God help Collins if he looks on these message boards tomorrow morning.

Ah well 17 games left, but more importantly 5 days of the transfer window left.

Tick-tock Morgan.

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Why is it we have watched Collins make mistake after mistake all season and MM still fails to see he is terrible? Once again, he’s cost us three points!

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Needs to go plain and simply not good enough this donkey has cost us another 3 points!! i was actually relieved to hear on the commentary that he got a red cos now we wont have him 4 2 games at least!! Mick surely you cant play him again after this display!!??

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3 points from 5 matches, sorry boys thats not promotion form, it seems like we’ve seen it all before doesn’t it!!!

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If we are going to persist with rubbish like Quashie, Keogh, Collins, Shackell, Hill, Henry…what’s the point? For God’s sake Morgan – WAKE UP!!!

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Sounds like the scape goat is going to be hammered again. Feed from the game is Hennesey failed to command his box and should have claimed the ball.
However as stated I think Collins is being found out and coud still play his part but against teams that will not show him up for pace.
Still up there big game against Watford as they seem to have turned a corner.
Its our turn to dig in so lets get behind them Sat, none of this QUIET North and South that weve had lately.

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what a joke, Collins just isn’t good enuf for this team mistake after mistake,how come everyone else can see it but the management cant is beggers belief, if your a promotion prospect then you put your best players in and use the money to buy some players to get that extra promotion push. Mr Morgan you need to invest some of that 30 mil that you said you had and MM you need to get the better players and get rid of Donkey Collins, sort it out Wolves otherwise i’m supporting Bournemouth at least they are fighting for something that they want.

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If they won’t let Berra go for £2 million up it to £3 million. Or better still offer them £1/2 million plus Collins. If Collins is as good as MM thinks he is they will snap off his hand.
3 points from the last 5 games, our 7 point lead whittled away and STILL Moxey Morgan and MM have not bought a player. Watch us drop into panic mode now with 4 days left of transfer market. Too bloody late again JEZ. To bloody late.

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Many of the realists on this board stated that McCarthy would blow it by Christmas, and that is exactly what has happened.

3 POINTS OUT OF 5 GAMES!!

McCarthy has a long track record of failing midway, and it has always ended in tears. No instance in his record of any long-term success. Last season was typical, not an exception!

We are now imploding, as was predicted, and the only way left is to sack McCarthy NOW and try and rescue the season with a new, quality manager.

The very idea that MM could manage us in the Premiership is too stupid for words!

SACK MCCARTHY NOW, NOT WHEN THE DAMAGE IS BEYOND REPAIR!

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Collins must be dropped he will cost us promotion just like Keogh did. He was another MM pigheaded decision MM IS sticking far too long with players who are just not up to the task you must admit you have made a mistake

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I first saw Collins play about a year ago and it was obvious he had no skill, could not read the game and could definately not defend.

He is the reason we let goals in and lose games.

He IS a clown & belongs in the circus, not the football team I have supported for 30+ years !

The onnly positive from the game is he got sent off.

MICK – YOU NEED A DECENT CENTRE BACK & LET COLLINS MAKE MISTAKES IN THE RESERVES FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS!

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I hope there is light at the end of the tunnel after this result and makes mick realise that collins is far from the standard that is required at wolves and shouldnt b in the team ! he couldnt get in the team When craddock and breen was playin soo why should he be in it now !
i think its time tht he gave jody craddock another chance ! he saw what collins and shackell played like last saturday !
soo craddock should be playin this saturday against watford !!
DO PEOPLE AGREE WOLVES FANS !!!??????

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Why did he play Quashie. The game against Reading is not a time to ‘bed’ someone in. We should have kept the same midfield and if necessary bring him on to seal up the shop. Again we conceded early against Reading – just like at Molineux. They must love us.

However even I – the man who would have Mick’s babies if he asked me and I could find the right surgeon – am getting fed up with keogh’s continual contempt for chances he’s given. the lad is NOT a striker. We cannot rely on him to score regularly. he is in effect a midfield player who is there to make chances for others.

I think the game against Watford is truly massive. I think they will come for a point and unless we have players who actually score in the forward line, they could well take all three.

As for another buy – we have the cash, we have a great opportunity but do the club have the ambition. Five days to find out.

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Collins is a shambles – and we have to put up with him for another 3 years thanks to idiots Jez and Mick.

And who do we sign? Quashie?? A man not good enough for Birmingham. Mick is an idiot.

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McCarthy must be sacked?! We are sitting at the Championship not stuck to the bottom of it. You lot really need to get a grip on reality.

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Everyone on here keeps slating the defence, which i agree is poor. But what about the strike force, we need to score goals to win a game. We also need a new striker before the deadline.

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COLLINS GETS A FOUR YEAR CONTRACT
DAVIES GOES TO BOLTON
SUMS UP WOLVES

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I have to say that say Mick is not in someway stubborn and can not see the issues in defe3nce, is wide of the mark.

If he could not see the issues in defence, then why was Mancienne bought in the first instance, and why are we looking to buy a centre half as a priority.

Hardly justified critisism do you not think?

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We have all heard how few goals we conceded in the games Mancienne played compared to the ones he didn’t. The question is, did we concede so few goals in those games because Mancienne was playing or because Collins wasn’t? Still, give the lad his due, realising Mick would never drop him, he took on for the team and got a ban. Thanks Neill, best thing you’ve done all season getting that red!

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The ONLY plus from the game is that Collins has got a ban and hopefully now Mick will realise that the player is just NOT good enough for a 1st team position. If we were to compile some stats on the mistakes / penalties Collins has made this season / last season it would be shocking!!!

PLEASE MICK STRENGTHEN THE DEFENCE BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!!!!

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While we keep playing Keogh Collins Ward we will go no where, they are not good enough, get rid of MM and get the guy from Swansea, now there is a manager who knows a good footballer. Dont think we had a shot on goal last night, MM has no plan B
I would not give him any money to spend, he said that we played well last night, this mad man is Crazy.

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Obviously many people on here that were not at the game. I had to sit in their end and suffer that.
Reading were nothing special. Our best player was Jarvis and Quashie did not have a bad game. Hennessey’s kicking was woeful and Ebanks-Blake put a shift in . Collins…. we cannot persevere with him as he is a liability. The best thing that happened was him getting sent off at the death.
We must sign and spend some proper money now.
But I am still of the opinion that Blues are nothing special!

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I have never criticised MM on this notice board and have posted regularly but enough is enough. I can’t see why he persists with Keogh and poor collins can play well for 2 thirds of a game then it goes pear shaped but when he starts playing shaky drop him Cradock has been fit for ages also the Rosa thing still baffles me and Quashie i don’t believe it are they all his love child’s.

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Ok,

I have to say, Neil Collins should NEVER EVER put a wolves top on again. He is the thickest, useless, talentless, slowest defender we have ever had. He was at fault again with the 1st goal, poor positioning in his play, granted football is a team game, but when a player is not up to the task then you are severley handicapped! How many more times do fans have to shout the obvious and bleat on that we need quality in defence. We were shown glimpses with Mancienne (Rolls Royce)and thats the calibre we need and not Collins (Clapped out Ford Cortina). MM needs to manage and not make it a job for the boys club which he clearly has his favourites. It sickens me that we have a great chance of promotion and Wolves have not made full use of the transfer window. No quality signings, Reid, “jury is out” and Nigel who should be cover for Karl Henry and not for either D.Jones or Edwards. I am at a loss of why MM keeps tampering with the forwards. Big Chris and Ebanks were scoring for fun, ok Big Chris had a dip in form but you still play him back into form rather than chopping and changing the side. Look at ManU, Berba, Tevez, Rooney have had barren spells but Fergie still picks them to play them back into form. MM has been lucky this season, but other managers have worked us out, we have no Plan B and I have been saying that for months. MM must never play Collins again, leave him on the bench as he is woeful. How many points has his indecision has cost Wolves matches were we would have gone onto win. Pathetic!

What gets me more is that Moxey and Morgan are everso quiet at the moment. We need 3-4 signings but the transfer window is due to shut on monday 5pm and I guarantee we will not bring anyone else in and the funny thing is that Wolves let go one of our best prospects in Mark Davies where Nigel Quashie was rubbish!

Final point. AK is useless. How he gets to start infront of Vokes and Big Chris is beyond me. He brings nothing to the table, light weight, powder puff and cant his a barn door with a banjo!

SORT IT OUT MICK! SORT IT OUT JEZ, SORT IT OUT MORGAN!

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The fact is last night summed up the way we have been performing for two months now.Bar the Derby home game,we have not played well since the middle of November. Yes,Collins has made mistakes and is clearly not good enough at this level,even though he clearly gives 100%.His sending-off could be the best thing to come out of last night’s match.
Apart from defence,the midfield have not fired for this period of two months and it is no co-incidence that this is the period when MM has chosen to tinker with the central positions. We played our best football when Henry and Jones were in there.Now,it seems MM doesn’t fancy Jones.He is the best passer in the team and you don’t concede when you have the ball.As for bringing in Quashie last night ?? JOKE !!

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If you would have told me in August that Wolves would be at the top of the table by 2 points come the 1st of Feb 2009 I would have had a big smile on my face. Well we are. all teams have a bad run. 3 points from 5 games isnt good BUT WERE STILL TOP. Get a grip, and get behind the team and the manager. You can talk and whinge Wolves out of the promotion race with your negativity

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I think you guys will go up because we are the best 2 teams in the league but i cannot believe how fickle Wolves fans are it is shocking. Get behind your team.

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COLLINS FOR GAZA
ABSOLUTLEY DYER,
EASILY THE WORST PLAYER TO EVER PUT ON A WOLVES SHIRT,
WE’RE NOT A PREMIERSHIP SIDE IF MM CONTINUES TO PLAY COLLINS AND KEOGH
WOEFUL.

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the only good news was that Collins fell on his sword and will now be suspended and his dad Mick can not play him

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Never read so much tripe in all my life! I not Collins biggest fan but the goal was Foley’s fault the cross would have never come in if he had just put the ball in row Z, Collins had to get something on the deflected cross, over reaction or what we’re still clear, I know we have played well since Nov but we’ve got 2 home games coming up lets get behind the lads, Mick knows we need a CB (Berra or similar)he’s not stupid… Reading and Brum aren’t playing well either, we more than matched them last night or but for a bit ofbad luck…come on gus or are you just boggies in disguise????

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Brummie Rob i was also in the Reading end and you must have had your eyes shut we were crap no direct shots on goal, and they walk away with 3 Points, we have not played well in the league for 2 months that is the worry. No plan B no signings and we are left with Keogh Ward collins they are not top CCC team players. Beware of watford they are starting to score and play some football

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and as for you South London Wolf…..blaming the fans again!!! it is not the fans that pick the team (more’s the pity) and it is not the fans that decide on the tactics, . There were 3000 Wolves fans at the match last night (300 mile round trip) and you want to blame them!!!

Get a grip man! It is MM, Collins and Keogh that are jeopardising promotion – not the fans!

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Half of you lot are in cloud cuckoo land………
You can blame the players all you like but its the manager who buys and plays em. This favouritsm thing will be our downfall. Is there any one of you that think that the core of our team should be collins, quashie and keogh????
How can quashie come straight in??????
How come come Vokes only gets ten minutes behind ‘cant strike a ball true’ Keogh??????
How can centre forward Stephen Ward with a cracked shoulder and gashed shin replace left back Matt Hill who has bee much improved??????
When will we be in the market and be prepared to pay good money for QUALITY players again???????

I can here you lot now ” 2 points clear at this stage…..I’d settle for that” well get your diaries out cus in two weeks time I’ll bet money we are in the play off places!!!!

At this stage I couldnt give a toss that we are top of the league……I’m interested in the future and Wolves with Mick Mcarthy at the helm dont have one!!!!

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Memo to Muppett Mick how many times do us Wolves fans need to spell it out DROP COLLINS AND KEOGH TOTAL LIABILITIES it is totally dumbfounding how you can keep playing these types of players who just are not up to Championship League Class and because of your idiotic selections of late you have now blown our once comfortable lead to just 2pts.
Will be interesting to see how the team handles the pressure from now on as everyone bar MM seen this coming weeks ago so come on Mick and stop mucking around with the team and play our best players in their right positions and drop your favourites NOW otherwise we will not only miss out on automatic promotion but just maybe the play offs as well.

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11 crowfish:- couldn’t agree more. i agree with what you said 100%

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Laughingwolf..what a joker you are! Nothing to do with this idiot of a manager, his dire team selection or the lack of ambition from Morgan…but,.. it was the Reading ball boys…it all makes sense now.Wally!!!
MCCARTHY OUT!!!

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61. big sam did come on but iwelumo first. It was the ref and their players that ruined the game, how that hunt wasnt booked i dont know their was numerous times he kicked the ball away tried to rugby tackle hennessey elbowed kites. awful ref.

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Went to last nights match.

One word – GUTTED

Because Reading were no better than us & were there for the taking in the 2nd half.

This is my view of proceedings :-

Hennessey – Bag of nerves, made one decent save but that was for the cameras, should have come for the cross that lead to the goal & kicking was iffy.

Foley – Partly at fault for the goal, should have cleared when he had chance, knew it & took half an hour to settle after, decent 2nd half.

Ward – Did Ok, never stopped battling, took a booking for the team after Jarvis lost the ball & Reading broke into space behind him.

Stearman – Did well, for me pick of th back 4, held us together.

Collins – Superb header for the goal, put it in the only place the keeper couldn’t get it, but redeemed himself later by being sent off.

Kightly – Anonymous for too much of the game, should have shot in 2nd half instead of playing in Ilewemo, If he doesn’t perform neither do Wolves. Dead ball delivery was awful.

Henry – Battled all night never gave up, did what he was supposed to, tried to drive us forward, but with little end product.

Quashie – see above.

Jarvis, Huffed & puffed,did Ok 1st half, did create the best chance of the match, but, didn’t cause their debutant fullback enough problems, especially 2nd half, seemed to run out of steam.

Keogh, Contributed nothing to the team, missed an absolute sitter, was allowed to stay on the pitch far too long, no where near good enough.

Ebanks Blake – Our best player by a mile, battled with their back 4 all night. never gave up, had to try to create his own chances as he had precious little service from the rest of the team, attitude was superb.

McCarthy – Had to set the midfeild out as he did due to his stubborness in insisting to play Collins & his plan almost worked, apart from the fact that the aforementioned hapless Collins gave us a mountain to climb with barely 60 seconds on the clock, Keogh??? why??? when is he going to realise that ‘Forest’ just isn’t good enough, 2 goals this season tells the story, where was Dave Jones, the best passer of the ball at the club???, our free kicks & corners were dreadful. Why leave the double substitution til only 5 mins left, we needed a goal surely this should have happened with 15 mins to go. In line with the rest of this post I have to say that McCarthy didn’t help his team last night & got it wrong, poor decision making & just not good enough on the night (McCarthy this is!!!) I’m starting to think that IF we do get promoted it will be inspite of the manager not because of him, we are in serious danger undoing the best start to a season I have seen in 30 yrs of following Wolves.

I will also be interested to see if Mick ‘I am the law’ McCarthy will come down as hard on Collins lack of discipline as he has done with every other player that has let the team down, I think not.

All of the above was bad enough, but the worst thing about last night was the fact that 6 of us were in the home end, after having to purchase corporate seats, & had to endure the inane rantings of the smarmy, smug Reading fans, which was the final insult!!!

The Club/Team/Fans desparately need a lift right now, top of the league or not, a couple of decent transfers would do it, if Hearts want £3m for Berra, give it too them, also try to get Manncienne back & I’d even persue the Gow signing now he has been given the all clear, as we need a different option going forward.

Also, extra crossing practise in training tomorrow, McCarthy.

Come Moxey, Morgan & McCarthy its decision time.

Stick or twist?

Keep the faith

Wolves forever

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Neil Collins has grown in my estimation after last night. The man has such a sense of responsibility. Who else would make sure they ruled themselves out of the next few games for the sake of the team to accept responsibility for costing us yet more points?

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recent form poor mr morgan what are you going to do to address it as the manager has tried and failed players need a rocket too.

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I SAID YESTERDAY PLAY HIM AT YOUR PERIL M M YOU DID AND WHAT HAPPEND YES IT TOOK HIM 2 MINUTES TO GET ON THE SCORE SHEET. HAS ANYONE NOTICED THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN NEIL COLLINS AND FRANK SPENCER.OOH MR MCARFY

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Still top, still miles ahead of fourth place and wouldn’t we have all settled for a confirmed Play Off place at the start of the season? We’ve got it. But we also have the chance of being two of three teams going up automatically. To the Reading fans – if you are so good WHY aren’t you top?

Cos you mess up just like Wolves and Blues, that’s why. Beating Wolves does not make you the best – you wait until the seasons over, matey.

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Team full of bottlers. And Mr Bean as our calamatous centre back theres no way we can go up like this.

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we have no ambition just the money,collins last 5 games 5/6 assists 1 own goal but muppet mick still plays him i for one will not be putting money on going up.end of season2/3 players any good will be gone.just look what happen with davies get fit plays well so why did he not bring him back at biggin of month to what he could do? muppet mick probably never seen him play all a bad joke. i seen it all in 52years of support.WAKE MUPPET MICK OR GET OUT.

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collins needs to go. ive had enough of watching him mess up time and time again. We need to invest in another centre half some ones whose proven rather than a young kid from a lower league if we have any chance to make promotion. with the team we got the likes of ebanks blake and kightly maybe good enough for the premiership but the rest? we also need another stricker. Vokes is still learning and keogh must be the only stricker i know who is scared of scoring. blake is good but we cant depend just him give him a decent partner he deserves it and maybe we can clinche promotion. But at the moment every season theres a team that does well at the first part while other better teams find their feet… who end up just below play offs. Will this be our fate this season if MM doesnt wake up and sort out the team.

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What we have to question goes a little more deep than simply why Collins is being selected. McCarthy has spent a small fortune on defenders in his time at the club and still doesn`t consider them an alterative to a player who is clearly weak. In the period before Mancienne arrived Collins was in poor form and the results sequence didn`t look good so he was replaced. Our form picked up and we soared away at the top of the league. Mancienne was recalled,Collins returned to the team and results have dipped again…simple stuff. What is clear is that the manager is misguided. Shackell and JC must be pretty poor if they can`t dislodge Collins. Speculation them mounts over Berra and a large bid for Mancienne. McCarthy has already spent the money on defenders who don`t play….Shackell, Hill, Friend etc. In real life if you are in charge of any type of budget you are accountable. If you waste it you are sacked.The problems are far deeper than just Collins. Player selection for transfer both in and out is weak.Loyalty is misguided and players spend too long performind badly in the team. I fear we will blow this and loose are young stars returning to square one again. We will never have a better chance to be promoted. The league is poor as usual, we must grab the opportunity now. Mr Morgan must put up as he promised.Maybe the club just don`t want it enough?

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were is the backing off mr morgan he will cut and run just like sir jack when we got to the prem morgan has red and white blood not gold and black like we

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Great assessment of the game by Grace. So disappointing that Wolves always seem to bottle big games and let the fans down

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LAUGHINGWOLF.. PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY GIVING GENUINE AND FACTUAL COMMENTS ON OUR TEAMS DECLINE MAKES ME A TESCO FAN.

SEEMS TO ME THAT ALL YOU LAME BRAIN HAPPY CLAPPERS CAN ONLY REPLY WITH THAT SENTENCE.

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89. Keep the cheque book shut please as this manager cannot be trusted to spend it wisely.

Almost 3 years now and still the central defence is a shambles ; Breen,D.Ward,Collins,Craddock,Shackell…

To say this idiot was a former centre half you would think he could spot a half decent one.

Season Over.

Mad Mick out ASAP please

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Shortly before yesterday’s game, I received a text from my Baggies mate telling me that they would lose because Robinson was a liability. I replied that so would we because Collins is an even greater liability. We’re thinking of doing horoscopes if anyone is interested!

A lot of fury vented at Collins but of course he’s not going to tell the manager he’s rubbish and shouldn’t play. The manager picks him and the manager’s accountable.

Those who say you can’t call for Mick’s head because you praised him before Christmas have got it wrong. I praised him for some of his buys and the style with which we played but always said that the true man would come out when the wheels started coming off….stubborn, irrational loyalty and no Plan B!

You have to be intelligent to be a football manager and part of that intelligence is to be willing to learn. I’m not sure I’ve seen him learn anything in two and a half years. The same arrogance and the same disregard for anyone who takes a contrary view.

I don’t want him managing my club and to say he’s light years better than Hoddle is like saying that Darren Ward is light years better than Collins!

Finally, to say that Reading and Birmingham are no great shakes at the moment gives no comfort. I want to go up playing football like Swansea or Doncaster currently are and not scrapping a 1-0 here and there in the hope we crawl over the finishing line….I think Watford adopted that approach last season!

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Yet another woeful performance by Collins. I made the round trip to Reading to see him perform his latest comedy act. It would be funny if it was not costing us so many matches. Lets face it, last season Collins was a man who was clearly shown to be a very average league or non league player. Incredibly, he was then rewarded with a four year contract. The writing was on the wall at this point. Whatever anyone says, MM will continue to play him as long as he remains manager. He sells Davies a forward thinking player, a highly rated prospect from our acaademy. MM bemoans the fact the Davies would not sign a new contract. What was the lad to do, went to Leicester, continually man of the match, not recalled and we sign Quashie, BCFC reject who I have seen many times as my lad is a blues fan. HE IS USELESS and an identical player to Henry. SO Davies walks and i dont blame him. For some reason MM would not play him quoting he had not seen enough of him to warrant him playing……and he has watched QUASHIE has he ??. If he has why has he signed him. MM you have not JUST lost the plot, you lost it last season. The beginning of the season was not a true reflection of our team. Other teams know how to play through our numerous frailties and this is now a re run of last season. We have played badly for over two months and will be in the play offs if we are lucky. I know exactly why we have not signed anybody decent….MM’s reputation as a manager and Mr Morgan not wanting to waste his money on alledgedly good players like Collins. Completely and utterly disallusioned after last night. No tactics, no coherence and no talent.By next Christmas we will have a new manager still in the Championship. MM will not go this season.Face it he is here till at least the summer. AND give KIghtly a break in the reserves to get his confidence back. He is totally off the pace and very poor at the moment. Give Reid a chance, MM has signed him or is he just to warm the bench like Vokes. Totally disallusioned but resigned to see a re run of last season.

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99,

Thing is mate, he was a crap player, didn’t play in the top flight in England & as a manager he has the 2 worst qualities you can have, arrogance & stubborness.

And that, I’m afraid, will end up costing us.

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Where do you start after such a terrible result? Sorry to say, but I just can’t see Collins ever being forgiven by Wolves fans after last night’s double howler. It was last chance saloon for the bloke and he fluffed it. His time is up. Yet another insane own goal followed by a needless red card -absolutely ridiculous! There again, maybe the suspension of Merlin’s love child is a blessing in disguise!

What has Vokesy got to do to get a start, ffs? Why play two defensive midfielders in Quashie & Henry? We needed creativity and had none, even against an injury-ravaged Reading defence. Mick, all this tampering is costing us big time. Play Quashie when we’ve got a lead to protect and not before!

Five league games without a win and only one victory in the past seven games tells us everything we need to know: this team is losing confidence fast and there’s no Plan ‘B’. If we don’t secure Mancienne’s services (or another quality centre half), the auto promotion places will soon be out of reach. We’ve got to spend or we can kiss our dreams goodbye. Personally, I can’t see where the next win is coming from, but I’ll still turn up cheering them on. We all need to, more than ever before.

Blow it this season and not only would Mick deserve the chop, but I doubt we’ll have another realistic shot at promotion for a good 5 years. That’s how serious it is.

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I was so disgusted about last night, Where has the belief gone?! I listened to the game on the radio last night on Beacon which by the way I had to put up with Bill Hatton’s biased and exegerated commentry, against the wolves! lol and I was disgusted with how little pashion the lads showed in the first half, second half we battled well but it was too late the damage had been done and reading havent only conceeded 8 all season at home for nothing, they were very strong in defence and we didnt have enough pace upfront to cause their defence any problems. Overall I think we need to get a new CB and we need a PACEY and QUICK Forward, IM FED UP OF SEEING BIG AND SLOW FORWARDS its not going to work well if we have no pace upfront in the prem if we get there that is? I like Collins, he wears his heart on his sleeve but McCarthy needs to see reality, he is just calamity, its a shame because collins is full of bad luck but at the end of the day he may cost us going up automaticly and i dont think we can beat burnley or swansea if we make the palyoffs

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All collin’s fault again no mention of the yo yo’s up front who can’t put the ball in the net?
When are some of you so called fans going to be constructive instead of continually berating a guy, who despite continuous insults from the terraces gives his all.There are 23 teams in the league who would willing swop places with wolves just now. Bill

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81. Grace,He was seen walking into there main stand by a fellow wolves fan who had tickets in there to.Did not see with my own eyes!

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mick get rid of neil fair enough he has give 100% but he has lost it now there has been a few games he has lost for us now he is crap if u dont get a defender in or maybe a striker cause none of them are scoring we will still be championship football next season bet ya! come on wolves pick it up ya playing crap

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Collins is a Baggie in disguise! Get rid of him now! What a liability he is!

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110 Dan T Wolf i too listened to the game on Beacon,Be Fair they were calling for Tactical subs well before the 4 minutes MM gave them.Just read Swains article 3 forwards on the halfwayline yes in Last FOUR MINUTES MM says he is livid but pleased with the display AGAIN.Will this stupid arrogant man ever learn?

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Our main problem will be the stubborn attitude of our manager MM. What I cannot believe is MM was a defender in his playing days and yet he cannot see that Collins just isn’t good enough for professional football.
Do not agree with those slating Ward, I was skeptical about him starting at left-back in the beginning, but to be fair to the guy he has been very consistent and looks to be one of the better footballers we have – even in the games with have struggled in recently he has tried to add impetus to our attacks on push forward (more than I can say for Hill – jury still out on him).
Finally our captain Henry, he runs around a lot but doesn’t actually contribute much to the team. He is too one-footed, gets caught in possession easily and when does pass the ball it goes sideways at best, but normally heads backwards ( the modern day CRAB!).
I hope things get sorted quickly, as finishing in the playoffs will be a disaster and with the likes of QPR, Preston, Cardiff, Burnley and Sheff Utd vying for them it will be difficult to win through to the Promised land from there.

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everyone on this page has a god given rite to make their oppinion heard due to freedom of speech collins is dire .yes keogh wont score 20 a season; ward not worlds best lb but not the worst by a long way .hennessy not as good as people make him out to be ,davies an unfulfilled wolves career all ive said is what i personally beleive is from what ive seen but now my take on m kightly since his injury against reading at mol he has had probably 2 good games but where is all the anger shown towards mm for playing kites when he isnt contributing anything against a good defender kites is often caught lacking but does anyone else not wonder why he still is second name on teamsheet after collins and not branded micks love child because i think now theres a good case for jarvis and k reid to start and maybe take kites out his comfort zone and make him play for the shirt does anyone else agree

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122 with fans like you thats why we are crap, cant you see ward is not a defender, and not a CCC player, open your eyes this is one of the reasons we can not win games. the other Keogh Collins and most of all MM

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125 we have been in a bad patch for nearly 3 months, why is it a disgrace to sack a man who plays favorites, and has no plan b, sack him now get the guy from Swansea now thats a football man.

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No I don’t think so. You can’t win every game 128. The bad patch has been 5 games. & Its a disgrace because how do you expect our team to have stability when the managers are sacked everytime something bad happens? & correct me if Im wrong, but you cant exactly sack a manager when were 2 points clear at the top of the table, with games against norwich, watford, coventry and burnley still to come.

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Ton
50% with you then – seen as we agree with the Collins and MM issues, but me being a fan isn’t why we are crap!

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Big well done to neil donkey collins for costing us a match that a win or draw would have been suffice january was our make or break month and all them points have withered away if mm had got any ambition he would stop playing the donkey stop playing keogh and at this moment in time kightly has gone off the boil what has happened to all the fast running at teams we need some quality at the back and also get back to what we were doing early season showing no fear it seems like the team think about what they are doing too much now when going forward

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Same story for weeks…Neill Collins is awful.
The only good thing we can take from the game against Reading is that Collins won’t be playing for the next couple of games. Maybe try Shackell and if he does better Mick will let him keep his place.

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SUPER SUPER MICK, SUPER SUPER MICK, SUPER SUPER MICK.
SUPER MICK MCCARTHY!!!

GET BEHIND THE TEAM.
WHAT A BUNCH OF FICKLE FANS WE HAVE!

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Every one has a right to their own opinions.Some of the comments are constructive – others are not.However i do share the comments that we “Bottle” the Big Matches. Last night apparently from some of you were the worst we had played to others who commented that we played well.Quasie for some was rubbish others thought he played his heart out. Reading were not that good according to some – so 2 point clear still and we must come out of this bad patch soon. So forget last night and lets concentrate on Saturday’s Match with Watford – that’s where the effort should come from – both supporters and Team

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emma
in your world then no one would ever get the sack,no player would get dropped, and everyone would win the lottery, wake up in the real world if you make a mistake you pay for it with your job in most cases, I suppose Ward Keogh collins are world class players in your world.

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Here is something to ponder. As Mr Morgan is a scouser do you think he could approach another scouser about becoming manager and getting rid of this Millwall mentality McCarthy. The name I thought might be interested is Dave Jones.

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I dunno what Collins was thinking when he headed the ball backwards. I think Shackell should have a go now, he can’t do any worse than collin!!!!!

I also think that we need two mid-fielders brought in (permanent NOT loan) because I think if we inject some new players into the squad it will get us going again.

If we sold Mark Davis for 2 million then we should add that money towards Elliot, Leigertwood or Berra because money talks and there must be a team willing to sell to us if we match the price.

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Well said Ton!

I think thats down to emmas lack of understanding!

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EXCUSE ME. dont tell me that I dont understand football just because I am a girl. I think you’ll find I understand it more than most men do. yeah. think about that one!
& as for living in the real word, I do. Because I know that when the wolves lose a game it aint the end of the season, you obviously think it is, now who needs to join the real world?

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147 : THE TWO WORST WOLVES PLAYERS IN HISTORY ??? YOU MUST BE JOKING. HOW ABOUT THESE : CAVAN AND CAMPBELL CHAPMAN, JENS DEUW, JESUS SANGUAN, KEITH LOCKHART, TONY EVANS, BILLY RAFFERTY, RAY HANKIN, PETER ZELEM…………………….

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excuse you? why was someone in your way when you were explaining the offside rule to those “men” that dont understand football?

HAHA

But we havent just lost one game have we, we havent won in 6 games, drawn 4 and lost 2!

thats a different scenario.

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ooh whats this, do i detect a bit of sexism there? just coz im a girl dont assume I know nothing. I just stick behind my team & stay positive. you cant tell me nothin mate so dont even TRY.

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One of Mick’s strengths as a manager is his undying loyalty to his players; consequently his refusal to criticise them. An admirable trait, but, unfortunately, it is also his Achilles Heel.

Maybe winning 7 on the bounce (twice) this season has instilled in him the total belief that his current squad is more than capable of securing promotion. If so, that’s a severe error of judgement on his part. However, it does explain his less than enthusiastic approach to dipping his toes into the transfer market and bringing much-needed, fresh blood into the side. I’ve a horrible feeling that this will ultimately cost us our big chance to get out of this division from hell.

A simple question, therefore, to all Wolves fans:

If Wolves fail to go up this year, even through the Playoffs, (but ESPECIALLY given our top placing for much of the season), will he DESERVE the sack? From such a position of strength, I’d say the answer is a resounding YES.

On the whole, I think Merlin’s been good for Wolves, but his errors of judgement/pig headedness/ridiculously OTT loyalty to his ‘favourites’ etc has to be questioned. Fluff it, Mick and I’d say there’s NO excuses, son!

I particularly welcome the ‘pro’Mick’ views because, as I said, there’d be NO excuses for failure from such a great position. Let’s hope he succeeeds, though!

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wolfy you’re being a bit sexist now.
Emma didn’t really make a salient point, or defend her opinion clearly, but she doesn’t deserve to be belittled with the sexism card.
She may well understand the game better than many on here, including you and I.
I think Emma might be younger than most of us, so embrace her passion for all things gold and black, it takes all sorts to support the wolves and I remember being criticised for my views when i was a young(er!) woman and I do think I had to argue my point that much more eloquently due to the parochial attitudes of wolves fans.

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i mean 157 lmao.

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157 I totally agree!

Get behind the team and get in the real world. For all the people who are saying others don’t understand football, mate i think it’s you!
Why would we sack MM?
What would that achieve exactly!

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I have to say firstly, the goal was one of those fluke goals, Collins should take more blame for getting himself sent off or ironically praised because MM was never going to drop by all accounts.

To me I wasn’t expecting much at Reading anyway; however we only created perhaps 1 clear chance in the second half judging by the radio commentary. Our cutting edge isn’t truly back yet, Kites wasn’t involve in much last night and is time Vokes had a run in the side? We simple need to see a reaction on Saturday, time for the players to stop all of the talk and start doing the walk.

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I tell you what,

Thats whats wrong with the world now,

There is no humour left in it!

if id have said that at work id probably been put up for sexual harrasment!

Was only a joke!

And sometimes its good to get people stired up because then they are passionate about what they write, and not just stupid comments (not yours emma) just a few above!

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168. lmao cheers, I didnt know at the time.
We’ll just end it here & call it a “difference in opinion”

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Yeah id call it a difference of opinion,
or different beliefs etc

Anyway its nice to see people actually getting passionate about wolves, and not just slating them!

Yes there are issues with the team as with any, its just the frustration which makes fans call for peoples heads!

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I just can’t stand it when fans start booing the players. we might not be playing like were a top of the league team, but tbh, were in the best position of any of the teams, so I cant understand why people feel the need to boo all the time. At home games, it really gets to me. :S Yeah, maybe they do have the right to boo because youve paid for your seats, but tbh it just irritates me because it does nothing for the morale of the team.

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Emma point taken now go and get the beers from the fridge while the lads watch the Footy,
and we wont be eating till 10.00, and make sure you wash the car before you start painting.

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139.staffordwlolf,id rather die than have Keane as manager!!!
Collins suspension could be a godsend if whoever comes in takes his chance.We need 6-7 points from the next two games minimum.The next 48hrs will be
very interesting with regards of transfer market.We will step up and do what needs doing or will we make do?

We are Wolves

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I meant next three games-sorry!

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Ant said :

Was at Reading last night first game for three years — thought we gave as good as we got and probably were more of a threat. In fact very surprised at how few chances Reading created. If Keogh had scored when easier to do so than miss — or Jarvis had scored then we’d all be happy. can’t understand why we don’t trust the boss who has assembled the team that is top of the league — we are supposed to be supporters.

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As had been correctly mentioned here – MM protects his players. As happens in life, he has favourites. Ultimately, if players fail to perform, he pays with his job, albeit with payoff structures that would make public enemy number one (i.e. anyone that works for a bank) extremely envious.

Comparing the Hoddle era to the McCarthy era, there are several key things that should be considered. Hoddle brought in mates (his late brother from the car lot, Darren Anderton etc) for pay days at the expense of the club. McCarthy, in his first season, was the exact opposite. Kids through the ranks, last minute free transfer wheeler-dealing etc. In fairness, he did a grand job.

Last season, with a little more cash, he abandoned the emphasis on home built youngsters, made a bit of money selling on our free transfer players, but whenever he’s spent more than 500K, has made a hash of it – Ebanks Blake the exception to the rule.

Sticking to 4-4-2 last season when we hardly had a winger fit was his way of telling fans that he liked Keogh, Ward etc. and would play them no matter what. This season, he’s killed off any confidence that we have in the goalkeeping department (which was a tight knit set-up until Mimms’ defection) by his treatment of Henners. A good goalkeeper is worth 10-15 points a season – that’s gone. Now, Henners may have got too big for his boots and needed taking down – I don’t know – but what I do know is that Henners/Ikeme look as if they’ve filled their pants whenever they play.

In 2007/8, the clean sheet success was built on Seyi and Henry sitting in front of the back four – the result being our pathetic goals scored. At the start of this season, with Iwelumo being inspired and both wingers back, we were on fire. But the going has got tough – and the tough have reverted to type.

The bad news for people who think that MM will react to the changed circumstance is that he can’t. Ask Sunderland fans.

His idea of how to return to winning ways will be by trying to keep clean sheets. Logical and I have no problem with this. Provided it means bringing in players better than the ones we have. But his recent record of defender purchases, Foley aside and it’s impossible to pass judgement on the unfortunate Elokobi, has not exactly been strong. Collins, Shackell, Friend, Stearman – are they really better than Rob Edwards, Craddock, Dan Jones? So what this means is that Henry and Quashie will be asked to sit in front of the back four. The result will be a repeat of the dire performances seen last season – which in fairness was as mind numbingly dull for the most part as Hoddle’s reign.

SEB is a fantastic goal poacher – which requires an attacking midfield. Jones and Edwards have only shown glimpses of this – Kightly’s ‘free-role’ is nowhere near as effective as when he’s on the wing (as pointed out by some on today’s threads) and when the ball can’t reach the flanks, we have 50% of our attacking options taken out of the game. Hence, we are under the cosh again, with pressure on a fragile defence.

Last season, we were bailed out by January transfers so I have a heart-felt plea:

“Dear Mr Morgan, Please could you fix it for me to watch premiership football at the Molineux next season. Please sanction loans until the end of the season of 1) Mancienne or another centre half of similar stature (ring all Premiership sides to see who needs match fitness/experience in a promotion battle) and 2) an attacking midfielder, rather than just wing cover (again, please ring all prem clubs).”

I wouldn’t trust MM with cash at the moment given recent performance and feel that, provided Moxey decides against a holiday the day after promotion (on the assumption we go up) we’ll get better value then – especially when Mr Morgan knows what his income for the next year will be.

End of Adam Ant’s sermon.

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Grace for Manager ! good, balanced account and analysis

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thought the og ,was unfortunate, yeah he’s made some mistakes …but he also makes amends …goal at doncaster for instance ….where we really lack is in the middle of the pitch …they offer the defence no protection & create nothin goin forward ….

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173, Shifnal

Lose the small village mentality, actually he’s from Wednesfield, Gods country!!!!

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I’m just wondering how many people copying each other’s comments above actually went to the game. I think quite a few probably didn’t.

One – Collins was the one who headed the ball but the own goal was NOT his fault. If you get chance to watch it again look carefully and see that it is Wayne’s lack of positioning and dithering that is the cause of the own goal.

Two – Own goal aside, the Reading forwards didn’t get a proper look-in all match. Why? Because Collins and Stearman played them out of the game. We lost because the forwards didn’t score, not because the defence was weak!

Three – Because you don’t like Collins and Mick picks him, you (stupidly) call him ‘Mick’s favourite

Four – Because you like Kightly and Mick picks him. you call him things like ‘indispensible’

Five – If you were actually at the game last night and watched it sensibly, you would have noticed that Collins played better than Kightly.

Six – Actually, averaged out over the season, Collins is ahead of Kightly in performance terms.

Seven – Collins – the worst player ever to have put on a Wolves shirt? Nonsense, Nonsense, Nonsense. The best ever? Obviously not. The worst ever? Nowhere near. If you seriously think that, thank God you’re not in charge of scouting and buying players.

Eight – Sack Mick? Never been successful? (Quite a few managers would give their right arm for Mick’s level of lack of success) Worst state we’ve been in for years? Get a life! (Or maybe get a coaching qualification and do better!!) We’re top of the league, playing reasonably well, not having much luck and one or two players losing a bit of form (stand up please Mick’s lovechild(!) Mr Kightly)

Do you muppets honestly believe players will want to come here knowing that they might be slagged off by so-called fans before they’ve even kicked a ball in a match?

Forget the nonsense about Davies – this club did well by him and greed got the better of him. He was sent out to get fitness and then to improve his match-fitness for the high-tepo games Wolves play.

Amazing how so-called fans love the high-tempo game when we win but complain about Mick’s requirement for hard-work if we don’t win.

If you really don’t like what you’re watching that much, don’t go to the match. There are plenty of other clubs within travelling distance that would be happy to take your money off you.

Support the team, support the club, don’t turn against the players (now that’s a really sensible way of motivating them to do better, isn’t it?) Encourage the team. We will come good!

Best Wishes
David

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91.”we haven’t played well for a couple of months but why is everyone panicking?”are you for real you damn fool? another happy clapper who expects us southbank fans to shut our mouths and not voice our opinions when we are being served up tripe again and again its alright keep saying we’re still top,we won’t be much longer without 3 signings. 1)fast cb 2)an attacking midfielder and 3) a striker who knows where the net is and these don’t come for nothing you need to pay for quality, instead of buying loads of average players which is what we’ve accumulated at wolves ie)collins,keough,d.ward,shackell,hill all look no better than players already at the club especially shackell who looks as bad as collins(maybe its just his fitness?)so that means 3 c.backs all too slow, clumsy and as bad as one another, surely we’d have been better buying 2 quality signings instead of penny pinching all the time.come on steve+jez give mick the cash to strengthen the team or we will not make the top 2.has anyone else noticed cardiff flying up the table?oh and why did mick play 2 defensive midfielders in henry and quashie? and why did he take so long to change it? waiting till last 5 mins wot a joke. a goal down within a minute and mick waits till last 5 mins to make a change.come on mick don’t start going back to your old ways of last season and don’t keep blind faith in those players that are letting you down time after time. think i would give craddock a run out with stears we need an old head in the team someone who can talk a bit and organise and stop these pathetic goals being conceded. kightly may also need a rest too not performing lately maybe reid and jarvis on flanks.UP THE WOLVES!

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Slip slidin away
Slip slidin away
You know the nearer the playoffs
The more you’re slip slidin away

I know a man
He came from my home town
He wore his passion for his team
Like a thorny crown
He said Mick
I live in fear
My love for Wolves is so overpowering
I’m afraid that we won’t be going up

Slip slidin away
Slip slidin away
You know the nearer the playoffs
The more you’re slip slidin away

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Anyone else heard Mick’s opinion of the own goal?

Have a look on the guardian website for Mick McCarthy’s rant.

Classic

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I would like to operate on David pathetic comments. A prized village idiot you really are!

1) I watch the highlight and Collins head was a schoolboy header fit for sunday league, Henners had no chance in saving it. What a plank!

2) Our defensive set meant that the Reading forwards didnt get a look in, i.e we had 6 defensive minded players in that side what did you expect??

3) Collins is Mick’s favourite, a blind man can see that. Evident as after the match MM was fuming not about the sending off which in my opinion was a lack of discipline, but fuming about the Reading players. If that was Freddy getting sent off you would have got a different reaction from MM.

4) Doesnt make sense!

5) I didnt go to the match, but the last time I checked Collins scored an own goal so that him a better player that Kites. Also it might have escaped your attention that they both play in different positions.

6) A comical statement, Collins performances have been absymal. You need a memory enhancement if you think of the assists and goals that Kites have scored rather than the shocking defensive performances of Collins.

7) Collins is heading to be the worst player ever to play in a wolves shirt. He is getting up to the standard of Robert Taylor & Claridge!

8) MM will get the sack if wolves blow this chance of promotion. How can you say Kites is MM lovechild, he has been excellent and worthy of his place, Collins is a shocking, slow, inept player but still gets picked week in and week out……

Conclusion, David I doubt very much you go to wolves match. Otherwise if you did you would realise your comment is nothing more that a moronic, idiotic ramblings of a deluded village prat.

JOG ON!

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Mick is clueless when it comes to spending more than £250k on a lower league player. If that is all we are willing to pay for a player then we deserve to be in the Championship forever.

Time for Jez to pull a deal out of the bag, not another useless loan like Reid or Quashie, but a quality player who is the missing piece of the puzzle.

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Bob Wolf

What about SEB, Stearman, Foley, Elokobi, Illewemo & Jarvis.

I understand its frustrating at the moment, but we’ve got to be balanced in our critisisms.

Keep the faith

Wolves forever

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193. David

another “happy-clapper” i guess, loving that term fellas! anyway, i think the fella from 178 who you so expertly put-down was saying 7 points is the MINIMUM TARGET, not the actual minimum.

not so clever and sarcy now are we….?

get ya facts right, thicket.

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200 – just as I suspected. Most of the people making the copycat comments in this thread were not at the match.

I’ll say it for you in simple terms, shall I?

Mick picks Collins and Kightly. Because you don’t like Collins you call him Mick’s Lovechild (a stupid description to begin with). Because you do like Kightly, you call him something else. Where is there any semblance of logic in your remarks.

Thank you for pointing out to us that Collins and Kightly play in different positions. That was a tricky one!

Averaged out over the season, their performances in their respective positions, Collins is ahead of Kightly. Some of Collins’ defensive displays have been awesome. Some of Kightly’s midfield displays have been dispirited, unenergetic and lacking imagination. Kightly has been directly responsible for several goals against with pathetic misdiredted passes. Sorry I’ve forgotten – you don’t actually watch the play in matches carefully.

The pathetic moaners and whingers who call themselves Wolves fans are making our club a laughing stock up and down the country, slagging players off before the ink on their contract is dry. Moaning about them before they have even played a game. That’s why players won’t want to come here. Because of you!!! Support the team or go away!!!!!!!!!! Stop making my team and the team of all the true supporters a laughing stock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Collins – the worst player ever to play for Wolves. You really have no idea, do you. In at least one game, Collins’ positional play got Mancienne out of trouble on numerous occasions, when Mancienne got caught out of position and got turned quickly.

Remember this: If Mancienne is as great as many people claim and he is available for 3 million pounds, why are Wolves first in the list to get him? Why hasn’t he gone to a Premier Club? Why hasn’t a foreign team signed him at what would be for them a bargain price?

Just one last thing for now – Stephen Ward has been awesome at left-back – to the point of him being considered for the international team. Have you actually been watching?

Everey season every team in every league in every country has a bad spell – we’re having one. NOW is the time to SUPPORT the team and NOT to moan and whinge. We have a great opportunity in the matches ahead of us. Birmingham and Reading still have to play each other again. What counts is where we are at the end of the season – we will come good and then you can pretend to be a true and loyal fan again.

Best Wishes
David

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Sign Berra, sign Davenport, then we dont need Mancienne. Yes Mancienne is a very good defender, but looked average against birmingham at home and avergae against QPR away, Stearman was class against the Blues and QPR so why waste 3million on Mancienne when clearly a premiership proven defender like Davenport, and by far Hearts’ best player Berra, would be better.

Kightly needs a few games on the bench to regain his desire and hunger on the pitch.

He needs to play Kyle Reid, because he too is pacey, and works hard and played really well against Middlesborough.

And for all the Albion fans out there, next season is our turn in the Premier League. But this time we will show you how its done.

COME ON YOU WOLVES!!!!!!!!!!

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What an absolutely stunning post, haven’t alawys agreed with in the past, but here here, thats what this is all about!!!!

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