Mick would be well advised to concentrate on picking his best team. His stubborn streak in trying to prove fans are wrong about his favourites does nobody any favours.

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I heard no booing. I heard the cheers but they was directed at Mick, thats why we sang his name! Play players in thier correct postion, the old cliche of square pegs in round holes comes to mind (Very effective last season that method!). Reid should of come on for Kites to maintain the width!!

If Mick believes in so much in Keogh then why move him from up front??? Surely that is going to knock the lads confidence infront of goal!

Also what if a defender had got injured last night, would he of moved Keogh to centre half?

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I do however think MM is a good manager but like everybody he is not perfect.

Therefore I believe its time MM looked at some of his decisions and become a man and admitted his mistakes instead of constantly blaming everybody and anybody else!

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Unfortunately, the manager is hanging him out to dry out on the pitch, as 99 per cent of fans acknowledge he isn’t good enough.I felt genuinely sorry for him last night.
And while I don’t condone the booing or ironic cheers, there is no way he deserves a place in the team.
The argument that ‘Wolves play better with him in the side’ is a complete fallacy. We played our best football at home to Notts Forest / Sheff Wed, away to Preston, etc, when he was out of the firing line.
Mick has criticised Iwelumo for not scoring in 6, while Kevin Doyle has got 2 in 11 for Reading. Would Coppell drop him? No chance, would he criticise him publicly? No chance.
Mick’s double standards and favourites policy are the problem here, and the fans are showing their frustrations because of it.

I’d like to see: a) fans laying off Keogh, but more importantly, b) Mick picking his best team each week.

This issue is a sub plot to the wider storyline – namely that we will throw this magnificent season away if we are not careful.

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If MM picked his strongest side then perhaps he wouldnt need to be making stupid comments. Strikers are paid to score and he aint doing it!

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The way MM turned to us last night with his sarcastic clapping was a disgrace. I pay my money and am entitled to my opinion and how I voice that opinion.

1. Keogh probably shouldn’t have started.
2. If MM had subbed him after about 60 mins not at the end there wouldn’t have been such an uproar, the problem is entirely his own making.
3. Players like Jarvis and Iwelumo shouldn’t come out saying Keogh was awesome last night, that’s just taking the p*ss out of us who were actually there and have a brain

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listen here mick i pay my 400 pound every year i pay part of yours and keoghs wages and if i fink keogh is usless im gunna tell him and you hes usless. so stop tellin us to lay off him andpick your best team he a striker thats affraid to shoot wheres that going to get anybody.

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Keogh is just the latest in a long line of scapegoats. He wasn’t great last night in front of goal, he missed two sitters in my opinion, but he didn’t let in 3 goals. The defence, or at least some of them, were the issue last night. Let’s hope Berra makes a difference because it’s needed.

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Ok, let’s clear up one myth here. THAT HEADER… he didn’t try to square it at all. I was stood (yes stood!) at the perfect angle to see it. It came over a defender, Keogh wasn’t looking and it hit him on the head when he failed to anticipate (yet again) the possibility of more than one outcome to a situation.

He’s so incredibly lightweight it’s scary. His passing lacks conviction, he daren’t shoot and he’s a liability.

Stick a 16 year old kid into the team and he too will work his socks off and “put in a shift”… Keogh just isn’t good enough for us, we’ve outgrown him.

The ironic thing is, if keogh was a real greedy git and smacked the ball towards goal at every opportunity then the fans would love him. Instead he fannies about, tries to be too clever for his own good (which rarely works) and he tries threading little balls through smaller gaps.

Sorry andy, just not happening for you here and if you’re still in this squad come what may I’d be very upset with the favouritism shown towards you by our manager (who i do rate!)

all the best. Top of the league… etc etc

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iwelumo wasnt scoring goals so mick dropped him keogh has scored 4 all season how cum he hasnt dropped keogh as quick stop pickin your favourites or your gunna start 2 P**S people off

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7.You are right MM is hanging him out to dry.
Keogh will never get the amount of goals needed for a striker, even at Scunthorpe he was not prolific but did make the chances for Billy Sharpe to take advantage of.
He would be far better used playing behind the front pair, where he can win a ball and give positive passes from it, who knows he could be that ball playing midfielder we still need.
But please don’t Boo the lad, he wears the shirt!

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If Mick sat in the Steve Bull stand last night and saw Keogh’s contribution to the team in the second half when asked to play as a winger. He would get a totally different view from what he sees from the dugout. Keogh may give 100%, but the simple truth is that he is not good enough and has not really progressed over the two years he has been at Wolves. By Mick playing him in the wrong position he is destroying the player and I would bet that his confidence is now at rock bottom. Although I would not boo him, it is getting very frustration watching poor his performances week in week out.

Mick you need to stand up and take Keogh out of the firing line, before it becomes too late.

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I do feel for the lad.

But if he aint good enough, what else can you do but drop him and give someone else a chance.

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Keogh is awful – Mick picking him is as big a joke as picking Collins. He might think they are smashing lads, and they may be, but they are NOT GOOD ENOUGH!! How can he or Terry Connor not see it?! It could cost us big time

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some of you lot just dont get it, get behind the team, and Keogh. Nobody is going to play to full potential, especially at his young age, with 20,000 people bemoaning his every move.

The more i read these board the more i wish some of you would go off and support the albion.

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……Dear Mick, i work hard and put a shift in can i have a game please?
Nice bloke, runs his socks off, but so does zola budd………….

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I’m sorry right but where does this hard work myth about keogh come from. Last night he dawdled around at a snails pace for the 88 unjustified minutes of our time that he wasted.

What’s the use of a striker who not only won’t shoot, but ability wise, can’t shoot.

Can any of the keogh fan club possibly justify his place in the side ahead of Iwelumo, Vokes etc and can anyone please explain what he offers to the side. There is no pace, no aerial ability, no strength and no goals.

The ironic cheers last night were directed at the mug that continues to wrap keogh up in cotton wool and is waiting for something to happen from him so he can say ‘i told you so’ rather than making something happen himself

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Just one more point…
Mick and his favourites,
They’ve got us up to 5 points clear of second place.
That leaves not much room for questioning his judgment.

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The thing is mick has his favourites, Keogh and wardy spring to mind, they both work hard but keogh lacks confidence that showed last night near the end when he should have shoot on goal instead of passing back!! wardy was done with his lack of pace, we have a defender called matt hill!!! we need to cut out this crazy defending as i’m getting nervous now :{

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Keogh wasn’t the problem last night, the defence was. Keogh had a good game for 60 minutes.

Unfortunately, having a striker who will not shoot and thus cannot score limits the team greatly.

That said, the boy played well for most the game, so no I didn’t cheer his subsitution. I did clap him off and I did join the chant to give the lad a bit of support in light of the disgraceful treatment by our ‘fans’.

That said, I would rather see Vokes in the team in his place at the moment, as Vokes consistently works hard, wins headers and scores goals.

Time for him to be given his chance.

Up the Wolves.

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Yes indeed I do have to agree with Mick McCarthy that Andy Keogh is different class. We’re a Championship club and he’s a League One player. Fair enough we can’t question his effort but we can question his quality and decision making on the ball. We’re the fans and we can have our say whether Mick likes it or not, which he obviously doesn’t given his ironic clapping and gesticulating on the touchline.

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Look, how can we not boo him. He was awful last night and missed lots of decent chances. Why is mick playing him, Vokes has scored two goals in 2 games he deserves to start. You cant stick with your irish all the time mick.

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“awesome last night”

Chris, you should have gone to specsavers!

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i personally am disgusted by the way keogh is treated!!
i usually sit in the south bank but last night i moved to the steve bull due to the away fans being where i normally sit!!
i was apalled by the way keogh was booed & laid into! hes one of our lads & these same morons booing him were the same 1s cheering his goal on saturday against watford!!!
for once i was actually ashamed of the way a lot of our fans behaved towards one of our own!! keogh is a hardworking player & does not deserve the treatment he has been getting.
hes not the most natural goal scored but he works hard & creates chances – even when playing out of position!! LAY OFF HIM!!!!

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So losing the ball 7 times out of 10, poor decision making, having a slow footballing brain, being unable/reluctant to shoot is deemed “different class” by MM ?

UNBELIEVEABLE !!!

Personally I think that “The Stubborn One” will not drop Keogh as he is paranoid it will be seen as an act of appeasing us peasants….sorry, I mean fans !!!

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Molly Knew Mick – You confidantly predict that Mark Davies will captain the full England team one day ?!!

That’s the most ludicrous claim Ive heard on these boards. What on earth are you basing that on – the three years he spent at Wolves injured and doing absoloutley nothing until he was loaned out TO GET FIT ? How old are you ? 12 ? Do you play championship manager until bedtime ?

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The ‘so called’ Wolves fans who chose to constantly boo Keogh are totally out of order in my opinion. Keogh is quite clearly a confidence player, can any of the fans that boo him tell me how this helps either Keogh or in fact the Wolves team? Keogh’s work ethic is fantastic, can’t any of you remember a certain Mr Blake who, if the ball wasn’t passed within 1 yard of his left foot refused to move!

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MM is rightas fans we should never boo Keogh or any other player for that matter. That said Mick has has to recognise that Keogh has fragile confidence and most of the time he does not cut it. Vokes needs time to settle in to first team football because he is the answer on the basis we have not made a signing.
But we need to get behind MM and the team as this is a big time for the club.

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4. No, you’re not the only one!

Mick blames us fans for everything, yet doesn’t take himself to task for poor tactics and team selection. McCarthy has had past digs at us, now even the players are telling us what we should think!

I DO NOT agree with, nor condone mindless booing. However, fans PAY high prices to see games whereas players get PAID HANDSOMELY for doing the job we’d all love. Are we entitled to an opinion or not, then?

If Mick can’t see that Keogh isn’t up to the required standard, then it’s HIS fault for playing Andy and destroying his confidence into the bargain. So, Mick’s just as much to blame as the fans, if not more so.

Andy, get over it, son. Go take a look at your bank account, mate. I’m sure it’ll soften the feelings of rejection.

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We spoke about this in the pub after the game last night and we all agreed that MM would create a divide in the fans and will end up creating a divide between the fans & the players. Fact is – Keogh is not the problem – the problem is caused by playing him out of position and then he struggles. Our right winger gets injured, and we have another winger on the bench – we also have another midfielder in Dave Edwards on the bench, who would work just fine on the right-hand side – so what does MM do? He defies all logic and brings on another striker and puts a striker out on the wing – he then starts to struggle and it’s all opur fault when everyone gets frustrated!! Time for MM to take a long, hard look at himself instead!! We the fans, were here before him and will still be here long after he’s gone – we are the lifeline of the club and we know our football, so start treating us with a little respect Mick – by buying out season tickets, we are entitled to our opinions. By the way, I didn’t boo – I never do – it’s counter-productive!

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Keogh can be summed up easily. ‘All quantity, not that much quality’.

I can’t knock his work rate and in certain games his running can play a big part when it comes to tactics, but I can’t help thinking that he’s better coming from the bench with fresh legs.

A bit like Dave Edwards.

I can’t agree with booing or taking the micky from our own fans. It’s not going to solve anything but I question MM on why he keeps picking him from the start???

What’s Vokes got to do to get a shirt for 90 minutes?

Up the Wolves!

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Look at the end of the day were a team we cant get on his back hes only a kid say any other player makes a mistake the boo boys dont boo then do they, they have something against him at to be onest he did not do nothing wrong on the right last night to be onest carl kights wernt no were near as good as keogh last night when he was on so lets start getting of there backs and cheere the lads on and help them go throught this hard time in the season. And i would like to just make one more point was the anyone booing keogh when he scored i dont thinks so hes brilliant everyone has a bad game at the end of the day

Come on You Wolves

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I wonder why I read comments on here as it drives me mad. We ARE top. Whats wrong with you all? Mick has not suddenly been taken over by a changeling (I amy have to explain what that is to some!) and become a bad manager abd before someone says it he hasn’t ALWAYS been a bad manager, otherwise we wouldn’t be top !

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WELL SAID CHRIS 33….

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I’m bored of this now.

I used to think Mick was quite funny with his arrogance and some of his TV interviews were hilarious.

Now I just think he is bigheaded.

How can one man think he knows more about a subject than 20,000 other people. My specialist subject is probably Beer but I wouldn’t like to bet my job that I know more about it than 20,000 other people.

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Boo Boys?? I can assure you there was NO BOOING, however these was sarcastic applauding when he was substituted. I go to all home games and Koegh has never been booed. Thats it lets blame the fans again

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He should pick the best team – end of!!! Keogh did not work hard on Saturday. His treatment of Iwelumo is unreal if he had carried on at his strike rate he would have scored 50 by the end of the season! Strikers have spells without a goal, he certainly won’t end that if he doesn’t play. The Berra situation is a farce – people sign late all the time – thats why it is DEADLINE DAY! What has happenned to Quashie??? Henry & Jones have offered nothing recently – so much for his experience in the STAND. We may be top of the league but MM does/says the strangest things!!

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we should support every player in gold and black – if not go up the road and watch the albion go down.

keogh is class – his movement and workrate is superb but he is just not an out and out goalscorer – maybe we are all spoily by Bully!! Look at all the support that Eastwood had and MM got slated for – but who was right? he’s done nothing at Coventry.

lets all get behind every wolves player as it’s a team and we have our part to play in it. We are still top of the league and together we can stay there – booing individuals effects all the wolves players – boo the opposition not your own lads.

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yes we were shouting Keoghs name..as a joke !

there is one person to blame for the lad being booed and thats the idiot who keeps picking him when he is clearly not good enough for this division

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I had not intended to broach the vexed subject of Mark Davies again, but yesterday’s events dictate otherwise.
International recognition after one match! What’s that all about then ?

Be honest with yourselves, now, guys.
How many of you believe that NONE of our young “stars” are thinking they are missing out.

And ruing the transfer window being closed.

And checking the date of the next one opening.

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Been going to Wolves since 1967 – lived and worked all around the world but always kept my season ticket and travel home to as many games as possible.

Managers have come and gone, players have come and gone, the board has come and gone but we fans remain the constant. Our biggest challenge to progressing is a minority of our supporters who feel they are “owed” lots of success by “the club” whatever that is. Let me tell you that like all football fans around the world we are owed exactly nothing. No one makes us go – we choose to go – and with the one execption of Bully – we have been and are represented on the field by professionals who owe you and me nothing. They get paid – they do their best – they move on – full stop!

When oh when are you moaners going to realise that getting on any players backs during a game is the best weapon our opponents have? It causes players not to do the right thing (not shoot or cross the ball)and I know for a fact that many many managers pre-match talk at Molineux is to try to get our fans to turn on our team and their chances of a result go way up.

Was once told by a former Wolves winger that if his first cross of the game wasn’t perfect he didn’t want to try another cos he knew how much stick he was going to get for the rest of the game…. sound familiar?

If you want to go up this year cheer as loud as you can for 90 minutes – if not you’ll most likely get what you deserve! Your choice that one – not the players or managers or directors!

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Get a life MM and some of the so called “fans”.
AK IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH NOW, he was passable last season, but the team has now “moved on” and AK has failed miserably to progress with it.
MM – PLEASE DO NOT THINK THAT ALL 20,000 REGULAR FANS ARE NOT KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THE GAME. THe ironic cheers were aimed at MM for at long last recognising that AK should not have been on the field. MM has never shown an olive branch to the fans, on the contrary, he constantly critisises us, when in fact he needs to look closer to home for the culprit.
SV must wonder what he has to do to get his name in the starting line up for a league match.
I wouldn’t mind betting that MM is having goalkeepers kit made to fit AK – he will play him there next!! Mind you he couldn’t have less confidence than WH.
Memo to MM – Remember SQUARE PEGS FIT IN SQUARE HOLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I think everyone nows were the booing is coming from aswell i thinks its the NB & SB

now answer that

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72 Spot on!!
The team has progressed well but AK and NC have not!!! I rest my case, but I bet AK starts at Cov on Saturday, probably on the right wing if Kites is unfit!!
By the way a lot of fans need an heasring check –
where did some of you get the idea that wany booing took place? The ironic cheers were for MM who woke up and realised(too late) that we had Kites repalcement on the bench!!!

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Mick MACARTHY SEEMS TO BE IN HIS OWN LITTLE WORLD, AT PRESENT WOULD ARENT GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE PREMIERSHIP, THE ONLY REASON WE ARE STILL IN TOP SPOT IS BECAUSE ALL THE OTHER TEAMS AROUND US ARE PERFORMING EQUALLY AS BAD, KEOGH LAST NIGHT DIDNT HAVE A BAD GAME. YES HE DID MISS A SITTER IN THE SECOND HALF, BUT JUST PUTTING THE BLAME ON HIM ISNT RIGHT, THE TACTICS MM IS USING ARE POOR 4 MEN ACROSS THE MIDFIELD ISNT WORKING OUR PLAYERS NEVER SEEM TO BE ABLE TO GET THE REBOUNDS OR DOMINATE THE MIDDLE OF THE PARK.
ITS TIME MR MCCARTHY LOOKED AT HIMSELF INSTEAD OF BLAMING EVERYONE ELSE IS MICK USING KEOGH AS HIS PAWN FOR POOR DISPLAYS YES!

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some things never change at the wolves player and managers come and go but wolves have allways had there boo boys, i remember when i use to go watch the wolves seeing wolves suporters fighting with each other

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Big Chris says Keogh was “awesome” last night while Mick says he’s “still a big player for us. Andy’s different class”.

Were they at the same game???

This mutual backslapping is ridiculous. It’s an exclusive club down the Mol, these days.

I’m all for togetherness and solidarity, but comments like that just takes the p*ss. Do they think we’re all blind???

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Keogh is a luxury for Wolves. His ideal position is behind a front 2, as he lacks confidence and finishing prowess in front of goal.
As much as I think MM has done a great job, his stubborness could cost us. Keogh and Collins are at best players to come off the bench. What is the betting that Keogh plays from the off at Coventry – a must win game!

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Joshie 69 Wolves – I heard no booing from the North bank or South Bank! Infact if it wasnt for these people it be the quietest ground in the world!

I heard booing of Norwich players when we was 3-2 up and at the end of the game I heard a handful, from the BILLY WRIGHT!

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It’s all very simple. SEB and Vokes to start.

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92,

Did you ever see McCarthy play????

He would slot into our back 4 just nicely, especially last night.

He was cr*p, no wonder we defend like we do!!!!

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ADVICE TO ALL WOLVES FANS… as shown on Martin’s Money Tips… Beat the recession by always placing a £5 bet on ex players scoring against Wolves! Wo next????? FREDDY, FREDDY FREDDY!!!!!!

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Sorry forgot to ask this-does any one know why norwich fans were sittin in my christmas present(season ticket).Surely a full south bank(jack harris)can be more intimating to the opposition.

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There is now doubting Keogh’s potential but he is being knocked down rather than being built up by the supporters. He is good enough, and I would suggest a few sessions with a sports psychologist and a natural finisher (Bully?)to make him the player he can be. Top teams use this approach, why not us?
Keep the faith!

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Indeed, when asked after the match whether the crowd’s growing disenchantment with Keogh was the reason for his substitution, the Wolves manager snapped back: “Was it ’eck – it nearly made me keep him on.”

Sums the guy up! Rather prove a point to the fans than win the game! Thats what a promotion winning manager is all about!

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i personally am disgusted by the way keogh is treated!!
i usually sit in the south bank but last night i moved to the steve bull due to the away fans being where i normally sit!!
i was apalled by the way keogh was booed & laid into! hes one of our lads & these same morons booing him were the same 1s cheering his goal on saturday against watford!!!
for once i was actually ashamed of the way a lot of our fans behaved towards one of our own!! keogh is a hardworking player & does not deserve the treatment he has been getting.
hes not the most natural goal scorer but he works hard & creates chances – even when playing out of position!! LAY OFF HIM!!!!

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for some reason my last post appeared twice – some of you people here want to question your loyalty to the club! if you are a true fan dont boo & slag off any of your players!! of course every1 is entitled to an opinion but save it for the pub afterwards! gettin on their backs & booing is not going to help. if we are serious about promotion we need to support all of our players & give them encouragement. if you had to walk out to 21000 + to do your job you wud feel the pressure if people were being negative about you! theres no need for it & it doesnt help!!
get behind all the boys – accept they are not going to be perfect all of the time & keep faith that they have got this far through the season at the top & believe they can finish th season the way it started!!!!!

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Andy Keogh – part of an attack that scores 6 goals in 2 games.

What would shut some of you fools up?

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96 – Pricelaess example of how naive some of you ‘supporters’ are. Henry performs a vital role for the team, but because he doesn’t score or create a ton of goals, people think he’s had a bad game or is a bad player.

Yes, he passes the ball sideways, TO GIVE SERVICE TO OUR CREATE WIDE PLAYERS!!

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3 spot on i was thinking to myself exactly the same thing . but maybe he thinks more of vokes than we give him credit for?

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Higgs can’t get a game at Cheltenham – he’s a last gap fill in in case have an injury during a game just one notch above an outfield player going in goal. If you want Hennessey to follow Davies out the door then drop him for Higgs – honestly – I really have to wonder what some of you are on!!

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Keogh needs confidence and to complete lots of work on his technique. He often gets into scoring positions but then tends to fail because he expects to. He is a major contributor to the team, he gets the ball, he puts himself about and takes a load from the other players.

I would tend to loan him out to a league (1) side so he can get a hatful of goals and boost his confidence. I do not think he should be first choice in the team at the moment and I think Vokes is the guy to persevere with. he too adds a lot more than goals to the team but I feel he is a possible 20+ goals a season man.
However I would never be so pathetic as to boo Keogh or condemn MM for playing him. Unlike many of the posters here, I do not think I know more about football than Mick does and I trust him to do the right and sensible thing. If you don’t trust him then go away until Mick leaves. Lets ALL act like supporters and not wretched little kids who cannot take disappointment.
However I must say our defending last night was awful BUT WE STILL GOT A POINT. In previous years we wouldn’t have…am I right??

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I was going to write a long diatribe on How it all works but 1, I’m a bit busy and 2, I’m not sure it would have read as well as this:

WolfmanJack said: Feb 4th, 2009 at 1:27 pm Been going to Wolves since 1967 – lived and worked all around the world but always kept my season ticket and travel home to as many games as possible.

Managers have come and gone, players have come and gone, the board has come and gone but we fans remain the constant. Our biggest challenge to progressing is a minority of our supporters who feel they are “owed” lots of success by “the club” whatever that is. Let me tell you that like all football fans around the world we are owed exactly nothing. No one makes us go – we choose to go – and with the one execption of Bully – we have been and are represented on the field by professionals who owe you and me nothing. They get paid – they do their best – they move on – full stop!

When oh when are you moaners going to realise that getting on any players backs during a game is the best weapon our opponents have? It causes players not to do the right thing (not shoot or cross the ball)and I know for a fact that many many managers pre-match talk at Molineux is to try to get our fans to turn on our team and their chances of a result go way up.

Was once told by a former Wolves winger that if his first cross of the game wasn’t perfect he didn’t want to try another cos he knew how much stick he was going to get for the rest of the game…. sound familiar?

If you want to go up this year cheer as loud as you can for 90 minutes – if not you’ll most likely get what you deserve! Your choice that one – not the players or managers or directors!

WELL SAID WOLFMANJACK!

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post 3 your adsolutely spot on,..people cheering Keogh coming off was directed a McCarthy for finally making a decision,.. Keogh had a very off night and should have been replaced earlier we could all see that apart from McCarthy. and his compempt towards the fans will be his undoing.
Mark my words McCarthy’s stubborn streak will ruin this promotion,..the trouble now is that we need that bit of class from a manager to make decisions at the right times to steer us from this sticky patch and im afraid i dont think it will be McCarthy. I knew before the match Berra wouldnt even be in squad,..thats McCarthy all over, we have an ineffective midfielder in Henry, but he will never be dropped as McCarthy hides him behind the armband…just my thoughts.

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Top of the championship and still you lot moan and groan. Call yourself supporters ? This is the best position we have been in for years. No team can win them all.

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110:sorry mate i met north bank and steve bull and i sit in the south bank and to be onest when we have them family 4 fun days i have to sit in the steve bull upper and i have heard the booing and people keep sayin o he is rubish. and last night i was sat in the steve bull lower because the norwich fans and i was closer to the north bank and as soon as he made a mistake the were people shouting at him and booing him i have heard that myself and im south bank and we hardley ever boo a player

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kiwi wolf (130) i dont go to games to boo my team! if we dont go up of course i will be disappointed but what will booing them acheive??
steve (126) someone talking some sense on here!!
i see not all the fans are of the same mindless mentality that booing a player is bad for morale!!!!
our lads are doing the best that they can – we cant ask for a lot more than that!
ok admittedly the defending was poor – but i dont see any comments on here slating stearman for his poor performance giving away their 1st goal, or anyone really saying that hennessey should or could have done better?
why take it out on keogh? he didnt ask to be moved from his position – how many of us could move to a completely different job & perform at 100%??
it appears that a few wolves fans have already got ahead of themselves & reacting as though we have already won this league – yes we need to do better but this is the team as a whole.
how is singling out 1 player going to affect the rest of the team – all it will do is cause disruption & result in players having to speak out publicly to the press to defend their team mates!!
if people want to boo i suggest you keep away the rest of the season – supporters are there to SUPPORT funnily enough not to demoralise select individuals!! could any of you do any better????

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kiwi wolf – i dont go to my teams games to boo them!!
obviously i would be disappointed but booing them would not acheive anything!!

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no118 Molly Knew Mick, Agree 100%.We also knew Robbie Keane was going to be a star. The bottem line with Keogh is whatever Tery Connor and the others are doing to improve his finishing isn’t working.The guy is supposed to be a striker.I would never boo,but what are you supposed to do when somone misses 4 reasonable chances:applaud him.Keogh should have gone to Leicester on loan and Davies should have stayed.If we mess up in May and Davies stars in the Premier, we will be a national laughing stock again.

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114 Timmis Lots of points i totally agree with and have always said that we should be able to put our opinion(s)without being called stupid names (Muppet)etc. However i must say that i agree with a lot of the posts who’s main concern is MM playing certain favourites no matter how poor their form and this is detrimental to the team.Yes we are TOP Yes we are 7 clear of Brum but our current form 7 out of 21 is worrying and i most certainly believe that Berra should have at least made the bench last night.2 away games now that could make or break our season.Come on Wolves dont blow it now.

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Mick stop blaming the crowd and accept that he is not doing his job. We can all see that Keogh is stuggling, his body language is wrong and he looks to have no confidence. How do we expect him to score goals.
Come on Mick accept that the job of giving Keogh confidence is yours and stop blaming supporters for not supporting him.

It’s about time Andy Keogh began playing like he did when he first came.

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Shamrock wolf
you are talking garbage, Keogh was signed to
score goals period. If you was to coach him
24/7 for the next two years he will not make it
at this level. Also scoring more goals than
the opposition,wins match.s he had 4 chances last night. Get back to kicking a hockey ball
and hitting it with a stick!

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starting 11 vs coventry ikeme,foley,berra.stearman,craddock,reid,jarvis,quashie,kightly if available if not jones,ebanks,vokes SUBS IF NOT KEOGH,WARD,HENNESAY,IWELUMO,COLLINS,TRY IT MICK. I DARE YOU.U GOT WIDTH, HEIGHT AT BACK, PLAY VOKES MICK,WE DONT WANT ANOTHER EASTWOOD,DROPPED NEVER TO PLAY AGAIN,VOKES WILL LEAVE IF NOT PLAYING,KEOGH IS GREAT BUT MICK AS YOU SAY THIS IS A RESULT BUSINESS,IF IT FAILS REVERT BACK TO ANOTHER SYSTEM

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Leave keogh alone he is a player of the future its idiot mick who is getting the lad a bad name he should look at some of his other players who are not good enough for this league never mind the premier, keogh in time will make his mark.

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Eddie, where are you when Andy needs you? There seem to be a lot of people here who know nothing about football!

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lets call jon de wolf bet he cud do a fine job at the back where are the keith curles or paul butlers or dean richards,lee naylor,lescotts at the back gone we need a commanding figure

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Shit it really is time to lay off all the players in the team. We need to get behind them as confidence is a contagious disease which will hopefully take us to the big time league. I have supported and followed the wolves for 45 of my 50 years both in Wednesbury and now in Australia and i have never known a bigger bunch of ficcle supporters in my life, this includes aussie rules fans down here. Again get behind all the team you know it makes sense.

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i am a season ticket holder in the southbank and i didn’t hear any booing last night and i for one along with most of the southbank applauded him and sang his name,however there were a few ironic cheers when keough was subbed but to be honest though he looks like a rabbit in the headlights at the moment, he doesnt seem to want to take anyone on or shoot when presented with good opportunities,looks bereft of any confidence and should of been subbed earlier. when kites was subbed why did mick not bring reid on (like for like)instead he brought vokes on and switched keough to the wing,for me vokes should be starting ahead of keough as he is more of a natural goalscorer and deserves his place on merit not because he’s one of micks favourites.and why has iwelumo been banished to the bench?our second top goalscorer doesn’t seem to be getting a look in.come on mick lets not go back to the poor decisions of last season square pegs in round holes again!

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I booed Keogh, and if he plays like that next time i’ll boo him again…he was second in the air, second on the ball and his finishing was atrocious, its not all Keoghs fault though, if he wasn’t forced to play out of position maybe he’d be the quality player we brought in 2007!

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Spoke to a friend of mine who’s Rangers fan he’s gutted weve got Berra,they wanted him but are skint!He reckons he is quality and weve done well to get him.So coupled with Vokes starting ahead of Keogh things should be better on saturday- i hope.Then again maybe MM will put Berra up front!

We are Wolves

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Glad to see the posts are getting a bit more balanced now that the anger of Tuesday night is subsiding. Can we continue to have our say without resorting to childish name-calling? Thanks.

Sorry, but I don’t see Keogh ever becoming a ‘great’ player. After 2 yrs, he’s barely progressed. Had he got GENUINE ability, it would have shown by now, irrespective of the ‘pressure’ applied by playing for such a huge club.

I know confidence (or lack of) can have an effect, but watch closely and you’ll see that even the basics often elude him. Andy strikes me as a good, honest, hardworking, likeable fellah…but he hasn’t got it and no amount of sympathy or feeling sorry for him will change that. We’d all love him to be a hit, me included, but face facts: the lad’s limited in his ability and has no stregth whatsoever. A centre-half merely breaking wind would probably blow him into Row Z.

Sorry to say, but some of you good people have become so accustomed to ‘ordinary’ players over the past few years that you’re content to settle for second best. We CANNOT afford that luxury if we’re deadly serious about not only promotion, but stabilising in the Premiership, too. If Andy can’t cut THIS league, he’d be trodden into the dust in the Prem…and that goes for one or two more, as well.

Andy is well paid to do a job. Yes, a JOB. Footballers are mercenaries these days, so let’s cut out the sentimental crap, shall we? It all boils down to whether a player is up to the job in hand or not. If he isn’t, then get rid. Simple as that.

Save your tears for the real ‘victims’ of failure: the long-suffering fans.

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As Mr Swain wrote “confidence now looks ‘shot.’ His inability to make anything from four moments of goalscoring potential led to an uneasy 80 minutes for the Irish forward before he was substituted” to me the simple solution is to send the guy out on loan for amonth or two to get that confidence back. All we must remember is that Andy Keogh was never a prolific goalscorer, he is more a provider.

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Lets face it Wolves fan’s favouritism has always existed in all sports thats a fact. What I will say however Mr McCarthy takes it to the extreme.
I honestly believe, having worked with Yorkshire folk and having a good friend who is a Black Cat fanatic (he was the same at Sunderland) he will not change his ways. With the stubborn attitude he continually adopts if and it is a big IF Wolves get to the premier league they will come straight back down. Wolves have a squad consisting of some good championship players some average and some awful, but not one premiership standard. Look at Sunderland now only ONE of McCarthy’s men exist there, and we know what he is like. We did have one premiership player but look what he did to him!!!

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166.You have hit the nail directly on the head. However I am afraid you only have to look at the time he was the manager of Ireland to see what his mind set is. I think a Winston Churchill quote sums it up when he said ” The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes”

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Ye olde South bank posted:

“Mick needs to remember that WINNING the game is the priority and NOT putting his personal agenda FIRST. Playing his ‘favourites’ merely invites the natives to become restless, then angry, then abusive”

The facts are that MM has assembled a young, very exciting mostly British squad of players the like of which I haven’t seen at Molineux in living memory. Despite the inexperience of the squad we are 5 points clear in the league and in a 2 from 3 run-in for automatic promotion against two teams who have much much more “premisership experience” than our youngsters. Personally I haven’t looked forward to Wolves games as much as I do this season for a long long time. Two real wingers, great strikers, midfielders who can score goals, an outstanding keeper etc etc. I fail to see how any Wolves fan can have a miserable time watching that lot!

Every manager has their “favourites” at any one time. That’s their job and what they’re paid for. If we don’t accept that we might has well get rid of the manager entirely – maybe we could have an on-line fans vote on Friday nights to pick the team for Saturday? Chaos? Probably!

There’s not a supporter in the land that agrees with all selections of their manager at any one time – we all have opinions on players and formations – but you can’t judge a manager on wheteher he picks OUR favourite players – you have to judge him on RESULTS and for one I think our results this season speak for themselves. You may not like MM, you may not like his attitude, you might not like his team selection but he’s doing the job he’s paid to do and in my book he’s doing it pretty well so far this season….

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169. Don’t misunderstand me: despite my occasional annoyance at Mick, I appreciate the hard work he’s put in AND the mostly-British squad assembled. I applaud that stance and even encourage it, as I do his 4-4-2 formation with genuine wing play. That’s the Wolves tradition and long may it continue.

My comment about his ‘favourites’ refers (mostly) to his tendency of either:

(a) Refusing to sub a player who’s CLEARLY struggling (Keogh, Tuesday evening, for example)

(b) Finding a slot in the team for his favourites, irrespective of the common sense approach (two examples: firstly, Keogh on the WING, again on Tuesday evening. Secondly, playing the error-prone Neil Collins when we’d already paid £1m for a barely-used Jason Shackell. How do we assess this boy unless he gets a run of games, ffs?)

You’ll note that I DID SAY that I would NOT respect any Wolves boss who allowed fan pressure to pick his team for him. However, there’s a difference between the manager showing common sense and showing downright EXCESSIVE, OTT favouritism (a point made by West Brom WHO! that I fully agree with).

I don’t question McCarthy’s loyalty to his players (it is be applauded), but sometimes such ‘loyalty’ can go way too far…and that, to my mind, could ultimately prove to be Mick’s undoing.

More unfortunately, it could be OURS.

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172. Yet another is:

“It’s better to be thought a fool than open one’s mouth and remove all doubt”

Mick’s said that Keogh and Collins have been ‘excellent’ as well as ‘different class’.

I rest my case. ;-)

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we are going up , to all those who believe were gonna struggle in the premiership , i dont think so ,were not gonna have the same team line up , and ill say it again for those who didnt understand me the first time THE MANAGER PICKS THE TEAM. not the fans.collins hasnt played last two games conceded 4 , wonder who you gonna blame?? make me laugh , so called supporters .

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Although failing last summer with McLean and the insane antics of Barry Fry it is obvious we still need a quality striker alongside SEB. Disappointed, considering our precarious lead at the top we did not go after Fryatt from Leicester on a part exchange with Keogh or Iwelumo.

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Can all you muppets please answer this question for me as you know so much more than a professional football league(ex Premiership and International) manager.
1. How exactly is MM ruining Andy Keogh? If anything he is improving him as a player by giving him match time. MM would be ruining AK by leaving him on the bench or dumping him in the reserves.

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180…I agree,…Iwelumo after a little baron patch was straight out the team, even though he scored 15!,..Keogh has 4 for the whole season but has been given a lot more opportunities than most, Vokes has looked class last few games but still ends up on the bench,…il be a Cov like im at all the games, and ive no doubt Keogh will start as MM just dosnt like to “give in” to fan pressure.
My bigger concern is that we have a keeper in goal who is 6ft 6″ but wont leave his line and collect crosses, corners etc which is costing us goals.

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There is no denying Andy Keogh works hard, is determined and commited and I applaud him for that. What fans are getting annoyed about is we have a 15-goal scorer sitting on the bench yet we play a 2-goal scorer in the main team. We should be focusing on giving Chris the chance to get back to the standard he was at the start of the season.
Mick kept Keogh out for too long against Norwich when he should have been substituted alot sooner as he clearly was struggling after passing up all those chances. Sometimes, as with many sports, commitment and effort just isn’t enough when you have a player underperforming, especially if you’re holding on to the top of the league by the skin of your teeth. Plus when you’re paying between £400 and £500 to watch the games, fans want to be assured that the manager is putting the BEST possible team out, which just doesn’t seem to be happening with Mick right now. If we use the same team strategies and players in the PL we may aswell book our return ticket with Albion. I want to stop seeing Mick commenting on how he is angry with the ‘boo-boys’ and start taking steps forward, like getting Mancienne on side!

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Fans urged to lay off keogh – ok….how about…Keogh urged to play better or MM urged to play Vokes

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179. With respect, I’d save those ‘muppets’ comments for rival fans and teams, not fellow fans. Just because Wolves fans disagree with each other it’s no licence for disrespect. We all have an opinion and are entitled to it. That’s what this board is for.

Incidentally, you clearly imply that fans who are critical of Keogh’s ability shouldn’t have the temerity to question ‘Super Mick’ because he’s the experienced, seasoned professional and everyone else isn’t.

That being the case, then I assume the same logic applies to yourself? That means you’re not in a position to ENDORSE Mick’s decisions, either. Flip side of same coin, mate.

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187. Spot on again. My post makes exactly the same point possibly in a slightly different way. I will reiterate, unless Mr McCarth drastically changes his ways he will with or without Wolves win absolutely zilch.

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