Chief executive Jez Moxey today urged fans to buy into a ‘new Wolves vision’ of entertaining football as he urged fans to snap up seats for the new campaign.
Moxey revealed season ticket sales were around 1,300 down the same time last year, and believes Wolves supporters should tap into the vibrancy of the squad determined to challenge for promotion.
“We’ve sold 14,700 so far which is about 1,300 down on where we were this time last year, based on selling days,” said Moxey.
“But it’s a reflection on the same number we were down on those that didn’t renew on the Early Bird.
“Last year people were renewing based on the fact we had finished in the play-offs. We want to keep the expectations in check, but we can’t wait for the first game of the season.”
Moxey is aware some fans were critical of the quality of football at Molineux last season and believes the players will ‘up’ the entertainment levels.
“We have a young squad that’s so enthusiastic and hopefully we can produce exciting football,” he said.
“We want to entertain our fans and if we do that, the players will enjoy playing and the fans will enjoy watching and hopefully, if that happens, then hopefully success will follow.
“Everyone from the administration staff to the players, fans, manager and media is hoping for a really positive season on all fronts.
“And with Steve Morgan trying to support us with our recruitment aims, there are many reasons to be optimistic.”
Moxey added: “I’m not sure fans have picked up on the enthusiasm there is within Molineux, maybe because people are on holidays or because of Euro 2008. But there is a really big buzz in Molineux about the forthcoming season and that has manifested itself within the squad.
“We are having to almost remind the players to keep a lid on their expectations and excitment for the new season. We think we have signed three excellent players in Sam Vokes, Richard Stearman and David Jones and our player recruitment drive hasn’t finished.”
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The reason ticket sales are down is because of the dull, boring football played last season. We can only hope that the message has got across that stuff like that is not acceptable to the fans.
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Moxey try reducing the prices and giving us more for our money!
Sorry the credit crunch doesn’t effect people on your wage so your not bothered!
A load of spin to increase sales!
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i hope it hasnt finished either! lol. gots faith in u jez nd mick
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Maybe the fans will by their tickets when you have finnished recuiting Jez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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not really sure about the whole thing i think time will tell if we get back to watching good entertaining footy week in week out but its good to hear that there are more signings on the way, still think the defence is a little dodge.
same vokes all the way though this kid is and will be very very special
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trust me moxey i cant wait for season and alot of other fans are the same but every year i cant wiat for season and every year i hear these comments from you or some one in the club and nuffin ever happens just please do the talking on the pitch,and the reason the tickets are down is cuz fans are starting to have enough of all this hype before the season starts and nuffin happens in the season,hope ur rite this time cuz in my eyes dont think we will get a better team than this years
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I’m an early birder and have a 360 mile round trip each home game. Come on local Wolves get yer tickets. No excuses.
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ummmmmmm…..
i think fans will play the waiting game and see if we do get this “entertaining football”… if we do we will have a full house for every home game…
its all down to MM…. we can but hope….
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there is a recession looming & we have the most expensive ticket prices in the midlands (including villa). if we were treated like the other midland fans,in terms of ticket pricing this would not be a problem, moxey
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Perhaps when supporters are able to see real quality signings and not just kids for the future then they may be persuaded to invest in the season ahead.
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Did Moxey watch any games last season!!!
exciting football……… WHEN!
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I am not a season ticket holder purely because i can get cheaper match day tickets because of my student discount, i signed up for the TPS last year, but have not done so this year because i thought it was value for money, £40 just to join…
I am also very excited about the forthcoming season and shall be at Plymouth for our opener!!!
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Don’t worry Jez, if Wolves are playing entertaining football and winning matches, people will come.
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I will be local next year (coventry boo!) but first tiem close enough to see mroe games. I wont be a season ticket holder but I will get to as many games as I can! I also buy the con that is wolves world just to get commentry! ha
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jez jez jez firstly look around there is no money about, 2nd football is a expensive luxury, if you drop your prices people,myself included will buy season tickets, get in the real world jez.
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i would love to be back with my son but £750.00 for a joint ticket i think i will have to pick my matches
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GET A LIFE MOXEY!!! probably the same crap will be served up this season by muppet mick and his back woods tactics no wonder sales are down and after reading some of the comments posted last season is it any wonder????
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was moxey watching the same rubbish we were last season,dopey mick blamed the loyal fans for eveything no wonder there thinking about what to spend there hard earned cash on,well let me think the mortgage or over 300 quid to watch players getting over 6k a week and running round like headless chickens like they did last season,i my be tipton born tipton bred be im not thick in the head.
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Unfortunately Mr.Moxey does not understand all of us are not on £500,000 a year.Hasn’t he heard of the latest (credit crunch).Maybe if at the end of last season if he had replaced the manager and entire coaching staff with new personnel,people might have been a bit more (ENTHUSIASTIC)and delved deeper into their pockets for season tickets.
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Sorry Jez, I’m confused…You want us to come and buy our tickets due to the exciting fare on show, yet you don’t want us to heap too much expectation on the poor players’ heads. You use us when you’re not hitting your targets, and insult us as soon as the wheels drop off. You’re a walking contradiction. Oh, I’ll give you one reason why fans are not renewing…Neill Collins getting a new four year contract. You do the math Jez.
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Every day there seems to be either a player or someone else at the club coming out and saying “this is the season” or “i think we can do it”.
The quote “hopefully we can produce exciting football” made me smile, maybe he should mention it to Mick!!
Oh and the
“there is a really big buzz in Molineux”.
Is that why us Baggies never got our open top buzz tour?? You Wolfies had nicked our buzz??
Or is that buzzing coming from the under ground heating system, about to pack up again??
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13,600 is a good figure… ask Blues. Our prices are very expensive and I know that other clubs like Villa, have installment schemes!
The mood is good and there is plenty of optimism but the quality of football last season was not as good as the back end of the previous season and MM made some strange decisions on the pitch. Before the season has kicked off we will get to 15,000 sales - which is decent in the current climate. Only Villa and the Tesco’s will have more and that is because they are glory hunters and want to see the Man Utd’s and Liverpool’s!
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SACK Mcarthy and your season ticket sales will skyrocket!!
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The problem is Wolves fans have heard all this PR propoganda before and many are going to need to see evidence of an entertaining football style and some serious signings between now and kick-off.
Good to hear recruitment drive hasn’t finished -another central defender (Berra /Gorkss / Loovens), an impact midfielder (Brian Howard/Ben Watson) and a striker to complement SEB, Keogh and Vokes are still very much required please!
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Note to Moxey
I remember last year being told it was our fault that the team weren’t playing well.
Therefore I’m doing my bit by not renewing.
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Mind you at least it seems the club have gagged mad Mick, i can only imagine what his press release would have said:
Aye up nuggets, buy a season ticket um feeling real confident of us putting a shift in next season, an if you dont ill cum rand an gee ya a slap, proper Barnsley stylee!!
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bla bla bla
Buy what we need instead of talking to media. At least one decent central defender and an experienced player at defensive midfield to captain the side. Pay the clubs what they want for them is better for the finances than miss out all the time because of trying to “earn” £100000 in the negotiations. Buy the two players we need and both the number of points and fans will increase. Its as simple as that.
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ive got my season ticket mate just hope its worth it! if its not then you can forget me buying a new one!!
Barmy Army
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Moxey calling for Boost. I thought he just liked Mars & Snickers. Then again he probably has whatever is on offer.
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21 & 26. Thanks for my daily smile for today…
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I suspect the economic downturn is the biggest factor. But entertaining attacking football, helped by Kites, Jarvis and the new signings will soon filter through into the turnstiles.
Support the Wolves.
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Are these people talking about the “credit crunch” the same people who mocked our “kids for a quid” and “tenner for a ticket” deals last season ??
Surely the biggest club in the world can sell more than 13000 ticket by July ??
p.s - hows the new 40,000 seater stadium coming along ??
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Quite right those people mentioning the lack of exciting football, the credit squeeze and ticket prices being too high. In this day and age, people have critical decisions to make regarding how they spend their money. Only the single who have little or no responsibilities can spend their cash on season tickets or travel to distant places for away matches. Married people have families to support and now that the credit squeeze is biting hard and petrol is going through the roof they have to consider if football is a priority or not?
As for ticket prices, football clubs seem to up their prices willy-nilly without any thought if the general public can afford it!
If Wolves want more people to buy tickets, seasons, early-birds or otherwise, they must be realistic and price entrance within range of the public and not the rich Abramovich’s who have no money worries!
Get real Wolves FC and the fans will respond as best they can but expecting them to pay over-the-odds per game and then be expected to enjoy the tripe which was on offer last season yet again will clearly not work!
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i cant afford a season ticket but i go to every other home game i.e if we play saturday & tuesday at home i pick one match out of the two etc and go to a few away matches (much better not so many boo-boys) end of the day met my partner and she decided to lumber me with a mortgage so i just cant afford it. along with rising gas,electric,running a car football used to be an entertainment many could enjoy but not now the season we got promoted my season ticket was about £240 then got bumped up to £404 and what is it now £432??? i cant afford that on my wage along with everything else.
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If you want more ticket sales try listening to the Fans you didnt last season and now the ticket sales are down.I remember many discontented fans airing their views regarding the treatment of Eastwood and the contempt McCarthy showed towards the fans this is why sales are down.
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My season ticket money is in my bank account and thats where it’s staying. When Thick Mick said last year he didn’t care about the fans I decided I didn’t care to part with my hard earned money to sit in total frustration every other week.
I could frankly get more entertainment watching a pub team than I got down at the Wolves last season.
Next season I will pick and chose games depending if there is evidence we shall see some entertainment. However I shall never back Mick “I’m bigger than the club” McCarthy.
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More fans would buy tickets if the price was reduced simple as that. Nothing to do with the fans not wanting to support the team. It’s all down to money, the same as everything in Football.
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Wolves fans, we’re nearing the point of now or never. With the effects of the new Sky deal now being realized and with Steve Morgan having taken over the club, we are at destiny’s turning point. After two decades bumbling along at the top of the second tier, it’s now up or down. It’s going to be a close call.
I’m sick of Jez’s annual hype at this time of year. Then he blames the fans who attend for discouraging the lads! As someone’s written, the man’s a walking contradiction.
But do we love the Wolves? Within each of us’s own financial resources, we now have to get behind the team. We can’t get away with being childish about our dissatisfaction with Moxey–if we are, we risk helping to sink the club.
We NEED to get the Premiership income and, if the worse comes to the worst, we NEED the parachute payments. If we were to stay in the Prem, of course that would be really great.
The fact is that we MUST get behind the team now. If we don’t get the new Premiership income or the new parachute payments, we are headed for permanent decline. Forget all the justifiable bad feeling and the internal infighting between the fans and Mick and Jez! It’s now or never, lads and lasses.
Whatever manager, whatever chief executive, whatever players Morgan provides us with, we have to go for it this season. Remember the new Sky deal. There may not be many more chances!
Come on, you Wolves!
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i cant believe how the wolves management treat they fans does moxley really belive comments like this will make thousands of wolves fans put there hands in there pocket that is the main reason that they havent brought there tickets you forget to tell them to do so. Even a baggie fan like myself would not disrespect loyal wolves fans like that we just have bannter this is insulting moxley give them some thing worth watching simple really.
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So the vision is entertaining attacking football? But what will the reality be?
We have the players to be an exciting and successful team but this manager has always cared much more about the goals against record than the goals for. The goalscoring record since he has been at Wolves has been poor as it was at Sunderland.
It’s the manager that needs to change and then the fans will come flooding back and the moans will disappear overnight.
We have been promised a 40,000 capacity new stadium and Wolves fans will fill it if they get promoted. But they will neither fill it or get promoted if the football is as dull as last season.
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Moxey has a very very short memory - “exciting football” - When did that happen last season?, apart from a handfull of games the rest was absolutely dire garbage!
Moxey - fans are wising up to your seasonal BS
MM and enetrtainment are NOT two words that go together!, and when can we expect your other seasonal message, you know the one that goes - the fans expectancy blah blah and the fans shouldnt get on MM or the players backs???
Last season £7m spent - Entertainment Value - Poor
Wrong Manager Wrong CEO
Nuff Said
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He really is good at PR. Produce the goods and the fans will return. Simple as!!!
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Hey Happy - hows the plans to down size the capacity of your ground coming along.
Promoted to the Prem and talk of down sizing. You can’t make it up.
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
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39 and 40 very good and true to the point
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32 - You are unreal I do believe your average gate last season was less than ours and you won the league!!!!!! Also basically we have sat and watched some of the worst football over the last twenty years that with the credit crunch no wonder sales are dropping. Moxey has a cheek asking fans to fork out more & more money after last season, also he is vastly overpaid for what he does!!!
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I wondered where moxey was at the last couple of weeks. Reason why ticket sales are down are:-
in no particular order.
Failed promotion again
MM is still in charge
football entertainment was poor
PR at wolves last season was a disaster and embarassing
credit crunch
uk is heading into a recession and fans cant justify forking out expensive season tickets where they are not gettingg value for money!
Perhaps Moxey should realise we are all not on fat cat high salaries that he commands!
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Blimey theres some sensative souls out there!!What do you expect the guy to say??
Based on last years performances season ticket sales are hardly suprising. However I suspect there will be more people buying tickets for individual games this year. This is what me and my mates are going to do, see how it goes until christmas and if we like what we are being served up, we may look at getting a half season ticket.
Id imagine there are many other planning to do the same.
Ultimatly i dont think day to day attendences will be much down on last year, assuming that the country does not plunge into econmic meltdown, if it does football will be the last thing on many peoples mind.
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Please mr moxey live in the real world . Would you pay to watch the dross served up as football last season i doubt it .
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Number of tickets sold is still fantastic, now lets see Morgan put his hand in his pocket!Wolves fans need showing how good and entertaining we are, no good Moxey telling us.
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you sold MY seat for a pie and a pint
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I knew a lot of you didn’t like Moxey and Mickey Mac, but I didn’t realise just how much!!
Not taking the mickey, but I thought you’d have sold more than 13,500 season tickets…that surprised me.
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pull the other one moxey.
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Fans might buy into this ‘new Wolves vision’ if they can actually believe in it, but all we’ve done so far, to follow up on a truly awful season of football, is to buy a couple of ‘young and hungry’(yawn) players, and compromise any new optimism that there might be a change of direction by signing up Calamity Collins for another 4 years. It’s going to take much more than this to make any ‘vision’ a reality, so in the meantime it’s left to mugs like me to cough up another few hundred quid for what will no doubt be another season of disappointment
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50) Too right to a harold steptoe look-a-like in a grotesque shirt!
We will be still averaging 24-25,000 bearing in mind the away fans tend to have about 1,500 - 2,000 gaps. Millwall the other year brought about 60 supporters.
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I was thinking that maybe part of the reason was that some of the moaners had gone for boggie season tickets instead but if they’re reducing capacity maybe they’ve gone to Stafford Rangers to support the Legend
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Well said moxey… some of these fair weather fans should put their money where their mouth is and start backing the club and its policies.
In real terms season tickets have actually got cheaper due to the early bird scheme, plus the club have put together other incentives for “true” fans.
I find it satisfying to read the match reports when I return from the football… the people typing during the match (i.e. those who don’t go) are the same people who slate the club for everything they do.
THINK ABOUT IT!
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Oh & by the way nedball (51) - the only reason you lot have sold more season tickets is because you’ve gone up - back to normal next season when you come back down & the glory hunters go to back to the Villa
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by the start of the season im sure there will be 15,500-16,500 season tickets sold mr moxey with opur hard earnt money…in spite of recession credit crunch inflation and rising costs of just about everything….but were still buying in our thousands…no kids 4 a quid schemes like our 2 birmingham buddies….give us a break jez!!! get some more new blood in…..cmon u wolves!!!
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oh and by the way if u want the fans to be “buzzing” JEZ, sack that dork with the microphone…get someone with an once of personality and humour in, and bring back the LIQUIDATOR! off west brom….the wolves
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Mr Smug I see you have justified your name. You are a tool!
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I have news for you, Jez. As a STH in the South Bank, I’ve only renewed this year because I know it will be my last season. Are you interested in the reasonwhy? Because next year I’ll be sixty and there are no concessions - by the time I’m sixty-five, I’ll be out of the habit.
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Forgive me for not getting too carried away, but i’ve heard it all before! Weren’t we geared up for taking the league by storm last year and look what happened - failure again! The cost of the season-tickets is not fair on the hard-working people who go out every day and work damn hard to make ends meet - with the cost of EVERYTHING in the country skyrocketing - nevermind forking out £400 odd to watch DIRE football with an inept manager at the helm. Who in their right mind gives Neill “Crazy Legs” Collins a FOUR YEAR DEAL?!? No wonder there has been a dip in sales, people do not want to watch rubbish! I’m telling you now, that if we don’t get off to a STORMER at the start of next season, myself and I’m sure many others will be baying for Mad Mick’s blood. Lets show him our support at the first home game by instead of singing “Super Mick….” how about “Crazy Mick….”
From one of the loyal “Nuggets”
McCarthy Out!
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blow it out yer arse mr smug. some folk live in Sweden and Spain FFS, not the back of the asda - and you are a complete moron if you think last season was anything other than a complete failure, so your arrogance at slating the disillusioned fan is criminal.
get real.
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here we go again.jez you promise us the world.but the team dont deliver it.after all over 14,000 season tickits is not a failure.times are hard,money is tight.thank your lucky stars,over 14,000 have paid already jez,yes im one of them.got mine in march.yes i will cheer & shout,like i have for over 40 years now.so dont knock us jez.we were here before you and will when uve long gone.alway will because ive got gold&black blood in my viens.not a calculater jez.so come team.belive & deliver..
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Just as expected! get behind the team followed by “Buy season tickets”… this guy should wear a red nose and white dress, easier to notice the clown that way…based upon the signings so far, they have just about the same talent as the ones we are trying to sell! Outcome likely the same as last season…
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Mr. Moxey If you did say all this then I must say you insult the intelligence of our fan base–fans are only to willing to be there to share the moment-Patience is thin you promise such a lot a do not deliver-But year after year we come back in the hope things will be better but they are not– You had your chance when we were in the Prem you blew it– So if you did say all these things in the article–YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER-Try being a little more humble with promises - you are failing to keep-You are there because you balance the books and thats it–Stay out of Football Comments aimed at us FANS it boring and an insult to our intelligence–Get some quality signed in other words release the money to get good players in–Crazy Dave
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I have renewed my ST home & away but hasn’t Jez heard there is a credit crunch at the moment, a deep recession looming and people are starting to lose their jobs.
West Hams season tickets are 25% down from last season!
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rats,ships, siinking aye boing boing
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57 - Fred. Just because I’m an Albion fan doesn’t mean I’m automatically having a pop!
You’re right, there are people that have got season tickets at the Shrine as it’s Premier League football only, I won’t deny that.
I was merely saying I thought you’d have sold more than that as you are a well supported club……it’s you lot moaning that the standard of football is rubbish and it’s costing too much!
We’ve provided exciting, Premier League football at a decent price, that’s why we’ve topped 20000 season tickets.
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is this bloke for real??yes mr moxey i have purchased a season ticket this season,but lets face it,i think 99% of us were in 2 minds.i think if u left you would find that u would sell alot more!!!
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Why not have an interesting way to value tickets at Wolves. Ok, here we go, if the team wins then the following game we pay full price for them. A draw would be half price and a loss would be free seats!
In short Mr. Moxey perform to get paid, like any other business…you do your job and get paid, you don’t do it and get nothing..I think this would be fair?
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Are you suprised moxey why the fans weren’t pleased with the football last season was simply because we didn’t get anywhere near promotion because of the muppet mcarthy. Mcarthy isn’t simply good enough I think and hasn’t got a clue. He might have made some good signings but you only have to have a look at who and how many signings he has made. They are all good signings but all of them are from english clubs and he hasn’t made enough signings. Mcarthy thinks there is only good players in England. He needs to start scouting europe so at least he will get more variety of players and better players at cheaper prices.
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68 - kevin philips and gera.
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New Vision? You mean stop playing fantasy football, Micky Mouse style?
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moxeys off with his sales patter again dont try and con supporters moxey .we will tell you if the football is entertaining or not
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70 Agreed
71 Moxey would agree for EVERYONE else to be on performance related - he would always be the exception to the rule - Just watch Moxey when Morgan is about to wield his axe - he would distance himself faster than a top of the range Porsche can go 0 to 60 - Moxey The Bonus King
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Being as skeptical as i am after last seasons heartache, pessimism and criticism have no place now…If we agree with Mick or not and i do not lets get behind the lads and make sure 08/09 is our year again!!!!
68, In the 09/10 season you can look forward to playing another season against Stoke city, just in the championship…
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Here we go again! More pre-season bleating from Moonfaced Mox. Many of us were consistantly buying season tickets well before you arrived after leaving a trail of mayhem and bad feeling down the road in the Potteries, whatever became of them I wonder? Money is as tight as your waistband my friend, and too many times in the past you have questioned the loyalty and attitude of the very people you are asking to now come and “share the vision”.As usual I have my ticket, unless of course a last minute executive intervention scuppers my allocation of said season ticket, no doubt due to evidence of “bad attitude and unrealistic expectation” being interpreted from the contents of this heartfelt message, and I will be there, come hyperthermia, pneumonia and the onset of clinical depression. All conditions non-attributable to the team of course. Jez lad, honesty with the fans is better than out and out executive flannel.
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At last we are talking with our feet, we have had enough of crap football , if the footy improves then we will be back , but until then people like me who have been season tickets holders for years wont renew.
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yep.. as I thought.. you can moan at my comments but can’t really dispute them. I think the people on here who have more than half a brain will see that I am right.
The rest of you haven’t got a clue.
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Sorry guys. SOme of you disguise it as dull boring football. If we were winning week in week out, you would not care if it was boring.
We just want to win first and last.
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68- when you talk of rats where were all your 20,000 season ticket holders last year? were only 1,300 down big wow, whos leaving you next greening?
there are 2 main reasons sales are down 1-the prices are too expensive 2-micks still in charge. i still think are gates will still be high as last year considering home fans only get 25,000 seats & we averaged 24,500 last year.
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wolveswolves:
Maybe it is best you stay clear of the Mol then!
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Moxey is no doubt a very skilled man when it comes to getting the economy on track, and keeping a tight budget.
He is however a disaster when it comes to PR and basic knowledge about football.
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Well said (69), i’m getting the impression that the 1300 who didn’t renew are all the moaners on this site! I’m guessing the other 14k have got better things to do with their time!?!?!
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I’ll be picking my games carefully, then when Mad Mick is sacked about November I’ll back the new management team with a half-season ticket.
I support the Wolves, not Moxey and Mad Mick! And Morgan is starting to look dodgy in my book! He doesn’t seem to be listening to the fans.
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25 Monkster,you say that Moxey told you last year that it was your fault that the team was playing badly.
If you were one of the so-called “fans” who were booing Neill Collins when he was either playing or, worse,warming up to come on,ie before he’d even touched a ball, or even when his name was announced before the game; if you were constantly chanting Freddy Eastwood’s name, when someone missed a goal and Freddy wasn’t even on the bench; or if you just kept referring to Mick McCarthy as “Thick Mick” or “Muppet,” then I think you’re doing the best thing for everyone concerned, including yourself, by staying away this season.Many thanks for this magnanimious gesture.I just wish there were more like you.Unfortunately, there are too many who think like you,don’t have the guts to stay away and will be undermining the manager and the team next season.You know that,and so do I.And you will be there next season, too, I suspect.
If you can’t get behind the team and the manager, go somewhere where you can do both this coming season. Coventry, if Freddy goes there.
Or even if he doesn’t !
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YOU KNOW SOMETHING……..if we had tried and got ince halfway through last season it would have been first come first served with season tickets.THE TOWN WOULD HAVE BEEN BUZZZZZZZZZING
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Now if he’d said we need to sell more season tickets so that we can pay off Eastwood he might of faired a bit better?
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He’s not bothered about the club and fans he’s just annoyed cause theres no money coming in!
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Please go Mr Moxey - you aren’t a Wolves fan and never will be - just a well paid job for you I’m afraid! The quality of football last season was apalling and a waste of hard earned cash to watch it! Would you pay if you had to - I think not! Your comments are embarrassing and an insult to fans who have supported the club through thick and thin for over 40 years.
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Yet again we have our intelligence insulted by the spin-doctor! How many years does he expect to get away with this cheap spin?
The football that Mad Mick produces is always dire, witness Eire, Sunderland and Wolves. Surely not a coincidence. Nobody who knows anything about football will pay to watch the MM drivel. That is why he is a serial sack-victim, as everybody realizes that they don’t want to watch his rubbish any more.
OK to save you from relegation, anything will do then. But building an exciting Premiership team? Dream on Moxey!
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Glory next season, yet again?
When we had quality commercial management we prospered. Moxey has shown us how it should not be done.
The sooner this serial-looser is got rid of, the sooner we we see the club start to prosper.
MOXEY OUT! WOLVES FOREVER!
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I want to thank those fans who did not renew in the SB. It gave me an opportunity to purchase two upper, near middle and front seats: my first STs ever!
Bearing in mind that I have been going since 1956; a poor response?
Perhaps because I’m getting near retirement and want something to go to as I will be at home more often, or because I have that ‘feeling’ this time around: I don’t know.
Hope is only half as boring as last year Jez, as I can’t imagine spending 23 Saturdays, Sundays and Weekday evenings doing just that, as I’ve still got some serious work to do.
Hope you get yer bonus chum ; £0.5m for continued failure ain’t bad; beats my £100k pa!
P.S. ‘visions’ are usually based upon some kind of substance? Get those extra 2/3 players in ASAP or we will, again, be ‘also rans’! Steve will sus you out:-)
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The best “boost” you can give us Moxey, is clearing your desk and going back to the Potteries!
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The pie man cometh with his annual fibbers.
Do we listen any more? Of course not!
The result of this permanent lack of trust is reflected in the pre-season sales. It won’t end there as this will be amplified throughout the rest of the season, unless something positive and honest happens in the club.
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81 Its NOT just about winning - Its about entertainment value and how much of that did we get last season???
Secondly, Is Mr Smug really Moxey in disguise???
Finally, spending money on transfer fees circa £1m, £1.5m etc etc on “young & hungry” translated less wages - is ok providing you can bring in a good “balance” of a few better older players who can put their foot on the ball, control a game and stop the youngsters running around like “headless chickens”
Problem is Moxey is focussed on basic book keeping and wont pay a player who can still play for a Prem side a higher wage but yet believes a team without balance can/ should storm the league???
The Ince/ Irwin combo proved what can happen IF Wolves truely attempted to bring in two similar type older pro’s BUT alas Moxey is more interested in extreme budgeting - Why does he get a bonus for saving the club money??? & MM doesnt really want anyone having a different opinion to his own - as he would have his “loyal few” - ala S Ward Keogh, N Collins etc dazed and confused
Sorry but K Henry is not really up to the job as Captain - we really need a leader on the field of play with experience
Finally Moxey has gone from one extreme to another - one minute Wolves have the highest wage bill in the Championship, the next, we are trying to pay the least amount - No balance = No consistancy = Poor Entertainment Value
NB* the overused strap line “young & hungry” is nothing more than a cheap excuse and really means “cheap and cheerfull”
Yes with a few exceptions BUT without 2 or 3 decent older players in the squad we are aiming to do what we did last season - a sure fire sign of this is the 4 year extension of N Collins contract - a less than average player who no one but MM wanted
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I posteth - I moaneth - but I will be there rain or shineth. I am cursed with the blood of the Wanderer…………destined to roam the land in support of my inherited destiny. I must remind myself to go home and slap the old man as it is HE! who set me on this quest. Still, it could of been worse, I could have been one of the Mobags from the curs-ed borough of Sand Ye Unwell on the far side of the Shire.
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Bridget & Tony.. how can you dispute that season tickets are not actually getting cheaper?
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Bridget and Tony - good points. And if you remember, wasn’t it Sir Jack Hayward who wrote off £40 million of debt when he left the club as a good will gesture, making Moxey’s job of balancing the books a little easier? And for the remaining few who still think he is a genius in transfer negotiations…It was he who opted out of selling Kenny Miller for £1.5m with a few months remaining on his contract, only to lose him for nothing in the summer. It was he who refused Paul Butler a 2 year deal at 31 but gave Joakim Bjorkland a 1 year deal aged 32. And remember the days we were linked with Dean Windass?? That got the kaibosh because he was over 30. Two years later we buy Frankowski who was 32, and three years after that, Windass scores the winner to get Hull promoted! Now I’m not saying everything is Moxey’s fault,(past managers have their part to play) but on such vast wages, he should be far more accountable.
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Smug are you for real, your Boss man Jez, tells you to jump and you Jump. Your ST are the most expensive in the Midlands, and fools like you put up with Crap football year in year out, thats why your Boss Jez is happy in the Fizzy pop league, and dopes like you accept it. In Mad MM and Jez Smug Loves, fool.
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Firstly, Mr Smug you’re a prat who obviously has money to burn and an IQ lower than a WAG.
I used to think football was THE most important thing in life…more than the missus but times have changed!
Crap football
Crap manager
Club slagging off fans
Household bills going through the roof
Recession looming
Now on benefits as I’m now paralysed
Here’s a few reasons not to renew Mr Moxey, unfortunately for a lot of fans football can no longer be a priority
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Hear endeth the next lesson-These are the views and all to a man and women–Mr. Moxey you should really have a Management Strategy–Firstly to consider ways to get back the missing 5000-Since the Derby game (two seasons ago) at home the average crowd has been down by the above amount–The reasons are simple and expressed in the views of this interesting BLOG-you should also consider not feeding the press with all this spin–We pay over the odds for what we pay at the turnstile-Now give MM the money let him get some class in–Start winning and the fans will come back–Simple and I might add the prices of Food-Chocs and Beer in the ground is also to bloody high–Prefere ASDA next door–Get your total Marketing correct and SHUT-UP. Crazy Dave Lets move on
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By the way Mr. Smug–Tell me what there is to write about your comments hardly have merit–By the way Baggies pay less than we do for a ST–The only point I agree with is that the reporters on the RADIO seem to have been at a another game-(Especialy the guy who runs a shop in Wolves)–Or should I say “On another SHIFT”-Lets get real we pay to much for what we get.
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68 see you on the same ship next year
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Jez. Please stop!!..Entertaining football…Laughing that much you’re giving me stomach ache. I see you’ve set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public…..
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those weho agree with smug are clever and those who dont are stupid.
what an arrogant sob !
damn, you are like some pavlovian experiment being trialled in public. see football, start clapping.
idiot.
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I never said the football was great!
I said that in real terms season tickets have actually got cheaper due to the early bird scheme. I also think that most people on here actually slate the club for the sake of it….
if you actually look at things from more than one view point you will see how well run it is
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arrogant? yes probably. But when you read what most people put on this site (day after day after day) then you can see why I have my opinions.
You know the price of a ticket to watch a game, you can either afford it or you can’t. Moxey’s job is to find a balance and get bums on seats. If you can’t afford to go then stop moaning about it!
But when the club try things to raise revenue and awareness of their programmes you guys sit here and moan at that too. Every football club in the country has fans like “you”, a necessary inconvenience.
support the club or disappear, the choice is a simple one.
And to answer a previous question… no I am not Jez in disguise.
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well mr Smug the true fans dont turn away from wwfc,even when we cant afford to go every game , i still consider my self a wwfc fan till i take my last breath, i dont always agree with how the club is run and i cant afford to go to every game but in my mind that doesnt make me any less a fan, i wont disapear.
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109 OK Own up - You really are his trainee then???
C’mon you can tell us all - you work for Moxey dont you??? Hmmmmmmmmm?
Has he promised you a badge with some stars on it????
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yes, it was a badge with stars.. almost the same as your Mcdonalds badge…. got that 3rd star yet?
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Bridget & Tony….Are you really two people? or a a “cross dressing” Wolves fan who has two identities?…Don’t mean to be offensive but you must be the only joint “observers” anywhere on the web….Bridget it’s time to srike a note for women’s independence.
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Moxey, if this season is another failure it’ll be 10,000 STH next year. Money is tight and people won’t spend it to be bored and disappointed year in year out. We’re getting down to the die-hards who’d watch any old rubbish as long as it wears the gold and black.
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113 Yawn
We (Bridget is the Mrs) share this just as we do our home - Is that unusual? Two people that support the Wolves and have done so for years
Bridget comes on here and laughs at alot of the comments; but best of all no-one ever knows - apart from this reply who they are talking to and also it means that any anti female comments dont affect a decent heated debate or discussion - You know the one about women not knowing anything about football blah blah
NB Personally never tried cross dressing - But you can tell us Is it any good for you?
Up the Wolves!
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113 are you really a cross dressing WW fan
very nice for you and your partner, when you dress in that Old gold skirt.
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AN OPEN LETTER TO MR MOXEY
Dear Mr Moxey
You ask the fans to purchase tickets for next season. I give the following reasons why your wish may not be granted based on last year’s performance of which I will now remind you.
1 Commencement of season advocating the young, hungry stars who will lead us to Premiership glory
2 Having performed abysmally against lower order teams,including those promoted from the First Division, the team finds itself in tenth place by Christmas.
3 Employing a manager who relegateD his previous team and now finds himself at odds with the players he manages in addition to poor form on the pitch and places on the transfer list all those players he originally purchased bar one.
4 Failure to gain promotion despite all the hype and being embarrassed by the likes of Reading, Wigan, and Hull who have all come from the First Division, overtaken your team and gone on to Premiership glory while thE team still faffs about in this division.
I now ask a question of Mr McCarthy.
You have stated that wolves are the best team in the division. In that case, should Doncaster
(another team from the lower divisions)beat you at Molineux and go on to the Premiership - will you resign? Hopefully Mr Swain in his column will ask this question and print your response.
Yours sincerely
PAUL MULLERY
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did anyone agree with 72? Give me your opinions
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Excuse me Jez but if you haven’t already got the message - you’ve been rumbled!
Nobody’d listening anymore mate. I’ve renewed because I love my club but the shambles you’ve made of running it has driven many away and here’s why ;-
1) You have consistantly failed to balance the books. Losses have outstripped surpluses ever since you’ve been here.
These losses would have been ten’s of millions of pounds worse had not Sir Jack bailed us out.
2) You’ve been party to some of the worst transfer dealings in the clubs history, e.g. allowing Miller to go on a Bosman, releasing Jason Roberts for £200k while simultaneously paying over the odds in fees and contracts for a catalogue of player failures (e.g. Robert Taylor, Thomas Frankowski).
3) Your version of factual events has been questioned by successive managers, e.g. Colin Lee feeling obliged to ring a phone-in on Radio WM to deny your claim that the sale of Akinbye was a ‘footballing decision’.
Love them or loathe them, Hoddle and Dave Jones also had similar grievances (e.g. Hoddle over your infamous programme notes and Jones over whose decision it was to offer Paul Butler only a one year final contract).
4) So many day to day issues have been ballsed up.
e.g. (a)The ‘bomb-scare’ at the penultimate Molineux U21 international which finally kicked off at about 10pm because our stewards hadn’t even had sufficient basic security training to discriminate between wedges of sarnies/explosives. (b)Last seasons undersoil heating failure at the postponed Scunthorpe match.
5)You personal wealth has increased disproportinately to the fortunes of the club. You scrapped Prozone because we needed to ‘cut our cloth’ and all that whilst simultaneously awarding yourslef double that amount as a bonus for the Camara loan deal. By the way, is it true that we continued to pay Camaras wages while he was at Celtic?? But the most grotesque example is the c£450,000 you paid yourelf in the year following our RELEGATION. Compare that to the c £250,000 Peter Kenyon received following Man Utds TREBLE WINNING season.
6) You have increasingly ’spun’ your way out of confronting fans’ concerns rather than honestly addressing them. e.g. Last seasons reprehensible tactic of using young players as PR spokesmen ( Kightly at the Fans Parliament and Keogh’s Express & Star articles) to shield yourself from personal accountability.
And there’s more, much more but I think I’ve made my point.
In short Moxey, since you arrived you’ve become a millionnaire whilst we’ve achieved precisely nothing.
There’s only one beneficiary of you staying any longer and that’s Jez Moxey.
For God’s sake Morgan, get him out and you’ll go a long way towards tempting the disillusioned back !!
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“We have a young squad that’s so enthusiastic and hopefully we can produce exciting football,” he said.
“We want to entertain our fans and if we do that, the players will enjoy playing and the fans will enjoy watching and hopefully, if that happens, then hopefully success will follow”
So thats alright then - the future’s safe in the hands of strategic mastermind Moxey.
Three “hopefullys” in two sentances!
‘Hopefully’???? Give me strength!! I’m sure that’ll convince the punters to cough up, I don’t think!
Is that what you’re paid hundreds of thousands a year for? “Hopefully”?
You’re a bloody joke Pie Man.
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“We have a young squad that’s so enthusiastic and hopefully we can produce exciting football,” he said.
“We want to entertain our fans and if we do that, the players will enjoy playing and the fans will enjoy watching and hopefully, if that happens, then hopefully success will follow.
So thats alright then, the strategic mastermind Moxey has got it sussed - three ‘Hopefullys’ in two sentances.
Is that what you’re paid hundreds of thousands a year for? “Hopefully”??
Quite unbelievable!
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119, 120 & 121 Well Said!
Mr Morgan what our club needs is a CEO that can see beyond trying to run the club totally like a business, in most our views Moxey tries to run Wolves like HIS business!
As highlighted many times before, huge bonuses self awarded for deals that he had to get authorised from SJH? - Genius?
Our beloved club has stalled and faltered whilst ONE man has made large profits - IF Mr Morgan you dont stop this self indulgence by the clubs present CEO you will find more fans walking away in disgust whilst this man continues - IF you really care about the club you have bought into - take a good look a little closer to home and you will realise why fans are prefferring to stay away
Trust is a two way street, and most fans DONT trust Mr Moxey
Moxey OUT!!!
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..hopefully i will get a 300% pay increase next year, so hopefully the bank will lend me the 2.5 million i need to buy a small island and move their with what will hopefully be a lifetime’s supply of beer.
hopefully.
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Would help to have a non English speaking SPANISH star–Would help my Spanish lessons–Yes I agree in some with 72—But does he (MM) know where the Continent of Europe is–Is it beyond IRELAND–God Bless my Irish Aunt–Lets end this Blog its getting very personel.
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To “Bridget & Tony”….Hi.
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#122, Bridget & Tony. I think you have the thread of this correct. However Moxey plays to the man who pays his salary. He placates Morgan by keeping Morgan’s investment in the black. His job actually isn’t about making Wolves a premiership team its finding ways to con us fans into paying for season tickets.
A low cost manager with cheap second rate players add to the gambit of keeping costs way down which equals a middle of the road championship team.
Make a little extra by “fattening up” conference players to move along at the end of the season at a profit. Maybe add another 11,000 seats to get more fans in and it is easy to see what we have right now.
We have a middle of the road championship team which is profitable and unlikely to have any major changes in the forseeable future. Why would Morgan change something which makes him money? Oh I didn’t mention the football aspect, reason? there isn’t one!
The thought of TRULY building a team to move up makes Morgan’s banker very nervous along with Moxey who has no idea how to achieve it and still stay in the “black”.
Welcome to the world of business.
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come on wovles, this has to be yr best chance this year, maclean, berra, homosi, add them to wat u hav, then its top 2 easy, 6 million wud get u that lot, come on mad mick, get them dingles up, i miss our games with u already,
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for a team always ranting about attendances struggling to sell their season tickets
massive club unfair to genuine fans . but what do they care!!down to earth club in the real world blackcountry bred and proud of it. well done j peace .god bless norman deeley proper wolves legend
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126 QC - We fully understand and appreciate what you are saying BUT surely a squad of “gung ho” youngsters with maybe 2 or 3 experienced players being paid more than the rest of the squad is not that much of a risk?
Providing these “experienced” players are not purchased with a transfer fee - this is more than achieveable?
Or is it that Moxey and MM do not possess the necessary “man management” skills to placate the youngsters if these “Prem quality” players were brought in to give us the “umph” that the team so badly needs! Your thoughts???
NB*Also having noted the comments of Accountant Wolf and Portugal/ gese? Wolf regarding the methods that the club is being run on - if true - it beggers belief!
We think that Portugal Wolf implied that SJH’s “parting gesture” to mssr Moxey was to allow him control of the tickets, food and drink at the club - a very generous gift if true and what did Moxey do exactly to qualify for this grande gesture???
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126. quality counts
A great posting, you have captured all the salient points about the club’s business plan.
The move to Premiership football is high risk.
At Championship level the club is geared to maximize profits, and profit from the selling-on of young talent. That is what the “young and hungry” bite is all about.
Get them here at a cheap and cheerful price, get them playing at Championship level, and then sell them on at the right price to the Premiership.
So far, Wolves haven’t sold any of last years emerging talent, but that is only because it is still early in the transfer cycle.
The Premiership big-shots have to move about first, and then the club’s top-up their benches with promising Championship youngsters.
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To “Bridget & Tony”….Hi.
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Do you really expect the fans to buy season tickets when they got given the rubbish underachieving football of last year? I mean we shoulkd be going for promotion but all i can see is another average season for wolves. Moxey the only way things will chyange and fans will start buying more season tickets is getting rid of mcarthy.
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Above I am glad you are not my accountant–!6 million in the Prem is the least payment added to that a full-house and TV plus extras–I think I would rather manage that.
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#133 convince Moxey and Morgan of that!
It’s like the North Pole, they know where it is, but don’t want to go there!
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Did we just sell Freddie Eastwood for £1.2m???
Is that a loss of £300k? Wonder who gets the blam for that Mick or Moxey???
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Get Jez to contact all the 4,020 fans yes that was your average in 1986 to see if they fancy coming back.
No hang on every Wolves fan i know were following em in the lower leagues the average must of been nearer 20K he wont have enough money to phone everyone.
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Sorry we meant Blame not blam oops!
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Has anyone noticed the similarity between Jez Moxey and David Brent from “The Office” ?
Jez should stay away from the public side of Wolves and make no off the cuff statements, if Wolves are to be taken seriously. You can see from the reaction to this article that people find his babblings embarrassing. If you meet him ask him to show you the photo of “Ivan” he carries around with him. Ivan is a Baggie’s fan.
To quote David Brent AKA JM: If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven’t understood the seriousness of the situation.
Does that ring a bell ?
Would be great to see Jez sport a goatie and do the David Brent dance !
IT’S BOSTIN BEING A BAGGIE !!!
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138 Does that mean we can expect Jez “David Brent” Moxey to do his dance???
First game at the Mol Jez - as a half time “treat” for the fans - and to make it more interesting can you do it with a pie in one hand and a pint in the other? And dont forget to swing those arms - er er e er e er, er er e er e er……
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