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Monday 16th July 2007, 12:00PM BST.
Wolves owner-in-waiting Steve Morgan today sent the clearest message yet that his Molineux takeover is imminent by declaring: “I’m ready to start work today.”
The millionaire property magnate chartered a private helicopter from his home in Cheshire to watch Wolves’ pre-season curtain raiser at Grays Athletic on Saturday – and made a point of sitting alongside Sir Jack Hayward in the directors’ box.
The Molineux owners past and present wanted to show fans that the deal, which has been delayed by “technical issues”, is still on track.
Speaking to the Express & Star the Cheshire-based businessman admitted the mounting delays were a source of frustration – but insisted his takeover will happen “very soon”.
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Wolves owner-in-waiting Steve Morgan today sent the clearest message yet that his Molineux takeover is imminent by declaring: “I’m ready to start work today.”
The millionaire property magnate chartered a private helicopter from his home in Cheshire to watch Wolves’ pre-season curtain raiser at Grays Athletic on Saturday – and made a point of sitting alongside Sir Jack Hayward in the directors’ box.
The Molineux owners past and present wanted to show fans that the deal, which has been delayed by “technical issues”, is still on track.
Speaking to the Express & Star the Cheshire-based businessman admitted the mounting delays were a source of frustration – but insisted his takeover will happen “very soon”.
“It was great to be able to watch the game and I’m excited by the prospect of taking over,” he said.
“There have just been a few problems with the Haywards’ family trusts, which I can’t go into detail about, but as soon as they are resolved we are ready to go and start work at Wolverhampton Wanderers.
“It is frustrating for myself and Sir Jack – and I’m sure for the fans too. Everybody wants to see it done and dusted and for us to be able to get on with the future. But we will get to that point – hopefully very soon.”
Morgan sat with Sir Jack and his grandson Rupert Hayward, who will join the board once the takeover is complete, in the directors box at Grays’ Recreation Ground.
The sight of the pair together will prompt relief among the Wolves faithful – and Morgan admitted it had been done with a view to reassuring supporters.
“We thought it was right for the two of us to be seen together at Grays to show that there is absolutely zero issue between the two of us,” he said. “We have shaken hands and we are both men of our word, so it will happen.”
Morgan is tight-lipped on his vision for Wolves until the deal is finally done but did say he has been impressed by the Molineux set-up he will inherit.
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although it will be good to get some new investment in he club i cant help but feel sad that SIR Jack will no longer be the main man.he brought us back from the brink no for personal gain but for love of our great club..no amount of money from elsewhere could ever replace his place in the hearts of all true fans..off to ireland today see you all there
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The beginning of a new era. Bring it on!
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dave cornish wolves, you go on about how Sir Jack put all his money into wolves, did he put all his money into wolves when we finally got into the premiership? No, we were an embaressment. At least this new guy will show us what its all about to compete in todays transfer market i hope we go up because we will spend big guaranteed, unlike Sir Jack and his “millions” Where’s it all gone? gardening the corners in the ground?
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It was good to see him at the game with Sir Jack and lets hope the take over is complete within the next couple of days.
Thanks to the Haywards for all there hard work and CASH for putting Wolves and Wolverhampton back on the map.
Hope to see the Haywards still coming down the Wolves in the new season ti give the team there support.
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if it takes this long for £10 what time if it was the half price 20 million is sums up why we have not moved forwards with sir jack and his merry men just go
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I welcome the input that Steve Morgan brings. He’s a lover of the game and is clearly no fool. As for Sir Jack, he will never be forgotten and will stay long in the memory of the Old Gold. Thank you for all the years of service and feel sure that the legacy you have created with live on!
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Thanks Sir Jack, but you had your money well and truely back, lets hope steve wants success more than you, thanks anyway, cant help wondering what you gonna do with your millions at your age though.
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Dave I agree that Sir Jack has done wonderful things for this club. However I cannot get the bitter taste out of my mouth left by Sir Jack when he quite literally pulled the carpet from under our feet after we got promoted. All those statements about getting to the promised land and then giving us no chance once we got there. A sour taste is left.
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a big thank you to sir jack for everything he has done for the wolves we are what we are now because of him i for one will always know him as mr wolverhapton once again sir jack thank a million
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I hope this bloke does his best for the club and puts the money in the right places!
Up the Wolves!
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How did Sir Jack bring us back from the brink? He bought us when we were back in Division 1 (then Div 2)…
It’s annoying the way the history is being rewritten..
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Goodbye Sir Jack, You and you alone saved our great club from the mire of obscurity, we was plunging out of existence. When you came along turned everthing around, rebuilt Molinuex the team and everything associted with Wolves. What Wolves are today, is because of one man Sir Jack Hayward. A big welcome to Steve Morgan, l hope you can continue the good work already done, and push Wolves that little bit further into great times. So welcome Steve and a big thankyou to Sir Jack.
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You idiots having a pop at Sir Jack are a disgrace!! I remember going to the Wolves as a 9 year old kid and there was only 2 stands open!! The place was rotten…Go to the Stadia now and tell me he hasn’t done anything. You should be ashamed of yourselves …If it wasn’t Sir Jacks investment Morgan wouldn’t have taken a second look at wolves…So shut your stupid mouths.
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He never offered me a lift to the game & he only lives down the road from me!!!. We can wait Mr Morgan as long as you make it worth while for us, which I believe you will
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Peterwolf, I judge by your english that you are still in primary school, thats the only reason I can see for your comment, you must not remembe Wolves in a quarter built stadium with no prospects at all before Sir Jack?
P.S large business takeovers take time mate, Its not just someone handing over a tenner!
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“if it takes this long for £10 what time if it was the half price 20 million is sums up why we have not moved forwards with sir jack and his merry men just go”
Peterwolf, what in God’s name does that mean? Did you have a few sherberts when you wrote the above?
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Sir Jack is a legend and deserves to see the wolves as an Established Premier League side before he passes away. Only a true fan would continually pump his own money into the club.
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Sir Jack is a business man, thats how he made his money.
Wolves is a drain so he wants rid. This explains why he tried to sell us when we got promoted. You can get more for a Premiership club than a championship team. Thats why he didnt invest millions back then and ultimately we went down.
He wanted to maximise the sale. Fair enough though, its his club. But many fans changed a bit when this happened and thought it was time for a fresh owner. Which is now happening.
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If i were a genuine red..as Mr Morgan appears to be, I know i’d find it hard not to have an eye on events on Merseyside in the coming weeks and years, despite my new alligence to those in gold and black.My only concern, and i hope SJH sought assurances on this, would be that the new owner would not just up sticks sell his interest to some nutter with the cash and a dodgy consortium at lightening quick speed, before entering the race to buy his boyhood team again!
Mr Morgan your welcome at Wolves and may your interest bring all success, but I hope you don’t think you’ve bought a subbuteo team!!
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I refuse to hear a bad world about Sir Jack. We all know what he did for the club. He has now handed the over the reins to someone younger who is not only football minded but a bussiness man with clout who is capable of taking us foreward. The premiership isnt the championship. He knew that it was going to take alot more millions to keep us up there. Surely 50 million is a big enough sacrifice for a man in his eighties. Let him now enjoy his retirement.
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Peterwolf should hang his head in shame!
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People are forgetting that if it wasn’t for Sir Jack Hayward the Wolves would have literally disappeared into the conference. We now have a great stadium with good infrastructure. It’s the pre-madonas we bought in the championship who had too much of a good thing going who prevented any real success.
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thanks sjh and all the best
welcome to our future
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As a true ‘red’, lets hope Mr Morgan isn’t tempted to bring Fowler to the club as a gift for Mick.
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Yes a big thank you Sir Jack, BUT like a lot of WOLVES supporters I feel you let us down when we got to THE PROMISED LAND
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I am 43 yrs old and am glad to see Sir Jack gone, yeah thanks for some but hes not got wolves at heart as you brainwashed lot think, if so why leave with £160 million in the bank? hes mid 80′s and has conflicts in courts with his kids, so wheres the money going when he pops clogs? if it where me i would give everything for wolves, Jacks had his money back and some, how longs it been since we were in prem and some have forgotten already!
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Whatever you think of Sir Jack Good Bad or Indifferent; He is soon letting go of the ownership of the club and as far as we all can see is keeping his word
Whether the stories of SJH owning the club to offset tax etc etc What does it matter? He put his hand in his pocket and shelled out to give the club the platform to move forward
Lets hope that Mr Morgan will take us to the next stage and help MM build a team good enough to stay in the greed league
Thanks SJH Good Luck & WELCOME MR MORGAN
UP THE WOLVES!!!
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Geez, 20 quid for a team sounds great, unfortunately Morgan got a first hand taste of how good a team he has after the Grays debacle. Our best team couldn’t even get a goal! Can’t understand the delay, maybe he doesn’t have the 30M afterall? if he hangs back long enough Jack will sell for 10 quid, which after the “friendly” is about all its worth..its not just the cash its how its spent, spend nothing, get nothing.. that’s abit too obvious.. well it is for us common folk, as for Moxey it appears to be spend nothing and win the premiership! has he ever met Sir Alex and had a chat about how its done? he needs to..he would make a great ball boy and maybe get some of that weight off, most of which appears to have settled around his brain..
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The people who have been bad mouthing Sir Jack should be ashamed to call themselves Wolves supporters which i dont believe they are. They are fair weather supporters you know the sort of pratt i am talking about. If you ask them if they had been to the match you get the usual stupid answer : THEY DONT COME TO SEE ME WHEN I AM BAD : or if by some reason they do go, someone must have gave them a ticket they would be better staying with the other team supporters because they do nothing but put pick faults with my beloved team.
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How can any one Dis Sir Jack?
Did he put his cash in to the club?
Yes!
Did he rebuild the Stadium?
Yes
Does he Love the club?
Yes
Has he asked for profit from the Sale?
No?
Baggies stop comming on here pretending to be Gold when you are infact rotten Tesco!
If you are real Wolves … I spose you think the Bhattis did some good?
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again i cant believe supposed fans are having a dig at SIR JACK .he has invested his time and money rebuilding this great club year in year out.and as i understand running at a huge loss as a business.he clearly has fading health and in giving this our club away has even in his dotage secured our long term future.maybe we didnt spend enough in the premiership but its all very well having the money but not so easy attracting big name players to a club that has dropped from the news and lay dormant for 20 years..thanks SIR JACK
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Sir Jack did plow in some cash.Its not what he did, its what the results were. Nice guy! he could afford it, but he is a businessman.. selling the club for 20 quid gives a real good feeling for what he felt he had built up. 20 quids worth of team. Maybe Morgan flew down in his helicopter with it in pennies! Jack has pulled out by realising that by keeping Moxey he would have to shell out more money and most of it wouldn’t reach the team as regards new players. He couldn’t sit there and run the team and his son was/is well “his son”. Wolves were a new toy to play with for a while. What have the “new” directors accomplished? zip, nice title but I didn’t see anything they have achieved.
Just how did they spend all those millions they got being in the premiership and then the balloon payments? Only Moxey knows and he isn;t telling, Sir Jack knows and wants out for 20 quid.
Morgan is smart, probably paid a downpayment of the 20 quid, maybe 2 quid, but the 30M, still in his pocket. Will he there until the end of the season. Then he will bail and get 25 quid for the team! It might afterall reach its alledged goal of making the “playoffs”.
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Unbelievable. Some of the comments above fill me with disgust. You lot have got short memories. Sir Jack spent £50million without seeing a penny returned into the coffers. Managers like McGhee and Hoddle wasted millions on big-name-charlies that failed to deliver for the club.
Sir Jack has now handed over the club for the price of an Ayrton and has left us with an excellent stadium and training facilities. Yes, the premiership was a wasted opportunity, but attracting the right players was always going to be a challenge when you are going to spend the season fighting for survival.
So, get off Sir Jack’s back. Would you have spent £50 million for fun? Idiots.
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lets all stop living in the past. sir jack has all his money back, lets not 4 get he turnd is back when we went in premiership
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Thank you Sir jack,
For transforming us from a club in serious peril to where we are today. People should look at the clubs history B4 moaning about Sir Jack! Then look at when he took control they may notice something strange!!!
And thanks for being a passionate supporter of this awesome club!
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Totally agree with Funkster76. The ingratitude of some so called Wolves supporters beggars belief.
Thank you Sir Jack
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Sir Jack Haywood has always had the Wolves had heart and has spent plenty of his own money on the club and any true Wolves fan cannot be anything else but grateful to a great man. But he did not bring Wolves back from the brink. It was the Gallagher family who bought the club from the receivers after the Bhatti’s were run out of town and under the boardroom leadership of Dick Homden and Jack Harris the rebuilding started. It was only when the Gallaghers realised that they didn’t have the resources to take them on, that they sold the club on to a man who could, Sir Jack. Of course not many will remember this as the weren’t that many of us going in 1986/87, although about 20,000 claim they did!!!!
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There are good and bad points regarding Sir Jacks ownership of WWFC and we all know what they are BUT he did after all save the club from almost extinction, remember nobody else wanted to save the club! To those who slag him off, you are entitled to your opinion and likewise those who applaud him, so let it rest there!
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anyone attacking SJH is a disgrace.
Yes, he didnt fund a massive spending spree when we were in the prem. That was AFTER spending 15 million on the squad the previous year, and after investing over 4o MILLION into the club. That was also the season he underwrote wolves operating costs so that they stayed debt free. That was the season he put his hand in his pocket for the 2 million to sign Carl Cort…because he was told signing Cort would keep us up.
SJH didnt save the club. Graham Tutner, Steve Bull, et al are the ones who did that. But he has kept the club going. The difference between Leeds and Wolves is SJH.
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Its a disgrace, that so called Wolves fans, can subject Sir jack to such uncalled for abuse. True Wolves fans i’m sure will never stoop that low, we all know how good hes been to wolves, now hes stepping aside, for a younger man to take us that step farther, and for just £10. Get real, you idiots that are slagging off Sir Jack, Hes the reason, we’ve got a team to support.
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i for one will be saying a big thankyou to sir jack. i don’t think you can say he does not love the club and that he did have the best of intentions. i can remember the dark days before he came along.
yes mistakes have been made, dodgy over priced buys, inflated wages, duff managers i sometimes thought their business plan was lets throw millions at it and this will succeed, and finally not spending when we eventualy got to the premiership etc.
but he has put a vast sum of money into the club, look at the stadium and training ground, i can remember bringing family and friends down from scotland and having to apoligise at the state of the ground, only having two stands open but having said that many of the grounds in scotland at the time were far worse and they were allowed to keep rotten dilapidated stands open.
look at what football clubs are being sold for i think morgan has got a bargain and with only paying £10 for the club this then gives the bulk of the investment into players etc i also hope he has the best intentions and the investment needed at the right times as i don’t want a return to buying overpriced has beens again.
i think we are at the start of a new dawn at wolves, new owner, good manager a good nucleus of a young team, decent stadium, great support as last season. and like all other seasons (except last one thought would be relegation battle)i am forever the optimist and this season i am hoping for top six and who knows with a bit of luck top two.
don’t be negative think positive
thats my novel finished.
come on the wolves !!!!!!
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although i agree that sir jack has done wonders for the club and molineux did look a complete mess til our fantastic new stadia was built i would like to know how he brought us back from the brink. sir jack had the chance to buy the wolves when we were in the old fourth division but didnt it was only when we were on the way bac up in the old second div that investment was made. nether the less still a great man and couldnt help shed a tear when it showed him on the big screen in cardiff in the 87th minute magic moment thanks sir jack.
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Getting pretty fed upwith all the total rubbish spouted on by some so called fans…..These are the fans who don’t go away to see Wolves and obviuosly haven’t bothered to put THEIR hands in THEIR pockets and buy season tickets….They don’t actually put anything in to the club but feel they have the right to slag off others that have.
You pathetic drivelling idiots especially the one in Bloxwich, obviously another jealous Saddlers fan……
Sir Jack Hayward did practically save the club….from disappearing up it’s own backside with NO ground and NO team…..how short your pitiful memories are.
Sir Jack didn’t have to spend 40 million rebuilding the stadium into the superb groung it is now.But he did, just so you and I and he could actually go to see the Wolves from all four sides of the ground. It is HIS money, he doesn’t need to justify ONE penny of it to you whingeing ungrateful idiots, and what he does with his own 160 odd million is entirely HIS business. He may have made a few small mistakes, he may have coked up the premiership campaign,weWOULDN’T have got to the premiership if it wasn’t for Sir Jacks investment, or the championship OR even league on, he may have announced his plans for selling the club at entirely the wrong moment…..we all make mistakes, we are all passionate and human….
But as for slagging him off…..you make me sick, you ungrateful stupid narrow minded and forgetful idiots….
What if……Sir Jack hadn’t bought Wolves and the bungling Bhatti bros had carried on destroying the best football club in England……That would have given you something to moan about, wouldn’t it?
So thanks to Sir Jack. Thanks for the ride, a few twists and turns but generally a superb ride it has been.
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SIR JACK DID WELL WHEN WE WERE IN THE 4TH DIVISION BUT WHY DID HE GET RID OF BRIAN LITTLE AND APPOINT GRAHAM TURNER I NEVER DID UNDERSTAND THAT BUT ALL FAIRNESS WE DID GET TO DIVISION ONE ,AND THINGS STARTED TO CHANGE MORE MONEY COULD BE MADE, I RECKON HE MADE TO MANY MISTAKES NAMELY ALL THE PREVIOUS MANAGERS EXCEPT D JONES HE SHOULD HAVE BACKED HIM HAS PROMISSED BUT DID NOT WHEN WE GOT TO THE PREMIERSHIP WE ALL NO SIRJACK IS A BUSINESS MAN AND DID NOT NO A LOT ABOUT FOOTBALL BUT TO SUGGEST THERE WOULD BE FULLBACKING FOR DAVE JONES THEN CLOSE THE DOOR, SIRJACK AS WE NO MADE A LOT FROM THE PROMOTION AND THEN PARACHUTE PAYMENTS AND SALES IF YOUR A BUSINESS MAN I WOULD SAY HE HAS LOST NOTHING
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Just have to agree with Wolfie, all that bragging about getting back into the Premiership after some 19 years was it, what did they do? Poor Dave Jones was given next to nothing in the transfer kitty. Perhaps Steve Morgan will act differently if as hoped we succeed this season
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Sir Jack always a business man but wolves through and through,i rememer the old run down stadium and team before sir Jack saved us, i was there.Dont be dissing sir Jack if you are sitting next to me or you wil see what gold and black means.
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It comes as no surprise to note that most of the derogatory comments regarding Sir Jack are coming from thick,uneducated, idiots.Namely wolfie (who ought to change his name to jackel)and the prats from Bloxwich and Perton.
If they took the time to think for themselves instead of listening to all the other moaners, they may come to realise what exactly Sir Jack has done for Wolves and indeed many other concerns in this country.
There was a poll recently to name the greatest living Englishman and Sir Jack did not even get a mention but Robbie Williams got into the top ten!
What has this world come to?
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I don’t see this as a black and white argument, Jack either good or bad.
As some have commented he took over in 1990 when we were in the same division we are now and Bully was about to go to the Italy World Cup. He did not get rid of Brian Little. Under Jack we have spent 25 years in our current division and 1 in the Premiership.
On the plus side he paid for the new ground and training facilities. He also backed several managers with lots of cash.
On the downside, as well as the lack of investment when we went up, were lots of dodgy appointments to the boardroom involving his sons who knew more about farming than football and, hate to say it, John Richards, who came with no real experience. Sacked Graham Taylor and Dave Jones way too soon. strange appointment of Hoddle. And don’t blame Moxey, Jack was in control.
Also, I don’t like the idea of the club being owned by a single individual, it’s risky as many have pointed out. I would have liked Jack to have built in more involvement in the boadroom from real supporters.
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thank you jack for the good job you have done at wolves fc
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Sorry Jay we cant entirely agree with your comments regarding the difference between Leeds and Wolves being SJH In our view, and we feel many other fans aswell, Wolves massive clear out could have gone two ways – relegation ala Leeds or what happened which we all know IF we had been relegated due to the massive gamble taken by SJH’s instructions to clear out players in such a short space of time we wonder what difference that would make to peoples comments regarding SJH’s tenure and Moxeys people skills?
If Wolves were ever in such a bad state again (God forbid) as Leeds obviously are – due to the likes of Ridsdale etc – we dont believe that SJH would have stepped in at that point – as he didnt step in until the club started to produce results on the field of play as you rightly stated via Graham Turner, Bully & Co
If Moxey had appointed Wise & his sidekick Wolves would have been cannon fodder in our view – therefore in our view the real difference between Leeds and Wolves is MM and his staff – as we believe that with a decent manager with abillity Leeds could have avoided the drop (even with a points deductions etc)
SJH gave the club a platform to move forward – he put his hand in his pocket and “put his money where his mouth is” and for that alone, we as Wolves fans should give him credit
Up the Wolves!!!
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Ok, worked my way through the patting of Sir Jack’s back. Sure he spent and spent and what did it get the team, ah yes RELEGATED!
Which would you prefer for your money guys? Brilliant expensive stadium or a chance to see Premiership teams play?
As regards what he put in? Soon as the Wolves went up, so did he with his hand out! Money in,money out. End product championship football!
For one I can’t see Morgan any different. His love of Soccer is LIVERPOOL! His love of making money is WOLVES!
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Oldwulf where in my post are there any derogatory comments about Sir Jack? If you bothered to read it properly you wont find one you Muppet!! So sorry if history offends you, get over it.
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Look at the Big Picture it is fairly obvious that you like alot of Wolves fans blame SJH for a lack of investment when we were promoted and to be honest we were as gutted about the same thing
BUT whatever his faults he did put his hand in his pocket and we now have a good platform to move on with
As for knowing what Mr Morgan will or wont do – no-one knows that apart from Mr Morgan – he may well be a Liverpool fan BUT they rejected his advances for them and this may well prove to be a blessing in disguise
Everything is set up for a promising future and season – try and look at the bright side and look forward to it
UP THE WOLVES!!!
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sir jack, try but you cant fault him, he rebuilt this club to what it is today, for that you cant but admire him, any true fan with the money he had at his disposal would have done the same , i would without question( and a moto gp team, a race track, mansion,bentley like JB’s etc etc). it will be sad to think of sir jack as not being part of wolves because he is,to me he always will be, i remember the day he appeared on the terraces not long after he bought us, no idea who he was, just a regular we thought, wasnt till his secretary came to get him in the second half to do some meeting and greeting we realised who he was, ‘sorry chaps got to leave you and butter goodyear up for some more cash’ top bloke, he will always be. i bet he kept the flat in the ground though!!!
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