After listening to the commentary on Beacon I thing we can put that down as a point gained rather than two points lost!
The up coming games (on paper) look to be easier.
Just lets hope that they prove to be that on the pitch.
Plymouth are a fading force at the moment however we do seem to manage to draw a lot of games with them.
Reading and The blouses did us a big favour but we cannot rely on them continuing to slip up. It’s in our hands now.
Up The Wolves

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Now look lads we at coventry can’t keep bailing you out.Yesterday we stuffed the blues and to day our ex. keeper helped you out.You really must start standing on you own feet.Spoke to a mate abroad to day he cannot believe that you are calling for the head of a manager who has kept you top since last August.Still we will settle for Chris Coleman who is quietly getting on with the job of re building our club.Good Luck Bill

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just over a quarter of the season to go – and still top. who’d have thought that at the start of the season? Home straight now and a nice one on Saturday (Plymouth at the Mol) to cement our place whilst the Blooz travel to Sheff Utd. C’mon the Wolves – we can do it

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Thought we were back to ‘something like’ today.

Decent point against a team who have there tails up.

We gifted them the 2 goals but our play was so much better than its been for a while & the fans reacted to that & really got behind the team.

I just wish we could cut out the defensive mistakes, the left back position is starting to become a worry & I think teams are now playing on Stephen Ward, thought he should have stopped the lad from crossing for the 1st goal.

But we were better all over the pitch today & its about time we had a bit of luck.

Onwards & upwards

Keep the faith

Wolves forever

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Disappointing result overall, but there was only one way we would score in the 2nd half, and that would be by a fluke goal, and Cardiff obliged.

We seem to be running out of steam, and ideas. Kightly was largely anonymous and Henry just doesn’t have what it takes in midfield.

Opposing teams are able to reduce Jarvis’s threat by placing a quick full back on him. Today, Jarvis was less confident in taking the ball outside of his marker.

It is clear that we need to strengthen in midfield, otherwise we will be overrun in most of the remaining matches.

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A vast improvement by the team, but again our deficiencies were highlighted: Keogh’s inability to put away sitters that your grannie could score, and yet more rank-bad defending that nearly cost us a game we could, and should, have won.

It may be a very valuable point gained in the scheme of things, but unless we put Plymouth to the sword next week, this winless run could prove to be the club’s epitaph, especially McCarthy’s.

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it should have been all over by half time and yet again it came to light that we still can not hold on to a lead ,what is the differnce now to the start of the season.by the end of the match wolves where lucky to get a point still trying to walk the ball into the back of the net start having shots from outside the box kegoh had a good first half did nothing second cann,t belive kites could get past kenady he had a bad match mick should have changed things at half time ,why leave it so late on in the game i,m still praying

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Feels like a good point gained,first half we could have been out of sight but hey thats wolves.Keep supporting the boys.

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As hard as I try to support Keogh, I must say that my patience is wearing incredibly thin. Were it not for his shocking finishing we would have been out of sight by half time!

The fans got right behind him today and so I do not see what his problem is!?! He just looks a very poor player, found wanting in every department.

Still another point towards the cause, the others might have games in hand but we have points on the board and at the moment I know where i’d rather be!

Up the Wolves!

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AK should have buried those chances!

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WEll done boys and thankyou, brid

come on you wolf cubs
WOLVES FOR EVER

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Another two points dropped.This isn’t good enough!

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Absolute rubbish again.What has Berra bought to this team? Another shocket from calamity Mick. Go now befre we have to slog it out in teh play offs

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henry was awful & keogh couldnt hit a barn door why is he starting ahead of vokes & iwelumo?

mick bring in a centre midfielder quick!!!!

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I’M SAYING NOTHING.

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First half an hour was excellent the rest of the game poor to average i think we will have a better picture after the plymouth game which we must win .

We are Wolves

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29 SBBA
No change there then !

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If Mick does get us to the Promised Land, then he should be given plenty of credit – put him in the Hall of Fame if you want, but then lock him in there so he can’t get out because he aint a Premier League manager. As soon as the season is over, we need to go out and get Coyle from Burnley or Martinez from Swansea. Both know how to play decent football, how to vary tactics and how to out wit Premier League sides with an inferior team!!

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Bang on Comment 36

Up the Wolves!

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34 northbank muppet.

2 weeks the southbank is accused of booing AK and knocking his confidence, then we are accused of being Micks yes men. Which one is it. Maybe if you could help get the Northbank to show a little more passion and make some noise rather than just sitting there like cardboard cut outs, we would actually have a bit of passion from both ends. FFS an half full Steve Bull adds more to the atmosphere than your lot

Yesterday i saw it has a point gained. Flukey goal yes, but they all count. Maybe our luck has changed time will tell. 1st half hour was the best this year(not hard i know). Ward unlucky with the challenge that led to there 1st (although the last 3 games have resulted in goals coming from his side. Def the week link IMHO) Seemed to be a foul leading up to the corner which they scored from. WTF was the ref doing with that dance)
We aint gonna get anyone in on loan, so i suggest we get behind what we have. I still think its a 3 horse race and Blose def have (on paper) the toughest run in.
Keep the faith and we will get there.

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Keogh misses a sitter, then seconds later Ward has no idea how to defend and Cardiff score, 2 of the players given long term contracts. All we needed was for Mad MM to put Collins on and for him to score a home goal, Keogh does run after everything but if thats what you want go to the local athletics club, you could pick loads of lads FOC. This is just not good enough,we would get killed in the prem with this crap. Foley get out of this club ASAP before MM kills your career. small crowd again, MM is killing this club.

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When will Karl Henry put in a bone crunching tackle. I am sick of him backing off backing off midfielders. You cant win the ball if you dont tackle!

Chopra, wish we had him in our side.

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The performance was good enough to beat most teams in this division but I do wonder whether we will ever see this Wolves team keep a clean sheet. The next game is against the worst team in the division on current form but with Wolves having won one in ten it is hardly a foregone conclusion. A convincing win is needed to get us back on track.

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I’m sure a lot of these commenters on here don’t actually go to games, come and join those of us who go week in week out and have been doing so since the deep, dark days of div 4, then you may have an idea of what you are on about. Yesterday was a point gained, DEFINITELY, we are 1 point better off than last week and no worse off with cardiff, we have the 12 points in the bag for their 4 games in hand, and they have to win them all, i know which scenario i’d sooner have !! If we can just keep nicking an advantage here and there we’ll be ok, If blues let in 1 or 2 their best will be a draw, they cannot score, and reading are tripping over their own shoelaces! no 1 wants to win!!! But guys, its not going to be pretty ,but we’ll be fine! trust me, I’m a gynaecologist!!!
UP THE WOLVES!!!

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44. I was thinking similar things to you. I can’t get my head around McCarthy’s endless tampering with the front two (it’s counterproductive), nor can I understand him playing Ward at left back (even though he’s done well, considering). I want to see Wolves playing to their strengths and that means square pegs in square holes.

As a bit of experience is required to see us home, maybe Chris Iwelumo should partner SEB up front. It worked early season and can work again if MM shows Chris the same, blind faith he’s showed Keogh. I’m pretty confident Chris would’ve broke his duck yesterday had Keogh’s chances fallen to him.

I’m staggered that a manager like McCarthy still hasn’t sorted out our defence despite himself being an ex-international centre half. I particularly agree with your second point about defenders being placed on the post. Why is this not being addressed?

No wonder we’ve got one of the worst defences in the division if McCarthy is so oblivious to the obvious. I also thought that defending starts from those in front of the back four, something we’re not seeing with any great conviction. Henry only retains his place, as I see it, because he’s Captain and Mick can’t afford to be seen questioning his own appointments, can he? Sorry, but Karl’s not doing his job because he’s not leading by example and putting his foot in where it hurts.

As for Keogh’s workrate, I can’t complain because this kid “always puts a shift in”. However, it’s obvious Andy can’t hit a cow’s backside with a banjo. I advise Mick send him to a local brothel for target practice. There again, he’d probably not score there, either.

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Well said Nige!

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I couldn’t make the match this week, but I hear Keogh missed a sitter again! And by all accounts this is what turned it around for Cardiff.

I have just complied some rough stats and wished MM could see this:

KEOGH

30 games = 3 goals

IWELUMO 19 games = 13 goals

VOKES 7 games = 3 goals

I think the above says it all…..

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Well it was The Good the Bad and the Ugly. The first 30 Mins we played as well as earlier in the season. They Got an equaliser against the run-of-play and we then gave away what advantage we had.Why ? – I agree with a couple of the earlier comments – whilst Stephen Ward at left back tries hard and is a much better player than before – He is a weakness and other teams are working this out quickly. When we do not start with a Big Man up front why do we continually poke long high balls -SEB and Andy Keogh ar’nt big enough to win them. However Andy Keogh had a Good Game -”Keep of him moaners he can play” we know what he’s capable of – but it is frushtrating when he does’t play to his ability Midfield is a problem though a much improved match for Edwards but Karl Henry had a “Mare”.Can someone tell me whats happened to David Jones we had no one able to take a free kick – as was painfully obvious yesterday.
Plymouth on Saturday is a must win match as they all are – but don’t think they’ll come here to be turned over. We must play better – yesterday was a start – keep it going!

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Thought it was a point gained yesterday. Two things are becoming obvious with regards to team selection. Steven Ward is being targeted by sides to go at him, we should now play Stearman at left back. Kites is being doubled up on and should play him in central midfield alongside Quashie with Reid on the right. The only way to win this league is to play to our strengths and that is to go all out attack and against the more physical sides (cardiff, blues etc) play Iwelumo, the game was crying out for him in the second half yesterday.

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After recent displays I was encouraged by the first half performance in general, although we did have some great chances and failed to take them. At half time, despite conceding their equaliser I was still quietly confident that if we continued in the same vein, then we could go on and win the match. However, unfortunately a lacklustre, half hearted team appeared and once again we were overrun in midfield.

Positive points – Decent first half on the whole. I thought Craddock and Berra played well together, although I’m not suggesting that Craddock is the answer but it was right to rest Stearman. We created some good chances and the crowd got behind the team.

Negative points – We didn’t put away the good chances. Despite being the captain, Henry needs dropping, at the moment he is simply not good enough. Our midfield is easily overrun, maybe replacing Henry with Jones (if he is fit) could solve this. Turgid second half performance with Kightly becoming anonymous. Mick needs to identify problems and make the relevant substitutions quicker than he does right now!

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47. I’ve got my doubts about whether some of the ‘fans’ on here actually go to games, too. I certainly go because I’m an ST holder.

You say “we’ll be fine”, but that will ONLY apply if Mad Mick stops his ridiculous tinkering and uses a common sense approach during the run-in. That means selecting his strongest side available and dropping this ‘mix and match’ daftness just so that he can accomodate his ‘favourites’ at any cost.

Anybody would think it’s only Keogh, Ward (and until recently, Collins) who “put a shift in”.

If we blow it (and I’m NOT saying we will), McCarthy should go. In that case, I think McCarthy’s epitaph would read:

“Pig-headed to the last breath. Obstinate and as thick-skinned as a mule. Undoubted loyalty far beyond the call of rational duty to those he loved so much. Derided by some sections of fans, but, just like his workhorse team, Mad Mick always put a shift in”.

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Keogh can’t hit a barn door? You’ll find the keeper deflected his shot over the barn door and when he hit the post, Ebay missed from 6 inches. First 30 minutes was excellent and victory on Saturday will begin the final ascent to the promised land. Keep the faith, we are nearly there.

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We’ve got two fit leftback’s so play a striker there instead ,i like wardy think he’s had a good season but he’s not a left back simple.Would also rotate the wingers more,what has happend to them swapping sides during the game it really worked earlier in the season .KH needs a rest and a kick up the arse should be on the bench saturday!!

We are Wolves.

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60 Bewdley Wolf
You what? Keogh was unlucky not to score???? You’re having a laugh! He missed two absolute sitters – again!!!! Scuffing a ‘shot’ against the post from SIX yards is not being unlucky!!
Big Chris was the perfect foil for Sylvain, was described by MM as ‘exactly the sort of player we’ve needed’ when he signed him, scored 13 goals before Xmas and has hardly been given a chance since.
Those of you who really believe Keogh had a ‘good game’ yesterday deserve whats coming to you – another season in this poxy diviion!!

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We play better with Keogh in the starting line up and got Vokes as a super sub. Football is a team game – of course its annoying Keogh doesnt score many goals, but the overall performance from the team is better with Keogh than without him. Its a fact that the results are better with Keogh, Collins and specially Jones in the starting lineup than without them. Play them and get rid of Henry and maybe Kightly and we will start win games again.

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bob hill, cant have a worse season than the albion, buying worse players than you had the season before as they all wanted out, no sponsor, boardroom court cases, reducing the capacity, you have been an absolute laughing stock. Scott Carson sums it up!

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Excellent first half yesturday, should have been 2 or 3 nil up after the half hour. Second half weren’t as good, but at the end of the day we got a point against one of the top Championship sides at the moment, and now we need to move on to our next game. Up the Wolves!

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63. NO, Malvern, we are NOT “nearly there”. Neither Wolves nor their fans can afford the luxury of believing that, even for one moment. We did that a few seasons ago, remember? Gary Smegson thought otherwise and look what happened…

With a dozen games to go, including a massive six-pointer at Blues, nothing can be taken for granted. After all, yesterday saw us struggling near the end to grab a fortunate point from a game we should have won at a canter inside the first 30 mins.

So, anything can happen and, with our liability of a defence, it probably will.

Nothing less than THREE points versus Plymouth is acceptable. That’s the bottom line if we’re deadly serious about restoring confidence AND winning promotion. Time for Mick and the team to earn their substantial salaries and get the results we need.

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Just because some of us do not agree with you happy clappers it does not make us Baggy fans.
1 win in 10 odd games christ wake up end smell the coffee idiots we are in relagation form.

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This was a much improved performance all round with much more commitment. We really should have rapped the game up in the first 30 minutes when we had 3 or 4 very good opportunities. Cardiff did not look very sound in defence, a bit like Wolves, but have some speedy front men.

I have to agree with posts 6 and 7, the left back position is a problem. I like ward for his effort and contribution going forward but we need a full back that knows how to play a fast winger and can defend. If ward had dealt with the winger when he actually had he ball just prior to the pass that led to the first Cardiff goal it may have been so different. This was effectively their first attack.

And how Jarvis, who was the producer of most of our opportunities, was substituted instead of Kightly is a complete mystery.

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cannot believe that nobody as mentioned the part the referee(WHEN WE GOING TO GET A HOMER)played in both their goals
ward was pulled back by his shirt right under the officals nose by parry that enabled him to get his pass in
and henry was pulled back and spun round by ledley and he went on to get the corner they scored from
im seriously depressed by the standard of reffing this season
as for their keeper giving us a point he was the reason they wasn’t 4 down before halftime

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77, practice what you preach….just cos someone doesn’t agree with your continual negative comments, doesn’t make them a happy clapper.
We are meant to be in this together. Hopefully after the 1st half performance and the crowds reaction to it (If you were there you will have to agree) we have turned the corner. Onwards and upwards..
One of us will be eating humble pie come May. I for one will be staying positive till then and doing my utmost to back the boys to the hilt, from my seat in the southbank

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the whole of the ground was singing 2-1 to the referee
apart from the cardiff fans who were just laughing at their good fortune

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77 i dont agree with you is that okay?? ok thats fine then , oh by the way i support wolverhampton wanderers , smell the coffee? we are wolves

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What happened to we are all buzzing after the trip to La Manga! First bad bit if defending came on 31 minutes the moment Chopra scored from their FIRST ATTACK! Roger Johnson unmarked header for their second. Why does Vokes get 1 full game up front & Keogh is straight back in! Henry is awful just because he is captain doesn’t mean he can’t be dropped!!! Why not give Gleeson a go – MM will not use our youth system! It was handed on plate too us this weekend with Reading, Blues & Preston losing and we still can’t take advantage! MM said we needed 10 wins from the last 20 games – it is now 9 from 12!!!! If we blow it this season it will be a DISGRACE!!! Worse than 2001/02!

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84 – Well said. Genuine fans know Keogh had a good game and was unfortunate not score. A great one handed save from the keeper a point blank range summed up Keoghs afternoon. As for the scuff I thought it was a deft little touch to throw the keeper – and it worked, only to hit the post. Had SEB been alert he would have had a easy tap in. Nuff said. The Albion need supporters at the mo if all those anti mick and keogh brigade need some where to go, you will cost us so stay away….

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91/
Yes, enough said alright! Genuine fans know that Keogh, Collins and Ward are the reason we’ve won one in our last ten.
People like you you get up my back. Your continual dumbing down of this club is shameful. You might be happy to accept crap but many of us are not.
Keogh?? GARBAGE!!!

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93 100% agreement
90 you will find me half way up north bank centre 17 Stone and bald, look forward to see you, then you can tell me how much you love Ward Keogh Collins and Mad MM, and your favorite words Failure is success.

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wolves 3 plymouth 0 , of course we all want success for our club , but ill settle for premier survival , i bet the the staff at beacon were sad, wba lost ,villa lost , blues lost, lol bring back the wolf fm. come on me babies !!!!!

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Bob
i look forward to it

1st of all show me any comments were i say i “love” the names mentioned
AK couldn’t hit a barn door in a barn door factory
Ward…not a left back end of
Collins not a defender end of
MM were you happy with Hoddle. How you can talk about getting rid of the manager when we are top of the league and at the business end of the season is beyond me. Who do you replace him with???? More importantly who would want to come here with the type of fans who have it in for the gaffer no matter were the team is in the table
Every comment you make is negative.

constant whinging isn’t gonna get us out of this league. 100% from manager/players and fans.
Do you honestly believe MM doesn’t want this as much as most of us fans. Failure is not my favourite word but it certainly seems to be yours. In fact you give the impression that you’d be gutted if we didn’t fail.

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posters 98,94,93 I completely agree ,its good to see there are some fans that see keogh for what he is…a hopeless scarecrow that should be stuck in a field rather than ruining our best chance of promotion in recent years.
poster 91 cheslyn muppet… fans that know anything about football know keogh is an awful player that simply plays as one of McCarthys favourites and muppet supporters like you who cheer this hopeless scarecrow hold our club back settling for complete rubbish like this.

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keoghiscrap – Agree Keogh is not good enough but you need to back the team to the hilt until the end of the season. We all have an opinion, but we all have the same end goal. Mick will live or die by his decisions and it’s time to back him. Did SEB get forgiven for his penalty miss at Coventry? That point would have been really helpfull given the weekend’s result. What would have happen had Keogh missed it? Booed out the ground no doubt – which is wrong. That is what I disagree with.

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so poster 102 aka liam”I need to go to specsavers”wolf ,keogh runs around lots putting his shift in so that means he should start does it?You fool ,anyone can run around.Why dont we go to a local athletics club and recruit some players from there.Unfortunately you silly muppet 3 goals in 30 league appearances will probably condemn us to missing out on promotion but never mind he puts his shift in.The lad cant tackle,shoot,head and struggles to run in a straight line

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Sorry missed out Kenny Hibbit!! Sorry Kenny!!!

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96/ Facts:
Games with Keogh in starting line up: 8-4-3 = 1.87 points/game
Games without Keogh in starting line up: 11-3-5 = 1.89 points/game
Not much difference playing with or without Keogh, but you have to consider Keogh wasnt playing early in the season when Iweulmos form was great. I prefer an in-form Iwelumo before Keogh, but as he isnt in-form now, its better to play Keogh. A regular Keogh performance is by far better than an Iwelumo “offside and freekick against”-performance.
Anyone knowing anything about football agrees, but sadly a lot of so called Wolves fans just dont understand the game, and their behaviour against the players can cost us promotion.
Thank you so very much, morons!

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109 Booing of the players is NOT acceptable granted BUT comments or opinions on an internet message board – What are these players, manager and coaching staff – MEN OR MICE?

NB* These people are in the entertainment business – IF anyone paid to watch a comedian perform or play etc – What would they do if the performance was inept/ no good? Nuff said!

Fans should stop being so gullable and realise that ANY excuse by the club, players and manager is far better than a positive action to put it right – We all need to understand the age old expression “sticks and stones”

The oldest excuse in the book is to blame the fans – Its a kop out – If the team were busy playing well – Ask yourselves if they would even bother making any comments?

Yes there may well be a small minority at games and on message boards BUT surely these “men” are not so soft that they cant perform – IF they all really want it they would go that extra mile to get it – BUT I believe its more a case of the tactics are not fooling anyone at the moment and we desperately need a Plan B or Is stating the obvious that most people can clearly see at games classed as negative?

Never mind what other teams are doing – Lets focus on what we are doing and finish the job at hand – As the saying goes – Its not how you start Its how you finish!

The question that everyone wants to know is simple: Does MM have a Plan B?

UP THE WOLVES!

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Said it before and i’ll say it again,…Iwelumo scored 15 goals, had a dry spell and got bombed out the team,..and McCarthy said he was out because he wasnt scoring…think you know the rest!…Keogh hasnt scored all season but still he starts 9 times out of 10..how is Iwelumo going to start scoring again from the bench…biggest fault Saturday was yet again MM’s inability to make subs at right time.

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Last summer there was an article headed “Keogh getting ready to go” and I posted “That built my hopes up” (but it was about his promise to score 20 goals). I was told I knew nothing about football (no, I’m not bitter). There seems to be a hell of a lot of you who have joined me in not knowing much about football.

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115 I remember that article well – and thought the same

People easily forget Keoghs little outburst and that he would score “20 goals for the real fans”

So what happened to those 20 goals Mr Keogh?

AK reminds me of someone I used to work with – who had a brilliant abillity of looking extremely busy – but when you looked a little closer you could plainly see that he had done very very little all day

I suppose if you think about it – some fans see Keogh playing (running around like a blue xxxxx fly all day at games and think – “look at him tirelessly running around – Isnt he good” whereas others see him chasing shadows, avoiding tackling players but endlessly running around (maybe he needs to keep warm?) ah yes, and miss controlling the ball/ scuffing his shots (Is that another meaning to mis hitting the ball?)

Personally, I dont know what Keogh really is – BUT he certainly aint a striker – Anyone got any idea? ;-)

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118 LOL My sides are hurting! :-)

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120 YOSB – I remember watching Keogh closely when we were taking Forest apart this season and he had a clear chance right infront of the goal and everyone could see that he was looking to pass the ball??? (hot potatoe) – JUST the keeper to beat and right infront of the North bank – no pressure then – as it’s alledgedly the South bank that causes all the trouble! ;-) I think we were 4 up at the time and the Mol was getting ready for the usual song – eh – Lets all have a dis – co etc

I dont blame the lad personally BUT he wasnt good enough at dirty Leeds – he then went to Sunny Scunny and set up Billy Sharp to score loads – BUT that was in a lower league, where players with a tad of intelligence can thrive

He came to us with a rep for being a creative No 2 striker – and started off well BUT faded in his 2nd and 3rd seasons

People would say thats because of the boo boys and message boards – To be honest as I said before – IF players, managers and staff are that spineless – Do we really want them – and as you have rightly pointed out – the higher up they go, the worse it will become for them!

IF these spineless players, staff and manager want an “easy life” – Dont lets us stop you – Go play in the lower leagues or abroad

Dont kid yourselves that you are gonna be good in the Prem or even in the Championship

IF you really want to represent our great club – Stop whinging and start doing NOW

Its high time they all stopped hiding behind BS excuses and DO what they all get paid very very handsomely for EVERY week without fail – The sort of money us mere mortals can only dream about!

AND THAT APPLIES TO ALL OF THEM NOT JUST AK

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