Time to map out a plan for Villa's future
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Wolves blog: The Final Dozen
Friday 27th February 2009, 9:15AM GMT.
Wolves blogger Nathan Lloyd is busy working out exactly what will be needed to cross the finish line in the final 12 games of the season.
Calculators at the ready! It’s the final dozen games of the season and I think the only thing we can all expect is to expect the unexpected.
Many of you will have no doubt gone through the remaining fixture list and penciled in win, draw, win, win etc. On paper, our run-in looks quite favourable, but the stumbling nature of our turn of year form means that we probably can’t predict points against any opposition at the moment.
Although you could argue that only two or three of the remaining 12 fixtures are against top-six clubs, most of the other teams we will be playing are still fighting for something, whether it be to get in to that top six or starve off relegation.
We currently sit with 64 points. Albion won last season’s Championship with 81 points. So, theoretically if we picked up half the points still available we would be home and dry. That would mean winning five, drawing three and losing four of the remaining fixtures to match Albion’s total.
The Baggies reached this point of the season with six points less than our current total to win the league from fourth spot. Lets not look too closely at the fact that Bristol City had 65 points at this stage and finished fourth with 71 points, it will only make our nerves even more jangled than they already are!
Given the fact that no team is dominating this league, I would say that 81 points should be ample to finish top or perhaps if we aimed for second spot, we would need 79 points, which Stoke accumulated on the way to promotion from the last campaign.
I’m not going to list the 12 games and have a calculated guess where I think those points could and should be gained, I’ll let you have a pop at that below, should you wish.
On our current points gaining form, winning half the remaining games would appear a tall order. But for the first 20 minutes or so of Sunday’s game against Cardiff, the swagger, the quick penetrating passing, the goal threat and the pace had all returned to the Wolves game. It appeared the Spanish Siesta had done the trick.
But for some better finishing from a much improved Keogh, we should have probably been home and dry against Cardiff by the interval.
In the end we escaped with a fortuitous draw, thanks to the woeful basketball skills of Cardiff goalkeeper Dimitrios Konstantopoulos. The point we gained could prove vital in our mission to escape to what seemingly is the only league the media ever talk about.
It was great to see 34-year-old Jody Craddock reinstalled into our defence. Despite Wolves conceding two goals, I don’t think he put a foot wrong. Worryingly, Karl Henry really has lost form at the moment and he lost the ball far too frequently on Sunday.
I really think we should gamble and play David Jones and David Edwards together in the middle for the run-in, or perhaps play Richard Stearman or Christophe Berra in a sweeper role.
Although perhaps a little controversial, I would also drop Michael Kightly to the bench and start with Kyel Reid. Kightly had a couple of mazy runs on Sunday, but was fairly ineffective for the majority of the game and hasn’t been in the best of form recently.
It’s immaterial really as, knowing manager Mick McCarthy as we all do, I don’t think he will change the starting line-up at all from the Cardiff game.
Every game we now play will seem like the most important fixture of the season. If we have any aspirations of getting out of this godforsaken league, then a win on Saturday against a team who are dropping like a stone in Plymouth is an absolute must.
Signed for the Pilgrims by their former boss Ian Holloway, Sylvan Ebanks Blake will be the main threat to condemn the men in green to yet another defeat, as they slip nearer to the relegation zone and send Paul Sturrock nearer the job centre.
If, as expected, Plymouth come and play for a draw, we will need to be patient and play the kind of football we know that Wolves are more than capable of.
Three points and then a point away at Crystal Palace on Tuesday should set us up nicely for the remaining 10 fixtures.
I still think it will go right down to the last day of the season, with the likelihood that we will need to beat Doncaster at home and rely on some kind of permutation from the Reading and Birmingham game.
I can still vividly remember the now famous slump of 2002. My brother and I had traveled up to Hillsborough with 7,000 other gold and black voices, to see if we could still salvage something from the nightmare end to that season.
Albion were at home to Palace and the scenario was simple, we needed to get a better result than the Baggies to clinch second spot in the league. We took the lead in under a minute and then after 10 minutes there was a mumbling going round the crowd that Albion had gone behind.
It was of course complete nonsense. Some shandy drinking moron had obviously thought it would be funny to get everybody’s hopes up. We ended up drawing 2-2 with Wednesday, the Baggies beat Palace 2-0 to go up in second place and a flat Wolves teams were beaten by Norwich in the play-offs.
So, this time, because technology has moved on, I will be able to check the web for live scores whilst sitting in my seat in the Steve Bull Stand. Just in case that shandy drinking buffoon is in the vicinity and tries the same trick.
Lets hope that we are not relying on that final day of the season, that our form returns and we hammer every side we play from now until the end of the season. Somehow I doubt it, but let’s roar the lads on, on Saturday to start the ball rolling.
I’m going for 2-0 with Ebanks-Blake and Edwards getting the goals. Have a bostin’ weekend, come on me babbies!
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Doncaster is my dad’s team so I don’t want to rely on that last game of the season. Let’s get it sorted before then and we can enjoy the last couple of games in a bit of spring weather.
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So what? We will probably win 2 out of the last 12 and cock it up in the play-offs. Honestly, all this happy clapping garbage has to stop.
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good blog nathan, as you say – a lot of it is in the air, some of the results are doubtful judging from our recent form but we’ll all be there saturday singin the lads home.
i strongly agree with dropping henry though – he looks jaded, and i don’t mean swapping him for his 32 year old brother quashine. got to be dave jones and dave edwards
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Good blog, i to remember the run in during 2002, I remember going to the Man City game thinking were miles ahead of everyone this has to be our year!
Because of that this year I have never been certain! I did have a great time at the play off final but dont want to go through that again! I think when were 3 – 0 up I still wasnt sure!
Lets stuff plymouth at the weekend and get a bitof confidence back! I think we may need slightly more than 81 points this year though.
Up the wolves.
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dont drop kightly drop keogh for ever
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I am predicting we will be lifting the trophy at molineux v doncaster in may with what we all moaned about for years, young hungry players.
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Well I feel more upbeat this week than perhaps your good self Nathan. I feel we will be on song against Plymouth and Palace and put together a title winning run that will enable us to have fun in the sun :-)
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lets hope at the last game of the season we will be partying and singing BRING OUT THE CHAMPIONS
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2: Yes your right we will only win 2 of the 12, lets just give up now turn up at the games, moan and boo when we are not winning after 20 minutes, sigh and moan at a wayward pass, poor shot or a weak tackle. Half time boo the players off the pitch and of course the same at the end just to make sure that the YOUNG players confidence is knocked that little bit more, I mean they should cope they earn thousands a week don’t they. Get real, get positive, start to believe and be that 12th player as this can make all the difference the season is in all of our hands not just the managers or players, cant we just leave all the negativity, season analysis until the end of the season, if we lose one of the games no booing cheer them on encourage them not matter what you will have all summer to moan and grown, to force MM out.
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Dan Bath – I too remember the easter game against Man City that season. All talk prior to the game was that the winners would be the champions. I was in one of the boxes in the Billy Wright stand (for the first and last time) and Bully popped in before the game to chat. He said he’d had a bet on Butler to be first scorer against his childhood team – Butts was sent off and it all went the shape of a fruit from the pyrus tree.
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It’s immaterial really as, knowing manager Mick McCarthy as we all do, I don’t think he will change the starting line-up at all from the Cardiff game.Why not Nathan he’s been swopping and changing week in week out 4 most of the season.After the midweek games only Reading can now pass us on games in hand.It is in our own hands.Do we want it? On paper we have the easier run in than our, rivals Blues have some tough fixtures ahead.Must beat Plymouth and get a result at palace on Tuesday,hope the boys are up for it.
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Plymouth H 3 points
Palace 0 point
Shef Wed 1 Point
Ipswich 3 points
Chartlon 3 points
Forest 1 Point
Blues 0 Point (Using Head over Heart)
Saints 3 Points
Derby 0 Points
QPR 1 Point
Barnsley 1 Point
Doncaster 3 Points
Above is based on our current ropey form
83 Points, Enough? who knows!
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no.9 well said
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Re 2 – LMAO!! Sorry pal, the Albion board is just over there ========>
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9 Although I see what you mean about Comment 2 – I feel your answers are somewhat “OTT”? perhaps a tad “knee jerk reaction”?
Comment 2 I feel was being a tad “sarcastic” and aiming at “baiting” fans on here and guess what No 9 you bought into it – hook, line and sinker!
This is just another example of fans “sniping” at each other and mainly caused by the fact that the media and club (manager players and now occassionaly JM) will make comments in the E & S to further fuel fans to “have a go” at each other – BOTH parties being very gullable to do so
Can we not try to make our points without such “spitting venom” and why, oh why do we have to measure ourselves based on a “tit for tat” none-sense everytime we have a difference in opinion? NB* This is what makes all of us look and sound foolish to other clubs!
We ALL support and follow the same club – We ALL have our own valid opinions and this is a message board where we can air our points
NB* Can we not play nicely???
UP THE WOLVES!
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Your at it again Nathan,willing to settle for second best,remember you were willing to forfeit the cup game against Middlesbrough for three points in the league on the following Tuesday,we got neither.Now your willing to settle for one point against Palace WHY???. I totally agree with your comments regarding Kites,he has been off the boil for a couple of months,,Stears has done nothing wrong,and should be in the side,but where did you get the much improved Keogh from,,watch him,he jumps to head a ball befor its near him,as soon as he gets the ball he turns to play it backwards,he gives the impression hes putting a shift in but in reality he does nothing,how many defence splitting passes have you seen from him,how many shots,how many goals,,please someone tell me how he warrants his place over,,Vokes,Big Chriss or Kyle Reed..I must be missing something, mind you as I said at the start of this Nathan a lot of you are willing to settle for second best.
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I agree – drop Kightly. Not looked at the races for a while. Jarvo and Reid for me!
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I’ve made it 84 pts & going up as Champs
:) :) Come on you Wolves :) :)
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We should be looking at one game at a time – and not putting the “extra” burden of “expectancy” on our shoulders by trying to work out permutations and what ifs
Home or Away – EVERY game with pride and passion
Forget about everyone around us and make it our mission – Players Fans and Manager/ Staff to go out there and finish off whoever is infront of us on the day
NB* Nothing else means anything! Lets finish on TOP
GET INTO EM
UP THE WOLVES!
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cant we just stop moaning and saying the sky is falling in. We were terrific first half against Cardiff. Most encouraging for me was Berra. Much Berra than anything else we had before.
Please enjoy the run in – we are going up to the Premiership automatically – and this is a once in a generation thing!
Come on you Wolves.
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How long did it take to write such rubbish
SACK MM NOW !!!!!!!!!!!
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We are in the box seat in that we have the points in the bag…that becomes MORE and MORE vital as time goes by!
Reading have stutteredand their Rugby pitch – shared by a Rugby team – wont help there usually crisp passing game…Blues are marginally better than us and Reading in recent points accumulation but they cant score goals and have many key players injured and not due back soon,Cardiff have a growing injury list,Swansea may just be coming to the end of their excellent run….ditto Bristol City.
Teams like Preston,Burnely,Sheff Utd,QPR are I feel just too far adrift to catch us.
The lower sides worry me,teams playing to stay up often find a bit more than those trying to get up,its a different kind of tension,TOMORROW is vital – whatever Reading do we can go 6 points clear of Blues – who have a very difficult away game at Sheff Utd minus about a dozen of their better players…
PERSONALLY i feel second will do…SO LETS GO FOR IT A POINT AT A TIME…I think myself 83-84 will suffice!
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We’re starting to sound like the steptoe’s now, moan whinge doom and gloom, We’re the PRIDE of the midlands not like our neighbours the SHAME of the midlands, 200% behind the team we’re going up believe it fellow Wolfies.
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Bang on Nathan !!!
SUmmed up perfectly – I was also going to suggest Kightly get benched for a bit of a wake up as he’s just not been himself , hope it has nothing to do with the fact that he’s guaranteed prem football next year with or without us.
Mccarthy can side swipe the critical fan al he likes, but he certainly cannot deny that one of his major shortcomings is stubborness, now, we are stuttering we need to ring some changes
Iwelumo in for Keogh (and then subbed with Vokes) and as you mention Jones needs another shot.
bring on the trumpets !
COME ON YOU WOLVES
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12) I listened to Blues at Palace and they are dire. Blues missed 3 sitters, their best player went off injured and Carle got sent off. We must win there and win tomorrow and things will look a whole lot rosier. I fancy Blues to lose at Sheff Utd on Sunday for starters.
Good blog Nathan but you have missed another poor performer out ….. Hennessey!
Wolves 3 Plymouth 0 Ebanks-Blake 2, Edwards 1
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Personally I think our team play better when its warm and the pitches are quicker. I have faith we are going up this season. We must however win tomorrow and go to the Palace with out tails up.
On the player front I agree with many on here that both Kightly and Henry look a little off at the moment, so I would bring in Reid and Jones. COME ON BOYS ITS UP TO YOU NOW! PS MM needs to show that he can handle the pressure and get this team up!
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2 – just do one!
Im far from a happy clapper probably closer to a moaner but I support my team and still think we can do it. If we get behind them they cannot blame us!!
I think this is a great blog Nathan spot on! Yes to “resting” Kites and Dropping Henry!
As for Keogh, I dont like him but on Sunday he played well! I disagree that it was poor finishing, it was just unlucky (post and GREAT SAVE!) If the chances had fallen to SEB and he hit it with same power and place as Keogh they would of gone in. SEB got the golden touch Keogh doesnt have his luck in, his time will come!
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20 – Wolves are going up.
Much Berra than anything else we had before. Ha ha I see what you did Brilliant pun! Nice to see someone with a sence of humour on the message board.
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Although its understandable that fans are working out the what ifs and perms to us finishing in the top two – Its very much like waiting for a kettle to boil (whilst waiting it never does!)
Personally – One game at a time – and I dont care what Blues or Reading or whovever is doing
Start winning and keep winning – Win more than the others and who cares what they do!
UP THE WOLVES!
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still makes me laugh/cry reading the calls for Mick’s head & ‘it’s gonna be 2002 again’.
So we should have got rid of Jones in 2002 when *his* team capitulated and lost us promotion?
Oh wait a minute…
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A much better post Nathan. I’m sure you didn’t even read my comments last week, but it seems as if you’ve finally stopped looking at the message boards on this site before writing your weekly piece.
Whilst I agree with the general sentiment, I think it’s pointless trying to base this year’s points target on what happened last year – different teams, different line-ups.
I agree with others on here – one game at a time, a fully committed team and supporters cheering them on. Let’s hope the ‘new season’ suggested by MM last week continues as the start of the season-proper did – one draw followed by 7 wins…
Here’s hoping!
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KEEP THE FAITH
KEEP THE FAITH
& KEEP THE FAITH
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Hook…. line…. and stinker.
So guilable. I’m just trying to get a reaction and it worked brilliantly.
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30 Agreed regarding the premature “calling for MM’s head” especially at this important point of our promotion push (regardless of like/ dislike of the man that is MM)
BUT Dave Jones era was a totally different scenario and what really went on in the background (who knows?) EG: DJ never struck me as an arogant man etc etc
IF and its a big IF – we fail then the questions would be different – IF we succeed its all academic anyway
Apart from MM’s abillity to split fans/ stubborness etc etc – personally couldnt care less about him providing he does the job
After all you dont have to like someone to work with them or for them
Success answers the question – Failure – well lets not even go there!
UP THE WOLVES!
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Just a thourght and then i’ll get back in my hole, but why not try Kightly up front with Ebanks, with Reid out on the right??
Its an option.
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Stubborn Mule.
Have you nothing better to do or are you just insecure and need the attention?
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35 Kites of late has a tendency to “drift” inside alot – maybe you have point – BUT cant see MM dropping Keogh and SEB anytime soon (live in hope that MM sees sense and brings back Big Chris with Vokes on for the last 25 mins to make an impact if needed)
UP THE WOLVES!
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MattWolves
Those are my thoughts. I don’t believe that Mick will get us up and those who think we will every game between now and the end of the season are just kidding themselves.
What as Stearman done to get dropped? When will Mick realise that Henry isn’t good enough? Why didn’t we get another goalscorer in the Transfer window? Why does he persist with Kightly? How does Hennessey keep his place?
All this unanswered questions will come back to bite us on the backside, mark my words.
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I think it is amazing that MM is saying Jody Craddock has a key role to play when he has been trying to offload him for months whilst playing his love child and Stearman at the back.Stearman has done ok but needs a break because he is making too many mistakes, our £1million pound centre half Shackle has gone home and the love child is on the bench.What does this tell us ?? Obvios really HE doesn’t know what he is doing !!!!!!
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Obviosly i can’t spell obvious
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38 You make me laugh my friend :-)
Some of what you are saying has a ring of truth in them from your point of view – BUT alot of what you say – we will probably never have any answers to
That only leaves us fans with getting behind the lads and giving our best for the rest of this season – anything else will/ should take care of itself
There are alot of us that are continually frustrated with MM for one reason or another; But we cant do much apart from air our views and get on with it!
We live in hope of better things to come!
UP THE WOLVES!
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I’ve got us to 93 points… But then again, I am a “Happy Clapper”
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Everyone wants – or should want – the same thing. The best way to achieve it is for everyone to work together and be positive. Let’s get on with it starting tomorrow. One game at a time, everyone behind the team. (Whoever Mick picks)
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When will the likes of WeareBackAgain realise that £1m for a player is not a lot of money – it’s not 1979!
£1m gets a very average centre half nowadays. And that’s what Shackell is.
Don’t judge football teams’ pockets by your own.
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well after reading mules comments why turn up, CAUSE WE ARE WOLVES YOU MISSRABLE OLD FART. stay away you infect this board with your ill informed poison words. the rest of you enjoy the run in and oh great blog nath.
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Now is the time for the last hurrah !!!
Even MM is talking positive (well trying to)
- cheer up, give us a smile :)
My only doubts are a goalkeeper (WH) talking about ‘luck’, and a forward (AK) mentioning scoring just one and clean sheets. – Forget luck and if your a forward stuff the clean sheets get on with your jobs.
Stay confident and keep plugging away.
Come on lads … Wolves can and will do it
(players, manager, fans, board as one)
up the wolves
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Stubborn Mule is either a stripey or just an ill-informed, misdirected misery of a fan. 12 games left and a fantastic chance to get promoted. I like to have a good debate, but Mule just brings negativity and stupidity to the table, shame on you.
16.North Bank Muppet…. I don’t want us to get a draw at Palace, I just predict we will. There is a big difference. If I just filled my blog with mindless positivity, which some may argue that I already do, how would that help?
Yes, I would be happy to get a point away at Palace, but I would be absolutely ecstatic if we went there and grabbed all three.
Hopefully the Mule will now bugger off and stay on his own message board and the rest of us can stay positive and discuss how we are going to WIN this league, starting on Saturday.
Cheers, Nathan.
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All Hail the Messiah, Nathan Lloyd. Long live the Messiah, Nathan Lloyd. All bow to the king of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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Well, I’m happy clapping all the way to the Premiership, anyone care to join me!
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23 more points for the wanderers, starting with 3 tomorrow. Blues and cardiff have very difficult games and swansea have bad injury problems now. The title is there for the taking reading must be favourites, but we have been top all season and they cant seem to get past us.
Plymouth H 3 points
Palace 1 point
Shef Wed 1 Point
Ipswich 3 points
Chartlon 3 points
Forest 1 Point
Blues 0 Point
Saints 3 Points
Derby 1 Points
QPR 1 Point
Barnsley 3 Points
Doncaster 3 Points
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30. littlestanjunior.
Bang on. I was going to make the same point. So instead, here’s another:
Take a good look at what happens to clubs that are relegated from the Prem. Basically, if they don’t get promoted again before the parachute payments run out, they nose-dive.
In ’04 we got relegated with Leeds and Leicester. Check where they are now. In ’05, Palace, Norwich and Saints got relegated. Have a quick peek at the table, and see where they are. In ’06, it was Brum, the Tescos and Sunderland – but they all got promoted before the parachute ran out. The relegated of ’07 are still on parachutes, but check where Watford and Charlton are already.
So. We were disloyal to DJ, then we wasted the parachute money with a clown (Hoddle) who thought he was bigger than the club.
In ’07 most of us expected the worst. Instead, McCarthy built a new team from scratch, with little investment, and on comparatively low salaries. He gave us a couple of decent seasons, and now we’re top with just a quarter of the season to go.
You don’t have to like the man’s opinions or how he talks. You don’t have to like his players or his tactics. But the fact is, he’s done a great job so far.
I think we’ll go up. But if we don’t, so what ?
Even if this is a re-run of 2002, look where a bit of loyalty took us in 2003.
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49. I am with you. Did anybody see the happy clappers at half time in the southbank last sunday? I was getting a coffee and was cracking up laughing, they were really big happy clappers, dancing and signing!
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42 Can I clap along too? ;-)
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51.Grey Wolf
Excellently said! I said that we should stick with Mick and give him another season, even if the worst came to the worst and we didn’t get up this season.
Trouble is, you can imagine that there will be a section of fans who would get on his back and he wouldn’t be given the chance.
We would also have to trust that he could replace the players that we would probably lose in SEB, Kites and Foley. But, lets hope it doesn’t come to that and that we can laugh in the face of the 2002 slump!
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51 – the most considered (sorry 53) view on this thread and quite possibly the most sensible recent post of all. 100% agree.
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Plymouth H 3 points
Palace 3 points
Shef Wed 3 Points
Ipswich 1 point
Chartlon 3 points
Forest 3 Points
Blues 3 Points
Saints 3 Points
Derby 0 Points
QPR 1 Point
Barnsley 3 Points
Doncaster 3 Points
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Wolves1877
Get a reality check! Surely you don’t think we will get 30 out of the last 36 points available?
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Plymouth H 3 points
Palace 1 points
Shef Wed 1 Points
Ipswich 1 point
Chartlon 3 points
Forest 3 Points
Blues 0 Points
Saints 3 Points
Derby 0 Points
QPR 1 Point
Barnsley 1 Points
Doncaster 3 Points
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cpt-wolves – no. he thinks we’ll get 29 points.
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Sorry Andy my adding up isn’t what it used to be…. do you think we will get 29 points?
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57. cpt_wolves you never know do you, we might do it we might not but thats what I reckon we’ll do and if we do i’ll await you eating Humble pie fella
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1 win in 10 wouldn’t suggest we are going to romp home would it? I’ll be more than happy to eat a huge slice of humble pie if we get 29 points from 12 games. I would probably say it will be 15 to 20 points.
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52 why were they “signing”, are they deaf?
It seems that some people on here use the term “happy clapper” as a form of abuse for someone who doesn’t agree with their own anger-fuelled rants which are directed at MM, Moxey or fans who get behind the team.
They know deep down that this anger and frustration is caused by a sense of inadequacy and frustration at their lack of achievement in life but it makes them feel better to take it out on something else.
We should feel sympathy for them rather than deride them on here.
Imagine going through every day feeling that internal rage and torment, unable to enjoy anything like supporting your team.
I am glad that I can appreciate the success so far this season and look forward how we will feel when we go up.
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62. cpt_wolves I don’t like pie so i’ll just drink copious amounts of cider insted
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wolves 1877
I’ll drink to that!
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Predicting any Wolves team not to concede a goal – even against the poorer teams – is great folly. I hope we win and we should but it’s not going to be a cricket score and they will probably get at least one.
I’m looking forward to seeing the lads at Palace – not so far to travel – and we tend to do ok there. In Mick we trust but how I wish we could see the team that was so powerful last year. Chris was great – surely he can be great again????
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Hey Bro,
“shandy drinking moron”, lol :)
great blog. I will go for Wolves to win 3-0 on Saturday. We have got to win sometime, when we do it will be with style!
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Plymouth H 3 pts
Palace A 3 pts
Sheff Wed A 1 pts
Ipswich H 1 pts
Charlton H 3 pts
Forest A 1 pts
Blues A 1 pts
Saints H 1 pts
Derby A 3 pts
QPR H 0 pts
Barnsley A 1 pts
Doncaster H 3 pts
21 pts if my maths are correct which would put us on 85 pts and win us the league.
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I too was in the south bank at half time on sunday and it was a bit mental. You would have thought we had just won promotion in th 90th minute of the last game of the season. It was good to see people enjoying themselves singing and dancing and generaly happy that we are in the best position we have been in for years. Every game from now until the end of the season should be enjoyed by all, i remember too many times at this stage of the season when all we had is an outside chance of the play offs. Go to the games, support the team and ffs enjoy it!!!!
TOP OF THE LEAGUE WERE HAVING A LAUGH!!!!!!
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There’s always going to be negative comments from the grumps, the kind that make it seem they actually want us to fail simply so they can say ‘I told you so’. If that’s their personal opinion of what a fan is then who am I to judge.. My idea is supporting the lads unconditionally no matter whether it’s Keogh or SEB, Collins or Kightly, anyone in the gold and black gets my support.
12 games left and we have by far the easiest run compared to blues and reading, who are also in shocking form, how long it will last is irrelevant because concentrating on our own matches, supporting the team and eachother, winning the point.. and we don’t have to worry about how well anybody else does.
regardless of our form for the last couple of months i’m still confident in our promotion, and I still feel we are in the best place possible for the point in the season we are at, we have the points – not the games in hand.. We could never expect to keep a 7 or 8 point gap throughout, especially not with the way Reading were also playing.
Automatic promotion and the title are still well and truly in our grasp, we can and will do it. And I for one couldn’t give a toss what the stripey lot or any negative idiot relying on failure for their own smugness thinks.
I’m going for 2-0 Wolves today.
Come on lads!
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j wolf totally agree , just because ive been optomistic ive been called happyclapper, and they(the moaners,negative,depressed lot call themselves realists) lol , wolves to go up and stay up 3-1 this saturday cant wait for the summer ,
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Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!
Still dancing in the aisles you load of saddos? You poor deluded fools. You pathetic, nauseatingly arrogant, self-righteous, pompous idiots.
You all ready to revise your arithmetic now your first 3 points have gone to Plymouth?
Doubtless you can all cry yourselves to sleep and dream of MM, Moxwy and Morgan coming to read you another bedtime story about promotion 2009/2010!
Stroll on!!!!
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50. Laughingwolf…good start to your set of predictions there eh? About as useless as the manager
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nathan-You do your Best to explain the IDEOLOGY at the Wolves.
Okay thats your job but please in your next Blogg expain some Logic taking into account our very poor showing on Saturday before a big pro team crowd well at least at the start of the game–
How does MM asses his tactics-
We have a strong pair of Wingers-Why does he dimminish their effect by chopping and changing.
Where is Jones-Surley the best passer of the ball we have in the midfield.
Why does he not give Vokes a long run.
Why does he buy players never use them , never gives them a chance and Why does he keep players on the field who cannot head or pass the ball with accuracy.
I am totaly frustrated with what we are being served up at the moment and it appears MM takes no real notice of what we think.
With the Shackell debarcle and others I for one wonder if anybody on the coaching staff knows what is going on.
I will to-day pray hard that our luck changes but I have no my faith in Mad Mich .
-He will probably take us up I AM KEEPING THE FAITH but he does not have the knowledge to keep us there.
Crazey Dave-BUT Miserable Dave this Sunday morning–THANK GOD THE IRISH WON LAST NIGHT===========
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What is needed for wolves to go over the finishing line? hmmm.. one thing SACK MICK MCARTHY!!!!!
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MUMMET McCARTHY and CONNER the CLOWN methods so laughable they should be in a circus.another defeat to a very poor plyouth team these two amateurs insist on playing karl henry the blokes a joke. sold our best footballing midfielder mark davies now they wont play dave jones.no chance of promotion. please MR MORGAN get shut of these two comedians.will not pay money to watch them make a mockery of wolves
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If we get promoted,I’ll watch Wolves In the Premiership, If, we don’t I’ll watch them in the championship. I MM is the manager I’ll watch wolves, if he’s replaced I’ll watch wolves. They are my team by choice, it was my choice and I am happy with it. I am not a moaner, nor a happy clapper, I can be both I am a supporter…. it dosent matter to me in what league we play as long as I see a Team giving 100% for the Wolves. Or maybe i’m just preparing myself for another disapointment…..
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