Burnley far more of an important game sorry for the fans that went though

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All that I can say is that if we don’t beat Burnley we’ll look a bit stupid in making the 10 changes. The Hoff to me though is not good enough at this level….he’s my only gripe as for such a big guy he looks about 5 foot tall!

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Milan Lab!!! He has lost his marbles. What are wolves going to do when we have got 2 matches over 3 days in the christmas programme? I am still seething and if we lose on sunday then Mick needs to be sacked!

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Got back 3 o’clock roadworks on M6 up at 7 for work Mick thinks his players may be tired! Refund please!!!!!!!!!!!

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i’ve always been behind Mick but after last night he has lost my support as i spent £80 last night to go watch our reserve team try and beat the champs of england. I know hes thinking about burnley but thats 5 days away and thats more than enough time to rest,the position we are in we should be playing our best 11 every match doing stupid things like this will put us back in the fizzy pop league for sure. Been to every away game but will only be going to the home from now on.

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As a Spurs fan I’m now insulted that we didn’t get the reserves on Saturday. Shows how much of a soft touch we must seem and you deserved the win but that hurts.
As a player or a fan, your team finally gets to play Man U in the league and Mick plays the reserves? Will he do the same thing when you play Leeds away next season?

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No worries Mick … win on Sunday and it was the right thing to do …

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MUPPET MICK OUT !

YOU DON’T DESERVE TO MANAGER OF WOLVES

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I travelled 7 hours and spent £62 to watch the reserves. When the teamsheet was read out it was more embarressing than the third Chorley goal!Before I go to Liverpool (and as an away season ticket holder-I have my ticket)could mr Moxey/Morgan/McCarthy inform me whether this is one of our scheduled Bye games or not? if it is I will rotate myself and save my money for a game we turn up to!

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I think some of you lot have lost your marbles.

This season has to be about staying in this league. Why risk exhausted players for a game with a low chance of victory then not pick up 3 points against Burnley. Surely that has to be the more important game to us?

Saying that, I was not at the game and would have been very annoyed to have spent so much cash to see a ‘going through the motions performance’ – but surely any Wolves fan worth their salt, if asked now would they accpet last night’s team and performance if we could finish above the bottom three – would say yes?

For those of you at the Spurs game, players like Doyle worked their socks off and duly deserved the break and we want them fresh for Burnley.

I think this league and their spectators are unbelievably hypocritical when we see time after time the top 4 field teams of youth and squad players and nothing is said about the matter when they play lesser teams.

Also with the exception of Friend – does that team not include 10 players who have all played from the start or come on as subs?

All this fuss is ridiculous and lets just see what the comments are like on this board should we beat Burnley on Saturday. I think some of you will suddenly contract extremely short memories.

The Premier league don’t have a leg to stand on re: deducting points – what a stupid thing to say – lets just move on, look to Burnely, getting 3 points then take a look at the league standing on Saturday night – things could all look very different.

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Bring on Burnley!!!! COME ON ME BABBIES.

I could not give a toss about anybody else in this league other than Wolves. We need to look after our players. And Mick is looking after our players.

We played our strongest team last night. What is difficult to understand about that.

Lets beat Burnley and Mick is totally justified.

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You cost me £50 in bets last nite,two goals headstart & given the draw,any chance you could refund that as well as the money the supporters spent going to the game?

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Complete and utter disgrace. You deserve everything you get now Mick. Part of me hopes we get beat on Sunday now to make you look an even bigger fool. You moan about the fans not respecting you and you go out and do that to us.

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people who say it was the right thing to do, obviusly didnt travel 3 hours up to manchester and paid £40 to see wolves’s second rate team. what had we got to lose? Mick is always going on about premier league experience and ythis was a good chance to get some. MICK OUT

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I think we should respect the players that featured last night, give them some credit – nearly all of them either already have been or will be in the first team during this season, so why shouldn’t they play?

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Why McCarthy was right
Why I support Mick’s decision last night….
1- It has been done before.
Manchester United fielded a team of no-marks against Hull on the final day of last season (Ritchie De Laet and Lee Martin, anyone?). Fulham stayed up in 2007 thanks in part to a 1-0 win against a Liverpool side with the likes of Steven Gerrard replaced by stiffs such as Gabriel Paletta and – horror of horrors! – Robbie Fowler. They did not face any action.
2- McCarthy was trying to maximise his team’s league performance.
In the above examples, both United and Liverpool were sacrificing Premier League performance as they had big Champions League games coming up. McCarthy’s decision selection was motivated by a genuine desire to score as many points as possible. By resting his first-teamers for a game they would probably have lost anyway, he thinks they have a better chance of winning forthcoming games against Burnley, Liverpool and Manchester City.
3- You can’t punish him for having a weak squad.
Big teams rest their best players all the time, but we barely notice because they have 20 full internationals in their squads. There is no material difference between Michael Owen playing up front for Manchester United, and Stefan Maierhofer playing for Wolves. They are both reserves. Wolves should not be castigated just because their back-up players are worse than United’s.
4- You have to prove that David Edwards is better than Kevin Foley.
All of the Wolves players who took the field last night were senior professionals. They might not be particularly good, but they are not children, and if they are in the squad then it seems a mite churlish to deny them the right to play occasionally. In any case, how do you prove beyond all doubt that Wolves’s front-line players are better than the second string?
5- There is no sympathy for teams with injuries.
When countless Blackburn players went down with swine flu, Rovers asked for a postponement. The Premier League politely reminded them football is a squad game, and until they have 25 players on their death beds they have to make a team out of whoever is available. Quite right too, but that precedent clearly means the authorities cannot insist teams pick the same 11 players for every game.
You might not thank McCarthy if you were Burnley, who will presumably find themselves up against the first-teamers on Sunday, but his team selection was both lawful and actually quite clever.
Last night’s goings-on provide proof positive that the biggest games take place at Turf Moor and Molineux, not Old Trafford and Anfield.
Popular wisdom says you win the league not by winning games against big sides, but by ensuring you can take care of business against the lesser teams.
Likewise, McCarthy’s selection policy clearly shows he considers Burnley at home a bigger game than Manchester United away.
So maybe, when managers of relegation candidates describe their season as ’38 cup finals’, they are actually right and not just whingeing.

Get behind them!

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Me and my old man were seething last night. I was meant to have joining the prawn sandwich brigade in corporate box for free, it unfortunately fell through but I am glad. I would have easily spent £200 and I would have got in for free! For the people who paid £42 for a ticket then you definately deserve a refund.

Mick and the boys get some confidence and on a winning streak, against a very poor Manchester United team and he does this. I could allow perhaps 3 or 4 changes to the team, but 10? I am ashamed and we are the laughing stock this morning in the press.

If we lose on Sunday to Burnley then I fear a mass revolt.

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It is one thing for a team to rotate a squad when they think that they can win without some of the better players. That is normal and quite acceptable.

To leave out the all the best outfield players because you know that you cannot win is totally different and has nothing to do with squad rotation. I have always supported Mick, but he should be sacked for this move.

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19, 20, 21 – well done for bringing some balance to this debate.

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I am on the dole, and saved up my money to go to Man utd. £42 ticket £20 travel 8hr round trip to get shafted by a poor team selection by McCarthy. “Naffed off” is an understatement, as I feel cheated like most of the fans who went.However, I support wolves and the players who wear the strip, so slating players who have been picked is not the correct way. I sat by 4 people last night who continually shouted abuse at the players with foul language used in the vacinity of children, I did however make my feelings known, and reiterate to them, if they want glory, they were in the wrong section of the stadium. However, the amount of changes were unjust, and if we fail to beat Burnley, questions of McCarthy need to be asked by Morgan. Finally, I hope the football club agree some sort of compensation for the travelling fans to show a token of good will in these times of recesion were money is tight, and you expect to get value for money. Rant over…..

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Everone who feels angry about this should return tickets to Molineux for a refund or some kind of compensation

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Disrespectful to the First team who desrved thier shirt at old trafford
Disrespectful to Man Utd
Disrespectful to other premiere league sides
and most importantly disrepectful to our loyal travelling fans.
Yes lets all roll over and give Man Utd their champions league spot year in year out.
If we lose on Sunday he should GO!!!!!

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Wolvesmod you really are a fool and just about sum up the mentality of some of the people that post on here. How can you claim to be a Wolves supporter then hope we lose just so that you can be proved right? Pathetic.

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Can see some of you happy clappers didn’t spend your hard earned cash and go to the match last night. Thick Mike is a total disgrace, he let down the fans and couldn’t give a ****. Everyone on our coach felt cheated, he could have had the common decency to let us know in advance that he was putting a reserve side out and let us make a decision on whether to go or not.

And as for keeping the first team fresh, if they cant play 38 games in a season they are over paid and in the wrong job

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Not a bad reserve side;

Hanhaman – Summer signing
Foley – Fans player of he year
Elokobi – Fans favourite
Mancienne – Summer signing (begged for by the fans)(and played well)
Surman – Summer signing (played well)
Halford – Summer signing (rubbish)
The Hoff – Summer signing (rubbish)
Zubar – Summer signing (played well except hand ball)
Castillo – Summer signing (played okay)
Iwelumo – 2nd top scorer last year (on for the Hoff)

After 30mins it was still 0-0, against Chelsea our so called first team (made up of last years players) were 3-0 down after 20mins!

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If he doesnt win on Sunday his head will be on the chopping block again.
Ans as for all this “fielding your strongest team” nonsense, does that mean if Alex Ferguson rests Wayne Rooney for a game he is breaking the rules aswell?

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Perhaps Burnley are the bigger team – they played their first team and beat ManU.
Think we should play our best team every match – if Mick thinks that’s the best team we could have put out I’m puzzled.
Players should be fit enough to play 3 games in 8 days – shouldn’t they?

Wolves board should seriously consider some form of recompense to the travelling fans.

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just a thought if we had lost at spurs would he have changed the team, dont think so

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I cannot convey in wordds how frsutrated i am, i need to speak to someone at teh CLUB to let them know how i feel. I dont give two jots about the do gooders on this site. We worked our backsides of to get out of the Championshop to play the like of MAN U and then where we get there TOSH.Its not about the £42 plus food plus fuel plus etc etc it about the other 30 years of watching the dross served up in the lower divisions. So please please please dont tell me he id the right thing otherwise lets all jack it in now. The likes of Henry etc must be so frustrated to play in the top flight and then not get the chance to play against the like of Scholes. Sorry MM but you are an absolute idiot nad i was one of your biggest fans. DONT ANYONE DARE TO ASK ME TO LOOK AT THE BIGGER PICTURE i have done for the last 30 years.
TOTALLY TAGGED OF AND DISGUSTED

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I really fancied our first team to get something last night. United were weakened by injuries too and there wont be a better chance to go to old trafford and take them on. If we’d snatched a victory then mick would have gone down in history for taking us to spurs and man utd and getting 2 results…

I left wolves at 3pm yesterday, arrived in manchester at half 6 (bloody road works).. something to eat and a beer or 2. Stayed in a hotel as I decided to enjoy the night with a meal and beers, didn’t want to drive home last night. in all it cost me;

£54 in petrol
£42 ticket
£109 for hotel
£40 for meal
£20 in beer
£5 parking fee
£184 for a day off work
and an earfull from the mrs for missing the kids’ nativity play to go to the match with a mate (think i’ll regret that one)

Cheers mick, wish you said on Saturday that the entire team was going to be changed.

Nice one mate, top job.

P.s. just got back home and realised that there are so many better ways to spend my time and money. in all it cost me around £470 for yesterday’s match (in real terms).. not happy. balls to Sunday’s “big” match, i think i’ll stay in bed, watch it on some online stream on the laptop and have a nice relaxing day doing sod all with the mrs. there relaly is more to life than doing this every other bloody week

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Cheers Mick!
You’ve tarnished our great old club forever.

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I agree with the last two paragraphs of 33-luke mole-and I wonder if MM can be considered to have brought the game into disrepute.His attempt to protect certain squad players should be extended to the training ground where we appear to get more injuries than when playing a competetive game.
would’nt it be ironic if we are eventually relegated because of last night’s 3 goal difference at a time when there was justifiable expectation of at least a point from an injury hit United?

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59. Mr smug – you have never posted on here before and I’m guessing your a baggie. You should stay at home instead of going to even home games unless you want to see them lose to Palace, Swansea, Cardiff and draw with QPR who are in meltdown. Dont blame ya, although the albion could do with the money with all their debt!

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59. Nice hotel then mate, not your standard travel in? Was it the Melmaison? See you there Sunday no doubt a day of Xmas shopping on Saturday with the Mrs will get your intrest back.
Im tagged of to mate

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I feel we should ALWAYS play our strongest team! If Wolves had won last night, would anyone apart from the GK still play on Sunday? These players should be fit to play twice a week.

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comes to something when a proffesional sportsman hasnt got the confidence to face another professional ,is that how it is ?now we have half the league aching for the opportunity to make us pay for this decision,absolute disgrace to the fans,but when were they ever condidered by the management,can we have a list of teams we need to lie down and die in front of before we even get on the pitch.

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I spent 11 hours driving to Man U last night. Hubby and I and 2 children aged 16 are all home and away season ticket holders.
We couldn’t afford to take them to the cup game as we worked out it was going to cost over £300 for one match( and my husband is self employed and had no work on.)
Yesterday, full of high hopes and for their first visit to Old Trafford we expected.
We expected a team to be put out who would compete at the highest level. The team at Tottenham earned the right to play at Man U.#
As posters have previously detailed, what must it do for a players confidence to see that they play so well and then a mickey mouse manager pulls a stunt like this. Conversely, for the players who played last night, the knowledge that they are seen as not good enough and worth risking an injury?
Surely Morgan wants to see his team compete at the likes of man u and not just make the numbers up?
No thanks to the highways agency who meant that we crawled at 5mh for 2 hours on the M6- what clueless idiot dreamed that up- but then again as a football supporter we are completely expendable.

Also man u, theatre of dreams and no food at the start of the match or at half time. What a contemptuous way to treat the fans.

Finally a special thanks to west midlands police who requested this match be on a midweek. Thank you for the 11 hour 166 mile journey to Altrincham :( On a Saturday I would have gone on the train and kept my carbon footprint down, showed the children around Manchester and had a better day all around. I truly hope you were stuck in those roadworks too- but you were probably put up in a hotel at our expense.

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Bryan Robson did the same thing a few years back, the fans felt cheated and we lost the ‘big’ game he was preparing for anyway. You have to play your strongest team always regardless of the opposition. You could have taken united last night – they are not playing to well – mad mick would have then been a hero. Hope it doesn’t backfire on him.

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Left Essex at 1pm with a coach load of United fans. £45 for ticket, £26 for the coach. Add programmes and food on top of that. 6 hours there, had to watch the game with United fans and then 6 hours back. Got home at 4am! The eleven who played really did scrap for their lives but ultimately weren’t good enough but I doubt the team that beat Spurs would’ve got a result either. Beat Burnley and all will be forgotten.

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Abject surrender last night.Man management is a joke.His first team must think,my manager thinks Im not good enough to try to get a result.Now he has alienated his shadow squad members by using them as cannon fodder.Billy Wright and Stan Cullis must be turning in their graves at this cowardice.

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its alrite saying we need to rest players,dont they train and we seem to pick up more injuries in training,as for changing 10 players,the only ones i think who needed resting was Doyle runs his socks off,Craddock cos of age and Henry for his work rate

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This selection showed total comtempt for the fans, who clearly did not come into the reckoning when the team were being picked.

What ever happened to the old adage of not changing a winning team?

Half hearted Halford was a disgrace again – one corner flag contributes more than he does.

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Mick, you are a nugget.

Thanks for wasting best part of £100. i would be grateful if you could reimburse the travel club cost and match ticket.

Its like turning up to watch a music gig and being told the supporting act will play the whole time. We played a stronger team in the League Cup………….. Moron.

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Hold on a minute. Didn’t we play internationals in Castillo, Hoff, Hahneman and Foley? Plus Champions League defender Zubar. Plus Mancienne – who everyone was wetting their knickers over 4 months ago. Halford has also been a regular this season.

McCarthy has ditched the old excuse about being relegated because of end of season weak teams by the big boys. Wouldn’t have a leg to stand on there.

Let’s just hope he doesn’t regret it.

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43, Stubbz

Absolutley nailed it mate.

Spot on post.

No more needs to be said.

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Is it little wonder that Wolves are the laughing stock of the Midlands. The only thing this man deserves is a boot OUT of the club rather than a boot up the backside.
How on earth can he be allowed to get away with a decision like that?
As far as the comment that “I have a squad of 20plus players and they are ALL first team players. If that is the case Micheal why was George Friend recalled from Scunthorpe less than 24hrs BEFORE the match? You my friend are a disgrace to the Wolves and the fans. Leave please. Finally what stupid remarks will you make when we lose to Burnley on Sunday. Talk about destroying confidences, that was a master stroke

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Shame that many ‘fans’ up and down the country don’t understand football. Well done Mick – good decision last night and as you rightly say you are in charge and pick the team, NOT the fans, NOT the other managers and certanly NOT the pundits and newspapers! Those fans who don’t disagree should stay away or go and support teams who have ruined football in this country by selfish financial means!

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For all the those who are sticking up for mad mick please consider this, how do the first team players feel missing playing at ot, gutted i bet, dusgusted also, great pyscology mick! We have liverpool and man city in the space of 3 days does that mean we wil play reserves at anfield! Ive missed one game this year and last night i felt i had been kicked in the teeth. look at how many players played out of position. 2 or 3 changes yes bud mad mick had to take it to the extreme and cause a huge divide between the supporters of this great football club!

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To all those who went last night and are moaning. Will you please shut up about getting a refund. You chose to pay £42, you know who is in the Wolves squad and eligible to play.
We actually gave a reasonable performance (certainly better than v Brum and the gooners), didnt get stuffed and we didnt get anymore injuries.
Our objective is to stay in the PL, not just one off glory matches like Man U. Remember last time when we beat them 1-0 and all the hoohha that followed (my son still has the E&S double page pic of Kenny Miller celebrating the goal). Oh yeah, we went down a few months later.
REPEAT – OUR AIM IS TO STAY UP. SUPPORT THE TEAM AND THE MANAGER or stay away

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So MM is happy to play 37 games in the prem? We got confidence from our performance at Old Trafford last time in the prem, what next give up at Liverpool. Give the fans their money back. Good job we didn’t adopt this approach at our last unwinnable game at Spurs.

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for all the people who sing that blokes name, last night he showed us all what he thinks of us loyal fans, you come on here shouting your mouths off about people that can see what hes all about, well last night he showed you what hes about didnt he, lets hear you sing his name now, to many fans blinded around here

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realist wanderer said: Dec 16th, 2009 at 11:39 am Shame that many ‘fans’ up and down the country don’t understand football. Well done Mick – good decision last night and as you rightly say you are in charge and pick the team, NOT the fans, NOT the other managers and certanly NOT the pundits and newspapers! Those fans who don’t disagree should stay away or go and support teams who have ruined football in this country by selfish financial means!

We are in the relegation zone by the way………..not pushing for europe. Its decisions made by the manager and no-one else that has got us to this position. Think about it.

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laughingwolf – posted on here many many times before.. maybe you should pay more attention when reading (or try google).

eleven in didsbury was the hotel… lovely place.

wouldn’t wish being an albion fan on anyone, not even you mr laughingwolf.

Sunday is a no-go for me. definitely. to be treated with such disrespect by the club is beyond forgiveness.

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61. Over-exaggeration of the century, grow-up, I don’t necessarily agree with his decision last night either but he’s a damn good manager who’s took us a long way and if this gives us a better chance of beating Burnley then it will prove a very wise move! This club hasn’t been tarnished by one manager making one decision!

Come on Wolves, 3 points on saturday would be huge!

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We were playing twice a week last season,and the first time we have to play twice in a week the players are too tired!!!! did anyone see how Rooney reacted about being subbed? and he played on saturday,so i cant imagine how our first eleven feel!!!!we might as well just sent the points to O.T.God help M.M.if we lose at home to Burnley!!!

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MM DONE THE RIGHT THING FOR SURE
WHAT IDOIT WOULD EXPECT TO GO THERE AND WIN EVEN WITH YOUR STRONGEST LINE UP
HE HAS RESTED THE SQUAD FOR SUNDAY WHICH WAS THE CORRECT THING TO DO
STOP WHINGING ABOUT THE £42 FOR GOD SAKE WOLVES WERE NEVER GOING TO WIN THERE SO WHY GO AND PAY IT IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU CLOWNS

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Mick, I believe, has lauded our away fans in the past – but they didn’t deserve this. This was any teams best chance to get something out of United. They too have injuries and have been out of sorts lately. I honestly thought a draw was possible before I saw our team selection. We knew there would have to be changes – but ten? We have lost respect. There is now even more pressure on us to beat Burnley. I do not want Mick out but I believe he was wrong to make so many changes. Home games are away games for me, if you see what I mean, and I would not wish to make the journey to find ten changes. It takes the edge off the chant “We are Wolves”. Mick’s decision, unfortunately, could prove to be the turning point in our season in more ways than one. To think, we were so proud three days ago.

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107 – “Come on Wolves, 3 points on saturday would be huge!”

Good supporter i hope you enjoy the game SATURDAY as the rest of us will be there on SUNDAY!!

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74 Richard Wolf

Section E, rule 20: In every league match each participating club shall field a full strength team.

Punishable by fine or points deduction

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I didn’t go last night but there is always 2 sides to every story, Mick should have maybe kept the spine of the team together i.e craddock, berra, henry and maybe the like of blake and jarvis but we were chasing the ball for literally 90 minutes on Saturday so it will take some affect on the players and when you have 3 games in eight days you do need to rotate your squad after all thats why you have 20-30 players in your squad.

I feel for the fans who paid £42 but would you be complaining and asking for a refund if we nicked a draw?! I don’t think so after all you go there to support the team.

Some morans on here think that sacking MM is the right thing to do! either you are albion fans or just plain stupid, I bet every one was kissing MM’s backside on Saturday and now he does something you don’t like you call for his head!

If you constantly comment about sacking MM then please go away until the end of the season and then judge all you want.

Never have I read such idiotic comments from so called wolves fans on here, shut up moaning and support the team on Sunday, I’ll be there and if we do win then its MM 1 complaining morans 0.

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I can see both sides of the argument here, but I can’t get my head around the team selection… players out of position, etc. We did compete in certain areas until the penalty, then it was only going to go one way, but if Dave Jones id fit why didn’t he start? If Ebanks-Blake needs some confidence in front of goal (cows A*** with a banjo) why didn’t he start? Hoff better than Iwelumo? Halford??? If we were sight-seeing, then why weren’t the kids given a run out (hemmings, mendez-laing)? I have never been so confused and frustrated at a Wolves match before

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didnt agree with team selection last night but….
mcarthy did the right thing to protect the players from injury , just imagine douyle or berra or milijas getting seriously injured last night and then missing 3 or 4 months. and then the moaning whingers would really have something to complain about. utw SUNDAY WWFC 3 BURNLEY 0

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Are these maoners the same one’s who wanted Mick out when Kightly got injured in a practice match last season (and promotion was blown). Grow up we’ve all paid money to watch poor performances and team selections we don’t agree with.

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I am fed up with these thick wolves fans defending MM because they think its being unloyal. Look i have’nt got a problem when he plays the right team and tactics, but against blues and man u they need to know this is unacceptable. Hes on about saving hes players but what do you think its done for team morale has all the players look forward to these games. ok he could of rested afew but TEN come on lads get a grip!

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All the moaners make me sick.

We were odds on to lose last night whatever team we put out. We have to win on Sunday and then even if we lose against Liverpool, we will be at 19 points after 19 games – the half way stage. We should be delighted if we average a point per game. That will keep us up.

I have supported Wolves for 30 years and been to almost every home game and a great number of away matches too. Last season was my proudest moment. This season we have to adjust and grow in stature. The problem is we still have a minority of ‘supporters’ with ugly wives, ugly daughter and a handful of brain cells. Have you ever noticed how much thick people moan?

Get behind the manager, team and we will survive and get better.

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and what would you all say if we get deducted points for this, you still going to back him then

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Analagie of this decision for those backing it..now does it make sense-

“you would not money to watch led zepplin then be entertained by tribute act fred zepplin”

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Hate to think what sort of team he will put out,on a dark freezing night in Birkenhead with a sunday night(6-15) kick off.How much will they pay US to watch that one.

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Stan Cullis must be turning in his grave watching the antics of this man.

Lack of respect to the competition
Lack of respect to Wolves fans, and
Lack of respect to this once great club

2 years ago we missed the play offs on goal difference when MM refused to be positive when 3 up against Cardiff. What price this other brilliant piece of management ultimately costing us our place at the top table ?

Please MM, go, and go now.

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Injuries happen in training (as we know).

Do the first team stop training?(I know that’s stupid I’m being sarcastic or am I?)

By Mick’s remarks about the players’ ratings of the hardness of the Spurs game do we take it they were all happy to not play last night?
I’d have thought they’d have been itching to play at Old Trafford, if not they should pack it in.

Mick’s paid to manage and that’s what he’s done, no one to blame but himself if it all goes wrong, especially on Sunday.

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I’ve never written on here before but I feel compelled to now. I’ve been pretty firmly behind Mick so far but last night I snapped.
As far as I am concerned, he might as well have taken a hack saw to the statues outside Molineux and then relieved himself on the remains, because to me that’s pretty much what he’s done to the image and good name of our club. For god sake this is a sport, you are meant to compete and more to the point we are bloody WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS! League winners, FA cup winners, League cup winners, European pioneers! It’s shameful we’re too scared of Man Utd to even try. I feel utterly disgusted and my idea of who we are and what this club represents has been totally betrayed. I’d rather go back to freezing on a rickety, knackered south bank, with two sides of the ground shut and no money. At least we still had pride as I recall, no matter how rubbish our team and ground.

Mick, Moxey, Morgan you should all be ashamed. With your cowardly attitude you’ve let down the club, the fans and more importantly all of the great players who sweated blood to win things for Wolves. I hope we get nothing at all on Saturday because we don’t deserve it.

It’s a good job Mick wasn’t in charge in WW2. No I don’t fancy putting the spitfires out this week, we’ll have a go against the Italians next summer. you German chaps carry on…

SHAMEFUL!

WE ARE WOLVES!!!!!!

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HOW CAN WE EVER SING “FIGHT FIGHT WHEREVER YOU MAY BE” AGAIN

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Put it like this…Hypothetically Wolves need Burnley just to draw their last league game of the season against whoever for Wolves to stay in the prem…and then Owen Coyle puts out his reserves and lose= Wolves relegated…Would Mad Mick say that was disrespecful?…

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I wouldnt be suprised if the Premier league throw the book at Wolves and as for not offering loyal fans a refund for the circus, some of me hopes they do!!!!!!!!!1

I dislike Moxey very much.

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He gets two good results,and the arrogence of
Mcarthy thinks he can be the Tinkerman. After listening to the Media today and fans from other
clubs. Wolves have always been respected Countrywide. But his ideal and thoughts of other
bloggers on here, have made us a laughing stock.
Its a results business and scrapping for every
point available, Blouses and Villa managed to field to strong sides after tough games the weekend, or does Mcarthy think our reserve side are good enough. Everybody who supports him, maybe it would have been better this
morning to read what a great win or deserved point earned, rather than making headlines for the wrong reasons.

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Some of these comments beggar belief and make me embarassed to be a Wolves fan. Don’t you think some of you are taking this slightly out of proportion?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/dec/16/the-fiver-wolves-world-cup-2018

Read this article. Keep a dictionary handy for the big words.

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134 – truewolves – and what would you say if we had repeated what we did at Spurs and Milijas, Doyle and Craddock didn’t get injured? Which was not an unreasonable outcome and was what we should have been aiming for. Behave.

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148 – Thank you for the article and the suggestion of the dictionary, I learned seven new words! Including “pretentious”.

My favourite bit:

“Possibly aghast that their brand will be devalued if managers of other bottom-feeders follow McCarthy’s lead, the Premier League has demanded he elaborate.”

BOTTOM FEEDERS. That’s what we are apparently. It’s nice that you find this article so agreeable. You and Mick must be very proud.

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MICK OUT
MICK OUT AND TAKE CLIPBOARD TOO

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o-wolf I concur fully

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151 – Also, how can you come on here and reprimand us with an article in which we as Wolves supporters are being derided for not showing loyalty to our team in their ‘orange’ shirts. ORANGE. And I am meant to take this article seriously am I? Clearly written by an astute and informed journalist I can see that…

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OK, so I went to United last night, it cost me all of the above, a day off work, a 3AM return. It was galling and horrible, especially to lose at that giant excuse for a library. BUT I’m still fully behind Mick – how can you forget that just four days ago he engineered a fantastic victory at Spurs, the same victory that surely anyone who was there will testify, took a 110% effort from EVERY player for the whole 96 minutes. They were tanked by the end – a huge part of the win was the constant stream of bodies on the line and the MASSIVE efort on show. As such, there was no way they would be 100% fit vs United, let alone had they played last night and vs Burnley as well. Can we afford to have first team players at 70% fitness for Burnley?

Fact is, some of you haters all wanted Mick out two years ago when we finished 7th. You’ve always had your knives behind your coats, waiting to be proved right, and here you are, willing to divide the whole club just to prove a point.

If the atmosphere is poisonous on Sunday, and affects the players accordingly and we lose, it will be as much your fault as McCarthys. Judge Mick in May. How about getting behind the side?

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At first I was dumbfounded & disappointed, but looking at it in the cold light of day it is a squad game & as someone said earlier when Blackburn had swine flu sweeping through the club they ask for a postponement. The EPL told them its a squad game & unless the whole squad is down you can field a “1st eleven”. If the EPL try & deduct points from Wolves we know it will head to the courts. But say they try & deduct 10pts from Wolves…a point for each player….will they deduct 5pts from Man Utd the same for each player changed from the last game. Statiticians will be out scrutinising all games see the EPL began to see if this behaviour as happened before & of course it has. The segment about Chelsea or Man Utd fielding an under 11 side against a team Wolves want to lose to stay up would bring the game into disrepute as these would not be squad players. Surely at the begining of the season each club would have to register their sqaud to the EPL, we know this can change during the season but isn’t what administration is for from each club.

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NO AMBITION, NO AMBITION, this typifies your mismangment of the Club, Rip of the fans, try and do it on the cheap. Meanwhile ALL the other W>Mids Clubs succeed around us – including STOKE and Brum. Muppet and Jez you are a joke and a disgrace – we better win on Sunday!!

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162 – SteveB – so how do you explain what Burnley did?

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Burnley just played their full strengh squad against Arsenal and managed to get a point, they deserved 3, they got 1 less day to pre-pare for the game on Sunday?!?

Muppet Mick at it again, god help him if we lose Sunday

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If we’d put 22 players out against Man Utd we would still have lost, so what’s all the fuss about?

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I have been a Wolves supporter for over 56 years, but I have never before been ashamed to be a Wolf, and have never booed anyone wearing the shirt!

Last nights moronic stupidity leaves me ashamed of my life-long team.

I have no more to say… for the time being!

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I can see both sides of this. If I’d travelled up to Man Utd last night and spent my hard earned cash I would have been peeved. But on the other hand can see Micks point of view. There are 3 teams we are very unlikley to beat away. Man U, Arsenal and Chelsea. So why risk your best team? Wenger and Ferguson do it all the time so why not us? Simple isnt it! Get off his back and trust the guy! He is the best manager for the job if you dont like it you know what to do.

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162. SteveB

Our fellow supporters were deceived and tricked. They deserve compensation, surely even Happy clappers can understand that concept?

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From an outsiders point of view.
I feel sorry for the supporters that feel cheated.
I feel sorry for the other teams that feel cheated.
But for me, the real mistake was that I thought you could have got something from the game. Man Utd very depleted. While Wolves were on the back of two wins. Blues have won five in a row playing a settled team. Their players look anything but jaded because winning is the best tonic you can have. Hull stayed up last season by riding the crest of their wave while it lasted, beating teams like Arsenal. We followed Mick’s idea under the awful Bryan Robson and almost came unstuck. If you beat Burnley MU will soon be forgotten but things don’t always work out as they should and upsetting the rhthym you had going could backfire.
This isn’t a p**s take, just my genuine opinion.

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KIDDYWOLF SAID,STOP WHINGING ABOUT THE £42 FOR GOD SAKE WOLVES WERE NEVER GOING TO WIN THERE SO WHY GO AND PAY IT IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU CLOWNS.So loyal travelling supporters are clowns?Glad we know where your loyalties lie.Arrived back here in Malta last night after a visit back home,Went to Spurs where a super hardworking performance gained us the three points.Unable to get tickets to the United game how lucky was that.To all the people saying that we were never going to get a result their HOW DO YOU KNOW,This was a United team with serious defensive injuries and therefore probably never a better chance to take them on.To all the I love Mick whatever he does because he got us promoted people,what do you want a job for life?,Tuesday night this melodramatic clown besmirched the good name of Wolverhampton Wanderers,(A reputation forged over many decades)by effectively handing the game to UTD before a ball was kicked.AND not for the first time this season 6 defenders,Left footers on the right and vice versa.Had he played the same team as against Spurs we still had 4 days to recover,as fit players ample time,the argument about injuries does simply not wash players are at risk due to the nature of the sport every time they train or play.By the way the odds of a win at Spurs were 11-1 we won so why could we not give it a go against Man u.

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Burnley drew with Arsenal and Chelsea only just saw off Portsmouth with the help of a penalty. Considering that we got well beat by Arsenal and Chelsea, what does this mean about the quality of our team?
We lost to Portsmouth – they actually beat us quite easily. And i’m that we may lose to Burnley. From what I’ve seem of them, they play quite fearlessly and can score goals from open play which we cant seem to do. They’ve also beaten Man U – when of course as we all know we surrendered to them.
Burnley will probably quite relish playing against us off a good result against Arsenal and If I were a Burnly fan I would definately fancy my chances.
Wolves have been shamed by Mick and if we lose against Burnley, he will have dug his own grave.
Sad state of affairs really. If we had gone to Man U and tried to win with our best players, we may have got a result as they are at their most vulnerable right now.
Also if Mick is going to give up against the “good” teams where will this end? Who are the unbeatable teams? Villa are 3rd. If they were 3rd when we played them would he have conceded the game also?
I feel he has undone his good work agianst Spurs by doing this. The team’s lost momentum and the lose will bring doubts to the team. Mick needs to foster an atmosphere of stubborness, fearlessness and can-do approach to the squad. Not one of inferiority.
We need someone more inspirational than Mick. Even if by some miracle we survive and of course as a true fan, I hope that we do, I still think we need a manager. Mick has done what he can – we need a step up.

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What does all this really mean ?? Well one thing for certain…it means we HAVE to beat Burnley now on Sunday or it was all a complete waste of time !!!! Pressure or what !!

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Having chatted to a few fellow travellers on Tuesday, I think we all need to get this into perspective. Teams like Man Utd, Arsenal etc field weakend teams in competitions like the League Cup and supporters know this, so they make the choice as to whether they want to spend good money on going to see their team. The reason I feel cheated is that I paid my money to see the team that so brilliantly beat Tottenham and is, by and large, the same sixteen players week in and week out. MM would have known on Sunday or Monday what he planned to do at Old Trafford and if Moxey had an ounce of decency, he would have told us all that we were going to rest the first team for an undoubtedly more important game against Burnley. Then we could have decided whether to go or not and there would have been no arguments.
As it is the club is now in a position where it is unlikely to be able to defend its actions in relation to Premiership rules, will get fined and all for the share of the profits from twelve grand’s worth of ticket money. Furthermore the club has undoubtedly upset 3000 of its most loyal supporters. It pains me to think our CEO is so adeptly short sighted and, worse, puts a few grand in the pocket above the esteem of the fans of the club. Simply pay the £42 back to everyone and lets move on.

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M.M. is playing the percentage game, making the pitch smaller, resting key players for winnable games etc.

In short, he is trying to maximise our points total to try and ensure we stay up. We need to do this because we are at present a championship side in the bottom of the Premiership.

Burnley have looked a better side than us so far this season, but come Sunday evening, we could very well be above them thanks to these tactics.

We beat Man Utd last time we were in the premiership (like Burnley have this) at home. We were relegated bottom of the table. It was very little consolation.

As for any supporter not happy with this, exercise your consumer rights! As I did when Hoddle took over!

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Everyone who is moaning, I do see your point, but I don’t think you should be so harsh on Mick! He is the manager, and know’s what is best for the team! If you support a team, you should be happy to see any of our players play, and most of that team have played at some point this season already! Last time we played Man U we lost too, so if we’re honest we know whatever team we put out there, we only had a slim chance of winning. Give Mick a break. If you support the wolves you shouldn’t care if we win or lose, or who is in the team!

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disgrace

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