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Gow on way to sign Molineux deal
Wednesday 7th January 2009, 11:30AM GMT.
Alan Gow jets in to become a Wolves player tonight – determined to make Molineux history and reward Mick McCarthy’s loyalty.
The Rangers forward is due to arrive in Birmingham from Glasgow late this afternoon for a medical and sign after agreeing a two and a half year contract in a £250,000 move.
Glaswegian Gow, a wiry six-footer, is anxious to prove a point after McCarthy ended an 18-month chase for his signature.
“Alan’s just turned 26 and he’s at the point where he has to make his mark,” said Gow’s agent Phil McTaggart.
“Whether Wolves were 12th or first in the league, he knows Mick McCarthy’s history of trying to sign him and he wants to be part of making history at Wolves.
“The big, big thing is Mick tried to get him 18 months ago when he was at Falkirk.
“Mick had a bid for him rejected and he signed a pre-contract agreement with Rangers.
“The fact Mick knows the Scottish game well, he knows Alan’s history, he’s had him watched and has been cute enough to act within the first week of the transfer window opening shows how highly he rates Alan, and Alan wants to repay that.”
McTaggart revealed Gow could become a real crowd pleaser at Molineux.
“He’s the kind of player people want to pay to watch – his footballing mentality is to run at people, dribble at them, beat someone and a have a shot or beat someone and get a cross in,” he said.
“He’s very technical and the ball sticks to his feet.
“He can wide left, wide right or through the middle.
“If he proves himself, Mick can utilise him in different positions and different formations. If he passes his medical, he’s going to better himself because he’s coming from a club where opportunities were few and far between.”
Bizarrely, Gow failed to play an SPL game for Rangers, figuring just once each in the Scottish Cup and League Cup, after 38 goals in 161 league appearances for Clydebank, Airdrie and Falkirk. Moves to Burnley and Norwich last summer broke down and his long exile ended with an impressive loan at Blackpool, where he’s netted five goals in 17 – including 10 starts – this season.
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as you are not allowing comments on the Sinclair article, you may be interested to know that he is cup-tied and so will not be able to play against us in the FA Cup.
Express and Star amazing journalism strikes again.
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JUST GOT TICKETS FOR BRISTOL SO HOPE TO SEE HIM THERE
JAMIE CUBS JAMES AND JENNY
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get him in for preston on saturday wolves 2 preston 0
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good signing,but now can we get two top class defenders in please,our de3fence need leadership and there is’nt any,SIGN TWO DEFENDERS ASAP, still up the wolves.
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i realy do think that when they recalled mancienne after only just extending his deal was out of line whhich didnt please mick so as i would of done probly showed chelsea the 2 finger salute.
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Regarding Sinclair………..I dont think he was our top priority to be honest. Gow seems to have been the wing/strike cover we needed, there was no hesitation there! Also I would add its fairly obvious our priority is a centre half or central midfielder………to suggest its a blow for us not to get another winger in may be true in one way but it is a bit of a false statement to say he was our top target surely……………Alan Gow permanently or Sinclair for 1 month……hmmmmm not really a hard decision….
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Hes alright but hes nobody special but think hes the same type of player that we already have. Thought for a second we might be signing some players that would be prem league level. Hope the lad proves me wrong and good luck to him.
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I’d like to see him play a part on Saturday. Good Luck Gowey, I’m sure you’ll have a chant for you in no time.
ROLL ON THE NEXT SIGNING! :-)
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It will be interesting to see in what position MM will play him. As a winger, central midfielder or as an alternate striker. Or all of the above as a utility player to fork up a defence. Hope he’s good enough for back-up, but doubt he will find a regular place in the starting XI.
What Wolves need desperately is a top resource holding midfielder with long experience. Our defensive power is not good enough as it is and if Henry gets a knock we will have no one good enough to replace him with.
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By the way, those people yesterday who were saying we are not ambitious by signing this type of player……..watch him first. Ive seen him play before, not just with Blackpool, and he is quick, skillful and I actually thought he would go to a Premier club like Fulham or WBA or someone……..For the doubters, watch this space, you’ll be suprised!
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Sounds like a good player. We needed cover for LW and upfront.
In Mick we trust.
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The ultimate pesimist i am, why are we signing another striker. We have so many players on the books like Harry Potter, Darren Ward, Jodie Cradock who can’t get a game we now pottentially have someone else and the problem is they are all on reasonably long contracts. Surely spending a lot of money to get a couple of quality players in and know they could be usedto get us up and then play in the premier league. My worry is all our squad will be on 2 or 3 year deals, will we have money to buy proven premership players. Right side of midfield and central midfield in my opinion where all the money should be spent. We are already the top scorers in the league averaging 2 goals every game sorry dont make sense and i can’t understand the forward thinking.
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who cares about Scott Sinclair. Kightly and Jarvis are better players…
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Sinclair didnt snub wolves, he looked at us and thought with kightly and jarvis on the wings he would be a sub so might as well be a sub at chelsea? blues paying 4 mil for boyd made me laugh! john joe o’toole next 1.2mil what a signing he will be, 20 years of age, 6,2, tough tackler, scores goals, awesome!
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not sure about this signing where will he fit into this team jarvis and kites are easily better so are sylvs and looms. waste of cash if you ask me we need a goal scoring midfielder who plays in the middle
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CHUFFED WITH THIS ONE!! WE GOT A SCOT VERSION OF KIGHTLY! WANTS TO ATTACK PEOPLE AND FIND THE SPACE
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Good Luck Gowey!
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Comment 12. HE IS A GOAL SCORING MIDFIELDER YOU MUPPET!
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My commented is directed at WOLVES WOLVES WOLVES and not at spirite Wolf
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I Just carnt see this as a good signing myself.Gows been at Rangers for 18 months and only played 3 times for them.The Scotish SPL is at best as good as the Championship therefore we’re only signing a Championship player at best! It shows our ambition that one of our main rivals B-ham City are spending £3.5M on the SPLs top scorer yet we’re paying £250k for a player that carnt even get a game in the SPL!!! I Can see we’re going down the same road as MM took Sunderland when they got promoted,Championship winning players yes but far from Premier League quality.Im not advocatig spending £3M like Blues on one player but its the quality of the player-long term we need to address.We are just going to be stuck in the Premier league with a squad of Championship players on Premier League wages we wont be able to shift.If SEB gets a long term injury i carnt see Gow,Keogh or any other of our forwards scoring as many as SEB would.A Premiership quality centre back such as Berra,a decent-STRONG midfielder who can pass the ball(unlike Karl Henry) and a fast pacey goalscorer(such as Arron Maclean) are what we need right now-we’ve got to look like we’re going to go up not like we think we might not! A New deal for Jarvis yes,but lets not forgett hes been injured most the time hes been here-we dont want another Matt Murrey or George N’Dah.
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15 – I agree with you to an extent, he wont be a first team regular, but what if any of the above you mentioned get injured? We have cover for all three positions in one player, should hopefully be a great addition to the squad.
I’d expect to be on the bench against Preston
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1. Danger Mouse. Considering the reading age of most Blues fans its hardly that supprising now is it. I really,really dislike Blues on so many levels.
Is nobody else slightly suspicous that the pitch was not protected for Saturdays game. thought you were a big club??? I bet if you were playing in the prem league or if the game was on TV they would have made sure it went ahead. hmmm conspiracy.
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Excellent signing whether he’s back up or a starter. Hope we can get a tough tackling midfielder and centre back now.
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A good signing for me. Cover for wide and forward positions, clearly hungry for it and at £250k not exactly a risk. I’ve never been too sure about Sinclair personally to be honest – and if he does well I expect Chelsea will recall him anyway.
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I do not think anyone should question any of MM’s signings. Ok there are one or two that are questionable but overall if we looked at their market value now we are millions in credit.
A decent record for struggling Blackpool, I think this is another quality acquisition. A central midfielder now please and we are nearly there!
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dont expect him to be a first teamer, just gives us a bit of strength in depth and all for the price of some cheap undersoil heating!
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Have to say, not at all impressed with this one, hardly set the world on fire a Blackpool and missed a sitter against us, total waste of money this one, if Rangers didn’t want to play him then to me that speaks volumes. would have to agree with others though about Scott Sinclair, would like to see us get hold of him.
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I’m sure there were a lot of these same comments running through peoples minds when we signed Iwelumo too. But look what happened there… You can’t start determining whether a signing is a bad idea or not until after you have seen that player, player a few games within your own team, not someone elses. Chelsea never play Mancienne yet we know what a star he was for us, so does that mean because Rangers rarely played Gow, he’s gonna be a downfall for us? .. Give him a chance, he hasn’t even pulled on a Wolves shirt yet.
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I remember reading simular comments about BIG CHRIS every1 saying 400k what a waste and look what hes done so-far give him a chance would be nice to have a winger slash striker adds something to the bench rather than keigh who cant play either the wings or striker… so let him come and do his thing…
Ryan – Up the Wolves
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#10 rich5wolves
The voice of sanity amongst a diatribe of guff! When reading some of the comments placed by my fellow Wolves fans I can but wonder if very many of them have ever kicked a football in a competitive match. Reading some of the comments makes me doubt it.
Gow is a top professional proven goalscorer and will enhance greatly our Clubs chances of promotion.
To succeed in this league a large squad of top class performers is needed this is what M.M. is giving us. Open your eyes get behind him!
Up The Wolves
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good signing..
kiwiwolffffffffffff
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To be honest Booty I’d be surprised if you are on the bench against Preston but if you are I wish you the best of luck!
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Ball winning tough midfielder now please like marvin elliot.
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20.richie garner
on one hand you say we need prem players and the spl is like the championship………….then you say we need a prem centre half like Berra!………….who plays in the spl!
have you ever seen berra play?
probably once!
IN MICK WE TRUST!
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definatly midfielder next, but more of a playmaker, who gets on the ball and keeps it moving, henry and edwards dosent work
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Well done Wolves. A very sensible signing.
History suggests that at some time in the next 20 league games Kites or Jarvis is likely to be out injured, suspended or otherwise.
Having noticed how loosing a winger(s) has impacted negatively on Wolves results (Reading, Norwich, Swansea, Blackpool) signing another solid winger seems intelligent.
Any other role Gow can/might fill seems like gravy.
Out of darkness cometh many things……..
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Sorry but i could question 5 or 6 of Micks signings.
Keogh.
Shackell.
Friend.
Hill.
S. Ward.
D. Ward.
Potter.
Gibson.
Elliot.
ok maybe more than 6.
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34.MARK EDWARDS. Yes seen Bera play around 12 times and although he does play in the SPL at present i dont think its a secret that everyone knows he is an English Premiership class defender who plays regular for Hearts-oftern getting M-O-M awards and probebly would of left sooner if it wernt for takeovers etc at Hearts.Seen Gow play 4 times in Championship of which he was just ok in 2 of them.Will be maybe a good squad/cover player in place of Keogh but the point i was making is that we should be going for players with an eye to next season because lets face it only 4-5 of our present squad will be any good in the Premiership.Top quality players now will settle in just right for promotion and the Premiership next season.
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LOL at this whole thread. Wolves sign Gow (who can’t even get in the Rangers side) for £250k, Blues sign Boyd (SPL’s top scorer) for £4m and we sign Sinclair and guess what……..Wolves fans didn’t want him anyway. Gow’s rated and Boyd’s not ha ha. We’re comin’ after you Dingles. Keep Right On!!!
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Gow is at best championship player… so why are we signing championship players if wolves are gonna be in the premiership next season?!
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30 Cornish wolf it’s a round thing that some of us played with for 20years i assume i am one of the gruffs explain why my comments are not constructive?
Why strengthen a team that is averaging 2 goals a game with a maybe and he may well be but he is deffinately not proven
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20- i think we need to get to the premiership , before blowing money on premier star talent, so just wait till we get there. twit
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Oh the muppets are out in town tonight….
ZuluBlue – please clear off chum. Your over rated, boring, 1-0, only played well once all season (and that was for 45 mins against US) team will need a lot more than a winger thats played for a bundle of championship clubs on loan and scored one decent goal (at plymouth) and is yet to be A) snapped up by one of those clubs, or B) played at chelsea & a far from comitted one season wonder from Scotland.
Dream on Pal. Us and Reading will soon be over the horizon and out of your sight.
Wolvesmod :
Shackell, Friend, Hill – Whats your criteria for not thinking these are good signings ? Last time I checked it was a squad game. Hill and Shackell have done well when they have come in, Hill is one for the future.
S Ward – You what ? Dont even start me.
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Zulu……jog on mate, youve been chasing us all season and the gap keeps getting bigger!
Gow has been brought in as cover for Kites and Jarvo, a sensible move at a sensible price.
Boyd has just cost you 4 million!! way overpriced and it smacks of desperation at the blues, the pressure must be really on eh?
I wouldnt concern yourself too much with keeping pace with the Wolves, personally id be worried that Reading have caught you and look a better team.
Food for thought my zulu friend
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39) I am really worried about your signings. Do you not think that Ebanks-Blake is better than Boyd? Scott Sinclair would have been useful for us as cover, as he would not dislodge Kites or Jarvis.
Anyway find some money for the pitch and Main stand you tinpot club!
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There is chance that Boyd will sign for Newcastle-I am more concerned with the comments from MM re defenders. Not to get onto the subject I for one has a regular attender do not believe that NC can cope at the back–Does the Manager’s comments mean we are not looking for an experienced defender-
I hope we are going to have additons that we can use in the PREM and will help take us there. Come om Mr Morgan use some of that thirty million and make sure we get UP.
Crazey Dave
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Sad to say I agree with ZuluBlue; if we need a forward….it ain’t Gow. Our £250,000 v’s their £4m shows our lack of ambition. If he ain’t made it by now he never will…hope he proves me wrong!
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37,
S Ward
Hill
Shackell
What’s wrong with these???
Gibson was on loan, Fergie seems to like him though.
Whats your point??? Is there one???
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So MM thinks our defense will manage i think not anyone can see what is going to happen
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No 9 spot on about the defensive midfielder that has to be our top target Marvin Elliot is the man!!!
Up the Wolves!!!
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wolvesmod
Shackell.not yet seen.
Friend.one for the future.
Hill.just come in the side after injury
S. Ward.class this season!
come on mate give them a break!!!
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ZuluBlue, look for contention in the dressing room with Boyd. According to some sources you are also looking at Lee Bowyer. Remember him fighting with his team mate at Newcastle? That could lead to disaster for you if they both kick off. I must admit I rate Sinclair though.
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39.maybe you should try spending some dosh on thawing out the pitch notice you only cum out from under ya stone when you got summat to gloat where you been last 2 weeks ?
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39. You’re coming after us because you are BEHIND us!
You can’t rate a player by how much you’re noddy manager is prepared to waste on them! Compare value for money between Kightly and Ferdinand, for example! Sinclair has come to you because he’s got more of a chace of a game with you than he has with us. Boyd may well struggle now that a) He’s got a £3.5M price tag, b) his team mates aren’t so good anymore. Gow on the other hand will flourish now he’s in a young,decent team, rather than the “mighty” Blackpool (who beat you at home).
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zulu blue. just because you paid 4m for boyd, doesnt mean he is a better player than gow. Anyway you always pay over the odds for players, 5m mcfadden 3m jerome 3.5m Mcsheffrey, and how many goals have they scored between them this season? compared with kightly 50k, iwelumo 400k, and ebanks-blake 1.5m, and they have scored 35 league goals!! maybe you should of spent some of that money on undersoil heating instead! lol and you call us dingles!!!
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39. Who’s the mugs then? We’ve got the guy who kept Boyd out of the Scotland squad and he only cost £400k.
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39 – better get Boyd to warm his boots up and defrost that pitch. pre-historic club that you are! Next you’ll have computers in the ticket office!!! ha ha
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Yet another ‘Championship’ player at best.If we were signing him at the begining of the season or if we were pushing for the play offs then fair enough,but we’re top of the division,we must have an eye on the Premiership now otherwise i can see Reading and Blues soon overtaking us-we’ve still to play both of them away.We need to show some ambition now with who we sign.I Also read that Blues are on the verge of signing Lee Bowyer-the type of experienced-tough tackeling midfilder that Dave Edwards and Karl Henry arnt!!! ‘Young & Hungry’ on their own wont keep us in the Premiership ‘IF’ we get there,it will be top quality sigings with a bit of experience.And just one more thing,lets get rid of the awefull ‘HoHo Silver Linning’ and bring back the mighty ‘LIQUIDATOR’ for home matches!!!!
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agree with riverdog, we are aiming for the premiership so why do we want to buy players which we arent going to need come september, we need to splash the cash now and guarantee our place in the premiership next season
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looks like blues are not only paying high transfer fees for players but also paying very good wages unlike wolves.i wish mick would at least look at signing a older player as i think the next half of the season is going to be alot harder than the 1st and an old head may help
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Zulu Div
Its you that needs to play catch up, its you that can’t score & it seems that its you that is pinning all your hopes on a player that has scored nearly all his goals against conference standard teams & all for £4M, bargin!!!!
But hey, you’ve alway been a ‘big’ club, remember big Kevin Francis,Tony Lange, Paul Tait, yeah pure class.
And If you buy some other leagues leading scorer, your front 2 might have scored nearly as many as our front 2 have, in this league, you know, the one we’re playing in.
Yes mate you keep right on til the end of the road, with a bit of luck it might be Wembley way, a month or 2 after we’ve been promoted.
Keep the faith
Wolves Forever
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39. zulublue.
we dont need any strikers were as you lot definatley do.
you aint comin to get anyone.
play offs for you lot Wolves and reading automatic.
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wolvesmod said: Jan 7th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Sorry but i could question 5 or 6 of Micks signings.
Keogh. – showed alot of promise NOT a goalscorer, some love him – some dont
Shackell.- Not had many games
Friend.- One for the future
Hill. – Not really had many games
S. Ward.- Vastly Improved at Left Wing Back
D. Ward.- Agreed
Potter. – Agreed
Gibson. – Loanee – Not given many games?
Elliot. – Gone – Agreed
NB* To give this “balance” What about the successful players that we now have? Surely, the “Cup Is half FULL – Not half empty?”
Not a MM lover, but he seems to have taken on board alot of what was wrong last season and acted on it – fair play to him!
Every manager at any club have made mistakes – some more than others and assembling a squad of players that can gel together and be top of this league (with all the other more fancied teams around) must be viewed as a major step forward for Wolves and a major achievement for MM, Backroom staff and his team
Promotion automatically must be the TOP priority and this would give the club the time and opportunity to assemble the important Premiership experienced players that would give us a very good chance of survival in the top flight
Gow was highly rated when at Falkirk – he chose Glasgow Rangers and was overlooked – We believe that Gow – when given the chances will show people what he is capable of – and so will the likes of Shackell, Vokes etc
Whilst we are in the “Championship” MM will be “tweaking” and “adjusting” – looking at options that will serve our “traditional Wolves style of wing play” and as long as we are moving forward in the right direction, just ask yourself – How many of the other sides in this “heavy duty league” would like to be “Top of the league by 7 pts” right now?
WHEN we gain promotion, not IF; Wolves will just need a sprinkling (5 or 6) Prem experienced players to give this young & hungry set of players the “backbone/ spine” that will be required in the Prem – No excuses from the board – IF we are to stay in the greed league – the club will have to compete in EVERY department
UP THE WOLVES in 2009!!!
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Look everyone a lesser spotted Blues fan(39)!!!! A rare beast in the Midlands region and even rarer in the frozen fields of Small Heath!!!!
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20 richie
I can see where your coming from, but the fact is MM got sunderland promoted. He was given 5 million to keep them up and they went down. Sound familiar? I hope we dont make the same mistake again. Im sure mick is well aware of what we need to stand a chance of staying up. If Birmingham go up will 3.5 mil boyd be a good premiership player? I dont think so. We’ve spent well getting good players who can get us promoted and we have some players who are premiership class. There should be money, if we go up, to get the players we need to add to the ones we have.
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15- i doubt he is a waste of money he has cost 250,00 we have had greater flops than that
tomas franskowski for 1
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On the BBC website: Championship; Wolves; Gow, there is a clip of Gow playing against Celtic. He wins the ball in midfield surrounded by Celtic players from there he weaves past all of them and finishes with a great shot in the bottom right corner! Well worth watching.
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21 , if you can be on the bench , why can’t i ?
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ark at the blue nose never wont he FA cup so bought the old one haha.
Boyd 4 mill is a joke and then again Gow Isn’t wanted by Rangers yet why are they selling Boyd top goal scorer makes no sense to me fell out with george burley didn’t he b4 doesn’t sound like a great persoanlity to have round the camp. We wouldn’t sell SEB cz ya don;t sell ya Top goalscorer yet they keep a cart horse like Lafferty real glad We didn;t sign him now. Boyd will more then likely end up lik O’Connor how many strikers come from scotland and are over rated and priced Kenny Miller For one,
I really do feel Gow which in my opinion will be used as a winger not a CF (unless injuries and needed up front) could be a McIndoe like signing and be a major factor late in games if he comes on and make Something happen. rather then putting on a player who doesn’t have the ability to turn a game on its head which midfild wise we don’t really have that coming off the bench
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ZuluBlue u idiot gow might only cost 250k but if he flops which he wont we only lose 250k not like u blouses who lose 4mil for that trouble maker boyd and by the way kightly cost 25k and he,s head and shoulders above any blouse player,now sinclair he was only going to be back up to kights and jarvo so now you know why he signed for you he was’nt going to get in our team but he gets in yours easy so you have come on here showing your self up as the idiot fan of a tinpot club who never win anything lol,WE ARE WOLVES
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ZuluBlue.. You might want to get a stadium that has under soil heating before you ‘go after’ anybody, it’s very disappointing to other teams, especially when one team in particular, who were hungry to get to St Andrews to give you a clattering.. were told of a cancellation due to Birmingham City’s cheapskate owners who evidently don’t see you as being a very big club.
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I’d rather it be Gow coming on the pitch, rather than Keogh who is definitelty NOT a striker!!
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Zulu Blue – it appears you couldn’t afford Boyd’s wages and the deals fallen through – is that because you’ve just paid out for under soil heating ?!!?
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Great post fella
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Great signing me thinks…but what im curious about is why have all those people who wanted Paul Ince in gone quiet? :-) UTW
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42 DINGLE DANGLE. I Bet your one of those that’ll pay £3m-£5m for some African unknown who had a ‘good African cup of nations’ because all the best Premier quality players have signed for our rivals!!!(like Henri Camera-Relegated with three clubs!).Lets sneek a couple of Premiership players in NOW because we WILL get promoted and wont have to pay over the ods in 6 months time.Steve Morgans the 20th richest owner in uk football-lets see some of the money then!!! Oh and keep your name 20-suits you!
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i dont think annyone in their right mind (including mick?) thinks our defence is up to the task. Stearman is our best offering and has been found wanting on occasion.
Henry and Foley in front have done a good job of keeping opposition out of our goal but we need a couple defenders who are going to step up to the plate and dominate the backline.
we need atleast 1 pref 2) at the back and Im secretly hoping the radio silence is because negotiations are ongoing. Otherwise we’re in for a tough time.
Midfield and upfront we’re on form and Wayne is a cut above anyone else in goal.
Come on Mick – you know where we need strenghening – none of us are buying the spin
COME ON YOU WOLVES !
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REWIND……………..
had some of this “who the hell n why the hell we signing these sorts of players” when Mick went for Kightly n Jarv, n then again with big Chris….when oh when are we going to have faith in MM’s ability to pluck decent players form wherever they are & mould them. Decent/good players have to be honed, just because they play in higher or lower leagues doesnt make them good,bad or indifferent..its where they play n how they are used…as always, fickle fans utd once again, but why does this suprise me…???
Welcome to the Golden Palace Alan & as always, in Mick We Trust
The futures bright, the futures Orange…n Black
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Reading the majority of these posts, you lot must know loads of knowledge on football. Just incase you aint noticed who are critising the signing of Gow, we are top of the league, 7 points clear of the blosers, and you still moan that he costs a fraction of what boyd is worth? GROW UP!
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Have read and have appreciated a lot of comments in earlier posts. It’s interesting to see there are some quite varing viewpoints – Ok Gow has not been that good for either Glasgow Rangers or even Blackpool – However Mick seems to value the Lad – so give him a chance. We have gone down the route of buying “Named” Players in the Past and these have given nothing in return (I don’t need to name them Wolves supporters know them already) Looking at the past 2 seasons we now have a squad which is pretty good and there were players signed who have given us a team to be proud of. Let see what Mick is going to do with Alan Gow – I agree with an earlier comment that the Lad from Bristol City would Beef Up our Midfield and i,m sure that Mick Jez and our Chairman Mr Morgan will agree with.
Look forward to the Match on Saturday against Preston – when we can see what Mick’s thoughts are Keep the Faith Fans we are still at the TOP
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boyd move fell through weres zulu boy now ahahahahahahahah
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if you watched the blackpool match closely you would have seen all the danger to wolves was coming from gow.i think he will make a very good all rounder particularly in midfield.old wolf
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So many good comments it is difficult to critise as until they walk on the pitch all us fans don’t know so we can only speculate. However I find it surprising that we are buying another forward when they are other needs. OK its only 250k but what about all the other costs that go along with it.
When we are talking about Darren Potter as our midfield back-up then this points to mid-field as a priority.
I want to believe that we are buying not only to win promotion but also for our future in the Premier League so how can we be happy that we are buying a 26 year old that couldn’t get a place with Rangers!
I am quite happy that Mancienne has gone back. Great player but he was never a Wolf. We spent a million on Shackell on a long term contract let MM give him a chance to prove he is a Wolf.
The best team we can have is with players that want to play for us not a bunch of players who are in it just for the money.
I look forward to us getting promotion but let us make sure that we are buying players that will work there, not sign long-term deals with players that can’t make it in the big time.
We are a great club – make sure that MM believes it.
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Overall, Mick’s signings have been value for money, so I’ll reserve judgement on Mr. Gow until such time that I can form an honest opinion.
That said, my initial reaction was: “we’re pushing hard for auto promotion, so WHY sign a 26 yr old that hasn’t yet made his mark?”. By the time you’ve hit your mid-twenties, you should’ve made it, if you’re going to. Besides, when you’re top of the league, that’s the best time to bring in proven quality, not take gambles. If we do get promoted, is this the kind of player that’ll keep us up, or will he be yet another player we’ll have to unload?
If Mick’s sole aim is to build a promotion-winning team, then maybe he’s got it right. My concern is that, if we do go up, then Wolves will have to rebuild more or less from scratch -with just one or two exceptions.
That wouldn’t apply to Blues or Reading, so is Mick looking far enough ahead? I bloody hope so!
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he aint coming boys failed medical
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Gow has failed his medical so Wolves won’t be signing him
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Was Gow too old at 26, anyway?
“Hungry”, maybe…but hardly “young”, is he?
No loss.
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how old are you???
wish I was 26 again…..lol
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