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Friday 15th August 2008, 1:46PM BST.
The returning Wolves blogger Nathan Lloyd talks Jeff Beck, weddings in Horsham and the merits of Matt Jarvis ahead of Molineux’s first Championship game of the campaign against Sheffield Wednesday.
Hello everybody and thanks for having me back!
You are everywhere and nowhere baby, that is where you are at!
Last Saturday, whilst Wolves were battling their way to a commendable draw down at Home Park, I was at a wedding in Horsham singing along to the Wolves version of the Jeff Beck classic and getting a few dodgy glances from the guests in the process.
All this whilst frantically trying to keep in touch with someone who could keep me up-to-date with the score.
When the result came through, I thought it wasn’t a bad start and a point away at most clubs in this division should be seen as a good beginning to a league campaign.
Then I get back and start reading some of the comments on Expressandstar.com and you would have thought that we had just been relegated!
Negativity gushed from nearly every comment regarding the result. Mick’s got it wrong, why is he playing Stephen Ward, wrong tactics, lucky to get a point, he’ll be gone by Xmas, we need a pacey central defender, moan moan moan!
Anybody who did dare to be upbeat about grabbing a point was shot down in flames!
We are one game into the season. If this is a true reflection on the time and patience that some fans are going to show the team, we might as well all settle for mid-table mediocrity and stay at home.
I came away from the Blackburn game, probably as most did, with a massive sense of pride over the performance and a swell of optimism for the coming season.
Yes, we were a week ahead of Rovers in our preparations for the new season, but we looked fitter and sharper than any pre-season I can remember.
I finished last season saying that Mick should leave the club after we finished seventh. I really hope I am proved wrong this season and this should be the case, looking at the squad we have.
Only time will tell but if you look at the team that Mick has put together over the last couple of seasons, I don’t think there are now many gaps.
We still need that magical central defender with pace and leadership. Of course the majority of us would like to see Jarvis be the preferred starter on the left.
Stephen Ward is an honest pro, but he proved last season that square pegs do not fit into round holes. I was as confused as most to see him start on Saturday.
Right across the pitch we have some of the best quality in this division. From Hennessey in goal to Foley, little George, Stearman and Craddock in defence to Jarvis, Kites, Jones and Henry in the middle and up front with SEB with Keogh, Vokes or Iwelumo, who could be the buy of the season, we look much stronger than last season in nearly every position.
Wasn’t it great to see Mark Davies return and score the other night? All of us would love for him to get back in the starting XI and stay injury free this season.
Fans need to give this team all the backing they deserve right from the off and not berate them when they don’t win every game. This season we probably have the youngest squad in the club’s history (no doubt someone will prove me wrong) and they appear to have real fire in their bellies.
When things are going against them, that’s when they will need the support of the Molineux crowd. Last season when things went wrong, the stadium often went quiet and the neanderthals who like nothing more than booing some of their own players, made their voices heard.
It would be sad if that was repeated this season.
My heart sank when I read the comments after the Plymouth game and, although it is probably only a minority of the opinions, it perhaps illustrates how little time Mick will be granted by the fans to get it right this season.
Everybody is entitled to their view, but I think we should be looking at the new season as a clean slate and not carry over the baggage from some of the failings of the last two previous campaigns.
I truly believe we will be in contention this season, right up there with the favourites Reading and Birmingham. So let’s get behind the team, sing our hearts out for the lads and make Molineux an intimidating place for the opposition – not our own players.
Good luck to the boys on Saturday!
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It’s hard to call this season a new slate when we have the same dodgy defence plus a kid who is a bag of nerves. Just think how he’d feel if he made a mistake infront of the Molineux fans? They would tear him up to pieces! I don’t think Craddock is good enough to get us up either. Compare our two centre halves to say… Birminghams. Taylor and Ridgewell who are rock solid. Time will tell but our defence is lacking leadership and quality at the moment.
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FREDDY FREDDY!!!
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changed yer tune haven’t you?
You moaned as much as anyone last year and used the E&S as a platform to do so.
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The only grumble from Last saturday was Stephen Ward, he basically shouldn’t be starting on the left wing especially when Jarvis is fit, Daniel Jones would be my second choice being Jarvis which I think many of my fellow fans would echo. Apart from that, the rest of the team is going well, I think the centre will gel very soon but do need to add 1 more to the squad before 31st August
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Good commments Nathan!
We have a problem at Wolves which has long been there, and I’m not talking about MM or our defence, I’m talking about the defeatest attitude of some of our fans.
It´’s a sad state of affairs when we have played one game and fans immediately, swing like a yo-yo from the positive attitudes that came out of the Blackburn game.
I for one believe that we have been lucky to gather one of the most talented, youthful teams that the Molineux has ever seen. With one missing ingredient – Patience.
I hope that the disillusioned boo-boys stay away until at least xmas, giving the team a chance! 2 yrs ago under Hoddle, we had lost our team, our confidence and many expected us to be relegation candidates. MM came in, and probably over-achieved. But if he can do it once, he can do it twice – just give the kids a chance!
Boo the opposition, not our own team!
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could not agree more.
great blog
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Excellent blog Nathan. I too was bemused at certain individuals spouting ‘MICK OUT’ when we went 2-1 down or ‘Muppet Mick’. How can you compete against these people?
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Welcome back Nathan glad you’re back with us. Hope you’ve had a good holiday ! I too have been amazed at the amount of negativity so early in the season. Like you say you’d think we’d already been relegated. Let’s hope that over the next five or six games the lads can put us on the front foot and bring all the fans together (a lot to ask ?)
Anyway, look forward to your posts over the coming season and look forward to chatting with you.
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spot on – to many fans at wolves moan at the slightest thing – i heard one fan the other night moaning kighlty was playing if he of played and got injured they would have moaned again wolves fans are just never happy – they are quick to criticise players and management but never quick to praise them – end of the day wether you like it or not MM is the manager MM picks ward and collins – ther aint anything we can doi about it so in the best interest of Wolverhampton Wanderers support these people or just stay at home!!!! Come on you Wolves!!!
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2. SouthBank Genius
Carnt’t Wait Till The Coventry Game At Molineux On October The 18th ..
Already Had A Bet To Have Eastwood Score A Hat-Trick Past Us And Then Mick To Be Sacked A Couple Of Days Later ..
THAT WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY GREAT IF IT HAPPENS !!
GET A VENTRE HALF IN .. UP THE WOLVES !!
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Well put Nathan patience is a virtue… as for Freddy like the famous Kruger hes dead and buried and in the past…. lets leave him there ;-)
This should be a good season for olves although I do agree we need some leadership at the back….
We should all be positive and cheer the lads on and the manager and see where things are a xmas……. 100% backing of team and manager and no negative comments for a few months would be great …..(I can wish )
Come on get behind your team intead of up their behinds !!!!!!!
The futures bright the futures golden :-)
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would really like MM to succeed, but when he makes baffling decisions like ward on the left wing, he is setting himself up for comments about ‘favourites’, ‘grafting’ etc. i was at the plymouth game and Ward didn’t cut it out there, nice guy tho he is.
kightly on the right and jarvis on the left are what 99% of fans want. two wingers that will take on full backs and beat them.
the team is looking a lot stronger than last season tho – really excited about the prospects this year! Would like to see Iwelumo and Ebank-Blake start too …
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10 Mighty Wanderer:
‘Already Had A Bet To Have Eastwood Score A Hat-Trick Past Us And Then Mick To Be Sacked A Couple Of Days Later ..
THAT WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY GREAT IF IT HAPPENS !!’
I shake my head in disbelief!
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I think that we should keep separate the realistic comments being made on this board from from the issue of booing of Wolves players.
It is only in the last 10 years that I can recall Wolves fans having a concerted go at any of our own players.
I was brought up never to disrespect the shirt, and I think that should still be the code of behaviour for us all.
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SouthBankMong is right. lol.
And Number 10. That’s just plain daft.
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Great Blogg!! Completly agree! When MM first took over and Hoddle had left us in a mess and expectation at the wolves was rock bottom, Mcarthy picked the team up and got the molineaux buzzing again. I can remember being 6-0 down at home to southampton, and still the crowd were singing there hearts out. Now expectation are higher, we get a 2-2 draw away to a team who are play off contenders, and ur All having ago. I don’t always agree with all of his desisions but lets give it a few months, see how the results go and see if any more players are bought in before jumping on MM’s back!
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No Nathan, you have the sentiment all wrong.
You dont want a repeat of last season. Nobody does, but the signs are there already that mick will persist with players “who put a shit in” and continue to play people out of position, or not ply them if they didnt compliment his new wristwatch in training.
Mick has such little time not only because we are a moody bunch, but because he CONFOUNDS US WEEK IN WEEK OUT WITH INEXPLICABLE TEAMSHEETS.
If this “experimenting” had netted results – no one would question the bloke, but it didnt, it hasnt, and it probably never will. We were found wanting, and none of us are going to put up with it for another year.
He has done great things over the close season. I dare say this has been one of the best close season for us in over 20 years. Great signings and great results. Very positive all round. Well Done Mick and Moxey.
Then comes first game. Oh boy. Mad Mick up to his old tricks – spouting favourits to the media, Jarvis on the bench, and a new problem – defence a shambles…
Mick says he’s happy with the squad the way it is – Accrington and Argyle nobbing 4 past us ? Surely not ? On the plus side, we’ve got men up front to neutralise the damage, but surely we need atleast 1 or 2 new faces at the back?
You have to be proactive in this game, and not persist with things that arent working. Can Mick learn from his mistakes.
Lets hope so.
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10. Lets hope so mate, I woudl love it if the lost points cost us a place in the play off, LOLZ, that would show them!!!
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I’d imagine seeing the negativity upset you, particularly after the stream of positivity and encouragement we saw from you at tail end of the season. Oh, wait. I’m wrong. You moaned like an old woman; yet you now have the temerity to criticise your disciples for moaning. How long will your stance last this time? First home defeat? The next time Ward plays left? It’s amazing how much your summer break has changed. From moaning about the non-inclusion of injured players, wanting the manager sacked, retained, and sacked again in a matter of months, moaning about ‘terrible signings’ and ‘bizarre squad selections’ to chastising fans for being unhappy with a draw at Plymouth. In your words, Nathan “fans are not stupid”, so if they were at a game whilst you were at a wedding, what right do you have to criticise them – particularly for doing what you were doing last season? It stinks of double standards and hypocrisy.
“Fans need to give this team all the backing they deserve right from the off and not berate them when they don’t win every game”. You may do well to read that before starting every blog.
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What is it about people that when they discuss football that they think if you arent super positive to the point of blind faith you are disloyal and a negative influence?
If the government kept on making mistakes (as it does) most people would complain and try to get rid of them, so why is it different for the government of a football club ?
MM is a nice bloke who seems to have a good network of scouts picking out decent young players. However, he doesnt seem to be able to get those players to play consistent and attractive football. He cant seem to find the right centre back pairing despite rumours of several different players this summer. And most worryingly of all he has obvious favourites who play regardless of form or of competition within the club ie S.Ward
Im not a negative person or “boo boy” but I politely put it to you that if Mick continues with the same mistakes this season he is not the man to take us up to the premiership
I hope this hasnt been to distressing for all the blind optimists amongst you, you can carry on dreaming of winning the champions league, the winning goal lashed in by Ward of course !
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“It’s amazing how much your summer break has changed” should be “It’s amazing how much the summer break has changed your outlook.” Sorry!
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lets jus tget behind the lads tomorrow. Admittingly Tuesday night wasn’t a great peformance but it was much worse this time last year with our exit to Morecambe. A point is something to build on and lets hope we do against top of the league tomorrow lol. Up the Wolves and keep the faith!!
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Good luck for the season, Really.
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Welcome back Nath, have you been in long negotiations with the express and star over your new contract this summer??
Did we nearly lose you to Celtic or Rangers??
Re your blog, i think many Albion fans look on at the minority of Wolves fans who seem to moan no matter what with some bemusement. Wolves like Albion have seen some real dark days and sometimes you have to just be grateful for what you have, and what you do have is a good chance of having a good season.
All the best.
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Well said Nathan, although I went to Plymouth and it has to be said that 90% the fans that went clapped the team off and were singing mccarthy’s name. Hopefully the boo boys will restrict their opinions to the anonymity of this website and keep their simple minded views to themselves at the mol.
Honestly, to read some of the comments on here, you’d think we’d been relegated! The result was very good on Saturday considering the conditions, and as you say a draw away from home on the first game is a good start.
I don’t think many teams will come away with a result at home park this season, they seemed like a well organised unit.
I think some fans need a bit of a reality check as teams aren’t just gonna roll over for us this season.
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2.10 get a life Freddies gone move on.
Nathan good blog,but we dont have a big enough squad in defence to cover injuries,MM says he is happy with what he has got 6 goals conceded in last three matches if he cant see the problem then what price promotion.Need to spend the profit + 2/3 million on quality CBs
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The exraordinary neagativity of a hard core of Wolves “fans” is summed-up by the “Happy Wanderer”.If you want Wolves to lose then quite simply you cannot be a true fan. A loud minority of fans are anti pretty well any authority in the club,whether manager,coach,owner or managing director-and have been against any of them we had for an awful long time now. A good,positive blog from Nathan.Despite what these “fans” think,we have no divine right to promotion,but I do think that we have(with one addition,I think) a team good enough to challenge.Whether the anti-MM,Moxey,Morgan,O’Connor,Hayward etc etc rump give the team enough time to acheive this is a moot point.
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THESE CANT BE WOLVES FANS I LOVE THE WOLVES AND I THINK MICK IS DOING A BETTER JOB THAN MOST WITH THE PLAYERS HE HAS BROGHT IN COULDNT BE HAPPIER AT THE MOMENT I LOVE THE WOLVES!!
BRING ON SATURDAY
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Excellent blog Nathan
I think MM and all the staff at Wolves are doing a great job and there is loads of evidence that they are making excellent progress e.g stronger team and backroom staff – the best and fittest squad I have seen in the last three seasons.
We also have to accept that all other teams are very well prepared and will represent strong opposition – it is not going to be easy
It’s about time the moaners and regular negative contributors either get real or go find another team to feed their obvious level of deluded expectation – what about that team that Roy played for – the Rovers!?
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10. You’re a plonker. Simple as.
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u fool! u aint a wolves fan with that attitude u r a freddie and cov fan. dnt bova comin the mol this seasn mate, we dnt want your sort there!
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Beyond me as to why you would travel all the way to Plymouth to boo your team. If you enjoy booing go to the Hawthorns. This is going to be a great season. 5-0 tomorrow!
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‘The Mighty Wanderer’
How can you want someone to score a hatrick against wolves and for us to lose??
If you love ‘freddy’ so much go and get a season ticket at the ricoh!!
I question whether people on here are actually wolves fans!
But anyway great blog and lets all get behind the team and cheer them on to a great season!
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I dont get it, you have a go at the moaners, but then you back their arguements. You moaned last season and even wanted Mick to go. I back Mick, but people are entitled to their own opinions.
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2 = PRAT
10 = BIGGER PRAT
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Exellant article, the negativty is shocking…..if fans want us to get promoted the team need that 12th player.
I admit I was getting fed up with McCarthy last season, but the squad and club are moving foreward. Lets hope the negative fans will as well!
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10 your comment shows what a tool you really are, why don’t you just go and support your messiah at Coventry and leave the Molineux for proper fans
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Good blog Nathan. The negativity on this site doesn’t surprise me anymore. They’re just nuggets.
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come on wolves im guin to the game 2moro lets a win under our belt !!!
HI HO WOLVERHAMPTON!!!!
BarmyArmy
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Face facts haters – If we had Freddy in the team we wouldnt have drawn V PLaymouth and we certainly wouldnt have needd extra time to settle the outcome of the cup game. I hope he outscores SEB this season and takes them up, that would show fick mick up!!! THE SOUTH BANK RULZ!!!!!
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I don’t see why raising legitimate questions at the start of the season rather than half way through is always seen as negativity.
The conditions at Plymouth were appalling but other than that, there was no excuse drawing at a team that most predict relegation for and who lost on Tuesday to a scratch side in Division 2. If you want to be promoted, you win at Plymouth, you draw at Birmingham and Reading.
Equally, if a manager keeps picking a player for the left wing who is clearly not suited to that position, it is fair to raise it. What message does that send to other players such as Jarvis and Jones and it can’t do much for Ward’s confidence?
Equally, we look good going forward and Mick signed Kightly and Kightly is different class.
He’s not completely useless and he doesn’t deserve to be personally vilified but he should be held to account for his strange words, his odd tactics and his dubious man-management.
I think the most telling point is that all other football fans consider Mick to be a joke and like the Plymouth fan commenting in the Observer last Sunday, you have a potentially very good team but you have a very poor manager. Sadly, many of us believe that and whilst we’ll cheer the team like mad on a Saturday, our great belief is that the wrong man is in charge. I trust and hope he can prove me wrong!
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Brilliant Blog.
Nathan has the common sense to give MM and the team the support they deserve.
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Who are you and what have you done with Nathan Lloyd?
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It’s time to nail your colours to the mast!!!
So called fans like 2 & 10 – if you ain’t 100% behind the wolves go barrack another team!
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1)Ridgewell and Taylor… rock solid? Iwelumo and Ebanks-Blake will make them look like clowns!
I have been to both games and therefore have more right to comment than the whingeing armchair supporters.
Plymouth away – treacherous conditions, poor defending in spells but fully deserved the point and could have won.
Accrington – we could have scored double figures with half our first choice team.
Both games, if you exclude Kites, who was the man of the match…? Opposition goalkeepers!
Need another centre half, Davies fit and we are a match for any team.
Support the team or go to a team that deserves your support ie Albion, Bilston or Walsall.
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Regarding the left-wing position, Stephen Ward earned the start on merit from his pre-season performances. At this moment in time, Matt Jarvis is more like Tim Steele, with little end product and even less willingness to track back. His goal against Blackburn was great, but hopefully our hero-worship of players who do nothing for the most-part and stroll around the pitch left the club when Seyi and Freddy did.
Regarding Dan Jones – he was poor in the week and didn’t work anywhere near hard enough or produce anything for Mick to even consider doing anything but shipping him out again.
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2 & 10 ….Is that the same Freddy that managed to hit a post from two yards last Saturday playing for Coventry ? He’s gone so get over it!!
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2 and 10 call yourself wolves supporters! do u know what the word support means!!!
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What Mick does in the next two weeks in the transfer market will shape the season. I personally don’t think this squad will fare any better than last season ie struggle to make the playoffs. If the defence is strengthened significantly we might just have enough to challenge at the top. If not Mick could be staring down the barrell by xmas and the atmosphere at the mol would be grim. And with MM’s record at signing defenders since he arrived I fear the worst – ironic as I remember Mick being a decent centreback in his playing days!
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Wolves fans have always moaned in the last 15 years and we have had some dodgey managers. I think we should get someone excellent on loan for the season to help at the back.
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southbankgenius (shouldbesouthbanknumpty) and the mightywanderer are just albion fans messing about. If you try to convince us all you are Wolves fans, I won’t believe you. If however, I am wrong, keep away from molineux it’s because of idiots like you (the small minority) why it gives wolves fans a bad name. Stay at home or go to the poorthorns, pathetic.
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I used to like that song but now i can not stand it we need a new one!! would love to see Jarvis down the left i was a big Freddy fan but he has gone now COME ON YOU WOLVES THE SOUTH BANK!!
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I drive 63 miles to every home game. I leave work, straight on the motorway and to the mol. Wehn I walk up those steps and see our glorious stadium and pitch I still get goosebumps, when I here hi-ho wolverhampton it still makes me as proud as can be and when we win im very pleased. When our players give 100% and lose, I’m pleased. I love my club, I hate moaners and groaners, leave to us real fans we will help get behind the team. Cardiff and Coventry away were perfect examples of how getting behind our team. tomorrows score wolves 2-0 sheff wed. Suoper mick mc carthy coming from the south and north bank!
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Is anybody else getting a bit bored with all this Freddy malarkee?
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This squad is playoff material, although if Mick selects the correct players from the squad then perhaps? need a centre back with pace, no one available so a loan looks our best bet, MM see’s something in Stephen Ward that I and many others fail to see, I think it’s the blue eyed boy syndrome. Karl Henry is adequate but again Mick’s got him down as our best all round Midfielder, first name on the team sheet, again he can see more than me, I think he just likes a grafter, same applies with Keogh. Jarvis, Iwelumo, and a fit Davies would all be in my first 11, all have more quality than the previously named 3.
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I too think we need a new Ventre Half (?!)
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Please message about the current players! I feel Jarvis and Iwelumo should play tomorrow but whoever plays we have to get behind them. It is important we get off to a flying start at the Mol!!! Then build on it, if we can get a new CB & sell the transfer listed players before the window shuts that would be great!
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what a load of drivel. You should have stayed in Horsham.
The reason everybody moans, is because MM is doing exactly the same as he did last year. We still need a centre half, Stephen Ward is a million miles from being a championship footballer and should go back to the irish minnows league, we need a good, strong midfielder too.
None of the above has been addressed, and it’s blindingly obvious to most fans that they need addressing.
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good common sene blog nath, I to wiil sing and shout my support forr mm and the 11 on the pitch, but not blindly, like last season I stated I would judge mm at the end of the season and ue to my word I did. report read could do better, he has recified some of the problem ereas and I think we are short of 2 player to cement the top 2 a centre half and captain and a midfield genral 3-1 tomorrow come on me babies
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2. You idiot!
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2 & 10 – Neandethals! 10 -it looks as though you even type with your forehead…
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Nathan Lloyd knows as much about football as the manager of Molineux Mixers FC. Zero.
PS You used this column to criticise all last season. I think the E&S should sack you as you clearly have no idea what you are on about. I bet you sit in the Scut Bank.
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Jarvis was just as ineffective as Ward was on Saturday, I’m getting a bit fed up of this hero worshiping of players who aren’t playing. For all of those who watched Jones play on Tuesday, I hope that I won’t see any more posts claiming he should be playing ahead of Ward. Not wanting to knock the lad but he had an absolute howler of a game.
Mick sees the players day in and day out, he knows them better than we do as at best we get to see them for 90mins a week
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posts 10-18 How the hell did you became wolves fans with remarks like that.i bet you hope ex wolves return and beat us dont ya.fans like you we dont need go suport coventry.no matter who takes the managers job here you will not be happy
dont know how old you two are but i was there in the dark days when we had somthing to moan about but we stuck with it and got the rewards so stick with what we have and suport the CLUB
up the wolves no matter what.
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19.Del Woppio
Are you one of Mr Lloyd’s many jilted lovers?
Nice and scathing, you must be a very bitter person.
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What’s wrong with singing the Wolves version of the Jeff Beck classic? Most of us Horsham fans do that all the time.
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10. You really are a waster.
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1. Even the Man Uniteds or Chelseas go behind to lesser teams sometimes so why shouldn’t Wolves? This is when they need our support most and when it can help them get back on level terms and go ahead, so always support the team.
2.Constructive criticism is good because if you live in a world where you think everything is rosy you are heading for a fall, so please don’t knock it if it is a reasonable argumwent. Equally criticism for the sake of it, such as picking on every word Mick utters and pulling it apart or knocking the same players every week, is destructive and harmful and does no-one any good.
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How hard is it to grasp that a negative attitude at the Molineux helps the opposition.
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2, 10 & 40
Can you tell me how many competitive goals Freddy Eastwood has scored since the end of last August?
To the nearest round figure I think it’s zero, you must be easily pleased!
kr1kk1t
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Number 10 are you even a wolves fan? you put a bet against your own team to lose and for some has been loser to score against us… one word for you mate moron. Call yourself a supporter well its the likes of you that are bringing negativity to the ground. Either support the team or f**k off cos im fed up with idiots like you doubting the team and always giving bad comments about the team, manager etc Ive had enough because i imagine like most real supporters im fed up of the likes of you bringing this club down.
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Much will depend on the start to the season. It will affect the players confidence (particularly at the back) and the atmosphere generated by the crowd.
Personally I think we will score goals, but I also think we were lucky to concede so few last season and the defence doesn’t look much stronger than last year to me.
Now if we had another Lescott, we would be in with a shout of automatic, but as it stands I’d be surprised if we did any better than scraping into the play offs. This year there are stronger teams than in recent years and we won’t have a squad to compete in certain positions.
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Hi Nathan
Good to have u back!
Just a thought tho …. whilst i think calling for the manager’s head after just 1 game of the season is ridiculous, it is borne out of the frustration that last season nurtured with the wrong players being played in the wrong positions.
So we get to the first game of the new season, MM has amazed most people by actually agreeing that the fans were right to criticise some of the performances last season and you think ‘maybe he has seen the light’ and recognised many of the msitakes that resulted in dividing the fan base last season.
Then lo and behold he starts all over again by starting Ward (A STRIKER) on the left wing ahead of Jarvis (A WINGER) and all of a sudden it becomes blatantly obvious that the bloke hasn’t learnt a thing!
It is apparent to 90% of Wolves fans and 100% of pundits that Jarvis is the better winger and Ward contributes very little to the team when he is deployed on the left wing – he certainly does not have the drive and ability to take a player on and he can not cross a ball to save his life so why play him on the wing?????
Now i am not calling for MM to be replaced (yet) but if he continues to make these baffling team selections then i fear it is only a matter of time and whilst a point away against Plynouth in appalling weather conditions may not be a bad result – who knows what would have been the outcome if we had played an out and out winger on the wing from the start (after all Jarvis was mentioned more times in his 20 minutes and created more problems for Plymouth than Ward did in his 70 minutes).
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NO2 and NO10 Freddy has gone if you hadn’t noticed so get over yourselves. If you want to support our team then get behind us if not go and watch somebody else and waste your drivel on their web site.
We are still work in progress, MM might not pick the team that pleases us all the time, but we all know he has been trying to sign a defender without breaking the bank.
So lets get on board tomorrow and get some points on the board. I think Jarvis should start, Iwelumo looks the biz and we should score more than last year. C’mon you Wolves.
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Well said no.53 i feel the same and yet i’m only 16. I do travel with my dad when i can to home games and i shall be there tomorrow rooting for them, and being called a hooligan by my dad, but i do it for wolves
The Futurre IS Bright….The Future IS GOLDEN!!!
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nice to see more pos than neg on here welcome back
nathan lets hope the wolves give us all somthing to smile about and all the boo boys stay at home.
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Good Blog Nathan.
I agreed with most of what you said last season… you told it like it was.
People are saying you are changing you tune but thats not really the case. If its awful you criticise & if its was good you gave credit where credits due. Thats not being fickle its just common sense.
We had a painful goal drought combined with the Freddy issue. Now we are scoring for fun with Vokes, SEB, Kites & Iwolumo all looking very promising. Nothing to boo there.
Last season Mick made huge mistakes on & off the pitch & his PR was shocking. Now hes slowing learning not to ‘bite the hand that feeds him’
Last season we should have done better. We were promised automatic promotion in a weak Championship & failed dismally to deliver. Now we have realstic expectations in whats expected to be a far tougher division.
Last season we were apparently building a young hungry squad which to the untrained eye appeared to be a squad of ex Sunderland Irish pensioners. Now its clear that Mick’s got the young hungry ‘shift putter inners’ that he’d been preaching about.
But last season, believe it or not was, err, last season. Get over it. Its gone.
Seems to me that too many people got into a habit of booing & can’t break it now we are doing ok. Admittedly so far its not great. We’ve had a couple of 6 out of 10 performances. But they are worlds apart from the 2′s & 3′s out of 10 that entertained us the middle of last season.
Now Mick getting it together. I think he’s done very well in the transfer market. Its still a concern that we haven’t got a convincing defence. Hopefully we can outscore the opposition till they start to gel at the back. Or till we eventually find a decent defender that is prepared to earn only 50 times as much as I earn.
Stearman, Collins, Elokobi & Foley are young & inexperienced but could develop together into a class defense over the next 5 to 10 years. Don’t write them off after just 2 games together!
AD…I fail to see how Mick ‘CONFOUNDS US WEEK IN WEEK OUT WITH INEXPLICABLE TEAMSHEETS’ after just 1 league game & a meaningless cup game. Would that be ‘Inexplicable’ as in he played Ward instead of Jarvis. As I said earler… some people just can’t let go of last season’s negativity.
Simon :)
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2 and 10, well done lads, you’ve really wound up the true Wolves fans. By the way, how are things going over at the Hawthorns? Good, fair, sensible blog, Nathan. We need to let the current crop of players settle in to the new season with the Molineux faithful supporting those playing in the colours; good, bad or indifferent, then the twelfth man will be doing his job; motivating those having good or poor games to perform to their maximum. Only if we support the team on the pitch, can we eventually make a fair judgement. The Jarvis, Ward, Jones argument has been answered by those who followed preseason and the two matches but wont stop those with prejudiced set views from repeating their Kant. I’m a Freddy fan but he’s gone and I hope he has a mare against us, but wish him well otherwise. If we lose the next two matches, I will be in a black despair but I would still be singing the praises of our players. I’m old enough to have seen it all before and to know that in a marathon you will go through really bad times; every team does. I do, however expect us to win the next two games. With the Molineux behind them I would be certain of it. CLEVER that `Sothbank genius`; Does the name stem fom when we loaned suchwonderful real estate out to you Baggies?
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Very poor blog and the rest of you are fools for sucking up to it. You will see, the truth hurts.
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sad sad children!! freddy was terrible in a wolves shirt :/ he had his chance at ipswich away and couldnt of had an easier chance than the penalty and what did he do?? MISSED!
I say no more
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I am right cross that people are talking about getting rid if the unofficial Wolves Anthem!
What prats are talking about us loosing one of our best anthems?
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Nathan,
Seems to me that you are coming back just as confused as most of us!
We want to start again on an equal basis, but “one-Trick-Mick” has already started stamping his authority on the team.
Instantly, those of us with any football knowledge see that we are returning to last seasons uncoordinated failed tactics!
Should we remain silent to protect the tender souls of the Happy Clappers, or should we expose what is happening yet again? Just become Realists?
Seems to me to be a no-brainer; we just expose the incompetence of Moxey and McCarthy!
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Commendable draw? What rubbish.If we have any aspiration of PL football, these are the places we should go to and win.The weather was same for both sides. McCarthy is useless, get Ruud Gullit in while he is available.
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I tell you what, the blog wouldn’t be my first choice of a job, talk about character assasination!
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
But then people are always going to disagree. I think Stephen Ward is a better player than Jarvis, and I also think that SEB will be a flash in the pan.
As for Freddy? Not the talent everybody said he was and I think he will leave Cov this season having failed there as well.
Personally, I think the blog job should go to a woman!
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Why are people still carping on about Fred Eastwood,to be fair he even admitted that he didn’t want to play for us anymore,so we’re well rid of him.How many league goals did he score?My guess is he won’t last long at Coventry either!Is it true he pinched the lead flashing off MMs roof?
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Ruud Gullit????
Another Hoddle??? Premaddonna.
Are you mad???
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Here we go again, fighting amongst ourselves. If you go over to the Albion blog its all about the coming season and signings. Here we just tear strips out of each other.
Shameful.
Wolves 3 Sheff Wed 0
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Last thing… Iwelumo will score the goals today. What a vital cog he could turn out to be.
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Here we go again on the WW rollercoaser. C’mon me babbies! It is hard to get up for this season after blowing it last year. I really hope we are stronger mentally this year to cope with the ups and down of a very competitive league. We have a talented team. Can they deliver? I am concerned our team may not be able to cope with the pressure of home games. I am concerned at Keogh’s comments above. I would like to see a strong leader in the INCE mould. Ward at wide left is a no no.He is no winger. I do hope Jarvis can show his form this year. I want to see our wide play actually getting crosses in from the by line by going hard for the line. Our team doesn’t do it enough. There was too much cutting back by wide men last year who didn’t have the confidence to do it (the Sean Newton factor!). This disrupts the momentum of the build up and is easier to defend. I am sure more goals come from these type of crosses than cut backs. By the way WWFC PLEASE get rid of that HI HO song. A turgid meaningless plod just to shout HI HO WOLVERHAMPTON a couple of times. Embarrasing. The song has NO relation to Wolves nor the area. Let’s find something better, with a bit of local connection. Bring back the awesome LIQUIDATOR, I say. It is a Wolves classic. We are mad not to use it. It was a far more intimidating song than Hi Ho happy clappy. Come on Wolves, lets really get going this year and make a positive start. I am sick of 7th.
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Wolves will win today. Just puting my lucky pants on before the match. No more experimenting Mick. Just play the best team in the right positions. Prediction: Wolves 3 (SEB, Kightly & Vokes) Sheffield 1. Keep the faith. Anyone coming to the Isle of Wight this year, give me a shout and we’ll go for a beer. IOW Wolf
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Crackin performance… I think Nath is right, Iwelomo is the find of the season!
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The guy who has bet on Freddy should be shot. It’s negative bums like you who bring this club down.
Your comments show what a thick benefit cheat you are.
We won 4-1 by the way
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Iwelomo baby where you get those eyes and your dark etc!!!!!!!!
At last a centre forward!
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I have knocked Wolves and the poor management for a couple of non sensical seasons for the team but this result “could” be the start of a good run.
Remember, last season and the one before we had the odd exceptional game followed by a stupid poorly played one. The underlying reason each time was confusion. MM gets together a great set up and tends to change it around and try something different and fails!
This isn’t American football, with special teams and 400 guys on the sidelines it’s a team with a few subs.
We will see as the season progresses. This was a good result, however we also have to think about Sheffield Wednesday and in a few months see the quality of that team. Afterall beating a poor team isn’t must of a feather in ones cap, however if they actually become a viable quality team then we did well.
It’s all future. All we know is that somehow MM produced a good team capable of winning games.
I just hope (as they say) it wasn’t a blind pig finding the one truffel in the yard!
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Alert the police.
Aliens have abducted Quality Counts and replaced him with a Happy Clapper
welcome to the club QC!
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THE GUY’S ON 2 & 10 WANT TO WAKE UP SMELL THE ROSES. SINCE THE DEPARTURE OF EASTWOOD THE TEAM HAVE PERFORMED BETTER IN TWO GAMES THAN WITH 3 THAT EASTWOOD. IWELUMO IS THE PLAYER THAT WOLVES HAS BEEN THE MISSING LINK IN OUR ATTACK.
HOW MANY DID FREDDY SCORE IN THE MATCHES HE PLAYED IN ?,HOW DOES THIS COMPARE TO IWELUMO,YOU MIGHT WANT TO USE YOUR FINGER & BRAIN TO COUNT,IF YOU’VE GOT ONE.
YOU’LL NEVER BE TRUE ENOUGH FAN’S TO WEAR THE BLACK & GOLD SHIRT WE WEAR WITH PRIDE.
WHY DON’T YOU GO & GET A NEW TESCO BAG SHIRT,WHEN YOU DO TELL THE WE’LL GIVE THEM £10 FOR 5 YEARS SPONSORSHIP !!.
WE’VE A TEAM THAT THE PAPER’S RATE USE A POSSIBLE PLAY-OFF HOPEFUL’S AT THE BEST,BUT WATCH US MAKE THE PAPER’S EAT THEIR WORD’S !!
“COME ON YOU WOLVES “
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We have had a great start to the Season and it has to be said Well done to Mick he has been proved right again with his shrewd signings well done. I am very happy for us to be sitting at the top of the league right now but am kept from going overboard by our owner. I am still not convinced that he is committed to our long term development as he has yet to show us any of his money. He is still sitting very pretty on his £10.00 investment and making money as he has made a profit in the transfer windows while he has been here despite promising to invest £30 million we are still yet to see any of his money. I also find it hard to swallow that Moxey is still our highest earner and yet all he has ever done is alienate the fans yet Wolves pay him so greatly for this? I do hope that this is our season and that it does not come back to haunt us that we have again missed an opportunity for major investment.
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