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Dull Amigo take it you are joking with your well thoughtout list of replacemnet managers? what has Keegan ever done with out Millions and Millions of pounds to spend? yes thats right bottle it and run away! then you say Ince again had his chance at top flight football and was shown up!

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Number 2

Why on earth would you want Paul Ince as manager??? You think he has a better track record than MM???

First, We need to tighten the defence and stop leaking goals. If Foley is fit get him back in… The Birmingham match will be tough but we have the players to do it.

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Forgot to say, ‘Dull Amigo’ Kevin Keegan??? Do you really want a man in charge who never sees a job through, one who resigns at the slightest thing.

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I don’t think anybody really thoght we would get a great deal from Chelsea but it seemed that the team really didn’t have clue. The team selection surely was wrong for Saturday and now for our manager to say we could go down well he only needs to look in the mirror to see why I hate calling for the managers head but SM and JM must believe that the Championship is not where we should be going back to and if the right results don’t come in the next 2 matches they should have no choice in bringing somebody in that can keep us in the prem. There’s nothing like a bit of pressure but our players will be scared stiff now thanks to Micks well chosen comments.

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Errrrr do you think Mick? What happened to the give it a good go?? Its gonna be embarrasing and Wolves only have themselves to blame!!!!

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Mick, the reason Burnley are doing infinitely better than us is simply that they have stuck with their promotion squad, unlike you. Yes, injuries have played a part, but the mishandling of SEB, Jarvis, Kightly and Foley is worrying.
If they are fit, they play. They shouldn’t be benched for ‘tactical reasons’ and so on.
(they were 3 of our ‘Fab Four’ last year who helped get us here).
But isn’t Mick just re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic? He has been sold short by Moxey and Morgan, who explicitly promised that we would never do a ‘WBA’, and would DEFINITELY bring in Premier experience.
They have renaged on these promises and boy it shows. £16m on players, when WBA spent £20m last season.
It wouldn’t be so bad if Moxey hadn’t been in this situation before. But he has. And he will rake in his bonuses again for preparing us for another dismal attempt at Premier League survival.
Thye soundbites soon dried up once we’d renewed our S/Ts BTW.
We all knew we were in the deep stuff when we couldn’t even match Blues for Scott Dann. Or WBA for Jerome Thomas, who was our player!!!!!!!!!!!!
We never did get anyone in after Dann snubbed us, so what does that say about our defence? It ain’t good enough!!

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I see the usual idiotic comments have started on here, from the same fools who have been calling for MM’s head for the last 2 years.

They all conveniently overlook the fact that in the last 3 years MM has brought the club further forward than any manager in the last 30 years.

Read that again. It cannot be denied.

From Championship relegation probables, to Championship winners and Premiership stay-afloat hopefuls.

A few questionable tactics, yes. A few questionable selections, yes. A lack of premiership experience, also.

However, WWFC are still a low-budget premier team. We’re still in with a strong shout of survival if people stay behind the team and we win the winnable matches.

Chelsea and Arsenal were never really those games, Blues, Bolton, Burnley all are.

We don’t look much like scoring though. I lack options upfront, given that SEB (for all the singing his name) isn’t performing.

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You don’t state the obvious do you Mick ??????

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lol. That ‘I’ was supposed to be ‘we’.

oops…I’ve been outed?

MM

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Personally id stick with Mick,but if he does go get youre money on Steve Copell.

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dear god lets at least get Sundays game out the way, then when we win you can change your mind again.

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I cannot believe all this C–P!

Why did we tinker with the foramtion against Chelsea? Richard Stearman played in 3 different positions during the first half alone

We should have stuck to our regular 4-4-2 and given it a go.

With regards to the ’stop pussy footing’ MM should’ve adopted this on Saturday; I cannot understand why Doyle was not playing, surely he would’ve wanted to get the French result out of his system on what better way to do it than scoring against the league leaders.

MM stop trying to pretend we are something that we clearly are not. Play to our strengths by playing players in their correct position and try to fit square pegs in round holes

PS No2 Kevin Keegan – you are off your head!

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dull amigo, keep your dull comments to yourself and when wolves fight our way out of the relegation fight you can go home crying with keegan :)

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Having watched the Bolton and Stoke matches yesterday, the only solace for our team is that there are enough rubbish teams in this League that give us a chance.

The trend lately says we will not make it and the disturbing thing is the form of our promotion rivals, Burnley and Birmingham. They have come into this League showing more guile and better quality football than we have served up to this point.

If management wants to stay up then MM needs to demonstrate that he can pull the squad together and go on a run before Christmas, Failing that, then the owner needs to cut bait and find a new Manager and provide him with the funds necessary to give the team a chance.

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just as moxey sits back, puts his feet up and puts groundhog day on yet again

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I would really like Arsene Wenger, but that’s not going happen.
Just opening debate on it early.
Just interested to know who fans would like at the helm – whether it be MM or someone new.
Valid comments to the Keegan suggestion and only threw Ince out there as he had backing from many fans as a player.

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So the happy clappers are out in there packs again i see. Since when did Wolves EVER play a 3-5-2 formation? Shocking. We drew with Everton and Stoke away, both hard games, playing a 4-4-2. Keep it simple Mick and do you know what? You won’t get slaughtered! It’s not that hard is it! I can’t believe fans paid up to £50 to watch that gross. Simply embaressing. Refund the fans is what i say. Or beat Blues, Bolton and Burnley and we may just about forgive you.

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1, 2, have a week off lads.
Micks right, hes just stating the truth which we all kno, which is that its pretty likley we’ll go down, and it really is down to not spending enough. Doyle is the only signing i’ve been impressed with, hence we had to pay big for him. Halford, Surman, n these types of players just arnt good enough for this level at all. If we were to go down, i hope Morgan keeps faith in Mick, as i feel he’s the right man to get us back up, however i think its shown this season, that tactically, in the PL, Micks out of his depth, could be a nice little yoyo club for a few years!

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we need to buy a few players in january and we should be ok none of these 1 million players here 2 million here we need to buy 2 5 million players i mean why cant we go for paveochencko ? if thats how u spell it lol but he wants to leave tottenham and we could get him for 6 or 7 million ? and well done wolves fans for saturday was brill support were gonna win 5 4 lol UTW

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Last years side would muller this years side.

Apart from Doyle we have not signed a single meaningful player.

If Mick plays last years side for our big 3 home games coming up(but Doyle for Iwelumo) we can win.

But something tells me that Mick is a confused man now and has lost his confidence. Because of his management style, this will/has spread through his team.

Blues is the biggest game of the season bar none. Lose to Blues and I think there could be a quick sea change amongst the fans.

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Its a joke,not just the last 2 games,bottom but one of the table and BOTTOM of the form table…stats dont lie. Mad Mick has not got a clue,bit like the players on saturday. Ok so everybody expects us to loose 4 nil at chelsea so why not have a go 442,instead we play some stupid formation that fooled evrybody including the players. Ive said it before,thanks for getting us up mick but your recoed in the Prem is awefull…you had the money and bought rubbish…SACK MAD MICK NOW AND SAVE OUR CLUB.

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I would respect you Mick if you came out and admitted…not that we are likely to be relegated after a dozen or so games, but have the ‘bottle’ to face your supporters and say what we all know, ‘I am not up to it, and should step down’
I am not worried about going down to Arsenal or Chelsea, its the way we did it worries me, we were a beaten side before we took to the ground on Saturday

Mr Morgan’even blind freddie can see that your investment in Wolves as owner is reducing daily, and you are just meekly watching this happen.
I was always under the impression that you were a very astute businessman, but clearly Mr Morgan, you do not appear to know too much about what it means to be a newely promoted team in the Premiership, and what you must do to ensure survival.
At a rough estimate, Wolves as a going concern at the beginning of the Season would have been worth say 100 million…like to guess what we are worth today, and how much will we be worth on the market if we are relegated this season…You are looking at a sizable loss.

You are surrounded by deadwood and ‘yesterday’s hero’s’ from CEO-Manager- and many of your players….you are going down with the Ship unless you and you Directors make some hard decisions now.

Lets hope Mr Morgan that we wake up one morning soon to read in the paper that you have taken some desisive action between now and the close of the January transfer window

These are desperate times Mr Morgan, and desperate action is needed….we are relying on you.

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Fact: Ince is not good enough. Fact: Keegan will not come to Wolves, and his success isn’t earth shattering.

The simple truth is we need to find a steady team and stick to it. Milias is the only one going to South Africa and needs the time in the team – he will repay it.

And where did most of you expect us to be at this point? I thought rock bottom, so we are doing better than I expected!

Yeah, sack Mick – look at Middlesborough. Since Southgate left they have gone into freefall. Admittedly we haven’t too far to drop!

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Others teams playing Arsenal, Chelsea and the like pack the defence and try to frustrate them. So why do we go out to attack them when we know other teams have tried and just get picked off? And Hennessey needs a rest after his last two displays – I’d put 4 of the 8 goals conceded down to him.

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Europa Leegue still on then?

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To stand any chance we have to win the next two home games on the bounce. Not trying to be negative, but with our present staff (Management
included.) I cannot see it, because we will fall
to far behind and playing catch up,tough away games to follow. Defoe against Berra/Craddock, interesting.

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I only saw the highlights on MOTD but it was obvious we gave them far too much respect. We never got into their faces and allowed the scorers ridiculous amounts of time and space.

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Like a rabbit in headlights on saturday.Why play a new formation against the best team in the league? Too many players again out of position and had to change after 4 minutes.Why was Surman playing? No prem experienced players as promised by job done Jez.2 games to get us into the relegation fight Mick rather than certain relegation.Does Mick know his best team yet? Now would be a good time to play it.If we lose the next 2 games time for Mick to go and take JM with him before he pockets a bonus for not spending SM money.

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January window sign Sol Campbell,Reo Coker,Alan Smith then we might have a chance.Time to step up to the plate Mr Morgan and invest as the fans have done in your £10.00 company.

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If we don’t spend big and on good players we will be going down as the others around us are already planning to from the sound of it. But saying that ill still be going every week as thats what wolves fans do it would just be a nice change for the club to take a risk and let us get some value for money.

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Mick is a great manager when it comes to promotion.

That is why we should keep him. If we do go down this season, there is nobody better than him to get us back up.

If we do manage to survive, then Mick will have proven that he can manage in the premier league.

Getting a new manager in now is not going to help us.

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15) I totally agree. We were always going to struggle against the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea and you can throw in the next 3 away games too. But if we have the Molineux rocking – the support at home has been tremendous – we can do a job on Blues, Bolton and Burnley. Mancienne has to be brought back in and Zubar if fit, as we will need pace on Sunday!

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The good news is that the size of the squad will begin to play a bigger role as the months go by. Wolves are well placed with strength in depth if not outstanding premiership calibre. As the likes of Burnley, Hull, Bolton and West Ham start to pick up knocks – their points will dwindle.

I am keeping the faith in MM and believe we have the squad to stay up.

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time to go mick,get ince in,we are a laughing stock,got hammered by chelsea reserves they even brought 3 kids on.

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Lokks like Micks thrown the towel in already and its only November,the last thing players need is negative vibes coming from the manager.

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We need a new goalkeeper!!

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Is our manager now posting under the pseudonym ‘Whammy’ 58. Such stupidity is beyond comprehension. Saturday showed that MM has no idea of tactics to instill into our players. Mind you they should be aware of it themselves. Why do they keep backing off when the opponents have the ball. Why do we keep passing back — answer is that no-one has the brain power to get into a position to receive the ball. Jarvis, Hennessey, Blake, Kightly should all be transferred.

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Everyone knows the obvious problems but for some reason the management cannot see them!
PLAYERS – How often do we play the best players we have available in their rightful positions, match after match? We do not have sufficient ‘class’ players to rotate like some clubs can, so we must play our best players.
TACTICS – attempting to ‘match’ a class side ie Arsenal or Chelsea is just not going to work. Class is permanent, luck is not!
Stoke, Burnley and Brum can do it, so why can’t we?
MANAGEMENT – Games at other clubs are watched frequently by Mick and Co., so again if Stoke, Burnley and Brum can gain points from the ‘lesser lights’ and even from the top 4 then why can’t we do it?
JANUARY TRANSFER WINDOW – Are we seriously looking to bring in experienced Prem players or not during the window and will the money be made available?
If Steve Morgan and/or Jez Moxey are going to play the Christmas skinflints this year, then Wolves will inevitably go down BUT if they invest wisely (always presuming in our precarious position that we can attract the right kind of players) then we may manage to stay up.
CONCLUSION – So what’s it to be WWFC? Investment to stay in the Premier League or a repeat of the dark days of the Bhatti Brothers when no investment = no fans, so even less investment = so no fans at all – Result, WWFC could be no more!
Over to you Messrs Morgan, Moxey & McCarthy!!!

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39. tom
is that 2.5 million players or 25 million players and how do we get them all in the dressing room.
66. Ronald powers
Mick has earned his bra

He’s only stating a fact. We could go down we need to play the players that won the championship last year and we will walk it. The three B’s won’t know what’s hit them.

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The apologists for Mick should consider the contrast between this abject surrender and the fighting 5-2 loss last time we were in the premiership. Although Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank’s hat-trick sank us in the last 20 minutes we had fought back brilliantly and seemed to be in with a chance of winning. Mick talks the hard man talk but has no real fire in the belly.

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First no.15 Dave have you forgot Dave Jones who should never have been sacked in te first place?Secondly it is not the players who should take the blame for our plight but Mad Mick who cannot work out his best team,who cannot work out the correct tactics and who doesn`t know how to instil a fighting spirit into a side and certainly hasn`t got a clue when buying players.Mick change the keeper for a start and why not give the Hoff a run?why die you buy him.Why aren`t you playing Kites fromthe start?And lastly why don`t you take a hike?My choice for Manager–Avram Grant or Martin Jol certainly not Ince.Keegan is always an option but I would want assurances that he wouldn`t walk away until the job was done.Whatever happens we have to spend big money in January but the lower we are the harder it will be to get the right players in.

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Not interested in quotes or good honest asessments I’m interested in what the plan of action is to ensure we don’t go down or at least give ourselves the best possible chance. 4 quality players in Jan is a must even if we take 9 points from the 3 B’s games. We will beat the Blues if MM and the boys are brave enough.

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please steve morgan act now sack the muppet bring in a decent manager all i want for christmas is a manager who can pick a team and knows his taticts and knows a decent player to bring in january so please steve sort it now or we going down

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63 – mike_wolves. Absolutely spot on.

The time to have sacked Mick was at the end of last season. We didn’t. Now is not the time to sack him. He has a better record than any potential replacement to get us back up.

However, should we manage to stay up I don’t agree that it proves he can manage in the Prem league. I think it shows that there are worse managers/clubs in the division and that we’d been lucky.

So I’d actually sack him if we stayed up – rather than the other way round.

In the meantime, we’ve got to enjoy the ride. I asked a mate of mine (Chelsea fan who was there on Sat) what he thought of us, as a Neutral, and he said that we failed to put a decent challenge in all game. He said he always laughs when players queue up to get the Chelsea players’ shirts after a match ‘cos it proves they think they’ll be going down.

I think a big danger is that the players look deflated. For all of MM’s talk that it’s a young squad etc., he has failed to add any experience – which could prove invaluable at this stage to buck people up. As much as I dislike Carsley, that’s the type of player we’re missing.

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common sense approach, hope they stay up for the region, because it looks like baggies will join them,need to break london monopoly on sky

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Tony says he will support Wolves even if spurs beat us 22-1, and it is possible.

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If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you like to win, but you think you can’t,
It is almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost,
For out in the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow’s will.
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You’ve got to think high to rise,
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But soon or late the man who wins,
Is the man who thinks he can.

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FOR GOD SAKE GET BEHIND THE TEAM AND THAT INCLUDES YOU M M

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Oh my god, why is he stating the obvious?

He should be telling the players that we can stay up and everything, not saying that we could go down.

Sack the muppet!!!!

Keegan, Curbishley or Coppell in! Maybe even Darren Ferguson

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Mick McCarthy’s Premiership record, after 50 games.

Food for thought.

P W D L F A Pts
2003 9 0 0 9 2 19 0
2005/06 28 2 4 22 19 51 10
2009/10 13 2 4 7 12 26 10
Total 50 4 8 38 33 96 20

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Sorry, the formatting didn’t work (No. 98). Bottom line, after 50 games managing in the top league, Mick’s record hardly inspires confidence.

4 wins, 8 draws, 38 defeats. 33 scored, 96 conceded.

Let’s hope the trend is bucked against the three Bs; Birmingham, Bolton and Burnley. Otherwise, B could stand for ‘bottom’ by Christmas – and we all know what that means.

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We will be relegated, then Mick should surely either get the sack or resign for the club’s and his own good. It’s his own fault anyway, poor team selection aswell as poor transfer dealings has cost us relegation. All this rubbish from Morgan and Moxey ‘we will stay up’ and ‘the young players will keep us up’ RUBBISH. We’re going down, and the funny thing about it is flipping Birmingham and Burnley (they are worse than us) are staying up.

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lets support mm and really get behind the team for the next three games. If it does not produce at least 6 points then we have got a real decision to make. We keep him and go down but might do alright next season or we have a proper go and get rid of not just him but the wage structure and ambition the club has at the moment. A question i ask myself and really we all should is are we prepared to maybe pay more money for tickets/merchandise maybe sell naming rights to molineux because really if we aint bank rolled by the middle east then this could be the only way to finance a proper stab at the big time. But for saying that burnley are having a good go so perhaps it is all mm’s fault!

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93. Dont be so ridiculous! There is no chance of us scoring 1 goal against spurs! lol

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What do we expect when we have HEARTBROKEN players who wont turn out for the club.

Grow up Mr Doyle !!!!!

But not too heartbroken to appear on Skys – Goals on Sunday the next day.

Fine him 2 weeks wages Jez (because Mick wont) and give it the fans who travelled to Chelsea or a local charity.

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The Wolves fans will be holding up banners with
“YOU PROMISED WE WOULDNT DO AN ALBION”.

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57… Senior Wolf

I agree with your point on Mick not knowing his best team – players, formation and tactics are changed every week whilst teams like Burnley and Blues play to their strengths. Why are we not playing to our strengths??

The formation that won us promotion was 4-4-2 with Jarvis and Kightly, with Ebanks and Iwelumo up front. So why on earth did we not but any more players to fit into that formation??? Why mess about with the Surman’s and Halford’s of this world when 3-4 quality players such as Doyle would have done it. Get the ball out wide and cross it into the big man – job done.

Last season the dross that was served up when Kightly and Jarvis was injured is what we have this year – no creativity in the middle of the park. Henry and Castillo are no better a partnership than Henry and Quashie last year. Yet we end up with Halford and Surman as wing backs away at Chelsea?? We were lucky not to lose by double figures.

Mick really has two games to try and turn this around – 4 points is a minimum and the saving grace is that there are teams like Hull and Wigan still around us who are just as bad.

Team for Blues;

Hennessey
Stearman
Berra
Mancienne
Ward (if fit), if not Elokobi
Kightly
Jarvis
Edwards
Henry
Hoff
Doyle

Get tbe ball out wide and hit the Hoff!!!

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Calling all wolves fans lets get behind the team no one said it was going to be easy we are in the premier league now.We need all fans to sing at home games from all parts of the ground not just the southbank and northbank the support at the bridge on saturday was fantastic why can we not do this at home games there are plenty of points to play for so give mick a chance we just played 2 of the best teams in the premier league both in the champions league be realistic.

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severe lack of quality, experience,goals,points, tactical nous.
this is fast becoming a nightmare season, if it keeps going the same way we will be relegated with less points than last time we were in this league.
i think the next few games will tell us all which way this season is going, win a couple home games and we will all be hoping we still have a chance lose to brum, bolton etc and we will all fear the worst.
fingers crossed and will give full support to the lads.
what gets me is look at burnleys home form most of their players are from championship team with only very few additions. look where we could be if we had taken as many points as them at home, the molineux form is very worrying.

where was the quality we were promised,i have said for last couple seasons that mick should buy quality not quantity.

come on the wolves give us something to cheer at home and to all wolves fans lets all get behind the lads and start picking up 3ptsat home

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4 wins, 8 draws, 38 defeats. 33 scored, 96 conceded
You can’t argue with that! We’ve have got to get a minimum 7 points off the 3 x B’s or its goodbye mick.You’ve moved us on a massively but it maybe time to let someone else have a go.The next 7 games are vital!

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Interesting Blogg–come on guys Christmas is coming we want a couple of wins a few draws the occasional loss and we stay up—-Get of MM’s back lets beat Brum and then all could change–KEEP THE FAITH ALWAYS– Crazey Dave

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What absolute rubbish journalism again from Mr Sit on the fence, Tim Nash again. I’ve just read the E&S report on the match, and frankly I don’t think the bloke was even there. His match report is consigned to a paragraph or two at the end and rest is filled with his usual wet comments about the team.

And Karl Henry was marked 6??? come on, I think a 3 would have been fairer.

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Is that a motivational speech Mick, or reverse psycology?? A few points to consider, previous statements from Mick have been:
1/ I never look at the league table until May?
2/ I fear Portsmouth…he talked us into defeat.
3/ I don’t know how to beat Chelsea?
4/ We have to take points from our fellow strugglers, West Ham, Blackburn, Hull, Portsmouth. Ahh he meant point??
5/ We could be relegated?
Steve Morgan if I said to my boss I can’t do the job you pay me to do he would show me the door. We have to stop these players talking drivel in the E&S. If they can state how good Chelsea are or were on the day they must have been ball watching at the Chelsea Circus. I have to feel for young Surman being baptised in such a manner. To all the other Wolves players who have been in the team consistently all season, well you should have shown more fight & spirit. If the tatics were wrong & not working the captain (Henry) should have said something to Mick at HT, or changed it himself. Even the late great Bobby Robson got it wrong in 1990 WC & the England captain Wright changed them. Personally I don’t want CCC football again & with MM talking defeat in this EPL campaign already it really is time for Steve Morgan to resolve the managerial problem. Didn’t I read pre-season that Morgan was looking to bring in a Director of Football type figure to assist Mick??

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Ronald Powers (66) talks about MM earning his “bras.” Wondering if there’s a clue there as to the dismal performance of the team!

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I ain’t a McCarthy fan far from it.

But, I tell you what, who gives a damn what he did at Sunderland, or what he has done in the Prem prior to 13 matches ago.

If you were all whinging about what has gone on this season fair enough, but, who really is bothered about what has happened before he come here???

Have a word with yourselves!!!!

We are in a bad enough state without doing another club’s moaning.

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mm needs to start to believe in himself and the team, why he keeps saying things like we wont get anything from the top teams is crazy. the players need to be told these team are there to be beat go out and do it make a name for yourselfs.

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if wolves dont win the next three games MM will have to go fact! the baggies had more points at this stage of the season last year 17 points and they went down

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No 13 – Well said. I wanted to see the players who got us up play as far as possible (injuries permitting) not people who’ve been brought in who are not as good (and in some cases worse). If after they’d had a chance they turned out not to be good enough then so be it. At the moment I have no sense of what our “team” is any more (and I’m not sure that Mick does)and the squad is certainly not good enough for all the chopping and changing that’s going on. We did well last year because for good chunks of the time we played mostly the same players who gelled as a team. We’ve lost that now. I know he’s injured but I’d rather have watched Dave Jones than Milijas or Castillo if he’d been fit, I’d rather watch Foley than Zubar and I’d rather watch Jarvis than anyone else who’s been played instead of him.

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To everyone that doubts this team, manager and whoever else who is in the firing line when we stay up and proove all you doubters wrong I WILL HAVE THE LAST LAUGH and so will the several other people on these boards who know it also.

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The logic of ” even if we go down we will come straight back up again” is sadly misguided and delusional. “Stars” like Kightly, Blake and Jarvis would want out, and be interesting to see how much we got for them? about 50pence on current form I reckon. Doyle would leave, Craddock will be too old, and “luxury” players like Milijas just won;t hack the hustle and bustle of the CC league. When we are relegated, because this is straing us in the face, it will be an unmitigated disaster. Blame Moxey and Morgan for not spending the cash. When all our better players have gone, I can see us being another Ipswich or Norwich, and then lets see how good 30million is in teh bank.The Board make me sick, they experienced the calamity of 2003, and, 6 years later, they have learnt nothing.Moxey out!!

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What a disgrace that doyle dident play cause he lost in france,who pays his wages put him on transfer list and get rid of him,only one goal waste of money anyway.

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Noisy – 108.

To be fair, there were a number of season ticket holders who sit around me (myself included) who were saying that last year. I appreciate it was our first trophy in 20 years and that MM has done an excellent job in 3 years, but I think it would have really signalled our intent had Morgan gone out and made a big appointment upon our return to the Prem. (And by the way, the players are contracted to the club not the manager so wouldn’t have to go as well ;-) )

We might have added more premiership quality than we have as opposed to hoping that the squad would be able to take the massive step up – which it is proving very difficult to do. Whilst no doubt MM wants to prove that he’s not just a master at getting teams promoted to the Prem (and I couldn’t resist the temptation to say that he’s on the way to proving he’s a master at getting teams relegated from the Prem as well!) there’s no room for sentiment in what has, rightly or wrongly, become a big business.

In the 3 season’s McCarthy was manager in the Championship our record against the poor sides in the division was excellent – like it was when he got Sunderland promoted. His record against the better sides was very poor (in 2007/8, when we finished 7th for example, we won once against the top 9 teams – 1 win in 16).

These better sides are the Hulls, Portsmouths, Birminghams etc, that we have to be beating to stand a chance of staying in the Prem. Nothing that I’ve seen so far this season suggests that he’s capable of turning this around. But I’d clearly be delighted if he/we can.

Anyway, it’s all irrelevant. We’ve got him and by my reckoning, if we got 9 points from the next 3 home matches, that would put us back on track (rather than ahead) for the 37 points we need to survice.

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what a load of bumcome.

Foley, SEB – not been fit, how can you write them off.

Kightly only just getting fit.

Arses. The lot of you.

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What a shockingly negative comment!
Reminds of how he talked about pompey winning at ours because they had lost all there games.
If you talk yourself into something it most likley will happen!

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And another thing if we do fail this season and MM leaves Moxey must go with him!!!

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Right, everyone who says get mick out an the board, dont come again this season, i ad a bloke behind me at Chelsea and all he was doin was moanin, if your Going to moan, dont come until we are relegated and winnin games, did most of you really think we would beat Chelsea ay, your all havin a laugh, support the lads, not moan, up the wolves!

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How can you say MM is a better manager than Bill McGarry, even Sammy Chung and John Barnwell? We were more competitive in the top flight under these 3 blokes!

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Now that my anger has subsided. Its time to look ahead to sunday by which I expect us to be bottom of the table if Pompey win there match…. I think they are playing before us.

MM needs to go back to basics. 4-4-2 at home 4-5-1 away. Every other team are doing it. Why cant we!

I think wolves will recall Kites, Macinnene, Zubar.

Henns ok, not the best game, but he is the best goalie we have at the momnet, The problem is that he is not getting the support from his centre halves who both has a mare. Craddock looked like the craddock of 2003.

I liked the look of Surman, I think he and edwards should be the centre midfield pairing, but I cant see MM dropping Henry. OK Henry breaks up attacks but he is not positive with the ball, he doesnt create anything. I think Edwards and Surman are a better bet with Kites & Jarvis who is finding his feet on the wings. Doyle & either Ebanks or AK up front. I think MM knows that Doyle & Ebanks cant play together. Ebanks likes Big Chris style of approach play. Its the best side we have,,, but its blantly obvious that Wolves are a team devoid of confidence, and it stems from the top because if MM looks defeatist, then it will rub onto the players.

If we dont win against Blues then MM needs to do the decent thing and resign, he will save face, wolves fans will thank him for taking us as far as he can, but it will need someone else with tactical know how of this league to drag us back up the table. That person is Curbs!

Finally when the going gets tough,,, you never hear a peep from Moxey & Morgan! I wonder way….

But you know what will happen before christmas,, Moxey will come out of his pie factory and announce half price season tickets for the fans… i.e to rob more money out of the loyal fans! Well Moxey,,, prepare yourself for a winter of discontent if this form continues!

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158 Walsall and the baggies are in the minor league and wolves are in the premier the only mix up there is they are a championship team with championship players.

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150 Andy-
well at least you make a coherent argument even if I disagree. This board now seems to be split between people who think we should still be playing the Championship side and people who think we should have bought an entirely new team.
‘Fans’ are always the same – if you win everything is right and if you lose everything is wrong. The whole point of being a proper manager is about knowling how to strengthen when you win and what to leave alone when you lose.
Two seasons of taking up teams by making good buys and then struggling with insufficient investment does not make him not uo to the task in my opinion.
I agree that even 3 wins only puts us on track, but all I want is for everyne to pul together, because divided we will fall.

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I used to have a bad feeling in my stomach every time we lost in the 2003 premiership season, that feeling is not present this season because I am already resigned to the fact that we would in all probability be going down. It does not matter who the manager is, but until we have established ourselves as a premiership team then no one of any significance is going to sign for us (as an example look at how hard Hull have being trying to sign Top class players without success)Reading did well and are now down, you can add Leeds, Southampton, Charlton the Baggies and numerous others as testiment to the fact that you have to survive in the premiership for a few years before players take an interest in playing for you. The one exception I would put to this is Portsmouth as even winning the F.A. Cup has made no difference(so far this season)to their chances of staying up. So until the likes of Kightly, Ebanks-Blake etc stop telling us how confident they are and actually start producing the goods then its no good blaming the 3 M’s for our fate. As I’m sure like everyone else the 3 M’s would rather be toasted as a success (and are desparately trying to make it happen) then be lambasted for failure.

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I am getting sick and tired of the likes of people like “wolf” who as soon as things go wrong call for McCarthys head. It would not matter who was in charge nothing would change as they would still have the same squad of players to work with.
If these people must moan then moan at the players for not putting enough effort into their work (which no doubt they are handsomely paid for). No player of any real significance is going to sign for Wolves until we have established ourselves in the top flight, its a fact, just look at how hard Hull tried to sign players in the Summer with hardly any success as an example.
Kightly, Ebanks-Blake (Ferguson who I presume the likes of “Wolf” et al would like to see as manager,sold him to Plymouth, so what does that tell you about his ability or potential in the premiership?)are always harping on about how confident they are about staying up etc, its about time then that they started producing premiership form before its to late, and they become known as just good quality championship material. Support McCarthy, I’m sure he would love to have the likes of Kaka etc but he hasn’t and just undermining him is only going to sap the remaining confidence out of the club. Unfortunately for Wolves and football in general Sky have turned out to be a poisoned chalice. They have made the top 7 or 8 clubs so attractive a proposition that they now have very rich owners and as such are virtually unrelegatable. The rest of the premiership clubs now start each season hoping that they qualify for the europa league at best and avoid relegation at worst. Its a hard fact of life, the Wolves, Charlton’s, Leeds, Southampton’s, Readings etc of this world are going to be the premiership cannon fodder for the big clubs, and to stay up have to rely on beating each other.

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i think we should lay off mick its the board who have only given him a pittance to spend (with the exception of doyle)who are responsible. moxey spurting out rubbish to sell season tickets slating the albion for not spending enough (when they spent 20 mill)and that we learnt from the last time that you need premiership players. well where are they?what we spent is a lot less on players who just don’ have the quality although they give their all that just isn’t enough in this league.without some major investment come january we will go down.i would of liked to have seen them at least compete on saturday think they all took their autograph books with them admiring chelseas stars instead of doing what burnley or brum do and get stuck into them, at least these teams don’t just roll over like us they have a go and show noone any respect at least let them know they’ve been in a game.usually we compete well but like the blackburn and the arsenal match we capitulated.don’t mind losing but its the way you lose.performances need to improve for these next 2 matches 6 points a must for me or we will be cut off come january and then no decent player is gonna want to come

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I’m not gonna just jump onto Mick’s back like most of you lot though I would question his team selection with regards to the fact Milijas has been left out of the last two games, Now I don’t think he is injured so I would wonder why our most technically gifted midfielder is being left out of the side when he created both goals against Stoke.

We are due a win against the Zulus this Sunday. UTW

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Micks not a prem manager FACT!
Get rid b4 its too late!
Bring in Curbishley

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