How much longer??……

Although they lost the opening game at home to Watford, in front of a television audience, Wolves barely deserved it and went on to win the next couple of league games, home and away.

Wolves spluttered in September, managing to pick up the pace in October with three out of five wins; things were looking good, though many retrospective cynics would have said that the cracks were beginning to appear, despite not losing in November!

With key players out through injury, defence, midfield and forwards not being able to gel, how right they were?

Merlin was no longer the magician he was but a short while ago; opposition teams had cottoned on to us and the bubble burst for the younger players, many of whom rely on confidence; the boo-boys took over throughout a happy Christmas even though the team was still in play-off contention.

From bad to worse in January, and more calls from the South bank such as ‘you don’t know what you’re doing (no not the ref but the manager? and ‘what the ****ing *ell was that’ – no; not from an opposition miss, but our own centre forward!

Was big Mick really losing the plot? One or two more signings and hey presto! An away win (though any win would have done).

Starting to move up the table and with a cup and league win over Watford, the feel-good factor was coming back.

Kites back from injury, Craddock and Breen in the side, with Oly back on duty and the new players bedded in, saw a different Wolves. Can we cement a place in the playoffs throughout February?

March, the best month yet – automatic spot? Nah! Impossible, but with an away win at Bristol City!!

Sorry – I just woke up; time to go home:-)

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Ward should have put his chance in with his nose instead of his forehead, it’s big enough!

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Encouraging comments from a manager whose always had his head screwed on tight (unlike a vocal minority of wolves fans). With the signings of Ebanks-Blake and Edwards, Mick is clearly identifying the problems in his squad and looking to fix them. It is imperative that the club and its faithfull fans get behind him and his players so that we can play our way out of this recent slump.

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I don’t know why Mick bothers to try and explain things to the press to release to fans. With so called supporters as bad as ours whats the point. Most of you don’t understand anything. After all, you moaners still do pay money to see the stuff you complain about. Bit stupid don’t you think lol. C’MON WOLVES !!!!!!!!

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of course it wasn’t you’re stephens fault, he missed that open goal!

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I want rid of Mccarthy too. Its not knee jerk – its plain bloody sense.

Removing his conflicting tactics from the table will be just what we need to shoot straight up the table. Our squad is good enough to be in the top 6, we just need shot of this bloke and his baffling team strategy

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The first goal is usually decisive.
Unfortunatey the Wolves hardly score any goals so that will always put them under pressure.
From what I have seen there is very little creativity in the rem which means the forwards are always feeding off scraps. Eastwood can score at this level if he is given the chances.

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Give MM a break he has 2 try out players with those who he brings in HE WILL TURN IT AROUND I HAVE FAITH IN HIM

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The turning point was the miss by Ward. Had that gone in then they wouldn’t have been down the other end scoring, they would have been putting the ball on the centre spot instead.
Come on Mick, admit it, Ward is not good enough for the Championship in any position. Drop him.
Give Eastwood a run up front. He still looks the most likely to score. Give him the chance to start believing in himself again.
Play Jarvis from the start, he looked good again on Saturday. I’m sure Jarvis will be one of our best players over the remainder of the season if he gets the chance to build his confidence with a good run in the team.

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fed up and cant see it getting any better but who wot & why …….

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I would suggest the second and third goals were pretty decisive too !!!

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Comments like ,’without a doubt lack of goals is our problem’,'had we scored when we had that opportunity’. Show you know what loses football games, what you fail to say is how you intend to win matches. After all that is what you are paid a vast sum of money to do. Sort it Mick and fast, that is what I would be saying were I Mr.Morgan!
Up the Wolves.

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MM. The problem is there is no shape to the play at the moment, too many players being played out of position, and our supposed goal scorers dropping back or wide just to get into play. When they do get the ball, there’s no-one in the box to collect, hence we can’t score goals.We also have the problem of giving away too many soft free kicks in areas that hurt. Sort it out please!

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I thought Andy Keogh and Freddy, went they went on, were really lively and we’ve had that from substitutes at times.

“It’s got to be done from the start, that we have two centre forwards who are causing havoc from the start, not when we’re 2-0 down and the game’s stretched and we’re piling forward.

“They have to make me pick them, not the other way around.”

How is that an insult. That is a kick uop the jacksy. If you get picked make it happen form the start.

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“we were playing well…” Sorry Mick. We must have been at different games. Or perhaps you need to watch from the stands to see what is (or more particularly, isn’t) happening. We had a few chances (in 90 minutes you’re bound to), but we DID NOT PLAY WELL. It was very poor, negative fayre.

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MM please please please please GO

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MMs not going anywhere, so stop booing him and his teams, if you dont like what you see dont go. Better still, find another club to go an boo. Wolves dont need you, given half a chance Mick will turn it around, just stupid fans that boo are slowing it down. MICK McCARTHY WOLVES…

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Paul William “Bear” Bryant, American college football coach legend, once said
“If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.”

I really think there is a big lesson there for Mick McCarthy on his management style and how he needs to motivate his players and fans. I used to be a big fan of Mick’s, but this season has shown me a side of him which make me convinced he has some serious management issues.

The problem with Mick is he hasn’t grasped the concept of “Club first, Mick second”. With Mick it’s all about him. He’s right, it’s everyone else’s fault, and if there are any issues they are always addressed with an open-air, head-on, stubborn stance, even at the detrement of the club. This can be traced back to his tif with Keane where he took a stance that justified his ego and showed the world just what a tough boss he was, even though he jeopardised Ireland’s chances in the World Cup.

And it is the same with Wolves. His out-in-the open attacks and criticism of his players, his tif with McIndoe, and his outright refusal to give Denes Rosa a chance (never mind we almost lost Jody if it wasn’t for injuries that left him no option but to bring him back) are continuing examples of this. He needs to understand he is there to serve the club, not himself.

He looks at the Palace game like it was a one-off, bizarre incedent which can only be explained by bad luck. He doesn’t look at the big picture which is that the team *HE* has picked and bought has not been scoring and delivering for the second season in a row! He doesn’t want to see the following:
1. His team has not been able to score all season long, and hasn’t managed to score more than 2 in a game, even against ridiculously bad opposition.
2. Wolves hadn’t lost 6-0 (*HOME*) before his time for a *very* long time.
3. His team for a second season in a row has a goal difference comparable to bottom of the table teams.
4. He continues to buy a squad of inexperienced players rather than supplement class and experience.

I’m sorry, but the man is stubborn, and unless he changes his streak will bring this club no joy. This is not a streak of bad luck that will change given time. If it were, in 2 seasons it would have. This is just poor management and judgement, which are hard to change. We all make mistakes. But in Mick’s case, he insists on repeating the same ones.

The squad he has put together has been a complete waste of money (and I don’t care if they were bargains). The squad is not good enough to compete for promotion, and if that is what the club sincerely wants, it needs to be re-gutted and rebuilt.

This is now a job for one man only. Big Sam.

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he didn’t mention jarvis looks like ward or bothroyd on the wings or maybe even henry hope SEB keogh and eastwood play at scunthorpe with keogh the link between the midfield and strikers, oh aswell no wolves fan will like me saying this but get rid of hennesey he is rubbish just doesn’t try to save the ball

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he isnt insutling the strikers…he is making them work harder cause we need two that can make it from the start

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This season was over 7 matches ago, start building for next season.
The fact is this club is going backwards, where are the midlands teams, they are all doing better than us, we are “once again” the laughing stock of west midlands football, even Alex Ferguson with 20m could not build a team worthy of the name with this hierachy.
Total lack of football knowledge and ambition. When will these long suffering supporters learn that this club will never achieve premiership football.
For 20 years we have not progressed one jot, whilst other supposed lesser clubs have gone on to become established in the premiership.
The words of Macindoe are the most significant to come out of Molineux, when he wanted to join a club with ambition – Bristol City, they are now second in the league. Gutted Wolf.

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post number 11 is my mate stanna and he is a die hard wolves fan and trust me i hear all about it, myself being a baggie agree that MM should be sacked his man management is crap and so is his team i think wolves need to clear out and rebuild, look at it like this every single albion player would walk into the wolves team and this is the standard you need to be at, if not then it aint worth it. so unless u lot as fans are willing to wait until the young uns are good enough which may neva happen, then keep him.
me im sick of hearing him whinge, stanna that is, sack MM now!!

up the baggies!!

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I don’t want to jump on the bandwagon but how can a forward NOT be expecting the ball to come to him in the box?

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To MM,

All you have to do is read the comments, you have tried for months to cover up your problems, its over sunbeam, get your ass gone..you blame, lucky goals, injury, the odd bad performance, even pulled the leading scorer in the league (as he was tired), then blamed him for the loss…Have you are idea how stupid you look? You open your mouth and continue to flap your mouth with nothing of interest coming out…apart from “it’s not me at fault”..

..I would appreciate the next flap to be “I quit”…. you are the worst manager the team have ever had, you have no idea how to play the players you have and appear to waste even more money with players who have the ability to score at random for OTHER teams, then pull him…

The suggestion is to “Show us the money”, show what you can do, don’t continue to tell us SHOW US, you muppet…

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excuses excuses excuses. Admit it besides your favourites you couldnt pick your nose. Now tell us all what this comment about? “I don’t think Stephen could do a lot about it because doesn’t expect to get it. For those who dont know by now, Stephen is as in “Ward”. Well let me tell you Mick he got it and he p***ing miss it, why praise him? enough is enough, and i bet you pick him for scunthorpe. Do us all a favour = GO.

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Ever since he came to Wolves we have heard the comment – if only we could score goals.
But still he picks Bothroyd who never scores. Still he picks Ward who never scores and never creates. Plays Henry, a defensive midfield player, on the other wing.
All this while an excellent winger jarvis is on the bench, Eastwood continues on the bench. And a new striker is substituted when evidently he wasn’t properly prepared to play anyway.
The problem is not the players, the problem is not the fans, the problem is a manager that is too cautious and too negative to play a team that is focused on attack.

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Gibson Henry Potter Ward

When I saw that midfield line up I expected what
eventuated!
If you can´t see the problem then maybe you are the problem!

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In home games we need to be more aggressive, we have to accept that Kightley, George and Craddock are gonna be missing, so with what we have left try 3-4-3 with Foley and Jarvis as wing backs, Collins, Ward and Edwards at the back, Gibson and Henry in the middle and Keough, Eastwood and Blake up front. Elliot is a good lad and deserves a chance, but we have get off his case, get him back on the bench, this lad could be our life line if we give him a chance.

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read this to-day, how true – now read and think on-It didn’t take too long.

‘Build us a young team we’ll give them time to grow. We’ll back them all the way, come thick or thin, through rough and smooth.’ they said.

That was when Glenn Hoddle was in charge and the blame for failed promotion was aimed at “over paid, ageing ex Premiership players”, supposedly happy to see out their contracts for the minimum of effort, not caring if they win, lose or draw.

I don’t believe anyone ever actually said that to Sparky’s face mind. Not unless it was from the safety of the South Bank.

Having asked him a contentious question once myself, with no malicious intent I can test to the fact it wouldn’t have gone down too well.

‘Give us a manager who understands us. One who talks to the fans with passion, pride and honesty and we’ll take him to our hearts as one of our own, and give him time, we’re sick of the fast turn around of managers, we need stability!.”

That was the cry following the departure of the man who rarely attended club functions, kept the fans at arms length and appeared so aloof it bordererd on narcissism. In fact, maybe it was.

‘You dont know what you’re doing.’

‘There’s only one Paul Ince.’

Cheering substitutions, and booing those still on the field.

A grand way of proving you’re as good as your word. A grand way indeed.

No one’s happy with the current run. No one’s ecstatic at the slump in form, but is the best way to see the side through it heaping violent critisism on already pressured shoulders?

Few outside the realm of football fandom would say it is.

But football is about emotions, not logic, and so the vocal dissenters will no doubt get louder before they become any quieter.

To do otherwise is to be labelled a ‘happy-clapper’, delivered in derision as an insult, as if not flinging vociferous negativity toward the pitch in some way maligns the football credential of being ‘a real fan’.

Mick McCarthy’s greatest challenge since taking on a job many managers wouldn’t entertain outside of a straightjacket isn’t to get the ‘fans’ back onside, no matter how high an opinion the boo boys have of themselves.

It’s ignoring them.

WELL SAID HE!

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walker you need to seek help!

MM will not turn it around, the only thing I want MM to do is resign

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Tamworth Wolf:

Spot On you hit the nail on the head.

I must also add i dont think we would miss kightly as much as we do if he was replaced him with an ‘ATTACKING’ midfielder, Karl Henry right wing….????? of course its going to look like we miss kightly if he is playing there !

Its more frustrating when we have Jarvis/Davies/Rosa who ARE attacking midfielders sitting in the reserves much better instead of sidewards and backwards passing Potter !

It comes to something when all our creative play comes from our 33 year old left back !

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Moaning will not help, let MM do his job. I’m sure Mr Morgan is big & clever enough to sack MM when & if he feels that its best for the club. When were four points off the play offs with half the season to play and its not the best time to sack a manager. He has not been at the club long and is going through his FIRST bad patch.

But having said that MM you really need to stop putting square pegs in round holes. I can’t understand why you have started to do it. A holding centre midfielder on the right & a centre forward, with little pace, on the left is never going to work & at the moment Mick you are digging your OWN grave. If you pick players out of position or out of form then the fans will get on there backs and confidence will be sapped from those players.

Lets be brave and attack Scunthorpe with 11 players that are in the best form, in there CORRECT positions and nobody will moan at the players or you Mick, as we proved last season.

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MM needs to understand that a manager’s job is to manage the fans as well as the team. He buys a new striker and puts him straight into the team without adequate thought- he admits afterwards that the lad was knackered from all the travel. that was predictable. So what do we have? A new striker who gets hauled off at half time as a failure in his first match. If MM had any real knowledge of psychology he would have kept Sylvan on the bench. If his strikers were doing the job Sylvan could stay there and come on for a cameo apearance in the last ten minutes. if not (as actually happened) he has got something up his sleeeve to bring hope to the suffering fans- that’s what managing the fans is about- giving them hope. In troubled times you have to have something on the bench thatcan give the crowd a lift. MM had the opportunity and blew it. Let’s hope he can learn from his mistakes.

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6. It may sound like it and Keogh n Freddie have been many folks 1st choice partnership all season, I can’t remember them starting together yet but if any forward line needs a run then its these two. We now have Edwards from Luton and I hope he has realised how much potential damage Jarvis can do and MUST start him against Scunny instead of Ward. However all these sounds like are all well and good but will it really happen?

He is rueing all the chances and as much as I wish Ward out of the team he has been so much out of position that he doesn’t know what he is doing and looks like he’s lost his strikers instinct. Well done Mick for this, that’s two srikers ruined. Bothroyd has ruined himself, doesn’t leave much now does it

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The ‘DECISIVE GOAL’was never going to come from Wolves,If Ward had scored palace would have gone on to score FIVE or SIX.The present selections cannot afford to upset opposing sides.
‘GET A GRIP’

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all this talk of he will turn it round and we are only 4 points of a play off spot please when you are at the next game take of the blind fold and watch, this team are not good enough, play offs Palace tanked us with good organised Kids
who do you think we could beat in the play offs Bristol watford ipswich cardiff
We are playing relegation football and if we carry on like we are we will be down there,because the bottom teams if you have noticed have started to win, there comes a time when you have to say thats it MM just can not cut it

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No 28 – Good suggestions, they’d work but I think you’ve missed the obvious one of Collins up front. He’d soon be our top scorer given the chance (instead of joint second I think).

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