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Wolves in pole position for Berra
Thursday 29th January 2009, 11:41AM GMT.
Wolves are in pole position to land Hearts defender Christophe Berra and are hopeful their offer will be accepted.
The Molineux club’s £2million bid is the only one on the table for Berra. Sources reckon Hearts officials are meeting to discuss the swoop for the Scotland international.
The Tynecastle club want £3million for one of their star assets, but have seen efforts to attract rival offers hit the buffers despite calls to Everton, Portsmouth, Bolton and Sheffield United.
Sunderland have also joined the chase but are believed to have another preferred choice. That leaves Wolves in pole position to land the Jambos captain, who turns 24 on Saturday.
Difficulty in contacting Hearts’ Lithuanian power brokers has led to Wolves remaining extremely cautious on the prospects of the deal.
In any case, they are ploughing on with other potential deals – including the prospect of Chelsea defender Michael Mancienne returning to Molineux.
Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey said: “We’re keeping our options open.”
A couple of outgoing deals could also hinge on the Berra transfer. Out of favour centre-halves Jody Craddock and Darren Ward are keen to get first team football and could leave on loan.
Wolves have until 5pm on Monday to complete their transfer business.
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please wolves get in Berra and Mancienne. That all us fans are asking for just spend the 7-8 mil on them! Up The Wolves
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Do some people need reminding of where we are in the league when they make their Mad Mick or Muppet Mick comments? Are they not happy that we’re top of the league at this stage?
I’ll admit, Collins is not the best CB in the league, but compared to what I’ve seen of Shackell, he’s Rio Ferdinand. At the moment, he’s the best we’ve got, so get behind him and the rest of the team.
After the Doncaster match, I looked at our fixtures and said we’d be lucky to be top after the Reading game. We are and now 4 of our next 6 matches are at home and in those matches and on these message boards, that I’m sure some of the players read, we need to be 100% behind the lads.
If you’ve got nothing positive to say, say nothing!!!!
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Don’t know anything about Berra. But know about Michael M and it would be great to get him back. He is sorely missed!!
Our strike force seems to have gone to sleep which is worrying..
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Offer 2m + Collins for Berra. I will drive Collins up there myself….
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will some one get off there arse ie,moxey or someone and go up scotland to see wats goin on before some other team does start bidding for god sake
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looks like a quiet day in the press! repeating the same old storied! I will believe this if and when it happens.
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we realy need a centre half manceinne is my first choice how good is this berra is he any better than what we have allready,i just have a bad feeling in my water about how the season is going to finish (youv let me down again mark2)hope i am wrong lets hope the team become battlers and not bottlers
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Well I said on an earlier post I would be amazed if we signed him ,so I will eat humble pie if he comes here.I still think we need another central midfield player.
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Berra and Mancienne would be great business but I am not sure that this story actually says as much. Indeed, I’m not sure that it actually says anything at all !!!! Wake me up when there is something concrete to report.
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lol 4 and i will come with you and share the driveing
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Why would Berra want to come when he knows that Collins will always be ahead in the pecking order??
We need to sack Mick and Jez and put Ince in charge/in the centre of midfield.
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Id rather be top at the end of the season than now. Being top in Feb mean nothing! It matters at the end.
7 wins is all that is really needed but its been 7 wins since boxing day. People are understandably nervous and worried. If we had won at Brisol and Blackpool we would of been 9 games from promotion. 9 out of 17 looks better than 11 out of 17.
I have a feeling 3 teams will get above 90 points this year!
So keep cheering the boys on, whoever is playing! 2 this week and that leaves us with 5 wins! And beat Cov, well then thats down to eight wins! It could all be decided on the last day, I dont mind being 3rd on last day and a point behind blues or level on points. They have Reading away and we have donny at home! IT AINT OVER TILL ITS OVER!
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Bring back Bob Hazel
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Sorry should read 11 wins is all thats needed and been in 11 since boxing day*
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…….and I’ll pay for the petrol(4 and 10).
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Whilst I would welcome some extra competition for places I’m more than happy with what we already have at our disposal.
We will go up as champions regardless of whether we sign anyone or not.
Collins is more than good enough as first choice centre half. Shackell is a worthy deputy.
We’ve not missed Mancienne since he departed so I’ve no worries over the next 17 games.
YOU’RE PARLIMENTARY REP HAS SPOKEN!
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LOL 4!
I think every fan feels the same!
maybe we can include Jez too?
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Craddock was first choice and captain get him back in don’t waste time messing about in Scotland
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Roll on Monday this cat n mouse stuff is doin my head in
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morgan won’t let mad mick spend the money as he can see he has no idea and is inept with his tactics. Get ince in as manager and finish the job in style.
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Some Wolves fans really make me laugh. Is there any wonder that players suffer nerves. For years they’ve said the pressure is at times unbearable and that comes from the fans.
Granted we’re not playing as well as we have done but we are FOUR POINTS CLEAR of Brum for automatic promotion and you get some idiots saying MM and Moxey should be sacked!!! With comments like that you can see why other sides supporters laugh at us sometimes.
We do need a central defender and I will question the decisions if we fail to acquire one come Monday night. But please, don’t lets get hysterical and put things in perspective. I’m sure the Bluenoses would still swap their position with ours.
We are Wolves!!!
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11 – Bob Wolf, do you cut and past the same comment for every article. You clearly have no idea do you!? When Mick got Mancienne in first time, did he play Collins ahead of him? So why would he if he spent £2-3 million on a new centre half. You really are clueless!!
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Moxey & McCarthy will pussyfoot around and either miss out or panic buy throw money at someone who languishes in the reserves.
Why can’t Morgan see the club and the job are far too big for either of them.
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As I have said before I believe we could get Mancienne for £3 million. I would prefer him to Berra.
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Have just read Marvin Elliott is out for 6 weeks with a torn groin, so he can be stuck off the list!!!!
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Bob wolf – thats the thickest post ive read in ages……
I am a bit annoyed at the club for now almost having to rush transfers through for Monday. We should have had contingousy plans in place for the start of the window. No offence to Collins but most fans knew if Macienne was injured or suspended we didnt have quality cover for him. For this reason I think we need 2 defenders in in case of injury. I would not ideally have Collins even on the bench. Its not his fault and he does try but he isnt good enough for this league.
I also think Ebanks and Iwelumo need a kick up the backside, Vokes needs a start. I would also drop Kightly on Saturday and play Reid as he hasnt looked anywhere near the player for months now and at times he looks like a pre madonna…….I hope he gets his magic back soon but Reid looked handy against Boro and actually ran at players like kights used to do.
Overall, we are in a great position but we need to strengthen at the back and sharpen up at the front. Fairly obvious isnt it when we have taken 3 points from 18…………….
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Same old stories and nothing happening!
Last minute.com once again when it comes to the transfer window…please dont let it go to the last day…I still have nightmares of us signing steve claridge and Michael Gilkes on deadline day!
Tick Tock…..
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Bob Wolf, what planet are you on?
Is top of the league not good enough for you?
Please don’t go on Saturday if you were planning to. We need true fans there, not unrealistic whingers.
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11 If you wanted to be silly, you could not have done better!
What have Ince proved outside the playing field? We are still top and we have practically only one difficult match left (against the blues). I am not saying that we will win all others but we should stay positive and be a support(er) and not some silly fan(atic).
Berra is good from what I have seen on TV.
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Hearts are trying to get more than £2 million but is highly unlikely that they will. Most players in their league are not good enough for the Premiership. This is a bit of a gamble on Wolves part and I still think we need to persuade Big Phil that Mancienne is better off here. In my opinion, MM should be first on our radar and Berra second!
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if any proof was ever needed that bob wolf is a baggie of a member of the e&s staff, then post 11 is the proof.
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Would like to think that Collins has just played his last game for us but somehow I don’t think so. We desperately need a clean sheet and a win even if it is 1-0 off 3 players’ backsides!!
A quality forward alongside SEB would also be nice, perhaps Fryatt from Leicester.
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TelfordWolf – I take it you weren’t there on Boxing Day against Sheffield when Ward and Collins were playing and Mancienne on the bench? Despite Ward getting ripped apart, it took him an hour to replace him. That is why Mick should be sacked.
RichWolves – Reid is useless. Yes, he put in a good shift about Boro but I remember his crossing landing in the front row of the stand!!
Shamrock – we are top now, but won’t be come the end of the season. I’ve seen the failure under Taylor, McGhee and Jones from this position.
Mick out!!
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My previous comment applies to number 20 and 23 as well. Please don’t go on Saturday and if you do, remember… WE ARE TOP OF THE LEAGUE!!!
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belive it when i see it morgan will not spend and he is telling moxley not to red and white in his blood not gold and black like we cut and run like sir jack if ever back in the prem
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Just done a Championship predictor on another website.
I have put us to win all our home games and lose all away games. That puts us on 86 points!
But we have some really winnable away games Derby, Forest, Sheff Weds, Barnsley. Then some games we could something out of on a good day Coventry, Burnley, Palace. Blues away I would gladly take a point. Only 3 games at home we will have to be at our best… Cardiff, QPR and Ipswich. All other “should” be an easy 3 points. Dont panic people, see where we are in over a weeks time (9th Feb) Should be 6 points better of if not 9!
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16 When you wake up from your slumbers reality will hit home!!!!
Next you will be saying that Keogh is our best striker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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sky sports reckon that sheff united are favs to sign him they got beattie money too.
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No 16 Parliamentary rep or not – what utter rubbish ! Claiming that we have not missed Mancienne and that Collins is a more than good enough centre half, sounds as if you are on planet Mick!
What games have you been watching lately ?
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Cavil Wolves – I love your comment
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Think maybe Bob Wolf was being a little sarcastic – he has a point – MM spent over a million on Shackell, but won’t put him in over Collins, no matter what. And don’t anyone tell me that Shackell’s no better, because the lad hasn’t had a run in the team yet.
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so no news at all then . if the wolves people are flapping a couple of million about and cant speak to anyone .. picture this .. back door creeks open .. a covert whistle ..and in a muffled scottish voice ” hey laddie . are ye express and star … ill talke to you but not these lot with the money .
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Bob is not a baggie and he is not a member of the e&s staff!
i know that for a fact!
so if he was a baggie how did he know that we are gonna sign mancienne before the end of the tranfer window?
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i wouldn’t pay anything more for a defender who plays in the subbuteo league.
why not go for proven good defenders like the two at burnley or sean st ledger of preston. we see them week in week out play well. how many of us have seen this superstar berra play?
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This article is purely a comment passed by E&S without anything added from the club from yesterday. It says Wolves are the only known (to the E&S) club to have an offer on the table for Berra and that the offer is a million short of the asking price (I thought Jez liked to keep fees undisclosed, but clearly he has publicised this offer to the press).
We are being described as ploughing on trying to get the Mancienne deal together. But remember, since we last had Mancienne he has since been in an England squad and his profile has been raised a fair bit. He’s not an unknown kid.
I don’t want to pour water on any of this excitement as with Mancienne in the defence Wolves go up, with Collins we don’t (it really is that simple), but I for one am going to wait and see.
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How can some of you say shackell isn;t good enough whats he started 3/4 games 1 agasint boro prem oposition ya can’t judge him by any seeing him in a few games. As much as I want to see Neill Collins prove he is a decent CB it just isn’t gonna hapen and I think agaisnt reading it summed him up completely. Yes Collins does score goals and has got us a share of points but put that against how many goals which were his fault and points he has cost us (Preston, Bristal City, Reading to name a few). Shackell cannot be compared to Collins and definatly isn’t any worse then him. Critise Shackell when he has had a good run in the team.
Stearmen doesn’t look confident along side Collins as he did with Mancienne his game has got worse along side Collins.
Berra never saw him play just heard the hype lets just hope if we do sign him he adapts pretty damn sharpish to this league.
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4, 11 and 15 i feel a bit of a rooad trip coming on lets get a coach and tie collins to the roof watch out hearts collins is on his way!!!
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Any true wolves fan that knows anything about football knows were in a false position. We are currently not good enough to go up. Mick mcarthy will get us up if he stops playing his boys! END OF! collins and keogh should not be playing! everyone can see that apart from him! his stuborness will cost us promotion! If bera is the answer then pay the extra Million to get him! If mick thinks hes the answer and he will get us up then surely the Million is a fine investment for the 35million you get for promotion! We need a centre half,a central midfielder and another forward by monday! if we dont we wont go up simple as! if anyone disagress with this then your a clueless wolves fan. Jez needs to spend and Mick needs to drop his boys!
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Nice comback bob!
shows how much some of these so called fans know!
Collins out!
Jez out!
Mad Mick out!
Ince in!
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10 not 11
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43,
why, have we signed him?
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Remember … The Transfer Window is like a Pyramid … we’ve just got to wait for the bigger moves to happen and everything will filter down a layer
As much as we would like to conclude business mid Jan etc ..it wont and never will happen
If it did we would be after the wrong players ie ones no one else is interested in or potentially interested in ..something that happened regularly in the ‘Golden Tit’ era of Sir Jack
Its how the ‘Business’ of Football works nowadays … whether we like it or not
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4, 10 – I’ll chip in for the petrol
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not yet,
but we will!
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ShamrockMick! Hello this is earth calling!!
We have not won a game since mid December.
Remember the last collapse we had???
I will be there Saturday supporting the lads in the shirts not the SUITS!!!!!
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How is it that bob and myself have been saying get rid of collins and mick for months,
then collins puts in a bad performance (or several) then everyone turns on them yesterday, then today its keep the faith?
and you talk about fickle fans,can u lot not make up your minds or do u always follow the trends?
call yourself football fans?
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No 23 – why post in that name – if you knew TD you wouldnt use his name like that. TD is a very polite and professional chap.
Express & Star shouldn’t print names like that surely you have a responsibility to edit !!!
No 2. Well said – we are top of the league and come what may in the transfers get behind the team
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Rather play Craddock, this is a guy that plays against nobodys week in week out. To me were looking in the wrong place, we ever thought of signing a foriegn player or championship player
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Its time Shackell and Stearmen were given a fair chance at the centre of defence More than 1 game together Collins has been a Donkey all season We all now that !
But havent we had quite a few under performing players ( The goals have dried up when we need them), Kightly just isn,t producing, Hennesey looks like hes going to flap at everything.
Is it that us Wolves supporters have thought that we are actually better than we are !
I agree with most supporters MM has his favourites. If we do go up we have to spend a small fortune to stay there !
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How Mick can select Collins ahead of Shackell is beyond me. He pays £1m for a defender, and then plays a man who last year broke the world record for number of penalties conceded.
Then his other favourite Ward is replaced by the pace-man Jarvis, so he creates a role for him at full back.
And now, when Iwelumo can’t win a thing in the air and gives away foul after foul, he plays Keogh rather than Vokes, who wins everything in the air, holds the ball up well and scores goals. If you play with 2 wingers who put balls into the mixer, get the big man on the end of them!!
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So your moaning has now has been extended to Ward now as well has it!? The guy has been a revelation at left back, and I would play him there over Hill everytime. Wasn’t Mancienne ill the previous week and Collins had stepped in and done more than a good job (Score the winner)? How can you say that Mick would pick Collins over Berra if we bought him. You have no idea! Your boo boy mentality is not needed, go play in the traffic or get yourself back down the Poorthorns to watch your team!
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Wolfy in disguise?
I though Raffo was the biggest pillock on here but you’ve suceeded in overtaking him. What an absolute mug you are.
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Will Hearts Take £3m plus Neil Collins?
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I love this message boards, lets face it we ALL are a bunch of whingers lol.
2 points
1) E&S this story is rubbish, same as yesterday
2) Bob Wolf, Get a grip or have a lie down, your lust for Collins and Ward is very distrubing. YOU STALKER!
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Nice to see your comment on wolves is to put someone else down.
sticks and stones hey,
Nice of you to share your wisdom with everyone else,
Ill take it with a pinch of salt,
As i know which hole you talk out of!
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We all know we need a decent left sided cental defender,and have needed one since they flogged Lescott for £6M.But at this stage of the season I would actually prefer they spent every penny availble on a top quality striker to partner SEB.Someone with pace and power.Vokes has lots of potential but he is a kid,Iwelumo lacks pace and is out of form,and Keogh will never score the goals.
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Sorry, my comment at 61 was aimed at Bob Wolf again!
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54,
Hope your right!!
How do u know???
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Keep your opinions to yourself Wordsley you muppet.
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I knew I had seen Collin’s face before and it explains how he plays – I reckon he is the love child of Frank Spencer – well intentioned but everything he touches turns to disaster
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We must get quality into the defence. The last time we blew it and the scummers pipped us we had Muscat sent off against Grimsby(towards the end of the season). Jones said he would never play again. Useless moxey didnt back Jones so what did we get? Gunnar Halle on a free! Enough said. The rest is history
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To messers “Wolfie in diguise” and “Bob Wolf”. I’m afraid you really haven’t a clue. Do you think comments like Mick out and get Ince in will help?
And to answer Bob wolf, I’m afriad you have NEVER seen us lose this position under any manger before simply because we’ve NEVER been in this position before. Taylor, McGhee, Jones and even Turner never got us to this points tally at this stage or several points clear as we were a couple of weeks ago. That’s what happens when you have points in hand it protects you from a bad run.
In 10 days time we could be 5/6 points clear again all we need is a decent support. Not you – stay away donuts.
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my comment 65 was aimed at wordsley muggins,
these comment numbers keep changing!
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Hampshire wolf,
Thats billiant!
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surrey olly
shows how little you know about wolves,
2002 under dave jones were we not 12 points clear then lost to norwich in the playoffs?
us messers seem to know a little about wolves and their history,
Maybe next time, in like 5 years time if u go to every wolves match you might remember some facts,
rubbish comments like yours dont help!
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57. Can I just point out to Northern Wolf that I am not really George Berry
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Let’s hope this current run of form (13 points from 10 games OR 3 points from 5 games, whichever way you look at it) is just a ‘blip’. I hope so. It’s time to draw a line under the season now and look forward to the task ahead. In my book, even if Blues average 2 points per game (championship form) from now on they will achieve 89 points. I can’t see that happening. We need to aim for around 85/86 points I reckon. Good luck to Wolves on Saturday.
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Wolf in disguise/Hampshire, it’s not really is it!? It’s just a little bit pathetic isn’t it! I really do feel sorry for some of you!
Support the team you love, otherwise don’t bother, and if you are a Baggie wum, surely you should be more concerned about your own club!
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As a Wolves fan,living in Scotland ive seen berra play live many times and im telling you he is rubbish,no better than collins,fans wanting the board to splash out 3m on this guy,must have never seen him play,he struggles against the likes of St Mirren and Inverness,god help him if hes playing a good side,3m,your having a laugh.
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How people can come out and support Collins and Micks decisions is beyond me.
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Your falling for it again,the window is nearly closed and we have supposedly made a couple of million (Davis)and spent nothing,Mr Morgans wallet still hasnt been opened.People are saying were top of the league,,we are,but we are going backwards,our management are happy to have 26000 buying tickets every week,in the championship,no premiership players to buy,no premiership wages to pay,no need to spend any money.Well they should be happy because we wont be going up,in a couple of weeks we will be out of the top two,and we will get beat in the play offs.
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If Collins (after his suspension)and Shackell are our 1st choice cb’s for the rest of the season we will miss out in the playoffs! Don’t know much about this Berra (but he experienced and is the right age, and must be a big improvement on either of those two). If we don’t get him, I would love to get Mancienne back and pair him with Stearman. Also I think we need some more firepower up front as Iwelumo and Ebanks Blake have gone off the boil, cheap option could be Mifsud from Coventry.
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62,UR THE MUG
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I think we’re holding out for Rio Ferdinand.
A bloke down the pubs mate told him Rio’s not really injured – He’s on strike because Sir Alex won’t let him come to the Molineux.
It’s only a game boys, It’s only a game!
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I believe were going to miss out on berra, apparently ricky s the sunderland manager has been watching him for a while & is set to mat
ch wolves offer & the sol campbelk pumour is just a smoke screen.
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Have to agree. Ive been saying for years. This club under the guidance of moxey has no ambition. Thats why MM is manager. They are happy to be competing for a play off place, but do they really want wolves to go up? No, I don’t think they do. We scratch around for players nearly all of which are poor to fair, none are real quality good enough for the premiership.
If you think back to the days when we had Keane and Lescott, now they were quality and we have no one that comes close in this squad.
I’m happy to have a bet we wont go up this year, but MM will be in charge next, and the endless monotony of championship football will roll on .
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4, 12 and 15 lol – and I’ll make you all a packed lunch!
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64,
I take, by your lack of a response that you dont actually know then!!!
Waste of time, why bother!!!!
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I think it i sfair to say that no Wolves manager in recent history has managed to split the Wolves fans to the extent that MM has. That is the measure of the man and says everything about him that you need to know.
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Scottish Wolf….. Thanks for an opinion from someone who has actually seen this guy play! Some idiots just want us to spend for the sake of spending!
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Berra a Scot of French descent. Just how will he communicate with the rest of the team leave alone Mick.
As I have never seen the bloke play unlike Scottish Wolf I hold my council. Thanks for the input Scotty.
Surely the management are looking in more than one place. Past events suggest that they will spring a surprise at the last moment. Then as usual most will say, ‘well I never saw that one coming’
Up The Wolves.
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Berra….Haven’t seen him play but if he was any good Rangers or Celtic would have bought him before now. Three international caps with the competition he faces for those positions doesn’t fill me with confidence nor does the fact that Mcleish is in the market for a centre back and Berra isn’t on his radar and he will have seen plenty of him. Could be wrong but circumstantial evidence is pretty convincing and thats all we have if we haven’t seen him play!
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time for shackell to have a run with stearman what he played 5/6 game in all but all but one with collins,so who know if he any good? collins can not read the game so is going to get caught out.berra not that good yes better than collins but not 3m 2m tops.but i did not want m.m in the first place now even less if you are one of his boys you will lots of chance but if not 1/2 game at must to prove your self, but i will not be putting money on us going up.
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55 Yes, I remember the last ‘collapse’ we had. Was it when we lost 3out of 4 earlier in the season and fickle supporters were calling for MM to be sacked. That’s right, we won 7 on the trot.
I’m not saying we’re going to do that now, but at least support the team and not constantly whinge because we’re not 15 points clear and spending money we haven’t got
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Forget that 11 points clear 5 weeks ago!playing poor coceding goals bubble burst!play-offs for us lose that MM sacked and another year of miserey!
Need to strengthen not enough old heads to carry us through!
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The Times newspaper reports Sunderland are after Christophe Berra for around 3m? Bolton and Fulham are also interested, no doubt the guy would fancy a move to a premier league club rather than us.
I’ll trust a national newspaper over repeated information of E&S.
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i think mick should just result back to the orginal plan of craddock and stearman experience and youth , quick and slow , should b an evened out combination
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At the start of the season and up to November we were playing good attractive football,ALSO the ball ran for us,that luck has turned against us and that allied to the stupid selection of Collins and the bringing back of Keough,has made both the defence vunerable and the attack goal-less,SIMPLES PEEPS!!!
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Bob Wolf said: Jan 29th, 2009 at 12:42 pm TelfordWolf – I take it you weren’t there on Boxing Day against Sheffield when Ward and Collins were playing and Mancienne on the bench? Despite Ward getting ripped apart, it took him an hour to replace him. That is why Mick should be sacked.
RichWolves – Reid is useless. Yes, he put in a good shift about Boro but I remember his crossing landing in the front row of the stand!!
Shamrock – we are top now, but won’t be come the end of the season. I’ve seen the failure under Taylor, McGhee and Jones from this position.
Mick out!!
Hi Bob, i feel i have to chime in here!
I was there on boxing day, Mancienne was out of the team that day having been suffering from a virus that was going round at the time, he was on the bench because of his commitment to carry on playing. This virus also effected Stephen Ward who (foolishly i will admit) wore his heart on his sleeve and played on when he possibly shouldnt have. I would love to see you play football against one of the nippiest wingers in the league when you cant keep your bowels in check!
We are top of the league because we deserve to be top of the league. There are 23 other teams in that division that would bend the earth to be there, show some support you muppet. Dont get me wrong, i agree with getting collins out as quick as possible, but if you were a proper supporter you’d show support to anyone who wore gold and black.
As for your “Mick Out, Ince In” ideas. Where are you getting the idea that ince would finish the job when part of the reason he was sacked from his role at blackburn is because he kept crippling his players on the training pitch? Becuase that is exactly what we need, SEB, Iwelumo, Kights, Jarvo and Foley out cuz your manager cant differentiate between training ground and his midfielder days from 10 years ago!
YOU OUT, MICK AND MOXEY TO STAY….
Tool
Up The Wolves!
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We WILL get promotion, I have 100% faith in that. Maybe not first.. But second at the least, Reading match is out of the way now, we can get back on form hopefully and show the next 4 teams to play us why we are top. Vital match Saturday, but we WILL win. We’ve had good, we’ve had bad, but we are the mighty Wolves! Get behind the lads and Mick, and keep the faith.
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support the boys including collins for the rest of the season, get behind them no matter what.Hearts manager sounds like hes resigned to losing Berra.Well done to the wolves away supporters.
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MM,
Please offer whatever it takes to get Berra & also an extra £ 500K to take Collins also !
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Not much time left now in the ‘window’ time for the ‘Loan arranger@ and ‘Tonto’ Moxey to step in. If I remember right Moxey came from ‘Stoke’ to Wolves. Where are Stoke now he has gone, and admittedly we may be playing them in the Championship next season BUT at least they are there.
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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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Well, I admit that I was caught up in the euphoria and started to believe that Wolves had altered their business plan and were going to take the riskier route into the Premiership.
Now it is obvious that nothing has altered and in a few weeks time we will be in 3rd place and then struggling to make the playoffs.
The killing that Mr Morgan will make over the close season as we sell our cream is mind-blowing, I estimate that Mr Morgan could turn his £1 investment in Wolves into £20M at least, possibly more.
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we want collins out we want collins out
we want collins out we want collins out
we want collins out we want collins out
we want collins out we want collins out
we want collins out we want collins out
do you get the message mick/gez
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Interesting choice. See pictures 5 and 7 in Career to date. Should fit it nicely!!!!
Collins No 2 possibly?
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Sorry should have said 4 not 5.
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I’d be happy if we signed Berra or Mancienne,But until then let’s partner Stearman with Craddock. Our back five lacks expierience. Having someone who can read the game and organise them can only be a good thing.
Collins is not the answer, he gets found out week in week out at championship level!
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Calm down…calm down…if we all think we know the problems, I’m sure big Mike can fathom it out.
I never thought i’d say this but I was actually PLEASED that a certain red card was issued! Now Shackel will HAVE to play and what better than against Watford and his old club at home?
I’m still glad I put my £100 each way for auto – just watch us turn the afterburners on over the next six games!!
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Bob Wolf, Raffo and wolfie is disguise.
You three Morons should pack in now and go back to play school. All your posts are full of bile and not a jot of anything constructive or positive. I would have suggested that you go and follow the Saddlers but they have never done anything to upset me so go and watch the Boggies, you deserve each other
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Go to google and type in ‘spl highlights’ to get a look at Berra in action. Don’t know who Scottish wolf is but you only have his word for it that he is a ‘Scottish wolf’. Whereas if you check out the highlights you can make your own mind up. SW is entitled to his opinions, but the majority of fans up here believe Berra is the best centre half to come out of Scotland in a long, long time. As for Celtic or Rangers, both have expressed an interest, but ‘Mad Vlad’ hates them with a vengeance and wouldn’t give them a heat of his poop on a cold winters night.
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16. you are a comedien. when was the last time you watched wolves? we havent played well for ages can’t keep clean sheets, strikers have stopped scoring,midfielders not scoring,not creating many chances either,players confidence seems to have drained away.kightly is a passenger of late.but apart from that everything is great and you think we’re gonna walk the league(hope you’re right)personally i think we need at least 3 new players. 1)an attacking midfielder.2)pacy centre back (mancienne hopefully).3)a decent forward who knows where the net is (like the look of ross mcormack of cardiff a future star in my opinion
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26 rich5wolves.absolutely spot on with all your comms.our players need to shape up, think some of them think they’re already in the premier league.
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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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Tamworth/Derby Wolfs – coming from those dumps just about sums you up, so why don’t you do one. Next time, don’t feel free to ‘chime in’ and keep your useless opinions to yourself.
Collins Out, Ward Out, Mick Out, Jez Out and Morgan Out. Noddy Holder and Ince IN.
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Sack mick? Who sacks their manager when they are top of the league????? PPPLLLEEEAAASSSEEE!!!!
Some of you have spent too long on Champ Manager. You speak about “Sign this player,” or “sign that player,” etc. You forget some things that happen in the real world. these include:-
1. the team owning the player has to want to sell.
2. the player has to be better than who he is replacing.
3. What will the signing do to dressing-room morale. (Is he a “Big-time Charlie,” etc.)
4. Will he hit a goal-drought, patch of indifferent form, etc just like some of our existing players are doing at the moment.
5. Do you know more than Mick as to who is any good or not. (The answer to that is probably, “NO.”)
6. Does he fit in well with the method of play where he is at, but might not at Wolves.
7. Does he want to come.
8. After his first game that he is not world class will you lot boo him, and insist he be dropped, sold, and replaced with a new player of your choice.
Let’s get behind the players and manager we have. After all, they have gotten us to the top of the league.
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Tamworth wolf,
I have to say i think we are all being constructive in saying get collins out!
As the majority of people on here agree with, or can you only read a certain number of comments?
Derby wolf,
Are you at every game showing your support to the players wearing gold and black?
Chime off tool!
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Just read on Wolves club pages that MM says now little chance of sigming Berra. Onward!
Up The Wolves
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after just watching the lot from small heath we have no prblems being promoted!bring it on ,mick is god.
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