players for his old has-beens.
Nath, cheer up mate, have you gone for the longest blog of the season award??
Loved the Simpsons bit, (maybe you should get out more??) and i was almost feeling sorry for you.
Tuesday night really was in keeping with your sorry woes, but just spare a thought for two Scunny fans who did not know the game was off until they got off the train at Wolves. One had driven back down to Scunny from Edinburgh Monday night so that he could meet his mate Tuesday lunch time and catch the train to Wolves. Total cost £131, they stayed for a drink in Wolverhampton and when returning to the train station stopped at the cash point, to which they were duly mugged of their wallets!!!
Welcome to Wolverhampton, your teams going down, there is no game, now give us all your money.
Still depressed??
I bet their train journey back was fun!!!
hey bro, yet another quality blog. Good call on the simpsons
agree that mm has to be replaced. But it will probably be a similar level manager who will end up in the same situation in 2 years time if not earlier. Who has the final say when a manager is interviewed anyway?
I want to see Steve Morgan get his own manager.
The squad isn’t balanced, we have both wingers injured and no midfielders that MM thinks is good enough to replace them, so he plays Steven ward, keogh, henry, elliot boothroyd out wide and it doesn’t work. We have to many strikers and central midfield players at he club.
on the edge at the moment if MM picks a striker to play wide on Saturday that might tip me over the edge. Lets pick midfield players to play in midfield, and striker’s to play up front. Kyle or Keogh will have to be dropped, I say drop Kyle and play Keogh and SEB up front. Play Gibson wide with Jarvis. Henry and Edwards in the middle, Ekobi, Breen, Ward, Foley at the back. im not Knocking Kyle I think has done ok, just that we have better Goalscorers already at the club.
Craddock aint fully fit Eastwood on the bench.
good blog
another strange decision - after finally recalling daniel jones where is he?
he came on as sub, was pretty solid then all sudden he doesnt make subs bench
is he injured?
nathan,
another good blog…. i think you have summed up the feelings of most wolves fans.. we have had ENOUGH of this season, ENOUGH of players and moxey comments… and I can’t wait to be put out of our misery…
i for one also completly agree with the issues of loaning out our “young” players who did so well for us last season..little etc… thought we were supposed to have a “young” team?
BUT, there is always another year….
4 - Wolfbane… Who are the old has beens??? i think the problem with us this season is the fact Breen and Craddock have missed 75% of the season. We have had no experience, no leaders to get us through the sticky patches we have had. For me personally i would much rather see an Alex Rae, Paul Ince type player than a Karl Henry who just has not got the quality to play for wolves. I dont believe this young and hungry policy will get us anywere and expecially if he carries on buying this ex sunderland rubbish. We have 1 striker in Freddy who the Wolves have been missing since the Bull, Kenny Miller eras, he is a natural goalscorer who has done the job at every other club he has been at. I just dont understand why Mick wont give him a chance!!!!
Roll on the end of the season.
Hopefully we can get rid of Mick then and get ready for next year.
Once we have added a good speedy center half and some creativity in the center of the park I think we have the squad to go up.
We just need a manager to play the best players then.
Hey guys - don’t have a cow man !
4 - nowt wrong with dour northern managers - look at ours !!
6. MK Bro
You alright mate? That episode was from 1990! How old does that make you feel?
4. Wolfbane Says…
“I for one would like a more dynamic manager than the dour northern monkey”
Sounds like a well thought out reason for getting rid of McCarthy but very none-PC!
What part of the country would you like our next manager to come from?
Sorry I’ve probably twisted what you said to my own advantage so that I can make you look a bit daft!
Any thoughts (Now SJH has left) on the next manager of Wolves being a Foriegn manager! I would personaly like to see Mr P Ince, but maybe A Mr Houllier or Tigana, duno thoughts….
*stands up applauding*
Spot on. Completely agree with everything you have said nathan.
Last season we had two quick wingers delivering a constant stream of crosses into the box- a winger system.
It actually makes me enraged that we have played a winger system all season- WITHOUT TWO WINGERS!!
we have two left wingers in the squad in Jones and Gleeson…. but mick didn’t buy them.
Stephen “find of my managerial career” Ward was good when he was played in his actual position last season, this season mick has ruined his
credibility by playing him out of position.
it took mick half the season to finally play jarvis for long enough to find his form.
keogh, gibson, henry, elliot, bothroyd, POTTER!! all good in there natrual positions NOT ON THE WING!!!!!!!
Mick too many mistakes. Gleeson being allowed out on loan is the final nail in the coffin for me.
Bye Bye very soon
mick can eat my shorts…
Summed up very nicely Nathan.
Seems like most Wolves fans are on the same page - (aka the real world) so any ideas on effective measures we, the fans, can take to expedite the removal of this incompetent fool?
Took the words right out of my mouth Nathan. I used to be a real McCarthy fan. Being an Irishman I was thrilled to have him take over the reigns. This season he’s brought in his mates from Sunderland and Ireland and abandoned the youngsters that performed so well last season. Never thought I’d say this but I hope he goes soon. We’ve have a potentially great squad but it needs to be guided by the right management team. I think a clearout in the coaching/management staff is necessary. Then the mediocre players McCarthy brought in should be sold and replaced.
In a reply I wrote the other day i am now being put down as a boo boy, far from it I have supported the Wolves through thick and thin and never reacted by booing the team.
My clear the deck comment was directed at MM and his team of managers not the players although some clearly are not good enough for this division so god help us if we had been good enough for promotion. If promotion had been achievable how many of this current squad would have made the grade. Its not me that should get real its you guys out there that accept the inept week in week out performances we have watched this year.
It is my choice to stay away purly because we are so shambolic I have taken advantage of the early bird for as long as it has been there for us all but can you honestly see any light at the end of the tunnel whilst Mad Mick is in charge. It time you lot that call me a boo boy woke up and smelt the coffee, change is needed or real fans like me will stay away not to return. The average gate this year has dropped although the stats show they havent, its only the season tickets sold that keep the numbers up, look around the place and see the gaps we may have brought tickets but how many have already said enoughs enough.
Time for change in the Managerial team.
I myself was also an advocate of MM until very recently, particularly as he has brought in more quality young players than several of our previous managers put together (cases in point - Kightly, Foley, Keogh, SEB, D Edwards, Elokobi, Eastwood). He also (last season) gave a chance to some of our own crop of talented youngsters (Little, Gobern, D Jones, Hennessey, Gleeson). However, he has also brought in too many mediocre players for my liking (Collins, S Ward, D Ward, Potter, Henry, Kyle) and simply doesn’t seem to acknowledge that a lot of the poor performances this season are down to his own team selection, lack of player motivation, poor tactics etc. He is a stubborn bloke and this will most likely contribute to his own downfall. Whilst last year we celebrated his dour demeanour as being ‘down-to-earth’, we now chastise him for the same reason.. even if we go on a winning run between now and May (and nothing we have seen thus far this season suggests this will happen) and win the play-offs we will be in line for an absolute demolition in the Premier league. We therefore need to bring a dynamic young manager with a genuine affection and affiliation for the club.. step forward Mr Ince.
Referring to the point you made about MM’s errors, I have to agree, thats one hefty list and there are additions you could make! I think you missed the whole ‘different class’ & Stephen Elliot farce.
Ah well, as Morgan said a few days ago, only 14 gams to go, so it would not hurt for the remainder of the season, to get behind the lads!
I have been disappointed (to say the least) by the poor performances churned out this campaign, particularly following last seasons heroics. But I am not one to live in the past, and I dont believe Mick, Jez or the players should refer to that either, something they have done on a regualr basis. If those players could do it then, why cant they do it now?? Thats the key question! Do they have the mental strength? I guess time will tell.
Can I draw to everyone’s atention that we have hardly played our ‘full strength’ team this year with the injuries in defence and the cup games. lets see what they do on Saturday when Micks choices are all together and Breen is back.
Yes, Nathans list of so - called ‘mistakes’ is one I would subscribe too but maybe there is a reason beyond the notion of Mick only picking his favourites. I for one would like to know his reasoning on these decisions and a lot of upset is caused by him not explaining to us fans.
However for goodness sake lets give the guy his second season before passing judgement. Remember Furguson at MU and what happened there and the eventual rewards that club received after showing patience and giving support when it was needed.
So Nathan does not like Mick in control and that’s his opinion and he’s welcome to air it. I’ve seen quite a few good performances this season and a number of times only sloppy finishing cost us points. the general play was good. There is a lot to build on.
The recent signings are all coming together now and I predict that the teasm will begin to thrive and when that happens I’m sure Nathan will be the first to own up and say that he was wrong.
A result on Saturday would be the first step to recovering the season and I have a hunch Mick and the lads will not let us down
The choice of manager is always the most important decision the Club has it to ever make. Sadly, the Wolves Board have failed to make good decisions ever since Graham Turner was sacked. The long suffering fans have paid the price for these poor decisions by having their expectations raised and then follows bitter disappointment when reality strikes. Its about time we had some board members who understand football. Shame that Sousness’s bid failed last year.
Nathan,
These are sentiments echoed by many of the trusting Wolves fans. We deserve better that we are getting at present. MM, either prove us wrong or pack your bags.
Nathan - the other side to your Scunthorpe story is that Morgan and Moxey knew that the pressure on them to sack McCarthy if we had not beaten Scunny would have been enormous. So maybe everyone was happy to avoid that risk and not have the match played.
With regard to injuries I really don’t think we can claim to have been that unlucky. Clearly Kightly has been a big miss but given the number of midfield players and strikers at the club we should be in a better position to cover injuries than any other club in this division. With regards to the defence, the fact that Craddock and Breen remain our best centre back partnership just shows how badly we have done in the transfer market.
What our bad season boils down to is poor tactics and team selection and some bizarre work in the transfer market - all of which you have to hold McCarthy to blame for.
Spot on blog.
Couldnt agree more–well said.
If Kevin Kyle starts on Saturday, Mick should be sacked at half time.
24. E11Wolf said…
“Remember Ferguson at MU and what happened there and the eventual rewards that club received after showing patience and giving support when it was needed.”
Can someone PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE come up with another example of a manager being given time!
25. wolfski
I think that Dave Jones was a good choice for manager and proved it by winning promotion to the Premiership. The only manager to do so in the last 30 odd years?
29. abdonwolf.
Yes you are right - but that was more luck than judgement. The Board failed to support Dave Jones in the premiership and eventually sacked him - another poor decision.
One of the best blogs yet. Like the bit about the Simpsons.
Next manager who comes into this club could be the most crucial one in years.
Do all you wolves fans think that now is the right time to sack MM?
Can you see someone coming in between now and the end of the season and doing a better job then what MM can do?
If big Jez was to sack him now who would take charge, Terry Conner, God help us! How long would it take to get in a new manager 2-3 weeks (at the earliest) after we have lost another 4 games hovering above relegation.
He has to have till the end of the season then judge MM. If we don’t make playoff’s then sack him, but support him till May at least!
Nathan I think you have summarised the season to date very well and although there are many who will disagree purely because they just cannot bring themselves to admit the failings of McCarthy, nonetheless you are correct! A well written blog.
No.24, E11 Wolf, Nathan has covered your point about “we have hardly played our ‘full strength’ team this year and that cannot be an excuse for the drab and dire performances of the team, reserves are there to be utilised which McCarthy for the most part chose to ignore! Furthermore though, if those reserves or indeed any others are not up to the job in question, the manager should ship them out asap and replace them accordingly, which again was not done!
As for Steve Morgan’s comments this week, it is indeed interesting that at no time did McCarthy’s name gain a mention, hopefully this means a change of manager by the seasons end, which will make me a very happy man! I then hope we hear the words at the next press conference in May or June ” Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome the new manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club…. Mr. Paul Ince!” The future will THEN become old gold and black and not old, cold and crap as it is now!
NathanWolves
I think everyone is in agreement that we need a change of management. I would wait until we are mathmatically safe and then ditch the clueless Merlin to bring a manager in who have a bit of time to look at what we have, and then go out in the transfer window in the summer and strengthen.
I can’t go on watching the dirge at Molineux this season.
Nathan it would be nice to sack McCarthy now but the thought of Connor being left in charge beggars belief but how about this for a thought and its a radical one …. bring in a football director to WORK WITH McCarthy! This would bring about 1 of 2 results, either MM would work with the director and then hopefully results and performances would improve OR McCarthy would sling his hook in annoyance and save us having to give him compensation! If we can bring in loan players, why not a manager to assist with the team etc? Food for thought anyone?
CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP !!!
Bravo Nathan another negative “article”
Man you are the most whingiest fan ever, are you another one who blames Mick & Jez ?
I blame fans like you for our poor form, always Booing ex-Sunderland or Irish players, having a pop at Mick for not playing Freddy & ect.
What a tool you really are !!!
32. NathanWolves
I think it will be right to sack him when it is impossible to reach the play off places, that way Wolves will be seen to have done the right thing.
If it is possible to bring a new man in then it would be good for them to have a look at the current crop of players before the summer.
However, that might prove difficult with the likes of Ferguson or Ince as they will be entering crucial phases with their current teams. Not so difficult if it is a manager not in a job.
!!! (chig,chig,chig)
You’ve obviously not been to Molineux this season with comments like that.
It certainly isn’t the fans fault that Mick picks the wrong side week after week. It certainly isn’t the fans fault that he has bought so many poor players to the club, Kevin Kyle being the latest.
Fans are just desperate for some decent football.
Moron.
!!! (chig,chig,chig)
So tell me, exactly how is Nathan supposed to put a positive spin on what is happening at Wolves at the moment?
We are dreadful at the moment and we have a creaky defence and a misfiring strikeforce. Not to mention players playing out of position in midfield.
Tell me wise sir, what should the blog be about, name the positives?
No.9 Abdonwolf - I am on your side so please hear me out and read on! How about Dario Gradi from Crewe, a fine example of being given time, 22 years and 1 month to be exact (he is currently in hospital recovering from heart surgery but otherwise still their manager)! Now the question I ask everyone who keeps quoting ‘give McCarthy time’ is this, here is a man who has been given time, all 22 years of it and what has been achieved in those 22 years? For those who like stats (taken from Wikipedia), played 1235, wins 460, draws 474, lost 301, success rate 37.25%! OK Crewe are not one of the worlds greatest clubs but there are the facts and not world shattering are they? (If you want to investigate further please do).
So give McCarthy time, how much time … 22 years maybe?
40. James
Sorry to be a pain, but Dario is now the Technical Director, he moved upstairs in July 07.
Steve Holland is in charge of full time affairs.
I get your point though, Dario almost had a conveyer belt of talent coming out of Crewe.
Times up for Mick though he couldn’t spot talent if it bit him on his stubborn backside.
as for karl henry not being good enough i have an interesting story to tell
at the stoke game i was sitting next to these 2 women and they started laughing when karl henry would get the ball
i duly started expressing my views with him
and they turned to me and said they went to school with karl
and guess what
he couldn’t even get into their school team
no joke
oh well, love him for his passion
but he is utter crap
24-Abdonwolf, Sorry, but this will not be a short one again. How about Steve Coppell at Reading, Paul Jewell at Wigan, Sam Allardyce at Bolton, Harry Redknapp at Portsmouth (first time) as examples of patience from boards? All of these were around when we were in the same division. All went on to get their clubs promoted, after they were shown patience by their club owners. In the Premier League, David Moyes at Everton has yo-yo’d up and down the table with Everton. They are now reaping rewards for patience. (Possible top 4 and already in the last 16 of the UEFA Cup.) They have had good seasons and bad seasons under Moyes, and not continually upwards. (Sound familiar?)
To everyone, no one would believe Mick hasn’t made mistakes. He has bought well mostly though, and we are well set for the future. Like it or not, injuries have not helped. Had Jarvis and Kightly been fit at the same time would he not have played them? With Kights out, he has had Gobern and Davies injured as well, either of whom could have stepped in on the right. Sure he could have played Jones on the left, and Jarvis on the right when he was fit. I don’t know why he didn’t, but I trust he had good reasons for that.
With a lot of young players in a squad you need a few older heads. We have lost our experienced players, such as Craddock, Breen and Gray for periods. we also lost Oli for a while. People are saying we should have brought experienced players in to cover for them. How do you know who we tried and failed to sign? How big a squad do we want exactly? I am not blindly following the manager. He hasn’t always made sense on some decisions. I have played sports at a high level though,(Rugby League)and know that the fans will never find out the whole truth on certain decisions. If you give all of the news to your own fans, you are also giving it to the opposition managers that will be playing you next, or in the near future. Do you think that they don’t read the internet sites? Do you think that they don’t know that by getting an early lead you get our fans having a go at the players and manager.
I am a self-confessed optimist, but it still hurts me when we lose. I can understand people being frustrated and hurt, but I believe we need patience. If Mick hasn’t taken us to a decent place in the league by December I believe he should then go. Promotion this season would be too early I feel for many of the youngsters we have. A flirtation in the play-offs would be a fair expectation though, and an automatic spot next season. By next season’s end our youngsters should be that much more experienced, and should hold their own when they go up. I agree that Mick has to start using our own youngsters though, rather than bringing in the likes of Gibson, etc. I personally believe Davies and Gleeson are better prospects.
40. James Rees, Cannock
Thank you, a new name and a very fine manager too a lot like John Rudge!
I wasn’t for a minute trying to say that continuity of management is a bad thing, all you need is the right man in the first place.
McCarthy and Moxey are bringing disunity to the club, to get behind the team you need to believe in the team and the management. There are far too many fans that no longer believe and no amount of spin is going to change that!
Now or at the end of the season makes little difference but he will be gone!
Abdonwolf, 40, I was not criticising just using your question as a means of explaining a point. You are quite right regarding the the disunity of the club and about the departure of McCarthy and for me the sooner the better!
Hello Brereton!
I see you even have your own song now!
Steve Coppell at Reading, Paul Jewell at Wigan, Sam Allardyce at Bolton, Harry Redknapp at Portsmouth.
Thats five now, perhaps we can move on from Ferguson?
I would love any of the above, we nearly got Redknapp once, just think where we would have been now if we had!!
As I have said on numerous posts, I am not against Managers being given time. I just want a quality manager to be given time, like the above!
You can write as many words as you like but actions count louder than words. All you have to do is look at what’s going on on the pitch to realize that McCarthy is not going to be remembered as a good manager!
45. James Rees, Cannock
I know you weren’t criticizing, I didn’t take it that way, I am sorry if my post suggested that I did!
I love footballing posts and stimulating argument, like Brereton, even though we are on opposing sides!
It is just the mindless happy clappy in mick we trusters but don’t know why’ers, that get up my nose!
Agree with 36 the fans have been negative all season and have not helped matters at all. It is another poor article Nathan, stop typing such pointless drivel.
We have had injuries but remember we had fans backing the team all last season unlike this season
I agree with 48.
Nathan is far too negative. This season has been pretty good and we are doing well in the league.
I haven’t been to any matches but I’m sure the level of football is good as well.
Mike McCarthy is a brilliant manager and you lot don’t know you are born.
Pretty much the same blog as all the others. You criticise the players for coming out and saying the same thing yet you do it week in week out.
Blogger out!
Negative Nancy
My sides are spliting !!!
Missed 1 home game all season , unlike your armchair self
I back the manager, players & board no matter what.
The way you dingles are whinging you’d think we was bottom of the table.
Then ‘as if by magic’ two appear!
48 & 49
Give yourselves a clap!
46-Abdonwolf, Let’s hear it then. I don’t get the one about my own song. (?) (I’m probably dropping myself in it, but I can handle that.)
Negative Nancy - you have not been to any games, therefore you forfiet the right to an opinion.
I ask the jury to dis-regard Negative Nancy’s comments - motion carried.
I also think my fellow Nathan the blogger should be booted off doing the regular articles. He keeps saying he wants Mick out, I want the blogger out.
Nathan out, Nathan out, Nathan out!
Lets have a blogger who isn’t a doom & gloom merchant!
Lets get the blogger out!
His views do not reflect those of the fans.
50. Essex Wolf
I don’t expect everyone to agree with my thoughts in the blog. But I do try and make it a reflection on whats gone at the club during that period.
I want nothing but success for the Wolves but I can’t just blindly back whats going on at the moment.
If we put in a good performace at the weekend against Palace, then Tuesday’s blog will reflect this. If we don’t, then what am I supposed to say?
Give Mick more time? He has royally stuffed it up this season and I pay my money to be entertained. Many teams have visited Molineux this season and looked so much more organised than we have.
Tell me, Essex Wolf, what would you write about?
Why people blame certain players is beyond me.
The abuse the likes of Elliott, Stehen Ward & ect is disgraceful !!!
Both are not great players, but will always give us 100%.
Imagine if some comes to your work and boos you all day, do you think you would not be affected by the boos ?
Of course you would be affected by them, so how do think the players feel ?
55.NathanWolves
I was critised by many for supporting Mick earlier in the season, even when it was obvious he was failing the club massively.
I decided enough was enough and stated that I didn’t want him at the club and that he has made far too many mistakes.
I can’t just put a positive spin on the doom and gloom at Molineux. I’m don’t do the blog as part of a popularity contest, I do it to express MY opinion and to spark up debate.
I’ve said all along I would be happy if Mick pulls it out of the bag and gets us in the play offs. I just can’t see how that can possibly happen.
Can you honestly tell me, my fellow Nathan, that you have enjoyed the football down at Molineux this season?
I make no apologies for not writing what you want to hear.
But thank you for your comments and feel free to begin your “blogger out” protest outside the Express and Star head office!
{SPELLING MISTAKE}
I was criticised by many for supporting Mick earlier in the season, even when it was obvious he was failing the club massively.
I decided enough was enough and stated that I didn’t want him at the club and that he has made far too many mistakes.
I can’t just put a positive spin on the doom and gloom at Molineux. I’m don’t do the blog as part of a popularity contest, I do it to express MY opinion and to spark up debate.
I’ve said all along I would be happy if Mick pulls it out of the bag and gets us in the play offs. I just can’t see how that can possibly happen.
Can you honestly tell me, my fellow Nathan, that you have enjoyed the football down at Molineux this season?
I make no apologies for not writing what you want to hear.
But thank you for your comments and feel free to begin your “blogger out” protest outside the Express and Star head office!
Footballs a funny old game isnt it? Evberyone thinks their club should win and be top of the table every week unfortunately it cant happen for everyone.
All I will say is this. The only manager to have got us promoted in the last 20 years was guilty of the most appalling period of management in history when he let slip a 12 point lead on our arch rivals the season before. Yet now we remember him as a hero. Had we not got promoted the following season what would they have said about him then? All good teams and managers go through their ups and downs before they get established.
What I am saying is last season was good this season is bad. Next season may be better still. Dont give up yet though we still have time to turn this around. We have good players they just havent had the opportunites to play to their strengths all season and build consistancy.
Keep the faith (well just for a bit longer anyway……………)
Nathan Lloyd, I don’t always agree with your posts, but I must admit that I wouldn’t want to do it. You put yourself up there to be shot at, and I take my hat off to you. Football is all about opinions. You disagree with many of mine. So what? Keep it coming, mate.
Fair play Nathan - glad you have spoke up and aired your views
I can honestly say this season at the wolves has not been the best. Sometimes I have been bored and then the results are not what they should be.
In the same breath I can also say that MM got us to where we finished last season after a bad start and should be given that same opportunity this season. I think Steve Morgan made his views clear when he took over, he wanted promotion this season. If MM cannot get us there this season then I will be the first person to say MM out.
What we don’t need is your articles every week banging on about getting MM out, getting big Jez out, blah blah blah.
Please refer to post 32 for my take on the situation.
I don’t expect you to apologise for not writing what I would, or indeed having an opinion, that is after all the point of a blog. However you are somewhat of a broken record at times
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Your views are clear, I respect that even if I don’t always agree.
You have one last chance before I begin my blogger out campaign and I stand with my billboard outside the E&S
Look forward to your next blog.
Just remember folks! A blog is an opinion. You lot are getting all irate and debating madly…so surely, its worked!!!
A blog will always start a debate. I dont always neccessarily agree with Nathan Lloyd but i can never criticise what he writes. hH pays his money to watch the games, like me and most of you, so he has a right to express his views.
Signed by a positive Wolves supporter!
Come on MM and the lads!
Well done Nathan Lloyd for stirring the witch hunt, you really have hit the nail on the head for the uninterlectual. The Simpsons - genius to the bloggers on here, absolutely pointless to the cause in reality.
Every manager will have his critics no more so than with the Wolves fans, however an artical on the positives MM has produced over the last 18 months would firmly out weigh your ‘mistakes’ or negatives on MM
Critisism often comes from those who have never played, never managed and never been involved with a football club especially at a professional level. The justificans for sacking Mick really make me sigh in disbelief.
Yes, it is a results business and ambition and success go hand in hand at Molineux. But the same critics were predicting we’d be lucky to stay up last season before MM arrived, i didn’t I argued Mick was a good honest hard working manager and I was right.
MM was heroic last season, he did an unbelievable job! it surprised everybody how well we were doing with no cash and kids, he got us in the playoffs! he gave us a team to be proud of, laughing in the face of the big spenders and even beating the Albions £50M tean on our turf.
He turfed out the over paid halfwits who were milking the club and replaced them with young prefessionals nobody knew. Thats not easy.
£100,000 for Kieghtly! Come on.
But now the expectation has crept back again, due to the teams 2007/7 success and the arrival of Mr Morgan, yet expectation at Molineux always results in the manager getting sacked, we never learn, never.
So how much different and good will wilding the axe on MM’s head do the Wolves this time?
None, yes MM has made odd decisions and results have not gone our way for 2/3 months and yes the performance at Cardiff was a disgrace. So whos got the magic wand to change the situation overnight for you critics?? No-one has, and no-one on here has an answer either because non of you have got a broader opinion outside SACK THE MANAGER.
Why not for once do something unfashionable, different and positive and back the current leader.
MM is no mug, he proved that last year and has got a better success record in this horrible division, than any other manager.
In Mick i still trust to complete the job, I will judge him for what he has so far achieved over 18 months not over the last 2 months.
So come on Mick, im sticking my neck out on here!
Cometh the hour cometh the man.
Palace 0- 2 Wolves
63. NathanWolves
One last chance to get it right, I’d better try hard!
Remember earlier in the season I did bring you the Wolves best XI, Worst XI, international XI, etc etc So I have attempted not to write the “Get Mick Out” blog twice a week every week!
Its difficult not to cover some old ground on the blogs. I’d love to be able to mix it up as Jarrod does with the Albion. He gets to talk about a lot of good things, laced only with the occasional downer.
I enjoy writing the blog, but please feel free to input any suggestions as to areas of discussion I could write about.
It can be difficult when there has been little to write about during the week. And look what happens where I dared touch on something like Munich?
I’m never sure how much I should interact on here, whether or not it looks a tad desperate. This week my blog had 100 responses, unfortunately I made up 50 of those!
Nathan, the bad start has been and gone, we are 32 games into the season and I haven’t just been bored at games, I’ve been angry!
I’ll be quiet now.
65.Sandwell massive??
My god give Nathan a break. So he introduces the blog with something a bit different by referencing the Simpsons and you even have a go at that?
So you think we will beat Palace 2-0 tomorrow? What has Mick achieved this season, let alone in the last 2 months?
65. Sandwell massive??
“Well done Nathan Lloyd for stirring the witch hunt, you really have hit the nail on the head for the uninterlectual”
Priceless!
Sandwell Massive?? the interlectual’s intellectual!
Nathan - chin up mate, have a good weekend and when wolves win on Saturday I look forward to your positive spin on things. Let’s not contemplate a loss.
You also always get a good number of responses which means you are doing something right.
Tarra a bit
Nathan Lloyd
A few months ago I was ploughing pretty well a lone anti-Mick
furrow.
I remember being vociferous in my condemnation of your ‘fluffy’ pro-McCarthy blog.
How times have changed! The thing I am noticing is that as the pro-McCarthy posters dwindle in number they are getting noticeably more militant in the way they post, it reads like the last days of the Roman Empire to me:
Jez sings and plays the Harp as McCarthy fans the flames that burn their regime to the ground!
Don’t worry it will be over soon then we can all unite behind the next Emperor - NOT!
Cheers Nathan, have a good weekend yourself and yes lets hope for a win down at Selhurst, you never know!
As for the responses, good or bad, at least they are responses. Life would be a dull place if we all looked at the glass as half full.
Traaa a bi.
65.Sandwell Massive
The Intellictual’s uninterlectual.
You couldn’t make it up!
68, Doh!
Turns out The Simpsons is the perfect blogg!
72. Cpt Wolves
The thing to remember about ‘Sandwell Massive??’ is he’s not the sharpest knife in the box and I’m not sure he means well either!
Erm, all the people who had a go at negative Nancy. ARE YOU PEOPLE BLIND TO SARCASM? It was an obvious joke post. Honestly sometimes I wonder about the sanity of the world.
Now do you notice some of these people taking a pop and a general rant & rave have never been seen on here before.
So here goes
1: If you are what you say you are (Wolves Fans, then constructiveley criticise, not just meaningless jargon.
2: Before any Wolves fans say, if you are Albion in disguise trying to stir things up, HAVE SOME BALLS!!! use your name you post on the albion side with.
i for one have been criticised recently for being a fraud, but i’m happy to say whatever i feel with my 1 alias.
49 Negative Nancy
“I haven’t been to any matches but I’m sure the level of football is good as well.” ???!!
Perhaps if you were actually watching the football you’d be qualified to comment. If you were a loyal fan forking out the money for a season ticket every year you too might be feeling slightly negative.
I think Negative Nancy was a bit of fun. Mike McCarthy? Did anyone spot that?
TonyWBA…
Are you closing that bracket on your next entry?
Agreed, people have a go at people etc etc for being negative. Are we doing well in the league? Is the football attractive? Is Kevin Kyle our saviour?
I’m aghast as too what some fans on this site expect the topic of conversation to be.
Sandwell Massive is obviously an interlectual, perhaps he can shine some light?
Cpt Wolves, from an interlectual point of view, maybe we should all crack on with our jobs and support Man U instead?!
Wouldn’t life be easier supporting Manure?
77. Windywolf
Well said. There are so many idiots who come in, probably disguised in the colours of Tesco, who come just to stir it up.
How can you comment on the level of football if you don’t even go?
This was a great debate so well done ‘blogger’ Nathan. It’s a pity you cannot appreciate that any manager needs more than 18 months in the job before everyone kicks out.
We are all disappointed but remember Mick said at the start that we will have disappointments. We will lose against teams we should have beaten. It’s happened like he said. Lets accept he needs more time.
As for comments in regard to not being able to blame injuries for poor performances (james Rees)..that must be the daftest comment. We lost our most (only) penetrative forward, our two best defenders (who were playing really well) and jarvis who is clearly a bit special too.
But now most are back, Kites is nearing fitness and all the new signings are available. Now is the time to make judgements on the team.
Hold on to your hats guys and gals. i think we are in for a very exciting run - in to the end of the season.
If this doesn’t happen then lets get the new guy in as quickly as possible.
79: CptWolves
Sorry mate well noticed
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How’s that.
All the best for the weekend
Don’t interlectual play at the san siro?
66 spot on Mucker
WE were all demanding a clear out, a back to basics approach, rebuild the club from the top when Sir Jack sold out. Then 18 months in we start dissecting the work being done because we want success now. If we continue to chop and change everything we’ll end up going down the same road as Leeds and we’ve been there before. As for managers who struggled to start with such as ferguson, what about Moyes, Hughes, Southgate, Keane etc
Mine is only an opinion and if nobody agrees, I’ll sleep tonight and tomorrow and……….
Get Homer Simpson in as next manager, he surely couldn’t do a worse job … and Wolves tops with Duff Beer advertising logo … GENIUS !!!!
13 - Notsohappybaggie now r u . Forgot you were having such a great season , when us dingles r have such a poor campaign . All that and we are still only a handful of points behind you !!
Poor old deluded Brummies
Wemberley me think not , more chance of kevin kyle scoring a 25 yard screamer ( oh he just did!!) Wake up u muppets
Dingles am really buzzin now - yow lot played crap for 80 mins and scored 2 lucky goals!
Yow woe score for 2 games now!
Sooper Sooper Mick
Boinging All the Way to the Prem!
How does this bloke get the air time?? Nathan’s view is simply not representative of most Wolves fans. Indeed, in giving this lad the only vent from which to blow out ‘the supporters view’, it could be suggested that the Express and Star are trying to push a very specific slant on events.