Molineux could be completely rebuilt under ambitious plans to increase its capacity to 40,000.
Wolves owner Steve Morgan wants to make the stadium a more intimidating venue for the opposition and create a hotel as part of the grand scheme.
The Molineux chairman was today meeting with chief executive Jez Moxey and architects as part of a series of meetings to form plans.
“We have a 10-year masterplan to develop the club as we want,” said Mr Morgan. “I want to get the crowd closer to the pitch so that the opposition are terrified when they come to our ground.
“Jez and I are meeting with architects today, in fact, to see what we can do. We have a competition going with them to see who can come up with the best proposals.”
It is understood Mr Morgan favours a rebuild of all four stands with an increased capacity on the current 28,500 limit.
Another option would be to lower the pitch to create another tier of seating.
Mr Morgan said: “What has really got to me is just how much of a bond there is with the supporters.
“Now we want to kick on. We are all passing through but I want my reign to be remembered as successful.” Wolves play their final League game on Sunday when they host Plymouth, a game they must win to have any chance of making the end of season play-offs, where a place in the Premier League is at stake.
Should Wolves join Albion in the Premier League by winning promotion through the play-offs, they would be guaranteed £62m and demand to see the team would go through the roof.
Three sides of Molineux were rebuilt by former owner Sir Jack Hayward between 1991-94 for a cost of around £10m.
Sir Jack built a £5m Billy Wright Stand and new North and South Banks at a cost of £2.5m each, while what is now the Steve Bull Stand was refurbished.
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Great ambition but shouldn’t we sort the team out first?
Wow! That’s a surprise!
I would have though making and then securing Premier League football would be the instagator of such an increase in capacity!
Molineux is falling down,falling down,falling down.
Molineux is falling down,my fair lady.
Build it up with blue and white,blue and white,blue and white.
Build it up with blue and white,my fair lady !
WE ARE PREMIER LEAGUE !
haha we cant fill the ground we have!! im sure people will come wen it is built. but dont you thin getting into the prem and securing our place there is more important??
It’s the management, coaching staff and the first team that need the complete rebuild!!!!!!!!
Muppett Mick and clipboard Connor first out the door please!!!!!!!!
Went to the sponsors area of the Ricoh Arena for the Wolves game last week and it showed how much Molineux is in danger of becoming outdated. So delighted to hear it might be developed and expanded.
Lowering the pitch sounds like a good plan too if it means we can’t see the boring matches we have had for large parts of this season.
It would be good, however, if the club became more ambitious and we moved on from the bitter rivalry with the Albion and got back to the days when we were competing with Villa to be the top team in the Midlands.
Build it and they will come…
Rebuild The team!!!!!!!!!!!
TRY BUILDING A PREMIERSHIP TEAM FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It makes sense to build the ground up as our ulitmate goal of being established in the premiership would require a bigger stadium.
We need to make sure we fill it though and the best way to do that is by playing entertaining football. I would suggest removing Muppett from his role could add 20% to attendances next year alone.
This is no surprise to me,it’s what we’ve been crying out for ages.Massive fan base but not every one has time(not neccesarily money)to go to every match and when there is a big game(not enough these days)we get a lock out.FAIR PLAY MR MORGAN YOU ARE BEGINNING TO SHOW US YOUR INTENTIONS AND GIVE THE FANS SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT AND THEY’LL BACK YOU ALL THE WAY.
Mr Morgan said: “What has really got to me is just how much of a bond there is with the supporters.
Yeah right - you aint been here long have ya ??
Look out for this “bond” on sunday if you miss out on the play offs - you will be glad the fans are so far away from the pitch then.
Still, nothing like increasing the value of your assets by re-developing a ground that aint ever full at 28,500.
40,000 - LOL.
good news, if it goes ahead, long overdue! dont think there is a need to completely rebuild, as i believe, the foundations were made sufficient to support another tier on all sides, with exception of the steve bull stand so maybe that will go, re-locate the clubshop and fill in the corners too.
why bother i think 22,000 in the championship is enough we will only fill it next season if we make the playoffs.
Can we have wider seats? Im a larger fan, and I sometimes struggle to fit my capacious behind into the current seats.
“so the opposition are terrified to come to molineux”.
they are steve..ya southbank army has already taken care of business on that one!.
yea man……doing it the Morgan way at LAST
Great news, 20,000 in a 40,000 seater stadium struggling to stay in the championship, Genius!!!
Hasn’t anyone come up with the idea to put a decent football team in it yet? Just a thought…
Boing Boing
3. Steve - molineux falling down? haha. ever been to the hawthorns mate? now there’s a dump.
if the worst comes to the worst comes to the worst we’ll see all you tesco bags back here in two years. boing on that.
I often felt that it could be possible to increase the capacity and bring the stands closer to the pitch ‘just’ by lowering the ground level and maintaining the current stands. Surely this is most cost efficient. Anyway, getting established in the Premiership should get priority and I think we would only get 40k crowds if were consistently successful.
11) DONT THINK SO MATE WHO EXACTLY IS SCARED
Dave 19 - “if the worst comes to the worst” we will be back in the same league as you - what does that say about the “mighty” wolves ?
So the worst thing that could happen to albion is that we drop to the same level as you !!
LOVIN IT.
I get it….
Build the stadium up to 40,000.
Sack McCarthy.
Bring in Ince.
Spend £20m on players.
Get into the prem the Incey Way (and STAY up), IN STYLE OF COURSE OH YES.
OH YES, great Facilities, one of the best youth academies in country, young team, 2 goalies been named player of year/pfa team of year in consecutive years, and now a new stadium (call it MoliNEW)
pitty the manager is poor!!
get INCE in and let the revolution begin!!!
12. Happy_baggie says…
“Still, nothing like increasing the value of your assets by re-developing a ground that aint ever full at 28,500.”
Sorry but you are wide of the mark there. Wolves filled the ground with nearly 30,000 while they were in the premiership every week. And they sometimes sell out in the championship. ( against WBA!)
I think this is great news. After being at Coventry last week brought it home to me. Their ground is superb and being close to the action changes the game in a massive way. It made a game played by two clogging sides look really exciting at times.
If Wolves establish themselves in the premiership there won’t be much of a problem attracting 35-40 thousand to every home game. Wolves are lucky with their geographical location they can pull from Shropshire and North/Mid Wales!
If the Custard Bowl going to be knocked down, where will they be playing their home games while the grounds under reconstruction??? Bilston Town???
Also nice idea about the Hotel, I thought it was about time that grassy bit between the goals was used for more useful purposes & score more goals.
Abdon - so you have had a full ground one season out of the last 25 years - and now you aint got us next season thats your “big day” gone too.
I love the thought of you lot playing in a 40,000 seater stadium - the boos will echo from all ends - but where are you 40,000 going to sit whilst this is being done ??
Stands closer to the pitch?
Quality, can’t wait.
South Bank Barmy Army!!!! No We Can definatly start BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO….
Laughing at the point about we dont sell out regularly but for the big games we get a lock out.
Good idea then to extend the ground for those big games for all those “big game supporters”. The atmosphere will be lovely for those games against the likes of swansea and doncaster when your big game supporters dont turn up and your proper fans feel alienated because there are so many empty seats.
Keep up the sensible posts!
26. No worries, we have an agreement in place with Kidderminster Harriers.
once again, the unwanted thug SBBA, comment 16, has spoken, UG , UG!
I hope he makes provision for a further expansion. When Wolves were in the top flight they used to host over 60,000 fans every week.
100,000 turned out to celebrate their last, brief, visit to the premiership. No other football club commands that kind of level of support… Let’s face it… Despite the bad press they must be the world’s most patient fans.
By the way, Morgans now showing his intentions and aims, sounds more like blind optomism!
21# BOGGIE..well you lot for a start..virtually needs the national guard to get you in and out.
WHOOOOOOO TIMMY DJ’S SEEN THE LIGHT.
WELCOME TO THE BARMY ARMY SON!
Some of you “fans” are an absolute disgrace. How can this story be met with such negativity? We need to build from the bottom up. This is just another way of improving the club and to me is a great example of the chairman’s commitment to the club and an example of how his knowledge and experience in his field can benefit us. This could be massive for us. Thankyou Steve Morgan!
33 - 60,000 - 100,000 - where did you play, the San Siro or the Nue camp??
Was there a lone policemen on a white horse too ?
“No other club commands that level of support”….. yeah you have more fans than anyone…
Making up bizzare facts and figures the PJW Holland way - oh yes.
23 - Incey won’t come to you. MK Dons have got more ambition and more chance of getting to the Prem. LOL
I think No 23 has got it right. The intended investment is welcome and obviously Steve has plans, but they do seem to rest on us having a premiership team, that stays there. I am not convinced at all that MM is the man for that. It’s time for the Ince revolution.
On a serious note. Morgan is a canny businessman and would not be investing in a 40,000 seater stadium unless he knew that he could fill it. I’m sure he has done his research. That’t what successful investors do. I have no doubt that wolves are more than capable of attracting at least 40,000 fans.
unlike albion…
NOW NOW NIGEL, THAT’S NOT NICE AND QUITE HURTFUL TOO!
40,000 in the prem is very realistic. We have sell out’s this year and it hasnt been great. A Wolves team near the top of the championship would sell 30-35-000 easy. We proved in the past the support isn’t in question. Watch us go if we are successful. We would then be up there with the Villa - which is where we want to be. I remember when Villa were our rivals, NOT the Albion.
All these comments about re-building the team first are missing the wider picture. A bigger stadium will attract better players.
38 - Check the figures yourself - Record capacity for Wolves is 68,000 and we took 50,000 fans to wembley in 1987 for a Sherpa Van Wheel Nut Trophy!! In fact We averaged around 40,000 in the late seventies when Albion were doing about 15,000 in the same division??
why don’t you albion fans just look to see who as the most fans watching them all season . you or us and your top of the league
This is the kind of talk I like from the Chairman I know he didnt buy Wolves to Languish in the Championship we will be great again under this Chairman but not the Manager.
Happy, I saw you debate with Realist the otherweek that you don’t just criticise Wolves unless it is something you see.
Well how is there anything bad to this story, I can admitt it would be good if we played like you. Why can’t you show some credit and say that it sounds good. What is bad about this idea? A new stadium closer to the pitch can’t be bad and potential expansion (yes clearly only needed if established in the Prem, but shows ambition and we could fill 35-40 in the Prem) so where’s the problem. I think you do seem to want to try and look for bad.
Why do you need a bigger ground, next year
Mad MM will take you down to Div 1,
In MM and Uncle Jez we trust.
Some nutter on another article thinks S Ward will score goals. This confirms they are all Mad.
To be fair to a few of the wolves fans - i think they got 100,000 people in 1910 when getting into the game was the equithalent of 10p and i suppose villa were there rivals then. I just dont see some of the fans logic here that building a big ground first is more important than getting the team right first?? if theres no team, theres no fans and you are never going to get the gates you use to get 5 or 6 seasons ago whether at the top of the championship or not a lot of your fans are too fickle as are albion fans. But we have a core support of about 21,000 every game, you have a few more and we are not looking to expand the ground until we have consolidated our position.
whats with all this baggy hype. sayin we hav poor attendances
Averagin bout 1200 better than u this season i think it is. And we still have a sell out to add to that
Imagine if we was top of the league and selling our seats for kids for a quid and £5 for adults isit? or £10. Either way at them prices ther wud be dingles sittin on the roof, on the club shop ontop of asda watching the game
After ur season ur home attendances have been pathetic LOL safe OH YES
Tesco fans taking the mick on this story. A club nailed on certs for promotion having to reduce ticket prices for their last 2 games to gaurantee full houses. A club talking about reducing capacity. What a joke set of fans.
Its a chicken and egg senario…….no-one will ever agree on this one folks.
It does make me laugh all the albion fans having a go cause Morgan is showing ambition when WBA are spending however many millions to reduce the capacity of their poxy little ground!!!
Well said martin. This is a great idea and shows the ambition of Steve Morgan. Let the Tesco boys crow for a while whilst they have a good period. They can only fill theirs by offering tickets for a tenner! They’ve recently shelved plans to extend their ground because they can’t fill it, even with their ‘beautiful passing game’.Our time will come around again.
Scare the oppostion, come on Steve the only people it will scare is your own players when the booing starts after 10mins because the wulfs arn’t 3 nil up
It needs to be done for sure. Being pro-active in this area is better than being handicapped because of the capacity restrictions later.
Wolves9 (48) - I’m just commenting that this seems a little odd. QPR have got more money than chelsea - but they are investing it on the pitch first.
There is nothing wrong with improving facilities - but surely the fans want good football first ??
Several of you mention Cov’s ground - which is very nice. But if they do get relegated next sunday I’m sure it will be of little consolation to them - and next season it would be like an empty (but very pretty) warehouse.
Its admirable to try to recapture the crowds of the 50’s but Gary Breen aint Billy Wright.
So I only give my honest thoughts wrapped up in a bit of banter - it is what i see.
Can we just put this into perspective. If this is to happen work wouldn’t start till atleast 2010.
Why, you ask? Architectural business tenders, planning permissions, council agreements as they own the land, Building times being based around seasons as pitch will probably be moved if new stands are constructed. This is a few years off yet but atleast we know Morgan is in this for the long haul and not just a quick profit so he can buy into the red scouse
Bond with the supporters - he’s having a laugh. A couple of defeats and the bond has broken, MM out, Moxey out and all that stuff.
So now we we know where the £30 million will be spent.I have heard all this before(10 year plans etc etc)We need consistent success on the field and nothing i have seen or heard over the last couple of years will convince me this will be achieved.Although I have renewed my season ticket I am a very ,very disillusioned fan at the moment.
51. good post. always touches a nerve with albion fans about our support compared to theirs. face facts.
Just what Wolves have needed. Someone with a plan and vision.
fACT JM has stated mm is definitely part of our future plans.If thats the case the only way is down.4000 crowds of the 80s rather than 40000 i think?
albion supporters are just jealous!
We have an unquestionably larger following albion cant even sell out there ground in the prem. It was even suggested that albion would be decreasing there capacity. Albion are an overachieving team such as bolton,blackburn,fulham or middlesborough.
whereas wolves are more simillar in support potential to teams like sunderland,everton,man city,
ultimately we will have the last laugh!
I gotta agree with Saddler (56) intimidation works both ways! All us Wolves fan will have to admit that at times the moaning and booing has been terrible, being nearer to the team could have an adverse affect.
It may seem strange to some that rebuilding the stadium seems to have taken priority over getting up, but it hasn’t! The team building started this year…we may not make it this season (we live in hope) but if the stadium is ready when we get to the Premier League no-one will have to miss out this time around.
My only request to Steve Morgan would be that he lowers the matchday entry (and subsequent season ticket price) by about £3 and that would increase the average gate by several thousand and recoup the loss plus some!!!
This is great news, lets be positive!
Wolves look to increase capacity, while Albion will be reducing theres by 750 in the summer hmmmmmm. Which club sold £1 tickets while top of the table to ensure a full house for there final game??
27. Happy
I know you are playing devils advocate!
But you know as well as I do that premiership football will bring the crowds back to Molineux.
It takes time to build it so it won’t be up in the next couple of years. There is time to build a team first, Wolves is not a small club no matter how much you would like us to be!
Coventry is not a small club either and I don’t think they will be down for much longer. It wasn’t that long ago that Man City were playing in the third division and now look at them!
Villa can’t fill a 40,000 stadium every week but they get close enough. Wolves can be a big club again just like WBA, Forest, Shefield and Southampton. They will all be back at some point.
I dont think anyone has a doubt if we are in the prem we could fill 40,000.
Baggies dream on. Based on selling tickets at £10 to fill 28000 seats I reckon you would have to charge £1.50 to fill 40000 in Sandwell.
Maybe you could join forces with Birmingam City and then you may stand a chance.
Is there some jealosy for our owner on Albion’s part. The chances of Albion attracting a big money investor is low.
61) I will not renew my season ticket until Thick Mick is gone. Next season I will pick my games and if we serve the dross we have served this season I’ll go shopping with the wife.
If Mick goes I’ll be at the ticket office the next day.
Is Mr Morgan lining up a new job for thick Mick ?
Building site foreman ! I wonder if he will pick Freddy ?
TEAM FIRST MR MORGAN!!!!
Abdon - there is truth in what you say - but read the comments of your fellow wolves fans on here -
40,000 seats dont get you into the premiership - 40,000 tickets dont score you a single goal - 40,000 seats is fine IF you get to fill them.
To read the comments on here you would think the stands are built, the wolves are up to the prem and Morgan is bankrolling the aquisition of top footballers ready for a push on Europe….
Reality is you don’t sell out your current ground - you will probably be playing championship football for the forseeable future and your owner is a builder who develops buildings for a profit.
Sorry if all that sounds harsh - but its my opinion and is backed by genuine facts.
Albion do not have a big following and (like wolves) draw some fans from areas of deprevation - our chairman has recognised this and allowed fans who can’t afford full prices to attend our matches….. all the wolves fans who think this is stupid are either very wealthy, very jealous, or dont attend matches anyway.
71. You have got a very good point and to be honest I dont blame you one bit.The standard of football and also of some of the players this season has been shocking.
71-That’s good news. Actually could I pick which games for you. How about non.
71. wolveswolves. You’re like a broken record. Blah blah ….won’t renew my ticket….. blah blah….
Mr Morgan has apparently twigged that if you give Wolves managers money, they waste it and then seel the players on at a loss or give them away free.
If he is going to put his £30m into the club we can now see where. Into assets which won’t devalue.
Looks like we will have a 40,000 seater stadium that will only be full for rock concerts.
Happy, so under your theory, unless you win the Prem no investmentment should be spent on facilities only the team. Ok fair enough your entitled to your opionion, if a little strange.
Now i’m not saying Steve Morgan is or shall be a great chairman, I don’t know yet. He certainly is a good busnessman though and would only build a stadium that big if it was possible to fill it. Which yes could only be the case if we was in the Prem and he will know this. So one would assume he plans on Wolves being an established Prem team. Yes this is easier said than done. But it certainly suggests he’s trying to get us there as he shall want to fill the stadium if it does happen, as he won’t want to throw money away. So all the signs highlight the fact that he is also likely to put money into getting a team capable. Investment into the stadium or the team aren’t mutually exclusive. Bright signs
Yes you are right, Albion did reduce their ticket prices to 10 pounds for the last to home games. That mean there are 28,000 fans in the Hawthorns that can afford to buy Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. in it’s entitrety.
lol at least he’s doing a better job than that idot we call sir jackhayword he’s building new ground he’s already said no to selling out best players the only thing he needs to do now is sack mick mcarthy!!.
north bank DDD north bank
to all you baggies fans stop having ago because u got a chairman who is going to decrease the capacity of the hawthorns by 700 thats is real ambition isnt it ok we havent got the team yet but the ambition is there so come back with something new hearing about u in the prem is getting quite boring now
I’m a wolves fan but I have to say Happy Baggie (74) you make a good point again sir!
79. You seem to be the only one who has understood that building a new stadium is part of the long term plan ie. it goes hand in hand with achieving promotion and staying in the premiership. Morgan is not going into this blind. People who jump to the conclusion that a 40,000 capacity stadium will be built before the other pieces of the jigsaw are in place need to sit on their hands and think before opening their gobs.
STEVE MORGAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 100000000000000000000000000X BETTER THAN JACK HAYWORD
bobwolves - 82
Too bad cause you are gonna hear it alllllllllll summer
STEVE MORGAN WE LOVE YHOOO
I remember when Morgan arrived and he was talking about his plan for ‘global domination’ or some such claptrap. Talk is cheap. I’d guess next year’s average attendances will be lower than this year’s average of 22K. 22K in a 28K stadium would be more intimidating than a half full 40K stadium. I suspect this is an attempt to massage the ego of the ‘wim a big club’ fans, an attempt to generate a ‘feel good’ factor to boost flagging season ticket sales. I’m not even sure home crowd ‘intimidation’ exists. Look at Newcastle and Sunderland , good, partisan crowds, but not exactly the most successful on the pitch. Derby have had good crowds this season, not that any visitors have been frightened! Wolves fans are notoriously fickle, if they did get 40K and played badly, you’d just have louder booing!
More room for us if you are lucky enough to draw us in the cup.SAYING GOOD BYE TO THE FIIZZY POP FOOTBALL BOING BOING.
40,000? Don’t tell me that the 20,000 fans that vanished in the 1980’s have finally been found!!
Yes then we can really look forward to games against Norwich and Coventry!
This moron Morgan is mowing the lawn when his house in on fire!
Doesn’t more seats=more income? no discussion about Premiership aspirations!
Happy. You say your opinion is based on FACTS.
We dont fill out our current ground - Untrue.
We will be in this league for the forseeable futue - Unpoven.
Our chairman is a bulider. True
I make that 1 out of 3. So that’s fact not fact’s.
The truth is we dont need a 40000 ground at the moment but one day soon we will.He talks about a 10 year plan and im sure wouldnt build until were in the top flight.
1 FACT for you. Ablion will NEVER need a 40000 ground unless you merge with the blues.
45 We never averaged 45000 in the 70s. i’m 42 years old now and was there in the 70s. This thing happened before, we invested in a stand before investing in the team itself. It’s okay having a 40000 all seater stadium gleaming and pretty but if the entertainmentisn’t up to standard you aint gonna put backsides on seats.
why cant u lot just be happy for a sec we keeping our good young players and getting a new ground and could be going in the top flight.
baggie 9. go to the hawthorns id rather go to winson green
Wolves9 (79) - i never mentioned winning the Prem - but i think winning the championship is realistic for you one day - IF you invest in the team.
What is strange is to equate crowd / capacity with success…
If this ground expansion is part of some huge plan to make wolves a top flight club then fair enough - but if Preston or burnley or norwich were announcing these plans you would laugh at them…
You would ask where are the players - where is the success coming from - HOW are you gonna fill these flippin seats !!!!
Well thanks all i’m asking.
Hello funkster - long time no hear - good to have you on here again.
shudnt we get a new team and not a new ground ??? oh and new back room staff and a new manager
wolves fans add me wolves-bully@hotmail.co.uk
all - including albion fans - notice the “ten year masterplan” comment ? did morgan say this would start next season ? do you really think the e&s might not actually put across the mans comments as they were intended ????? shock horror ?? no way ?!?
lets just all calm down eh ?
35) just cause the police are there to stop animals and internet warriors like yourself means nothing. when did albion not sell out for the moll so what is your pointless scared argument actually based on.
idiots like you who give it the big one behind your keyboard.
grow up child you are an embarresment to your club
Can’t wait for monday
We’ll meet again
dont know where , dont know when
but i know we’ll meet again some sunny day
Developments like this will not happen overnight.
If the architects are only just being invited to sit around the table, then the scheme is a number of years off yet. I’d say it will take at least 3 years for a design and planning to be approved.
In this time, our young talent will hopefully mature into very good players, we will have added to the squad, our manager (probably not mick) will have vision and be tactically astute, the ‘deadwood’ will be gone and the premiership will await. Just a matter of time, it ain’t gonna happen over night.
NO. 3 Steve. Bought a smile to my face good sense of humour what is happening to the Albion ground now that you are in the Premiership.
Good Luck Mr. Morgan
45. Check your records. Wolves record home attendance is 61,315, Albion’s is 64,815
We took 43000 to Wembley v Port Vale in playoff final 1993 (and could have sold more but Vale wouldn’t release any more of their allocation to us.)
Nice one Southbank. If only.
Steve Morgan, we love your ambition, but why are you so quiet on the MM front ?
Here’s hoping you have a plan, and its…
HI HO WOLVERHAMPTON !!!!
Dont’ know about anyone else but I am already terrified when I go the ground. The thought of us playing really scares me:)
Charlie
ATLANTA WOLVES
Happy, that is the point though, the stadium is going to be if attained in conjunction with Prem football, Morgan is not going to build a 40,000 seat stadium and play ourcurrent team in it. The team has 10 years to be ready for it. It’s a long term plan.
I mention the Prem as you say about not working on facilities when money can be used to improve a team, well any team has room to be improved so should they not fund work on facilities?
Southern 92 - no you don’t sell out your ground - that IS a fact - the odd local derby game doesn’t really count cos we won’t come every week….
Thats all I wanna say on this cos I’m even boring myself now….
Good luck sunday.
Wolves v Plymouth local derby??
Take it geography wasnt a strong subject at school Happy??
Why is nobody ever happy with the stories that come out of molineux?I know most of the time they are a complete waste of time, but this one shows that Morgan has got some real ambition for the club and wants to take us places.I’d be delighted to see the ground re-developed, could do with bringing up to date ina few places.I agree that we need to spend a LOT of money on our team first but am pleased to have an owner with some real ambition.Paul Ince for the job next season, premiership or not.
Great Idea,we must be ambitious and I think with an eye on hosting games If England get to stage a future World Cup.
Totally agree - I went to the Ricoh last week and our ground is a joke compared to that. The lack of atmosphere at Molineux is one of the main reasons we are still in this division. Look at the stats - how often over the last 10 years has our away form been one of the best in the division only for the home form to let us down.
Nowhere, in any of SM’s comments, does he say that money is going to be spent on redeveloping the ground and not continue to be spent on investing in the team. So what is everyone’s problem? By the way, writing ‘FACT’ at the end of your comments doesn’t necessarily make it a fact.
Now THAT is a FACT!!!!
dont understand what your point is happy? you think increasing our capacity if we get to the prem is a bad idea?
82 wait till the end of next season
like i said jealous
86 wait till the end of next season you wont be very happy
craig 24 the only happy story we would like out of the mol is MM being sacked.
3… Died
Well well if we were deffo going up up up i would think great lets build the structure for a prem top half finish, Being in champions league group games,playing top fa,cup ties,
but sadly we need to spend the capital on talent or the normal nearly knees gone brigade,Lets pair or twin with Barca or Man utd like QPR have with Real madrid.
All the best for the weekend Boys ………..
wolves4life you moronic little cretin, for a start it’s Sir Jack Hayward and if it wasn’t for him the club probably wouldn’t exist anymore. I’ve no doubt you’ve only been a ‘fan’ for a year or 2 but before you start slating the guy that saved our club from extinction check out what he did for the club first!
All good news me thinks…..
This club of ours is heading in the right direction, in the short term we,re building a good young squad and in the longer term improving molineux upto 40,000 capacity.
Remember our season in the prem under dave jones, 28,500 was clearly not big enough.
In my opinion, with the way football is going generally, all, or most clubs will find their natural position in the various levels/tiers of english football.
It should be the ambition of all at wolves to be competing on a level playing field (no pun intended) with the villas, spurs, man citys and evertons in the second tier of the prem where we belong (note i didnt say deserve)
We will need a 40,000 capacity to achieve this.
Patience is the key word, i for one can wait 2,5 or even 10 yrs to be back at the level this club is capable of.
Make no mistake, we are very lucky to be who we are, one of the glamour clubs with a long history, european football and silverware that is steeped in pride and tradition.
We are known the world over for being a proper football club. Yes, i admit, the last time we competed with and triumphed over the very best was back in the seventies,and as far back as the fifties was when we dominated the game but, and i mean this sincerely, we are a club that is CAPABLE and has the POTENTIAL to do it again in the future.
Not that many clubs have the potential, we are lucky that we do.
Its what makes us proud as Wolves fans and the reason we go to molineux.
WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS FOOTBALL CLUB
No one has pointed out how long the reconstruction may take? Adding 12000 seats won’t be an overnight job. It could mean that we have to play our games away from Mol for a proportion of the season. If they are digging down to fit more seats nearer the pitch then what happens to the undersoil facilities? Are they going to be dug up and rebuilt deeper into the ground?
Sounds to me like a lot of effort to get the fans closer to the pitch. I would rather try and keep the noise within the stadium by building the corners and closing off the ground.
Imagine this, put another tier on the Stan Cullis and Jack Harris, and build two tier corners to match. Then after some time we could rebuild the Steve Bull to the same level. 3/4 of Mol would be a seas of gold, and then theres the Billy Wright as a future project with more attention to executive boxes.
You lot know nothing about football.
You say ‘It’s the management, coaching staff and the first team that need the complete rebuild.
‘Muppett Mick and clipboard Connor first out the door please.’
And you Albion fans don’t even have a say so shut up, your just a team of thugs.
Romsley Baggie said: ‘May 2nd, 2008 at 12:07 pm Great news, 20,000 in a 40,000 seater stadium struggling to stay in the championship, Genius!!!’
‘Hasn’t anyone come up with the idea to put a decent football team in it yet? Just a thought…’.
The team we have at the moment is a top class team, You fans don’t see the hard work that goes on behind the scenes at the club. The Players and Backroom Staff give there all to the club. Booing players doesn’t make them a better player. Questioning the managers decisions doesn’t work either. The Gaffer knows exactly what he is doing. You fans no jack all about coaching and running a team so all you need to do is turn up and support YOUR TEAM. Football is football, one game you win the next game you could lose however good the team is. and as for those who doubt as you call him ‘Clipboard Connor’, he is one of the finest coaches I have had the pleasure of talking to, getting to know and working with. the same goes for Mick, there is not a better group of players and staff in the country. I don’t know if you remember when we got promoted in 2003, but TC was the coach then.
WHAT AN EVEN BIGGER CUSTARD BOWL!!!
Some of the preliminery plans that were discussed were also good ideas and I was lucky to be privey to know what may be happening. They talked about nocking down the Steve Bull and rebuilding it with the first tier the same height as the North and southbanks with the corners on the respective side filled in, then 2 tiers of executive boxes and then a tier of seating on top of thet. Unfortunately at this point in time we cannot extend the Billy Wright easily as the Waterloo road is there. But the Steve Bull side is car park space.
To all the Thick Sandwell Clowns on here..
kids for a quid.
adults for a tenner or you cant get a decent crowd even though you are playing the best football in the league.
nothing else needs to be said realy does it.
oh sorry and youve even put on free travel for away games.
sad really.
OMG ! ! ! when will people stop banging on about paul sodding ince.. I personaly would’nt want him to manage the team with the comments he made about WOLVES When he wasnt picked to manage us… Leave him at MK Brink in big sam or sven if MM has to go but would rather him here for the remainder of the contract or it going to cost morgan silly money in compo when it could be spent on the team…
What he actually means is he wants to paint the place RED and call it Anfield. Your second best for this guy dingles. Bye Bye we’re off to the Premier League.
Turn the stand to face away from the pitch. That’ll increase the attendance if folks don’t have to watch that dross.
122 Dont worry you lot can play at Bilston Town
S Ward your player of the year.
I’m sure we could build a 50,000 capacity ground just by redeveloping the South Bank. Let’s recreate a modern seated version of that huge terrace that was set into the hillside! & while we are at it refurb the executive boxes in the Steve Bull stand.
fair play but one thing gets me with you wolves fans, you have always had a rich chairman yet never really had a good go at the premier, yet the baggies have never had a rich chairman yet we try, so what if our ground aint getting bigger if we aint as rich we still march on, waste your money on a stadium id rather spend in on the team anyday, we earn our money on the pitch not by having a rich chairman, our club work ten times harder thats why we dont moan when things dont go our way we just try harder not maon about the chairman or moxey or mick, you can have a better ground, more money id still rather be a baggie and be proud of the way we run our club anyday
IN THE MEANTIME! TESCO’s ARE TAKING OVER SANDWELL VILLAGE BOINK BOINK. (caps lock on HB)
It will be intimidating hearing the chants and then an echo from all the empty seats ! Then again if you can fill a toilet bowl twice over get it built.
Seriously now, I would concentrate on a new manager and then a better squad more so than a bigger stadium. It is nice to have a stadium with a whole package, like cafes, hospitality boxes, restaurants, bars, etc. I think all these are at the Molineux anyway ? My worry would be, “Too big, Too soon.” Not ripping the preverbial, but common sense. Get the team in the Premiership and established there and then make the ground bigger. There are too many clubs about with the threat of 15 points being deducted for going into administration.
We may not be able to attract a big investor, to be honest do we need one? Youre on the second one now and still not as successful as us. Peace ( a real Albion fan, unlike your Liverpool fan ) as built our club on a sustainable grounding. We do not purchase players we cannot afford, we have not seen the trouble like Derby, Soton, Sheff Wed etc. Yes we may be a yo-yo club, but i’m sure you’d love to be in our position. Its a bitter pill for you all to swallow, but currently, we are bigger and better in every way!
Tough, deal with it!! Enjoy next season in the championship.
PS Were’s th £30m gone?
Mr Morgan i think anything that makes the stadium a more intimidating place is a good thing. Lets face it all wolves fans including myself are very good at making it loud when the Albion arrive, YOU BUILD IT AND I WILL START THE SHOUTING FROM BULGARIA :-)) . Andy Bulgaria
To all you Tesco Muppets, just to let you know that we will be second in the att. league if we get over 26k on Sunday. Now I would rather be second in the league but our support is good, and I think this a good idea by Morgan - lets just hope Muppet Moxey has nowt to do with it.
Mr Morgan
how are you going to fill 40,000 week in week out when it is £26 for adults. lets look 10 mile down the road where albion are doing adult+child for £11! lets fill what we have first week in week out and that may be achieved by changing the mentality in the stands and maybe changing the management then wolves may become a more atractive place and place where away players and supporters fear to play at!
its strange that Albion fans take more of an interest in wolves than there own club, can i see jealous fans out there after all wolves have a better fan average.
I’ve got an idea
lets buy the wolves for a pie and a pint
lets knock down Molineux and use the land to build a big hotel
they won’t let me do that you say
what if I pretend that I am making the stadium bigger…that’ll get planning permission
and know one will ever guess…
and i’ll own a ruddy great hotel just next to Wolverhampton city centre for the cost of a pie and a pint
marvellous
what a load of old pony!
We have heard all of this before when Sir Jack invested his millions….. Where exactly has it got you??
I remember being told then that the Wolves were going places and you were going to fill your ground every week and be a force in the Premier League. Has that happened with you current stadium that you cannot fill??
Truth is, whether the Albion do sell tickets for £10 or reduce the capacity by 750 we are currently (and have been for some time actually) a better club and achieved more than Wolves whatever our attendance!! That is a fact!!
You can talk about a 40,000 seater stadium, you can talk about filling it, week in week out, you can talk about having anything you like but the fact is it means nothing until you do it. You are all dreamers and have no evidence to back any of your claims!!
As a proud Baggie fan I do however have a claim to back up our superiority no matter how much bigger you THINK are than us………….
WE ARE PREMIER LEAGUE!!!!!!
I’ll talk about how great you are when you do it and when you start filling this 40,000 seater stadium but until please talk about the facts.
121 “glamour club” - yeah, like Jodie Marsh is a “glamour” model… LMAO
a more blinkered and misguided post would be hard to find. At least the caps lock brigade have an excuse - you seem a reasonably normal person so there is no excuse for you.
I don’t see the point in that at all, its not like you have sell outs every home game is it??? Still if morgan wants to spend his money on your stadium and not your team fair play to him!
Why do genuine Wolves fans bother commenting on this site as the vast majority of posters are complete muppets. Yes, that includes YOU.
We do have a bond with our club happy baggie, thats why we get so annoyed when things dont go so well. We are no different from any other supporters really. I can recall you lot wanting rid of mowbray after about 6 games so you cant really have a go at us.
why not extend the asda instead?
120 Well said, with SJH god knows where we’d be now. I can’t understand the negativity in SM talking about his 10 year future plans. Surely this can only be good news for the club.
I think there may be some jealousy with the number of Baggies commenting with inane comments. At least SM didn’t say he was reducing the ground.
In reply to Ad Mant I really don’t think SM would release a press statement saying if we don’t get promoted MM is gone? There’s enough pressure on him and the team already, which brings me to SM’s comments at the annual awards dinner….
He said “I can’t thank you enough for making me feel so welcome. But I do wish the moaners would just sod off! Nobody reacts well to criticism so everybody please get behind the lads.”
Your chairman has spoken!
Out Of Darkness.
why bother building a bigger stadium when your nothing more than a championship side!
See you around dingles have fun paying you T.V licence to watch us on a saturday night!!! and every other week on Sky!!!
Happy Dayz!
Boing Boing
are you going to start holding jeovahs witnesses metting there agan then,it was the only time it was ever full,apart from when we are in town boing boing
103 - SouthBankMinger
Check out these stats dated within last 40 years
Sandwell:
Modern All Seated Attendance Record:
27,751 v Portsmouth Premier League, May 15th, 2005.
Wolves:
Modern All Seated Attendance Record:
29,396 v Manchester United Premier League, January 16th, 2004.
113 dave,watch my lips,YOW AY GUIN IN THE PREM,boing boing we are
Nothing will happen for years, this “news” has just been put out to persuade us that we don’t need to let our disapproval of the way the Wolves is being run, boil over on Sunday.
Personally, I will let my opinion be known!
McCarthy OUT! Ince IN!
What’s all this P ince??? Why would he leave for a smaller club?? Chairman of mk dons has more ambition and spent more than morgan so forget that one.. and 40k?? brilliant i really hope he does it… mmm… don’t think he will it’s all talk and to be honest he has to say something to get you lot excited… div one here you come… premier league were having a laugh…
its got to be said its a great idea, i agree that wolves need a premiership team first and foremost (as do west brom i may add) but it would be great for the city and for all fans, maybe they’ll stop seating the west brom fans under the wolves fans so we don’t need brollys to block the cups full of urine being thrown at us. I do think that better parking arrangements need to be made though so cross street north stops getting blocked up every other week, maybe they could knock down asda?
good luck to all involed
hahahaha 40000
#3 Steve.
You are very silly,and need to get a life.
Couldn’t you just double the capacity by putting up a couple of step ladders?
It looks like we`ve now completed a great big 30 year circle back to when the John Ireland stand was built. Even in a Stan Cullis book there was a model of the so called new Moilineux. All the chairman want a new ground, the fans say you need a team to fill it first, if Morgan is serious why not do the both at he same time?
Why dont some of you read the story first before making fools of yourselves.steve morgan stated there is a 10yr rebuild plan NOT an over night leggo build the ground and team will be built together.thats how it should be done.watch the wolves go upwards and onwards the morgan way.if you build it they will come
that goes for the best players too.
143. Happy B……..you know deep down im right
lol
Let’s keep tradition shall we - Molineux is our home, our heart, and should be left as such. I am all for building further seatage in the corners, and to extend the Southbank to build an even better atmosphere (providing we get rid of all the current stewards - pathetic little crybabies).
Lowering the pitch? Is that some kind of a sick joke? Surely they realise that adding another tier below the current ones would only help in making the pitch smaller.
New stadium? No way Jose Mourinho. Parce que it would be given a silly name like the Chaucer Stadium - not anyone’s cup of tea, I’m sure you all agree.
Now let’s go and destroy the farmer boys shall we.
I have a sense of de ja vu,,,, Haywards did this in the 90’s built the stadium and not the team. So why are we talking about a new 40,000 ground, we need to get to the premier 1st and stay there rather than looking like a golden dinosaur in the championship!
MICK OUT!
here’s a thought. knock it down and put up a car park lets face it more chance of filling it and it’ll definately be noisier.
Aint it wonderfull were going to have something the baggies can only wish for
165-On about car parks, the crappies tried to buy the factory next door when it closed in 2000, the did’nt succeed because THEY COULD’NT AFFORD IT! so they scrapped that idea and went for a pig sty instead-IT’S THE NEW STAND! you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig!
93 wolvesandbooze. wot do you no about wolves. when you spend all your time at the albion
ar luv the headline ! ar day realise that asda was expanding !!
you wolves fans are dumb because most of you have voted for hennesey player of the season what for he is lazy rubbish doesn’t come out for crosses cant kick cant dive cant save some simple penalties etc you frivilous people
Some very amusing comments who has the lowest ever league attendance .a clue it ain,t us.as you learned people keep telling us you have more fans than us ,big deal.you are a city we are a poor suburg of Birmingham.I feel so sorry for us .Cos we premier league we are premier league and personally could not give a monkeys how many muppets attend the custard bowl.Asda should enlarge the store and you lot play on west park.Goodbye dingles
Some very amusing comments who has the lowest ever league attendance .a clue it ain,t us.as you learned people keep telling us you have more fans than us ,big deal.you are a city we are a poor suburg of Birmingham.I feel so sorry for us .Cos we premier league we are premier league and personally could not give a monkeys how many muppets attend the custard bowl.Asda should enlarge the store and you lot play on west park.Goodbye dingles
The Tescos would get 40000 every week if the tickets were £1.00.
Lets face it they can’t fill their ground at normal prices!!
Crowds in the mid 20 thousands have been our norm for most of the past 50 years apart from the Bhatti era.
40k on a regular basis would be optimistic even for a half succesful Premiership side although the Derby example this season could prove that wrong.
What is good is that Morgan has actually had something to say, AT LAST. Let us hope he next takes action and gets us a manager who actually has a clue.
151 check out these stats
population of your town ooops sorry city 236582
population of our little town 136,940
i mean really come on you should get far far higher attendences than us but you actually dont, you should have had more seasons in the prem than us, ooops you havnt, youve had 2 sugar daddys to our none and what you done with it? weve built our ground and our team on success, a very very good business plan and common sense you built yours from the wallet of a self confessed golden tit! and now you have another idiot willing to try and buy you success when will you learn see the light credit our tiny little club and others like us and maybe learn from the readings. charltons,wigans of the world etc and you may get somewhere!
no6 steve bull stand my sentiments 100%exactly
This story is a lttle confusing, as wolves dont actually own theyre ground, the local authority do.
seriously guys, don’t you all think this is very childish arguing about something so trivial. yes rivalry is all the fun of the game, but some of you guys seem to take everything too seriously and need to chill out,
Will the new stadium include a weigh bridge so scrap can be weighed in as part ex on a match ticket ?
More seats so Zak, Shadrack, Kane, Lisa, Belle, Marlon and all the other Dingles can fit in the new sewer system planned.
Baggies fans won’t be jealous of the new stadium as Albion play at the Hawthorns and not in Wednesbury !
ONE QUESTION: WHY?…..IF THERE IS A NEW GROUND MAKE SURE THAT THE STANDS ARE NOT FACING THE PITCH!!!…YOU DON’T WANT ANYONE FROM THE “TRADES DESCRIPTION” TURNING UP!!….HANG ON, LET’S BUILD A MOLINEUX TO HOLD 40, NO 50, NO,60, NO HANG ON 100,000…Because we are Wolves and we will fill it because we remember the good old days when we filled it to the(wooden rafters) with 3000 against Bury!!!…Steve Morgan, they’re coming to take you away “ha-ha” to the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time!!!!……
Daresay,this is a PR stunt pulled by Morgan.
Look at the facts;
Our hated rivals win the Championship.
We under-achieved this term.
He’s trying to get our chins off the floor.
There’s nothing wrong with the current stadium.
Play decent footie like in Mick’s first term & we will have a few full-houses,but dross this term is unacceptable.
I think ultimately stadiums dont win football matches, neither does the amount of people in them. Bolton/Blackburn managed to stay in the top flight with less than 25,000 crowds so what good does 40,000 seats in the Championship achieve?? Methinks this is a lot of paper talk and wont happen…..like the £30 mil at the start of the season.
now the season has finaly ended and it all went as expected with west brom winning the league and the poor dinglets missing out the play-offs on goal difference (1 goal)we will see who gets the biggest crowds in, at least there is a team in the play-offs wearing gold & black who are in my opinion a better class off a football team than the other losers.so whats point off having 40000 seater, think more like a 4000 seater and a couple off sheds and sty’s.
#135…
With reference to your name….
i hope it happens soon.
Moron.
is it just me that fears this rebuild will turn into one of these plastic no atmosphere “modern” grounds. every1 says the ricoh is great, i hated it, prefer highfield road any day of the week. molineux maybe “outdated” but that gives it character that money just cant buy. THE SOUTHBANK [CLAP CLAP CLAP] THE SOUTHBANK!!
Both albion & wolves have the potential 2 sell 40,000 because in the old game before seating safety regulations this has been done and club fan databases both have around 100,000 fans on the system. But only under certain circumstances. And that has 2 be in the premiership with a real ambition. Not fighting survival. Wolves go on about how ur gates have been (marginally) better than ours although away fans never turn out in full 2 our place. But the truth is neither club has filled capacity this season. Morgan is an idiot wanting it all before he knows how 2 get it. Sort ur team out first! As for making it intimidating, u need 2 learn how 2 get behind ur team first. This is not a wise idea. Morgan is living in the past 1950’s just as a lot of fans are. I have gave u praise so dont give me abuse wolves fans, or play down albions fan base. Ime just tellin it how it is. Morgan is an idiot, get rid of him!
You may aswell spend the money on the ground.
You ain’t going to be able to spend it on decent players as nobody wants to go to the custard bowl.!
Champions - Champions - Champions !
142 FACT IS YOU LOT WILL BE DOWN AGAIN NEXT YEAR AND BACK INTO THE WOODWORK.
I think this is a brilliant idea. Our fans deserve this. Morgan has got the right idea.
WHILST NOT AS GOOD ARCHITECTURALLY AS MODERN STADIA THE BEAUTY OFTHE STADIUM IS THAT YOU CAN SEE ALL THE CORNERS WHEREVER YOU SIT WITHOUT HAVING TO STAND UP EVERY TIME THE BALL GOES TOWARDS THE CORNER FLAG.THE OLD ANFIELD LIKE ALL OLD STADIA AND SOME NEW ONES WAS BUILT IN STRAIGHT LINES AND YOU COULD NOT SEE THE CORNERS AND VIEWS ARE USELESS.BECAUSE WE ARE SET BACK LIKE MOST MODERN STADIA AND PROBABLY THE NEW STADIA AT ANFIELD WE ALL HAVE PERFECT VIEWS.
JUST FILL IN THE CORNERS AND MAKE THE 2 SMALL STANDS DOUBLE DECKER TO INCREASE THE SIZE AND THE NEWS.THERE IS PLENTY OF NOISE ALREADY FOR A 28000 STADIUM IT’S THE TEAM THAT PROVOKES THE NOISE.SPEND THE MONEY ON THE TEAM NOT ON KNOCKING DOWN TWO THIRDS OF THE STADIUM
happy boggie. you lot haven’t filled your cr#ppy little ground and you were top of the league and had reduced your prices to a tenner and a pound for kids, and it only holds 27.000 ahh now thats sad!oh and by the way our match sunday was a sell out.hope you enjoy getting hammered next season we,ll wave on our way up.