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Mick: We’ll fight to the end
Monday 9th November 2009, 11:30AM GMT.
Defiant Mick McCarthy insists Wolves’ players have the stomach for a survival fight after falling into the relegation zone for the first time this season.
Wolves’ 4-1 home defeat to Arsenal, coupled with wins for Blackburn and Hull at the weekend, dumped McCarthy’s side to second from bottom.
With leaders Chelsea next up after the international break, Wolves’ challenge doesn’t get any easier.
But boss McCarthy backed his shellshocked players, who trailed 3-0 at the break after own goals from Ronald Zubar and Jody Craddock and one from Cesc Fabregas before Andrei Arshavin’s fourth, to respond to the challenge.
“They are fantastic, there is never any doubting of their workrate and their attitude,” said the manager.
“The personality of the team and the fact they give everything for each other will keep us going.
“I’ve got the utmost respect for them because of that, but when we had those chances in that 20-odd minute spell, we have to take them.”
McCarthy claimed nothing was decided by losing to Arsenal, but with tests against with Birmingham and Bolton on the horizon, he stressed Wolves are approaching a batch of games where they need to pick up points.
“Our season won’t be judged by our games against Arsenal,” he said. “Most people would have looked at Arsenal and Chelsea and said we’d get nothing out of them.
“We’ve got Birmingham next (at home) – those are the sort of games we need to win. Let’s go to Chelsea and see what we can do and then see if we can be better against teams in and around us.”
Wolves’ Wales midfielder Dave Edwards admitted Arsenal were the best opposition he had faced.
“I’ve played internationals but Arsenal are by far the best team I’ve ever played against,” he said. “They pass and move the ball so well and I’m sure the Molineux spectators won’t see a better team here all season.”
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Proud to be a Wolves fan. Take that attitude into games against most other teams in the Premiership and we WILL win more than we lose. In the end we lost on Saturday to a team that could well finish the season with the Premiership and / or the Champions League. For 25 minutes we had them chasing shadows and committing cynical fouls in an effort to contain us. Still it’s a good job we won’t have to play them every week!
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castillo needs to learn how to stay with a man when hes running into the box not leave him and allow him to score the 4th goal. Otherwise bring on chelsea!!!
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Very commendable Mick,but fight alone will not
keep you up in this league. You need the Players
with sound technical ability to survive,and were not overflowing with those kind of players.Which
was shown on Saturday with the first goal, a corner whipped in at pace, nobody good enough
to deal with it. I bet Lampard,s licking his
Lips when he see,s that kind of defending.
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I will be honest – I’ve always questioned the quality of MM. I was more than happy to admit I’d got it wrong last season, when at times we were magnificent.
Unfortunately, I still don’t believe that Mick’s got enough in the tactics department to be a truly top manager. On Saturday, we played a 442 with four central defenders and four central midfielders when we had two genuine wide men, and best players from last season, stuck on the bench.
There were too many negative vibes coming from the manager before a ball was even kicked, which flew in the face of what the owner was saying post-season and that, in my opinion, is the reason we are in the bottom three after an apparent ‘easy’ start in the grand scheme of things. In a nutshell, I don’t think we are a bottom three team but, sadly, I’m not 100 per cent covinced the manager isn’t bottom three. That’s not being negative, just realistic.
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If we don’t beat Blues, Bolton and Burnley at home then I think we need a new manager in Jan.
I’m sorry, but Mick is a championship manager at best. His premiership record is awful and regardless of the fact we’ve been outclassed by Arsenal, we’ve not beaten the teams around us in our ‘mini league’, hence why we are now second bottom.
I don’t think he’s good enough to manage at this level and if we don’t win our next three games, we will struggle to get out the bottom three, unless someone else comes in with new players and ideas.
I’d be happy with Keegan, Curbs or Coppell at the moment. The results have not been good enough. We have not had a good start to the season, it can’t be dressed up. Only Portsmouth are worse than us and where did they get there only away win…oh yeah Molineux.
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Following all the rhetoric last week i’m not surprised they mauled us.In fact it was good of Mick to as good as do Arsene’s pre match pep talk. Might I suggest we try and do our talking on the pitch rather than to the express and star!
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No big suprise on Saturday and none today.
When Mick learns to shut up and do the talking on the pitch will be the day I support him as our manager.
I have no confidence in him to help us stay up, the sooner morgan acts and gets rid the better.
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I dont want to be negative, because games like Arsenal and Chelsea are meaningless for teams like us.
But, we need a manager who will take bold decisions too and that means playing your best players in their best positions.
Yet again, Karl Henry was very poor in midfield and Castillo was magnificent, so why, Mick, take off Castillo?
Also, our most dangerous player by a long way was Milijas, yet Edwards did absolutely nothing again..
Its ok saying you need holding players in midfield but you wont score without any creativity. Doyle and Blake are getting little to no service at the best of times, so please, dont take Milijas off again!
And drop Henry, make craddock captain and give castillo an extended run!
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1. Ditto my friend. Very proud to be a wolves fan. We stayed behind the players and manager for the 90 minutes, even the Arsenal fans applauded our fans after the game. The albion could learn alot from us not abusing their players and having confrontations with them (Kiely, Robinson, Olsson). Arsneal were unplayable at times and the best team that we will have at the mol this season.
Chelsea we need to put everyone behind the ball and attempt to get a point or put pressure on them for set-pieces. Bolton, Burnley and Blues have to be 7 points.
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I admire the lads’ spirit and effort and I’m not gonna start moaning after losing to the best passing side in the league – BUT – they don’t exactly need any help do they? So – MM must start to take a look at Hennessey – when I watched the goals back again on the tv, what on earth was he doing for the first one – nobody near him and he flaps a left hand at a cross that should have just been gathered. And – the punch (flap) for the 4th – most keepers would have caught that, no-one challenged him! Time for change in goal and despite Zubar’s best efforts, I can’t wait for Foley to get back in.
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I think for the first time Arsenal have a chance of winning the title this year. The midfield is awesome!! Long way to go and just as they havnt won anything yet, wolves are not down either. We need to beat both Brum and Bolton though to have half a chance.
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We may have £25mil in the bank but the startegy of not investing in quality (except Doyle) to build on last season is obvious. Whilst we need to watch the £ MM & Moxely lack real ambition and now we have a real fight on our hands.
Why not give the Hoff a run, this was the time to do it when the points were claerly lost?? Sylvan was LAZY and ineffective in the second half, we need to find a partner to Doyle who won’t keep missing the FEW chances we get. Once again MM’s selection and tactics were way off the mark. All the TALK of bringing in experience, usual SPIN, looks like you’ve BLOWN it again..unless you sort this out fast.
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Wolves fans 1st class!
The team needs to be more self-confident. OK Arsenal and Chelsea were always going to be tough matches but the time is now to step up to the plate an be counted for. We can beat both Birmingham and Bolton, we have the players now have the belief!
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On a positive note,
We scored more than arsenal did on saturday,
Thats my only positive note!
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I will be singing till the end Mick, hopefully to provide the players with a lift.
Still cannot believe people left as soon as the 4th went in! Did you really think we had a chance? Its all about supporting the team and showing the World we have the best fans – well the ones that bothered to stay and sung right till the end!!!
4 NIL and YOU MESSED IT UP! :D
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We were taught a lesson on Saturday, team selection was all wrong, too many individual errors, should have beaten the teams like Hull, Pompey etc then the defeat on Saturday would not have been a big deal. Why also do we never defend corners with anyone on the posts. MM is not the man for the job imo anymore.
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Lack of goals from open play is a real worry.If we have to rely only on corners and freekicks we are likely to be found short come the end of the season.We badly need a Premier league quality striker to partner Doyle.But you have to be prepared to spend big money for such a player.£2m Strikers rarely make it in the Prem and that is not a myth Mr Moxey.
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McCarthys record in the premiership 4 wins from 50 games. At this rate, the next win will be at the end of january!!
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Of course we will fight to the end we are Wolves and I would not expect any different of our world famous club regardless of who is at the helm. Let’s forget Chelsea we will lose against them, its not being negative but the gulf is just too wide even though I know we will give it our best shot. What is crucial and what concerns me and everyone else is our poor record so far against fellow ‘lower’ teams. These are West Ham, Hull, Blackburn and of course Portsmouth. Let’s all see where we are after Bolton and Blues and then we can be in a better position to judge our season so far.
I also hope Mr Morgan has a substantial reserve come Jan.
Fight, fight wherever you may be.
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Forget Arsenal – it’s the battles ahead that count. The worrying thing is though that at the moment we rarely look like scoring in open play.
The Birmingham, Bolton and Burnley home games before Christmas are key – we need at least 7 points out of 9. If not, there is a good chance we will be bottom at Christmas bearing in mind the other forthcoming games against Chelsea, Man U and Spurs.
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Whatever gets said by the moaning minnies on here, Saturday I was proud to be a Wolves fan, the Mexican wave, Super Mick and We’ll never die ringing round the ground, magnificent.
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it totally agree, too many peeps judge us on performances against Arsenal its a joke tbh. Even though we lost points against hull and pompy we picked up points recently against teams i honestly though we would lose to.
Support the team dont turn on them like some did last season!!
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Proud of the boys, thought 4-1 was a harsh scoreline but i’m keeping the faith the faith. There will always be doubters hence comments made on the other story about the match report but they have been made to eat their words before and i’ve no doubt they will again. Yes, Chelsea away nto expected to get anything but we don’t get promoted for no reason, these are the sort of occasions to relish. There’s a long way to go and I see nothing in the bottom half of the table to suggest any of them are more superior than us.
UTW
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No one expected that wolves would get anything out of the Arsenal game, they are a class above, and Chelsea, not much hope there…but what concerns me and thousands of Wolves fans is our pathetic performances against the ten other Premiership clube we have already played.
Mr McCarthy, we are playing Sunday league football under your direction…we are playing players that are clearly out of their depth, and yet you come up with a new excuse every week.
Take a good hard look at yourself and tell us what other premiership Manager would consistantly attempt to play out of form players in these games in the hope that they will come good.
For gods sake, Sylvan , it is clear to all by now, is not good enough to be in the Premiership as a striker, despite what he achieved last season.
The same applies to big chris, Kightly in my opinion may never recover his confidence after his string of injuries, Elocobi really should be farmed out on loan, Foley and Edwards are not consistant, Milijas runs hot and cold, and Keogh, while he runs his socks off, is not up to the standard required.
I question the appointment of Kevin Doyle to Wolves. He has great potential, and could in another Premiership team reach the heights he is aiming for, but not with Wolves…no other Wolves player can keep up with his style of play, which has forced him to try everything alone, which is a complete waste of a good player.
What other Premiership manager would pay good money for a player who can throw the ball further than most…Halford is a very ordinary player, and where did you dig up ‘Hough’ and the ‘has been American keeper’
And the junket to Australia during pre Season must have cost many thousands..what did that achieve
Its time Mick to fall on your sword, because the all important game against Birmingham is going to be a disaster for Wolves, they are a much better team of players than us.
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we need to sort our defence out, except for mr craddock what a player, come on the wolves
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Fight to the end! Definately but for gawd’s sake mick you need to look at your team selection to give the club a chance. 4 centre backs in the defence! 4 Central midfields in the midfield! It looked disjointed, square pegs in round holes yet again! Wolves have 2 left backs in Hill & Friend, Mick you bought them so play either of them! because Stearman is no way a left back and we will be punished time and time again because of your bizarre team selections. Milljas has got a superb left peg, but play him in his correct postion not out wide who I hasten to add isnt the paciest of players, Edwards is a trier and both Henry & Castillo are similar which leaves you with no one to really threathen their full backs. Up front SEB needs a kick, he is looking like a fish out of water, and he needs to develop an understandng with Doyle, however I would not be surprised if SEB is carrying an injury, he looks so off the paste! MOTM, THE FANS!
ps, this is no rant, its just my opinion
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N0 5 Tim Wolf
So thats it! the Mexican wave was great Super Mick
great. So we can now sleep sound in our beds,
that the Mexican wave, we,ll never die, will
keep us in the Premier League. Thats what footballs all about, forget about what goes on
that big patch of grass in front of you. Cannot get my breath,can somebody please turn the light
off when its all over.
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Sorry i Mean no 21
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I Cannot belive some numptys keep coming on saying get rid of Mick McCarthy. Give the team & Mick a chance, If at the end of the season we get religated then and only then should anyone be moaning.Personally even if that happens i will stick by Mick. Some people have short memorys
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That’ll be March then
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We picked up points at Everton, Stoke, and Wigan if we beat Birmingham, Bolton & Burnley this result will be a distant memory simple as. why worry about a loss to one of the best teams around. did you think for a split second we would beat the Gunners.
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Mick McCarthy will never be a agood premiereship manager,look at his record 4 wins out of 50,yes 50 games.Is that a short memory or what?Don`t you think he has had long enough to produce a reasonable side by now.He has to go sooner rather than later.
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under mick we are becoming the laughin stock of the league again,get ince in asap,4-1 at home to a weakend arsenal side is nothing short of a disgrace,go now mick.
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A man who took over a team struggling in the lower reaches of the Championship.
A man who succeeded where two former England managers amongst many others failed before him.
The only man to ever get Wolves automatically promoted, doing so on a shoestring budget.
The man who restored some pride into Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club after years of under-achievement………
AND you numpties want him out after a few bad results, because he’s not good enough for the MIGHTY Wolves. Unbelievable.
Wake up and smell the coffee!! The gap between the Championship and Premiership is huge, and sadly, Wolves are just not a big club anymore. Forget Burnley, their bubble will burst. The Albion spent £22m last year on players and got relegated. It’s just not as easy as you first thought.
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That was meant to read ‘Only man to ever get Wolves automatically promoted to the Premiership’
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We played well for the first twenty minutes but once they got the two flukey goals their class was shown. This could be Arsenal’s season!
Hennessey had an off day but has kept much better this season. We need to look at Mancienne for either a full back or holding midfield role. The support was class.
I still believe that there are 3 worse teams than Wolves. Now lets take Blues and Bolton apart!
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If the defence keeps conceding from set plays, the midfield offers little or no service to the forwards, how are we going to pick up sufficient points to stay up?
To keep writing off any prospect of taking points from anyone above halfway in the table and talking about taking points “from those teams around us” seems pointless to me. Our overall quality of play does not even match Burnley at the moment and they are playing with Championship players which points the finger at our coaching and tactics.
MM needs to talk less to the press and get the coaching and tactics right on the training ground.
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Positives: Wolves are playing the best I’ve ever seen in 30+ years. They have improved no end since getting promoted. We’ve played well in every game except Blackburn. All players look confident on the ball, and unforced errors are few & far between. Our fans against Arsenal were magnificent. The support was outstanding through the whole game, with none of the negativity of our promotion season.
…& even Jarvis delivered a pin point cross for Craddock’s goal!
Negatives: Just a very minor point, but we can’t score in open play and are in the relegation zone!
I’m still confident though, and although we could be bottom after Chelsea, we’ll get results against the sides that, unlike Arsenal, aren’t world class.
Simon :)
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quit your moaning, listen to Warren and Wolves Ay I, Eastwood4eva must be takin the mick. losing 4-1 to Arsenal not acceptable? we’ve not beat them for 30 years, would have been nigh on miraculous to have conceded less.
The first half hour was my highlight of the season so far, bossing arsenal off the park and winning admirers all round the world.
sing your hearts out for the lads
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38, you mean sides like,west ham,pompey,hull,blackbun.
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34,Warren You must still be asleep and spilt the coffee.Yes MM has done a superb job in getting us to the promised land BUT does he have what it takes to keep us there?.Every thing i see and hear suggests that sadly MM is not good enough for this division,as previously pointed out 4 wins in 50 attempts is not a good omen for the rest of the season.Everybody keeps saying Burnleys bubble will burst(When will ours begin)and Hull/Pompey/Blackburn/Blues etc etc are not as good as us.The table does not lie,we are second bottom because not enough goals scored and too many conceded.Like many Wolves fans on here i truly hope MM somehow turns it around but there can be no room for sentiment in this game and if the games before xmas dont produce sufficient points then i am afraid drastic action needs to be taken.
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Yes we were beaten on Sat, yes we contributed to our own downfall, yes we’re now in the bottom 3 & yes the team selection was interesting! But come on people look at how far we have come as a club, look at the players we’ve got, age, experience, potential, etc…
We are learning game by game and at times we play great football & we have plenty of confidence about the club. We’ve not got a divine right to stay up, we have to earn the right…
It was always going to be a long hard season so lets stop with the negativity & get behind boys & enjoy our ride in the top flight!!
C’Mon Me Babbies!!
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Yes we were beaten on Sat, yes we contributed to our own downfall, yes we’re now in the bottom 3 & yes the team selection was interesting! But come on people look at how far we have come as a club, look at the players we’ve got, age, experience, potential, etc…
We are learning game by game and at times we play great football & we have plenty of confidence about the club. We’ve not got a divine right to stay up, we have to earn the right…
It was always going to be a long hard season so lets stop with the negativity & get behind the team & enjoy our ride in the top flight!!
C’Mon Me Babbies!!
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“They are fantastic, there is never any doubting of their workrate and their attitude”
MM you can go down the park and see workrate and attitude in the Sunday league, we want quality and experience which we hven’t got. the team that finished against Arsenal only had one player who wasn’t playing championship football last season, that says it all.
Men against boys, we’ve got no chance
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39 Got to be a Tesco bag.
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Please Mr morgan can I have a Job,
I have built 50 Houses, and 4 of them are Right
the other 46 are no good, but like you and Jez say MM is a great manager, I am a Great Brickie and 4 out of 50 is a great record.
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I was disapointed at the amount of individual errors on Saturday.
Zubar was at fault for the first a needless free kick then didn’t see fit to attack the ball when it come over from the corner.
Three out of the back four went missing for the 2nd & they got lucky with the deflection.
Castillo couldn’t be bothered to track back properly for the third & Stearman had gone for a Mr Tikka I presume coz I’ve watched it again 3 or 4 times & still can’t see where he was.
Hennessey & Miljas for the 4th, say no more.
Its hard enough playing against the big boys without handing goals to them on a plate, for 25 mins we were so disaplined it was great, we looked like we might get a result, but then we just collasped.
We need to start playing players in there correct postions & if that means bringing players in from the cold then so be it, we have been poor down the left all season, I think he needs to have a look at Friend & Surman. Stearman is not the answer, its not fair on the lad to play him there, although he did improve us when he come on against Stoke, that just shows how bad big George has been!!!!
Kightly & SEB must play 90 mins against Chelsea just to get them some match time in readiness for the B ham & Bolton games.
Milijas looked slugish all game, but for the same reasons as stated above I’d play him against Chelsea, I’d play him ahead of Castillo who was inaffective in the second half.
We have to win our next 3 home games otherwise I fear the writing is on the wall.
KTF
Wolvesforever
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Muppet Mick out asap !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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All you idiots that want mick out are crazy! no manager in the world would get the team we have trying so hard as they are! mick has a special bond with the players and they are proud to wear the wolves shirt! If mick goes then all this is lost and we become the team we are on paper and then its game over!Just remember a few years ago before we had mick and look where we are now and its all because of mick and the fantastic job he has done!I would offer him a contract for life he’s that good and important for wolves¬ I see the 3 m’s as a new wolves and i have never seen the future of wolves look so good. Its going to take time but over the next 5 years i can see wolves being a top 8 club!
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If trophies were won for buying duff players, then Wolves would be European champions. Think back over the years of all the hot shots who were going to transform our fortunes.
Frankovski, Okwonquo (forget how you spell it)Miller, Eastwood. Now its Halford, EBanks, Keogh. This manager in particular has a track record for buying useless players as exemplified by the fact we are now bottom but one.
Mr Moxey trumpets the fact that we are a solvent club with £25 mill in the bank as opposed to being hundreds of millions in the red like Man Utd and Chelsea. Well Mr Moxey with £25 mill in the bank the club could be one of the following.
A Relegated from the Premiership
B A rich club in the Championship
C A mega rich club in Division one
Which is it to be?
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IF WE ONLY CAN CUT OUT SILLY SCHOOLBOY ERRORS
,MANCIENNE,CRADDOCK,ELOKOBI AND ZUBAR HAVE ALL SCORED OGS AND 3 PEN CONCEDED RELECTS 8 GOALS JUST GIVEN AWAY,CONSIDERING ARSENAL SCORED 6 GOALS TWICE AND PUT 4 PAST PORTSMOUTH WE DID OK TO KEEP GOING AND GETTING A GOAL BACK WAS FAB .HOWEVER CRADDOCK CANT DO THIS EVERY GAME,ITS TIME FOR OTHERS LIKE JARVIS ,FOLEY ,SURMAN ,AND THE HOFF TO STEP UP
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i have to agree with a lot of what has been said, karl henry for me should not be capt never mind in the squad, he is weak, cant play a forward ball and cant tackle, wouldnt let him clean my boots, best players on the pitch for me was doyle and zubar, we had no width down either flanks, mick mccarthy has took wolves has far has he can and his pig headed ness will take us down, a lot of our players are not good enough for this division, they are championship at best, i am not confident we can survive, i really hope we can. Castillo was lazy, and should have been taken off but will someone tell me what kightly did when he came on, he was ripped to pieces, Jarvis put the cross in for Craddock, can anyone else score besides him cus if we loose him GOD HELP US. doyle was all over the pitch and looked like the only one to give a damn about the job and the shirt he wears GO ON DOYLE
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My assesment, for what it is worth, at this stage of the season is that we are falling just short of putting up a good show. We were promised a squad that can compete at this level and that may still materialise. If Zubar, Castillo, Melijas and Doyle can come good over the next quarter of the season and we add much needed firepower and defensive guile in January – we should stay up. It would be criminal not to – as we have the necessary resources to do so and should leave no stone unturned in making it a reality. It would be interesting to see how Surman and Vokes got on if they were called upon too. The glass is definately half full – just dont want it to dip any lower !!
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It is obvious that we are relegation fodder. McCarthy is not a Premiership manager, and his 4 wins in 50 Premiership games as a manager confirms he is out of his depth!
The only consolation is that we are a Premiership team and a class manager may still agree to manage us, but it must be done before the situation becomes impossible.
That means that MM must be sacked before the winter transfer window so that a new manager can be appointed and he can buy the class players we need to get us out of this mess.
OUT OF DARKNESS COMETH LIGHT!
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I can’t believe that anybody is taking positives from that thrashing! Only an idiot would believe that we got anything from that game.
Chelsea will be even more humiliating, they will see us as an opportunity to improve their goal difference and they’ll go for double figures!
The only hope that we have is to change the management, but Morgan has no taste for that. So, just put up with getting our bottoms spanked and enjoy the visits from Premiership teams, just treat it as a rare excursion into the world of class football, and get ready for the Championship again next year.
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John de wolf thanks ive just got in from a hard day a work and you have given me a right lift. KEEGAN or CURBISHLEY. Oh my sides are aching. Think Ill go down the pub and spread the word now. Lol. KEEP THE FAITH or STAY AWAY
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Eastwood4eva is terry baggie in disguise don’t rise to his bait
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You are right Mick we won’t be judged against Arsenal or Chelsea but against the likes of West Ham, Portsmouth and Hull where we got 1 point from three home games.
Buy second rate players and this is what you get and believe you me it gives me no pleasure what so ever to say that.
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50 “this manager in particular has a track record of buying useless players?” – unbelieveable.
I struggle to name many players that MM has bought that were not worth the money and I don’t see there is a much of an argument against that however narrow minded you try to be.
No we are not a strong premiership side and neither are most sides that are promoted to the premiership. As a number of contributors have said wake up and smell the coffee. Wolves have kept the young and hungry motto and created a good atmosphere at the club – one that convinced Kevin Doyle to join. We will have to scrap to preserve our premiership status but that is what we must achieve and then build upon. We are learning but if you can’t see that there is every chance that we can pick up enough points to stay in this division based on performances to date you haven’t been watching Wolves. We are improving game by game – it hurts to be outclassed and I find it hard to accept but I do have faith we can achieve our seasons goal which I don’t recall having during our last campaign in this league (not through the fault of Dave Jones I might add).
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Jesus Christ Almighty!!!
The South Bank Numpties are out, in force, tonight!!
MM came to our club, no money to spend, 12 (that’s TWELVE) first team players and a group of fans living in the past.
We are now a Premiership Team, with a young and hungry (if a little inexperienced) group of players – that’s down to Mick McCarthy – unfortunately he still has a fanbase living in the past.
Do you want to end up like Leeds, Southamton, Charlton, Luton and all the other clubs that have nearly gone out of existance because they have spent more money than they earn?
We’ve been there…remember?
Hull have been told that if they are relegated, that’s it, administration. Is that what you want for our club? No? Well stop screaming for the Chairman & CEO to spend, spend, spend!!!
The 3M’s are building something special – please give them time.
UP THE WOLVES!!!! C’MON ME BABBIES!!!
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IS IT OR ME OR HAVE A COUPLE OF PLAYERS LOOKED LETHARGIC LATELY?,SOME SEEM REALLY SLOW,SOME DONT WANT TO BACKTRACK THERE PLAYERS,ALSO SOME GUILTY OF BALLWATCHING ,MICK SORT THIS OUT,ASSUMING WE LOSE 10 MORE GAMES,WE HAVE 16 GAMES TO GET 30 POINTS,WHICH WE ARE WELL BELOW
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The reason we are where we are is because we did not buy prem experienced players as promised by our chairman at the end of last season.We shall not make the same mistakes as the last time we were in the prem he said well you have mr morgan.
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“Mick: We’ll fight to the end”
When it is obvious at Christmas that it is already the end, then Morgan has to protect his investment and hire a quality manager who is of Premiership quality. McCarthy’s proud record of 4 wins in managing 50 Premiership games explains why we are fighting relegation already.
It is obvious that MM is totally out of his league in the Premiership, so who will replace him?
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Just watched L’Pool V Blues, unlike us the Blues have some quality and experience. Defenders that are solid and strikers that score. We are increasingly looking like the whipping boys agin.
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Having seen how Burnley played Man City and came back from 3-2 down and fight back for a draw,had shown that it does not matter whether it is a big budget or small town team. What matter is courage and determination to face all odds and knowing that they have as much a chance as any team to win irregardless of the opposition.
Whether it is a big four team or any other teams that Wolves meet, the need to fight and having “in your face attitude” is a pre-requisite. Self belief and confidence arises from winning games.
There must be something right that Owen Coyle as a manager had done. To motivate and inculcate, the self-confident, belief and fighting attitude, that Burnley possessed.
Perhaps it is something to consider.
Forever Wolves…..
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Moneyman – short term memory not at all I clearly remember the total disaster McCarthy was at Sunderland and he is doing the same now at wolves. How can anyone be satisfied with the captain of the titanic running wolves. Mick go…..
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As a team, the current crop can pass it around and do look quite comfortable on the ball. But without a regular goal-scorer that all counts for nothing. If we didnt have Steve Bull all those years ago we would probably still be in the 3rd division.
If we can get the strikers firing on all four cylinders and the team becomes more positive going forward to create chances for them, then we may have a chance of staying in this league.
It just seems at this moment that we are afraid to go forwards.
Unless we can start to hit the back of the net more regularly then we will always play with fear. Goals will bring confidence to the team knowing that if they score we can score back against them.
SEB looks unfit and probably not up to it skillwise anyway. Merlin should see this and try Hoff, Vokes, the youth/reserve team striker — whoever at his disposable.They will not do any worse that SEB at the moment.
It’s goals that win games and we just cannot score – at least from open play.
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Blues & Burnley are fighting to the end Mick, Wolves at the moment are bleeding a slow, cold death in this league. Chelsea will thump us, there is no doubts about that, I just hope Wolves can re-group as we have got 2 MUST WIN games at home to Blues & Bolton. Anything less than 6 points from the games against Blues & Bolton will leave Wolves cut adrfit from safety. It will leave us with one burning question. What will the board do in January, will they back the manager to the hilt or will they just think, lets bank the money and accept the parachute payments for another 2 years. I know this is all knee jerk reaction but lets face it people, despite bright performances against everton, villa, man city, we only got 2 points, were realistically we should have beaten everton, should have beaten hull & pompey at home! Thats an extra 6 points we could have had! Anyway no point looking behind, lets get Chelsea out the way and try to win our next 2 homes games which will make & shape ourt season.
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Blakey and Doyle do not work together but are two superb players with a big man. ‘The Hoff’ must start against Chelsea as a lone striker but the Blues and Bolton games are vital. Burnleys bubble will burst soon, Hull had a lucky escape on Sunday and Blues, Bolton and most certainly Pompey are in trouble. Pompey have to send back their loan signings in Jan. We will be around 16th-17th at xmas and January we will sign a couple of players, I would like Danny Wellbeck on loan and an offer on Michael Johnson from Man City for some creative flair. Alan Smith or Adam Johnson would be good signings too.
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the best formation against Chelski would be 5-5-0. flood the defence and the pack out the midfield and try to score from a set-piece if we manage to get a corner or free-kick on the odd foray up-field
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‘awolfatthedoor’ say’s it all for me!!
Most the so called Wolves fans easily forget where we’ve come from of late. I’m only 30 but for me the highlights aren’t the last 13 years or thereabouts of Championship level football, I was only 2 when we won the League Cup, I was 10 when we won in 1988 the ‘Sherpa Van Trophy’ against Burnley 2-0 (Mutch, Dennision), during this time under Graham Turner, the famous signing of Steve Bull & lets not forget Sir Jack Hayward’s massive involvement, we put the recent disappointment behind us & climbed back to the 2nd tier of English Football…
Then it was the turn of Dave Jones who took Wolves into the Premier League via the play-offs when we beat Sheffield United 3-0 in the final.
And since then last year was great under the 3 M’s winning the Championship!!
So thats 2 Cups won, 3 League Titles & 1 Play-Off success out of 5 attempts in my lifetime…
For me we have the most exciting & promising side we’ve had in many a year, sound management & a very healthy football club so again lets get behind our team and show the world that this once great club is on the up again & most of all lets enjoy it…
OUT OF DARKNESS COMETH LIGHT!!
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I’m 27 and Wolves are in the best position we’ve been in, in my living memory. So for that reason I have no complaints despite our current position. Even if we go down, I’m confident that the club is heading in the right direction. Many clubs have been forced to be a “yo-yo club” for a few years before establishing themselves. The likes of Bradford and Hull that have tried to do things in one big step, have ended up worse off.
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So McCarthy tells us we are up for a survival fight. It wasn’t so long ago him and Moxey told us we had the team to keep us in the Premiership. “Job done” was the cry. Is anyone else confused?
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We may not be able to get new players in in January for various reasons. The players have to be available, they have to accept Championship pay and if we are in the same position or even bottom – who will want to join a sinking ship?
The answer is in a change of Management and coaching staff.
Does Burnley have better players than us? Does Stoke? Or Hull? Our squad is no worse than at least half a dozen teams in the PL.
It’s the leadership that makes the big difference. MM is not cutting it. Let’s change him. It will be easier than trying to bring in quality players.
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74 – if you are going to use the name of a great Wolves player of the past, pleae learn how to spell his name
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75 – is all that you have to contribute is a comment on my name? My is Kelvin by the way :)
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75 – oh i forget to mention, you spelt “please” incorrectly. Ha! Ha!
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you can see why most comments on here are from joe public, and not one comment is posted from somebody with any knowledge of proffessional football, too many profess to know which player is good enough, and who should or should’nt be manager, the same people will be taking the credit in may 2011, when the greatest club side in the world wwfc survive comfortably.
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73_ Mccarthy is a PR dpts nightmare – a walking contradiction if you will, but his press bleatings are not what concerns me.
I really dont think he’s done a bad job given the resources – built a young squad who are performing well – but we are having to punch well above our weight, and it shows.
January transfer will make clear as day the Board’s commitment to us staying in the prem, cos the August close was nothing short of laughable.
As it stands, we DO NOT have enough quality to stay in this division.
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78. Truewolves..
Time to increase your medication…
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My Grandfather and my father are both wolves supporters, I grew up in Canada and ended up supporting Villa because only Premiership games are presented on TV. I would like to point out that after 2 own goals and 2 Arsenal goals Molineux stadium was still full and the crowd got them a goal at the end. I have watched the “you’ll never walk alone” fans at Liverpool head for the doors, but to be 4-1 down and the ground still full was quite emotional. I shall be visiting the UK and standing with thoise fans regardless of who they are playing in January.
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“i asked to much of elokobi”
yes you did mick . i said at the start season the leftback is the most specialised outfield position . We must sign a leftback in january ,and if zubar is left footed he must be moved there or Malone should be given a chance.George should go out on loan.
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82,Brummienick Cant you see that he is clearing the way for the return of the prodigal son yes Steven Ward is a Natural Left Footer,BUT somebody forgot to tell MM he is also a STRIKER,What we need as 82 so rightly pointed out is a RECOGNISED NATURAL QUALITY LEFT BACK not another 100 percenter but not good enough for the Prem.
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