The people who are calling for Mick’s head, are doing so on the grounds that Wolves have had a pitifully poor first third of the season, that he plays people out of position and makes perplexing choices of team selection, that we keep conceding goals at stupid junctures, and that he doesn’t seem able to turn it around. If you ask me, the only “numpty” in all this is the man who uses such a blooming stupid word in the first place.

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numpties we may be but we are also season tickets holders paying hard earned cash to pay yours and the next managers salary after you so perhaps you should keep your thoughts to yourself and get a few more wins before you start having a go at us fans.

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To hear MM speak anybody would think we were half way up the league and doing well.He needs to explain why none of the players he bought in the summer started on Saturday.Welcome though it was we could have easily lost on Saturday and then what would he be saying? I am not reassured by this result,our defence is a shambles.A worried Season Ticket holder.

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i like the way he seems to think people who post on messageboards dont go to the matches. I will always be behind the team but will rightly criticise the manager if i think its needed. 1 win does not mean he is out of the woods with blues and west brom coming up he could soon find himself at the wrong end of some very nasty comments i feel.

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Mick

If I was you, I would keep my mouth firmly Shut.

In case it’s escaped your attention, we are a long way from safety and have had a pretty attrocious start to the season, as I’m sure you would agree.

So, calling people spending nearly £1,000 of their hard earned cash numpties isn’t going to win you any friends.

Climbing up to safety might just do it though.

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Managers come and go. The supporters are the foundations of a football club.

I don’t know how many I have seen come and go in the 57 years that I have supported Wolves, and none of them, before this temporary incumbent, has ever called me a “numpty” or any other names.

Only a thick tyke pretending to be Irish would be stupid enough to do such a thing.

Managers are measured by their success on the field, not by their own over-inflated opinions of themselves.

This manager did well in getting us into the Premiership, but he is obviously out of his depth at this level and it is only a matter of time before he goes.

His attempts to transfer blame for his own failings to “numpties” says a lot for his lack of character; a real man accepts his own failings and does not try to blame others.

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Mr McCarthy, at the moment you are the manager of the second worst team in the premier league.
The only thing that keeps you from being the manager of the worst team in the premiership is TWO goals.
Not a lot to shout about is it? Numpty.
Now I have seen the FA Cup draw I fear more embarrasement being forced on us.
Hopefully you will be gone before then. NUMPTY

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I fully expected some booing or chanting when we went 2-1 down but there was nothing of the sort. Quite the contrary. I was in the south bank and the supporters around me were encouraging the team on.

There seems to be an inbalance of people that frequently use this website that criticise individual players and the manager, and the majority of supporters who actually support the club and whats it’s doing.

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You can either have a manager who speaks his mind and tells it like it is or you can have a manager who hides behind platitudes and mundane nonsense.

If you criticise MM on a forum board, are you doing so without a right to reply?

Take MMs comments in the spirit that they are given, from a man who is fighting and rallying in difficult circumstances.

And MM is just picking out forum mongers, not the fans who go to the games anyway.

If you want hearts and flowers, go on the FA website and post on there, cos the England manager just hides behind the lingo.

Good on ya Mick. Fight the good fight. You are turning this round since you made the decision to start playing more possession football.

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Is it not possible to get behind the team at the ground and then away from the stadium express disappointment at being joint bottom of the league when expectations were raised with big investment in the Summer? I criticise the manager on job boards but also support the team when I am in the ground. Try and understand this – a wolves fan is capable of doing both. McCarthy is over sensitive because he knows the Summer recruitment has proven to be a complete disaster and he now is rightly under pressure. Please don’t call wolves fans numpties when they question your merits when the team is languishing at the bottom of the league. You are in a high profile job and you are not above criticism – who do you think you are McCarthy?!

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Mick should hesitate to take the moral high ground here; a lot of us who attend regularly and support the team irrespective of results, continue to have our doubts. I agree that the manner of Saturday’s victory firmly indicate that the players remain behind McCarthy, but whilst the victory was well earned, there was undoubtedly an element of ‘last chance saloon’ with Mick’s late substitutions; the outcome and general mood could have been very different today.
Two more wins before the turn of the year are an absolute imperative, anything less than 18-20 points going into January will leave us with a hell of a lot of catching up to do.

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he speaks like were in top 6 of the table

we have 12 points from 15 games!!

your a very lucky boy mick cause 2-1 down on saturday if it had finished like that your job would have been gone!

lets hope we can go to blackburn now and get 3 points!!!

anyone else think elokobi played really well as a center half ?

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Agree with 1-6.
I think mick is makin a rod for his own back.These comments will come back to haunt him in the next few weeks if we dont get a few more wins. I remember a previous local manager calling his fans “fickle” not so long ago and look where he is now?

Lets face facts we have been competitive and organised all season but concede too many goals particularly at the end of games and score too few to win,or get draws.
Yes our football has had to change only because the penny had dropped and Mick has finally learnt that in this league the more you have the ball the more you can control the game.
But the style is still the same lacking flair, imagination and quality.
Mick football in this league has changed and fans paying they hard earned money demand to win and be entertained at the same time.
You along with smegson are a dying breed where huff and puff count more that quality and flair. He got his marching orders last season when the numpties rebelled and look at the way bolton have progressed under an imaginative Coyle.

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Brilliant to see so many numpties on here defending their comments about MM…
It’s so easy to criticise a football manager from your seat isn’t it?
All the rubbish about not playing the players signed recently is becoming very boring. The manager picks the players he thinks will win the game on Saturday, simple.
As for playing people out of position, well sometimes you have to, every manager does it, so why get on MM’s case about it?
Still a very long way to go and plenty of points left to win or lose. Surely supporting the club AND the manager can only help the cause, doing tyhe opposite only hinder it?

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12 Norway Wolf. SPOT ON. My sentiments entirely. McCarthey is a fool if he thinks that win on Saturday justifies himself as a manager. It´s the nine defeats and atrocious defense he plays he should consider but he wont´t.

Good point lincolnwolf. Shape up Mick, or ship out. Your choice.

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The majority of people on here seem to have wanted Mick out from the start. OK so some of his desicions have been odd.

But take a look at Middlesbrough, Leicester, Charlton, Norwich. All these clubs are of a similar stature to us, and have fallen a long way from being “established” premier league clubs. We should think very carefully before removing MM as we could end up with a LOT worse.

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As you all know i dont attend anymore due to reasons ive given on here before. But like someone said above, in all the years ive watched Wolves, i too have NEVER been called a ‘numpty’ i think its ”outrageous” that the manager of a PL club can be allowed to talk about its supporters either if they attend games or not due to other reasons in that manner? It doesn’t mean cause people dont attend they are NOT loyal supporters, its ok if you can afford to attend matches, but in this economic climate not every person can afford to watch football live hence 25,112 it wasn’t all down to bad weather and poor performances. MM should be big enough to ignore comments about himself, but i think MM brings an awful lot on himself in the way he talks about supporters who ‘pay lots of very hard earn money to watch football’ he’s always coming out with unacceptable comments about fans/people in the E & S, he needs to remember these fans/people carry alot of weight in the long term with higher management. In as much has they help finance the ‘FOOTBALL CLUB’ without its ‘SUPPORTERS’ a FOOTBALL CLUB would be ”’NOTHING”’ UTW:

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Well said Mick.

Most of you are numpties. Proven so last season when you were saying the same tripe and you ended up with large portions of humble pie and you will again.

So, you can all gob off rubbish on here about his ability as a manager, but he’s not allowed to give you an accurate description of what you are??

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Mick beating Sunderland hasn’t turned things round. To almost sound like you have proved the “numpties” wrong when we are still joint level at the bottom is foolish. Just say nothing and concentrate on beating Blackburn. Please.

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#18 Cliche man
Thank the merciful heavens for the fact that I am not alone in my thoughts that MM is nothing like the picture painted by some, (Most) of those using this site.
It would appear that there is only one thought between the lot. This being shared by all!
Please try to remember when criticising the man and the team that he can only work with those players he has and can only buy those the club can afford. Including the wage demands of the players so many of you opt we should buy.
My gran used to say, ‘If you have nothing good to say then say nothing’. Many on here should try this advice!
Up The Wolves

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Just as we as fans have a right to pass comment on websites etc the Manager has a right to reply.

His description of some fans comments is accurate ‘numpties’! they don’t even understand the off side rule……

I hope this turns round for Mick, unlike some fans hoping for a defeat so Mick gets the sack.

UTW

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He’s found this message board then!!

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well said mick, people cannot call the manager whatever they want and not expect him to re-act,

personally i would prefer a better manager and more money to spend on players, but in the mean time just back the club or dont bother. utw

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Chow Mic!

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OK, on Saturday I did a very stupid thing. When we conceded the second goal, my frustration got the better of me.

I left.

HOW STUPID WAS THAT.

I have been behind Mick all along but must admit to starting to have doubts.

A left back at centre back, a striker at left back, a centre back at right back, a right back on the right wing and a centre back in midfield.

BUT, you cannot deny that they gave it all and the passion they showed has made me re-instate my belief.

I believe the team and manager can do what is needed and – I am never leaving again. Mind you a said that last time but it was when John de Wolf got a penalty and Neil Emblem equalised in 1995 !!!

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Although I don’t agree with everything Mick does, I just have to put this point across. Here is a bloke who, like any other manager, open to all sorts of criticism. Some of this criticism is well thought out by people with different views, but some of it is pure hatred and personal. Now he calls a few people ‘numpties’ and all hell breaks loose. Discussions are healthy, bile and vitriol are not.
Moral of the story……. If you can’t take it, don’t give it out….

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This is one of the first times that I’ve agreed with Mick.

The vast majority of people who post on internet bulletin boards are fickle sheep who merely represent a coincidental indication of the clubs fortunes at any given time.

There’s no doubting that fans are passionate about the club – after all, fanatic is defined as “frenzied, mad”. In pre-internet days, these subjects would be discussed across a shop floor or in a pub. Nowadays, anyone with a computer can post what they wish, claiming vastly superior knowledge than a professional who does this for a living. Bolstered by a top 10 finish in Championship Manager, it’s proof that a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.

The league table doesn’t lie. MM has stated that he’s learning on the job as well – as even Sir Alex does.

This wasn’t a pop at all internet fans. It was a pop at people who claim with stupid comments like FACT at the end of a sentence when its merely their opinion.

It was a pop at people who state with absolute certainty that Martin O’Neill is the answer to the problem of being second bottom.

It’s a pop at people who wish injury on our own players (whoever the latest outlet of frustration is this week)

It’s a pop at people who call him derogatory terms, from behind the anonymity of their computer screens, and without spending 40+ hours a week with players suggest changes that should be made to team/management/tactics

It’s a pop at people who feel that the chairman (of a limited company) needs to tell fans what he’s thinking because they have a right to know and he only bought it for a tenner and he’s not put money in and he let MM buy poor defenders and he’s not involved enough etc. etc.

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What always amazes me! Phone ins (starts off with something like I’ve been a Wolves fan all my life – yarn) ‘e’ mails (MM is rubbish, we should get so and so, look at who they’ve got and they are doing so well). Some home truths, being a Wolves fan does not give you a right to abuse a good man and Manager. I’ve only been a Wolves fan for over 50 years so have little experience of the woes that happen to the club. It was not so long ago that the ground was terrible, we were in the 4th Division and could not beat a non league team in the FA Cup. Now we have a good ground that is going to be given more investment and a team of players that are hard working and some quite reasonable. Like everyone I get fed up with the results and the commitment of our team at times but I have a sneaky feeling that we won’t get relegated and that means keeping our Manager for another year to improve the team more. Getting rid of MM will not be good for the future. Some you should have seen the ground in the 60/70′s awful believe me. Just leave MM alone, get behind a team that is willing to try at least.

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50) He had little choice on Saturday due to injuries and suspensions. The only player that could have been used instead at the back would have been Van Damme. I personally do not think he can cope with 90 minutes in the Premiership and his attitude is not right. In terms of the defence they all played well except for Stearman!

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