Mick McCarthy admits he hasn’t delivered on the promotion pledge made to Wolves fans a year ago.
But the Molineux boss insists his two-year tenure can still be viewed as a success in the rebuilding of Wolves following the Glenn Hoddle era.
“I understand the supporters’ feelings. I know everyone was really disappointed,” said McCarthy. “If everything is judged purely and simply on being promoted, then I haven’t done the job well enough.
“But maybe people should take a broader view based on the two years I’ve been here.
“The team has evolved, changed and got better and there are four or five players knocking on my door looking for new contracts with Premier League clubs wanting to sign them.
“Well, I went out and got those players and I signed them.”
McCarthy added: “When I walked in here on July 21 almost two years ago, the first question asked was ‘are you going to keep them up?’ because people thought relegation was going to happen.
“So if we’d finished 10th last season instead of finishing in the play-offs, would it have been easier for me now?
“We did it the wrong way around in reaching the play-offs in the first season. But if we’d been 10th then seventh, we’d have been saying that’s progression.
“Unfortunately that’s not the case because we got in the play-offs the first time of asking.
“But I’m excited about the prospect of this team moving forward, and with a bit more help, we’ll try to get there because we’ve got good players.”
McCarthy’s ill-advised ‘sad fans’ comments added fuel to the fire following the play-offs miss.
But he insists he has no problem with the Molineux faithful and results will determine his future.
“I’ve never said I’m unhappy (with the fans),” he said. “I’d have loved to have sent them home happy against Southampton for example, but we conceded a late equaliser and I can’t go on the pitch and mark the scorer.
“Thirty seconds from being a hero, I was a complete idiot.”
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Keep up the good work Mick. Don’t let the buggers drag you down.
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Right Gents, I want this man out like the majority but its not going to happen! So we have to put it behind us and concentate on having a positive pre-season and good start. Mick tell Moxey to get off his backside, get the players you want in by the start of pre-season and lets push on, lets not wait until the last week of the window to get everbody in as I will not be happy, lets get orgainised and let us all unite together.
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He is a idiot. I dont judge the season on not getting promoted , i judge it on the fact that i have been bored for 95 % of the games attended this season.I dont mind losing as long as we 2have a go” last game of season shows this as we need 3 goals and we had 2 shots. As for the players signed, kightly and Blake are the only good signings (foley 2 million yes please) the bad one far out way the good one- Ward (both), elliot, potter , gibson, collins.
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Mad Mick admits to failing to deliver promotion !
Perhaps we should have listened to McIndoe’s comments when he asked for a transfer.
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Good luck Mick. Your signings have been different class, dont listen to the boo boys. Real fans are still right behind you and the lads!!! We can go up next year as champions!! From a loyal south bank wolf!! COME ON ME BABBIES!!!
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Well said Mick, maybe next season is the time to push for automatic promotion? Just a few more additions & the team will be able to do it. I have faith in your management, you’ve brought some quality players & you should bring a few more in next season. Good Luck next season Mick.
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Is it worth me posting a positive comment or will the Mods delete it??
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Obviously confused dot.com. He is trying to get us to see the positives and it’s true that MM has made good signings and moved the club forward but I am lost in the ‘if we had done it the other way round’ scenario. We didn’t. Ultimately a club such as Wolves, because of the history and expectation, should be in the top flight. Of course shoulds won’t come into it unless the team perform. There is no divine right. However there were blunders this season and not all of them were due to late goals. The problems in defense were there before the season started. It would be better if MM was honest and said particularly what he thought the problems were. At the moment he is being isingenuous and it is this not the mistakes that I don’t like. None the less for some strange reason I still believe in him and that the club will go up next season.
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Finally a decent piece from MM - i almost find myself agreeing with him here.
He is a good bloke - he just keeps taking stupid pills every so often !
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will veryone just beck the team and see what happens, because he will be super mick if we do well so whats the point
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I thought you had never seen kites play before he came???? lets also take into consideration the cock ups which out way your comments like sending craddock to stoke? letting Mcindoe go to bristol city? which last night he showed what he can do, not giving freddie a decent opportunity, buying ex sunderland irish donkeys, elliot, kyle, breen, potter, not forgetting the best of them all S ward, plus collins, whos faults that then lord lucan. MM OUT!
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Better mke some better signings this summer or the ‘Mick Out’ brigade will be in full swing by September!! They won’t sack him though after giving him that fat contract when Korea came calling.
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mick did tell the truth though, we do have ’sad fans’ who like to moan, rather than support them
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As usual McCarthy dont understand when it is his fault. The late equalizer from Southampton was a tactical mistake from Hennessy in not having a defending player placed at each post. The late equalizer from Ipswich was also a tactical mistake from Hennessy who let in an easy freekick in his side of the goal. As long as staff and players dont understand their mistakes they can not learn and stop this kinds of silly season damaging mistakes.
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Yes,Mick you’re doing a fantastic job.So how come Stoke ( I ask ya Stoke ) get promoted. Bristol City get to Wembley and probably Hull. We should never have finished lower than these and that’s whats so galling.We expect to be up there at least challenging the likes of Middlesbrough,Newcastle,Tottenham,Man City,Pompey not where we are.25 years of bad management and under acheivement.
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COME ON MICK WE KNOW YOU CAN DO IT. I AM RIGHT BEHIND YOU AND THE LADS. JUST GET IN THESE NEW SIGNINGS EARLY. GET WHO YOU WANT AND DONT WAIT TO GET WHO IS LEFT OVER.
WITH 4 QUALITY SIGNINGS WE WILL ROMP HOME NEXT SEASON.
ALL WOLVES FANS GET BEHIND THE TEAM AND MICK. EXCITING TIMES AHEAD.
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aint he been sacked yet???
never mind i know we missed out on the play offs but at least the lads put a shift in
wolves will do nothing next season with mcCarthy in charge
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“Your signings have been different class” thats why he’s shipping 3/4 of them out !!
Craig le Fever you need some meds….
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“A complete idiot” your words not mine, Mick ! Inspite of the fact we have several young players attracting interest from the prem there was a distinct lack of quality about the rest of the team and the style of play. The retention of Collins and S.Ward fills me with dread - Eastwood may or maynot have been good enough - he scored 3 league goals from 10 starts - but how Rosa didn’t even make the bench for a team whose midfield was devoid creativity and goals for much of the season is a mystery to me. The trouble is we are all looking to the new signings (whoever they may be) to turn us into a side capable of automatic promotion and if we are midtable after 7 or 8 games next season the atmosphere will make last seasons jeering feel like a tea party! (ask Graham Taylor, Mark McGhee, Dave Jones, Twaddle etc…!)
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“I haven’t done the job well enough” says the clown.So, Mr Morgan…why is he still doing it? Cheap option eh?
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Micks transfer record is pretty good.
His ability to manage them is woeful, he failed to deliver and like anyone else who works should take the blame and do the honourable thing and resign. My estimation of him then would actually go up.
But of course he won’t resign, after slating off the fans several times last season he will never get my support again.
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Worth another punt! Oh - it’s Euro’s now isn’t it?
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He’s staying, so boo boys get over it once and for all, lets all re-unite and get behind the team because i, for one (and no doubt countless others), am sick of reading bickering comments between supporters of the same club and constant slagging off comments about all and sundry who dare speak up, lets put last season behind us and look forward to what the future may hold, so lets get behind mick and co and give them our full support because that is the only way we are gonna succeed, divided support will not get us anywhere, think about it!
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heard on the grapevine wolves may make a move to beat forest to the signing of rob earnshaw - 2.5m
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To all people that read this without the “Hate MM” blinkers on, will realise what he is saying has truth to it.
I think his major let down is not knowing when to keep his mouth shut to the press, but IMO he is bang on here
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I’m just going to comment on last night, michael Mcindoe has showed mccarthy up and proved our football club wrong. as one of our best players last season, we brought in jarvis who yes is a good player but not as good as mcindoe, it shows mccarthys ambitions for the club which are low if we are selling club, thats why we haven’t won PROMISED promotion, i have renwewed early bird for next season and that for a 15 year old is expensive, i sing my heart out for the club yet don’t get rewarded like many other fans, i know mccarthy won’t go so weve got to get behind him otherwise the finish of next season will be even worse than this season.
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Win your first 3 games next season and you will all be singing his praise again.
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Keep up the good work Mick. The majority of fans are right behind you. The more sensible of us can see that we only need a few more signings to be a very good team. I can’t wait to see the signings this year. We’re building something great.
Why don’t you change record Muppetout? Are you always going to live your life in the past? Your handle/name tells me a lot about your intelligence. Why don’t you contribute something constructive for a change.
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I would like to see gerard pique from man utd come on loan for the season as well as chris riggott from boro, he played reasonably well on loan at stoke and helped them get promoted. As for the creative midfielder what about mark davies or denes rosa? as for up front what about rory fallon from plymouth he did well against craddock and breen and could be perfect foil for SEB. At least Kyle has gone back. Despite what has happend this season we need to get behind the team ever match whether we are winning 1-0 or losing 3-0 and stop booing the players, if the boo boys are not happy with the performances vote with ur feet and don’t attend future games. Come on Lads lets get to the promised land!!
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4 - Max Pinson :
McIndoe has played for the following clubs : Luton, Hereford, Yeovil, Doncaster, Derby, Barnsley, Wolves and now Bristol City.
You’d think he was 35, but no, he’s 28 years old. Does that tell you something ? Its nearly 1 club for every year of his 20’s !! May be MM did make a mistake, or may be McIndoe through his toys out the pram because he “wasn’t getting enough of the ball” as he was quoted as saying on leaving Wolves.
Point is none of us know and Im tired of people saying MM was wrong to sell him with nothing to base it on !
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What a load of blocks
Who is it that has recharged the press office batteries at Molinuex? They’re queing up to tell us how well off we are.
A few more articles and we will all forgrt the crappy season and we might even be telling everyone that Wolves are a fantastic footballing side just like MAD MICK has
I would love to be ablke to say it. Love it even more if it were true.
Problem is only a few at Molinuex have rose tinted specs
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Mick, it’s fine ‘bigging’ yourself up on your successes, BUT please show some humility and admit your errors !
p.s. did YOU really scout, assess and extensively watch Kites, and wasn’t it on Holloway’s recommendation that you signed SEB ?
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at last mick acknowledges that he has let us the fans down.he has taken the first step to re building the rapour between the manager and fans and the club can at last be united again.why oh why he couldnt of done this sooner heaven only knows but i am sure that now he has got rid of some of the rubbish he hopefully can bring in some quality and we can try and be successful next season.all we need now are the favourites that are left just shut there mouths and start doing it on the field as i am fed up of reading were going to do this were going to do that.knuckle down and concentrate on the job in hand PLEASING THE FANS WITH GOOD FOOTY AND PROMOTION
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Matt Jarvis is better than McIndoe, and Mad Mac knows it!
PS Did he ever get that Scotland cap ?
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When you play to win 1-0 you often lose or draw!Attack Mick!!
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“Boss McCarthy defends reign”
Why does he need to do that?
Only managers that are perceived to have failed need to defend themselves. Thats not our Mick, he’s done really well, everyone says so, well nearly everyone anyway!
“Exciting times ahead”, says No. 16.
Sorry but McCarthy and exciting can not co-exist in the same sentence, so I will look forward to another boring season where the only highlight is hammering the Baggies 5 - 0 ….
…..oh, wait a minute…….!
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TonyWBA - too true.
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30. London wolf
Greetings!
How is everything down in ‘Happy-Clappy’ land?
House (armchair) prices holding up I hope?
If you sold your armchair down there you could afford to buy 4 armchairs up here!
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31 spot on mate. We did over achieve when we got in the playoffs but after spending a few million last summer on players who in the end, contributed nothing last season and persistantly playing players who are Div 1 standard, we got what we deserved because we aint good enough. Tactics and players signed are down to MM, he should carry the can and be dismissed. But it won’t happen i’m afraid.
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We need to face facts he will be in charge next season & get behind him! MM you need think before you speak the fans pay hard earned money and are entitled to there opinion & you need US!!! the McIndoe issue is ridiculous - he is NOT good enough! He scored a good goal last night but he was generally poor for us!!! MM was right to sell him & if Jarvis stays fit he will be much better and he is 21/22!
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If you were going to name a tram after Mick McCarthy…..
What would you call it?
‘Mick, The Hard working Tram’
‘The Grafter’
Just a thought!
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30. London Wolf
Great shout McIndoe has caused problems wherever he has been, I work with a lot of Derby fans, when he was on loan there, George Burley the then Derby manager dropped him and fined him for being drunk at training, he never signed permanently, its very ironic he scored last night but it wouldnt surprise me if he leaves again this summer.
Matt Jarvis is a more than worthy replacement and I am sure he will prove that next season.
With regard to Mad Mick, he is going to be our manager next season so the moaners and groaners better get used to it, you can moan, wing, log your personal and unconstrustive comments but it wont change a thing, so start looking forward, last season is over moaning about it wont change a thing. Hopefully MM will learn from this season and turn us into team capable of challenging for promotion.
Its time to look forward last season is over
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38. abdonwolf. Got any more pie in the sky conspiracy theories us or are just going to have a go at London wolf?
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Lets review the Muppets reign:
Tatics…..inept
Team selections…..baffleing to everyone
Does he know his best team….No
Handling the Media…..Pathetic
Handling the supporters….shameful
Can he coach…No
Ability to read a game and correct mistakes…Non exsistent
Ability to buy what we need in the transfer window…Non exsistent…(Kyle instead of a central defender!)
Yes Mick I agree you are an Idiot and our eyes and ears tell us that tou are a lousy manager we dont need you or your players telling us how great you are cause wait aint gonna swallow it!!
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43.
No!
I’m just going to have a go at London wolf!
The clappies are ganging up on me!
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I wonder if this will get deleted by the Moderators.
MICK you need to deleiver this season. Play football like you did the 1st season and who knows you might get a SUPER MICK chant this season. But to be honest with you, I dont just think the football is the problem, its the lack of respect you and some of the players have shown to the fans who indirectly pay the wages!
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Whatever his footballing merits Mcindoe had you sussed mate, and now he’s in the play off final!
One poxy win against the teams that finished above us [Palace away], and that was garbage football in common with everything else, barring the Charlton game at home, that I saw all season.
Please please leave and take Moxey with you.
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41 Abandonwolf - call it what you will, it will still work hard, put a shift in but will stall before it gets to the end of the line !
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Jan 08 - Judge me at the end of the season
Mar 08 - I am not looking at the table
APR 08 (after a win which took us 6th) - I am not bothered about the performance, just look at the table.
May 08 - I shouldnt be judged at the end of the season.
This new PR man is doing a great job!!!
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After reading some of these comments you carn’t help but think that somewhere theres a mensa website missing its captive browsers.
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TonyWBA
You speak a lot of sense.
Want to be a Wolves fan for the next few months?
I don’t think I can stand much more of what I read on hear every day.
The bottom line is - Last season has gone, let’s move on and give MM one more year. If he does not deliver then I agree that he will have to go.
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Agreed Mick! Get behind the boys, lets have a good summer and charge a promotion challenge next season. In Mick I trust!
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Some people have short memorys. When the man took over we had 15 professionals, no money and a week to the first game. Yes he brought some stop gap players in but we’re in a different situation and he’s replacing them. Mick’s scouting and signings (put into context) are some of the best I have seen. We snatched Kites from under UTD’s nose?
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Abdon wolf : Things down here in the big smoke are great. After selling the very Arm Chair you mentioned at inflated London furniture prices Ive bought myself a seat in Moxey’s box. He’s even letting me have some input in to “Project PIN-POP” (Prmotion Is Not Part of The Plan). Basically we all sit around drinking whisky, thinking of really poor centre backs (Ex Sunderland or Irish if poss) and sideways passing midfielfders we can buy whilst we spend your season ticket money on more cigars.
Anyway, enough of me - how is it in unsubstantiated conspiracy world ???
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26, be quiet. nobody needs to know that “you sing your heart out” and all that rubbish! We’re all wolves fan here. so lets stop this rubish and get behind mick and the team. McIndoe was a good player, but if he wants to go then he has to go. what is the point in having a player in the team who doesn’t want to be. Jarvis is good but we didn’t that much of it last season.Think he has a lot to prove. Lets have positive comments on here. I’m bored of idiots slagging off everything to do with club. What are we going to achieve when we are constantly talking about how bad our players are and how poorly the manager plays his team. Come on Wolves!
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At last he’s looked at the league table!
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41. Abdonwolf. Don’t think it doesn’t suit you.
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48. I suppose that might happen if yobs are constantly throwing bricks at it throughout it’s journey.
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I can understand why he wants to be judged on 2 years rather than 1 cause the first year he did a good job and the second year he didn’t.
I do feel we go into next year with the basis of a team to challenge for promotion but I felt that a year ago. The biggest reasons we didn’t progress was the cautious tactics adopted for most of the season and the fact that a number of the new signings did nothing to improve the team (or in one case weren’t given the chance to).
With SEB, Kightly and Jarvis we have the basis of a really good attacking unit. And with the likes of Edwards, Davies and Gleeson in midfield we could have good attacking support.
But sadly under MM the focus will be on trying to win games 1-0 and then saying if only we scored more goals.
The players we have could win this division next year but I think a brain transplant for MM would be needed to get him to go for it rather than concentrating on putting a shift in and defending from the front.
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London Wolf bought a seat in moxey’s Box. Abit smelly me thinks…..
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““The team has evolved, changed and got better”
Evolved? maybe, changed? Definetely, but got better? Nope I dont think so.
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He asked to be judged at the end of the season. So be it. Certainly didn’t perform at the level he should have. Usually had the wrong set up on the field. Didn’t get the goals required and gave away lots of ‘em. So there we go! NOW LEAVE
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MM has split us in two, he has drove a wedge between us and the players with his occasional stupid comments and public team preferences(keogh and elliot are my first choice)thesecomments force the fans to take sides, he should stop now from giving any opinion on hids players and treat them all equally in public,
BUT hes going nowhere so are we going to waste another season waiting and hoping he fails or shall we be the ones who drag OUR club back up and build the bridges with the players?
lets show the country who are laughing at us that the so called milinuex facter can work for us by rallying our team and putting fear into the opposition
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no. 27 i don’t think so we’ll lose the first six under dopey mick,forest swansea wow really big games to look forward too,NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTT.
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Vainly trying to hang in there and justify his pathetic management of the club this last season.
For God’s sake, be honest with yourself! You know you failed us dismally, that’s why we want you away NOW!
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to succeed next year we need to get a new
center half partner craddock
centremid (or mark Davis) partner s g o
and a striker
and most importantly paul ince as maneger
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WELL GO UP AS CHAMPIONS NEXT SEASON COS MICK SAYS WE RE A GOOD FOOTBALLING SIDE AND ALL THE SIDE WILL PUT A SHIFT IN,MIND U IM SAD IN THE HEAD.
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Why don’t we all take a chill pill, give up on our pity parties, and just see who Mick brings in over the Summer. He seems to have looked at the squad, put the ones who haven’t worked out on to the transfer list, and hopefully is looking at bringing in two CB’s, at least one striker, and a few youngsters already at the club as back-ups.
Hopefully we will see Davies, Gleeson, Gobern, Little, Lee Collins, Liam Hughes, Dan Jones, Elliott Bennett and a few others of our own youngsters at least play a part this season.
If Davies can be fit we don’t need to sign a midfield playmaker. He is exactly that. Our midfield has a surfeit of riches. In addition to those mentioned, we also have Kights, Jarvis, Olly, Edwards, Henry. There are at least two full sets of midfielders there that would get in most Championship sides.
In my opinion, CB is our biggest area of weakness, but maybe Little and Elokobi may eventually be playing there. We still need another two though, for now.
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Wolves will never go up with this manager. Morgan get rid of him!!! Wot idiot puts eastwood on the transfer list with out givin hom the chance and then doesn’t sign kevin philips!! And does he no stelios giannokopoulous from bolton has been released.
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