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Henry: We must kick off revival
Thursday 13th March 2008, 1:00PM GMT.
Karl Henry today kicked off the build-up to Wolves’ potentially make-or-break trip to Burnley by insisting: “We still believe we can do it.”
The Molineux men suffered another setback in their push for the top six on Tuesday as they crashed to a dispiriting defeat against Preston – leaving them languishing in 11th place with just 11 games left to revive their promotion campaign.
And, while Henry has confessed Wolves are running out of games to make up the five-point gap, he insists the players are convinced they can still turn things round.
“Time is running out, but we have just got to keep going and working hard,” he said. “We know we can put a run together. It’s not just quite worked for us over the last two games, but we will keep going.
“It’s been well-documented how the league is so tight this season and how everyone is beating everyone else.
“It doesn’t take a lot extra to become a dominant team and go on and win games, so we’ve all got to give it everything we can and try to get ourselves back up there.”
The Wolves midfielder shared the disappointment of the supporters after Tuesday’s defeat, but insisted it wasn’t disastrous for the play-off campaign.
“Last week against Southampton we were terrible, but we’d got two good wins in the away games before that and then Preston was an opportunity missed,” he said.
“That could have been 10 points out of a possible 12 which would have been a really good run, but it wasn’t to be. We were all disappointed, but have just got to keep going and keep our heads up and hopefully we will pick up points.”
Henry admits Wolves need to be more ruthless than they were at Preston– where he believes they threw away good chances to kill off the game. “It was totally against the run of play that they got their penalty,” he said.
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Are these guys for real ? If stating the obvious was all that was needed for 3 points – we would be promoted by now. Our team talks a fantastic game – sadly very few of them have the talent or quality to deliver. Those that do get ignored by Mr. Muppet in favour of substandard favourites. Ultimately it will be the downfall of MM but sadly it will be the end of another frustrating season for us !! Ince in Now to prepare for next season – or even fluke a promo this season !!
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This is a Moxey conspiracy. Get all of the lad’s to make positive comments to the press
and try to drum up business for early bird business.
Less is more MM & JM
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Cannot believe I just read that! Reminds me of that Colemanball “If the ball had gone in the back of the net it would have been a goal!” Who writes these scripts?
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All I can say is that we have nothing to loose now so lets just go out there and give it our all. If we lose 4-3 at least we the fans will feel you the team have tried. We all know this is a competitive league however please go out there and have a go! We have the players to do it if you all show up on the day. Come on lads, one final push. Play with confidence. Good luck on Saturday!
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Yawn Yawn, All these stories from players are the same, it’s so boring! It’s all ifs and buts and “it wasn’t to be”. It’s like no one at Wolves thinks you can win games by playing well, they think its all fate, in the hands of God! Well I think you make your own luck and if we were good enough we would win more games. WERE NOT UNLUCKY, WERE RUBBISH!
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7 points from the next two games should help…
Ah…
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Finished 5th last season, playing reasonably attractive football. We spend £6 million pounds adding 10 players to that team (Gray, Foley, Ward, Elokobi, Jarvis, Edwards, Eastwood, Elliott, Ebanks and Kyle. Now mid table playing atrocious football. Have I missed something or does that not represent gross mismanagement and utter failure? How anyone can make a case for him keeping his job is totally beyond me.
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FFS Give it a rest Karl!
We need to hold a sweepstake to and guess who will be the next person to come out of the wolves to say “We can still do it….?”
My guess for next week will be Michael Gray.
MM OUT!
MOXEY FAT PIE BOY OUT NOW!
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trouble with the team is they are thinkers!
THEY THINK THEY ARE GOOD!
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Is there anyone out there who still supports Mick McCarthy? – if so, please report to your nearest Mental Hospital.
The man has turned the makings of a decent team last season, to a shambles this. I don’t understand – it’s almost as if he has intentionally undone all his good work of last season. He is in a cocoon and blissfully carries on with his devils work.
I understand that MM doesn’t read blogs and the like but I think he should as there is far more sense shown by supporters than people who are paid a lot of money to know better.
The Championship has been exceptionally poor this season and although we have no divine right to promotion, with capitalisation on last seasons work and a little tinkering we would have had a great opportunity to take advantage of the situation. Instead we have gone backwards and need to go back to the drawing board.
I hope that behind the scenes, Steve Morgan has set in place a complete reorganisation of the Management team (including a new manager) in readiness for next season. Now that he has had time to get his feet under the (boardroom) table, I will be disheartened with anything less.
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Im afraid Karl Henry is part of the problem with his poor passing and lack of goals from a midfielder
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I agree with the comments above how much crap do we have to listen to the players speak in the E&S when they fail to speak where it counts on the pitch. I would rather hear nothing from the players if were doing well or bad. There time to make statements is on a Saturday afternoon, or in our case at home anytime but a Saturday afternoon. Who remembers the last home game 3.00pm on a Saturday, I think it was about 6 years ago.
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“We know we can put a run together” ??? Lets start by stringing three passes together.
Karl, do what the rest of the lads should do. Thats keep your heads down and your mouths shut.
You are making a bad situation even worse.
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All they can do now is press on!
I wish McCarthy would through caution to the wind and play an attacking team and formation.
Our most creative players without Kightly are:
SEB
Keogh
Bothroyd
Eastwood
Drop Henry or play him at right back. Bring back Olofinjana and play Davies alongside him, get Gobern and Jarvis on the wings. Bring back Jones and Little. What has he got to loose?
But he wont do it, either he knows he has another season or he is even more stupid than we first thought because if we continue with negative tactics and players we will not change our possition!
McCarthy has bought badly:
D Ward
S Ward
Edwards – ok but we didn’t need him
Potter
Foley – ok but we didn’t need him
Gibbson – why?
I just can’t get my head around this season at all!
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If someone can clearly explain what Karl Henry adds to this team then i’m all ears. Well… eyes.
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Dear Mr Morgan
As a supporter of Wolverhampton Wanderers, I regret to inform you that I have lost faith and confidence in Mick McCarthy, our manager and it would be my request that you terminate his employment forthwith.
Mr McCarthy is a decent and, on occasions, humourous man who I’m sure wishes to achieve success with the first team and is passionate about this as demonstrated by his altercation with his captain following a recent disappointing result against Southampton.
Sadly, decency, passion and commitment, though praiseworthy values, are not the traits required of a Championship Manager in 2008.
I would suggest that the following are more important – and indeed vital – for a team that is hopeful of winning promotion: team selection, tactics, buying the right players, inspiring the dressing room, playing consistently entertaining football and effective media relations. I would maintain that during the current season, Mr McCarthy has demonstrated significant failings in all of the above.
Team selection appears random and increasingly desperate, tactics don’t seem to fit with the ultimate objective of achieving promotion, players have been bought that have not consistently performed to the expected standard, players have barely hid their confusion and disappointment at managerial decisions, the style of play has been almost exclusively negative and dull and his statements in the local press have attracted widespread ridicule.
Perhaps the only additional quality required of a manager who wishes to retain his position is a good relationship with the Board and it appears that Mr McCarthy succeeds here in ways which would suggest a 10 point lead at the top of the table if he had equal abilities in team selection, tactics and motivation.
I’m sure you share my deep disappointment at the way that the legacy of last season has been squandered and whilst the achievements last year merit some indulgence on your part, that indulgence towards Mr McCarthy is bordering now on the irrational.
For now, I and others will continue to provide wholehearted support to the club but I fear that if there is not prompt action, you will lose goodwill, fans and ultimately much needed revenue.
I would be grateful for a response to this heartfelt plea. I may, of course, have overlooked qualities that Mr McCarthy has which deserve consideration and which would challenge my basic proposition that he is not capable of doing the job to which he has been appointed. I am willing to be persuaded and am happy to meet with you personally to explore this issue. In the meantime, be assured that this letter stems not from a knee-jerk reaction to a dreadfully disappointing season but a lengthy reflection on my own views and the considered and knowledgable comments of the vast majority of contributors to the Express and Star website.
Yours Sincerely
Molly Knew Mick
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“It doesn’t take a lot extra to become a dominant team and go on and win games
WELL DO IT THEN. Plonkers
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HE should lead by example and fake illness so he doesn’t play against burnley . . .or for ever after
that!!
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HATE TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO……
two months ago i said wolves would flicker between 8th – 12th place and always be 6pts of playoffs
i said the board/manager/players would all come out and say “we’ll get in blah blah”
the next phase in what i said will happen is….
we will finish 8th and keep mccarthy and give him next season as the vital year
mick will get bad start next year come october wolves will be 18th and sack mick
this results in wolves bodging up two seasons not just one which should been at least promotion push
I SAID THIS START JANUARY AND EVERYTHING SO FAR IS GOING AS I SAID IT WOULD
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Same old rubbish – no real delivery of the goods! Hang on, I think I saw a pig just go past the window…..
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I agree with most of the comments here.Too many false dawns have been promised but have never come.
Too many players have underperformed thoughout the season and there is a real lack of quality in the team. The quality of our free kicks and corners are woeful.Our defensive record is good but our scoring rate is pathetic especially from midfielders like Henry.The play offs to me are gone now.
Lets see if we can finish the season on a high with some attacking football and a few wins.
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Mick:
You’e hit the nail on the head.
This team can talk the talk,but they lack the ability to walk the walk.Have they been having spinning lessons from Uncle Jez I wonder?
Molly Knew Mick:
Why don’t you & the other disgruntled fans cut & paste your statement into a document & post it in letter form to Steve Morgan?
If enough people do this,surely he might just sit up & take notice, rather than fly to Milan to watch his beloved Liverpool…..unless he is trying to poach Rafa Benitez!
After all, it’s his money that MM is wasting.
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Sadly Karl is one of a number of Wolves players that have failed to hold their form this season and he looks like a rest would do him good. I suspect he has only held his place in the team because he is the most defensively minded of the midfield players at the club and helping to protect the defence is going to earn far more brownie points under this manager than being creative and positive.
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If the players could play a good game of football as well as they talk it we would be top by now and as for pick up as many points as possible they couldnt pick up litter.
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I wish people would stop harking on saying the Championship
is so bad this season. 3 out of 4 FA Cup semi finalists are
from the championship. Just cuz any team can win a match on
their day does not make the league standard poor. If it was
as bad as you make out (and I hate to say this) Albion would
of walked it by now as they unfortunately have the best squad
and play the best football of any of the championship clubs.
I know the football witnessed at molineux has been poor but
have you ever thought that we might be dragging other teams
performances down with our own.
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Question: How many Manager of the Month Awards has Mick won during his tenure?
Question: How many Player of the Month Awards has Karl Henry or Darren Potter won since they have been at Wolves
No need to answer………
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Change the bloody record will you, I suppose if Mick leaves there will be a flurry of applications from all the people who post so regular on here. I suppose the chance of an intelligent disscusion about how we bring the club on after this disapointing season is beyond anyone, much easier to follow the herd and shout insults or one dimensional arguments.
Can we look at one other club in a league above us, who recently followed fan pressure. Sacking big sam because the geordie faithful didn’t appreciate his style, the owner signed up perhaps every fans favourite man, Kevin Keegan, a real popularist choice. They’ve really benefited from listening to the fans haven’t they!
Why is everyone calling for Ince? He’s still very under experienced, has no managerial experience at the level we are at let alone the level we wish to achieve. And what’s the point anyway, you lot would only give him 18months before you started calling for his head. Do you really think you’d give him any more time to get results?
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Dear Molly Knew Dick,
Get a life you sad man.
There is always someone who attempts to make themselves look clever by scripting a juvenile letter to the chairman.
Its so embarrassing! Just put your points across on here without trying to pretend to be so deeply hurt and bothered you have now to consult the chairman!
Do you have a job? Are you a wannabe Director? Please what ever your occupation, get on with it.
Yours Sincerely
Sandwell massive??
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The Secretary of State for Transport the Right Hon Ruth Kelly MP was saying her prayers.
“God, Could you please help me. The Transport infrastructure in this country is an absolute shambles. The Motorway network is creaking under the volume of traffic.CO2 levels are going through the roof & the railways? Well, they are buckling due to underinvestment, the London Underground is old and antiquated & we’ve got the 2012 Olympics to cope with”.
God says “Well my dear. The rail network was wrecked under Dr Beeching in the 60’s and will take a very long time to fix, due to red tape & lack of money. The Motorways are crumbling to the sheer volume of traffic created by Dr Beechings axe & the population increasing with immigration & unmarried mothers and such like. The London Underground was built in the 18th Century & as you quit rightly pointed out, it is antiquated & needs a thorough overhaul. There is no way London can cope with the Olympics as there is far too much to be done, even for me. Is there anything else I can help you with?”
“Well she says, can you get my beloved Wolverhampton Wanderers back into the Premiership? They have a fantastic stadium, fantastic fans, a crap manager, that nice Mr Moxey & off course Steve Morgan, who does a lot of work for Charity”.
God says “Lets have another look at those Motorways/Railways/Underground/Olympic plans again”!
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Well said Molly Knew Mick.
That is the most sensible and logical item I have ever read on this site.
We had an half decent season last year but we scraped in the playoffs after the last game of the saeason.
Preston also bottled it. Its time for change and supporters need to get value for their hard earned money.
We hace the potential of having a decent team but there is far too much dead wood.
Players in-
Knightley
Hennessey
Foley
Craddock
Jarvis
E banks Blake
Eastwood (will score 20 under new manager)
Elokobi (give him a chance)
Davies
Murray
Keogh
Little(Northampton fans raving about him)
Jones (as above)
The rest are mid table Championship players which is exactly where we are.
Be lucky to get a couple of million for the lot of em.
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Kent Wolf
I probably will.
Although if SM cares more about watching Liverpool than supporting his own team at a critical game, I don’t think it will take much time for my letter to disappear into the shredder….with the hundreds of others!
The Milan episode is like missing an important Redrow shareholders meeting to attend a Barratts jolly!
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It’s looking grim. The last time I’ve felt this grim was reading one of Happy Baggie’s appallingly boring monologues about wolves, albion, us being fickle.
If we make the play offs now I’ll get ‘Happy Baggie is the authority on football’ tattooed on my left buttock.
Lets just hope cockney wideboy Harry can give albion a good shoeing in the FA cup. At least then we can wallow in our own misery and take great pleasure in theirs.
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MM dont know what your doing
dont play eastwood why not ???????????????
MM OUT
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Hes been on something… NO way are we going to make the play offs now…
Mad Mick Out and Incey In… Now or the end of the season but before Kights and Freddy leave…
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2. Magic Micks Muppets
Well observed, that is what Moxey always does, he gets the players to do his dirty work for him.
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I know it sounds daft but look at the league table, we CAN still do it.
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Well said 26, unforunatley as I have said before the muppets will not listen to you, every one is a manager, does anyone remember when the fans wanted Alex Furgusen out in his first two years at Man Utd, probably not that would have been a good decision! populaist choices seldom work ala Keegan
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26 Newbridgewolf – the record isn’t going to change about criticising MM because a lot of Wolves supporters, myself included, do not believe the club will move forward under his management. People like yourself seem to think that the way to success is to stay loyal to the manager. Well that is only the right thing to do if the manager is a good one. I didn’t see any tears from Millwall, Sunderland and Ireland when MM left, in fact I think they were all quite happy for him to go.
With regards to Paul Ince of course it would be a bit of a gamble but I think he deserves enormous credit for learning his trade in the lower leagues before taking on a big job. Most ex internationals that move into management only want to be considered for a big club. He has done excellently at Macclesfield and Milton Keynes, and I can’t believe that someone that played for Man. Utd, Liverpool, Milan and England doesn’t know what it takes to combine what he has learned from managing small clubs with playing for the biggest ones, and making a good manager.
I think we should go for him because if we don’t then I am sure in the next six months someone else in our league or the Premier League will.
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7: spot on I cannot believe it is 10 players, how can that muppet still have a job.
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This is such a poor division that as bad as we have played this season, we are still one of 8 teams chasing 2 play off spots.
Make no mistake, Albion are no great shakes. They will struggle for the top two but are guaranteed a play off place as they score more goals than their poor defence concedes.
I must agree with 11) and 14)here. Henry was decent last season, as he provided the cover for our defence and allowed Kites, George, McIndoe the freedom to go forward. This season he is trying to be something he is not!
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Henry, you talk rubbish man. As a sometimes Captain what have you ever done to encourage the lads, there is no team work here. You do not deserve to play for our Wolves, you never supported them anyway considering they are your home team!!!!
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Heard it all before. Getting bored of it now – players say this all the time and have been for years….yawn.
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CHAUCER; CHampionship Also-rans Under Crap Eire Reject. The time to voice our disatisfaction at home has come.
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Henry you cant even kick a ball,hope when muppet mick goes that you and all his favourites go whith him.
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At the moment we have the performances from the team that the majority of posters on this site deserve. Negative, name calling reminding me of a macho playground. Those of you who are a bit more constructive do deserve better and, with patience, circumstances will change, whether with the present management or not. Young players require encouragement and backing, which is lacking on this site, which, thank your God, is not representative of the Molineux crowd but of thevocal minority who think that shouting louder makes them right. Out of depressive bunkum cometh a pinprick of light.
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Oh brilliant, just what we need, yet another idiot being rolled out to tell us that they will get it right next time.Well heres news for you Thiery “you ain`t gonna do nothin”, so stop wasting our time and shut up.
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37. Steve Bull Stand
I agree with your every word.
Simon :)
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im sorry to say this lads but …………………. at the end of the day you are all meant to be supporters of wolves and at the moment MM i understand hes not had the best season and it would be nice t see if anyone else is up to the job but at the moment MM is the manager so if you are all going to support wolves try getting behind our team or dont call ur selves supporters because abusing everything about our club is not being a supporter
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26. Newbridge Wolf…Why not Paul Ince or anyone else for that matter. Do you actually go to games? Do you think on the desperate team selections that Muppet Thick can actually deliver for this club. I’ve said this to you once before and I’ll say it again. Go take your white labrador for a stroll down the Tettenhall road
27.Sandwell massive??.. Molly Knew Mick is spot on, the only point is SM will probably not read this thread but at least he makes a valid point or two in his thread. What do you do?
32.scottyfe.. Reason he don’t play Eastwood for 90 mins is because he is scared he starts scoring again and ridiculing Muppets decision not to play him in the past. He gives a few mins here and there to justify his selection
37. Steve Bull Stand…Spot on, that is every reason why we should go for Paul Ince. If that happens tho it will require Moxey to go cos I’m damn sure Ince won’t come if he’s still around. That will be a good thing tho, Moxey going
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MM out !!!! INCE IN !!!!!
I have a comment regarding Paul Ince. Why not get him as our next manager, so what he has limited experience. How much experience did Roy Keane have before he took over at Sunderland, got them promoted from an impossible posistion and now looks like he will keep them in the Prem.
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I have been championing the appoiontment of Paul Ince for months and months. That guy is proper determined to be a success at management, he has jumped in the deep end with maccessfield, and has now doing a brilliant job at MK Dons. So if MM is sacked in the summer which I am expected to happen in May then the Steve Morgon needs to appoint him as our new manager. Steve Morgan I implore you to get a grip of this once proud club and shake it from the very foundations. Surely he can see in his own eyes the mess we are in. Fans are split on the manager scenerio, style of football has been awful, wasted millions on players who he then doesnt play, players playing out of position, his recruitment of ex-sunderland players and his old favourites are not working out, his spate with other players, dressing room unrest, bust up’s, nugget-gate, and his arrogant self importance is of someone who has lost the plot. And considering he did a miracle job last season, this season we have gone backwards.
It amazes me that the messageboards is the only place to vent your comments, and I find it staggering that the wolves board are aware of the comments which has been made about MM. If we lose against Burnley, at home on saturday then there is no more excuses. MM can blame the players, the fans or the chuffing tea lady, but as far as I am concerned we are not good enough in this league. With the “so called” financial resources at the managers disposal, it has been a disaster of a season. MM has had 2 bites of the cherry and he cant cut it. His style of play is out dated and sterile and wolves fans demand entertainment and we have not had that since that Dave Jones season where we cocked it up at the last hurdle, dont need me to tell you what happended afterwards.
Paul Ince is a manager on the up. Proven leader on the pitch and he wants the challenge. So Steve Mortgan its your club, make some decisions and your bull about flying off to Uganda or San Siro for your own publicity and run this club. Start making decisions and stop hiding. The vision you said was that you want wolves to be competing with the likes of the top 4, but we are miles away from that.
So come Steve, where are you. No point sending that buffoon Moxey, I dont want to hear anymore from that Fat idiot, I pay good money to see wolves, both home and away and I want to hear your thoughts you have every right to speak after all it is your club.
MM & MOXEY OUT!!!!!!
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TALK, TALK, TALK. FRANKLY, WE’RE ALL SICK OF IT!
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48. Thank you for a truly dazzling counter argument, you proved my argument, without meaning to. And as a matter of fact I do go to games, and I know that what we are playing, is not that different from last year, we just had a lot more luck, and two wingers who could play. And at this level its all it takes
As for mr steve Bull stand, just about everyone who sits in there is a world class manager if your ever unlucky enough to have to actually sit in there and listen to the drivel that the mizzogs come out with. I’m sure that not of them there go to enjoy football rather just to have a moan
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For the record Steve Morgan was at Preston not watching Liverpool.
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