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Jez attacks McCarthy axe calls
Wednesday 20th February 2008, 1:45PM GMT.
Chief Executive Jez Moxey has repeated his support for Mick McCarthy – and admitted he is “perplexed” by questions about the manager’s future.
Moxey spoke out in support of the Wolves boss after the team were denied an opportunity to strike a blow for McCarthy’s caused by last night’s Scunthorpe clash being postponed.
That sends Wolves down to one of the Championship season’s dramatic revival teams, Crystal Palace, on Saturday looking to re-ignite a campaign rocked by a fading promotion challenge and tame FA Cup exit.
But Moxey renewed his appeal for disgruntled Wolves fans to accept the major rebuilding job for which McCarthy was recruited in the summer 2006 was never going to be swiftly completed.
Asked if McCarthy’s job was safe Molineux’s senior office responded: “Absolutely. I get perplexed by the question to be honest.
“Mick McCarthy has been with us for 18 months, was outstanding and probably got the players to over-achieve last year in finishing fifth.
“We have great confidence in him and we have confidence in our team.”
Those comments stay firmly in line with Moxey’s steadfast position alongside the manager throughout this first crisis period of McCarthy’s regime.
He started the year dismissing speculation that owner Steve Morgan was already lining up a replacement and then, in a clear effort to take more of the heat out of growing criticism of the team’s performances, admitted the club would be content to wait another season for promotion.
And had last night’s match gone ahead, fans would have read of more support for the McCarthy regime from the CEo in his programme notes.
Despite a fresh outbreak of anger following the fifth round FA Cup defeat at Cardiff on Saturday, Moxey is resisting any change firmly in line with the “culture-change” Moxey trumpeted in the summer of 2006 after Glenn Hoddle’s only full season had failed to deliver promotion and the parachute payments from Wolves one Premiership campaign had run out.
But heightened expectations after last season’s run to the play-offs and the arrival of new owner Steve Morgan have triggered fresh demands from some fans for quicker progress.
But Moxey added: “And this is the first time we’ve had a really difficult patch with Mick in charge.
“He’s only been here 18 months and we are rebuilding a whole team so we’re very pleased with the work he’s doing – he has our full support and he knows that.
“If we all stick together great things can happen.”
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This guy is a joke, I am convinced that these comments are too wind us up. “Doing a very good job” who exactly is doing the very good job at wolves, the guy who sells the programs outside the Billy Wright stand he does a good job, can any wolves fan think of anybody else….
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what a joke!!! wolves just need to sort them selfs out! Morgon should say if he backing MM or not!!
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Don’t know why he is suprised, our fans are known accross the country for being fickle and they do little to sto this label. Just embarrassing, is all that can be said for a lot of you idiots.
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I can only watch Wolves when we are on TV these days and that normally ends in deafeat, but I do read the forums and the papers and speak with others who go home and way. This is something Mr Moxey obviously doesn’t do, because if he did, he would not come out with a stupid comment like “I am perlexed by questions regarding MM position”any fan at any club would be asking him the same questions if their team turned out the same rubbish week in week out. He must also have no knowledge of the game to completely support a manager who favours certain players over better players and totally ignores our younger members of the squad. This is why you get these questions and will continue to get them until we either improve dramatically on the pitch or you and MM find yourselves walking down the waterloo road away from the Mol. wandering “was it something we said”
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What a joke!!!!! We are going backwards!!!! McCarthy OUT!!!
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2 – SinghWolf, what makes you think Morgan hasn’t told Jez to say they are backing McCarthy? Jez is the CEo and when he makes these statements is speaking on Morgan’s behalf surely?
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Perhaps if Jez had to pay to watch the crap that we do every week, he wouldnt be to perplexed”
You keep picking up your large pay check Jez, your doing a great job, between you and MM, you are turning this once great club into a joke.
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I must be honest i think McCarthy is a great manager and he’s achieved good things at the club but seeing him not spend much in the tranfer window to bring talent to wolves, we are now seeing clubs i.e (burnley, plymouth and ipswich) all teams that have a lower rep then wolves over take us. To be fair i think McCarthy has achieved all he can at the club now and give a fresh and new look manager i.e (Paul Ince) ago! anyone agree? im wolves till i die and il follow where ever they go but we need change. Moxey needs to go!
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Have to agree that some of our performances this season has been poor,and we have lacked any drive or creativity.
As painfull at our current situation is I dont think this is the time for another change of boss. Moxley and morgan if you beleive that MM is the right man, keep on backing him and hopefully he’ll will turn it round. The recents signing have a lot of potential and i think they will bring something to the table.
MM must play Eastwood and drop unacheivers like bothroyd, elliot, ward, potter.
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Im fed up up of hearing mm and moxey bang on about 18 months ago mm came in with a depleated sqaud and we were favorates for relegation.
I believe mm did a great job last season with the resourses available to him. But that was last year,He can’t continue to live off last season!
This season we all expected progress in mm rebuilding of the team. It has not happened, i believe we have gone backwards.
Who is to blame?? It has got to be mm. He selects the players we buy and he picks the team.
These are the players mm has bought in since he arrived at wolves.
Breen,D ward,N collins,K foley,gray,Elokobi,Henry,potter,kightly,S ward,gibson,keogh,bothroyd,eastwood,kyle,jarvis,ebanks blake,elliot,edwards,mcindoe,j johnson,j clapham,stack.
Thats 23 players he has brought to mol in 18 months, 3 of which he has since released.
Out of the 23 i believe there is only Kightly,jarvis & Foley who have been a success.
Some would argue keogh has been a success, but we paid £600,000 for a striker who has scored approx 10 goals in approx 60 odd games.
Eadstwood i believe has been badly treated by mm, started well scoring 4 in 5 and then gets dropped by mm.
Ebanks blake,edwards & elokobi im undecided about as we’ve not seen enough of them.
Players like breen & clapham and gray have i suppose served their purpose of experienced players who were brought in to boost sqaud numbers. Breen & gray were good players in their day but due to their age i believe their found wanting at times.
So when i hear moxey and mm say their rebuilding from 18 months ago when we had 12 players, i get infuriated when you see mm has signed 23 players and only 3 of them in my opinion have been a success. The majority of the rest are just not good enough.
When you have players like Davies,Gobern,Gleeson,D jones,M little,Rosa in the reserves and or sent out on loan when they should be in the 1st team sqaud instead of mm’s drivel that says to me the manager is clueless and has taken us backwards.
We play crap football,have no bottle in the team,no creativity,no leaders and a manager who simply is clueless.
Too Highlight that final point he Brings in a striker who can’t get in coventry’s 1st team and puts him straight into our first team and is obviously crap.Then you hear mm say how excellant he has played when everybody else can see how poor he was.
So i don’t believe we’ve progressed and it’s intresting how it is moxey who always comments on mm not morgan. I’ve never heard morgan come out and say he is right behind mm since early in the season.
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The Molyneux stands silent
The stands all quiet & hushed
The pitch was covered in hard frost
The day the heating burst
Jay Bothroyd, he was cheering
He always wears his gloves
He hasn’t got his name & number
On the duffle coat he loves
And then there is Jez Moxey
He’s always spouting spin
“We didn’t lose this game
& the others didn’t win”.
McCarthy went and blew his top
at the grounds man who was laughing
“You’ve gone and let us all down,
you haven’t put your shift in”.
Jez Moxey:
The only bloke I know who’s got more spin than a Helicopter rotor blade!
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Just wish MM would stick with a single team instead of changing it all the time, or sticking with the favourited, players out of position and also undermining confidence, by going public on his line-ups. Must be disheartening for those that train hard all week and then see it in the papers that you are not even going to be considered.
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i believe MM as bought some good young players, he needs to play them.
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i garuntee if all of us fans were like dont be silly KEEP HIM
the club would get rid of him
why couldnt mick gone to korea how long go was that like nov?
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I agree with Jez wholeheartedly, we need to be patient.
Give him till next season, if it as still as bad as it is now, and don’t get me wrong its unacceptable at the moment. We should get rid of him and bring Incey in.
As for criticising Morgan for not being vocal, this is exactly what he said he would be like when he completed the takeover.
The real problem IMO is the expectation, look what happened when we didn’t have any.
In the Premiership when we all knew we would go down, we played well and i enjoyed numurous games and i don’t need to tell anybody about last season.
Wait until we have two proper wingers playing and Craddock at the back and i’m sure we will see an upturn in form.
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If these poor results continue, i think a protest is needed outside the molineux!
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we shud do what sheff utd. did and go outside the molineux…refuse to leave until he’s sacked! it’s obvious moxey doesn’t have any contact wiv normal fans that sit in the stands and watch the games!
Mcarthy out!!!!
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Kent Wolf – your poetry is awful and you can’t even get the name of our ground right! Be embarrassed. Who is a joke now? Let Jez get on with his job and you do yours: support.
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You only have to ask stoke city supporters about moxey,He thought they were idiots to like he thinks we are. Please mr Morgan sack him and mm know before supporters loose faith and trust in you.
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Jez reminds me of the old Iraqi information minister who was saying American troops weren’t in Iraq just had loud explosions were going off in the background.
It used to make me feel depressed and angry now I just laugh at it…..
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well said, Dynamo Wolf
after Freddy was the outstanding player against Cardiff, lets see if he actually gets to start on saturday.
Apart from that, lets have a consistent side for a few games. have you never heard of teams gelling? Even the best teams lose and draw games now and again, and their managers don’t swap round the front two, back two and middle two all the time! If someone had the stats, i reckon we must have the most inconsistent side in the league.
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Moxey doesnt watch the same matches as me! Well Moxey is a great fan of huff it up football hence he is best mates with Smegson!
The best wolves can do is to Steve Morgan to come out of hiding and speak to the fans. I dont want to hear, read anything more from Moxey. Next home game is going to be fun. That is when the chanting of MM head will be heard loud and clear no matter what band you stick in the south bank!
MOXEY OUT MM OUT!
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The irony is that Mick is “paying for the sins of our fathers”. Wise words Glen…you made it happen.
Hoddle left such a mess that Moxey didn’t want the prospect of a complete rebuilding process again, hence the 3 year+ policy.
Its unfortunate however that after all the good managers we hastily got rid, the policy is now set in stone that the manager will serve at least 3 years no matter what.
My point is just cause we got rid of the right men,(Turner/Taylor/Jones) we shouldn’t automatically keep the wrong man.
To Mick’s credit the club is in a much better place now than when he took over…so ironically it would be a relatively smooth transition for a new manager to take over.
Simon :)
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Timmiswolf:
OK, so my poetry IS crap
I was just trying to put a smile on one or two faces
As regards the spelling, I think you’ll find you can use
Molyneux & Molineux!
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What this idiot seems to forget is that we were very very lucky to get in the play offs last year.There were many games I saw where we scraped a win and we could easily have lost.This year we are in our true position.The fact of the matter is Jez Moxey always comes out with this rubbish when 1) The early bird tickets are being sold2)Just before the start of the season when he wants to sell additional season tickets.His comments that we are on the verge of great things are laughable.Yesterday’s fiasco mirrors exactly what is wrong with this club both on and off the pitch.We have become a laughing stock.I have almost become embarrassed to admit I am a Wolves supporter (a club I have supported for over 40 years.)
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How much of Moxey’s 3 year faith in McCarthy is based on the contractual terms he agreed rather than giving time to rebuild blah blah blah…
Moxey…for once tell the truth…You fully support him cause its toooo expensive to sack him!
Simon :)
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I agree entirely with JM. MM is building a good young team at the Mol, and it will all come good if not this season then next. We have to have patience. We have seen too many over paid has beens at the Mol, a young and hungry team is being built which will see us have a bright future. Be patient my friends and the rewards will come.
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If you all want to let Mick, Moxey and Morgan know how you feel – hit them in he pocket. Just dont turn up at the game. Dont bother with a demo, which may lead to unnecessary trouble, just stay at home and listen to the game (like I have to every match)and the see the reaction to an empty Molineux. They will then see how deep seated the feeling of the fans really is. Granted so many of you are season ticket holders so you have paid already but the effect will knock their cotton socks off. Wat se jy? (Afrikaans).
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First of all, i am a home and away supporter and i am also quite embarrassed by our fans to say the least. for god sake. Not for all of the season have we had our best squad out, when we have (almost) we have had spells in the season where we have been 4th/5th/3rd. Lately we have had a really depleted squad. Our fans need to calm down, we are still building. Recently we have lost to good teams, Watford, Stoke etc. We lost to Cardiff on saturday, yes we was poorly but ffs – did you see the team we had out? If we would have said that to be our 11 at the start of the season, we would have said yes thats our reserve team. If we dont go up this season it isnt a disaster. If we can get Jarvis and Kightly back on the wings in decent time, we can probably make a good go of it this season.
I also have very little time for the ‘king’ Eastwood. What us fans dont see is what he is like in training/away from the pitch, Mick does. He is obviously not doing something right.. and ffs, on saturday he missed a header that if Elliott or Kyle would have missed there would have been MAYHEM in the stands, and this summed up the support atm IMO – there was no reaction when it was Eastwood that missed it.
What i would love to go back to the atmosphere of 2006/2007
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It’s got nothing to do with him Morgan owns the club, he should shut his face. “Perplexed”, not as perplexed as us watching kevin kyle!
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I just knew that this story would bring the ‘ Thick Mick ‘ gang out. I strongly believe that the majority of these people are incapable of rational, independant thought. They seem to meander through games grabbing onto the thoughts of those who are the most vocal. You only have to read dingledans comments to illustrate my point. Stop typing with your forehead and get a sense of perspective!!!
We’ve tried the hiring and firing policy for the last 10 years, it’s got us nowhere fast. Why not stop wetting your pants and lets try a little bit of stability. Were only 18 months into McCarthys reign. Any new manager would want 3 seasons to build his team and get us promoted. Why would we want to start again? Mick is a proven manager at this level with international pedigree, who do you think we could get in, Capello?
Support your team! If you feel the need to vent your angst then go scream into your filth ridden pillow till the voices tell you to stop.
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Most of you lot have not got a clue. Let me tell you something, Moxey is good at his job. Where were you all when he sorted out deals to bring in Freddy Eastwood and Sylvain Ebanks Blake? Were you calling for his head then? NO. How well did he do to keep this tight lipped and away from the media and other clubs? Were you calling for his head then? NO. Moxey does not pick the team or train the players! He is very good at getting players Mick wants, then when he does, your all cheering arn’t you? You have got to look further than just the Chief Exec. That’s what annoys me most. It’s not his fault Mick and his Backroom Staff can’t produce the goods on the pitch. How long has Terry Connor been at this club and worked with how many managers? This is where the changes need to be made, starting with him. Not the CEO for christ sake.
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just gets better and still some of you in MM you trust can you really not see you are going no wear and become a great big joke
look at plymouth sold all there big players but still above you, mm could be building a team in 10 years but still crap the guy is a looser, do feel sorry for the fans who have to put up with this Moxey bloke he thinks he owns your club, to much power i think , could you really see Ince or some other good manager working with this guy
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Well what a suprise, he would say that wouldn’t he. Stick together, time etc all the bus=zz words. Reality for fans is…. getting worse, going backwards, rubbish, lost it, stuborn, a joke, ex Sunderland favourites, and embarassing. Jez is in denial to safeguard his ‘fat controller’ salary and cover his repeated mistakes, particularly in recruiting a decent manager. Mr Moorgan plaese sack the lot of em!!
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Moxey deliberately misses the point, he is trying to transfer the attention from the fact that most paying fans now want Moxey & McCarthy to clear off.
While Moxey is CEO we will not be a footballing success, finances might be OK but the football will be second rate. How can he have been involved in selecting six sacked managers and survived himself? He obviously should go on a course for “Selecting a Football Manager”
OUT OF DARKNESS COMETH LIGHT
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I do agree and said it before that Gobern, M. Little Gleeson D. Jones and Davies (who is not even on the bench) should be in the team. We keep sending our good youngsters on loan. Getting Coventry City’s reject striker is a big mistake.
We can still get into the play offs if provided the players I mentioned gets the chance before it’s too late.
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(Pardon my lousy english;-)
It wasn’t the weather that froze Molineux
In the winter of 2008
The Southstand fans voices were bitter and cold and they
chanted no songs of praise
‘Cause their team were underperforming
the supporters were moaning
all morning
And the pitch froze
- what a disgrace!
UP THE WOLVES!!!
MICK’S THE MAN!!!
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31 proven at what tell me whats he won tell me his record on signing players oh yes he won that great record in the prem how many points did he get
oh yes his statement S Ward his best ever signing
i think you should go and scream in your idiots pillow, how many games have you been to home and away this year, not many if you think we are building, go and watch the Industrial heaters thats about your level
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As a Baggie I know a lot will tell me to mind my own business and as an outsider I’m not sure what I think of MM’s future. Just wanted to say that I listened to Paul Ince being interviewed recently and he comes over as a man with his head screwed on. I would only question whether the expectations at your club may prove to much for a young manager. I also know that before Gary Megson we had many years of hire em and fire em. It doesn’t work, perhaps the answer is a bit more patience.
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Good lord wolves fans , stop moaning
The season isn’t over yet, wait to see how it all pans out. There is no point changing the manager at this stage at the season so i have a really novel idea fro some of you. Get behind him and your club it really is obvious to everyone but yourselves. What have you got to lose by actually supporting your team instead of nitpicking everything. Eastwood doesn’t play beacause he has done nothing in his time hear. Moxey talks becasue its his job. The games was off because of the weather. There isn’t a conspiricy against you.
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I agree with Moxey, we are rebuilding the whole team and Rome wasn’t built in a day and all that!
Time will tell however, whether we are using the right builder to do the re-construction?
I reckon we will have to give the team and MM support until next season and see from there. I have met Mick and know him to be honest and basically a very good manager. We have already been on the manager merry go round several times, it is expensive and has resulted in nothing constructive. Let’s get behind the team..
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Gibbon, I am very much NOT in support of MM yet I do not consider myself “thick”.
The arguments against him are there for all to see. The man has treated the fans with utter contempt and to constantly remind us of his great relationship with the fat controller merely rubs our faces in the fact by paying for the “privilege” of watching the tosh his team churns out every game we are paying his wages.
He is the incapable of rational or independent thought when it comes to team selection and his tactics are anomalous.
Frankly, Moxey and McCarthy can talk all they want about their great love affair but I for one will not return until they’re gone. The club as it stands does not deserve my support.
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Why is it i hear all this talk about how MM should be given 3 years to re build,how long has T.M been at the albion for and look at there postion, What happens on and off the pitch is down to the manager if he is any good he can deal with all situations during the build up to the game & the game itself so the position we find ourselves in suggest that MM is not as good as we thought and its time to replace him.
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my god. this mans so good at spin he could be part of our oh-s-successfull government. how can he be perplexed? if we were, say, in the top 3 i could understand his perplexionm but we’re bearly inthe top half, and lets get onething straight, the rebuilding stopped when he signed 23 players. ive got to admit, i wouldnt like to go back ot our days of free spending, but i do belive that the current *wage cap* is hindering our progress, i mean has anyone else noticed all the players we’re signing are of roughly the same quality? we havent really managed to sign any one stand out player, such as a paul ince (you know he wasnt workin for cheap) and thats a big thing we’re missing out on. that and a manager who scouting network is bigger than his ol’ phone book. seriously he signs anymore of his old friends and he’ll be as bad as robson. And i belive the question needs asking, is number 3 a realist? or a clown? at the very least he sems happy to fork outhis money for something you coudl bearly call mediocrity, sorry if the rest of us want something better, i might go to a stafford game now, least the football woudl be attacking minded.
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27 Wise Wolf, I have not seen much hunger this season, Kightly and perhaps Keogh excepted. This is more Moxey clap trap and no-one should be taken in by it.
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Gibbonsaresmelly !!!!
Are you having a laugh!! 3 seasons !!!
did it take roy keane 3 seasons at Sunderland!!
NO!!! it didnt
We are all entitled to our opinion ,when it’s us fans who spend our hard earned money watching this rubbish week in week out….
You’ve got to admit MM’s constant changing the forward line and tactics this year have been !! well some what awful… and if you think otherwise then i reckon you must be Jez moxey and MM’s love child…
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Drab,dross,dour,depressing,dull,
dismal,diabolical,dire football ring any bells?
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The main reason Moxey is perplexed is he can’t believe HE still has a job there!
#31 “Mick is a proven manager at this level with international pedigree”
He has a terrible record at both levels. Its why he is at Wolves not Sunderland! International pedigree my left butt cheek. It’s why he isn’t the Irish manager either!
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Why do some of you insist in writing lectures which go over the same old stuff. Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah and oh yeah Eastwood. This is so boring now. Mick is staying so put up or shut up. Why don’t we try and be a little bit more productive about all this between us anyway rather than have conflict and keep going Muppet Mick this, Stupid Jez that. Why can’t we just be civil. I’d gladly have a beer and talk properly with any of you. I can’t even believe I get rounded on just for being optimistic. It’s so sad that we are going down this road. It’s because of you moaning types that ALL Wolves fans are branded Fickle and Whingers. I’ve never walked out before the final whistle and never ever booed. But of course, it’s not me that gets noticed. IT’S YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What no’10 draytonwolf said to be honest is absolutly spot on
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Normally, you would support a manager in his second season after the previous one was so good and the current one so bad – BUT….how on earth can you back MM when we have seen Stephen Ward on the left, Karl Henry as a right winger, Kyle ambling around aimlessly – Neil Collins as a full-back – Freddie Eastwood just ignored….Dan Jones,Mark Davies, Stephen Gleeson and Mark Little never get a look in…the list goes on and on. I just cannot grasp why MM has turned all last seasons good work and tactics into a maze of confusion and madness and downright stubborness to see the obvious..!!! 20,000 + fans cannot be wrong.
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Timmiswolf: “Let Jez get on with his job and you do yours: support.”
Support is voluntary. I choose not to be near the Molineux at the moment. It’s just not good for the blood pressure. Please keep your condescending commands to yourself. Supporters put their hard-earned money into the club, paying pretty large sums, IMHO, and therefore paying for the right to voice their discontent.
It now looks as if this will be the situation through to the end of the season and possibly beyond. Looking at final positions and then team rosters around the transfer windows will probably be the only guideline.
It looks like the party’s over for this year.
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OK Mr. Moxey here is a serious question for you to answer. Let us presume the situation with McCarthy does not improve either this season or next, what action will be taken, if any? As fans, last season was a big surprise considering the exodus of players and the inexperience of the academy players who were drafted in BUT with the addition of more players in August PLUS even more players in the January window, we have made no progress whatsoever and this taken on its own is enough for fans to get frustrated and that excludes the various decisions which McCarthy has erroneously made all season. So, please tell us ALL what you will do and please do not say it is a hypothetical question because in most Wolves fans eyes, the situation I have mentioned EXISTS NOW and if you have not yet noticed, we are not happy!
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Alright we are going through a bad spell but, why do we want to kick a manager out when all that will happen is someone else will come in have a good run then do something that the fickle part of Molineux doesn’t like and were all back to square one, lets get behind the Wolves.
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No 14 above gives away one of the big problems with many of your writers. They hate WBA more than they love Wolves.
I am totally indifferent to ‘them lot down the road’, Bully always calls them, I don’t give them a second thought.
For those who like a good read, try Nick Hornby’s ‘Fever Pitch’. He talks about a love of Arsenal but the principle is the same.
My love for Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is unconditional. Ask yourselves, honestly, is yours ?
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How do you expect the supporters not to criticise you and MM when you tout such rediculous remarks. It is quite apparent that you know nothing about football. As previously stated you don’t pay to watch the rubbish.
MM took his rose tinted glasses off after the Cardiff game and stated what the supporters have known for a long time. He is after all responsible for training, coaching and picking the team and only playing his favourites which is why we are in trouble. We are not far off the play offs but also near the relegation zone!!!! BEWARE.
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Jez, open your eyes!!!!! the football down here is the worst i’ve seen for a long time, some of the signing have been a joke, Mick keeps spouting the same arrogant rubbish he did whan he was with the republic and if you think I’m renewing my season ticket to be supporting this circus you have got another thing coming….12 years in the same seat, listening to the same dross and putting up with typical molineux rubbish!!!
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We need to be patient.
Reserve judgement to the near end of the season.
Expect a serious loss on saturday. Palace are buzzing and they hate wolves.
Mick is going nowhere at the moment so lets concentrate on supporting the team.
But Mick Please for heavens sake give Eastwood a run….
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unbelievable comments from 31 why is anyone thick because they oppose your views.do you go to games? MCCARTY is taking this team backwards-young team,i take it that includes gray,breen and craddock.this is the worst football wolves have played in years and if we stick with mm and his old fashioned bigotted approach it will get worse mark my words
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I can’t let some of this garbage go by without comment.
“Progress” was talked about at the beginning of the season and still is. I’m sorry……where?!?
Of course, no team wins and/or plays well every week but we are over two thirds of the way through the season and where in any way, shape or form, is there progress? The only blip we have had is the occasional good performance amidst the mediocrity.
I’m one of the ones who can’t get to games which means I listen to the independent, objective voices of Radio 5 and Sky on a regular basis. Game after game, I’ve had to endure unbiased assessment of this wonderful, young team that is aiming for the top 2(remember!)….Ipswich away: “poor”, Sheff Utd at home: “no ideas”, Blackpool at home: “extremely lucky”, Morecambe: “embarrassing”, Barnsley away: “outclassed”, Crystal Palace at home: “poor defending”, Hull away: “woeful”, Hull at home: “dreadful”, Leicester at home: “dull”….I could go on!
We are shambolic and should be judged not against the Colchesters and Scunthorpes of this world who have nothing to spend but the Palaces, the Sheff Utds and the Sotons…..Oh yes, they’ve massively underachieved as well and they haven’t waited 3 years to take action (and Burley would have got the push if Scotland hadn’t bizarrely paid money for him!)
MM is not a great manager. He’s a decent man whose answer to problems is to buy more players and to change teams and tactics till hopefully something works out. He is not up to the job and when that fact is clear, you don’t give him 2 years as a reward for doing better than expected in year 1.
Please let him go and get someone in who can handle the players, handle the pressure and most of all knows what he’s doing! This guy patently doesn’t!
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Kent Wolf – your poem made me smile while scrolling through the posts. Keep them coming – don’t apologise mate, that was quite funny in its little own way.
Good to see a few poems on here for a change – even the Swedish one was a good try in a foriegn language. They tend to lighten up the gloom!
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Alex Ferguson nearly lost his job in his first season at Man Utd but escaped the axe by winning a cup!! Sticking by him appears to have been quite “fruitful” for UTD. Wolves fans just want a quick fix! If you don’t like the way Mick is running the team don’t come to games!! You give it the big one about being wolves till I die – but if you want quick success go down the road and watch one of the others!! I travel from London for every home game and support the club “Wolverhampton Wanderers”! Its your right as fans to moan but as a human being would you perform if you were gettingt booed and insulted everytime you put a shirt on. Put up or Shut up!!
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Jez – we have by and lasrge sttod by MM and yes he did do a good job last season !! BUT !! If its progress we want you have to say he is NOT doing a good job this season. I have backed him most of the way until Saturday when his team selection was begging for the defeat it got !! Two veterans that have been out through long term injury brought back TOGETHER to play at the heart of the defence against the likes of Whittingham and Parry who are very quick. 2 Midfielders that have been fringe players of late – put in front of the centrebacks for some protection ( they were both worse than useless) and to complete the spine – the totally out of form and lacking confidence Kevin Kyle leading the line. Joke Jez and Mick – absolute joke – when you have the likes of Jones, Davies, Gleeson, Gibson, Eastwood. Edwards, Ward that you could have picked instead – well enough said !!
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Instead of all jumping on to the band wagon and slating Jez and the team, why don’t we join this band in the south bank! I’m a dab hand at the triangle ;)
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Nathan,
I’ll bring my decks!
MENTAL MICKY OUT!
MOXEY OUT!
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MM has made some serious mistakes this year but i don’t believe change is necessarily the right way to go.however, i think the board should make it very clear to MM that the team needs to show an improvement in results and entertainment value by the end of the season. with the transfer window system the time to replace a manager is either at the end of the season or in Oct so that you have time for the new man to assess the squad and get players in for pre-season/january.in the past we have sacked managers far to hastily (taylor anyone?)due to fan pressure.as fans i think we should accept that team is average and get behind them from start to finish. the best example of this in recent times was Southampton last year despite the result.
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The transition in ownership from Hayward to Morgan has been seamless. I mean:
Are we seeing a better team than we did before?
Are we watching better performances than we did before?
Are we seeing more entertaining games than we did before?
Are results better than they were before?
Are we better placed in the Championship than we were before?
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Morgan keeps a low profile whilst all around his football “empire” is stuttering from one crisis to another. Once a Wolves fan, always a Wolves fan. Once a Liverpool fan, always a Liverpool fan. I bet he wouldn’t want Kyle playing for Liverpool.
Prove me wrong Steve, stamp your own authority on the club, be bold, make an impact, make a difference. Get us out of the mess, which is apparent both on the pitch and behind the scenes. It’s time we heard more from you and less from “Mouthpiece Moxey”. I need reminding of what your ambitions are for our club and how you’re going to achieve them, particularly in view of our current plight.
P.s. I live in a Redrow home.
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55 states “My love for Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is unconditional. Ask yourselves, honestly, is yours ?”
Yes my “love” is unconditional, which is the exact reason why I question the retention of a manager who, in my opinion, is taking the club backwards.
I fail to see how anyone who proclaims to “love” the club and suggest blind loyalty is the way forward. Just because someone is employed by the club, doesn’t mean they should receive unconditional support or indeed mean they have any real feeing for the club themselves.
After all would you just stand by and watch a loved one being abused by a partner, because love is unconditional, I think not.
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I keep reading articles about how 2 or 3 wins will put us back in the play off frame. Well thats great but everyone seems to be forgetting that all the other teams have to slip up too. Out of the last 14 games 8 of them are teams above us.
Sorry but I just don’t see it, even if we start performing and winning most of our games it will still be difficult to reach the play off’s, there are only probably two places left anyway.
If you study the league positions at this time of the season they don’t change much, the way they look now will be pretty much the way they will look at the end of the season.
On another subject, if McCarthy stays for next season how an earth will he deal with the team, what will he say to them?
“Sorry lads, I know I told you last season that you were the best bunch of hard working players, but I was wrong, so I’m going to sell you all and try a different bunch!”
“Motivation Mick!”
How can he do it? I would be so embarrassed by this shambles that I would find it hard to show my face again, let alone turn up in August for another go!
What are these players going to be like next season:
Breen
Craddock
Collins
Grey
Potter
S Ward
D Ward
Olofinjana
Bothroyd
Keogh
Elliot
Eastwood
Kyle
Is he going to coach them into being better players, is he going to sell them. What will they be worth?
This is a new low for Wolves, all our youth players out of the frame, a whole team of sub-standard players out of their depth and an arrogant attitude shown by the club towards the fans that still turn up week in week out. Add to that a manager that does not have the ability to motivate his squad and carries out pitch battles with some of them in the press for all to see.
To sum up, what you have is a badly run club with no direction and a manager and chief executive that repeatedly shoot from the
hip !
Can’t wait for the press release after the palace game!
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I can understand why Moxey is “perplexed”, he knows nothing about football. If he did then he would realise what this Muppet is doing, or rather not doing
This is why Morgan has to realise that his board do not have a clue, look at some of the crap he’s signed
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I agree with rebuilding our squad from the bottom up with “young and hungry” players.
I am patient to wait a little longer for success. I would rather we strengthened the squad more and allowed our better youngsters a little more time to mature before we go up. I don’t want us to plummet straight back down again like we did last time.
I do doubt that we are actually strengthening the squad enough though.
Mick has undoubtedly found us some good youngsters in Kightly, Jarvis and Edwards.
That said, what of his other acquisitions? He persuaded one of the most promising strikers outside of the Prem to come to the club, then seemingly set out to destroy the guys career. He brought in mediocrity like Potter, S. Ward, etc…
Mick has also failed to find another centre back when it is blindingly obvious to everyone that one is needed somewhat desperately.
Worst of all though is Mick’s tactical decision making. He has spent the season chopping and changing players (particularly in attack) instead of allowing an understanding to form. He has insisted on playing “favourites” and players out of position rather than change tactics or use our own youth (that served him so well last year). Worst of all is his failure to follow his own professed selection criteria in not allowing Rosa a chance despite him being the form player at the club.
I don’t agree with JM regarding Mick. I don’t think he is our long-term future at all. I’m not calling for him to be sacked though. I want him to continue so that we can be sure of not winning promotion this season. I actually want him to fail to reach the play-offs. Hopefully then he will go of his own accord, after all, he did say this was the minimum acceptable achievement for this season.
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Dudzie – Moxey is not responsible for choosing the players, only signing them. Is he guilty now for signing the players the manager wants!!!!!!!!???????
Moxey can do nothing right in your eyes.
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71. NathanWolves
The only thing that Jez Moxey could do right is resign!
Oh, and he better sign his own confidentiality document so that if anybody asks him what went wrong he conveniently won’t have to say anything!
Everybody at the club would be sorry to see him go, they all love him. Such a caring, sharing sort of guy with only every bodies best interests at heart except his own!
The club have gone from strength to strength since his arrival. Long may he reign over us!
Nathan, were you the one standing next to me when we were in the old 4th division saying that a drop into none league could be good for us?
Nice to see fans with high expectations!
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Look Moxey is coming out with stuff like this, coz the early bird season tickets are on sale and then the rest of the season tickets. He has got to try and butter us all up because he is worried that we ain’t gonna buy them due to the performances this season.
He has got to come out and say that he is genuinely excited by the prospect of a great season and promotion next year and that this year is just about team building and getting ready for our sustained assault on the premiership.
What he has failed to mention is that we are no further forward then this time last season and that McCarthy does not have the answers. No one wants anyone to be sacked but i am not convinced by Moxey’s spin.
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Abdonwolf – you really are scrapping the barrel now aren’t you. Sometimes i like reading your posts other times…………………..well.
Don’t get me wrong I would not invite Moxey round for dinner but….you can’t blame him for the players the manager wants, it’s his job to go out and get them, and give him credit, about 90% of the time he gets his man.
I bet last season Abdon you were saying, Mick the Magician, In Mick we Trust, I bet you never said well done Moxey for getting him, now it’s not going to plan this season, it’s Moxey’s fault for appointing him!
He simply is in a no win situation. You CAN’T please everyone!
Give him a break!
My expectations are high, yours are somewhat over ambitious. I was having an arguement the other day with a guy in the toilets of Yates (a little too much detail I know) after the Stoke game. He was saying MM is rubbish blah blah and then he said, look at Man U, Real Madrid and Brazil….whoa…..no hang on a minute, Man U we aint!!! Hope your not one of them with your expectations!!!
And i hope the pot shot at the end was not a dig at my loyalty, I have had a season ticket for 15 years mate, which isn’t bad going for a 26 year old!
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74. NathanWolves
I will take the opportunity to state my feelings right now about how I feel and have felt about McCarthy right now.
I remember his summarizing for the world cup, I thought at the time that he sounded embarrassing and lacking in intelligence, and remember thinking ‘thank goodness he isn’t our manager.’
When he was appointed I was bitterly disappointed. I believe that our demise before last season was over hyped and the players that got us out of it were our own home grown crop. I really enjoyed watching our youth players come into their own.
I think that Chris Evans had a lot more to do with our success last season than did McCarthy!
So to cut a long story short, I didn’t rate him before and I rate him even less now!
And yes I was having a crack at you because if you think that Jez Moxey is doing a good job then you do not understand the club!
As for the Man U, Real Madrid stuff, I am more a Bolton, Reading, Wigan sort of guy. One step forward at a time. Bolton are playing in the UEFA cup tonight, not that most people give a chuff!
I want the right sort of quality for this club and McCarthy and Moxey do not have it.
Don’t come back at me with an unrealistic counter involving Ferguson, Wenger etc… if you want to be taken seriously!
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And one more thing…
I know people won’t want to hear this but I wish we were doing a WBA right now.
What they are achieving there is fantastic. Entertaining football, played with the right spirit under a management team that doesn’t spout nonsense after a bad result!
They haven’t spent a fortune but have built a squad of players that will probably win promotion and has a realistic chance of winning the FA cup. Plus when they get to the premier league could hold their own in mid table!
We could do that at Wolves if only people would think about success and winning rather than huff and puff!
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and another thing…
Why do Wolves always have to have a name manager?
Were like a grave yard to Ex-international managers. We will end up with McClaren next, just you wait!
The term ‘Golden Tits’ still holds and what is the name of the man with the link to our ‘GT’ past – Step forward JEZ MOXEY!
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Abdon where do I start?
Moxey is running the club well…end of. No debts, very efficient as a business man and does good deals along the way. You might not like some of his decsions along the way because, I put it to you that, you do not understand football!
As for appointing McCarthy, I was optimistic and sceptical at the same time, my position remains the same but he should have to the end of the season no matter what (unless relegation is likely).
I have never mentioned Fergusson or Wenger, hence my anger at the Man U, Real comparison. Think about before writing your drivel.
Oh ……… actual you obviously didn’t think about it due to your Albion comments that followed. You said they haven’t spent a fortune….now i’m not sure the exact figures but I reckon £13mil +? is that not a fortune (OK they recouped money from selling players but they have still had money to spend!), is that not premiership worthy? Saying that, they are not in the automatic spot any more and i don’t think they will be come May.
You know what, i find myself banging my head sometimes trying to get through to some people. I don’t expect everyone to agree with me but at least see it from my point of view instead of your anti Moxey views
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76. If your a bolton, reading wigan sort of guy, you’d realise that those teams built there success and status by not paniking and sacking there manager everytime some idiot with a voice thought they should be sacked.
And Chris Evans had been at the club for 17 years, you plank.
Ohh and the Golden tit was a reference pre-moxey, if you knew why he made that outburst, you would know that.
The reason why we’ve always gone for big name managers is because all the ‘fans’ like yourself expect instant success.
I know moxey isn’t popular and I’m a long way from being a fan of his, but I will say the club is healthier with him in charge than previous, before he was at the club we sold keane with no sell on claus, we lost millions because of that business oversight. There is no way we would allow that to happen now.
I have read many comments and reasons why McCarthy should be sacked and can find no validity in any of them.
We all want promotion this season, and yes we’ve been dissapointed, especialy with the success up the road. But at the end of the day, thats no excuse for the comments and slatting of players and the manager alike, and this started very early in the season. We still want these players to actually do a job for us after all.
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So, Moxey is running the club well end of!
In summary a well run club is a club that doesn’t have any debts?
Lets all start a song called:
“Moxes,Moxes, debt free Army”
£13million is not the whole story and you know it and you know that it is not a fortune in football terms.
Wolves spent money under Dave Jones but my god it was worth it.
But you probably don’t think so!
You’re obviously a mid-table sort of guy so my drivel will not deter you from your course, good luck to you!
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80. Newbridge Wolf
I don’t understand your Chris Evans comment, sorry!
Chris Evans is a great loss to the club and was one of the reasons that we did so well last season, that was my point but you seem to have miss-read it!
I was not using ‘Golden tit’ as a reference to Jez moxey but to the club as a whole, again you have failed to read and understand context!
I expect instant success do I?
You assume so much, funny how I was saying the exact opposite, but again you fail to read and understand!
I am sure that you will come back and twist everything that I say to suit your own version of reality.
All I ask is read what people write before you make a ‘Golden Tit’ of yourself yet again!
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Nathan, I’d give up trying to reason with someone, who when the frailties of his argument are exposed resorts to making up a song.
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83. Newbridge Wolf
Rarely have I observed such a painful lack of understanding and intelligence backed up with such forceful vitriol!
Have the frailty and lack understanding from your own statements hit home yet?
I always find it amusing that the ‘McCarthy lovers’ always end up name calling when the feebleness of their arguments fail to register!
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Newbridge Wolf
Last post to you:
Just to explain the ‘Golden Tit’ link!
Jack Hayward – Jez Moxey – Current regime
Comprende?
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Come on E&S, you’re missing a trick here – you’ve got a large captive audience, tie in a promo alongside the following poll :
Mccarthy In/Out ?
Print the results* on the back page, and you’ll have no problem getting Fish4Jobs to take out a full page as alongisde…
Help Wolverhampton Wanderers, and at the same time helping yourself to some extra ad revenue…
*expect over 80% wanting him unemployed by the end of the week
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Nathan Wolf,
How ya doin, I think this is all quite funny but take the 13Million you quoted Albion spending, then take off the 6mill for Kamara, 5.3 for Koumas and 1.5 for McShane and net it aint a lot mate. I agree that sacking him now would be pointless and obviously as a Baggie I love Moxey.
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I understood the link, but you misunderstood the comment. Haywood refered to himself as a golden teat, on which everyone was suckling and growing fat at the club at his expense.
Moxey was brought in to stop the waste, which you can not fault him for.
As I said earlier I am not one of his fans, I do however believe that he has done some important work at the club, which only a fool could argue with
And when did I start name calling?
I find a suprisingly large vocabulary for a man who’s argument for not liking McCarthy is ‘seeing him do an interview once’!
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“I find a suprisingly large vocabulary for a man who’s argument for not liking McCarthy is ’seeing him do an interview once’!”
Talk about clutching at straws!
To which ‘one interview’ are you referring?
If you don’t like my opinion then fair enough but stop twisting what I write to make your own daft little point!
You are painstakingly pedantic, you say you are no fan yourself of Moxey so what’s your point?
I find very little surprising about you or people like you. When you don’t like what you read then your brain cells whirl out of control and you hear the little voices say, attack, attack, attack!
It is rather amusing watching though!
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Did I miss something here?
Abdon, sorry mate but you’re just as bad for twisting things as anyone else here. You repeatedly renage on your statements to give yourself a false advantage.
You should work on the board at Wolves. They’re really good at saying one thing then doing something to the contrary.
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Wolfbane
Ok, what did I twist?
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Wolfbane
I have never renege on my what I say.
I don’t rate McCarthy
I don’t rate Moxey
And I have never changed my view since they were both appointed – is that clear enough?
I believe that the club under achieve and I would like to know the reason for that.
What is there to renege on?
Also what do you mean by false advantage, are you all the same person?
You sound daft enough to be!
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If I have my stats about right, I’m about as right as anybody commenting on these pages. usually there about 75/90 comments on a star run story. Wolves have an average home crowd of 22,000 with maybe 2-3000 hardcore fans travelling away. What we see here on these pages are a few discontented people mouthing off. Get real or go find another club to complain about and another managers head to call for
UP THE WOLVES!
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93. Fairwolf
How dare you tell people to go and support another team if they disagree with you!
McCarthy supporters are very much in the minority, this will be proved in the next few weeks!
If you don’t like a democracy then don’t come here and read!
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Comment 68 Nick Tushingham Absolutely Spot On – Could not have put it better ourselves
Yes we all love and support the club BUT how far do you carry on with an employee who wont listen and cannot get a squad he put together to stop leaking goals against teams who have the same ambitions we do – 7 conceeded goals in 2 home games is a remedy for failure NOT promotion!
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Moxey must pinch himself every morning,to think he gets paid and knows very little about football,you can see why he and MM get on so well shame Morgan has taken sides.
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I reckon a poll of Wolves fans at the games would work in favour of the current management 70/30. In fact if what you say is correct, why were all those haters shouting his name out 6 months ago? Surely opinions of people cannot change that quickly? If so why are Labour still in power after so long? they sold us down the river longer than 6 months ago. I seem to remember season ticket sales were up on this time last year in comparision to Hoddles reign, how can that be for a crap manager? It just appears ridiculous that a person can attract so much barracking when 12 months ago he was a hero.
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95 – 7 goals in 2 games, not 2 home games. Watford was away!
Things are pretty dire at the moment, but its NOT time to make changes. Its time for stability and staying together, I salute Moxey and Morgan for their stance.
McCarthy is making some ridiculous decisions, none more so than not picking Freddie because of his workrate and then signing the laziest striker in the world in Kyle and putting him straight in.
I still want to give Mick time though, and thats a full 3 years, not 18 months.
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I would hate to see were we would be after 3 years.
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98 Stand Corrected – 8 goals conceeded in the last 3 Home games!
3 against Palace
1 against Sheff Wed & (Managed a win)
4 against Stoke City
NB* The more notable is 7 conceeded against like minded teams that want a Play Off spot
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