Mick McCarthy believes defeat at Deepdale summed up Wolves’ failings this season – as he admitted his side are way off the standard he set for them.
They suffered their first defeat in four games at Preston, but it was once again frustrating stuff from Wolves who took the lead but were pegged back after conceding another contentious spot kick.
And, reflecting on another setback in his side’s bid for the play-offs, boss McCarthy believed there was not much wrong with his side’s display apart from familiar failings in front of goal which cost them dear.
“I thought the performance as a whole was OK. When we scored the goal we were on top and we should have gone on and finished it,” he said.
“But perhaps that has been the story of our season – missed chances and not scoring enough goals.
“Andy Keogh came in and scored a good goal and Sylvan has added to us, but in general and overall we’ve not had enough goals from every department.
“We’re not where I want us to be – far, far from it. I wanted to be top and ten points clear but we’re nowhere near.”
Although they lost no ground on the top six, the Championship table continues to make for miserable reading for fans, who have seen their side slip to 11th.
And, while McCarthy is acutely aware of the position they find themselves in, he is refusing to add to the pressure on his team by commenting publicly on it.
“I have said that I’m not getting wrapped up in that. We’ll go to Burnley and see if we can win that and try and keep ourselves in the hunt until the very end,” he said.
“I am fully aware of where we are in the league table. But it doesn’t help us to get wrapped up in that.”
Wolves have a fresh injury worry over Dave Edwards – who was taken off at half-time with a groin problem.
Kevin Kyle and Freddy Eastwood missed out through illness last night.
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” Now is the winter of our discontent ”
Grump.
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“Missed chances and not scoring enough goals”. Couldn’t agree more. Lets have a goal feast for the remaining games!
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So, it seems, he does look at the table. Why, when he has so much experience, does he
send out so many mixed messages. If he can’t be consistent he should keep his trap shut.
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Blimey its only March 11th and Mick has looked at the League Table….six weeks earlier than he recently promised to do !!
Maybe there is hope after all ?
Next he may address players playing out of position and strikers sitting on the bench since August ?
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not if but when we end up 9th this season is it ince or big sam who is going to come in.
anybody heard anything?
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Kevin Kyle and Freddy Eastwood missed out through illness last night.
Kyle with a stiff neck & eye strain looking for those skyward balls & poor Freddie got frostbite sitting on the Bench!
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I cannot believe this season! Mick says when he came here we were favourites to get relegated, which is rubbish, but he doesn’t mention that this season we were favourites to win promotion and we are no where near. Even if we start winning and made the play-offs I’d be embarrassed for the other teams and we wouldn’t get all the way anyway. This season has been so boring its untrue,I think were lucky to be where we are, yet I’ve still renewed my season ticket!! That’s because Wolves are in my blood and Mick is making it boil. GET LOST MICK! Show some guts Steve and get rid of all the old backroom staff, put your stamp on Wolves and spend some money on talent!
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Micks earlier comments about not looking at the league table should be enough to get him the sack.
Shocking. I didn’t know he was that stupid.
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WULF, agree completely with “Mick says when he came here we were favourites to get relegated, which is rubbish, but he doesn’t mention that this season we were favourites to win promotion and we are no where near” good point
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Seriously !!
As I have said on numerous occasions, the reason the guy “says” he doesn’t look at the table is to not create any more pressure than there already is - that should be plainly obvious, and who really cares, there are far more pressing issues on the pitch to be discussed rather than picking holes in every single statement that mm makes :
1) 4-5-1 away from home when we MUST win ?!?!
2) Elliott for Jarvis yet yet yet yet yet yet again ?!?!
3) Eastwood - sick last night, but hello mm - you talk of wanting more goals ?!?!?
4) Jones still not getting a look in ?!?!?!
5) The quite frankly neglective approach to buying a half decent centre back in both pre season and during the transfer window !!!!!
6) the blatant favourtism - for a while I didn’t believe this was happening, but Henry, Elliott, Collins etc constantly being played when they are out of form and end up taking the wrath of the fans.
7) The signing of Kevin Kyle ?!!?!??!!?!?!?
I see Moxey is now rolling Kightly out at the next fans parliament - he’s a sly old dog is Moxey, putting out the big fans favourite, a kid in reality, he will do nothing but be positive and quell any possible remenstrations that fans have, and you cant blame th epoor guy for doing it.
Cant wait to see how he spins the early bird results…
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They think it’s all over………….. It is now!
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I was going to comment about McCarthy not looking at the league table but 2 of you have beaten me to it. What utter tosh he talks but the best one is “I decided to change to 4-4-2 to try and winn the game.” Says it all really.
I don’t want to make much of a comment about his appearance on TV at the weekend but I noticed something which I found bothered me. Did anyone else notice how he was sitting in his seat. This is a tall man who was slouching low in that chair, almost like he was lying on the sofa at home not on national TV. Could that have been arrogance? Any comments?
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I’ll be the first to admit I have many things wrong with me.Arthritis, Asthma, Angina, Spinal canal stenosis etc.
Mick’s only got 2 things wrong with him.
A Bad side & a bad attitude.
The Fat Lady’s gargling……
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morgan was in milan last night watching liverpool i think that sums it up
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Sorry Mick, not good enough, we’ve been patient, we’ve kept spending our money to watch a poor football team. It’s time for you to go mate, you’ve lost the supporters, you’ve lost the dressing room, it’s only a matter of time before you lose your job !!! Paul Ince is the obvious but here’s a surprise what about Richard Money !?!?!
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I think what comes back to haunt us is McIndoe when he left for Bristol City, and he said that they had the ambition and set up to make it, and Wolves did not (ie McCarthy). We all scoffed at that, didn’t we? Today they are in a far better position to make the playoffs, given they would have to lose games to get there!
Old boss Jones has his team in the FA Cup semis although they have less chance of a playoff than us.
‘Fraid it’s already another season watching the others do what we ought to do.
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Summed up nicely mick. its wot most of us ave been bitching about all season. we are crap and we know we are.
Wulf, you took the words out of my mouth -
Get Lost Mick !
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hi kent, daint know you was disabled mate,you got all those things wrong with you and you wanted a fight in the pub saturday night,i dont think id have put my money on you mate, boing boing
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It’s easy to see why were where we are we have brought no quality, every player has come from someone els’s reserves or league 1. The fact he has purchased so many of his “old mates” proves to me he either isn’t capable of finding his own players or the scouting systems no good. For me it will be etched on my brain “i will not bring anyone to the club who is not better than what we already have”.
5 season ticket holders in our works and everyone thought we’d lose last night.
Kent Wolf i think i hear that fat lady as well.
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MORGAN WAS IN MILAN watching Liverpool, is that for sure.
If it is i think we need a new owner as well as a new CEO and a new manager.
How are we ever going to get anywhere if the boss is off watching another team. (Don’t care if he has supported them all his life). He should be back here sorting out the mess that is at Molineux at the moment.
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How’s this for summing up our season -RUBBISH! Moxey & McCarthy OUT NOW, the fault is all yours.
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i dont think the financial backer has to even like football… it’s what we do with their money that counts.
mick is incompetant, at premiership, and clearly championship level too - he should go (he should have gone already)
moxy as much as i hate him, has nevertheless managed the books pretty effectively - keeping us out of trouble.
All we need is a new manager and 1 or 2 players in midfield and defence. The nucleus is there (has been all along)
A rejivenated team and positive approach should see us a top 2 team next season. but we need to start now.
COME ON YOU WOLVES
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6,driver,will you give me a lift to wembley in your lorry please boing boing going to wembley in a lorry
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i didnt go to the preston match, but did i hear the wolves fans singing we want mad mick out???????
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Quote MM ”
“But perhaps that has been the story of our season – missed chances and not scoring enough goals.
Yet he kill the confidence of F.Eastwood a natural goal scorer early in the season.
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Amongst his many man-management errors this year, Mick has made the one cardinal sin that Dave Jones aslo made and that is to alienate the fans. He thinks we are ignorant of all things football, when for most of us the opposite is true. In general, Wolves fans are knowledgeable about the game and therein lies his problem. He cannot pull the wool over our eyes and to blame us for his (and the team’s) shortcomings is unforgiveable. At least with Glen Hoddle, he kept his talking all about football and didn’t blame the fans. Although Big Sam is a likeable character, born & bred in Dudley, I don’t think we’d enjoy watchin’ his stuff - bring on Incey - he would galvanise the fans and get evryone pulling the right direction.
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What an utter embarassment Wolves have become and that is mainly down to McCarthy. This is probably the lowest quality championship ever and yet we find ourselves marooned in mid table with an absolutely appalling goals scored ratio. In the main the players are poor to average, the defence is aged and immobile, the midfield is non exisitent and the forwards generally inept. Young raw talent has been discarded and replaced by journeymen (O Connor, Gleeson, Davies, Little, Jones), seemingly good buys Foley, Edwards, Keogh have gone backwards presumably because of the coaching at WWFC and some players notably Eastwood but Jarvis and Bothroyd as well have beendiscarded in favour of Mccarthy’s favourites such as Elliot and Stephen Ward.The owner seems disinterested, the Chief Executive seems quite happy to run an average CCC side with reasonable attendances and the players many of whom are probably the best paid outside the premiership are very happy to apolgise to the fans but not to perform on the pitch and of course to keep collecting their wages.We capitulated to cardiff in the cup without even a whimper and we are doing the same in the league. Even when we have won the perofrmances have been largely inept and only Albion and Cardiff away stand out as matches where we actaully performed. Compare us to the likes of Albion, Cardiff and Barnsley over the weekend and you can see what is wrong with WWFC.From the top too many people picking up too much money for underperforming.
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“i changed to 442 at half time to try and win the game” what a joker.enough is enough get rid of this complete moron.loyal wolf sick to death of watching this garbage and listening to this idiot. FOR GODS SAKE GET RID MORGAN
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24,tipton, that was daz hale,boing boing baggie baggie
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Yep Incey for manager, but would Moxey use his arrogance to deter him. Especially after they screwed the man over before McCarthy got the job.
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28,man,he shud have changed it to 1-1-8 to try n get a goal boing boing
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I THINK WE ALL NEED A REALITY CHECK HERE . WE ARE A MILLION MILES AWAY FROM BEING ANYWHERE NEAR GOOD TO COMPETE IN THE PREMIERSHIP . JUST IMAGINE WHAT WORLD CLASS PLAYERS WOULD DO TO US - ON SECOND THOUGHTS LET’S NOT GO THERE . THE CHAMPIONSHIP THIS SEASON HAS BEEN POOR AT BEST , I’VE YET TO SEE A GOOD TEAM SO IF WE ARE STRUGGLING NOW HOW ON EARTH ARE WE GOING TO BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE PREMIERSHIP IN 5 MONTHS TIME ???
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” weather ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ” ( It was the ref’s fault again; the weather was awful, the pitch was bad, we didn’t score enough goals again and the fans didn’t help).
” or by opposing, end them ” ( Put out a well-balanced team of in form players who can switch from defense to attack at speed, with goalscorers in the team; and attack. Better to die gloriously in battle than a long, painful illness).
” is that a dagger I see before me? ” ( As Morgan approaches).
” Et tu Brutus ” ( As Moxey snatches it out of Morgans hand; ( ‘it’s you or me , buddy’ ) as he plunges the dagger in the heart ).
” the king is dead ” ( Oh, happy day )
“long live the King” ( Enter stage right, to raptureous applause, Paul Ince ).
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we were always going to struggle through a lack of one or possibley two godd defenders and the failure to bring Eastwood in for a run of games[what the hell did we buy him for?]also bringing in favourites of MM and not looking at their ability.I don`t think I could change my opinion that MM should go NOW and Allardyce brought in and maybe,just maybe we could still get in the playoffs.Mr.Morgan take heed.
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you can’t play ebanks blake up front on his own! it just doesn’t work, i’m no coach it’s just common
sense mick!! sort it out mick, i don’t look 4ward to going to wolves games at the moment!!
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i disagree MM is doing a great job! seriously though, for MM to say he wanted to be 10 points clear at the top by now says it all, he really is in a dreamland. i genuinly want WBA and u guys to go up fly the flag and get us on the map again, the bigger picture is though, your beloved kites wont stay forever and the talent you have if very limited will fly the nest. good luck all the same. boing boing in paradise!
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MOTOWN BOY:
THE CHAMPIONSHIP THIS SEASON HAS BEEN POOR?
You been on the Vimto?
Remind me again how many Prem teams left in the FA Cup?
Yes, the season as been poor yet again if you support the Gold & Black side from the Black Country, but others may beg to differ.
Mick said he wanted three years to turn things round.He’s got one left,but in all honesty,I don’t think he will last that long!
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Comment 18 terrywalsallbaggie:
Who said anything about fighting?
All I did was give Les Mitton Moxley & other people the opportunity to air their grievances with me face to face.
Mind you in the past I’ve given & taken one or two good hidings!
The only person who popped over to say Hi was Laurie Driver.
p.s. I had my back covered!
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Please Mr Morgan get rid of this typically arrogant South Yorkshire man the most bloody minded, self
opinionated belligerant man we have had the displeassure of employing. My dad used to say “you can
tell a yorkshireman, but you cant tell him much” Enough said
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Kent Wolf,,,, ‘eh wtf
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I remember that look on McCarthy’s face in the picture above. It’s the same one as when Sunderland performed at the bottom of the Prem when he was in charge of them. They just kept falling and falling - sound familiar? Go and manage Barnsley.
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SJH did a lot for ww and I thank him, however i wonder if he sold the club to the wrong guy
with the wrong reasons, ie keeping Moxey and MM and staff on, sure that souness would
have Booted them out from day one. If Morgan was in Italy just about sums us up,
however with Mad Micks team i would have gone to Italy to avoid that dribble last night.
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ill have a tenner on kent wolf against twb
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SUPERSTARDJWOLVES:
See post 27 http://www.expressandstar.com/2008/03/05/wolves-chief-left-seething/
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i will have a tenner on terry,finest fly weight around or was it fly fisher cos he as caught so many today,,,DOING THE DOUBLE THE MOWBRAY WAY,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,OH YES
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hey worcester, tell they best not mess about with me,boing boing
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terrywalsallbaggie:
Lets make it a drinking contest…..lol
everybody else pays.
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There is a sickness in this club that won’t go away just by getting rid of MM. Nobody likes working there much, working for Moxey the spin doctor is not a pleasant experience, so I am told.
Moxey has reduced us to this level, although he may have made the club a lot of money this season, and as the owner its all Morgans!
I don’t think we are anything other than a Championship money-making machine owned by somebody who’d rather watch another team play than his own!
I will pick and choose my matches next season. That will save me a lot of money. Of course, if the unthinkable happens and there is a spring clean-out then I can be persuaded to pay full for a season ticket.
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“Defeat sums up season: Wolves boss”
The idiot, that defeat sums up his whole career. Everything he does always ends in tears.
Unfortunately, its our tears as well on this occasion. Mostly frustration at watching idiot decisions having their inevitable results.
If Morgan bought Wolves as an investment, as others are saying, then this is an impossible situation. How do you sack the club owner?
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If we are already talking replacement managers I would like to suggest Gus Poyet. Leeds have stuttered since he left. He is an intelligent coach and would bring with him years of experience in the top flight and he is not bound by the normal shortcomings of the English game. It might take something to prize him away from Spurs though.
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I’ve supported Wolves for 50years and this has to be one of the most depressing seasons.MM bemoans the lack of goals -well if you only play one up and have box to box hod carriers in midfield instead of at least one really creative player who can put his foot on the ball and make thinks happen what do you expect!
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London Wolf sums it up perfectly in 10. No doubt Elliott was “excellent” again last night. A total farce and beyond a joke!
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Did you see that report on the last M.K. Don’s match, where it was reported that Paul Ince left the field in an angry mood because the team only won 2-1. He wanted a half-dozen, and the team did not give it to him!
How jealous I am of M.K. Dons having a manager of the ilk of Alex Ferguson and several other Premiership managers who live at that level of passion and commitment. But Paul learned at the feet of the best managers of our generation.
The Guv’nor wants to manage us, and has stated it publicly. Mr Morgan, if you are going to be the owner of an achieving Premiership team, then get the REAL gaffer aboard!
Retaining McCarthy for another year tells us all we need to know about where Wolves are going!
OUT OF DARKNESS COMETH PAUL INCE!
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Our management structure needs to alter. We have got left behind by more progressive clubs.
We need a director of football, who can make recommendations on the latest and greatest in the football world. We are still embedded in the early 1990’s.
Our training is obviously wrong, as so many of our players spend time having operations and in rehab. Something is wrong here. We are so far behind the Chelseas, Arsenals and man. U’s in looking after the health of our players. We pay a heavy price for this neglect.
Mr Morgan, please make it happen!
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Mick should have stayed with some of the kids. Now he’s lost the fans, and blowed a good goalscorer in freddy. I fancy he’ll be gone before Freddy. However Ince has done nothing. Billy Davies?
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never mind our failings in front of goal mick what about the ones we keep conceding. you never seem to mention those do you oh well we could always sign another couple of strikers to play centre half ay!
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See Ya Mick… Morgan has been very quiet, must be planning a big clear out in the summer, MM, Moxey & most of the backroom lot too, bring back Ince as manager, a job he wanted from the get go!!
Then next season we can look forward to seeing some of our Academy talent actually being given a chance in the 1st team & develop as players, no pressure on us & who knows…
I can dream eh……….
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Wolves could only fill two coaches to Preston I went but thats it till Till Motormouths gone ,He actually praised on tv Barnsley for tanking us for last two seasons ,You couldnt make it up .Scarfer Dave
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I cant believe what I read on hear somtimes,No 12
you must be a very very sad person to ask people if they thought MM was lolling, put a question to the Fans Parliment to ask MK if the Boss dribbles when he eats his lunch. How sad has this site become
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