Chief executive Jez Moxey has admitted new signings have to deal with the ‘Wolves factor’.
Boss Mick McCarthy will be signing several new faces this summer after releasing captain Gary Breen and making Freddy Eastwood, Darren Potter, Darren Ward, Stephen Elliott and Rob Edwards for transfer.
“One of the issues we’ve got at this football club is expectation,” said Moxey.
“We have a very inexperienced team who, as individuals, haven’t played many games.
“Dealing with the ‘Wolverhampton Wanderers factor’ is an issue and we’re very conscious of that. “We have got to make sure the players know how to deal with it, which is part of Mick’s job.
“By and large the fans have been brilliant, they buy the shirts and turn up in their thousands, they support us fantastically and they let us know when they’re unhappy.
“But I want our fans to understand, there is something dealing with us that’s not unique, but is a tangible factor we need to think about.
“Our fans understand where we are in our evolution and we’re expecting them to be 100 per cent behind us again next year.
“What I want to see us doing is us turning Molineux into a real advantage for us.”
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They have to deal with the McCarthy factor as well, which is not always a good thing.
o yes boing boing dingles so who you want to replace freddy heres a deal well give you sherjill macdonald and bartosz slusarski so we can knock you out of exsistence oh im sorry weve already done that seen as though we cant stop beating you lol boing boing oh ye signing exciting players the mowbray way
Well said
What a load of tosh!! Is he trying to say no other club but Wolves has expectations!! Fact is the players Mick bought in were not good enough! To use this mystery Molineux factor is an excuse to hide the terrible judgement of the manager!!
moxeys actually a genuine man in my opinion. i think we should stick with him as he does the best for us as he can.
He’s also quite a good looking bloke as well ;)
notsolittleman you beat us once this season, you silly little man.
You are in the entertainment business and Fans want to see good football and plenty of goals something that was not present last year so dont try and tosh up another load of rubbish this year with second rate players and a manager who puts his own importance before the club and slags off the fans because he doesnt like being crictised
well if the club really wanted to create a rousing atmosphere then last Sunday was a disgrace. Where was the large shirt? where were the placards? where was a good tannoy system! If you really want to make the place into a fortress let wolves fnas be WOLVES FANS and not some prawn sandwich eating brigade that has to sit down and listen to some fuzzy tannoy system drownign out any possible vocal support.
Slavia Prague comes to mind.
Moxey is right.
Many players have come here and failed to meet expectations due to the pressure of our fans. Cant argue with him.
The list is endless………
notsolittleman you will come straight back down. you beat us once this season and i think you are getting too big for your boots
Sod the W factor - lets get some of the Reeves factor in!
If Wolves were as good as Moulinex Mixres at getting, keeping and developing talent then they’d be Champions League winners by now!
THE ONE THING WE WANT TO SEE IS THE CLUB SHOWING GENUINE AMBITIONS OF REACHING THE PREMIER LEAGUE. ALL WE GET SO FAR ARE..YOUNG HUNGRY, INEXPERIENCED, LONG TERM, ETC BLAH BLAH.
IN OTHER WORDS..YOU DON’T THINK WE’RE GOING TO GET OUT OF THIS DIVISION FOR A LONG TIME YET..BUT YOU EXPECT OUR FULL SUPPORT.
WELL WE’VE STOOD BY YOU FOR 24 YEARS IN THIS DIVISION..SO HERE’S TO THE NEXT 24..HIP HIP HOORAY!!!!!!
well said
so now we know what type of players we are going to sign they are players that can cope with pressure.easy really so any players out there that fit into this category please contact jez moxey at the golden palace wolverhampton this club needs you
Absolute rubbish! Players want to play for a big club where there is expectation, if they fail to cope with that then they are never going to be big game or big club players.
They get paid wads of cash and are under no more pressure than any other players or for that matter than the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Besides Moxey chose the Manager, agreed the strategy to sign inexperienced players and sanctions the signings. The man is beyond belief.
“What I want to see us doing is us turning Molineux into a real advantage for us”
There is a thought!!! Why not try supporting and understanding where the club is at the moment, instead of living in some fantasy world where we beat Man Utd week in week out.
At least the club is being realistic, even if the fans are not!!
Look forward to the long term success of the Wolves!
I really think it’s about time you all stop having a dig at Wolves, now are you fans or not? It seems that a large majority of you aren’t all I ever hear is rubbish this rubbish that. If you want glory supports united or even go and support Tesco. Wolves are in their transition state and the sooner you understand the better. Let MM do his job, let him buy new players, I bet you sad lot will up his a!?%& when we start wining matches, you need to understand we have inexperienced players who are learning the division week by week.
Now shut up and support the G&B army
notsolittleman, you should be renamed ‘just a little brain’, go away and enjoy your one season in the prem. You’ll be back.
So basically Jez, the Dingle support is awful!
Have you lot ever thought that the reason you were so poor at home this season was down to your moronic fans, and the pathetic abuse aimed at people like Keogh, S Ward, Collins and even Thick Mick?
When will you learn?!
I know our lot aren’t brilliant, and at times I find myself tearing my hair out at some of the abuse Beattie and Chaplow used to get, but you lot take it to a whole new level.
Southbank Barmy Army….caps lock, left hand side next to the letter a!!
We need experience as well as young and hungry players. Find a Dewolf, an Ince, a Rae, some old heads who will show these kids what being part of a football team is all about, then we will roll!.
Some of you guys on this site are complete and utter idiots…
Moxey is simply saying that every player we bring in, we have to assess if he has the mental strength to cope with the expectation levels.
nothing more, nothing less!
19 - I’m sure Dean Kiely agrees with you - numpty
Jez speaks the truth on this. What causes most of the comments is just pure FRUSTRATION!!! The supersition is it will be the same next season!
How about the manager being more aware of the factor and trying to get a team in the Wolves mould - Cavalier Attacking footy and lots of wins 5-4
Moxey “GET YER COAT YOUR PULLED” Comment 5!
Another group of gibberish non-sequitors disguised as a press release.
Very well, Mr Moxey, why don’t we adopt a new motto? “Expectation is the first step on a path to disappointment”
We should be signing players that want to play for the shirt not in fear of the crowd.Molinuex appreciates good players but why should we tolerate overpaid second raters when we have to pay top rate ticket prices.Buy quality this time Mick,build for the future and give us triers and win our support
i dont mind being here midtable but only for about 6or7 years then lets try and get up,
19 - how do you know? do you attend wolves games?
The stick given out at Molineux is by no means over the top. What is dished out in pubs and on message boards is a different thing but thats what these forums are for!!
I’ve been to plenty of away grounds where the abuse aimed at players makes the Molineux look like a kids playground!!
You cant blame fans of other teams thinking we are the worst fans in the land when the bleedin Manager and Chief Exec of the club publically state what a disgrace we apparently are!! what would they prefer? 10′000 crowds who sit in silence??
The manager must go
Reading all these comments, you carn’t help but think that theres surely a washroom missing a few old ladies somewhere…
17. True_fanWWFC
Silly boy! We have been in transition for over 20 years! Just listen to the grown-ups and learn.
It’s not hard to get a team out of the Championship, even the Tesco’s can do it! You just have to do the sensible things and stay consistent. McCarthy just makes it up as he goes along, and there is no plan or consistency with anything he does.
There is no “Wolves factor”, this is just another bit of Moxey spin. Having appointed 6 failed managers he has to think of something to explain away his failures!
As usual, rubbish oozing from Moxey.
Just get the best of our own lads playing out there, and listen to the roar. Bring in a load of second rate journeymen instead, and listen to the fans express their frustrations.
Sadly the Fat Controller is right. Its the only crowd where instead of being the 12th man its like having 2 players sent off. The comments on these pages highlight the problem. I’ve never been to a place full of so much aggressive miserable negativity. Is it just the way we all are in these parts or does football just attract these people?
I’m quite looking forward to next season. If I wasn’t I wouldn’t be renewing my season ticket.
PS Angrywolf. Whats wrong with Prawn Sandwiches? :-)
If the 20,000+ who attend home games could all get to the away games, then you’d hear the same frustrations there as well.
The fans have been served up a very poor quality of football for so long, and in spite of the weasel words that keep coming out of the club, nothing gets any better.
That is why I believe that Mr Morgan will come to regret not having given this club a good spring cleaning, top to bottom. Getting rid of so many player journeymen is only part of the answer.
Bye, Bye Deadwood and Eastwood.
Hello top two next year.
Touchwood!
Players who have quality should be able to deal with the pressures of Wolverhampton Wanderers. If they are good players and want to become better, its just what they have to deal with!
That is why I have been so much behind players like Henry & Keogh, they have bounced back this season on numerous occasions after form dips!
Success breeds success….we have had little of that of late.
Success means winning….we have had some of that and it felt good.
“Everyone loves a winner”.
It takes a manager in any field 2-3 years to get a handle on his situation with upper management (Moxey & co) staff (players)etc.
Lets give it time and I believe we will be a winner.
Jez seems to be in a competition with Thick Mick who can come out with the biggest load of rubbish.
Jez wins this week with this one.
Thick Mick signs the players, he makes the mistakes of buying poor players, He should take the blame not the fans
ARE WE THE FANS GETTING THE BLAME AGAIN. STAYING DOWN THE McCARTHY, CRAP OF COURCE
If frustration causes the comments then folks we have been so left for a long time–What worries me is the fact that MM does not have the contacts to bring in players and Wolves are not prepared to pay the wages–What we are watching at the moment is twenty minutes football and the rest of the game drifts by–This is not disloyalty to express our views.–In a season with two ST’s we spend enough we are entitled to our views–My view is that I am amazed how players have been brought in and not used, our youngsters cast out - How the club has been Managed over the past 7 months does not hold well for the future.Yes we need to be positive but where are the SIGNS.-Lets pray they happen. He ended the short lesson.
23. I totally agree, and I don’t condone the abuse Dean got in any way. Even though I think he’s totally useless.
30. No, I’ve only been to Molinspew once this season and that was the BCD, when of course you got behind your lads very well. However, from the reports I get from several Dingle mates, the atmosphere at most games is very negative when things aren’t going your way.
As I say, Albion aren’t saints, but stop burying your heads in the sand lads - you lot are the most fickle set of supporters in the land. Including the Villa!
Eddie Wolf.
Ok lets look at this. Quality players that would be able to survive the Wolves factor. We could have, lets say Cudicini in goal with perhaps Terry and Ferdinand at the back. I fancy Wright-Phillips and Cole in the middle and Ronaldo wide left and perhaps Owen up front.
What do you think or maybe we need to be somewhat more realistic and cut our cloth accordingly.
My boss is a Arsenal season ticket holder.
He’s thinking about not re-newing because of the Arsenal fans around him always moaning during the game about the way their team is playing.
Just think if they had to watch the last 20 years of Wolves football!
43. I have been to the poorthorns to watch sandwell town with a few mates this season and the heckling and abuse is the same there as anywhere else except there are less fans in the ground.
The McCarthy factor from an Irish journalist before he got the Sunderland job.”And there are several instances of McCarthy’s biggest failing: his loyalty to certain players, which resulted in remarkable selection policies. Kevin Kilbane started every game in the World Cup 2002 programme. In the wake of possibly his worst season for Leeds United, Gary Kelly went out to represent Ireland in the World Cup while Steve Finnan, after a remarkable season for Fulham, was sidelined. Steven Reid, who came on in the second half of that game and displayed a level of brio that a moribund team could only hope for, wasn’t supposed to go to the World Cup. Instead Mark Kennedy, who has done a spot of baby-sitting for McCarthy from time to time, got the nod, despite not being fit. Thankfully the doctors over-ruled Mick the physician.
As a manager, McCarthy made a point of being mates with his older players and as a result he found it impossible to drop them. Jason McAteer started several more games than a player of his limited talents could have hoped for. He picked Kelly for that first World Cup game because he’d been “great off the pitch”. Did he make you laugh, Mick? Or was it because he rallied the troops to give you a round of applause when you sent Roy Keane home?
For McCarthy, all criticism was personal, never professional. His World Cup Diary is full of pot-shots at every single journalist who ever slighted him - answering all the perceived criticisms of his team with various incomprehensible ideas and always talking about the team spirit he engendered. This involved allowing people to go to the pub and get excessively drunk as several members of the Irish squad on several occasions during the World Cup did. There was no mention of the story Tony Cascarino told about him cowering in the corridor of the airport hotel as Gary Breen’s mates and Roy Keane got involved in some handbags late one night.”
Excuses excuses excuses, sounds like a man trying to justify his position after failing to deliver.
In business customers dictate your success, we as fans are the customers and Moxey you have definatley not delivered.
Start delivering or get out, your spin does not work on me.
I would appreciate it more if you told the truth and admitted your under performance in your role.
Roll your sleeves up get on with your job and deliver or get out.
Must admit Wednesbury_albion is right. Its totally unacceptable to abuse your teams players in my view, during a game.
I know from personal experience (well my brother at least) what level of dedication is required to play at even semi-pro level. It requires enormous dedication and committment and professionalism to make it to Championship level.
Proffesionalism should include being able to ride through the comments of the mindless, however human nature being what it is, we all, if only sub-conciously, react positively to encouragement and negatively to abuse.
Its a no-brainer. Unfortunately theres not a lot of brain activity in evidence amongst a significant minority at Molineux on match days.
Prawn Sandwich:
I take your point! I am not a booer, never have been. I’ve been one of MM’s supporters, and believe sacking him achieves nothing. Unfortunately mate, there are plenty of people who do the exact opposite. The pressures of Wolves are generated by these over-expecting fans!
The fat controller is getting his excuses in already. He doesn’t want us in the Premiership — as he and Mad Mick couldn’t stand the heat at that level. So they’d be packing their kit bags.
MM has one more season — if no promotion — he gets the sack. If we get promotion — we’ll require more intelligence in a manager so he goes then anyway.
We neeed a manager with high calibre tactical, decision making and man management skills. e.g. Paul Inch. He’ll be here within the next 2 seasons.
MM’s now a ‘holding’ manager. He may get us into the top flight if Morgan spends the promised lolly and MM plays the young guns instead of loaning them out.
But he would never keep us up there. Sunderland proves that That’s when Inchy will need to be be recruited.
Or even earlier when MM gets the sack if he has the same next season as this discgraceful one. Why not bite the bullet now and go for Paul straight away?
43) Quite a few times this season you have been booed off the pitch. So it is not just a Wolves thing. We are hard to please in the West Midlands.
MM has managed badly this season. Moxey has done his bit, now go with the others named.
It is not doom and gloom. With the signings of Foley, Elokobi,Jarvis and Ebanks-Blake-quality for next season. Hopefully with Davies back, sign a few players and giving the youngsters another chance, we will be back where we belong. I am going to put my money where my mouth is and put money on us going up and will be supporting them home and away. Others should follow suit!
So the scouting network has the criteria of:
Young and hungry
Able to put a shift in
Able to handle the Molineux factor
Roughly translated means
Inexperienced and cheap
Grafters with no skill
Deaf
Why do Wolves keep allowing this guy to make public statements??
under mccarthy,both seasons we have had a goalkeeper winning player of the year,none of them were signed by him & without them,we would of been really struggling.if your goalkeeper is your player of the year,it usually means your a bad team,but if it happens all the time then you are definitally a bad team.WHEN he is sacked some time next season,please mr.morgan,send the idiot fat controller with him & can people like me have an apology because we have been badly let down,by you keeping these two idiots on.
The saggies fans coming on here are hilarious, calling us fickle. They were calling for melton’s head after the Leicester game. What a bunch of doughnuts, and what’s with them all saying ‘…. the mowbray way’. Do they all get together and have a backslapping session of what to say on the Wolves boards (No local papers in Sandwell, so they have to use the big towns next door). I say ‘Saggy’s fans, kicking each others back doors in the mowbray way’.
Oh and back on the subject, i’m not a fan of McCarthy, but i’d say give him one more season, there is a lot to be said for longevity.
What is the Wolves factor? Living in the 1950’s like a 65 year old Teddy Boy you may see in the Mander Centre!
the wolves factor hahahahahaha more like the X FACTOR,,,,REBUILDING ALL OVER AGAIN THE MCARTHY WAY,,NOT A CLUE OF COURSE,,,OOOOOOOOOOOOOH YES.
57 Worcesterbaggie.
Found the caps lock then, but obviously you don’t know how to turn it off.
If you have something to say constructivley great, I’m all up for a good argument, but ridicule has a way of turning back on itself.
Wait till next season, we will see how happy you are then.
Its not the wolves factor…its the BAGGIES factor…we beat you time after time!!!!
Paul inch would be ok, but jose centimeter would be better.
spot on jez, about time the fans accepted yhey are a championship club in stature
If I had 30 million I’d buy the Albion. Then with the 28 million left over I’d squander on fast cars and loose women.
UP the Wolves.
The Wolves factor…..? Must be something to do with being a famous club, having more honours than any other West Midlands club except the Vile and having much bigger support.
Oh yes…. going down the Mowbray way!
fair play to jez, knows his stuff, as a lifelong wolves fan i realise we are not and never will be a premier league club so Im happy with life in the championship and get to see 46 games
Yes, wolves must live up to the expectation of having another mediocre season.
The people who agree with this make me laugh. We are no different to any other club of our size and trust me i know a lot of Leicester fans.
I havn’t heard a lot of moaning by fans when the game is on the go, yes at the end and that has been muted. I never boo but there have been a lot of times this year when i should have.
I expect a lot of people on here believe a double decker bus was found on the moon.
Tactics and signings is where we went wrong simple as. Blame everything but the FACTS
53. The answer to that is easy. He’s the chief executive and a member of the Board, with the backing of the owner.
Accept it
jarrod..that’s about rite mate..and i’m sorry wolves fans but..the albion supporters are right. ok they could put it a little less sarcastically but their points are valid.
they’ve tasted sucsess several times over the last 5 seasons, they know what it takes to challenge for promotion and sucseed. they also know it ain’t gonna happen for us with muppet in charge.
and if moxey thinks we’re a tough crowd..ASK RAFFA AT LIVERPOOL ABOUT BOO-BOYS. TOP 5 IN THE PREM, CHAMPIONS LEAGUE REGULARS..AND HE’S BEEN HOUNDED ALL SEASON BY THE SCOUSE FAITHFUL.
wednesfieldwilf,,,you obviously know nothing about football if you want mcarthy to stay in charge for another season,,,PLAYING IN THE PREM THE MOWBRAY WAY,,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,,OOOOOOOOOOH YES.
Angrywolf has a really good point. The tannoy is shite, there is no pre-match build up and banging of drums and the place can sound like a morgue meaning the mindless yam-yams who boo can be heard from the pitch.
Lets beef up the pa system, get some decent rousing music on in advance and hire some bongo drum players to get a beat going.
Lets evict all the back-stabbing, fan-slagging, feelgood-sapping, mind-numbing, player-booing, Mcarthy-hating, yam-yam loving idiots down to the Bescot or home to their ugly wives
moxey you are not a football man not a wolves fan so dont have a clue about the wolves factor if you did you would not have surrenered the south bank to our fiercest rivals if morgan had got control of liverpool would he have handed the kop over to everton i dont think so.so another season of under achievment to look forwad to then blame it on the wolves factor
Well done Mr Moxey for latching on to another excuse for failure. Why dont you come out and say “its just not good enough” rather than hiding behing feeble excuses and stop treating us Wolves supporters as idiots. Just remember we will be here long after you have gone - so dont even begin to believe you understand our feelings or desires.
yet again moxey has got to have all the attention again and just shows what a load of rubbish he whats all wolves fans to belive wolves factor? what is it .every player that plays the gameshould go out onto the pitch even in friendlys and play to there best and try to win the only down side is if you play like mm and connor what you to do negative football and not having shots on goal that is when the fans get fickle so the way to change all that is down to what is being coached on the training ground and who is training them connor last season mm had his own coach and the side played better but connor has been there and seen many a manager off so come on moxey say good bye to another bad one conner and watch the football come back
The manager can’t cope with the Mol factor. SACK HIM
MOXEY Please define Expectation?.When you follow your beloved Football Team across the Country Spending lots of hard earned cash,is it not right to expect the board & manager to try to give you a team capable of entertainment and a winning mentality.Do 50000 Newcastle supporters go along week in week out just to savage their team.as KK has just stated the top four are worlds apart but does that mean that Wolves shoud not be able to compete with Stoke,Hull,Bristol City,etc.Or does it really mean that Mike Morgan expects a healthy return on the £10 it cost to buy the club.
Well said Jez! I don’t always agree with you but you are bang on the money! Let’s get behind our team and get ready for a succesful 08-09!!!
Come on me babbies!!!
I have this to say and if Jez is reading it, contact me via the express and star.
A few years ago, we brought a small drum into the ground. We sit in the southbank. The asmosphere was superb and the drum was well received by the fans. Then the drum is confiscated. We are told no musical instruments. Portsmouth have a drum as do Preston and they create a proper atmosphere.
You then stop playing the liquidator. I know this was a police issue. The fireworks are stopped because of injury to a fan. Other grounds still use fireworks. I would say this was more to do with the choice of those responsible for the fireworks.
The shirts which circulates the ground are used sparingly
Fans are told to sit down all the time.
The PA system is shocking.
The club play inappropriate music which does nothing to enhance the atmosphere.
Tell me this. What are he club doing to make the asmosphere better instead of inhibiting expression. I have always said tha club need to do more. Molineux is not an exciting venue for the fans anymore. It does not intimidate the opposition.
Jez, your team need to do more. The last game of the season was a disgrace for such an important game. Mybe you should spend time in the stands 15 minutes before the game to see what the build up to the game is like instead of entertaining in your box.
My god Southbank Barmy Army…..once again…Caps lock, down the left hand side next to the letter “A”. do you tap it by mistake???
So its the fans fault you wont be playing in the prem next season. Not the fact that the side SUPER MICK has put together was just not good enough! Got just one thing to say on this subject.
THANK GOD I’M A BAGGIE!!!!!!!!
Whilst admiring the blinding loyalty shown here by some contributors I cannot help but enquire where they attain it?
Where do they see it improving next time?
How can a manager that has no respect for the supporters (and admitted it) ever hope to get them back on side?
Where does the glass half full brigade think he is going to get the tactical nous from that has eluded him last term?
Where the wits to pick the best player in their best position rather than his favourites?
I fear the owner despite his rousing pitch side speech is more comfortable keeping the team in mediocrity whilst he can concentrate on building a new Stadium/Hotel. That of course will suit Moxey and Mcarthey down to the ground. So if it upsets the more demanding fans…….. tough. As long as the ground is filled with 20000 a week .Mid table mediocrity rules.
Keep buying the news shirts and keep us second-rate
Back off!!!!!…Your standing in Albion’s aura….–Now go and potter along to and worry about your next local derby…er,..Shrewsbury while we get ready to lock horns with our traditional rivals “The Villa”….Boing Boing..
Here we go again. Moxey, deal with the “wolverhampton wanderers” factor. He thinks wolves are some kind of big club that should just be guranteed 2 go up just by sayin things like that. Wolves this, wolves that. 40,000 ground, play-offs 3rd time lucky. 1950’s this, “sherpa vans” that! :) Idiot! How about actually working 2 achieve it
Why has Jez Moxey communicated this? Is it put off new signings coming to the Wolves or is to annoy Wolves fans or both. It really serves no purpose at all.
Please Mr Morgan get rid of this PR disaster and get a Chief Executive who loves the club and its fans. I’m available for less than half Mr Moxey’s unjustified salary and bonus!
Raffa’s got it easy compared to Avram Grant. Still on for the Premier & European Cup double with one game left & the only song they’ve ever sung for him is ‘you don’t know what you’re doing’
Did you hear the booing when Chelsea drew with Wigan…nearly as load as Man U fans losing to City.
Sorry…I forgot, Wolves fans are the ‘official’ fickle fans as we have no cause to be upset.
Simon :)
iv never seen a 65 year old teddy boy in the mander centre
All the comments from the so call baggies fans about the way we treat our team and management, let us look at the attendence figues even though you finished top you had a job to get youf fans to watch, at leased we supported our team by going down and filling the stadium
Same old spin, yes Jez we will complain, no apology from anyone, the usual lets make the stadium bigger(from the owner), we will sign more players (from the ceo), I don’t know what im doing (from the manager), we are the mugs, treated as customers, treated like fools.
Having read how serious the injury to the Plymouth player was, I hope the brainless lump of excrement sitting in Steve Bull Upper who was shouting “let him die” realises what a moron he truly is.
Very high expectation- always with nothing at the end,infact VERY HIGH.. TOO HIGH… 1 day you’ll all learn.. Over achieved once again..
CHAMPIONSSSSSS….
Should’t you be you be concentrating on your management factor, rather than new ground factor?
Dear Mr Moxey - as you have said many times you cannot cope with this club having supporters with expectations. Neither can the manager. Neither can some of the players. So why don’t you all sod off to Lincoln City where there are not many fans not much expectation and a very nice cathedral.
Us supporters are here to stay so if you don’t like our attitude we will gladly buy you some transport to get on your bike.
It’s not the fans. I couldn’t get to Molineux for the last game but got to Southampton instead and listened to 32,000 fans scream a really poor side to victory and retention of CHampionship status. Southern softies maybe,but nice ground, large fan base and some history too. Their defence were appallin, but the difference was, their players were desparate to win and ran their hearts out - apart from the play offs against the Albion last season, when did you last see that at Molineux?
Despite what people say, we’ve seen three international managers, two of whom took teams through to the quarter finals of the world cup and they come to Molineux and hit the Moxey factor.
The only thing that has remained constant over the past few years is Mr Moxey, Hoddle - gone, McCarthy (super Mick last year) precarious, players galore come and gone. The only other constant, other than Mr Moxey is that apart from one season, we remain in the CHampionship. Go on Jez, you are the only thing that hasn’t changed, we have tried everything else, pack your bags and prove us wrong. Even I have to take my hat off to the Baggies, Manager so - so, Subbutteo Ground, ageing squad, quiet supporters and still they make it, not just once.
Please Mr Moxey, you have used every reason imaginable why the CLub has not succeeded, blaming the fans for the atmosphere is something else: we are not the only club with history, passion for the game and a large fan base. Or do you never go to away matches? Probably too busy counting your bonus.
Knock us out of existance (2)..in youre dreams mate, you couldnt knock a nail in wood..n dont worry, Derby have had such a bad season that I doubt the boggies will get less points next year..you’ll have at least 2 from Stoke. Sorry we wont be playing you next season as we’ll be passing one another…got My money on you already at the bookies comin str8 back down…with us replacing you………
Hope the closed season goes well at gods golden palace, sure the manager & chairman have sure fire targets for next season…
Good luck guys, cant wait for the new season to arrive
Just hope he does not mean players who do not care what the fans think. We have a right and a duty to demand promotion and if so called professional players cannot handle that pressure do not sign them. I wanted MM replaced but it aint going to happen so let’s get beind the nauseating yorkshire git and enjoy a promotion season while WBA do a Derby.
Notsolittleman - oh yes you are!
this is ridiculous…. they make comments at the end of the season like ‘we will go up and won’t need the play offs’, spend millions of pounds of our money and then say that there is expectations. I am sick of this… they cannot understand why we are a joke of a club so they think the logic is to blame the only constant - the fans…. this is absurd… how come lescott, keane, kightly and murray seem to deal with the wolves factor? Maybe it;s the quality of the individual and not that they are put off by the fans… Moxey.. you disgust me.
53. wbabomber
For once I am in total agreement with you. Great insight!
OUT OF DARKNESS COMETH PAUL INCE!
This will be the season that counts for Moxey and MM,before long the season will be kicking off,the building will have finished with the 6/7 or so players coming in, foley/little to cover r/b - ekobi/jones L/B- Collins/craddock + 2 centre halfs to be signed.Henry,edwards,oli + 1 central midfield playmaker to be signed,kightley + 1 signing to cover right wing,Jarvis /Gray to cover left wing,keogh,blake,ward+ 2 strikers to be signed.
64.RF
another Moxey stooge, trying to persuade us to accept his vision of perpetual Championship football. That is “safe”, and it will ensure his personal fortune from managing Wolves in that second-rate division.
That is why Morgan must strip this club from top to bottom. There are a few worthy people left in it’s structure, but most are time-servers who are joy-riding!
A grande spring clean is needed, NOW!
Unfortunately, I don’t think that Morgan is up for it. So next season we will have the same old failures trying to tell us that *THIS* is the season. Anybody who disagrees is a traitor to Wolves, even if they have been supporting for 50+ years.
I’ve had enough! OUT OF DAKRNESS COMETH PAUL INCE!
To those players,if you can’t stand the heat,get out of the kitchen.
If we are to be a successful club,we need to have high expectations and if they are not up to it,then find another club
“The Wolves Factor”….is this real ? Is it me ? So we are saying that the expectation at this club is higher than anywhere else and we should be patient whilst this young inexperienced side comes together. We’ve just released or made available 6 players most of whom have been signed within the last couple of years. Why did we sign them in the first place? I can understand 1 maybe 2 not working out. Football is a business and like any other business it isn’t pretty behind the glossy facade presented to the outside world. Fair play to Moxey who has helped keep the club solvent (don’t forget that as a business we are far healthier than we were 20 years ago)but if we want to compete with all those clubs who have left us far behind like Bolton, Portsmouth, Fulham, Birmingham and now WBA we need a culture change with some ugly, nasty winners on board. Get Ince in, and lets start fighting. We don’t need Molineux revamped at the moment. The slightest spark could take this club forward very quickly. We have been inert for too long. Let’s get ruthless. The goal next year should be to win the Championship. Anybody who feels that the kitchen is too hot for them should go and sit in somebody’s elses comfortable lounge. Let’s take some calculated risk and turn into wolves with blood dripping from our mouths instead of limping lupines.
5 David Ansell.
Not sure who you support but sheer brilliance.
But does this factor exist at Wolverhampton only? Does it not exist aswell few miles away at W.B?
The latter have been up to the premiership 3 times to the only time Wolves went up through the playoffs lottery, while they have gone up through automatic promotions.
I think the variable factor has always been the manager, and MM has damaged Wolves performances this season by his decisions.
Most of these messgages prove his point. Grow up and realise that we are not a big club in the scheme of things and this is from a fan who has been suffering for nearly 40 years. WE ARE OUR OWN WORSE ENEMIES and sometimes think wolves fans get what they deserve
Once again we are subject to a diatribe from the Fat Controller. I have never questioned his undoubted ability to run the finances of the Wolves, but why? oh why? does he feel qualified to pass comment on anything to do with the team or the supporters? He is not a fan he did the same job for Stoke last time (it’s a coincidence and a good time span since he left and they went up) I am willing to bet he has never kicked a ball for a team of any desciption (possibly school, I could be wrong) and yet here he is telling us in his boardroom speak to somehow “lessen” our desire and expectations to see our team be the best.Come on Mox get real! it is the desire to see Wolves succeed that keeps us coming week after week.It is not the low prices, the excellent cuisine or the sunny climate, neither is it the low cost of travelling or the taking of a day at weekends or a night midweek out of an already busy life, it is our desire to support the team of our choice through any adversity or hardship.You are becoming part of that hardship and adversity so, to coin a phrase, “Shut yer pie ‘ole Jez!”
Wolves need at least 3 centre defenders 2 centre midfielder and 2 strikers:
D.BECKWITH hereford cb 24 free
C.BERRA hearts cb 24 1.5m
A.GERRARD walsall 22 1.0m
K.COMMONS not for 24 free
A.BUSZAKY qpr 25 2.5m
A.MCLEAN peterbrough 24 1.0m
M.PATERSON scunthorpe 20 1.5m
COME ON MICK GET THIS IN !!
Moxey should have tuned in to the Blouse fans after they were relegated - Does that mean that Birmingham have “expectancy” aswell?
The man’s a joke! More BS from Moxey yet again - The “expectancy” of the Wolves fans is the reason we failed yet again?
Try looking alot closer to home and at the number of mediocre players that were signed by MM and sanctioned by Moxey; a team that has a handfull of decent players and too many mediocre players young and old - and where is the home grown talent? Sent out on loan!!!
England U19 Right back, Scottish U21 Left Back - But cant get a game with Mad Mick???
A centre half that could not make the subs bench at C Palace; but is good enough to waste what £500k? Yet another Sunderland reject that gives away more penalties than our midfield can actually score - N Collins???
Get real Moxey - the sooner we get rid of the less than average losers behind the scenes at the Mol (Moxey, MM and the rest of the backroom cronies - the better!)
NB* Message to Steve Morgan - We dont need a bigger ground - we need a team capable of winning games regularly and a manager that knows more about football than MM does!
Latest transfer gossip on SSN - K Foley going to Sunderland for £2.5m
Bridget and Tony - I agree with lots of your points but I do think an investment in the stadium is good news. It shows we are willing to be ambitious enough to compete with teams above where we currently are, and after going to the sponsors area of the Ricoh for Wolves last away game then Molineux is in danger of being outdated.
If the finances are set up properly with the hotel, office and conference space etc then there is no reason why a modern ground shouldn’t pay for itself without affecting the funds available for transfers.
Also if we ever do manage to get back in the Premier League then we could have the financial clout from larger crowds to make a better fist than last time of re-establishing ourselves in the top flight.
Having said all that I have as many doubts as you as to whether MM and Moxey are the men to take us to the next level.
SBS - We suspect that the end of season comments made by SM may well be more based on getting the fans to look at the positives of a “new ground”
But somehow, as cynical as it may seem - we’ve been there before with promises of various shapes and sizes; and perhaps adopting a “we’ll believe it when we see it” may not be such a bad idea!
Any ground redevelopment would take months to undertake - and in the meantime what? Also bear in mind the present Clubs ethic on “thriftyness” with regards to players etc
Would a redevelopement of the ground mean less funds for players? As we all know, Moxey is very keen on breakeven bonuses!!!
All this claptrap about young side - Wolves factor blah blah - What about showing a little ambition to the fans???
garbage!
Football is supposed to be about entertainment…..if the crowd feels they are being entertained they will support and act as a 12th man, even when the tide turns in a game, but this is not the case at the Wolves. For too many years we have had to endure average players on big money not offering the fan ‘value-for-money’ or entertainment!!!!
Moxey is right.
We are the Newcastle of the Championship. The players who come in find it hard.
Changing the manager is not the right thing to do. I am not saying he hasn’t made mistakes, but he’s got more right than wrong. If we’d not lost our star player we would have gone up automatically or been in the play offs. The fascination with Eastwood, whose desire to stroll around and not tackle back cost baffles me.
Just a shame that Moxey will never have the nerve to say that the players that were brought in are crap just like David Sullivan has done - there again it would mean actually having to admit something and that will NEVER happen with Moxey or MM
More tripe from McCarthy again. That is not exciting football. Exciting football means going FORWARDS at pace with more than 1 man up front.
As anyone thought to look at MOXEYS record since he has been here and has anyone noticed where STOKE are since he left?
WE WILL SOON AV A 40,000 HALF EMPTY STADIU WITH POOR TEAM PLAYIN IN IT,GET UR PRIORITIES WRITE TEAM COMES FIRST SPEND THE MONEY ON THAT,THE GROUND CAN BE DONE LATER.