Liverpool had no answer to us until they decided to cheat and got Wardy sent off if thats the only way they can win i hope they don’t even get into the top 4, come on Villa get a hat full of goals against them next week

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We played really well up to the sending off. I think if Ward had stayed on the pitch we would have got a point at least as Liverpool were very poor in my opinion.

I am a bit disappointed at Ward’s first yellow card. I don’t know why he pulled the player’s shirt in that position. Completely unnecessary. To be fair though the referee was poor again and Steven Gerrard got away with murder. We all know they look after the top clubs though don’t we…

Oh well let’s hope for something on Monday. Will be tough but we have been playing a lot better recently and I think we have a chance. Fingers Crossed!!!

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Hey ho. I think all of the Wolves players can be very, very proud of themselves for what was – for seventy minutes – a stunning performance.

Also, congratulations to the travelling fans who gave our boys so much support.

As for the match – Wardy… I don’t think he should have received a yellow card for what led to his dismissal and up until then, he had been fantastic. If Stephen Ward is reading this, hold your head up high, my son.

I think Wolves and their great performance was exemplified by the Wolves man of the match for me – Matt Jarvis. He played his little socks off and never gave up battling.

Kudos also to Hahneman who deserves the goalkeeper jersey long term.

And keep them perked up like this Mick McCarthy. I’m not a sycophant or a boo-boy but someone who likes to see my team fighting for the cause of Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club.

We lost, but nobody associated with the club let us down.

Only a lame and star-struck referee did that.

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2-0 to Liverpool. A score line which totally flatters them considering while it was 11 against 11 we not only held our own but also created some decent chances too.

I watched the game on ESPN and agree with Big Mick, the second yellow was not a bookable offence and Ward should not have been sent off.
However the first yellow against Ward although justified was completely stupid in my opinion. The player was not threatening us in that position and even though he had beaten Ward he still had plenty to do with other Wolves players to get past before he was in a decent position to cause us problems. I have raised this point in a previous posting about needless shirt pulling and holding of players. I know hindsight is a great thing but it remains a fact that if Ward hadn’t pulled the Liverpool players shirt he wouldn’t have already been booked.

I also have to say though that if Wards second yellow was justified then the 2 poor at best tackles from Gerrard should have seen him off the pitch also, that’s not sour grapes it’s a fact. Reina should have been yellow carded as well for coming all that way to get involved. As a Wolves fan even if it was a poor decision against us, I would be very disappointed if one of our keepers did the same thing. Does anyone agree with me?

Throughout all of this controversy however one thing is for sure, we gave Liverpool a game at 11 vs 11 and I am proud of the way the team played today. We’ll never know if we could have pinched a point at least but from what I saw that could well have been the outcome.

Man City at home next and we must play our strongest side and get in their faces from the off. City are good going forward there is no doubt about that but they are also quite shocking at the back at times and we must exploit that to have any chance against them. If we close them down and frustrate them as we did today we have every chance of getting a positive result.

Whatever you thought about the match today we are definitely becoming a hard team to play against and we will get better.

Bring on Man City.

Wolves Till I Die.

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One man and one man only cost us that game- a striker playing at left back. Two stupid fouls, one after carelessly giving the ball away! Send him to preston with his brother neill!

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just seen the match on BBC im affraid that george elokobi is a waste of time nowhere to be seen for both goals to weak for the prem get rid now

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Maybe it’s the cold weather over there that numbs the brain of local reporters, but I watched the game live on TV from here on the West coast of the USA and we were shockingly bad. Even with Liverpool having “a very bad day”, the gap between them and us was like night and day. The commentator said the most realistic thing I’ve heard in ages – we do not belong in the division with the quality of players we currently have.
It was not “tough on Wolves” -it was no more than we deserved following Ward’s school boy error.
Come on E and S. Get real – stop making excuses and get on the band wagon of telling Morgan, that if we are to survive, we MUST buy a number of QUALITY players!!! (Quality that is currently drastically missing!!).

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Think it was rough justice to the wolves players.
A good perf until the sending off.
However, i question the inclusion of Elokobi; he too often makes positional errors that are costing us goals. Why on earth did he have to go and challenge inside the box when we already had a few players, leaving Benhayoun unmarked? He had NO chance of having the ball there!!!
The missed header of Doyle was the turning point for me.
UTW.

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I thought we put up a good performance and deserved a point against a poor Liverpool side.

However, Wards sending off was justified and if Berra,Sterman keep holding and pulling players back then it’s only time before they also get sent off, they have been lucky so far especially against Burnley.

To improve we still need to learn to pass and hold the ball, our possession was poor again, there is no creativity coming forward, Henry, stearman look completely lost when comimng forward and nearly gave the ball away several times. If we continue to play high balls then we need to change Blake for one of the big strikers, or we will continue to have a lack of goals and points.

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wardy was having a good game but his stupid back heel was the reason we lost the ball,lucas did go down very easly .did big chris have a shot on goal when he came on?

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A fine organised performance from the team today but once again the officials seemed very unnerved by the occassion. The second offence for which Ward was sent off was a reaction to the Liverpool crowd more than anything and even then he at first got it wrong.For anyone at the match there is a very strong case to be made for Gerrard not being on the pitch to score the goal! In the first half the second of two tackles just outside our penalty area was petulant,reckless and studs showing.Mr Mariner treated it with a little arm round the shoulder and be careful please! Five minutes into the second half on the edge of our box he again with studs up scythed down a Wolves player…..nothing not even a yellow for the combination of the two tackles. I don’t believe that the referees are bent or biased at the begining of the game but they always seem in the heat of battle to side with the so called big players and teams fearing the backlash from the likes of Ferguson,Wenger and the very much under pressure Liverpool manager who rushed in to get the Ward situation sorted;and a goalkeeper who is 80 yards away from the incident and then runs the length of the pitch to become involved should be booked in my opinion. In case you feel this is just another case of a Wolves fan of many years standing moaning I also watched Birmingham denied a desrved victory over Chelsea yesterday when a young linesman denied them twice. Tough job yes but the frequency of occasions when the lesser teams are on the receiving end is worrying.

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I watched the second half on ESPN…Ward was an idiot…..Muppet Mick should have substituted him after the first booking. I would have.

Although to be fair to Ward….which ever Liverpool player he allegedly pushed over actually dived if you look where his hand is…cause to go sprawling to the floor he would have had to have shoved him in the shoulder blades.

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Well fought lads. They wouldn’t have beaten us with eleven men. Keep fighting and working like today and we’ll be playing premier league football next season. Guaranteed!

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There’s no way we would have lost that match if it had remained 11 v 11 – I’m convinced of that. We were very organised and had a couple of golden chances in the first half which Doyle and Milijas should have done better with so may even have been ahead at the break.
Wardy was a little unlucky to be sent off but he was foolish to even make the ‘challenge’ so soon after being booked.
Fans were great (as usual away from home) and I’ve taken much hope for the rest of this season from the performance. I’m glad MM rested a few of the ‘key’ players once we went down to 10 men (and then behind). Hopefully,he won’t have to make too many changes tomorrow and we can get something from the City match

UTW

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I watched the first half performance against Liverpol with much pride for the lads who stuck to their gameplan beautifully. two un-necessary and stupid fouls resulted in Wardy being sent off. That knocked the stuffing out of our team and bad defending allowed Gerard to score.
Having said that, it is still disappointing that
* we cannot pass the ball accurately to each other
* we canot hold the ball up
* we still pass the ball un-necessarui;y back to the goalkeeper who kicks it up-field and mostly to the oppopsition
*

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The boys should be proud of themselves, we were looking fairly good for getting something out of this game until the ref showed his in-ability to do his job fairly. I’m still struggling to understand how lucas can get away with that challenge he put in on ward in the first half, yet ward gets his second yellow really harshly.

Can we please have decent ref on monday?!

Keep it up boys, your proving your worth in the premier.

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A creditable effort by Wolves until the point when Ward was sent off (a correct call in my opinion. In the first half especially, the game was even and we looked to be cruising to a point. One moment of brilliance unlocked our defence and there was never going to be a way back.

However, the worry constantly is where are our goals going to come from? Doyle needs a more effective partner – Ebanks Blake continues to look short of pace and invention at this level. In the midfield, Milijas has to be more consistent through 90 minutes and we need more pace on the right wing. I thoght Jarvis gave a very good effort for the 90 minutes but got little or no support especially when Iwelmo came on.

Wolves need to buy in the January window but it is difficult to see how we can attract QUALITY players when we continue to flirt with the relegation places at this stage of the season.

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Wolves comfortable up until the sending off. Says it all really, unlucky I thought.

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Unlucky I would say, intersting on TV where Waddle says Ward was ball watching on several ocassions, and most of the attacking play was coming down that flank. Most of the championship managers believed Ward was a weak link, and now the same in the premiership. His lack of pace and awareness costs us when it really matters. Jarvis was fantastic covering, but we lose him as an attacking force if he has to play so deep to protect Ward. I just wish MM would play or find a proper pacey left back, I`m sure we will stay up but if we do we need to buy better players than the ones we have, and I`m sorry but Ward can`t cut it at this level.

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36-At last somebody who watches wolves with their eyes open, Henry is VERY VERY POOR> Watch him on Moday night, note how many times he is caught in posession and DOES NE EVER PASS A BALL FORWARD. Other than him, good perfomance from the team, ref was awful and under the spell of a top four team as usual!

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Bad luck lads just a pity we had a s–t ref AGAIN! reading the comments I thought were positive-UNTIL-I read LA Wanderer, what a prat, cold weather numbing the brain-at least they have a brain, living in LA – whats that Laughed at because your comments are a joke, as for 36 elokobi better than wardy!!!!!! go away.

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It could have been the chocolate liquors.

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I don’t often comment on here but what a performance by wolves. i thought two things contributed to our downfall. The referee, he was dreadful and got all the big decisions wrong SG and Lucas should have been carded, SW never touched the bloke dreadful decision by all officials. Secondly MM subs, Mick you got it so right for 70 mins mate and then you cocked it up. Eklobi should not wear a wolves shirt ever he is not even a championship player and contributed to both goals. Mick you should have left the team alone and when you subbed you should ahve left Doyle on took SEB off and brought on Manciene not Eklobi. But fair play the lads were bloody brilliant and deserved a hard earned point at least. L’pool were dreadful, top 4 you’re havin a laff.

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nervy start but once seb got our first on target confidence grew and we more than matched pool.

gerrards two foot challaneg didnt even earn him a warning but wardy sent off for shirt tugging… effing unfair but we’ve come to expect it from star struck refs

unfortunate not to get anything from the game but we can hold our heads high

fast becoming legends: Hahneman, Doyle, SEB and of course, MILIJAS !!

COME ON YOU WOLVES !!!

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Stop kidding yourselves, the whole teams performance was like Wards, Second Rate.
As for the management………….

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It looked 0 – 0 all the way until Ward got sent off, first booking was correct not so sure about the second how much contact? Not a great deal, it also angers me that Gerrard should of at least got a yellow card in the second, Lucas should have been booked in the first likewise Torres for his foul from behind on Stearman.

After the first 20 minutes we started to believe and worked the ball well, created some chances and the obvious best one came to Doyle that on another day he might of buried it into the net. Really proud of how the lads played, however I still find the substitutions odd, yes we were down to 10 men but surely Doyle is the best at holding the ball up the field right? So why take him off for the needed left back, for me I would of taken Blake off first. Then if he wanted to get back in the game after the opening goal why take off our best attacking midfielder in Milijas? Mick seemed to be happy to take the 0 -1 defeat at that time. Harsh from me you could say, keeping those players fresh for Monday most likely reasons.

The confidence should be fine; the lads can take great credit with their performance and take that into the Man City game. I also think they should have proven too themselves that they can pass the ball, hold the ball and work the ball into the right areas rather than play long balls for most of the time in games.

Come on Monday evening I think Jarvis should be switched to the right as I believe he’ll have beating of the Sylvinho so then have Milijas operating from the left flank then Foley would be more at ease in the centre with Henry. No doubt Elokobi will start in for Ward, big George looked steady when he came on, so hopefully he can produce his cameo performance against City earlier in the season.

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We need two new strikers or someone who can put the ball in the back of the net. We played well for the first half then came the sending off then we collapsed due loosing Darren ward.

My advice would be to take 10 million and get as many top players in on loan from teams like man utd or man city or arsenal…. but please Mick don’t keep buying Irish or championship players.

Remember we are in the premiership and that’s where we want to BE at the start of next season.

UTW …………..ROITE

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Just another game where we are deemed little and insignificant. I think this it what upsets me most about the Premier League, the blatant way the refs treat the elite and those struggling in the Premier League.

As stated previously, Gerrard had two two footed challenges in the space of a minute, Torres was climbing all over ( Berra I think) but they get away with it.

Soft marking from Milijas for the header.

Someone on the wolves list- who ran the line with Andre Mariner some time ago states that it is well known that Mariner hates Wolves.If this is correct, then he should not ref a wolves match again.

Great atmosphere from the wolves fans- only heard Liverpool fans once or twice after they had scored.

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Unfortunately in the big league, the big decisions go against you, its something you have to get used to but you can’t blame the ref whenever you lose. The defending for both goals was dire, Man City next and they will punish you if you play like that!

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I totally agree with you No.7 that any player must not use his hands to stop a player.It’s time that the FA takes the bold decision to legislate once and for all to allow referee to give a straight red card to the culprit and 8 matches suspension to these stupid players. Also a four-week wage cut so that football can be clean again.It’s terrible to see players using their hands to bring down an opponent when they are beaten.It is merely cheating.I am a Wolves fan since 1955 and I am not moaning at all that defeat against Liverpool because when one of our players use his hands he is bound to go as he clearly shows that he cannot compete at this level.These players need a long suspension so that they can learn their lesson.It is disgusting to see players using their hands instead of their feet.Just because of that Wolves deserved to lose that game.It is a pity that Ward will get only one match suspension.Hope the FA and FIFA get together to act against the players using their hands and shirt pulling.It is a bitter pill to swallow when clubs pay these players lots of money to use dirty tricks.Anyway after that defeat against Liverpool I cannot see them doing a good performance against Man City.So we are sure to be in the relegation zone after Monday,no doubt about that.We know we have a young team that needs time to learn in that division.Look at Arsenal who have taken 4 years before they can again challenge for the title.And we need lots of patience if we want Wolves to become a solid team,but not by using dirty tricks.Hope the Wolves fans will agree with me and have a Happy New Year and may our team beat the drop.

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28. Stoke on trent Wolf

“Fight, fight wherever you may be!”
As long as it’s not Manchester United!

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Sorry Beacon but I agree with Rich on this one,..I thought Henry was awful last night,..starstruck came to mind more than once, and gave the ball away endless times, and disappeared when needed,
Liverpool would have never scored had we not lost a player,..but I was still surprised by MM’s subs,…why take Doyle off when he looked the more threatening of our strikers, Elokobi…why!! and Foley may be a great right back but he ineffective in midfield.
Desperately need a tough tackling, attack minded midfield player in Jan

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Great effort from the team, lost their shape after the send-off for Stephen Ward.

If they continued to give their commitment and effort to Team Wolves, there will be positive results.

Up the Wolves and a win against Man City.

Happy New Year to all…

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Disappointed with Ward. First yellow completely needless, second yellow harsh but there was some contact before Lucas dived. He has done well since since returning, but we do need a specialist left back. Elokobi is not good enough, bad mistake leaving Benayoun free and following ball when there were already 2 defenders challenging for the ball.
Agree with some of the comments on Henry, gives the ball away too often, although you can’t fault his effort.
Doyle outstanding, but needs more support up front. SEB lacking confidence and short on pace.
Hanneman has made a big difference, he commands his area and his kicking is excellent.
Sat in the Kop during the game the Liverpool fans gave him a great reception.
MM transfer prority a left back, use Ward as cover!

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What really annoys me about being in the Premier League is the way these so called ‘TOP’ players drop to the floor like theyve been shot by a sniper everytime they feel a touch anywere near the penalty area!!!-its basicaly cheating,if the Ward ”foul” was in the centre circle their player wouldnt of gone down!!! That said what was Ward thinking of? He got turned for the first foul and was out of position for the second.If we’d of stayed with 10 men Liverpool would never of scored.You carnt argue with Gerrards class-great header but the way their midfield strolled through ours from one end to the other is worrying.We desperatly need someone like Kevin Nolan who can get forward,help the strikers and maybe score a goal.Carnt see why Doyle was taken off-it should of been SEB.Jarvis needs to spend a week learning to cross the ball,his distribution is rubbish and i carnt see why he keeps being played.And im sorry to say Big Chris is NOT a premier league player!!!-he came on fresh as a daisy and all he did was stand with his hands on his hips on the centre circle,not once did he put Rainer under pressure when he was faffing with goal kicks/passbacks,Liverpool had loads of time on the ball when we needed to pressureise them and force a mistake….I Dont have much hope for tonight with Elokobi playing at left back.Lets hope we can sneak a goal and get a result and maybe get some deacent midfielders next week in the window.

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Regardless of the referee initially booking the wrong man, what was Ward thinking of? having been booked only a few minutes previously. His actions more than likely cost us a point and he should be fined by the club.

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9. Bob, Maybe you could do us all a favour and go to Preston and not bother coming back! Then we would all be saved from your incessant drivvel on here!

on a bright note, i think we matched Liverpool for 70 minutes, they don’t look anything special and actually looked devoid of ideas to break us down until Marriner made a right tool of himself!

Wardy was unlucky, but unforntuately i do blame George for both goals, running and trying to win balls that were never his to try to win.

Going to Molineux tonight for the only he second time this year, hopefully he wont put out the reserves! In the balance of tired legs Vs need to field a decent team to get anything i would go with:

Hahnemann
Stears
Berra
Zubar
Surman
Foley
Mancienne
Milijas
Jarvis
Doyle
Big Chris

UTW, Keep that faith!

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well done to the fans that went to liverpool we were brilliant keep it up lads,proud to be a wolves fan!

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ward always chasing back because he is always out of position.he is never a full back.old wolf

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