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Wolves legend Steve Bull believes fans should back Mick McCarthy in the transfer market and wait until after the season starts before judging his signings.
Bull is currently cutting his teeth in his first management job at Stafford Rangers and is finding out how difficult it is to get the players he wants.
Like many clubs, Wolves are struggling to make headway in the transfer market having only signed one player, striker Sam Vokes, so far this summer.
But Bull is convinced supporters should get behind McCarthy as he prepares for his third season in charge.
He said: “Mick is coming into his third year and I would say to the Wolves fans, ‘give him time.’
“The season starts at the start, not at the end, so if Wolves could get off to a good start, that will give them a good chance.
“There is always lots of speculation about players coming in, but people shouldn’t get ‘beat up’ about things until the start of the season until we know what side he has got, what expectations he has got and what he is going to do.
“I tell people here at Stafford the same thing.”
Record Molineux scorer Bull admits his 20-year association with Wolves means the club is never far from his thoughts, even though his mind is focused on trying to build a team at Marston Road.
Bull lives in Codsall where he is surrounded by Wolves fans and he still visits Molineux whenever he can.
He said: “I am gold and black through and through.
“Everything inside me is Wolves.”
The 43-year-old former England international also revealed his former club will be one of the first points of contact for sourcing new signings.
He said: “We had one player from Wolves last season, Liam Hughes, but he struggled to do the job.
“But I’ll keep on to Mick, biting his ankles to ask what players he can send over and hopefully he can give me a boost.
“People ask whether Wolves are giving me a helping hand and I have to admit, when I first got the job, I said to Mick ‘can I have your first team?’
“It would do me the world of good to have 11 Wolves players! Our main aim this year is to get Stafford as high up as we can.”
33 Comments
WHAT SIGNINGS?
Bully - you’ll always be a Wolves legend no matter where you are or who you manage!! We could lend you Neill Collins if you like, although the Blue Square North might be a bit of a challenge for the lad!
Bully is a legend….. thats all that needs to be said
give him Freddy on loan! but not Collins!
QUOTE - “People ask whether Wolves are giving me a helping hand and I have to admit, when I first got the job, I said to Mick ‘can I have your first team?’ - Well, Bully if you take out Kites, Hennessey, SEB and possibly Jarvis & Foley Mick should have let you have the rest.
GOOD LUCK BULLY. ALL THE BEST THIS SEASON
Now the PR machine is really into overdrive.
Bully concentrate on Stafford and building up the skills to take over at the wolves and keep out of the Thick Mick debate
If MM had let bully have his first team Stafford might have finished mid table.
Good luck Steve, i remember you from the old days playing for tipton town, you have always kept a level head and will never be forgotten. Who knows do a good job at stafford and the next wolves manager could be yourself.
Well Bully is backing Mick so why can’t everybody else?
Yeah Bully, I’m sure the fans wouldn’t mind you loaning Neil Collins for the season!
good luck mate!!
y dont u go for our transfer listed players no-one else wants um!!
o ye i just thought u dont wanna be gettin relegated again aha
What ever Bully says , i agree with
one word for Bull LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!
“The season starts at the start, not at the end !!!…….Brilliant Bully, you’re a Genius mate!
well put bully, listen to the legend folks. until we c how the signins will perform and how things pan out, how can we criticise? lol. yessss lafferty has gone 2 rangers!! wooop!
Steve my friend, you can have our first team if you want ‘em but I don’t think they’ll do you much good. There’s no passion! When I saw you play there was pride and passion. This lot have nothing, it’s just a paycheck, that’s it. Just for the record, you can have McCarthy too, he can clean the bogs!!
Bully - A legend with his feet but McCarthyist with his comments…” The season starts at the start”….hmmm. Very profound!
I note that Ipswich have signed McAuley and Charlton have signed Hudson…both top draw central defenders signed by rival Championship teams.
Yes…We’ll judge Mick by his transfers….that’s if he makes any!
Following Steve Morgan’s lead, I’ve decided to give Mick McCarthy a second chance and throw my support behind him. I will also support his signings until I make up my mind about them.
I’ve been impressed by Kevin Foley, George Elokobi, Michael Gray, Michael Kightly, Matt Jarvis, Andy Keogh and Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, and the jury in my mind is still out on Karl Henry and David Edwards. I don’t doubt McCarthy’s ability to make good signings. Now get us a central defence, Mick!
If we are to make a meaningful challenge for automatic promotion, we need to sign at least two good central defenders and one strong midfielder. Mick says he also needs another striker. So, until we get them, I’m going to howl for them loud and hard!
No need to give McCarthy and Moxey a free ride while we still don’t have them. If we don’t get them, a.p. is a pipe dream! Put a shift in, Jez and Mick!
wolveswolves, you have to be the most negative poster on any team’s boards in any league. You really don’t qualify as a Wolves fan. You HAVE to be a Baggie WUM. Not once have I ever seen you make a positive posting on here about anything to do with Wolves. Even a Wolves legend like Bully receives negativity from you. There is no-one more Wolves than Bully, and you even have a go at him. Your postings are a disgrace.
19 nicely said, 1 or 2 just come here to moan and whinge and take every opportunity to slate the team, even comment 14 takes the pee out of our finest ever goalscorer, why cant we be like the baggies posters who are usually positive in their comments? whichever division they are in
This why its so good to come on this site,
other teams go out and sign players, you lot just talk of signing players, never mind you have S Ward your new captain, I think that Mad MM will get some more S Wards from Ireland, Staying in the Fizzy pop league the Mick and your owner Jez’s way.
19. You’re wrong again Brereton I speak as I see. Bully is a legend and always will be but it doesn’t mean to say I believe in everything he says. The only reason he’s probably backing Thick Mick is that he’s hoping he’ll lend him some players.
And I do post some positive posts when there are positive things happening. Face it, what is there really to be positive about at the moment. We have a chairman who seems unwilling to splash the cash, the fat controller who keeps this club in the championship, a fitness coach who was a legend at being unfit and a manager who can’t get the best out the team and picks the wrong players.
Baggy 1(21) where are your signings? even Paddy McGinty’s goat cose Rangers!
Still I hear you’re now after Shola Ameobi - I bet the rest of the league are quaking in their boots!!!!
23. We still have a squad of players that are capable of finishing top in your division, which is more than you can say for the Wulfs, 7th wasn’t it?.
And before you bang on about us finishing bottom of the premier do you really think that we are stupid enough to believe that we will find it easy to stay up?. We might survive but, then again, we may not. But we have earned the right to be there, just as Stoke & Hull have, so get used to it!.
wolveswolves take brereton for the cantankerous old warhorse he is.
You merely incensed the receiver of one of micks kidneys with the “thickmick” comment - I saw no negative inference to Bully.
You will find brereton seldom comes on here to make statements of his own, choosing instead to vent his anger at Wolves woeful performances by berating other posters.
yawn brereton yawn.
Actually, isnt that exactly what i’ve just done, oh well, who cares. Certainly not me.
Somehow us Wolves fans have to put last season behind us, and unite again, even if that means the Mick Haters cease with their abuse, and the mick lovers tone down their self-righteousness.
We are Wolves, and we face a much tougher challenege next season than this, I hope Mick has some brand new philosophy up his sleave, but all we can do as WWFC faithful is get bshind the squad.
COME ON YOU WOLVES!!!
Oh course you can have Collins & S Ward to sit on your bench - about their level
24 you stole my thunder
The crap they have could not even get in the play offs, I also sense the way Mad MM treats and wants players to put that Bloody shift in, no decent players want to go to the Mol. Never mind enjoy Swansea and Doncaster. Norwich, Derby, Ipswich, Brum, Shef U and Pos Shef W will have bigger crowds than the Mighty WW.
Now go and plan your way round the Fizzy pop League. In Mad MM and Jez and S ward we trust
Ad Mant, not forgiven me for having a go at your negativity recently then? I am unashamedly pro-Wolves. I sing my heart out at the games, I cheer on our own players, I never chant the name of a player who is not playing when one of our team misses a chance. If everyone at the Wolves had my form of “negativity” then we would see players from our team being lifted to new heights at the Golden Palace. We are better away from home than at the Mol, as too many folks there get on their backs if things are not doing well. They then become afraid of trying the unexpected, as they know if it goes wrong they will get people having a go at them. (Unless their initials are FE of course.)
You said you couldn’t see any negativity in wolveswolves comments. How about “…Bully concentrate on Stafford and building up the skills to take over at the wolves and keep out of the Thick Mick debate” In my mind telling someone who would run through brick walls for his beloved Wolves to stay out of things IS NEGATIVE. I don’t like it when someone who is famed for his negativity tells someone who will always be a Wolves legend to keep out of a Wolves debate. Bully has EARNED the right to be involved in Wolves debates. What have you or wolveswolves ever contributed to the club in a positive manner?
Incidentally, I support MM because he is my club’s manager, and not because he is MM. If he moves on, I will support whoever takes over. I do believe, however, that the club has moved on from when he arrived. We need two central defenders, and will then challenge for promotion in the coming season. Christophe Berra and Tommy Elphick will do me nicely. Who knows, maybe Elokobi and Little will develop into two good centre-backs for the future.
27-Baggy 1. You said, “Never mind enjoy Swansea and Doncaster. Norwich, Derby, Ipswich, Brum, Shef U and Pos Shef W will have bigger crowds than the Mighty WW.” Last season we had bigger crowds than you, and we didn’t get promoted. The only time you filled your ground was when we came, or you let folks in for a tenner. I would say that the “Glory Hunters” have bought season tickets at your place this year, but we all know they aren’t there to watch your lot. They are there to watch the opposition.
When you say that nodecent players want to play at the Mol, have you forgottenn that you couldn’t even persuade a non-league Northern Irish winger to join your lot. He would rather have a few seasons in a Mickey Mouse League playing for Celtic than one season in the Premier League. (He saw what we saw, one season for you, and then DOWN the Mowbray Way.)
Brereton,,,you are totally out of order,,Steve Bull has a right to his oppinion,but no more than the supporters who pay their hard earned every Saturday,,I for one have been going to the Wolves a lot longer than Stevie Bull,does that give me more of a say,,iff it does I would like to say to you, get a bit more ambition,,dont be prepared to put up with the rubbish we had last season,,whats wrong with wanting a bit of success,,stuck in my mind is watching us against Morcambe last season,,Pure Torture,,please tell me how you can watch stuff like that and get behind the lads..that doesnt make you a great supporter,,it makes you someone who is prepared to put up with anything served up to you without question,as long as we have supporters and management like yourself we wont get anywhere…..
21.
You can talk after the way you handled the Irish signing yesterday..lol
30- And if we continue to boo our own players, and chant the names of others who are not playing, we will improve their attitude out of sight, take the Championship by storm, go up, win the Premiership title, and then take the Champions League the season after? We are more successful away from the Mol for a reason. The away fans are more like me and less like the minority that make up the boo boys that attend the Mol.
It’s not that I am happy with the performances that we endured last season. No one was. We had key injuries that took out players for long periods. Loans might have been made to cover for those, but we don’t have hindsight before the event. It was felt, for example, that Kights’ injury wuld only take a couple of weeks to heal. Real success takes time, building on what were the positives, and eliminating the negatives. Younger players will take longer to get us up and staying up, but that is better than buying old men, getting up, and the straight back down. Too many at our club think we have a divine right to be in the Prem. We are slowly working away under a different policy. It takes patience, but will reap long-term dividends. It’s not a lack of ambition on my part. I just don’t want boom and bust. The young and hungry scenario can get us out of that past failing of ours. You can’t tell me that last season was worse than the Hoddle era where we bought has-beens who could not ever get us where we want to be, and would never improve. We have the basis of a good squad. Some of them have been failures, but all teams get those. (Veron, Mjemba Mjemba, Mido, etc.) When you look at Kights, Jarvis, SEB, Vokes, Davies, Elokobi, Gobern, Hennessey, Murray, Ikeme, Foley, Little, Edwards, Henry, Olifinjana, Keogh, Daniel Jones, Bennett, Lee Collins, Liam Hughes, etc, the future is rosy. Throw in Craddock, Gray and a couple of old heads to give a little experience. Berra, McLean, Elphick, Dave Jones, etc would be the finishing touches in my opinion.
Well that kicks Bully’s credibility. Yes it is his opinion and that’s ok. However it does show his shortcomings in the overall management side of teams. If nothing changes in a team year after year and the team always finishes down the league it would appear obvious that unless there is a major change the result will be likewise.
This upcoming season resembles the launching of the Titanic. Loads of hope but the result looks likely to be the same. Apart from the fact that the Titanic at least had a band and all we have is MM.