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Swain on Wolves – What crisis?
Thursday 19th February 2009, 1:00PM GMT.
Wolves fans must close their eyes and take themselves back to last summer – in fact any summer in the last 20 odd years.
Now they should imagine a stranger whispering in their ears: “Don’t worry, you’ll be three points in front at the top of the table come February.”
Not a single follower of the gold and black would have complained then. But they are now.
As today’s out-pouring of venom, not unanimous but certainly significant, towards Mick McCarthy and the team indicates, the Wolves family is once again in danger of tearing itself apart over the fact that there isn’t a team in the Championship which wouldn’t swap places with them.
This furious obsession is, of course, what makes the club so special and what makes it so flawed.
For those of us who try to stand back and take a rational view of events, it’s what makes the old place so darned perplexing.
McCarthy and his players, feted throughout the first four or five months of the campaign, now find themselves being given dog’s abuse for establishing what is still the best position of promotion possibility since 2002.
Ah yes, 2002. That clearly has got a lot to answer for. The season when Wolves were once again walloping everyone in sight before hitting a brick wall and – well, no-one needs reminding about what comes after ‘and’.
“You’ve let us down again” was written on the flag one disgruntled supporter laid on the Molineux stones before departing after the final match of that season.
That sentiment perhaps sums up what has once again bubbled unhealthily to the surface now – that expectation, that insufferable demand, that Wolves have a right to expect better than being top by three points.
They don’t. They are in a cut-throat division in which every yard of the pitch is contested with an intense ferocity, possibly unique in the world of football.
It’s not pretty, it’s not very clever, it’s rarely wholly entertaining but by God it’s gruelling.
Occasionally a team emerges from this jungle of ambition for the Premier League, which is so superior it scampers away from the feeding frenzy – Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle and Steve Coppell’s first Reading incarnation spring to mind.
When Wolves went six, seven, nine points clear at various times this season, that is clearly what their supporters hoped would be emulated. But surely no-one seriously expected them to retain such a handsome lead throughout the campaign? Apparently not.
Now it is right that there should be concerns not so much about Wolves’ position, which is still a healthy one, but about their form.
The brutal reality of the Championship is, save for those exceptions, few teams get through the year playing well all the time – and it is worth noting here that this debate about Wolves is being conducted in similar tones at St Andrew’s, where the locals have been grumpy all season.
But Wolves need to find that verve and snap again and I cannot believe their supporters do not believe that somewhere, locked behind the self doubts that have invaded the minds of a still largely young squad, is the team of August through to December.
They have a fixture list before April packed with matches against teams who, under normal circumstances, you would back Wolves to beat. Plymouth are ailing, as are Crystal Palace. Sheffield Wednesday blow hot and cold as do Ipswich. Charlton at home and Forest away? Come on, Wolves can surely look to win with confidence.
The sound of Wolves fans furiously unleashing their frustration and worry – and that cursed expectation – in the columns of the Express & Star will not go down well at Molineux. But it will be sweet, sweet music at Reading and St Andrew’s.
Not for the first time, the Molineux faithful are playing into the hands of the competition. They surely need to save their condemnation until there is something to condemn.
Being top by three points in February does not quite come into that category does it?
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All you doubters – read and digest the last 3 paragraphs and get behind the lads for goodness sake.
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Wonderful words of wisdom. If the moaners who post on here are really Wolfies and not Baggies having fun, I fear for their sanity. We are the best team in the Championship, look at the table, and we are going up.Get behind the team starting on Sunday and together we can do it. Come on me babbies!!
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Mr Swain..I am sick to death of people saying ‘would you have taken top spot with a 3 point lead in Feb at the start of the season’.. Yes maybe we would of, but the fact is the team are self-destructing when it matters most, and people can see mistakes being made by Mick McCarthy and the team and it is not acceptable!! We have a right to moan and the 2002 season will ring long into many supporters memories for a long time. If they fail this season I dread to think what the reaction would be! I love Wolves and have supported them through thick and thin, been to places like Aldershot, Carlisle and Hartlepool to mention a few, but to blow up again like 2002 in my eyes will not be acceptable!!
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Crikey, an Express and Star article not aimed at whipping the Wolves into an anti Keogh/Collins/McCarthy/Moxey frenzy. Congratulations!
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KEEP THE FAITH LADS, I CANT SEE YOU LOSING ANOTHER GAME ALL SEASON
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Careful Mr Swain you will be labelled as a ‘Happy Clapper’ for writing that!
Coincidentally I completely agree we do this again and again and play in to the hands of opposition teams who must be rubbing thier hands at such ‘In Fighting’ at the business end of the season!
If we can hold fire and save it till the end of the season then so be it, if its deserved let them have it! believe me I will be right at the front of the line.
Here’s one for you to throw into the pot…I bet Mick doesn’t know weather he is comming or going…if we don’t go up he will be sacked in the summer….if we do go up he will be sacked by Christmas…..because he could well be in the bottom 3….Happy Days!
Keep the faith even if it is wearing thin! Pull together and we can do it!
Here endeth the sermon!
Thanks be to Bull (Stephen George)
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Great Article Swainey,
Too Many Wolves Fans expect so much, yes we have thrown away a handsome lead but we were never going to run away with it. It is a tough tough league and we are getting used to being the top team and everyone raising their game against us. We are such a young side and we should be proud of where we stand today.
Lets loose the tag of the most fickle and demanding fans in the country and unite behind a breathtakingly Talented young side who WILL get us to the Premiership if we stick together and cut out all the moaning, groaning, booeing, slating etc etc.We are Top of the league for crying out loud!! Watch us beat Cardiff and Plymouth and re establish a nice little cushion…
All Wolves fans need to unite, cut out the typical Wolves Fan fickleness and be grateful that we have such a great team that has a genuine chance of promotion
Come on You Wolves!!
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Martin
With respect mate I think we have a great deal to be concerned about. The fact that we have been poor over the past months is not something I as a Woilves Fan like to recognise. We have been very low after performance’s which do not match our place in the table.
We have been here before many times do not blame us for being edgey mate BUT I fail to understand some of the logic of MM playing players out of position mix and match leaving players out- no consistency in selection-That what as got us into this position.
Dare I say it “Baggies” did the same last year but over the last few games they played well and ended up clear winners of the Championship.
Mate I cannot see signs of that happening to us at the moment.
We have good cause for our apprehension-But in spite of all I will not slate MM or the players but hope we start to pull it round soon starting at Asda Dome on Sunday–I will miss church to be there and hope they blow Cardiff away–
I pray to keep the Dream alive–Crazey Dave not Miserable Dave.
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spot on shame most of the so called fan will struggle to understand what you are saying!
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Completely agree swainy, But can’t help but believe the main reason for all the negativity surrounding Wolves is the last 20 years of promise that never materialised into something more special for the fans. It is very hard to keep going up each season expecting it to be our year only to see us fail. This season has been very different in that we have been the best team in the division until the last 5 weeks of stuttering performances however as you say 3 points clear in Feb can’t be bad. But the past seasons are too blame for the negativity. I still think that we will finish in the top two as I don’t think Blues are playing any better than us.
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I agree with the articles sentiments and agree we should recognise we are still in a good position. The real problem for fans is the apparent loss of form and momentum at a crucial time. We always fancy the athlete or horse come up on the blind side in the last few hundred yards and so it is with football teams. Once you start looking over your shoulder you tend to take your foot off the accelerator and all is lost.
This explains the fans frustration but cannot excuse their absolute venom and it would certainly be better to encourage the team during the run in rather than shout them down.
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Well said.
The problem is having two lots of 7 wins then hitting this 1 win in 9. It has caused alot of panic and negativity.
If we had the points and position we have now by winning a few games and losing a couple, winning a few games and losing a couple. I think the feeling would have been a whole lot different.
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Absolutley right. Great Article.
Reality Check is needed i think. Look where we are. We are still the team to beat.
Just need a bit more optimism for g0ds sake get behind the team.
Its in our hands. If we don’t get behind them on Sunday we will loose FACT.
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I agree with what you’re saying Mr. Swain. However, It’s always so much easier said than done and as with all Wolves fans, we live and breathe passion. Therein lies the problem. Passion, like jealousy, can rear it’s head in
such ugly and uncouth ways. It stops us thinking methodically and sensibly, because our passion for this club makes us believe we could and should be invincible. Eventually our passion turns us into unrealistic beings who need to get a grip on reality. I still believe we have the talent and ability to go up, though, I, like everyone else has fallen into the ‘panic’ trap, left open by our recent run of form. Our confidence, like the players’, needs settling by Mick playing our strongest team and sticking with them through good and bad. Mick’s tinkering of late has only added fuel to the fire of the panic syndrome afflicting us all.
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Great article Martin. My comment would be that the anxieties many fans have are not confined to one team wearing gold and black…It is a trait familiar to many clubs. Heck, even Mark Yates at Kidderminster is bemoaning a stifling negativity around the Aggborough terraces. What does make Wolves and our legions of supporters unique is that our team has failed, imploded, bottled it, call it what you will, more times than so many other teams. With this comes the scars, the baggage, and the downright fear that we will NEVER go up!! Another failure now and we venture into the world of apathy and cyniscm. It really now is make or break time on so many levels.
Of course we want the lads to do it. I’m damn sure we all want Big Mick to succeed. And we certainly see the coming games as winnable. But when your heart has been broken so many times, then ‘frustration and worry’ becomes an inextricable part of Molineux life. Here’s hoping for a sea change come May 3. COME ON YOU WOLVES!!
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Whilst I’m over the moon that we are still top, the performances of the last few games has been dire.
Don’t get me wrong, I will always back whatever team wolves put out 100% come kick off, but the tinkering of the team has to stop.
Dave Jones in for Queezy or Henry but don’t play them both. SEB and Vokes up front, and please lose the “hoof it up front” mentality hoping for a knock down.
The football that we played at the start of the season was phenomonal but, the excuse that teams have sussed us out doesn’t wash with me. Alex Ferguson’s teams have been catching people on the break and scoring goals for nearly 20 years. Teams know Man Utd do it but they are so practiced at it in a settled side that the players know instantly what they need to do should the opportunity to break arise.
We need a plan B that doesn’t involve hoofing it up front.
MMs comments that teams raise their game against us is also a load of rubbish too. We are top of the league and we need to stem the losing mentality that has creeped in.
Sacking MM is not the answer, he has built a young team of quality players. The team just isn’t gelling at the moment for whatever reason but I’m confident if we get a win under our belt on sunday we will go on to put another run together.
2-0 to wolves on Sunday.
Come on Wolves!
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Excellent Post.
You’re right we are in a great position and should be proud of our team. Mick’s pluses are that he has created a team, at not massive expense that when their confidence is high are unbeatable. The mistakes that he has made in my opinion are that he has stuck with certain players when they are lacking confidence and should have played them for 15 mins here and there to boost their confidence. Keogh and Collins are the two obvious ones.
Our problem in todays modern era is that fans have a forum, available for all to see, including the players on sites such as this.
The other problem is that there are lots of Wolves fans with incredibly limited IQ’s who moan about everything from their Wives to the Wolves to the Weather, the http://www.moanabouteverything.com
Lets remind ourselves what a great position we are in. Lets batten down the hatches and win everything we can.
And lets please sign Mancienne
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We need to get behind the lads on Sunday! We win on Sunday then that will get us back on track. Come on boys, lets not start booing if things aren’t going right. (i.e booing Keogh, which losers do that? that will help his and the teams confidence won’t it!) Teams don’t mind coming to Molineux now and that’s down to the thick supporters who get on the teams back when things aren’t going right. Lets stick together and make Sunday a really noisy atmosphere and send Cardiff back down towards the play off positions!
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The season is just starting,it’s Feb 19th, 3 points clear, NOT A BAD SPOT.
FANS SHOULD REMEMBER, IT ALWAYS LOOKS EASIER FROM WHERE THEY SIT.
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Poor journalism Mr Swain. I have yet to witness any ‘venom’ on a match day and by and large the backing from the fans has been very positive all season long and will continue to be so. Stop trying to create a story out of nothing. Move on to your next target.
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I think the club has blundered badly selling Davies to raise the shortfall on the Berra fee.
They really could not have given considered thought to the repercussions in respect of the morale of the squad.
Nor to the potential for divisivness.
This lad, not considered good enough for us, goes from loanee obscurity to starter in the Prem, on money at 2.5 times what our top earners are getting; and immediate international recognition.
Then consider the avaricious, envious thoughts of our overhyped ‘stars’. Can you not see them looking around at The Mighty Mick’s playthings and thinking ” this bunch of loooosers are holding me back “.
And the rest knowing what they are thinking.
The squad needs a lot more than 4 days team bonding.
As I said at the start. That sale was short sighted and ill considered.
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As ever Martin, you are right on the button.
A throughly accurate and well thought out piece.
Wolves fans everywhere should take a step into reality rather than wallowing in the ‘we’m a big club’ mentality in which every club should be handed a thrashing.
Just take a look at the bottom half of the table and the clubs that are down there exemplifies perfectly what a competitive division this is – and Wolves are top of it.
This season is our best chance in years to reach the Premier League, but by getting on McCarthy’s and the players’ backs now the fans will only have themselves to blame if it all goes wrong.
Together we can achieve – but being divisive will only play into our rivals’ hands.
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Used to think Express & Star writers new a little about football, but now I know the know nothing. In last nights express and star they showed 3 different formations and the idiosts had quashie in eacdh team. His position cannot be justified, he is not good enough and I also feel he does nothing for team morale. The express and Star also left out Jarvis, the only player in form? (fools). Heres a thought, teams are doubling up on Kightly so he is not as effective as he could be, play Kighly in a free role in front of a four man midfield Ebanks will benefit too and you’ll see a massive difference. Express and Star writer :- Please justify your picking of quashie.
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To say we should be happy with a 3 point lead in February is missing the point. If we were 3 points ahead with the last 9 matches spread throughout the season I am sure everyone would be delighted but the last 9 matches (W1 D4 L4)have come together in a bad run of current form. If we had had just average results (W3 D3 L3)over the last 9 matches we would still be well ahead of the rest but we have been poor and the lead has been frittered away.
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A good and well balanced article. Though I think a lot of fans fear us falling at the final hurdle. We couldn’t have come closer to a play of place than we did last season. I think though that there are too many negative fans who forget just where we are in the league. Negativity breads negativity and surely rubs off onto the players. Keep the faith! We WILL go up automtically!
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The problem stems from the repeated failures over the last 15 years (apart from 1 of course) to reach the Premiership. There was a noteable collapse under McGhee when we were in the top 2 come March and then proceeded to spectacularly fade out in the last 6 or 7 games. The same under Dave Jones during the notorious and devastating reverse at the end of the 2002 season. Added to this there have been numerous occasions when Wolves have painfully finished 7th – missing out on the play offs. Added to this mix you have the millions thrown at the playing squad and witnessing the likes of Middlesborough, Wigan, Portsmouth and Fulham all go up and stay up with their first concerted shot at it. Then of course, you have the Albion factor.So it’s understandable that the fans are getting very jittery that it’s all going to go wrong yet again. Wolves are in danger of becoming a laughing-stock (probably viewed as that already by some) if we fail again. I am a die hard Wolves fan and have been going down ‘the temple’ since the old man first took me in the late 1970′s and I am praying it all works out this year. If it does brilliant ! If not -i’ll be there again next year. I agree with earlier comments that we do need to set aside the arguing for these last few games and get behind the team for one last push. There will be plenty of time for recriminations come May if we fail again. Good luck to Wolves on Sunday.
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An excellent article. Watch all the posing Wolves fans and other clowns rip it to pieces.
We are going up. There are too many winnable games in front of us. SEB to score another 10 and the rest 15 is a modest ask!
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Well said Mr Swain – Belt up you lot, support the lads, and stop moaning!!! – take your misery somewhere else!!
Come on me babbies!!! – I still believe in you!
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Mac McCluskey here with my mate Dez
You know me – I’m the manager of your favourite club (which club is it Dez?)
I’ve decided to try to get closer to you fans so I am coming on here to tell you a few things.
What am I going to tell them Dez?
OK, OK. I know some of you don’t think I’m up to the job but – I am – I know cos Dez told me, so there!
And I know exactly what I am doing (what is it I’m doing, Dez?) Oh yes we are going for promotion this year?
I must be a good manager cos I took Wonderland to the Prem didn’t ? (It was me wasn’t it Dez?) Yes course it was. When Dez said to me that he wanted me to do the same for your club I thought let’s get the same players and play at the same ground and do it again – only they wouldn’t let us use the same ground. I did get some of the players but some wouldn’t come so I had to get some from other places as well.
That Dez is a great guy – we are as close as anything you know. There’s only that knife he presses in my back sometimes when I want to spend some money which comes between us.
Anyway, I’m ready for the new season – it starts this Sunday doesn’t it? (what’s that Dez – it started weeks ago? I thought that was last season). Oh! well I am ready anyway. You’ll soon see whether I’m ready or not.
Don’t think Dez puts words in my mouth or anything like that. I’m my own man – aren’t I Dez, Dez aren’t I my own man? Please Dez, talk to me. I think he’s gone – I can say what I think now – ….er…er…er ….Doh!
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COME ON YOU WOLVES :)
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Why does everyone blame the fans?
If our ‘lack of support’ or over-exuberance on message boards is affecting the team, then whose fault is that – us as fans voicing an opinion or the team for being weak?
You could liken it to claiming that the team cannot win away from home because their fans are too noisy!!!
Yes there is expectation – it’s when there is no expectation we have to really worry.
Yes we are pessimistic – we are pessimistic because we want the best for our team and our club, and we hate being in this division, we are pessimistic because it does not hurt so much if we fail.
No we cannot control what goes on matchdays – If negativity surrounds the ground and this effects the players, I say they are mentally weak!
No our fans are NOT a factor – Wolves have been bad away from home and our away fans are not negative, or people that boo even at Norwich this season (which was awful to say the least!).
I consider this as another dig at us fans, Mick does it (which probably tells you why he is not liked by more fans), now the E&S do it.
SLATE US WHEN US FANS STOP GOING TO MATCHES OR BUYING SHIRTS ETC!
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I agree with 8 posts.
Sometimes i wonder what it would have been had MM started showing faith on our academy lads who has been loaned out. Players like DJ,Gleeson,Gobern and thje one who left(Davies).
Taking a cue at Everton playing their youth must be a good review for our future too. Perhaps MM may not have the confidence to play them but lets not forget,players like Gleeson are full internationals.
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I dont like you Swain, but have to say you are 100% spot on here. I think after Sunday we have 11 games we “should” win. (Blues is difficult)
Recently we have played Sheff United, Bristol City, Burnley, Reading and Preston! These teams are in top few places.
Reading have still to play Bristol, Blues and Sheff United.
Blues have us, Sheff United, Bristol, Reading and Preston!
I tell you whos run in I prefer!
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Martin, an excellent article, most of which I was ready to echo in my blog.
We have no divine right to go up and I think we are falling into the same trap as the bluenoses who believe fully that promotion was a foregone conclusion at the beginning of the campaign!
Belief still needs to be in the Wolves crowd, although Mick is still making a few tactical errors…. I’ll stop now, otherwise my blog will have no contents at all!
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Martin Swain, That post is nothing more that a pile of dog mess and what amazes me is the happy clappers like are agreeing with Swainy boy!
LISTEN
The season has 13 games to go. Cardiff game is a MUST WIN GAME, END OF STORY. We are playing at home and we are expected to win. Stop this nonsense that if we are top in feb we would have taken it rubbish. We are top YES, BUT…. we are playing arguably the poorest football this season. We are higest scorers in the country but we have the 3rd worst defensive record in the division. What Swain fails to realise is that Wolves have underachieved for so long in recent times, especially being bankrolled under the haywood years. Sir Jack “BLESS HIM” wanted top flight football for so many years and he was envious with his “matey chairman” from blackburn, bolton and reading beating him before him so Swainy boy you should understand the frustration of wolves fans that we have been short changed for so long where we should be where the likes of Bolton are now, established premiership team. The fans are not playing into the reading and blues hands, the team is and in particular Mick McCarthy is as doing that with his bizarre team selection and formations.
Saying that why am I bothering replying to an inept journalist like Swainy boy who in my opinion is a nothing more than a stirrer!
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Absolutely Brilliant article, which will hopefully make all of us take note of!
The exception will be the muppet “Anon” No 29
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Wolves & Paula Radcliffe. Both steam away in front of the rest of the field and then it all ends a bit s@#%!
Lets hope not, eh!!!
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29. anon – retard you have no insight whatsoever!
its is exactly this sort of negative/anti WOLVES behavoir that ends up manifesting itself in the stands.
at molineux we need to get behind the team, if a pass doesnt go where you want it to be patient- trust the team a little more then our form may return. If not then we must see the bigger picture that as a football team thay have gradually improved year on year, and this at thee end of day is what we want to see good football.
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very goog comments from martin swain we have won 1 game in 9 yet still top of the leage iam very hopefull that we will get promotion
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Are you sure you are Martin Swain? You look just like Andy Keogh to me in the above photo?
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Swain dont tell me how to react to failure, i pay to go in the ground, unlike you, a free loading moron.
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3 points clear, but our competetors have games in hand, no guarentee, they will win them – but realistically we could be 4th very soon. 1 win in 9 ? and a manager who has just began to question we have a problem.Limited use of the transfer window. yes we have some easy games on paper coming up, but any easier than the games against Norwich, Coventry etc… Also teams near the bottom, will soon be fighting for their lives, with a number of unexpected results.
I want Wolves to go up, but the omens do not look good. Interesting article, but it is for the club to sort this out by performances not for the E&S to berate supporters.
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I will try to stay positive and cheer the lads on all I can.
Yes, at the start of the season we probably would have settled for being top at this stage (or potentially 2nd if we’re going to insist on a relity check) but let’s flip that “start of the season” bit on its head. Would we have settled for 1 win in 9 at the start of the season? No? Now you begin to see where some of the frustration stems from.
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davem
Don’t you have a sense of humour?
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True that many Wolves fans have unrealsitic expectations. Many Wolves fans love to moan and seem happier when we lose. Many Wolves fans have whipping boys they like to blame in the directors’ box, the dugout and on the pitch. BUT these fans have given years of their lives to a club which has delivered almost endless disappointment, please don’t sit in your cosy office and deride the frustration of these loyal fans just to earn a living.
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The break was right
The Team will be ready
Cardiff will fall
Plymouth will be routed
……….And all the moaners will continue to moan
The vast majority of fans have supported Wolves through thick & thin over the years and will continue to do so whatever
Shoes off if u love the Wolves.
Hey, Ho Let’s go !!!!
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Come on davem,
29 was a funny article :-)
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WELL SAID MR. SWAIN ! ! ! ! !
“HAPPY CLAPPERS”
Funny term that, used to descride Wolves supporters, people who support wolves….
.. support is not nocking the team or manager.
FAN is short for fanatical, you can be fanatical about something but not support em.
WOLVES FAN
OR
WOLVES SUPPORTER
I am both fanatical about wolves and also support them through good times and bad.
So boo boys stay at home.
Its wolves supporters we need now not just fans.
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I find this criticism of Mick bewildering (to a number on here use a dictionary if unclear of meaning).
The same guy that has got us top and in the early part of the season completely unplayable, is being written off as a total disaster.
Get behind the team, play your part!
Sniping from the sidelines is too easy. We re-discover our form, have a solid spell for 6-8 games and we’re nearly home and hosed.
Simples.
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the point is many of us already know that the team is shot!
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“The fans are not playing into the reading and blues hands, the team are…” award for it like it is to Superstardj !!!
Mr Swain, there are a couple of inappropriate posts (some from myself) on these pages, and they are perhaps out of line… but they stem from passionate support for our club.
Mick has resorted to his old tricks, and this i think is what most of us are up in arms about.
• Glaring holes in defence from day 1 neglected.
• Tinkering with a formula that was working perfectly
• Persisting with keogh when vokes was clearlt he stronger option
• Mark Davies???
Of course fans shouldnt goad the players during the game, but when even the “armchair fan” can see our weaknesses, how difficult is it going to be for Coppel and co. ?
By all means have a go at the idiot who posts “Mick out !” (which is often myself) but dont dare berate the concerned Wolves fan for voicing their fears that mick’s failure to plug glaring gaps early on will result in heartbreak for us. again.
Come on lets try and see each rational opinion for what it is – the desire for Wolves to come out on top.
COME ON YOU WOLVES
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38 davem
I thought Anon’s piece was quite amusing. You don’t have to dislike someone to poke a bit of fun at them.
You would see negativity in a cheese sandwich and a TV programme like Blackadder must be torture for you with all that satire.
P.S. Let me think. Who are the negative ones? Those who think Wolves will fail or those who think that every article on here which doesn’t agree with their own view is negative?
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Martin
You are completely missing the point.
Being 3 points clear is neither hear nor there.
In fact the problem is two fold:
1. A manager that continues, time and time again to play players that are simply not good enough. There’s 20,000 fans that can see this ,but alas, the manager fails to see it.
This has cost us dear since November . There is absolutely no doubt that starting with Blackpool away, we would have won at least some of these matches had it not been for some bizarre tactics.
2. We are Throwing away the opportunity. The fact that we are 3 points clear is irrelevant. The problem is our form is dreadful and again, it’s down to the manager and his total lack of tactically ability. He has no plan B. If a key player like kightly gets injured , you would expect him to bring in a direct replacement. But as we saw against Blackpool, he shuffled the whole team just to solve a single problem!
The fact is, that Wolves fans dont DEMAND promotion, but we are sick of the mediocracy of the Championship and poor management on and off the field.
We are the most under acheiving team outside of the Premiership, and that’s why we get frustrated.
And McCarthy compounds our frustration by playing players that aren’t good enough, or persisiting with under acheiving players over and over and over again.
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What worries me is “how many teams do you do the double over in a season”
Now because we had a brilliant 1st half means we will have to work much harder for the 2nd half and aim for at least draws off teams we have beaten and 3 points off those we have not.
We can still do it.
One thing I do not like is Mick saying we have played well when everybody knows we have been poor.So come on Mick face facts and tell it how Dave Instone used to THE TRUTH.
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I am beginning to think that the best thing for the team this year would be for the E&S to shut down this page for perhaps a month. Martin and Nathan both try very hard to cheer you miserable lot of sods up but lots persist in seeing their glass completely empty not even half full.
Yes, still 3points clear.
Yes, still top of the league.
Until we drop out of the playoff places with no mathematical chance of gaining promotion this term.
I WILL BELIEVE.
Up The Wolves
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All along I support the team and encourage others to. But if you think looking at the league table is enough to smile about then you’re an idiot mate.
When you next win looks like it’s not coming, and the players are publically making illogical and out-of-character statements, you YOU HAVE TO WORRY.
When the manager has faith in players that WERE playing well some time ago, but not now, not even recently, YOU HAVE TO WORRY.
Lets be honest. This was an article cobbled together out of a few surface details and little that actually identifies the real concerns or problems.
Conclusion – do us all a favour and remove this tripe and replace it with something worth reading you muppet.
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Swain, the more I see of your work the less I see in ability.
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No’21 “think the club has blundered badly selling Davies to raise the shortfall on the Berra fee.”
Regardless of what we think of the Davies transfer and indeed the saga surrounding the Players departure, Your statement is simply not true
The sale of Davies and the arrival of Berra have no link be it footballing or financial.
Whilst we all carry the burden of 2002 as fans ..its not fair to lump any of that on Mick or the current players… different era
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34 – you’re such a populist!!!
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Ad Mant – on behalf of myself to yourself stop moaning about ourselves.
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COME ON YOU WOLVES….THE PLAYERS OUGHT TO READ THIS ARTICLE BECAUSE IM SERIOUSLY PENT UP & IF I WAS PLAYING ON SUNDAY & PUTTING THAT SHIRT ON ID BE WELL FIRED UP….DONT BLOW IT, PLAYERS & SUPPORTERS ALIKE!!!!! LETS GET BEHIND THE BOYS.
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Do we think we have a right to be in the premier league? – NO
Do we want to be in the premier league? – YES
Are we frustrated at the recent performances? – YES
Are we, like the bluenoses, voting with their feet? – NO
So give the fans some credit, the amount of comments on articles like this show we ALL care, and ALL have opinions (some negative, some positive) it just depends on your outlook.
But the team are going through a rough patch, should we be encouraging them through this rough patch? – WE SHOULDNT HAVE TO!
The common point with all of us is we are desperate for success, and we are still paying to see the club we all love, get off our backs!
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i know its interesting to continue to analyse the team performance by what influence the fans have.
Well, lets be real. If we had that much influence we would be near the top of the premier league.
For heavens sake, all fans get worried and frustrated.
We are going up guys, lets enjoy the run in.
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Forgot to add this question to my last bit:-
Do we want this article at the top of the ‘most commented’ list? – YES
;-)
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At the risk of being called a moaner/boo boy/etc etc i thought I had to comment on this article which typifies the complacency which surrounds the club and has done so for many many years.No one can argue the players have done well to get us to the top of the league,but the majority of fans realised some time ago the team was running out of steam and needed reinforcing in the January window.What happened? : virtually nothing,and that is why fans are coming on this website and having a go.The only way you can judge a club’s performance over a number of years is to compare it to clubs with similar support. Our record over the past 10 years has been abysmal,and when we do get a decent opportunity to get promoted ,the club,for whatever reason, does not take the necessary action to ensure this can happen.For the money we are charged to watch our team ,I think fans have every right to come on this site and have a moan.
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What Happend to david Instone ?
He knew his football and was totally non biased and bought good, true stories to the express and star !
Martin Swain, he used to do all the villa posts so what does he know ! lol
but agree about wolves fans need to get behind the manager and team 100% for 13 games !
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thank god there are some sensible wolves fans out there!!
ur completely right – dont start moaning & bitching & booing until there is something to moan abt.
our rivals will love the fact tht the fans are at each throats & it will hardly be doing our lads any good & it certainly wont help their morale!!!
get behind the boys & focus on where we’re goin to be at the end of the season!!!!!!!!
come on you wolves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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good article which basically sums it all up. We all need to take a look at the bigger pictrure. WE ARE TOP OF THE LEAGUE. I am sometimes really disappointed to be a wolves fan, there are minorities of us that are so fickle it is unreal. We have a good attacking team, with the best striker in the division. People who want to Mick out when we are top of the league need medication. Stability is the key word ask Charlton, Southampton, Leeds etc. A good young team is being built for the future, not a bunch of overpaid ageing premiership dropouts like blues or sheff utd or even ourselves ten years ago. Mick may be stubborn and some of his selections can be questioned but show me a perfect manager!!
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35) I think you will find that Martin Swain is much more knowledgable about football than you.
CARDIFF IS NOT A MUST WIN GAME. TOO MUCH PANIC ON THIS SITE.
IT IS IN WOLVES HANDS WHATEVER AS WE HAVE AN EASIER RUN IN!
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I usually like your articles,especially match reports,but this article lacks balance and fairness. My belief is this is just a Moxey PR stunt.We have to pay for our seats Mr Swain.Why no mention of the lack of real investment in January?Why no investigative journalism as to what has happened to the massive cash injection that was promised ? Why no reference to the smug senior management who let us down year after year? Why no reference to the 10%hike prices,when other clubs are reducing prices?
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If we go up they will still moan,THEY ARE WITHOUT DOUBT THE WORST SUPPORTERS IN THIS COUNTRY.
Yes they are not playing well and yes they are struggling with form at the moment but can any one of you idiots tell me how your continual bleating on this site is HELPING THE TEAM.
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Complete rubbish, we have every right to be concerned and moan…
Reading win there games in hand there 2 points clear
Were on par with Birmingham and have to go to St Andrews!
And Cardiff will be on equal points if they win there games in hand…when we must of been 20 points clear of them at one stage… And if they do win there games in hand they could end up with a better goal difference – Keeping us out of the top 2.
This gerbil faced optimism is long lived and we need to face facts.
1) The championship title, and promotion place’s are no longer in our hands,,
2)Football is very much a confidence game, and we have the worst form in the league,,
3)Kightly, jarvis and iwelumo have been.. lets say ”caught out” and our only attacking threats are the still young sam vokes and SEB.
.. Ofcours.. if we beat Cardiff and plymouth.. and birmingham loose too coventry and Sheff united which lets face it isnt impossible…
Season back on track…
Aswell as this.. birmingham and reading have each other last game of the season!
I have NO idea what to think….
So i say leave it 3 games and then we can sum things up.
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The damage is done…the hysterical panic is out the bag now & everyone’s greatest fears are becoming a self forfilling prophecy. Popular belief now is that we’ve blown it big time, and because of that belief…guess what…we’re gonna blow it big time!
But, now not that we’re fickle, if we do happen to stuff Cardiff then we’ll be back on our unstoppable destiny back to the Premiership, just as we all knew we would be!
Its no surprise Foley & co are playing down the importance of beating Cardiff…cause the consequences of saying that it is essential, & then failing, well we all know what it would be like after that.
So yes we do need to concentrate on our 13 match promotion campaign. Forget the good start, forget our recent form, and don’t blame Mick for 2002. If we can truly believe that we have got a quality team that can deliver we’ll be fine.
err, if.
Simon :)
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No doubts we are going up. Even if we lose against Cardiff, we are still going up. A good young team who will turn it around. The bad patch is behind us. Come on you Wolves
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About time the players and super mick stopped talking and started playing
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As a Londoner and supporter of this wonderful club for many years I am often irritated by such negative comments . A team with any hope of challenging for prizes takes 3 to 5 years to develope, to develope gradually . MM has done a super job when its realised what a shambles he took over just a couple of years ago . Since Turner things have been dire at Molineux with not one manager having a clue . The great´´ Dave Jones set the club back ten years with his ludicrous buys . Now we have a team thats young , talented and begining to show real promise . With one or two additions it will become an excellent team . Even if it were to miss out on promotion this time its time is coming .
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Ask not what your team can do for you but what you can do for your team!!!! Yes MM can be hard to gauge and I am as amazed as anyone else at some of his decisions but he gets paid to do that job. I just wish that he had tightened up at the back (I thought he realised that one when he brought Mancienne into the fold, shame he couldn’t keep hold of him)
We are Wolves fans and do we ever really think that we are going to start a season and end up bagging 100 plus points and getting up there at a canter. Never gonna happen. Being a Wolves fan is one constant rollercoaster and always will be if you don’t like fairground rides then move to Manchester or London. Yes Wolves fans are fickle but they are Wolves fans. It would be too easy to be a Man U fan with a midlands accent and a false sense of identity. Whinging/moaning/happy clapping it is irrelevant we are all in it together. It’s been a long one and it is going to get even longer and harder but hey while we are still in with a chance it is going to be exciting if it is approached with the right attitude so let’s get behind them for the final push over the top and remember what we can do for our team together as a team of supporters that may not agree with each other but agree on one thing that WE ARE WOLVES.
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To all those who are so anti this article, it is YOU who are the very cause of it being written and your reactions shown here ironically prove everything it’s saying.
Will you please STOP living in the past and live for this season please, until you do we can’t move forward.
Thanks.
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I’m fully aware we are still top of the championship however the season is unravelling at a pace which has left genuine WWFC fans feeling a little unnerved suffice to say nothing short of a victory over Cardiff City this coming Sunday will do. Defeat will leave us psychologically and irretrievably
damaged and the playoffs will become a forlorn hope.
Non-the-less we do have an right to expect our team to be in a more comfortable position considering where we were in Jan even taking into consideration we would possibly lose some games. However the decision making by the manager and his team since (at a crucial part of the season) has been found wanting.
The current malaise is self inflicted. As I see it the problems are threefold:- Firstly, Lack of defence, which simply has’nt just been a problem for the last couple of months but for the last TWO seasons. It should have been sorted last summer at the latest. If the manager wanted Berra he should have signed him then. The fault lies with the management team at WWFC no-one else. Failure to reach the Premier League will be their’s and their’s alone.
Secondly the manager’s consistent pig headedness and *one-eyed* view. With little flexibility in thinking and an inability to take on constructive criticism or contemplate an alternative. It is fast becoming evident the manager has/is becoming a costly liability. Simply put the manager and his team have little idea of how to arrest the current unravelling of 2008/9 season. Recent team selections reinforce and CONFIRM this view, namely the manager’s inability to select players in form (Vokes) and to drop those clearly out of form (Kightly, Henry). On top of that is the persistent non usage of playmakers (Jones) and usage of “square pegs ” in round holes i.e Stephen Ward, Whatever happened to the two bespoke Left Backs we bought last summer? Hill and Friend?, Having only missed two home games this season it is a very rare sight to see Ward get anywhere near to closing down ANY opposing winger no wonder we have defensive problems!. Clearly the manager’s loyalty to his perceived favourites is blinding him to the patently obvious.
Thirdly the maltreatment and mis-management of footballing personnel is further destroying confidence, factoring in the current crisis of team performance: Namely the personnel bought last summer last summer – Jason Shackell, Matt Hill, George Friend. Why buy players if you’re not going to use them?. Having said that why loan players if you’re not going to use them?. Why not use Reid instead of the out of form Kightly?. Whatever happened to competition for places?. On top of that is the despicable treatment of two young players firstly the confidence crushing of Wayne Hennessey as a direct result of the manager’s action following an error at the home game to Reading for which he was dropped immediately and has’nt recovered, and secondly the travesty which has blown a hole in the much vaunted “young & hungry” policy I.e.the sale of Mark Davies a lad WWFC nurtured from his schooldays and should’ve been a permanent fixture in our team since the start of the year.TWO premiership manager’s can’t be wrong.
Lose on Sunday Morgan will need to take action to save the season. In other words the manager will need to go. An ideal replacement would Roy Keane to get us over the final hurdle to the premier league this season.
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Excellent article.
There isn’t a team in the league that wouldn’t swap places with where we are now.
We’ve had a rocky patch, and we’re still top. That’s good in my eyes.
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we are defenitly lacking a leader on the pitch to tell the boys to calm down and play football like we were at the start of the season we are playing into teams hands by hitting it long its not our style,qaushie! ill pay the taxi fair back to west ham for him,ive got friends who are blues and he wasn’t good enough for them so why does mick play him,we just need to get back to basics and get behind the lads if your a moaner stay at home!!come on boys
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Cardiff have Darren Purse, Mark Kennedy and super Jay in their team. If we cant beat a team at home with those three in it then Jesus! Come on Wolves wipe the floor with them, they aint that good.
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well said cornish wolf….BELIEVE!!
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MUPPET MICK OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yes Sunday is a must win game. If we win, we’ll probably go up, draw i don’t know and if we lose we will not go up. Molineux has to be noisy instead of the usual chant loud for the first 10 mins, then go quiet for the rest of the game except maybe if we’re winning. If we’re losing, Molineux is a morgue
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I went to Burnley on Saturday and we were awful, but I cheered on Mick and the boys as that’s what it’s about…supporting them. Don’t give them grief, get behind the lads.
I went in 1967 to Coventry and if we won, it was a near certainty we would have gone up as champs, but being Wolves, we got beat 3-1.
My point is, we stuck with the team and went up as runners up, so come on you doom and gloom merchants…..we are still top with 13 games to go.
This is not 1967, or 2002 ..It’s 2009 different manager different players… come on you wolves !!!!!!!!!!!
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Paying Wolves fans have a right to express their feelings, provided that it’s after the game, not during. To do otherwise defeats the objective of ‘supporting’ your team. Those who are unhappy with certain players or the manager’s performance are perfectly at liberty to throw in their two bobs’ worth on sites such as this.
In essence, I agree with much of Swain’s sentiments. However, I’d remind fans who suddenly feel compelled to kiss his butt in grateful appreciation, that Mr. Swain is NOT a Wolves fan. How many games does he attend, and, even when he does, how much does he actually pay to get in, unlike us? It’s easy to lecture optimism to a depressed audience when a perk of journalism is freebie admission. Even more so when it’s not YOUR club.
In fact, read his Express & Star column and you’ll see that he regularly takes great delight in poking underhand fun at our club and its fanbase. Keep your eyes peeled if you hadn’t noticed. Pity he doesn’t take the same stance with the Boggies and his beloved Villa -but he’s usually too busy extolling their virtues.
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A boost in confidence is needed for Wolves to regain their winning momemtum. To critise further will not help the team progress.
A bad run of games does not mean the end, for all the effort put in by team, the management and coaches and not least the fan’s support.
It does not mean the team is not trying, what is needed now, is for the players to pull up their socks for the battle ahead and for the fans to keep faith and not drown the achievement so far.
Up the Wolves and keep faith and support the team.
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84 Taking your comments on Mr Swain a little further – Wolves fans should remember that he is nothing more than a journalist/ come pundit who’s sole focus is to get a reaction and sell papers!
Dealing with facts regarding MM and recent games (the last 9) – If everyone looks at what we have achieved in these games and the trend continues – we will be lucky if we qualify for the play offs!
Fans are making their views/ opinions known and are being berated/ lectured about “supporting the team”/ “getting behind the team” – First of all – What makes you people think that the fans who dont agree with what is being “dished up” by MM & Co home and away currently – dont “back the team” at games?
Furthermore; There may well be a very small element of fans that boo/ ironic cheers at games BUT that is NOT the majority of fans – & it seems that the club & media are exceptionally greatfull that both parties can and do use this to highlight the “badness” in Wolves fans – which appears to highlight the “gullible” amongst us for falling for this “slight of hand” – If anyone really bothered to look at other clubs – they will find that the likes of Arsenal – (Fans booed Eboue) (SP?) – not that long ago – and I am sure the same can be found at quite few other clubs – even this season
It doesnt take a genius to highlight these things – its almost lazy journalism
EG: Some idiot – probably journalist did a survey in the Mirror not that long ago – regarding Wolves fans being the worst moaners etc – Did anyone actually stop to think or ask who did this, how many fans/ people were asked and which team did these people taking part in the survey support/ follow? Without checking the facts – I believe that is a resounding NO
Anyone can twist stats, facts or questions – Would Sunderland fans be as complementary about Newcastle fans – or Celtic fans about Rangers fans? Is that a No then?
NB* Anyone who doesnt like us Wolves fans is definately going to use the Mirror survey for the rest of their lives as a stick to beat us with – and for some reason hardly anyone questions the Mirror research? The same applies to the media/ club itself when a small minority give ironic cheers/ heard to boo – Is that not gullible?
Regardless of which camp we fall in – Happy Clapper or Non Happy Clapper – We follow the same club/ team
It is now “squeeky bum time” and my fear is that as things stand tactically and on the field of play – IF we continue in the same manner for the remainding games – we would struggle to make even the play offs – and all that good work would simply go to waste!
MM and Co had better get a grip on reality NOW – and change/ buck this trend!
Yes back the team – Yes cheer at games BUT try getting a reality check and look at this with open eyes – NOT just In MM we trust blah blah
Just because fans dont agree with each other on an internet board – does not mean that they dont support the team – If we all try to give our opinions and not just resort to knee jerk borderline insults – maybe people will treat each other with a little more respect!
In hope that MM drastically changes things now
UP THE WOLVES!
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Sorry meant Comment 87 NOT 84
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No-one else has said it so I will. Reading have 2 games in hand, who’s to say they are going to win them cos at the moment they’re in a bad run like us. Yes Cardiff have games in hand but who’s to say they are going to win them?
Pressure is on everyone but we HAVE the points & they only have the CHANCE to get them & catch us, yes we’ve been playing poorly but that can change as easily as it did for us over the last 9 games. Keep the faith & be a true SUPPORTER, get behind the lads & make them know what we think of this club & what our ambitions should be. Good atricle too Mr Swain, it’s true you do know more about football than ALL the whinging muppets calling for MM’s head & slagging of the players – maybe it’s time for them (you all know your names) to runn off back to the Poorthorns or maybe switch to Old Trafford cos you obviously don’t want to be associated with our GREAT club (no I didn’t say BIG club)
Keep the faith & Up The Wolves
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Leggeshill, I was at Cov that day too, happy memories of Peter Knowles playing that season. It is still their record attendance and probably will be forever. Not such happy memories of being thumped at Palace and losing the title.
Looking forward to 3 points on Sunday.
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Swain is a self-contradicting, short-sighted muppet.
First he talks about the Molineux over-expectancy. Then points to a string of games we should expect to win.
This really is an article comprised of tosh, tosh and utter tosh.
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Absolute drivel from Swain.The crisis is the current form and this clown of a manager not knowing his best line up after 3 years.
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brummierobwolves
Just because Swain writes for the E&S he has more knowledghe that me…. Nah I dont think so. Cardiff is a must win game,,, why because we playing at home against a team who win there games in hand and including beating wolves will overtake wolves. For me it would be a disaster. So it has to be 3 points!!! END OF! Outside of that, you play at home you ought to go for the win!
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“Swain on Wolves – What crisis?” I really can’t understand why so many people are critising what you are saying Swainey? It makes perfect sense to me especially the last part of your article. So come on you supporters (or are you muppets) get behind them and DONT PLAY INTO THE HANDS OF READING & BLUES!!!
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doooom and gloooom same old so called wolves fans
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I think we are all over being thought of a BIG club and expect promotion Our position in the league at the moment counts for nothing.
I have supported this club since the 1950′s and still attend avery week I do not expect praise and I have long since given up as being important to this Club .Its the club that should get over its self Listen to the FANS not a poorly written article by non-Wolves fan We have the right to complain when we see idiotic measures implemented be it on or off the pitch Mr Swain’s article is another wedge being driven between Club and Fan base Following the Wolves has never in my time been easy but follow I do.I will continue to support the team but my faith in the Wolverhampton Wanderers PLC is shatttered
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Plymouth are ailing, as are Crystal Palace. Sheffield Wednesday blow hot and cold as do Ipswich. Charlton at home and Forest away? Come on, Wolves can surely look to win with confidence.
So its ok if we can do well against the poor teams is it …nice one thanks !!!briddy
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Love Love will tear us apart again
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WE DO NOT DESERVE TO BE PROMOTED WITH THE STANDARD OF FOOTBALL WE ARE PLAYING, WE DO NOT DESERVE TO BE PROMOTED WITH THE SUB-STANDARD PLAYERS GOING AROUND, AND THE CLOWN OF A MANAGER AT THE HELM.
OTHER TEAMS IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP HAVE WORKED WOLVES OUT AS EVIDENCED IN ALL MATCHES SINCE LAST FEBRUARY, AND EXPOSED PRETENDERS SUCH AS CHRIS, EBANKS AND KIGHTLY, FOR WHAT THEY ARE…SECOND CLASS.
UNLESS MR MORGAN ACTS SWIFTLY AND PAYS OUT MICK AND SECURES THE SERVICES OF A REAL DYNAMIC MANAGER THAT CAN LEAD…WARNOCK OF PALACE, OR WHO BETTER THAN LEGEND PAUL INCE, WE WILL BE PLAYING CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL NEXT SEASON.
IF WE LOSE ON SUNDAY, WHICH IS A REAL POSSIBILITY…ITS GOOD NIGHT NURSE
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101. Liz, how can you describe Sylvan as “second class”? That’s the league’s top scorer you’re talking about, and the Golden Boot winner.
You ARE joking about ‘lump it upfield’ Warnock, I hope? A disciplined, authoratative manager, yes -but a big “NO THANKS” to his Sheff Utd legacy of BORING, kick-lumps-out-of-ya style of play. Anyone ever enjoyed playing that lot under Warnock? One of the fixtures we all HATED MOST!
I’m not happy with Mick McCarthy, though. I hope he succeeds for OUR sake, but I’m unimpressed with his narrow-minded, senseless managerial style. He loves goading the fans, too, and is probably more responsible for splitting our fanbase than even the so-called moaners. Calling fans ‘nuggets’ and ‘numpties’ for expressing their opinions has left a scar that many won’t forget. All the same, we need to be behind our resident Yorkshire pudding, at least until the season’s over.
Going back to the article: I see Swain made a BIG issue of pointing out that negativity is “music to Blues and Reading’s ears”. If he believes it’s the case that Wolves and their fans would be better advised to shut up and NOT draw attention to themselves….
…then WHY did he write that article in the first place? And WHY did my E & Star newspaper drop through my letterbox last night with a bold header in bright Gold that said:
“STAY CALM! IT’S NOT OVER YET”
Talk about drawing attention to the very situation he says we need to avoid. If I didn’t know better, I’d say even the E & Star journalists are secretly trying to unhinge the club -either that or sell papers through sensationalist headlines.
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I agree, an excellent and balanced article. Forgive my cynicism though because I think that this is the most positive post Mr Swain has made in all of my many years supporting the Wolves. Why the sudden, and it is sudden, change of attitude Has someone got to him?
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More tripe as normal from Martin Swain…if we want to boo thats our choice, dont you dare dictate to us you clown
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Lads it doesn’t matter what has been done in the past, its the future that counts so….
come sunday(and the rest of the season) lets get behind the lads and support them come what may.. if at the end it’s not good enough then we can say we supported you all the way.. if you are not willing to support the team and just slag them off then please for all our sakes STAY AWAY
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Some good points but wouldn’t agree with Reading and Birmingham’s managers looking on these message boards, perhaps their fans but E&S isn’t national newspaper. But these Journalists do annoy me like they miss things in games, like the first 20 minutes against Sheffield Wednesday on the first home game where wolves were awful and could or should have been dead buried. Then Mr. Swain had a ‘knee-jerk’ reaction to the FA cup game against Birmingham, so did Mr. Nash after the Watford home game.
While the Premier League is a real cut throat division than to the Championship. You also forgot about Jean Tigan’s Fulham as well who blitz this league before.
And yes I agree with the Blues being rather dull and grumpy because of the football offered at St Andrews, but weren’t we offered the same last season but couldn’t stay in the promotion party? And are we really going too finish top with the defence we’ve got? I’ll be happy if we do but I can’t see it.
I also think venom is far too strong, have fans cursed players on here, have there been death threats? No, and of course I agree with 31, we are still getting 20 thousand plus fans into molineux aren’t we? Still great support despite the groans and frustrations that come along with being a big club, but then like 31 said if we didn’t turn up then we still get the blame. We can’t win!
The truth is really; even if we fail there is still an exciting future with these players, well the talented ones unless our board decides to sell them off which to me they have no excuse to do so because there’s 30 million in the bank, well probably 20 after transfer spending since Morgan has came in. If they are ambitious to reach the Premier league then there should be no fire sale hopefully, we could still do it this season but I doubt winning the league maybe second with some luck, which has disappeared lately. In the play-offs nope, can’t see it but I would be glad to be so wrong.
But all this media rubbish is what gets me annoyed – repeated information there – more so than our team, for instance Mr. Nash was writing about how much money Mick would get when promoted, yes he did use ‘If’ but then we’re barely half way in the season and then he attacked the transfer policy of the baggies, does know how expensive British quality premier league players are? He also labelled us as the new West Brom at the very start of the season, I am Wolves fan and I can’t believe I’ll write this but it is fact, we are not as good as a football side as they are. Ahhh, anyway its only matter of time ‘if’ some way down the line we start to build from home grown talent again, certain Zeli Ismail & Kyle Bennett, I hope and these current first team players will get better and then we will be the better team. So don’t worry so much and yes Mr Swain it is a very nice crisis to be in. Top of the league while playing rubbish, hopefully this sunny training camp is the tonic the team needs to get back to the form we have seen and then everything should be fine come what May.
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cardiff are coming to get you, we will only be 9 points behind you with 4 games in hand when we beat you sunday
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Moan, moan, moan. I lived a stones throw from Molineux for 40 years and was in the old South Bank most Saturdays and remember the good old days of Doug, Richards and co. I sponsored the Wolves and Bully, and now 2000 miles away when Wolves have a match I get a bottle of vodka and through the internet get updates every 120 seconds. Thirteen matches to go and we will be in the Premier League. This year we won’t fail and we won’t be one year wonders, so stop the moaning, get behind the team and shout the pants off the opposition.
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Cardiff are coming to get us???? You have to catch us mate and let’s be totally honest here my friend Swansea are the better team by far from your neck of the woods. You want to have a look westwards down the M4 because their coming to get you
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no chance mate, havent you noticed who youve got as manager, dave’tactically naive’ jones
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