Wolves blogger Nathan Lloyd beams after a fine start of the season, talks Forest demolitions and the song-writing talents of Ian Dury ahead of the international break.
In a week where in the media the transfer window appeared to be exclusively open and closing in the North West of England, Mick quietly went about his business of plugging some crucial gaps in the squad.
Matt Hill and Jason Shackell were much needed deals that were concluded early on in the last day of the window, whereas the capture of George Friend, whose signature Wolves apparently beat six clubs to, was one that came out of the blue.
It has to be one of the best week’s to be a Wolves fan. Firstly we annihilated Forest on Saturday. The sublime first half performance must surely be the best we have seen a McCarthy team play at Molineux. The marauding threat from Jarvis and Kightly down the flanks was a joy to watch.
I think the key to Saturday’s success against Forest was great partnerships down the spine of the team. David Jones and Henry in the middle, along with SEB and Iwelumo up front, are really starting to understand each other’s games and play off each other strengths.
Even the much berated Collins, who I’ve been scathing about in the past, linked up superbly with Stearman.
Of note Stearman, who it has to be said has grown in confidence with every game, for me put in his best performance in the old gold ‘n’ black.
Second reason why we are having a fantastic week is that we are sitting proudly on top of the league, having scored five more goals than any other team in the Championship, or 12 more than Derby!
In two home games we have scored nine goals. To put that into perspective, we scored a total of 31 at home last season in 23 games.
So, if we keep the current ratio up of goals to games at home, we should finish the season with at least 100 goals scored at Molineux!
The final reason to be cheerful 1 2 3, as the brilliant Ian Dury would say, is that we have a club record number of players in the England U21 squad.
This is another testament to the young, talented and hungry squad Mick has assembled at Wolves.
Athough it doesn’t quite fit into the Ian Dury song, a fourth reason to be cheerful is Mick getting a well deserved manager of the month award for a wonderful start to the season.
Having been one of his fiercest critics during the last campaign, I’m chuffed that he has proved myself and many wrong with the success so far this season.
Call it fickle, call it fluffy, I don’t really care. I stated a couple of weeks ago that I would try to be more supportive, a bit more patient and less critical of Mick this season.
We are all riding high on our best start to a season in years. That positive feeling will hopefully stay with the fans, even when we lose a game or go through a rough patch. That’s when the team will need our support the most.
If come May we are ready to have another scrap at surviving in the billionaire’s playground of the Premiership, i’ll gladly eat humble pie for my sometimes over-critical digs at Mick last season.
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Nathan god to see you “sticking your head” out to get shot at again!
We were also guilty at pointing out MM’s apparent liking of playing players out of position and selecting S Ward at left wing and keeping faith with Keogh who doesnt score enough goals as a striker
Without labouring the point, Eastwood was clearly the wrong type of striker to have purchased as is now proven by Big Chris regurlarly delivering and enjoying his role alongside SEB
Young Stephen Ward seemingly has found a position at left wing back that he can do and do well - and Neil Collins although lacking pace at centre half is playing well - Hopefully MM will keep faith with them and make the newbes fight for their places!
Our only real worry is that we dont have Gobern fit (he seems to have been out for an age!) and how many natural wide men do we have if required?
MM was given a hard time by alot of the Wolves faithful and rightfully so - He has now put that right and long may it continue!
NB* The Forest game was probably the best ever since MM took over - Forest were over run and it could well have been 7 or 8
More of the same MM - & Well done one and all - Including the fans!!!
UP THE WOLVES!
You are fickle, Nathan. That was obvious enough last season.
I’m glad to see that you’re generous enough to prospectively praise our manager if we gain promotion. How humble of you.
What’s your favourite type of footwear, by the way? I’m guessing it’s the flip-flop…
Great read, the term nail hit head comes to mind, as for the steptoes of sandwell, well they slated us last season for being Fickle, well they’re just as bad now things ain’t going right for them, I for one hope they don’t win a single game and beat derby’s record by a man’s mile, best supporter’s my A***.
i think Mick is only doing what you and many more of us were pegging him to do last year. That is pick the players who are playing well, drop any who don`t perform and play the players in there right position UP THE WOLVES
I am stuffing my face with humble pie… But hey come on, last season was last season. MM made mistakes and he went on record to say he did make mistakes. So looks like he has learnt and to play players who are in form and too there strengths. Cant wait until the next match.
COME MAY,,,trust in the muppet to mess it all up as per usual,,ya now he will….PLAYING MOWBRAYS DUTCH GEMS IN THE PREM,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,OOOOOOOOOH YES..
Great blog Nathan!
I, like you and many others have been critical of MM during the last year. We questioned his team selections and tactics and wondered why he did not employ two out and out wingers when they were available, played players out of position and persisted in picking players out of form when other options were available. He appears to have made a u-turn on those policies and the excellent start to the season has been the result - so maybe we were right to criticise?
However, that is all water under the bridge now, it is time to bury the hatchet and try and support all connected with Wolves to the best of our ability.
One final comment because credit where credit is due, I thought that Steven Ward (who I have been a big critic of as a winger) was excellent on Saturday at Left Back!
excellent article, agree with everything you said.
Credit to Morgan nfor keeping faith with Mick.
yeah good blog but with the team we have and our attacking options we should be wiping the floor with the teams we’ve played so far this season. It didnt surprise me that we battered Forest, they arn’t a top championship team. It was like watching men vs kids at times. They aint in the same league as us. In terms of ability and team play anyway.
Look how many internationals we have in our squad!? This league is POOR. There’s only Blues and Reading who have a decent squad. End of the day we are top after 4 games, lets not all jump on the band wagon at once, maybe so if we beat charlton away then palace on the tuesday and get a run going….
As annoying and frustrating as it is, football fans will always be fickle! Regardless of what club you support! When times get tough we all look at who we can blame and who we can vent our fury on……invariably we pick the gaffer!
I do think, however, that Wolves fans wiped the slate clean over the summer and started the season fully behind the club, the manager and the players. They are all now realising that their support is integral to the clubs success!
We will have ups and downs this season but we all must remain fully committed to the club and fully behind our lads! The fans can be the difference this year! This is the best start I can remember in recent history and the most exciting football I think I have ever seen….we are building something really special here and long may it continue!
Now get back to that humble pie Nathan and may this be your last portion this season…lesson learned I hope!
good blog nathan it`s going to be our year we`ve got the best squad in this divsion by a mile teams are going to find it hard to keep up with our pace and the way we play keep it up mm and the lads UP THE WOLVES
Oi,Fickle and fluffy - as soon as the Manager of the month curse hits you will be one of the first to call for Micks head.
Playing to the masses.Things go badly - you whinge and moan, things go well you join in with the isn’t Mick great comments.
Surely the key to our season is keeping Jarvis and Kightley fit.
We missed out on the play-offs by a goal or two despite having Kights out for three months and Jarvis barely fit all season.
MM had to assemble a squad quickly when he came in to ensure we stayed in the division first and foremost - now he is assembling one to take us the other way.
micks doing a great job. you can spend big money like the albion but there is no gurantee they will gel, again like the albion! we have young lads who are improving, gaining experience and quite frankly are so quick other players cant get near them! the big turning point for me though is the supporters, imagine being 19-20 in a job where 25,000 of your colleagues are saying your ‘useless’ etc. We stay behind the team they will secure us promotion and to make it sweet were wave the bogies on the way by, we are wolves!
You lot have more faces than big ben. It seems all or nothing MM is merlin or a joke. Why not keep a slight lid on your feelings. Its to early to start talking promotion or 100 goals at home.
I hope you do well but nothing is won or lost in the first month of the season.
Good luck anyway maybe see you next year
6) iT’S ALL WELL AND GOOD HAVING DUTCH GEMS AT THE BACK BUT WHO OUT OF YOUR PATHETIC FORWARD LINE IS GOING TO SCORE….?
Anyway let’s not talk about the 3rd team in Brum. Brilliant start, everyone is playing well and as much as I am loathe to say it - Collins and Ward deserve to start the next game. The new recruits are welcome additions and will have to scrap for places.
In answer to one of the posers of if the wingers are injured. Gobern is the obvious choice but there are Gray and Daniel and David Jones who can go out wide. Admittedly, not as good as Kites and Jarvis but cover nonetheless!
Hopefully the 3 Wolves players are playing tonight.
There are a lot of reasons to be cheerful and we should rejoice for sure.
But let’s not get overconfident. We will have ups and downs. We will eventually loose and some players will play bad in some matches. And some opponents will go out and play som good against us that they will win.
But in the long run. I think McCarthy has composed the team according to his vision now. He has got the right players in and everything is starting to function.
With this team and tactics Wolves will be one serious contender for automatic promotion and that must be the goal for this season.
UP THE WOLVES!!! FOR SURE!!!
Great blog, the fact is if a manager does well you praise them, if they make mistakes you point them out, isnt that normal???
I do not see that as being fickle, football is what it is due to fans opinions, and its one of the things that make it such a great game.
Wolves are doing well, looking in from somewhat the outside i am not surprised. Your squad is strong and you have good players. You have held onto your best players and Mick now has adopted the philosphy of attack is the best form of winning games.
You now need consistency, my only fear for Wolves is injuries to key players. You are rightly proud of some of your players making it into international sqauds, but it is always tinged with a little trepidation of them returning with injuries.
Good luck, and be lucky!!
number 6 get back to school as you clearly can’t spell.
typical sandwell lot!
A great read , but i’m not getting to carried away with our current form.
How many times do we see a team in the championship go off like a steam train but only to fall away .
Remember the likes of Watford and Cardiff to name a few from the last couple of seasons .
In fairness to Mick the style of fooball is a joy to watch after the dross we dished up last season ……
I can understand what South Bank Dingle is getting at above (post 2) and baggie (post 15).
Some of the people on this thread cant actually hold their hands up and say ‘I was wrong’.
All these half hearted ‘I was criticle of MM last season, and rightly so” commets are slightly annoying.
Sure, you’re NOW getting behind the club, but not many of you listened last season to us that were trying to be positive - that was met with the accusation that if you even tried to make sense of what MM was doing you were a ‘happy clapper’, not someone that was trying to be patient and buy in to the three year plan. Some of the posters on here even accused people of not being ‘real’ or ‘loyal’ fans in you even muttered something positive in the same sentence as MM.
Some of you should hold your head in shame. The season before last you all wanted MM’s children, and then a season later after some big injuries and a few testing months, the guy was a muppett.
Football is eating itself. Multi millionaires who can spend 100’s of millions on a club and players (who incidentally dont really want to play for them) like a child spends his pocket money in a sweet shop.
At least our club has a plan, they are buying players that even if they dont perform will play their hearts out. I was over the moon for Stephen Ward on Saturday. All the morons on here last year lambasting him and even getting personal about it - last year he pkayed out of position because Jarvis wasn’t fit. Did it ever cross any of the Ward knocking morons minds that even when Jarvis was back on the bench that MM wanted to make sure he was 100% fit for whatever league we would be in this year ?
Unbelievable. And now you all love MM after 1 MONTH ! What happens when we lose 3 on the bounce on December - you lot will all change your minds again in a second, and we will be hearing “At the start of the season I praised MM, and rightly so, but now he has to go - bring in Sam Allardyce” !!!
PAH !
Wolves last 2 league perfomances , against Ipswich and Forest, are about the best I have sen a WW team play in years. They really moved the ball around at a hot tempo. In the past we have moved it around at a slow pace which made it easy for the opposition. Finally we have Kightly and Jarvis fit together and really going for the line to hit over those crosses (something that has been lacking in the past). I am now full of hope for this season. Let’s hope we can keep players fit. It is great to make a flying start to the season. Off to Wembley tonight to give Kites, SEB and Stearman a shout. I reckon Charlton will be a ding dong game, the way we mugged them last year, i bet they are still smarting
i think we should reward mick and the team and all of us. the team are playing good football which is worth watching so the stands home and away should have signs saying sold out. wednesday only won there 1st game at home 4-1 and look they come up the sbl and almost filled it out. now’s the time to fill the stands and give all our support.
Have to agree with Nathan. What a week for all Wolves fans with the highlight being the 5-1 demolition of Forest. Then we had Mick McCarthy winning the Manager of the Month, three new defensive signings and three players in the England Under 21 squad.
To make it a more memorable eight days there`s Chris Iwelumo vying for the Player of the Month which we will know on Monday evening.
And what about the Masters finals at the NEC. Wolves are due for a win as a few years back they lost to Chelsea in the final and last year to Leicester after a penalty shoot-out.
What we want now is a return to the bread and butter of the league after the international break. If last season`s dramatic 3-2 win at the Valley is to be repeated then we will know that things are on the up at Molineux.
By the way the Michael Kightly and Matt Jarvis wing play reminds older fans of the Johnny Hancocks-Jimmy Mullen combination when they terrorised defences in the 50s.
So come on Wolves give us something to shout about and make it another memorable promotion year.
21. London Wolf
You have expressed in clear terms many, nay most of my feelings.
Buying success is not, as the new raghead at Man. city will find the easy answer. Largely it produces short term gain. Time and again we have seen clubs spending vast amounts of money to achieve one or two seasons of moderate positions then going down the dip as players ditch their ‘contracts’.
What we are witnessing with MM and his team at the Mol today is without doubt the only long term way to build a team for the long haul. Young, talented, interested players who are keen to achieve and want to prove that they can WIN.
Stick with it management you are on the right track.
Up The Wolves
Hope we are not talking about another Ian Dury song in May…..What a Waste !
No 6-You qualify for an A Grade in Sandwell not here- What school did you go to ?, Yes you never paid attention in class.
A great performance against Forest yes and can I say one of the best football halves seen in the first shift-All players did well. Makes us hopeful for the future and I will not at this stage comment on the defensive tactics of Forest. The ref should have shown a red card on the one foul on MK but he obviosly saw that Forest were going to get clobbered so let the player stay–
Nice to here the Super Mick chant again and the North and South Bank banter added to the atmosphere–Keeping the Dream Alive–Crazey Dave
Comment 6 HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
Where are you in the premiership…… Yes enjoy been bottom for the rest of the season. You got rid of King Kev and you cant even score goals. Never mind suffer in silence. GOING DOWN THE MOWBRAY WAY OH HELL YEAH!!
23 - Yes id like to see the terraces packed but Jez Moxey clearly isnt that bothered otherwise we would have had kids for a quid and adults a fiver for the Accrington game, not sell 10,000 odd tickets……………Think he is doing an ok job at keeping the clubs finances in check but sometimes these gestures wouldnt hurt!!
London Wolf. We really need to get away from this ‘i told you so mentality’ Its a results orientated business and at the moment things are going well, why cant we just focus on that??
Yes maybe some fans express there views in ways they shouldnt but i wouldnt automaticaly slate ALL fans who simply state their opinions when the manager has clearly got something wrong. I mess up at work, I get criticised. People dont always agree or see eye to eye on things such as team selections, choice of wording used in the press etc. This is why we have discussion forums and freedom of speech in this country.
I do take issue with people that use personal insults to try and highlight there claims about our manager, use block capitals to make themselves standout and fail to back up their arguments with reasoned and valid points.
On the eother hand I like many others was critical of MM at times last season. For example the topic of Neil Collins and he recieving a four year contract. Im pleased that he has shown signs of improvement in his preffered postion but i still stand by my opionions on him. Does that make me fickle, not really, I will give credit where credit is due but I will not hold my hands up and say sorry even if I am wrong about something, why should I, nobody is right all of the time???
Anyone heard from H_B???
31,hes bin on all morning,missing him are ya,aye boing boing donk
Ive said all along since day one mick is the right man for the job. All those who didnt believe in him shame on you. Also those who still dont believe in him are fickle and cant face up to the fact that MM has turned this club around and turned us into a young, fit, talented hungry squad with great players. MM IS THE MAN KEEP UP THE AMAZING WORK!!!! SUPER MICK MCCARTHEY!!!!!!
21 Alot of fans were saying the same things about MM using players in the wrong positions , playing favs etc etc and were right to speak their minds
Even when Jarvis was fit, he was overlooked so that MM could play S Ward who clearly struggled at left wing/ midfield - not forgetting using Keogh constantly who misses far more than he contributes BUT hey dont let the facts get in the way! The term “Happy Clapper” is attributed to fans who “turn a blind eye” , even when the standards out on the pitch are less than average - and attempt to promote MM because we had the “best defensive record” etc - Not really that difficult when last season we had 8 men defending and very little going on by way of creative play!
Even MM finally stated himself that the fans were right to complain about last season (he actually admitted it!) - so your remarks about fans being criticle last season and rightfully so smacks of nothing more than very poor sarcasm at best!
Comment 25 - With regards to your “raghead” remark - we are very surprised at the E&S for actually allowing such an apparent racist term
Haggstone Wolf.
I take your point, and may be I could have been clearer - so - my main concern is that one blip in form will see the buffoons from last season reverting to the same old negativity which hardly helped last year ?
I was critical at times of MM last season, but have always maintained that we give him his three years and support his decisions.
I dont have a problem with someone disagreeing with me, but its when a fan accuses another of ‘not being a real fan’ because the opinions differ.
Seriously, it’ll happen again, Im trying to work out which whinger from last year will advocate Keegan for our managers job first….
iv always said collins would and will improve, forest were poor,very poor, so dont get carried away.
B&T 34.
Did you read all of my previous post, or just extracts that can back up your thouhts ?
Did you not see my reference to why Jarvis was on the bench and why I think Ward played left wing so much last year - the reason is that Jarvis wasn’t really ever fit last season, and now that he is, he’s on fire.
Re Keogh - thats your opinion, one that I happen to disagree with but thats fine.
The term Happy Clapper has nothing to do with turning a blind eye - its an easy way for you to rubbish someones argument without responding to what they’ve actually said.
Im still to this day neither a lover or a hater of MM. Its just my opinion to give him his three years so we dont carry on down the old road of crah and burn, crash and burn like we’ve done so many times before - do you fancy responding on that point ?
How is that turning a blind eye ?
2. South Bank Dingle…
Flip-flop is brilliant! I can dine out on that one for ages!
Nathan, unfortunatly you’ve lost what little respect people with an understanding of football had for you.
How can you suddenly change your mind and now praise Mick? Anyone with half a brain could see what mick was trying to achieve last season, and that for various reasons it just wasn’t working out, but these people believed that it was only a matter of time before they did.
For you to now jump on the band wagon shows that you have no real beliefs, but are more interested in what those around you are saying than what you think.( I would of had more respect for you had you still not been happy with him)
I know this is probably no great loss to you but I will never bother reading one of your mundane blogs again
37 We never said that the “turning a blind eye” remark was aimed at you personally - If you check back, we actually gave what we believe is a definition for the term “Happy Clapper” as many people have attempted to dress up the “best defensive record” as a reason why MM is “Super Mick” - something we also dont subscribe to either
The only thing aimed at you if at all - was the fact that you seemed to pour scorn on fans who now back MM this season even though they didnt appreciate him last season as “two faced” or should we say thats the impression you gave by your comments, and we stated that you were being “sarcastic”
Personally, like you, we couldnt care less who the manager is, providing the club and team is giving their best out on the pitch
So we disagree, the Happy Clapper thing IS to do with people who last season tried to say that fans that had the audacity to complain about the poor standards they had to “put up” with should shut up and support the team - even if they were already doing that at the Mol or away from home - Almost like telling them they have no right to complain?
There’s a lot of backtracking on previously held opinions and statements on here today.
Me and my clear conscience are both feeling quite smug!
27 - you have a go at someone making a point of view and then question his level of education - you say he would get GRADE A for that in Sandwell but obviously you need to learn to read since he comes from Worcester. Which obviously shows that you didn’t pay attention in reading class for noting facts and choosing the appropriate information. You’ve made the guys here in the Stock Exchange laugh at your ignorance with your writing. A Chelsea fan here wants to know what level of English you reached when at school and did you struggle in English Literature ?
To other Wolves Fans - good start and I hope you maintain it through to the end of the Season.
BORING! tell us something we don’t know.
But nice to see you now supporting the management, guess it’ll continue while we are winning, but if we lose key players again then you’ll be back to winding up the masses should we hit a bad spell again.
NATHAN LLOYD OUT!!!
Yes I doubted Mick last year but I can now see that Morgan, Moxey and Mick have been solidly sticking to a plan and we aren’t stuck as fans with the lunacy of Newcastle. The manager has to decide what players he wants and then the wheeling and dealing can be done by somebody else. As far as I can see we have played a blinder in the transfer window. well done to the scouts and to the management and for the players who are in such fine form. Yes we will have bad days but we are in a much stronger position than last year.
Where are you Happy Baggie? Moaning and groaning on you own site I hope. How lovely not to have you in our faces. Me, I couldn’t be bothered to invade your site, I’ll just let you stew in your own misery. C’mon you Wolves!
‘IF you can keep your head when all about you……
That would be me and Beretonwolf then!
Can we now just enjoy the season fellas?
London Baggie
You work in the Stock exchange? No wonder you’ve got time on your hands.
Must be a good day today if you found someone else there to laugh with!
43.wolf
Lead the revolt!
I thought by coming out and saying that I was at times a little over critical of what Mick was trying to achieve last year and that I would now try and be a bit more positive with my outlook, it might stop some of the fluffy fickle talk. Obviously not.
I enjoy writing the blog and I do have my own opinions. When we do have the bad spell and lose players to injuries etc… then I will try and take a breath this time before having a rant. Not always easy though.
Not everyone is going to agree with what I say or perhaps like how I say it, but at least it creates debate. If there is an issue with the club I feel passionately about then I will continue to express my opinion, regardless if it might ruffle the odd feather!
I wanted Mick out at the end of last season after watching some really uninspiring dire football. But I said right at the start of this season that I would support him but that I will still point out something if I disagree with it. Awesome start to the season and most Wolves fans are on cloud 9. You’ll have to find me and get me off that cloud if you want me out!
Keep the faith!
34. bridget&tony
Since when did you become the arbiter’s of what the E&S may or may not print.
I will point out that my use of the term ‘Raghead’ Was in no way intended as a racist term. Though why I feel obliged to explain myself to two such nit picks as yourselves I know not. It was used in the same way as one would call an African, black. It is a collective descriptive term. I do not as you so obviously do subscribe to the modern political creativeness’s.
As a family man with both Asian and Black relations I take great exception to your comment.
Further it seems you only post on these pages with a view to displaying your extremely limited football knowledge.
Up The Wolves
Boy what a fickle load of posts. With a couple of games in and already lost an important cup run one. Win a few and we are premiership bound! Wasn’t MM manager of the month last season at one time? Proves little.
How soon we forget the actual Morgan/Moxey plan. This hasn’t changed at all. It’s buy cheap from lower divisions and sell at the end of the season at a profit. This is trying to actually STAY in the championship league. Neither Morgan or Moxey have the bottle, or money, for Premiership football.
Reality is that we are now likely to get into the top six at the end of the season, but the thoughts of having to buy some REAL players if we did manage to go up certainly isn’t something that allow Morgan or Moxey to sleep at night.
The Wolves business model doesn’t allow the team to go up. Football and fans don’t figure in this at all. Well fans do as Morgan is rubbing his hands with glee over the thought of tempting us with the premiership while a 40,000 arena is finished! Oh, more money coming in ching ching!
21 London Wolf, I totally agree with every one of your points made in posting 21. We only see the real nature of people when the going is tough. MM knows he made mistakes last year and I expect he will make some this year. I’ve never met an infallible human yet. We’ve only played four games as of yet and we may well suffer poor results at times, but I remain positive and am impressed with the current team and approach. Some of us try to be consistent, positive and constuctive in our support but others seem to swing from sheer malice to begrudging support, hoping that their predictions of doom and gloom come to fruition. Part of the human condition, I’m afraid.
There are many people here, myself included, that were critical of certain aspects of last season…who are now overjoyed at the way things currently are!
What a great but slightly uncomfortable position to be in.
I’m sure there’s an ever increasing number of last season’s ‘happy clappers’ that are wathcing the rest of us squirm from their moral ‘told you so’ high ground.
But I think its a case of if the cap fits…wear it. We all know our ‘crimes’ & what we wrote…or what we shouted at Neil Collins. (For the record, I’ve never boo anyone ONTO to pitch!…I was 6000 miles away at the time, honest)
But I don’t feel so bad as by no means was I the worst offender. Most of my ramblings last season were actually pro McCarthy.
But…perhaps, maybe, there may be one or two occasional comments deep in the E&S archives that I hope never come to light.
Talking of shameful treachery, great blog Nathan!
Sorry, I’m a bit behind on your blogs…so please continue with of your masterplan with the one you call…BIG SAM!
Hail Nathan, King Flip Flop!
Only joking Nathan…I know you’re innocent…but its not me you’ve got to convince.
Simon
49 Quality Counts.
Please can you explain to me the possibility of a 40,000 stadium and Wolves forever being a Championship club (as you say Moxey/Morgan desire) co-exisitng ?
How will money keep ching chinging in baring in mind we get less than 25,000 now in the Championship through a 28,500 capacity ?
If he built a 40,000 stadium, he’d need to fill it to a) finance it, and b) make money through bums on seats.
Another Fat Cat conspiracy story that is based on fantasy and opinion - not fact !
PAH !
49. quality counts
You do come out with some nonsense. If promotion isn’t part of the plan Mick needs to go now and we should have sold Kightly, Jarvis, SEB and one or two others last week.
I wouldn’t get the expletive I want to use to describe you past the moderator so suffice to say…
Shut your gob you sad man
Ignore the Knockers, Nathan, as you’re doing a great job. I don’t always agree with you and would be amazed if anyone agreed wholly with all of my views. I think some posters think you or I or anyone is a knucklehead if we don’t agree with their point of view. I am impressed by the posters who admit to being wrong. We all are at times. However, it is a little early in the season for doom laden prophecies to be put aside, so bear up; everything could still go desperately wrong and you will have been proved right. I believe Noel George had his knockers, like the England Ladies keeper.
Cheers Simon (in Oklahoma!)
I think a lot of my criticism regarding how lastseason was panning out was justified as the football was complete pants at time. However I was a little OTT at times and I’ll try and take a slightly more objective approach to writing the blog this season.
Fickle, Fluffy, Flip-Flop….. was it always with an ‘F’? Probably best not to answer that connundrum!
Newbridge you plank, Can you not see that people are now happier with MM cause he is actually admitting that he may have got thing’s wrong last season and has now fixed those mistakes and is playing the team we would all pick.
NATHAN
where would we be now if you and many others had gotten their way and Mick had gone? Back to square one is where.
Your in a position where your opinion get’s heard by thousands, and as such should show more responsibility when expressing those opinion’s. Please try and be positive through the good and the bad and help to keep us united, supporting the team during bad spells can only help whilst berating the team (and manager) during the bad doesn’t help anyone.
Anyway rant over, let’s all start pulling together. UP THE WOLVES!!
The award of “Manager of the Month” is about as lucky as “has the full backing of the board” so I am glad we have a week to forget about all of it. Let us hope our internationals all get back in one piece from their tour of duty and we can carry on at Charlton where we left off. I said it before, the season really starts next match and the following 4, and if we are in the same position we are now then there will really be some “Reasons to Be Cheerful” and hopefully no need for a rendition of “Blockheads”.
50. DebenhamWolf
When we see something wrong we have a right to express our opinions. When we can see no attempt being made to correct it, then we have the right, if not the duty, to call for a change in management.
Dumb acceptance of the status quo is not intelligent.
However, McCarthy has confounded me and other Realists by coming good!
He was also man enough to admit to the Express and Star that he deserved the criticism he got from the Realists who were complaining about the teams performance last year.
That made him jump up in my estimation, and I am now optimistic that he will come good this season.
However, please stop attempting to justify your dumb acceptance of last seasons rubbish by criticizing those who even Mick accepts were right!
I am left cross that so many of the fools who were excusing last seasons total dross are now trying to make themselves appear wise and intelligent by criticizing those who spoke out! There was no plan last season, it was all made up as MM went along!
Never underestimate the ingenuity of an idiot!
People who’s judgment last season was that everything was good in the club should not expect that anybody will be impressed with their new-found role of purveyors of wisdom!
McCarthy has managed to come up with a good, cheap team this season. Congratulations are due, and we will have a lot of fun with this team this season!
The “I told you so Brigade” cannot take credit for this, as there was no discernible plan last season, and most of their purveyors of football garbage have now left the club anyway, so they were never part of a long-term mystery plan!
Why not accept that we are all devoted Wolves supporters, and maybe for the first time in decades we are going to get some quality football to watch together?
The use of two wingers is the traditional Stan Cullis approach. “If the opposition score 2, then we’ll score 3!”
So, let’s have exciting, attacking football but with a defense that scares the opposition forwards! That’s the old Wolves way, and it will always work!
Good blog, Nathan, but Wolves colours are gold and black. They dropped old gold in 1954.
Cornish wolf are you a bus driver and did i have a conversation with you on the bus from lands end to penzance or is it a coinsidence?
As far as the Wolves at present good on them and I hope it continues. I hope all the Midlands teams do well too. Perhaps the baggies could actually win a game this season too. It would be nice for all the local teams to be in the prem. So come on Wolves, Walsall, wba, villa and so on so on.
I think if the England manager picked players from the current championship mainly the 4 wolvers players England would have a better chance of winning the World Cup, more pride and passion that sort of thing.
I think that the Wolves were a bit unlucky last year and I hope we get chance to play the bogies in one of the cups and win.
WELL I AIN’T CHANGED MY OPINION..PROMOTION OR BUST FOR MICK THIS SEASON. GREAT START YES..BUT I WANT US TOP OF THE LEAGUE IN MAY..NOT SEPTEMBER.
I REALLY HOPE HE PULLS IT OFF AND GETS US UP. I’M NOT SPITEFUL AND HOPE HE FAILS JUST TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO.. SO COME ON MICK KEEP IT UP AND WELL DESERVED MANAGER OF THE MONTH.
NEWBRIDGE..OOOHHH TOYS AND PRAM AND ALL THAT! OH I FORGOT YOUR THE ONLY VALID POSTER ON HERE..ACCORDING TO NIGEWOLF..THE REST US OF JUST THINK YOUR A COMPLETE DIVVIE.
worcesterboggie what a stupid prat you are,your going down.
48 Your own use of the term “raghead” is a direct insult at the traditional headdress of an Arab as they wear them as part of their heritage and tradition that dates back centuries - you will probably find that the so-called “ragheads” that you made comment on are related to arab royalty and that the headress you so losely mock has significance in wealth and position in the arab world!
It is no different than insulting someone who wears a turban
You have clearly displayed your own ignorance by making such a comment, regardless of having as you say asian and black relations - which proves absolutely zero
& as for your comments about us “having limited football knowledge, what do you base that on; any example would be good???
Please Nathan stop apologising. When you were negative last season you were right to be. We were crap and the tactics were bizarre. When I saw Jarvis on the bench at Plymouth I wonderered but he learnt a lesson and now we have hit gold! My concern is that he has fluked a winning team and he could equally fluke a losing one. Not being negative but last season was awful and this season is so brilliant I am on cloud nine. No idea if MM had a gene transplant during the transfer window or not but brilliant signings and to go to Ipswich and play 442 was just magic. up the Wolves and congrats Mick on a well deserved gong.
Good blog Nathan - glad to see you’re back in the real world (wink).
Good posts from London Wolf and Haggstone wolf - I can see both sides.
As a self confessed “Happy Clapper” I’m only too glad to see the spirit of Molineux returning and the twelth man doing what it does best. No point crying over spilt milk.
It’s early days yet but we are now seeing some excellent potential and great football - long may it continue. There’s a long way to go and there will no doubt be ups and downs but we’re heading in the right direction.
61 Si Midlands
Strange you should ask me if I am a bus driver. In the dim and distant past I passed my driving test on a double deck London bus and drove one for a couple of years. No mate I am long since retired.
Your view on all midland clubs doing well is one I share. I would be happy to see the Baggies win a match (just the one) so we can wave to then as we pass in opposite directions at seasons end. Keep up the support!
Up The Wolves
Yeah, well done Nathan, very nicely put. i hope we see a lot more positive comments in the E&S than we did last season,of course we’ll need to get the results or it’ll be back to having micks head on a plate. Even Moxey doesn’t seem so bad in this light
64.Caribbean Wolves
I’m not saying that I am apologetic for expressing my opinion on what I saw on the pitch last season or how MM was running the club. I just think I was at times a tad over critical and full of doom and gloom.
I think we have all supported this club long enough to know that a good start to the season doesn’t always necessarily mean a good end, but I just hope that Mick hasn’t fluked a good combination of a team and that we are destined for good things.
I have already enjoyed the 2 games at Molineux far more than the combined efforts of the 23 from the last term.
No game this weekend, so I’ll perhaps have a rant at the end of next week!
Cheers for your comments.
Norway Wolf 59. Thanks for the response. I did not accept the poor performances last year and if you check my previous postings you will see that I, in fact was calling for many of the `changes` which have occurred and was asking for centre backs over a year ago. I just don’t see the point in being pointlessly rude as some would be with regard to your posting disagreeing, seemingly, with mine. I support the personel behind my team but will point out what I see as wrong without running down individuals doing their best. It’s just one of my values, which I try to stick too, not always successfully.Life is too short to go around negatively criticising and only seeing the bad in my opinion, but by all means be your own person. By the way, you may not see `the attempt to correct it` but that does not mean people are not making the effort.
London Baggie-If you are in the Stock-Exchange you have had good practice of ripping people of-If someone educated in Sandwell ends up there then well done mate–You are a exception infact a wonder of the world–Does the Chelsea fan wear his shirt with his bowler ?
Well done to Edwards and Vokes to-day played well both and Vokes looks a really good prospect to go with our PELTHERA of forwards–Crazey Dave.
48 For the avoidance of any doubt the term that you have used “raghead” was first used in 1921 and was an insulting term aimed at South Asian or Middle Eastern people which also has religeous boundaries that affect Muslims and Sikhs
Ann Coulter was lambasted for using the same term on the 22nd Feb 2006 in America
If you take a look or do a Google search using your term “raghead” you will find a full explanation that will clearly inform you that “It never had another purpose, but to put down a class of people”
http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/carnival_of_insults.php
NB* Take a look for yourself, maybe you may learn something - An offensive and racist remark, so loosely used by you and so easily allowed by the E&S - Beggers Belief!!!
So now that we’re all friends again lets see if we can get behind the lads for the whole season. Obviously its much easier while things are going so well.
When we lose 2 or 3 in a row we’ll see if our fans actually are fickle like we’re constantly accused of being. Personally I think when we do have a bad run our fans will come through, hopefully with some convincing ‘Super Mick’s’.
Wolves fans are far more opinionated & passionate than your average fan, & clearly don’t back down or back track lightly.
Do you think Watford or Norwich fans argue about their assistant coach or fitness coach like we do? Face it, we cling onto every little detail that could affect the clubs future like its life or death and all have differences of opinion.
I personally think last season was exceptional for all the wrong reasons…and it was understandable that so many fans turned on McCarthy. I did for a while. After much consideration I concluded he’d lost the plot.
Now I’ve concluded he’s found it!
It certainly wasn’t a case of turning on the team cause of a few performances & bad results & then going crazy if we won one.
As for Nathan & his blogs…he basically been saying it as it is. If he wrote a lot of negative blogs then its fair to say there was a lot of bad things to write about!
So if the blogs are getting more positive, its safe to say there’s something good happening to write about.
Simon
I REALY HOPE WE GO UP BUT WITH THE BAGGIES ABOUT TO BE AS EMBARRASING AS DERBY WE WOULD NEED MAJOR INVESTMENT IN THE TEAM IF WE DID JACK HEYWOOD DIDNT INVEST LAST TIME AND HE HAD A LIFELONG LOVE OF WOLVES.I CANT SEE STEVE MORGAN WHO ONLY BOUGHT US AFTER GETTING KNOCKED BACK BY LIVERPOOL PUMPING MILLIONS IN IN THE SUMMER WE NEED TO PLAN AHEAD IN THIS ASPECT STARTING NOW
I KNOW IM JUMPING AHEAD BUT IF WE GO UP AND DONT WANT TO BE A JOKE LIKE DERBY AND SOON TO BE BAGGIES WE WOULD NEED MASSIVE INVESTMENT IN THE TEAM LAST TIME JACK IN IS WISDOM DIDNT AND I CANT SEE STEVE MORGAN DOING THIS EITHER I HOPE WERE WORKING ON MORE INVESTMENT WITH THE PRESUMPTION WE ARE GOIN UP NOW
B&T - The Mary Whitehouse of the internet.
78 - Nothing to do with being Mary Whitehouse - just object to rascist comments or is that not ok with you?
49. Qualit counts. My god, I am glad I dont know you. I think I would commit suicide in a week.
If you are that depresed all the time, please go and support Man U. They win all the time and they are owned by billionaires who can appease your yearning for real quality.
Get real mate, if our Business model means we have to buy cheap and sell for a profit then so be it. We are not Man U or Man City or anyother Prem club. You have to earn it, and that takes time and careful planning.
Do you actually cheer at the matches. Or do you sit down and when everybody has stopped jumping about say, “it will all end in tear”.
Cheer up for god sake.
My word what a difference four games makes - suddenly all you Wolves fans are back pedalling and worshipping Mick - what willhappen when you ,lose a few games - will he and his team becoame useless and misfits again??
“raghead” is racist pal. Dress it up how you want but you should not use the term raghead.
It is a bit like calling all cornish people dumb surfer dudes. Or dirty miners. Or pastie munchers.
Not exactly insulting but not very nice.
Well Nathan, feeling pleased with yourself, after this blog (and London Wolf will be with you all the way), not sitting on the fence then ! perhaps you should say that the “fat cats” are out of the “comfort zone” and are working harder this season to get results. You can disagree with me 100% and I dont care either but this club needed a shake up from the fans and perhaps that has now is getting results. We will see, say it as it is, not be be popular.