Like many Wolves fans, I find myself between a rock and a hard place, writes Wolves blogger Nathan Lloyd.
I want success for my club; I just don’t want Mick here to deliver that success.
So my fellow nuggets, where do we go from here?
I’ve got a lot to get of my chest, so you will have to excuse the length of this Friday’s blog.
You could have turned up 60 minutes into the Southampton game and you wouldn’t have missed a thing.
It was the worst first half of football I have seen in years.
We played better in the same fixture last season and ended up losing 6-0!
With Kyle on the pitch, Mick McCarthy embraced the long-ball tactic, guaranteed to drain the entertainment from any game.
And when he does employ this bewildering approach to the game, time and time again SEB was actually playing in front of Kyle; so how was he supposed to feed on the flick-ons from there?
We were hopeless right across the pitch. The midfield in particular was woeful.
Although the sarcastic cheers that greeted Henry’s departure were unforgivable, he couldn’t deliver a decent pass all night.
Elliott was an out-of-position passenger on one wing and Jarvis played too narrow and wasn’t much better on the other.
SEB on the other hand is beginning to look a great buy; Mick’s philosophy of buying every striker available in the country until one of them comes good has finally paid off.
Again Mick managed to pick the wrong side. Potter, who was in a rich vein of form, should have started instead of Henry, who has had a poor season and is obviously lacking confidence.
Keogh or Freddy should have started for Kyle, who should at best be given the last 15 minutes of a game in a John Hartson-type impact role.
And as for Elliott, did he contribute anything?
There was a definite quality difference when Potter, Freddy and Keogh were introduced into the fray on Tuesday night.
But even with four goals, a contentious sending off and a ridiculous penalty all condensed into the last 30 minutes; it was still a dire spectacle.
I think if you were to Google the words Freddy, Express & Star and Wolves, you would probably get more hits than for any other story this season.
His place in the team has been a massively contentious issue all season.
Some fans say that he doesn’t work hard enough to get in the team, but others, and I include myself, say that is utter claptrap.
He is a captivating player and when he came on against Southampton he provided the one bit of quality in a sterile game; drifting majestically past three players.
I wouldn’t blame him one bit if he went off to Forest on loan, scored a few goals and hopefully came back ready for the start of next season, where the new manager (fingers crossed) should give him a starting role with SEB.
I still think he would be the perfect foil for SEB. SEB is an out and out striker, a penalty box predator. Freddy would work brilliantly just behind him.
Mick would probably respond better if we all chanted Kyle, Kyle, Kyle.
You could imagine him turning to Freddy and saying: “I’m not being told what to do by these nuggets, Freddy you’re starting”.
But then what do I know? I’m a Wolves fan, and one that writes a column on the web, so I’m probably not top of Mick’s Christmas card list.
George Elokobi is a raw talent. Athletic, built like a brick house and extremely rapid.
He does however look liable to make the odd mistake and it was his lack of composure on the ball that led to the corner that cost us the last minute equaliser on Tuesday.
But little George and Breen were certainly better on the night than the inept Collins or Foley.
We all know we should have signed a couple of centre halves in the window and Foley looks to me like his confidence has gone.
I’m beginning to really dislike Mick McCarthy. Why does he purposely dismiss fans views?
Is he as tactically inept as was shown on Tuesday night?
In my view he constantly picks the wrong side and I am sick of his arrogance and his favouritism mentality.
I think the fans were remarkably patient on Tuesday night.
We put up with over an hour of incredibly poor football, but there was no booing or negative chanting during the game and that was good to see.
But nearly 22,000 people had paid to come out in the freezing cold and watch football which wouldn’t have looked out of place in West Park on a Sunday morning.
Mick’s disregard of the views from the paying punter isn’t just a diswgwace (as Roy Hodgson would say) it’s also extremely insulting to you and I.
We have a large and in some parts very talented squad.
But rather than utilize the young enthusiastic, hard working players that brought us so much success last season, Mick’s policy this season is to bring in ex-Sunderland journey men and construct a team where the players pick which position they are playing out of a big hat before kick off.
I’ve a friend who is a Northampton season ticket holder and he tells me that Little and Jones are rated very highly down at Sixfields, the fans absolute love them.
Now I know it’s a completely different level of football, but I would rather see young players of this quality, gain experience in our first team squad.
It’s obvious all is not well at the club.
Players seem only too keen to share their grievances with the media; Bothroyd, Ward, Henry, Breen.
Mick has probably lost upwards of 95 per cent of the fans’ confidence and if his attempted scrap with Breeny is anything to go by, then he is starting to lose the players backing as well.
Moxey will back him because you could fit Jez’s football knowledge on the back of a postage stamp.
So that just leaves Mr Morgan. Some say that he will have a difficult decision in the summer, whether to keep Mick at the club or not.
Difficult? I don’t think so.
Difficult may be when attendances start slipping below 20,000 and the fans start voting with their feet.
Difficult may be that Mick’s bizarre team selections see us sliding towards relegation.
For whatever reason, Mick has failed to deliver the goods this season.
Sure you can rest some of the blame on the player’s shoulders. But Mick picks the team and organises training.
The next home game is the re-arranged frozen fixture of Scunthorpe.
And it may be that Mick prays for another cold snap in 11 days time.
Although Mick couldn’t obviously care less, fans’ patience is wearing thin.
Wolves fans have your say below
180 Comments
sadly, agree 100% with all of that.
find myself thinking that if a miracle happened and we did get in the play offs and go up, we would still have MM at the helm and get massacred every game next season.
MM has to go, and I think Paul Ince is the man for the job …
totally agree nathan, if they don’t sack the muppet in may, expect the attendances to drop next season.
this seasons dead and buried now, must start major rebuilding for next season.
get the guvnor back and give him a go.
Thats the best blog all season.
I’d like to see a change at the top as soon as it is mathematically impossible to get into the play offs.
This comment is a text message i had last night off a close friend of one of our players, it read:
This goes from someone who got a lift back with…….(not nameing player) Breen and mick had each other round the neck. Mick has lost dressing room, 70% of players would leave now, Freddy is definatly going unless Mick Does and No1 likes Tony Daley or his training methods.
Good blog Nathan. Totaly agree. If my friend is correct then He (Mick) and his backroom staff must go. Tony Daley and fitness coach in the same sentance is just a complete joke. Half the squad are not good enough and its showing now! Were lucky to be where we are. If we got into playoffs and went all the way, got promoted we would make Derby look good. With this squad and McCarthy and Moxey policy of buying young and hungry players. Premireship class young and hungry will 5-6 mill per player. I can’t see that happening. Lets Sack the management get a new system,new background staff and start all over again.
List of managers to take over:
Paul Ince:No1
Darren Fergie
Big Sam (long shot)
jose (joke)
Steve McClaren
Martin Jol
just a few to think about.
Kevin Foley is a good litmus test for the rest of the team. When he arrived he showed that he was a very good player, so it must be a confidence problem!
Even so, I didn’t understand why we bought him in the first place, I thought Little was growing in confidence and we had cover in the form of Henry. I think his best position IS right back. There is no way he is a midfield player!
McCarthy has wasted so much time and money, not only collecting strikers but also midfield players. There is very little to choose between any of them.
I think this current mid-field is as ‘powder-puff’ as it was with the likes of Corica, Osborne, Robinson and Ferguson but without as much skill! So in footballing terms we have gone a long way backwards.
I know that the Hoddle period was pretty bad but McCarthy is a lot,lot worse. In fact I can’t quite make up my mind who is the worst Wolves manager in the last 20 years Mick McCarty or Colin Lee, given a few more weeks though and I think it should become clear!
We need a new manager waiting on the side lines now. Dalglish as Football Director, Paul Ince as Manager, Sammy Lee as First Team coach and Ian Rush as striker coach. If we want to be the best we have to employ the best.
Nath
Brilliantly put mate.
I want to get behind the team, but I’ve had enough of that Yorkshire idiot in charge.
Arrogant to the extreme.
I say get rid after the Albion game and bring in Big Sam, Nigel Clough, Alex Rae, Paul Ince, or just someone who values the fans opinion.
SACK MICK!
I aggree with everything that Nathan’s say here. If only freddy had been a regular since being dropped last last September and then teaming up with SEB plus a buying couple of defenders we be looking at automatic positions. This is all down the Bad management.
As soon as we can’t make the playoffs, he’s got to go.
MICK OUT
Agree to some of it, but please stop dreaming about Eastwood. He is crap and has not scored in 1500 minutes of football since August. According to what he has produced and what he cost us he must be one of our worst signing ever. Thats a fact and he should play for the reserves until he scores. Then we can start talking ábout bringing him back to the starting line up. He is talented, after all.
you must sit behind me ,i agree 100% ,forget the play offs it would be nice to see one good game of football
Nathan, good Blog mate. I (and my lad) were among those that were prepared to give MM until the end of the season. However on the merit of what’s happened over the last few weeks I think the sooner MM goes the better. In fact it’s a pity Mr Morgan didn’t get rid while Chris Coleman was available - good managers are at a premium at the moment.
Agree with all the points apart from the comment about Potter - he too is utter pants!
Still, what do I know I’m just a nugget who pays good money at the turnstile and in the clubshop on overpriced merchandise for my 8 year old son who, for reasons best known to himself, thinks it’s all great fun! Yes I know I have “mug” written across my head but it’s in the blood and I’m sure that’s the only thing getting Wolves fans into Molineux right now - ‘cos its certainly isn’t for entertainment !!!
Yes MM must go but JM as well they are both useless.
7. S.E
How can you say Freddy isn’t talented?
How does he start for Wales?
Did you see his twinkle toes when he came on against the Saints? He also kept it simple and played well off the front man.
Difficult to score when you are getting 5 minutes here and there and you see an idiot like Kyle starting ahead of you.
Last year when decesions were made for him MM gave us a team full of vitality and a future so bright we very nearly did need shades. This season when he has had the opportunity to build upon a strong foundation the team have coughed and splutterred from the very beginning.
MM is the man paid to recruit the players, train them, inspire them and select 11 to go out onto the pitch. The massive underachievement we see flounderring in 10th spot is the work of MM honourably backed to this point my the chairman. There is no excuse for the what is being presented to us on the pitch and increasingly passively aggressively off it in terms of his quips.
The pleasure he seemed to take in Freddy missing some chances when played after the crowd had been chanting for him will stay with me for a long, long time
What a joke!
Mick McCarthy is a brilliant manager. Look what he has done for the club, you nuggets have a short memory.
I say give Mick another season and then judge him. 1 bad game doesn’t make a bad manager.
I appreciate that it is up to Steve Morgan whether McCarthy stays for the full three year tenure, but
personally, I can’t stand the man. He’s stubborness is amazing and is limiting the club’s chances of
success. I would bring in Paul Ince to finish off the good work achieved last year. Ince is winner and
would almost be seen as an appointment from within.
Sack the next manager (the one after MM). Just wanted to get in first as it won’t be long before you’re all calling for his head. Sacking our manager every other year has not worked and will not work - surely you can see that?
I agree with much of this and suspect that early bird sales are going badly which could accelerate McCarthy’s inevitable demise. There has not been the usual “ra ra” update from Moxey, people received text messages before Tuesday’s game encouraging them to sign up for early bird on the night and the girls serving in the food and bar area were wearing T shirts imploring us to sign up for the early bird. My guess is that no more than 10,000 will do so and who can blame them after the dross that has been served up all sesaon. I am keeping my powder dry until the summer when I expect to renew following the appointment of a decent manager.
I normally get bored reading these blogs half way through but this time I agree 100%.
We got the award for biggest whingers but I think we have a right to whinge. I’m sick of people saying to me down here “Wolves are a big club,why arent you in the Premier League”. Who has the answers??
16 Susan Wolf. You obviously have not been going to the games this season. It is not “one bad match” it’s more like 34. I cannot only think of one game that I have been entertained and that was at home to Blackpool, which was an awful display, but the entertainment value came in a bit of real quality from Eastwood as he beat them single handedly.
Self opinionated Baffoon
briliant blog
“incredibly poor football”, “extremely insulting to the fans”
Sums up my feelings. I have two corporate packages and unless the management team changes i won’t be renewing at the end of the season. (the early bird paperwork personally signed by Jez has gone in the bin!)
susan wolf. i BAD GAME
THINK YOU NEED TO GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR KNITTING, AND SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE REAL WORLD.
S E
WHEN HAS FREDDIE HAD 1500 MINUTES OF FOOTBALL.
he never gets a start in the first team, and rarely gets a game in the reserves.
FREDDIE FREDDIE FREDDIE FREDDIE FREDDIE FREDDIE
22.Windsor Wolf
I’m with you!
Does this Nathan Lloyd have a UEFA badge like Mick?
I think Wolves fans are fickle and should realise that they have a great man at the helm.
I’d pick Kevin Kyle over Freddie any day. Get back in your caravan Fred and take Nathan with you. Your both useless!
Wacky_Wanderer, Big Sam ain’t such a long shot
he was born in Dudley and used to stand on the south bank as a kid, don’t you think it would be an ambition to manage the team you supported as a kid?
Oh and 24.freddie who?
Knitting? You sexist pig.
susan wolf
YOU CAN BORROW MY GLASSES DEAR!
Nathan said - “Why does he purposely dismiss fans views?”
A - Well, it’s understandable if the reactionary twaddle spouted here is indicative of the ‘internet Wolves’ views.
Nathan said - “I think if you were to Google the words Freddy, Express & Star and Wolves, you would probably get more hits than for any other story this season.”
Yes, because the ‘paper’ is intent on splitting the club from the fans with an antagonistic spin on every Wolves story. 5 websites carries the same story earlier this week. “Wolves boss backs Kyle” was the headline on four. “Wolves boss blasts web fans” was on one. Have guess which.
Nathan said - “He is a captivating player and when he came on against Southampton he provided the one bit of quality in a sterile game; drifting majestically past three players.”
Yes, before spooning it into the side netting, after ignoring 2 opportunities to pass between the time he got the ball and missed. He is selfish, ineffective and over rated. It’s over 20 hours of football since he last scored.
Nathan said - “In my view he constantly picks the wrong side and I am sick of his arrogance and his favouritism mentality”
This ‘favourites’ thing is ridiculous. Potter was a favourite earlier in the season. He was dropped when his form dipped, and now everybody wants him back. Elliot wouldn’t play if Kightly was fit. All of Breen, Craddock, Collins, Ward (S&D), Keogh, Bothroyd, Elliot, Potter (is that all the favourites?) have spent time out of the first XI by Mick’s choice.
Nathan said - “We put up with over an hour of incredibly poor football, but there was no booing or negative chanting during the game and that was good to see.”
No you didn’t. Attendees (I won’t say supporters) booed the injury time in the first half, and booed the half time whistle. Collins was slaughtered in the first half. The treatment of the replaced substitutes was a disgrace. ‘Sing when your winning’ has never been so apt.
Nathan said - “Mick’s policy this season is to bring in ex-Sunderland journey men”
Out of eleven incoming players, 3 have had a Sunderland connection. Hardly a policy.
Nathan said - “Players seem only too keen to share their grievances with the media; Bothroyd, Ward, Henry, Breen.”
Do they? I’d like one of your disciples to post links to stories containing quotes from Bothroyd, Henry and Breen complaining about anything other than Molineux ‘attendees’.
Nathan said - “Mick has probably lost upwards of 95 per cent of the fans’ confidence”
Rubbish. If true, I dare you - start a white hanky protest for the next home game, and I’ll wager that fewer than 10% join you. 95% indeed.
Nathan said - “Moxey will back him because you could fit Jez’s football knowledge on the back of a postage stamp.”
Maybe, and he still knows a lot more than you.
Nathan said - “Difficult may be that Mick’s bizarre team selections see us sliding towards relegation.”
This sums up most of writing. Poorly researched, unfounded claptrap.
Nobody is happy with how this season has gone, but when you read idiots saying that Tuesday was the worst game ever, and Mick is the worst manager for 50 years, and that x player is the worst to ever wear the shirt, it just really winds me up. It certainly reinforces the stereotype that the average Wolves fan is a fickle whinger.
16 is an obvious wind up.
Great blog Nath, agree with everything you say.
I think before the end of the season we’re really going to have to let out feelings known.
“Mick’s philosophy of buying every striker available in the country until one of them comes good has finally paid off.”
Brilliant Nathan. and as usual, I agree with pretty much everything, have mentioned this “condundrum” in my past couple of posts, and all I can see as a way out, is for us to finish 7th or 8th - so we can be shot of Mick and a couple others (eg Kyle Gray Henry Breen & Elliot).
Then plan our assault on 2009.
COME ON YOU WOLVES !!!!!!!!!!!!
PS
Susan you havent got a flaming clue - I doubt your posts are little more than a wind up.
go away.
Susan_Wolf Hasnt Got A Clue!
Ur A Women… U Know Nothing Decent About Football! Go Back To Watchin Pop Idol And Leave The Footie To Us Men!
Freddy Eastwood Hasnt Had The Chance So You Cant Judge Him
Del Woppio
IF YOU WANT TO PUT UP WITH THE RUBIS THAT’S BEEN SERVED UP DOWN THERE THIS SEASON THEN YOUR JUST A SHEEP. JEZ AND THE CREW LOVE YOUR TYPE,
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
20.Southern Wolves
“I’m sick of people saying to me down here “Wolves are a big club,why arent you in the Premier League”.
Have you been talking to that bloke in the mirror again ?
Same old comments - “lost the dressing room”, “plays his favorites”, “terrible to watch” “no passion”, “bad tactics” etc. Where have we heard it before? Oh yes - G Taylor….D Jones….G Hoddle. Have the fans not learn any lessons from the past. Perhaps we need to stick with one manager for a bit -yes this one (people always say we will stick with the next one.
Think of all those Everton supporters calling for Moyes head when they had a bad season - muppets!
22. Windsor Wolf here we go again slagging someone off just because you don’t agree with what’s been written !! Instead of calling Nathan a self opinionated buffoon let’s have constructive criticism from you. Explain what you think are the facts and perhaps some decent banter will develop !!
25. Susan_Wolf do I detect a Baggie in Wolves’ clothing here ? Yes we Wolves fans (and I’ve been one for more years than I care to remember)are fickle and will always be fickle but we will always support the Wolves. As I said to Windsor Wolf above, instead of name calling put yourself on the line and let’s here your opinions.
29. Del Woppio
Which relation to Mick McCarthy are you?
I would only change manager because I think Paul Ince will be a fantastic manager, he made the difference in the season we won the play offs and his hunger and winning mentality would rub off around the place and hopefully take us to the next level.
He had a fantastic winning career like Roy Keane and the profile of the club would increase with his appointment & he is loved my every Wolves fan for his passion and commitment. We all wanted Paul Ince when MM took over but he was correctly told by the board to get some experience, he didn’t moan & has gone right to the bottom to do that, shows you the man he is.
I give MM a lot of credit because he has built a good foundation from what he inherited, but a fresh man could be required to build on that.
It seems that MM has struggled since money has been made availiable and the squad has grown and as mentioned above since our coaching staff changed.
I would part company with MM & thank him for what he has done, for giving us Kites, SEB, Keogh and Jarvis and then I would ask Mr Ince to join us after he completes his fantastic season with MK Dons.
Paul Ince will be a top class manager and we need him before somebody else grabs him before us!!!!! Thanks Mick, you have been good for Wolves but your job is done, even if we get to the Prem with you in charge we will be back in no time.
Paul Ince managing Wolves sends a shiver down my spine, give him a five year contract and be prepared to be patient, he wants the job and vowed to return, lets all hope it happens, its an opportunity not to be missed!!!!!!
How can kyle and elliot keogh and bothroyd amd ward get picked instead of
eastwood
he was brill when he come against the saints
whats mick playing at IDIOT!!
FREDDY FREDDY FREDDY FREDDY
First of all Nathan Lloyd in your article you state 20000 fans came out in the freezing cold this is not true as it wasn’t really that cold.
Everyone know that Mick is treading on thin ice but all of you web nuggets and boo boys complaining and moaning like little girls is only going to make things worse at this stage of the season.
It is more than obvious that Mick will be staying until the end of the season. So why not wait to see where we finish rather than put added pressure on a team that needs support from the fans, lets make the ground somewhere the players want to play.
Also regarding Freddy Westwood he is living off the goal he scored against Man Yoo and a couple of goals against the Mighty Blackpool. Although I do feel he should be given a chance the keep you web monkeys quiet…….
Is Del Woppio really Mr McCarthy in disguise?
UEFA badge or not (I’ve heard you can get them off EBay these days), the bloke hasn’t got a clue.
Go back to the start of this season thats where it went wrong. We needed a striker and 2 centre halves really to start the new season. Yes you can say we needed this and that also butthat was the nub of it. MM announces on Sky that Breen was the best player in the squad !!! what ? I knew then we were going pear shaped.
Now fast forward to now with worst goals scored and defence leaking like the Titanic and MM’s insistance on playing most players in any position but their own. Take Henry who is trying emulate Butch Wilkins record of NEVER passing forward in a match, he is guaranteed to stop any flowing move in the game, but as a defender can’t fault him really. Take Elliott …yes someone please do ! You can go on naming players out of position, never being played.
Totally perplexing to the paying fan. He had the momentum perfectly last season then starts messing with the line ups, tactics, peoples heads.
Things have not been right with both Evans’s going either..MM on his own is a no no
So Mr Morgan do the honourable thing and do not renew his contract when this season ends.
Great Blog Nathan, but tleel me is ther any decent football teams in that place you find yourself in? I just want to remind you that not all long ball football is boring and fruitless never forget that WWFC once played very successful football that way under a certain Stan Cullis, it was never ever boring but it was played with outstanding individuals of the like we haven’t seen at wolves for many a golden year.
My preference for a replacement would be some one like Nigel Clough with maybe Paul Ince by his side anyone agree?
To the poster who referred to thick Yorkshiremen I can assure you my firend we are not all thick.
Lets not reduce ourselves to name calling.
I am one of those who has given Mick every chance and backed him thus far.
However, it is becoming apparent that now not only has he lost the support of the majority of fans but also now of the players too. Unfortunatly when a manager gets too that stage it is usually too late.
I think Mick’s problem is his arrogance. It is no coincidence that it all went downhill after Taff Evans left.
I hate to say it but he has to go. I dont like changing managers any more than anyone else but I think he has gone too far down the line to change anything for the better.
He really has lost the plot and seems clueless what to do about it.
18. WestlyNTR says…
“Sacking our manager every other year has not worked and will not work - surely you can see that?”
What you need to do is think before you post!
Here is a list of the managers since Turner and their time at the club:
Turner - 7 years
Taylor - 18 months
McGhee - 3 years
Lee - 2 years
Jones - 3 years
Hoddle - 20 months
McCarthy - 20 months
So you see managers do stay longer than every other year, in fact taken on average most of our managers last over 3 years!
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but if you look at the list you can clearly see that Turner stayed too long, Taylor should have stayed much longer and so should Jones!
There are two real black spots in the club history for me. The first is the McGhee/Lee debacle of wasted millions and mindless tactics. Then there is the Hoddle/McCarthy that has leaked away talent from the club and has ripped the heart out of Wolves and the fans!
Sacking managers is sometimes a bad thing but more importantly, appointing the right one is key!
Whoever appointed the last two managers should be held responsible for sending Wolverhampton Wanderers back almost 20 years, it’s unforgivable! And so is pretending that ’sacking the manager’ is the problem here, it goes a lot deeper than that!
29. Del Woppio
Del, I thought my blog was long until I read your response.
Thanks for dissecting my blog line by line. I’m not going to reply to all of your arguments; I would be here all day. I just don’t think that 90% of the fans as you state are behind Mick McCarthy anymore. I’ve had enough and I’d certainly wager that the majority of fans share that opinion.
Oh and when I said that certain players aired their grievances out in public, I was also including their ‘complaints’ about the fans.
But I think it’s great that you also feel so passionately about what happens at the club. I’m glad you are on the other side of the McCarthy fence; life would be dull if we all agreed.
Still seething from Tuesday, it was horrible. Taking the lead twice at the closing stages of the game and then madness each time we scored.
Im not going to reiterate what happened as we all know, but i left the ground not only dejected with the pathetic display of football, the shambolic rabbit in the headlight defending, the manner of how we lost and the ever increasing air of glum currently surrounding the place, but dejected so deeply I questioned my support for this club/
Why am I bothering paying to watch a team that, ok, other than Cardiff 03 (possibly my best footballing memory to date) ,wow, Wolves have continuously failed season after season for nearly twenty years, to convincingly smash out of this Division.
The infamous 10 point lead season we lost to the Albion (possibly my worst footballing memory)The torrid Mcghee years, the stale Hoddle show, the unsuccessful Taylor time and Colin whatever his name at the helm, and now this! MaCarthy mayhem, fans arguing with each other, booing the players and now we’ve even got a women leading a band in the South Bank!
I and many others have probably payed £1000s over the years following Wolves and millions upon millions has been ploughed into this club at the same time, but yet, nothing to show other than a nice ground.
It pains me to see Fulham, Bolton, Portsmouth, City, Wigan, Blues etc etc in the Premiership, as Wolves continue to mess it up for themselves, season after season after season.
Why? Surely this is the bigger picture we should be discussing, not get rid of Mick, I think we’re all agreed the football is naff and Micks got until the end of the season, so why keep repeating ourselves.
The longer we are out the Prem the tougher it will be to stay there.
Mr Morgan have you may have the tools, the ambition and the support, but have you got the know how? because there has been no one at Molineux since the 80s who evidently has, and I for one am getting tired of supporting this circus.
Fans fighting, players and staff fighting, booing,and constant manager out chants.
I just cannot beleive this is the same club, manager and supporters of the young hungry team that fought their way to the play offs last season, and only marginally missed out on promotion.
I know i am an Albion fan, but even i find it hard to watch the Wolves implode, yes implode. I cannot think of a more apt word. I am researching information on other Championship sides and having visited web blogs of clubs like Southampton and Sheff Wednesday their fans are more positive when facing relegation than you lot are being four points of the play offs.
But when the fans have made their minds up it is very hard to fight your way back, i can honestly see Mick walking before easter.
Wolves are poised for a £1m-plus summer bid for Hearts defender and captain Christophe Berra. (The Sun)
Does this mean some idiot is letting Mick loose with some money again?
29. Del Woppio
The thing that amazes me about you and the people like you is that you are not content to just make your point.
You have to resort to ‘name calling’ techniques and insulting behavior!
Where does McCarthy fit in your grand scheme of things?
By all means back him to the hilt and love him to bits, pretend that you know much more about football than the rest of us put together. Do all those things but do me a favor and try posting without using the words, ‘fickle, idiot, twaddle or whinger etc…!
Go on, I dare you!
Susan Wolf, are you Micks wife or stalker!
Del Woppia you must be one of the happy clappers that Wolves rely on to try and cover up the abject attempt to play soem quality football.
Anyway it doesb’t matter because Mccarthy is about to be made UN Secretary becuase of his obvious diplomatic skills
Good morning Susan Wolf whoever you are ( not boing,boing in disguise I hope?
MM great Manager? 16 years in the front line Achievements: Presided over the expulsion of Ireland’s best player and Captain from the World Cup.Reason didn’d enjoy Mr Keane’s views regarding lack of practice facities prior to the competion…first day they turned up to train MM hadn’t even remembered to bring any balls! Sunderland promotion to the Premiership (Dave Jones did that for us remember?) lowest ever points in the next season ( we got 34 remember?) Overall pretty ordinary CV but enough for him to achieve a one year rolling contract at £1M ….nice if you can get it.
With Mr Kyle’s footballing skills and goal scoring record over the last 6 or so seasons they make a happy couple.First stood on the terraces in 1952 the football and managerial decisions considering what he had at his disposal, rate for me one of the worst seasons ever. Not too many happy jouneys home for my son and I when completing the 220 mile round trip and thats for a home game
wbabomber, some good points made there mate. yes our club is imploding, and it is sad to see.
but that’s wolves unfortunately, when things are going well we’re on a high, when there not we go psycho and adopt a kamikaze mentality to air our frustrations. but that’s the way we do it, and to be honest i wouldn’t want it any other way. the good thing is with wolves you never know what’s comming next, a true emotional rollercoaster. but it’s addictive and i love them to bits, good, bad, whatever. we are wolves until will die, long live wolves.
p.s a little sucsess here and there wouldn’t go a miss though.
fredie.. stick in there mate, get rid of the muppett and you and seb can take us up next season.
THERE’S ONLY ONE FREDDIE EASTWOOD!!1
Susan_Wolf if you come on here dont come in disguise at least admit you are a tesco scab to scared to admit it.nathans blog is pointing out the feelings of 99% of wolves fans once again nathan great blog.agree with 6 roy if you want success you have to have winners so we have to replace the manager and all the backroom staff with quality
Wolves are poised for a £1m-plus summer bid for Hearts defender and captain Christophe Berra. (The Sun)
CAN’T SEE IT MYSELF, he doesn’t sound irish, and i don’t think he’s played for sunderland either.
Firstly, great blog, someone talking sense.
Ted1949, also well said mate. I certainly cannot agree with Susan Wolf’s sentiments.
Mick has treated players with utter contempt this season as well as giving the fans no respect. He knows that his days are numbered and so decides to give Kevin Kyle a starting place as some kind of joke.
I feel for you Ted doing that 220 mile round trip. I live in Wolves and my journey is a about 3 miles, but even that is painful at the moment.
I think by time the Scunny game comes around, fans will have said enough is enough and the the atmosphere could be quite nasty!
THIS IS THE BEST BLOG IV READ AND IV NOTHING ELSE TO SAY! YOU ARE 100% CORRECT. MICK IS A CLOWN! GET LOST MICK!
Great, well structured statement of fact, even though some may not agree with all the sentiments expressed. I I am beginning to think that MM got his customer (fans)service training from Gerald Ratner but he at least had the decency to to admit that he was selling “crap” goods! It is rapidly becoming obvious that MM’s gameplan is based on outdated tactics and that he has no man management skills to speak of otherwise, he wouldn’t be loaning out our best young players when the first team is crying out for them!
First off susan_wolf have you been to a single game this season? If you did were the players wearing gold and black or blue and white? If you think we’ve only had one bad game I think you need to get to the docs and have those cataracts sorted. Nathan, good blog pretty much as usual and 50 cpt_wolves, wouldn’t pay much attention to that story as it’s in The Sun.
To all those fans who are pointing out how close we are to the play offs and saying McCarthy is the best manager we’ve had for a long time you are allowed your opinion and that’s fair enough but look down the years and then see if you still think that fact is correct. The club is being ripped apart with players and manager wanting to kill each other, fans at each others throats and a manager intent on insulting the fans as much as possible. Do you honestly think that keeping a manager who is capable of this much destruction is a good idea?
The fact is ‘Taff’ left and ‘clipboard’ took his place and the clubs gone into freefall. McCarthy should have stuck with homegrown talent which was working and excited the fans but that was forced on him due to lack of funds. This season he’s had money and destroyed everything the club achieved last season. Rant over!
Bomber, good points there but are we only 4 points off the play offs because the Championship isn’t staright forward i.e. any one club can beat any other club on any one occasion ? I would hardly say our standard of football at the moment merits our actual position. I dread to think what would happen if this side were promoted !! Our last sojourn in the top flight was painful enough but I think it would be an awful lot worse with the present side as it stands. However with some well placed and heavy spending (please Mr Morgan !!) who knows because I think we have the essentials for a good side but we do need some steel in the defence and midfield.
I am well pleased to see that apart from a few unnecessary nasty comments that this has promoted some excellent discussion. Well done Nathan - this is what it’s about !!
wbabomber what you have to remember is that last year we had youth players in the team playing there hearts out with fast attacking football even passing the ball to teammates this year mick has spent a fare few quid on supposingly better players.and he also said he wanted a top 2 finnish or he would see it as failure can he achieve that now.with the hoofing football we will struggle for the playoffs this is why we are so angry we have gone backwards
great blog, i think most wolves fans are with you on the MM issue.. and between a rock and hardcase.. wanting wolves to do well but not liking the manager (didn’t use hate… think we need to tone down a bit folks…)
i just can’t wait for this season to end, and i hope Mr morgan comes in and shakes things up…
WHEN we change manager, its got to be the right man, i think the fans have suffered enough over the years… and deserve so see some good football..
Good blog Nath, the length of a novel but good never the less!
Henry had a bad game as did Elliot and Jarvis, Edwards was quiet too. If you have 4 midfielders who don’t perform in the same game your not going to win! Simple.
You have made loads of very good points so well done and you have got the fans debating so your job is complete.
I suppose all I would say is that Mick would have Breen in a fight anyday. Mick is the only manager who would go into a darkend room with Roy Keene and come out!
A fine blog Nathan. It all needed putting together the way that you did it. It had all been said over the last few weeks on the various boards in bits and pieces, as individuals vented their anger, sadness and sheer dissapointment.
To paraphrase Bill Shankley, “Sometimes, it feels more important than life and death”, and when the Wolves are in your blood the current shambles does become the biggest thing in your life. There is an underlying sickness at Wolves, and it needs fixing, it’s called the Moxey disease!
PAUL INCE IS A WOLF, BRING BACK THE GAFFER!
No wonder we are mid table with the support you all showed on tuesday, was it a sponsored silence ?
And the fact you morons boo players off the pitch and show no enthusiasm for our team speaks volumes of your characters.
I still say stick with Mick untill May though!!!!
54
i am not having a go, just letting you know that we got 33 points in the prem, as did the other two that went down, leeds and leicester, if memory serves me right
Had it on very good advice that Darren Ferguson could take over in the summer… Morgan and Sir Alex are good friends and have a had a discussion about DAZZA.
McCarthy will be gone by the end of the season and I personally think that will be a shame. But his inability to build on what he did last season will be his final act of management.
Tony Daley is a joke and I dont think the team look as fit ans when Kunle was has here…
I would love it, just love it if he would play Freddy from the start at Preston…
He will drop Breen cause after his treatment of Freddy (After the night club incident) he cant really do anything else.
Kevin Foley is quality player and he is just lacking confidence, the same as the others.
So stop messing about mick and have one last crack at it before its too late… Stop being so stubborn and give them ALL a fresh start… If you cant GO!
Good post 46. Life is never as simple as black & white. Or in our case sacking managers simply perpetuates the problem. Our problem has been appointing the wrong manager twice in recent history [Hoddle & McCarthy] Not sacking McCarthy simply because we have had too many manager would be a terrible Executive decision. Almmost as bad as sacking him without a clue who you are going to replace him with. We do need to go further, however, we need a complete clear-out; Moxey, Coaching staff and Medical staff. They all seem to be part of the problem
“BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM”
That the sound of an imploding squad and fans base
I support the team, I will get behind them and sing my heart out. But I will not watch the flacid football played this season.
The early bird catch the worm/season ticket. The bird was shot for twitting to early in morning and keeping me awake.
Finally the penny is dropping! I have been saying for MONTHS! Mick McCarthy is a rubbish manager, a one trick pony who is tactically inept. This season is a sorry mess. Honest bloke that he maybe, he totally arrogant, devoid of any footballing brains, his gameplan is based on trusting to luck. He bought players to this club who on the whole are rubbish apart from a select few like Kites, Keough, Freddie “if he ever plays again, SEB & Jarvis. The rest are awful, Stephen Ward the worst player this season closely followed by Collins, Darren Ward, Potter, KK, Jay B, Elloitt, Gray, Breen “Way too slow”. Up to know he does not know his best forward partnership, he chops and changes his sides constantly, the style of play is woeful, his stubborness in not playing Freddie, Rosa, Jones, Little is based on his favourites from Sinderland or the irish connection, the backroom staff has changed for the worst, Tony Daley FITNESS coach is a joke, Ian Evans leaving was a massive blow, MM number 2 is Terry Connor absolutley unbelieaveable! Something is seriously wrong at the club, as so many players this season has gone to the press because of thier dismay of not playing. McIndoe saw the light at the start of the season and every one “including me” slagged him off but hey he was excellent for us last season and he has been a huge loss! So come on all you MM lovers, show me any evidence why we should keep MM.
In the summer he will be sacked barring any miracle of us getting to the premiership. Even if we went up we will be slaughtered each week as our squad is not even better than Derby’s. A big clear out “again” this summer, Mr Morgan needs to seen to be in charge in this shower of a club
Paul Ince is the man who will inject, PASSION, DRIVE, COMMITTMENT he is the only candidate. He wanted the job the 1st time around and Moxey never gave it too him, so Morgan if you read these boards it is important that you take on board the fans view.
McCARTHY OUT!!!!!!!!!!!
49 WBA Bomber. You make some good points BUT I cannot see McCarthy falling on his sword before Easter or any time thereafter. There are probably a million reasons not to, or whatever his pay-off will be, if he waits for the inevitable sacking.
To those who cannot agree with Nathan, just remember the facts
1. MM bought the players
2. MM coaches the players
3. MM dictates the tactics
4. MM picks the team
5. MM makes the substitutions
6. MM takes the glory
7. MM takes the blame
8. MM is paid £1 million per year to produce success
9. MM Has a 1 year rolling contract
10. MM has failed to produce success
11. MM has alienated the players
12. MM has alienated the paying customers to a degree nobody has managed before
13. Paul Ince has proved that he is as good a manager as he was a player
Seems like a no-brainer to me. McCarthy’s soul destroying reign needs to be cut short as quickly as possible, BRING ON OUR PAUL!
Totally agree with Nathan. I cannot believe that this once great club is being led into the ‘use to be’s’ by inept management. There appears little ambition. I have never liked McCarthy and having read what he did for Millwall, Eire and Sunderland. I am not surprised one iota on his poor management at the Wolves. The whole of the club from Morgan down needs to be looked at, particulary Moxey and McCarthy, they will continue to earn loads of money wherever they are and don’t mind who they upset to continue to do so. As my name suggests I have supported the Wolves since 1966 and although we have had our ups and downs, I have never felt so disheartened by the way the club appears to be currently run. Consequently with great regret I am not renewing my season ticket until at least McCarthy as gone. I shall be either saving £400, or if he goes, hopefully at the end of the season, I shall be prepared to spend the extra £100. We have the players to start to put things right, but with such a poor management these players will soon be gone to better clubs. McIndoe proves a point. Yes even Bristol City are a better side than Wolves at present.
What a shame. McCarthy lovers, take a long hard look at this club and the football they have played. I am gutted, saddened, sick and full of tears seeing this club being turned into a permanent lower league club.
What a great blog, could not agree more about kyle. This is a joke and this how most wolves fans feel. Eastwood has got 2 start. I just think sometimes MM is deliberately trying to wind the fans up, he must be i can’t see any other logic behind the teams he picks!
Thes season, even when we were winning games it did not feel like fun. It has been the lowest level of footbal that we have ever played in the Championsip. I even came and watched us struggling in the 4th division and I felt entertained when I left the ground.
I don’t want to watch anymore of this feeble excuse for football. Footbal is the beautiful game, we, the paying customers have been served up scrag-end football, when we have been paying good money to be entertained.
On those grounds alone, I say that MM has to be got rid of. Bring back the kids and let us start enjoying ourselves again!
73.
What a wonderful person you are, you are waiting for Wolves & Mick to fail ?
you are the real muppet kid.
‘I want success for my club; I just don’t want Mick here to deliver that success.’ Thats a ridiculous statement Nathan. Your personal vendetta against Mick is totally unjustified, and only giving fuel to the fire of the morons on this website.
Only 2 decenting voices out of 60 replies, i make that a 97% agreement.
oh i also agree so that should read 61 replies.
76. See you later then
I’m not a McCarthy appologist - this year has been very very poor. Last season though was fantastic.
But what we are doing now is the hard work for opposing teams. We are showing that we are every bit as bad, if not worse than Newcastle fans and their levels of over-expectation.
We are a team that for years has sold our best players - Keane and Lescott to name two.
We are supporters that are legendary for slagging off our own team and managers. Teams come to Molineux knowing they only have to kill the game for so long and we will turn on our players. And we do.
And do we really wand Big Sam? for years we have slagged off him and Bolton. McClaren? Have any of you actually spoken to Ince of late to see if he still wants the job here?
Wolves have had another bad season. Getting rid of MM will not guarentee anything. No, I’m wrong. What it means is that a new manager will come in. Spend two years offloading players they dont want. Start building a team they want and be sacked half way through the project. The story of the last twenty years.
Grow up and start living in the real world.
It is foolish to think that we can just go out and get a better manager. It is equally foolish to believe that the better manager will then sign all the players they want to. Firstly the club has stated that MM can only sign young talent, and secondly, we are a small club with a history of selling off our real talent, so who will sign for us? Lazy near-retirement big time charlies or young hopefuls.
Some entertaining replies in there, does anyone really think anything would change with a new manager?
Whoever the next manager is once the results start to slide, the fans will be on his back no matter who
it is. It is a vicious circle one that will see us remain a 2nd tier football team for years to come.
Naaaaaaaaahhhhh!
I keep waiting for you to say something about the club or the team!
I’m sure you have an opinion about football don’t you?
Just to give you a start, it’s the little round thing that Breen and Collins etc… keep huffing at Kyle’s head…
I won’t make my mind up about renewing my earlybird until the club executives make up their minds about what quality of footbal they are going to serve up next season.
It’s as simple as that, I won’t part with my money until I know what I’m going to get for it.
I will not pay to watch more of the rubbish that has been peddled this season. It was bad value for money this season, in fact I don’t think that I’ll waste more travel money again this season.
80 why is it that anyone who disagrees with your point of view is a moron. If you look at the comments the majority of supporters on this site feel the same way that MM is a poor manager who has dragged this club down and we are going backwards not forwards.That is not what i want for the club I support if you are prepared to settle for that then so be it but I would think you are in the minority.
79. Where you at that game on Tuesday, or for that matter any of the other games? Where I was sat all around me supporters where fed up with the football and the management. When I was walking to the tram after the game people I spoke too where fed up, when I was on the tram everybody was saying it time for the management to go. Where have you been? I think all McCarthy supporters should meet at the nearest phone box to Molineux. I can guarantee there wont be many there. It may well not be full.
Oh another thing all this about bring back the kids last season the only player to come through a youth academy that played as erious amunt of games was Mark Little and IMO Foley is just as good as him.
As for all this ex Sunderland Irish player rubbish, you all take a look at the signings then count how many are a) Irish
b) ex Sunderlnad
c) both
I think you will find that the number you come to is not the majority.
I don’t mind people coming on here, stating serious arguements like the lack of a replacement for Kightly once ruled out for the season and lack of purchasde of a quick central defender for the dismissal of Mick
but please stop stating rubbish arguements like the ones above for his removal.
88. OK
Ex Sunderland
Kyle
Gray
Breen
Craddock (Not his signing I know)
Elliot
Collins
Irish
Gibson
Potter
Ward
Keogh
Thats 9 not including Craddock
I have just purchased my early bird. I think anyone who can afford it should! Don’t be as arrogant and pig headed as Mick, it is you that will be losing out in the long run.
And i’m not Jez Moxey’s son, dad, lover or anything else lol.
You know your going to get a season ticket, why delay the inevitable.
Last season we over achieved and this season we’re simply paying the price for it!
I can genuinely say that more often than not I’m totally embarrassed by the one-eyed views of many Wolves ’supporters’ Get real! Wolves compete in the most tightly contested league in the country, the line between success and failure is microscopic, and as usual if the Wolves ‘fans’ don’t get their way they start booing and calling for the manager’s head. Its something about the cynical, pessimistic and downright belligerent attitude of Wolves ‘fans’ that ruins any chances we have of success. Last year I really thought we’d turned a corner and got rid of the moaning mentality which has dogged the club for 20 years, yet this blog and the reactions to it, are a prime example that its back, bigger and more pathetic than ever!
88. stourbridgewolf
“I don’t mind people coming on here”
Sorry, I didn’t know that you owned this group.
Facts = 9 ex-Sunderland and Irish. I suggest that you follow Wolves for a few years, go to a few matches and then start offering your opinions. In the meantime, you know nothing!
I was it was poor but i can ask the same question as i thought the ground was full of mannequins (apart from the way you was ironicly cheering Kyle, Henry & Elliot off the pitch, which you came to life) no wonder no one wants to manage us you will stab his back in a heartbeat.
88. stourbridgewolf
There were several academy players last season who played games:
Hennessey
Little
Davies
Gobern
Gleeson
Bennet
Jones
Ikeme
There were others that were on the brink too.
I agree that Foley is just as good as Little, but why go and buy a player that is only as good? I made the point in an earlier post that we had plenty of cover at right back.
If we had kept playing the youngsters this season things would be a lot better than they are now and we would still have the money in the bank too.
McCarthy has wasted so much money:
Darren Ward
Keogh
Bothroyd
Stephen Ward
Potter
Elliot
Eastwood
Gibbson
Kyle
Johnson
not balanced by good signings:
Kightly (best signing by far)
McIndoe (why did he go?)
Foley (Did we really need him?)
Grey (Great player but too old)
Breen (Too old)
Blake
Edwards (similar to other players at the club)
Jarvis (croc)
I have to agree with this, even though I am still willing to give Mick time!
I’m really torn between wanting to keep the manager, weighed against the tripe served up this campaign!
82. Windsor Wolf
When Paul Ince is our manager, quality players will come and play for us, because they know he’s going places. With Pauls reputation as an inspirational player second to none, and now he has proved himself in management, he’s going places.
He is a Wolf and he wants to be our manager. Come on Mr Morgan, make it happen!
OUT OF DARKNESS COMETH PAUL INCE
Wolves season has not gone as planned. Granted. But what were your opinions of Mick at the end of last season? If the fans owned the club what would you have offered Mick? a 12 month contract or 3 year contract. Anyone who says the former is lying through their teeth. We are one of 12 clubs in contention for promotion this season, we have a number of better games approaching and I just cant wait to see your comments if we are well in the mix at in the next 2 games.
Anyone is entitled to their opinion, but calling for the managers head already is just too hasty and too easy an option. Yes he needs to make changes, needs to find that winning formula but it wont happen overnight. If all managers were judged like this you would have more managerless clubs than managed. Lets say we bring in Big Sam and this time next season we are 10th. Would he have to go too?
Give Mick at least one more season.
I need to comment on this ‘Nugget’ thing too. McCarthy was referring to Coventry fans, it is just the rest of you who transferred the label to yourselves. Genius.
90. NathanWolves
You are dead right!
But, other than writing on here or showing displeasure at the game, what can a fan do?
78. Ted
I think it’s been the most depressing season that I can remember, this hopeless mixup of players, position, favourites, tactics and unpleasantry directed at the fans is a low-point in my time as a Wolves fan.
**** MM OUT **** PAUL INCE IN ****
Naaaaaaaaahhhhh! says…
“I was it was poor but i can ask the same question as i thought the ground was full of mannequins (apart from the way you was ironicly cheering Kyle, Henry & Elliot off the pitch, which you came to life) no wonder no one wants to manage us you will stab his back in a heartbeat.”
I would get back to basics if I were you, short words (3 or 4 letters) and sentences. Then come back and have another go!
Twid 78, “Give McCarthy one more season” - are you serious? You can pay YOUR money every home game if you like, me…well I will stay away until McCarthy has gone, no longer will I pay to watch the drivel served up every other week!
I would not return to a restaurant if the food was bad nor would I buy anything more from a shop which would not replace faulty goods, so my stance is justified no matter what you may think! I will support the club, note the club win, lose or draw but I will NOT waste my money when what I see is not worth it!
Call me fickle if you like but I have my head screwed on unlike those who give out money as if it grew on trees!
Finally Nathan, great blog mate! No crap, just your opinion as always and don’t some people not like a straight opinion?
97. Twid78
You keep missing the point. Its the lack of quality fooball that was the final straw. Yes, we might fluke it into the playoffs. So, given a miracle we then went up. Then what? Another Sunderland debacle, that’s what! Even worse than the last time of misery we were in the Premiership. (But I did enjoy us beating Man. U!). No quality = no job!
Continual support of MM is quite pointless, he has ripped the club apart. Sunderland are only just recovering from what he did there. We need a builder not a bigot who even insults the fans and expects to get away with it.
WE pay his £1million a year wage, and he insults us!
MM just has not delivered, and if he stayed here another 10 years he wouldn’t deliver. That’s why we all want him away NOW, before he does anymore damage.
What about this abdon:
“MICK IZ CRAP HE NO MANAGA HE IZ RUBIZ BING IN BIG SAM HE IZ KEWL HIE IZ CLSS MANAGER WID AWSUM CADENTIALS AND STUFF LETS SIGN PETA COUCH TO PLY WID FREDI WE IZ GANN GET IN PREM 4 EVA N EVA I IZ BETA DAN MICK”
Is that better ?
I’m sorry my replys dont fit in with the rest of drivel that is being posted
Great blog nathan! spot on with everything you said.
I believe morgan has now got to stamp his authority on the club and have a total clear out of and freshen things up.
First of all moxey needs to go,he’s done a good job financially but he is not liked by wolves fans and it’stime for a change in that department.
McCarthy has got to go,i have no respect for this bloke at all. His arrogance,stubborness and more importantly lack of football management skills is alarming.The entire backroom has got to go aswell.If you see how many staff have left the club since mm has come i believe that tells us all is not well inside the molineux camp.
I would bring in Paul Ince as a manager and give him time to do the job of fixing mm mess.to often we go for premiership/international has beens managers.
Whatever you think of the season, and it’s been very disappointing let’s be honest, it’s nowhere near as embarrassing as many of the fans on here who think they have all the answers. What exactly has Eastwood done to gain all this idolatry apart from have a first name that the South Bank can just about manage to chant? Everyone want to be a football manager eh, I suggest you all stick to FM08.
I love the club, but a lot of the fans make me cringe.
well said captain oates.it ia infact WombourneWolf and the mm lovers who are the morons because if they are happy with the style of football and the position we are in they have a serious lack of brain cells
Life must be dull when you’re negative all of the time.
Nathan if 90% of Wolves fans want Mick sacked why have there not been Mick McCarthy Out chants at Molineux? The majority of Molineux is still very much pro-McCarthy whether you like it or not. Your blogs are a waste of time because they’re built on drivel and guess work, no fact!
The only negative people left are the ones that support McCarthy!
You can’t get much more negative than that!
Positive = ship him out and move on up, bring back the cheering to Molineux!
players pulling their positions out of a hat before the game, LOL! Good one bro
Wolvensam
Talking rubbish for England!
I can safely say that everyone who sits around me wants McCarthy gone!
Count the ‘McCarthy out’ posts on here, but then we’re all morons aren’t we!
Wolvensam 108, like I said to someone last week, you don’t have to read Nathan’s blog, nobody would shoot you if you didn’t… but there again?
109 - How is it negative actually backing the manager and players rather than booing them whenever one pass goes astray?
111 - Until I actually start hearing the chants in Molineux being belted out I will stand by the fact that the majority are still pro-McCarthy.
Wolvensam
GW
Naaaaaaaaahhhhh!
Twid78
stourbridgewolf
The voices of the ‘real’ fans!
Where is Grandfather Brereton today? He’s the voice of the happy clapper!
114. Wolvensam
You keep standing by those ‘facts’
I’m loving all the negative anti wolves comments.
The reason why the footbal is so poor, is obviously because of the Micheal Kightly’s injury, he is that “spark” we have missed he is to us what Cristiano Ronaldo is to Man Utd a irreplaceable player
One of the main ingredients which makes British Football what it is is the passion and emotions fans have for their teams, something that overseas observers comment on with envy.
HOWEVER, WHY ARE SO MANY OF US APPARENTLY INCAPABLE OF MARRYING THIS EMOTION AND PASSION WITH REASONED AND CONSIDERED DEBATE - SOMETHING THAT IS SADLY ONLY TO EVIDENT ON THIS PAGE, LED AT TIMES BY NATHAN?
Yes, many of us would agree that on the basis of the tripe we have had to endure this season - i.e. illogical team selections, apparent player favourtism, poor performances etc, that it would be highly unlikely that MM could turn things around for us this OR next season. However (Nathan and co), can we not get our frustrated opinions over without the hyperbole, (and as rightly pointed out by Del Woppia), the inaccuries of previous posts?
Fans would not be fans if we were not at times short sighted, fickle, and thought with our hearts rather than our heads. However, the degree to which we the vast majority of you on this blog do this is embarrasing at times.
As a season ticket holder for many years, I can say that MANY DO boo/chastise players who have not played well for us DURING games, despite effort. This is something that I find utterly appalling, and is something which really blights an otherwise grand club. If a player is not giving their all for the shirt (which has unfortunately appeared to be the case more than we would have hoped over the years), then by all means, let the player know. However, if a player is giving their all, but is consistantly not playing up to scratch - GET ON THE BACK OF THE MANAGER, (WHO AFTER ALL, HAS SELECTED THE PLAYER), AND NOT THE PLAYER HIMSELF! The sarcastic rants I heard on Tuesday about Henry DURING THE GAME is the latest case in point.
Another example of my point,(which goes a long way towards explaining why many clubs such as our own, and our national team, plays in the manner they do) is when supporters start getting restless, and begin barracking players; demanding the ball be hoofed out of our half when we try to retain possession of the football. (It is no surprise that nations such as Holland and others simply regard much of our football as STUPID, and that the national team is unable to keep hold of the ball for more that 5 passes…think about it)
Another example of the lack of reasoned postings on here is the manner in which others attack those who dare to disagree with the majority (see previous and no doubt subsequent postings). Good banter is in part what these postings are all about, but again (as with much of what I hear from Wolves fans), this is done with little thought…I mean really, why is Big Sams name being banded around when we have been lamenting the recently adopted style of long ball football at the wolves?
I am united with many that something needs to be done to turn things around, but maybe the club - i.e. Steve Morgan and Jez, would pay more attention to what we said if it was done with a little more considered thought as well as heart?
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Tired arguement.
Many - definately not me, I nearly cried when he was appointed - thought this about Hoddle.
I would love Ince to come here and do the job for us. But there is no guarentee. That is the fact Wolves fans need to realise. The first sustained difficult patch and all the moaners will be out.
This negative attitude has dogged Wolves for the best part of 30 years now.
As fans, our vocal, minless minority is too loud. Always has been, always will I fear.
Perhaps the best thing that could happen in the long-run would be a relegation to get rid of them.
Good blog Nathan (2 in a row lol). Agree with every point. I travelled a long way on Tuesday to watch that rubbish, the fans were patient I felt although the ‘band’ down by the South Bank didn’t help matters and only seemed to rile up everyone.
Henry was very poor, I can’t see how he can possibly start next Tuesday. Olofinjana hasn’t been at his best all season but it might be time to bring him back alongside Edwards, who I thought had a few good touches on the ball and actually moved the ball foward unlike Henry.
Kyle wasn’t bad but he shouldn’t be starting. I’d happily see Keogh or Freddy alongside SEB.
Will try and make the effort to get to a couple more home games before the end of the season, I still believe we can make it!
Don’t you think this is ironic, posted 5/11/04 on the guardian:
Wolves’ chief executive Jez Moxey has cast the first doubts on the chances of Gary Megson succeeding Dave Jones by stressing that the club’s next manager must send out a team that plays attractive football.
Wolves have received more than 100 applications for the job since Jones was sacked on Monday. The club’s next move is to compile a short list who satisfy three key criteria.
“We want somebody who can motivate our players,” Moxey said. “He will also have tactical skills which will give our football a style that befits our reputation and be what our supporters want to see.
“We want to have a team that is going to play attractive football, although the most important thing is winning.”
Right MOXEY we are now 3+ years later and nothing you said then has happenned. But don’t worry your fans and McCarthy’s are happy for it to carry on.
Spot on again Nathan - I wish Mr Morgan would wake up soon - can someone please give him a nudge?
Windsor Wolf
We had THREE consecutive relegations but most fans stuck with the team, and thank god they did!
Mancunian Wolf
Perhaps we should all send considered letters to Jez, I’m sure that will do the trick!
I can hear the Dutch laughing right now!
Langley wolf How dare you insult women supporters some women know as much about football as men i am a football fanatic i am also a sbsth
With all the dingle nuggets crying again you’d we are bottom of league or something, is that bad ?
No wonder we was voted most fickle fans at the prawn awards (yes, ahead of Newcastle and The Blouses !)
You are all negative anti wolves moaners and about 80% dont go to games who post (look at the time and date in the corner, it proves you was’nt, morons) can any dingle say anything positive ?
What a load of sheep! Nathan you are like the Pied Piper for the armchair witch hunt fan.
If the board bow down to these cries for Mick out and make a rash decision, then it would be a sign of incompitance and and a complete waste of resources over the last 18 months.
The ship is not sinking is it!
There is talent in both manager and players, they perform better away from home than at Mol, why, because its the poor home supporters who only have a one directional way of thinking like you and your sheep screaming for Micks head, pouring pressure and scorne on the team.
Think about it, how are you helping this team by fueling this debate.
In Mick I trust.
Darren Fergurson, Paul Ince… are you guys on mind bending drugs!
Yes Tuesday was awful and yes the season has been littered with all kinds of unforseen problems on and off the field, which has prevented this team to really get going. The injury list has been extraordinary at times. In the heat of the moment when a team loses the lead twice of cause folks are gonna get angry and shout for Micks head, but when the dust settles and common sense prevails ie two wins and a draw since Cardiff, most Wolves fans im speaking too want to keep McCarthy! 95 percent of fans want him out! Utter nonsense, its also impossible to prove, making your statement fictitious and highly unfactual.
Look opinions are opinions as I agreed with Abondonhopewolf. Fine, but lets have the facts not frustrated nonsense.
Although 48, seems to of surrendered his loyalty, I think he has a more interesting point.
We are Wolves.
Spot on Nate, totally agree with you mate.
I think through the season, you have like most of us tried to give Mick the benefit of the doubt, but now you’ve come to realize that even with a lot better results, and even the unlikely prospect of promotion, Micks overall contribution to this club is very much to question.
Where is his long term strategy?
What are his goals
I think, even with the critic aimed at former Wolves managers such as Mark McGhee and Graham Taylor, they still had a very clear idea about how to play. It might not always be a succes, but at least you could se what they aimed at trying.
Taylor with his “high balls wide” philiosophy, and McGhee with his “pass to feet” mentality, and both of them had long term strategies. Taylor mostly known for laying the foundations for our youth policy.
Mick just seem to have no idea at all.
Why do we all the sudden employ a long ball tactic, when it’s obvious to everyone that it doesnt work, and why is he changing tactics all the time?
Comment 126. Injury list….. “like who” Kites, Murray. thats about it becasue there is no way you can say that Mark Davies or Lewis Gobern if fit would get in the Irish/Sunderland wanderers. Not a chance!
This season from the summer has gone rapidly downhill, all the good work from MM has been wasted by his incompetence!
MM OUT!
Mick’s philosophy of buying every striker available in the country until one of them comes good has finally paid off.
LMFAO hillarious!
great blog hundred percent agree. Nothing else needs to be said
I think even the most pro-MM fans on here are struggling to really justify why he should stay anymore.
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Take off those dingle tinted sunglasses
Of course Gobern would be ahead of Elliott (Mick has said Gobern & Davies are the most gifted youngsters he has ever seen, last season) your just a bitter dingle who wants nothing but failure for us, because if we was sucessful you would’nt be happy and your only happy when your moaning :).
Thanks to everyone for your comments today, one of the best debates for weeks on the blog!