Mick McCarthy is ready to unleash Andy Keogh at Turf Moor after praising his impact as a substitute.
The Molineux hitman has been impressive after stepping off the bench in Wolves’ last two games – scoring a fine goal at Preston to build on a good display against Southampton. Wolves boss McCarthy admits he withdrew Keogh from action because he wasn’t scoring enough, but two excellent cameo appearances have put him in line for a recall.
Keogh is battling with Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, Kevin Kyle, Jay Bothroyd and Freddy Eastwood for a starting role at Burnley – with McCarthy toying with a move back to two up front.
“Andy came on and made a good impact. That was the impact I wanted from him having left him out of the side,” he said.
“He has just got on with his job since he’s been left out and I’ve been happy with the way he’s responded.”
With McCarthy choosing to play a 4-5-1 formation in Wolves’ last five away games, Keogh has had to play second fiddle to Ebanks-Blake.
The Wolves boss explained his decision to drop Keogh was because of his goal ratio, which was low at the start of the season.
It has improved since the turn of the year, and McCarthy is keen for that to continue after his goalscoring impact against Preston.
“If you look at his goals scored this season it’s not been enough,” he said.
“If he adds that to his game he’s a brilliant player because his all round game is terrific in terms of his pace, his workrate and what he brings to the team. ”
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To be honest Mick, you dropped Keogh when he had scored something like 5 goals in 4 games. Neverhteless, glad to hear this news. When you have got a player like Keogh, you need to build the team around him. Quality player, that just lacked that goal-scoring touch. Maybe he is finding that touch now.
What I dont understand is that he scored five goals last season, which was obviously sufficient as Mick played him regularly. Stuttering start this time nad Mick starts him. Then the goals start to go in and he’s dropped…
Anyways, some good news here!
So mick,
Kyles Goals scored since the start of his career hasnt been anywhere near enough yet you still signed him/play him.
Joker.
freddie was scoring for fun when you dropped him, and he’s never had a look in since. even when he comes off the bench and impresses, i.e cardiff and saints for example. you couldn’t manage a “p” up in a brewery you usless northern muppet,
GO AWAY AND LEAVE OUR CLUB ALONE!!!!!!!
We will need more than handy andy. There by hangs the problem, we are sadly lacking in goalscorers apart from SEB and the occasional one from AK and the very odd one from Elliot where are the goals coming from.
Unfortunately the defence isn’t doing too well either. All this means CHAMPIONSHIP next season and likely the one after that.
I still don’t see a settled team, goals or respectable defence. True we have some good young players, but so do Arsenal - young players that play with passion, score goals and defend like their lives depend on it and play with spirit and commitment.
What are we to do?
Another pig just flew past my window clutching a straw.
Hey, Muppet Mick is going for the Pay Offs…that’s right the pay off’s whereby he constantly picks the worst teams, plays the worst football and is arrogant and stuborn. Jez then gives him an improved contract and he gets a fat payout for failure. Nice one Moxey, Nice one Wolves!
I have stopped listening to anything he says
Dead man walking MM, this block is a complete idiot.
Younger managers are making mad Mick look stupid,its like we are back in the Late 80s/early 90s.
And Eddie build a team round Keogh sorry dont see that, dont think that this lad is the quality needed
to get in the prem, and thats what the building should be all about.
IMO Keogh should play every single game, he makes things happen for us.
He creates chances, runs his heart out, hurries defenders and never gives up.
He may not sore many goals but he will score 10-12 goals a season if you play him every game as well as setting up just as many.
Him and Kightly were the two making it happen for us last season.
so keogh’s an impact sub player, why don’t you keep him like that, bring him on for last 20-30mins of every game cus he’s full of energy n makes a difference, n start someone like bothroyd anlongside ebanks-blake?! and mick we are wolves we should be going to places 4-4-2 every week looking for the win bcus we’re not the likes of burnley but we soon will be if you don’t clear off!! and for god sake karl henry is useless, surely gleeson would do a better job.
Sorry, I can’t even listen to him anymore!
It is a must win, so we need to be as attacking as we can.
Injuries permitting this is the side I would go with:-
Hennessey Foley Craddock Breen Elokobi Elliot Olifijana Edwards Jarvis Keogh Ebanks-Blake
And before any of you have a go, we cannot carry on with Collins, we have both of our quality wide men injured and we have little choice but to recall George. Henry and Potter needs dropping and Gibson has been disappointing.
Mick must tell them that they are playing for their shirts and to be here next season!
muppet mick says koegh’s goal ratio has not been good this season,ok he’s right but neither have the other strikers either apart from sylvian, but im sure given a decent run in the team and i know a lot of fans keep saying it, but muppet has to play FREDDIE. PS.MCARTHY OUT,THIS HAS TO BE THE WORST FOOTBALL IVE SEEN IN MY 38 YEARS AS A WOLVES FAN,WORSE THAN THE BHATTIS.
“unleash Andy Keogh” is thatlike the Taliban announcing they are to unleash Mounted Camels …
Keogh, to be fair, is a good player, but lacking experience, now the headline “Mick Ready to unleash Freddy” would have raised an eyebrow or two…
Mick, honestly, no one knows what the hell you are doing, or closer to the point, what you are still doing at our club.
GET LOST !
Of course Elliott has an awesome goalscoring record!One set of rules for your favourites another set for the outsiders!
As far as I can see the only players who are likely to score on a regular basis is those who have proved it on a regular basis by their records and that is SEB and Freddy. AK’s okay for his effort and his movement but he don’t know where that sprout bag is on a regular basis, he was the provider at sunny scunny not the main man that was Billy Sharp. But an impact player off the bench? I don’t think so.
at start of season,mick said he knew keogh didnt score a lot, but wasnt bothered because of work rate was so good!!! DROPPED when he didnt score, but was scoring, if you know what i mean.
then he said freddy needs to up his work rate and not just score!!!DROPPED because he was scoring and didnt want to run about.
then he comes out and says players are what they are, dont try and turn them into something else, they are what they are! speaking about kyle.
so hang on players are what they are, dont try and change them??????
this confirms to me MM (mad Mick) as lot the plot. every week he changes what he says.
one word: TOOL
Usually the Panto season stops around January ! At least at Wolves we have been fortunate to see it extended by MM.
Words fail me at times !
This arrogant imbecile is spouting more and more crap with each passing day. If we lose Fred becuase of his stubborness and incompetance, he’d better invest in an armoured car.
Freddy has Impressed every time he has come off the bench, yet he doesnt even get a mention.
SEB, Freddy and Keogh are a force to be reckoned with - WE CAN ALL SEE IT WHY FIOR THE LOVE OF COMMON SENSE ARE WE FORCED TO WITNESS THIS BS ???????
What did he say, all I heard was Blah blah blah blah.
So far he has dropped strikers just when they have hit form and then came up with a poor excuse.
Or I played so and so because he puts a good shift in and works hard. Goals! Goals win games. Winning games = a better position in the league.
But then there is no point scoring 9 goals to concede 10, owing to the poor defending.
MM just talks out of arse! How can we keep a consistent team if he keeps dropping players and then recalling him. Play players who are good in systems, not drop them will nilly.
I do believe is AK is a good player but as an out and out striker, he would do well sit in behind the front two of SEB & Freddie with Kites, Gleeson & Jarvis as a 3 man midfield. Gleeson as the holding player pulling the strings. It would also give licence for Foley & Gray to bomb forward from the back and overlap whidch the 4-5-1 system doesnt allow them to do. Anyway what do I know I am only a nugget who cares passionately about the club.
Nothing like telling Burnley how we are going to play 48 hours before we arrive there !
If we are going into the playoffs (fat chance) we have to win games. The fact that MM is seriously thinking of going for draws with a 5-5-1 formation shows an amazing ability to disregard reality. On a 4-5-2 formation can do if we are to take seriously his claim of wanting to win!
Play Keogh and Sylvan up front and let them have a couple of games together, then pass judgement.
Of course, Freddie Eastwood should be in there, but I have given up on the hope of MM ever having the sense to forget whatever it was that started the spate and think of the fans first!
What is going to be intereting shortly is to see the stampede of players wanting to leave Molineux. OK, we pay well for a Championship team, but the mental torture of working for egotist like McCarthy, who just makes it up as he goes along, must have made some want to find a better club for next season.
OK, there are many that I won’t be sad to see go, but if our best ones want away, then we are right back where we started.
Well Elliott and Keogh were your first choice strike partnership anyway.
Or has that changed now several times?
8. Jake
“A dead man walking” says it all. If McCarthy is kept on, then its just for commercial reasons. There is no way he can hold down the job based on his performance.
The key question is whether Steve Morganwill take this once-only oppurtunity to have a thorough spring-clean, or wheteher he accepts Moxey’s advice to retain the status-quo!
Without a thorough spring-clean we will continue to be a dysfunctional club, no ambition or goals, no plan and rely on Moxey’s spinning to keep paying customers coming to watch this near 1st Division football.
right ill do your job for you mick-
sell bothroyd (make money out of him)
send kyle back (we just dont need him)
pick SEB and AK upfront with FE on the bench or just behind the 2. keep Elliot on the wing (he is actually a very good winger!)
now i have sorted out your mess, get on with it
Ref: 26 its in the blood.
For all the Spinning Moxey does he should be in the Harlem Globetrotters.
MM should be a MP with all the porkies he tells.
That leaves Morgan as probably Timothy from “SORRY”.
Purhaps other jobs could be thought up by the readers.
If i was a manager and i heard thousands of people telling me the same thing(play freddy)(drop collins), i’d think mayb im wrong and it’s obvious to everyone but me!! but he still doesn’t think he’s doing anything wrong
which is all he’s doin, can’t u tell by the lack of super super mick chants that no1 likes u and u
shud sod off to korea. . .it’s lovely this time of year!!
27) what the muppet woul rather do:
• sell Freddy (he just doesnt get on with of him)
• send kyle a Wolvo Home buyers guide (we just dont need him living too far away if he’s gonna be with us forever)
•pick SEB upfront with AK on the bench or just play 6 in middle of the park.
• Play Cadbury Easter Bunny on the wing (He is great at recruiting the young fans!
Wish we could sign that Kightly guy again !! ;-(
NUGGETS R US!!
I have a lot more faith in you as manager than Mick. You’ve already made more sense than Mick has all season!
Simon
I AGREE TO 27.
FROM MIDFIELD -FORWARD PLAY A 4-3-1-2
JARVIS ELLIOTT ON THE WINGS EDWARDS IN THE MIDDLE
KEOGH JUST BEHIND FREDDY AND SEB.I FEEL THOUGHTOUT THE SEASON KEOGH’S WORKRATE HAS BEEN FANTASTIC AND WITH HIM PLAYING A FREEROLE JUST BEHIND THE FRONT 2 THAT IS WHAT I CALL POURING WITH GOALS
BUT NEVERMIND ITS TO LATE.I HOPE ITS NOT
COME ON ME BABBIES
I agree with “brummie rob wolves”
totally and utterly……
sick of all the whinging etc let’s just win win win
Never mind handy andy - you need Bob the builder too….
I actually think we need the big bad wolf to come and blow this whole house down and make the 3 little pigs run for thier lives.
Least then we can build from scratch … and I mean build from scratch. Backroom staff, caterers the lot.
Instead of wasting millions on players lets waste millions on a decent set up. lets get our players into tip top shape, lets get them eating the proper food. Lets get ba good physio. Lets get a good footballing coach, and then lets get a good manager.
Happy_baggie:
Bob the buider could’nt fix this mess,let alone Jimmy Saville!
Keogh made the mistake of scoring 4 goals in 5 games in January. That is no way to keep your place in this team sonny! Also MM said that in Ebanks Blake and Keogh he had found his best striking partnership. Within a week he went out and got Kevin Kyle and the ‘best’ partnership haven’t played up front together since. Keogh was first moved out to the right wing then dropped.
Actually I think MM was right in saying Ebanks Blake and Keogh are the best striking partnership and only Eastwood is worth considering from the other strikers. The problem is that MM says these things then does something different. If he listened to his own advice, as well as some of the nuggets, then he might be a manager worth keeping.
“unleash Andy Keogh”
YOU’RE TAKING THE P***! BURNLEY MUST BE TREMBLING IN THEIR BOOTS!
NOW LETS SEE, IS 5 LEAGUE GOALS PROLIFIC FOR A STRIKER! ME THINKS NOT.
NOT FIT TO WEAR THE No.9
Kent - YES HE CAN !!!
NO 27-NUGGETT-Sorry mate-but to even suggest ELLIOT is a very good winger-NO WAY.No disrepect to WALSALL but he is not good enough for them,let alone us!!
Who in their right mind would want to manage a club with a fan base ( if these comments are anything to go by) as critical and entrenched with negativity such as ours? People should forget the Mad Mick comments, our next manager may well have to be completely insane to put up with the tripe posted on these boards. Give it two months and Ince will be insane Ince - Nuggets.
It’s all or nothing from now on, no more of this 4-5-1 business. How about this (bar injuries).
Hennessey
Henry RB
Breen
Craddock
Gray LB
Jarvis L MF
Olifinja Central MF
Edwards Central MF
Keogh R MF
Eastwood Off Seb
Ebanks Blake in front of FE
Subs
Collins CB & FB cover
Kyle impact change of style
Potter to pass and relieve Edwards
Edwards defensive cover
Ward cover for Jarvis, Freddie, Keogh
Note: no Goalie sub, its all or nothing, how many times is a goalie subbed? Take the risk, keep outfield options open.
pondlife - your name says it all really, bottom feeding underachiever type
you cannot be as incompetant as mick mccarthy and not expect harsh criticism
anyone who comes in, with an ounce of common sense, will earn the respect and patience of the wolves faithful.
now quit the wind ups
41.Pondlife.
Mick has brought this all on himself. Wolves fans have been tolerant & supportive of pretty well all previous managers & their teams, and will be again after Mick finally moves on.
Paul Ince would be given a very fair ‘honeymoon’ because of his passion for the Wolves as a player, his successful start to his managerial career, and more than anything…HE ISN’T MICK!
It was clear to see Ince was a great leader & motivator on the pitch, with great tactical awareness…which is why he was captain of England. We only saw him at the end of his playing career, but he still made a huge difference. Its true he’s managing a lower level club…but what more could he do than take an obscure club straight to the top. Would the step up really be too much…the mouth watering challenge trying not to lose to Hull & Colchester.
Mick out. Ince in!
Simon
I only hope that Freddy doesn’t leave us at the end of this disastrous campaign as i am sure whoever takes over from Mad Mick will realise the potential of the man and his abilities to provide us with the goals we have been looking for. Mick, pick up your cards and ask Incey if he will do a swap with you!!!
PONDLIFE, ALL I CAN SAY IS JEZ LOVES FANS LIKE YOU.
Baaaaaaaa, Baaaaaaaaa!
Ad mant - The name was a refernce to your intelligence. The post wasn’t meant as a wind up, just a different point of view from the normal idiotic ramblings. Fair enough Mick does deserve criticism, but anything he says these days is twisted to stroke peoples fragile egos. It wasn’t that long ago that people refererred to Mick as Merlin!! Now surely that demonstrates my point that posters such as yourself are as fickle as our reputation suggests.
Why, Why, Why Mick McCarthy?
Bye, Bye, Bye Mick McCarthy.
So before, You mess-up our team any more,
Good bye McCarthy you’re not welcome here anymore.
So bye, bye, bye Mick McCarthy,
Bye, bye, bye Jez Moxey,
So before, they mess-up our club anymore,
Come on Mr Morgan, Kick Moxey and Mick out the door.
Pondlife - 41
Well said. The criticism is well over the top and has been for some time.
Yes we have been poor for most of this season but that does not warrant the kind of hatred that’s prominent on these boards just lately.
2 b far 2 keogh wen e as cum on as a sub e as probably been our best player and the lack of goals has nothing nothing to do with it because e the clubs top scorer xx
46 - Hmmmm. Not the brightest are you? You accuse me of been easily led? My comments are at odds with the vast majority of posts on here. Now it’s a little difficult to understand your point, having caps lock doesn’t help. But If you are suggesting that spin generated by the clubs heirachy is affecting my opinion then i’m afraid your wrong. So what i’m basically saying is that it is YOU who is in fact blindly following the masses. Feel free to retort when you have a basic grasp of the engilsh language.
Hennessey
Lb - Elokobi
Rb - Foley
Cb - Craddock
Cb - Breeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen
Lw - Jarvis
Cm - Olifinjana
Rw - Edwards
Am - Keogh
Cf - SEB
Cf - Eastwood!
That team wud get promoted easy
MORGAN OUT !
more mad ramblings from mad mick. he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
how many times have we heard similar things this season.
every time he opens his mouth utter rubbish comes out, nothing he says makes sense to anyone else and leaves himself open to being ridiculed and his words come back to haunt him.
i am sick of it, just shut up mick, you cam’t fix it or don’t know how so i hope you do the decent thing and leave, but he won’t and morgan will have to bite the bullet and sack him.
come on the wolves
Don’t know about Handy Andy, more like Andy Pandy.
MM out now.
I have a comment regarding Paul Ince. Why not get him as our next manager, so what he has limited experience. How much experience did Roy Keane have before he took over at Sunderland, got them promoted from an impossible posistion and now looks like he will keep them in the Prem.
Just a thought…………
Message to the dingles !!!
4-3-1-2 = a good old hammering from our opponents , with one midfielder we will be getting ripped apart in midfield and you say MM has no tactical nouse