Disgraceful Wolves performance, disgraceful playing surface, fit for the Championship. No more defensive square pegs, 4-4-2 and lump it please Mick.

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Watched the game on the box due to my recovery from a broken leg and honestly think i could have done better!!!

Stearman the only player imo to emerge from the game with any credit. We were toothless and clueless going forward and when we needed Jarvis to produce something going forward he failed, too often hitting the ball out of play.

Liverpool were there for the taking today and we just didnt turn up and with our run of fixtures i can see us not getting more than a point from the next three games. Oh and the new boy has got off to a flyer, i could have done better on my crutches with that chance, but we wont hang him out to dry just yet, one more chance eh??!!

As for survival??

You could see the confidence drain from the boys today and as the games go by i worry more each week.

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Look what a new manager does for a team & been away for years . Ours well believes in fitness & put a shift in .what about skill pace control & reading the game mick could’ve a least changed it at half time.but you ain’t got a clue ave you .ask holloway for advice

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Extremely dissapointed today. First of all what was that first half all about? Despite our better peformances playing passing football we once again resort to passing it back to hennessey and him hoofing it upfield where it is then 50 50 weather we keep possession. Why? The first goal was a joke. Why are we trying to play offside against one striker? Why cant we pull it off? Its because not one of the defenders are disciplined enough to do it. Zubar and berra were guilty of straying for the first and last goal. Ward once again giving far too much space to his player so many times today.
I dont want to keep harping on about the defence but they just arent good enough.
The trouble today though was too many players werent up to it. Milijas and zubar probably had there worst games, Jarvis and hunt didnt come into it until the second half and all the front players lacked that bit of quality in the final third. One positive was hammill who looked bright when he came on, although typical mccarthy switches him and jarvis after hammill played 2 quality balls in the box and jarvis starting to threaten on the left.
We have to get something from bolton away now, i know its only one game but things are looking a lot bleaker after today. We have to sign a left back and centre half and i would drop zubar for foley next game.
Also how bad was the pitch today? shocking.

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We were poor today and made Liverpool look good.
Defence shaky, midfield overrun and no cutting edge upfront. Hammill had a bright cameo towards the end.
7 goals conced in the last two premiership games and no defenders bought?

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What a load of rubbish, back to negativity with Karl Henry in the team. Oh for a decent centre back and left back. MM please note what everyone can see except for you, Stephen Ward is not and will never be a left back. How much did we spend on the new pitch in the summer? reckon we should we ask for our money back.

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Well we will all have opinions over a pretty dreadful performance so here is my tuppence worth.
- Cannot agree with London Wolfie – Zubar as identified by EVERYONE on Sky was badly at fault and indeed had a shocker
- Ditto previous point for Berra on 3rd but we had at least already lost
- defence as a whole pretty shocking with only Stearman showing any discenible defensive talent
- Am I the only person who wonders why we ever wanted to pay £5M for Hunt? – he was awful and we play Jarvis out of position on the right to accomodate him
- Milijas seems a fans favourite but was peripheral to the action
- Henry can tackle but oh dear he cannot pass the ball in a forward direction
- Doyle and Fletcher £12M combined certainly did not look it and oh for a centre fprward who is good in the air if M.M. decides to play with Jarvis and Hammil in tandem – surely a postive proposition
In summary unless this team learns to defend (a smewhat unlikely prospect) it is back to the championship where at least from an attacking viewpoint this team will prosper – do though wonder why a manager that was a pretty good defender himself cannot sort this aspect out.

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4. was going to say the same ive been today and for the 1st time this season honestly thought we had a chance against a big team,….but only one comment to make ” back comes Henry backs comes the negative football” we were clueless in midfield with Henry pulling the strings again,…how can MM justify his place when we have done better without him?

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Bitterly disappointing display.Why didn’t Jarvis and Hunt keep interchanging rather than make it easy for the opposing defenders by doing the same old thing.Why wasn’t Milijas taking the free kicks ? – Hunt’s delivery was dreadful.Hennessey had one of his better games but was let down through basic defensive errors by his team mates.Henry’s role of midfield destroyer seems to destroy our own . I know he is there as a ball winner but the persistent negative passing gets to me. I’m really trying hard to think of something positive to write . Hammill could be a good buy – don’t slag him off after a few minutes of playing with this bunch today.Sadly ,it was Championship style football but played badly.That light has a long way to come from this current darkness !!
(Stay ) Up the Wolves !!

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Defence was shambolic and we were totally outplayed in midfield.

Henry is not good enough in a 4-4-2 or for the premier league. It’s no coincidence we have a better points to game ratio with him not in the team.

We have to bring in some quality defenders. Stearman is too casual and error prone, Berra is too slow and Ward is not a LB!

Also, Hennessey must throw it out ato the wingers and not keep hoofing it up the pitch, we won no headers against their defence and gave the ball away each time we played long ball.

I don’t think anyone emerged from the game with any credit today, we deserved to lose. Despite having lost to Man City last week, I was proud of the lads even though there were defensive errors. Today we were awful, no real fight and our heads dropped. No quality either, we looked out of our depth.

Again Mick is not good enough to take us forward. Get Allardyce or O’Neil in now! We need new ideas and a fresh approach.

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No chance of scoring today – no finish anywhere and we made a mediocre Liverpool team look decent. I fear were off to Championship grounds again next season – what price “early Bird”

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BRILLIANT. Thank God that there are only 15 games left before the 3M’s realise their dream of returning Wolves to a lower division. One bonus is that there is a chance that we won’t get relegated again next year. I suggest that Mick the Magicians next job should be in Siberia which is even further East than Rudd Gullits latest jaunt. After Micks comments over the last couple of days I just want to throw-up. Looking for GEMS and no more decent players to come in before the end of the month. This guy really lives in the clouds. What a way of giving thousands of supporters a lift. If I was a so called TOP MANAGER in any other business and produced these results and made those comments then I would have picked up my P45 ages ago. The truth is that every time Mick goes to bed he has nightmares because if he was to sign a couple of defenders they might turn out to be better than he was a million years ago. P.S. Mick says that he doesn’t read tabloids etc. but the truth is that he can’t read, just the same as he can’t read the game.

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I’ve said it before an i’ll say it again, get someone with passion 4 the club in like Bully, 4 gods sake we’ll be relegated wiv Mick the mango in charge, Bully wud ave made us WIN today, you mark my words!

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Based on the evidence of today, it seems inevitable that the Championship now beckons.

Still…. I should still feel OK about this because apparently we have got ther best manager we have ever had in the last 30yrs – even though he gonna take us down.

Gutted!

WTID

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Pretty much the whole team has been labelled as not good enough in the first 20 posts, so well done all for maintaining a sense of perspective. Presumably Allardyce, O’Neill or Bully (?!) would buy a full new squad in a week. We were poor today, and have some hard games coming up, what we need is to stick together and believe in our team (OK and maybe buy a couple of defenders!)

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A poor display in the first half but a much improved display in the second.Unfortunately we were chasing the game and got caught on the break.

We need to win the important games aginst the teams around us.

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Anti-Ward becomes anti-Henry becomes anti-anyone and everyone. We were beaten by a better team today, who realised they had to match us for commitment before releasing their slightly better quality, but our season will not be defined by games against Liverpool, Man Utd and Arsenal. The last 12 games will decide, all big clubs out of the way, and the real season begins, when goalmakers and goalscorers will be crucial. We have them although apart from Milijas, were poor today. Crossing woeful. Feel sorry for Jones, he has been excellent recently but he will be needed.

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Happy Clappers RICH5WOLVES and BELFAST WOLVES ,only a few words for you and the other HAPPY CLAPPERS,”you aint WOLVES fans!”.

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Another example of Mick picking the wrong team and being unable to adapt whilst the game is going on.

We were overrun in midfield yet he persisted with 4-4-2- and hitting long balls to Flecther and Doyle, who won nothing in the air all afternoon.

The back 4 was all at sea for all three goals.

Overall, a shocking performance and we look like a relegated team.

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Was Ward actually playing today? or , was he on his hols because the left back spot was for most of the match devoud of anyone but a liverpool player.

It’s a shame this ignorant arrogant manager can’t actually see the short commings of the team.

He puts on Hammil. He was great, but, so was Hunt. We don’t need like for like, we need to strengthen our pathetic defence and we need to boot out of the club the hapless Karl Henry once and for all.

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I lost count of how many unnecessary back passes were made today instead of moving play up field.

I lost count of how many unnecessary back passes were made to our goalkeeper today instead of moving play up field.

I lost count of how many of those back passes were simply punted upfield by our goalkeeper and but I know that less than fifteen percent went to a Wolves player.

I also lost count of how many balls were just headed up field with no particular target player in mind and if there was a target player in mind, then it must be obvious the headers were woefully inacurate.

Torres showed Stearman exactly what we can all see about the guy, except his own mnager who was himself a center half! Pitiful. He tries but he simply isn´t up to it. The whole team tries but they likewise are not of the calibre required to do the job.

Liverpool made some seriously sweet passing moves but our defenders helped them to look farbetter than they really were. Second goal was a beauty but NOBODY was there to close the guy down anyway.

We will go down for sure, continuing in this way. All the blood, sweat and effort will only end in tears. Goals win games. We never looked like we even knew where it was today.

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Henry was part of a Wolves midfield that was a sad second best. and theres your answer

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I HAVE A STRONG FEELIN “BLUES,BAGGYPANTS AND WOLVES MAY BE THE TEAMS GOING DOWN.UNLESS WE CAN OVERHAUL WIGAN AND WEST HAM START TO GO BACK TO THERE EARLIER SEASON FORM.BLACKPOOL AND NEWCASTLE COULD BE OUTSIDE BETS.WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK PLEASE TELL ME OF THREE OTHER TEAMS THAT ARE WORSE THAN US……PLEASE

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That’s it! Relegation is a banker for Wolves. It is high time that the manager takes the opportunity to blood some of the youngsters from the academy plus giving Sam Vokes his chance. After 1980′s League Cup win Wolves when relegated have never won a match when same is billed as crucial. They have always lost heavily. Also during our 3 years in the Premiership they have only won twice when their game is televised. Otherwise they were already freezed before turning up to play the match. It is the same farcical one they produced this evening. They were already freezed when taking the field. Last week they gave Tevez plenty of time to race in and three buffoons looked at him and no one took the initiative to attck him. I repeat this because it was the same thing when Anelka was allowed to pass the ball to offer Chelsea their first goal at Stamford Bridge. There are so many times these buffoons look at attackers and could not but receding all the time to allow them to reach the penalty area where the ball is in the net before they realize it was too late. Why the so-called defenders do not take a seat in the stand rather on the field. They could easily clap their hands when Wolves concede stupid goals like that. The Man City game was lost when Tevez was given ample time to run with the ball. But the medias of course were first to say what a goal, but it was easy for a school boy on that day or any other day to score against Wolves given that three Wolves players will always be spectators instead of defending properly. Relegation will be a very good thing for Wolves as this will inevitably bring changes and some players will go because they think they are world-class players. Bring the youngsters to the fore and a new-look Wolves will fare better next time they happen to be in the Premiership.

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I agree with John de Wolf, we were beaten in midfield.They had an extra man and we failed to pick up the forward runs from midfield.

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I think today proved once and for all we can not get complacent. It has happened time and again with games such as the wigan and west ham games, we gave positive performances and gained positive results in the games prior to these and we get into our heads we are playing well. However in the following subsequent games we fail to recognise that the reason we gained such positive results and positive performances was because we worked for them. It was clearly obvious to me today that we expected the same level of performance that we got against City to just happen and we deservedly got punished for this complacency.
All 3 goals were very poor defending. I’m not saying it is the definite reason but there is certainly a correlation between Ward and the number of goals we have conceeded. In the 2 games he has been back in the team at left back we have conceeded 7 goals, while the mid-week game against doncaster when he was out we kept a clean sheet?! However Ward is definetely used as a scape goat and I dont want to point the finger of blame solely at him, I am just recognising a link between the two. The first and third goal were just atrocious attempts at playing offside. However the second goal was the worst piece of defending I have seen all year. Yes I know it was a fantastic volley but watch Match of the Day and you will see that from a free-kick to liverpool on the half way line we get into a 3 vs 3 situation. The article above described it as little danger when Berra headed clear however berra’s header landed right on meireles’ foot 20 yards out, so he didnt really clear it did he.
The first and the third goal may have been due to failed attempts at the offside trap, however if we had been playing at our usual intensity, which have produced result against chelsea and Liverpool away, they could have been very easily avoided. This was apparent especially for the third goal where usually we would be closing players down on their touch, however we gave them far too much time to control, turn and pass, making liverpool look like world beaters and us like clowns. Henry was extremely rusty, Hunt and Jarvis didnt put a decent ball in all game, I thought Fletcher played well holding the ball up and laying it off to them but he didn’t get the crosses in return. Hammill did what Hunt couldn’t do in 70 mins and put a decent ball in but then he went and missed a big chance.
I have no doubt that our next peformance will be much better as they will have realised that they must work every game for their results, however as our next game is in the FA cup I just hope no complacency enters for the Bolton game if we beat stoke.

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A horrible result, (although 3 flatters Liverpool), and a worringly flat performance, not helped by McCarthy’s failure to respond to Liverpool’s obvious midfield superiority.4-4-2 is certainly the first choice approach given our situation; but we were so patently obviously being overrun in the middle that an extra body should have been introduced in this area as soon as they went 1 up.
Henry and Milijas doesn’t look a viable pairing to me; too slow and lightweight- whilst Doyle and Fletcher look similarly ill-matched up front.
This is nit-picking, though, as there were shortcomings in most areas of the field today, other than keeper and, surprisingly, centre half; these three being our best players today, IMO.
The writings on the wall; we can’t afford another result like this- the Derby games could represent a minimum of a 6-8 point return at this rate.

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Today was a sorry day, it was the first day I have ever left a Wolves game early. And I shall not be attending another this season as long as MM is manager. Today was a great opportunity to get 3 points, instead we gifted Liverpool a win.
There wasn’t one player in a Wolves shirt that was up for that game, they were a disgrace led by stubborn yorkshireman who will never admit he is wrong in anything. God I pity his missus !
Mr Morgan there is still time to get rid !

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Whats the point?

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Abject performance today. We didn’t press a poor Liverpool team and allowed them to play. Playing 4-4-2 against a team that plays 4-5-1 was always going to leave us exposed in the middle. Why is MM so rigid with tactics and he must have some record in the Premiership regarding the lateness of making substitutions.

My MM amnesty has expired but I do not expect the 2M’s to do anything. It’s seems to me they are content with relegation. Buying a player who may have potential instead of a central defender, left back and midfielder smacks of a lack of ambition.

I hope I’m wrong but I cannot see us escape this season. Hunt has proven to be rubbish, Fletcher is mediocre, so much for good signings.

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Nearly every headline I have read this afternoon says ‘McCarthy bemoans defensive errors’ – so Mick, what are you going to do about it?
How many times have YOU those words this season and as we are nearing the and of the January transfer window, are there any central defenders being spoken to about moving to Molineux?
The answer – Well none that we have heard about, so do we have to endure more and more defensive errors until the outcome many are expecting will become reality – RELEGATION!
Mick, signing a winger is fine BUT how many defenders are on your list?
I truly hope you are going to spend some money on 2 quality defenders because should you not do so then the inevitable will happen and GOD help you if it does!
The ‘happy clappers’ may still shout your name but the rest?…. well a good pair of ear-plugs would not go amiss or perhaps a bicycle would be more appropriate?

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Can someone tell me why Karl always gets the blame when we lose! i think there were a lot worse performances today-Jarvis,Doyle,Zubar and Hunt, I think the trouble was our midfield was overun and our forwards didn’t turn up, perhaps i don’t see what other people see, I can’t agree with Rich Wolf 64 (never do actually) I thought Stephan Ward was ok but what do I know….

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Nr 14 100% Wolves…TOTALLY AGREE with you 100%..Karl Henry is good in a 5 man midfield, but not in 4-4-2..why skip Dave Jones? IF we would have stayed with more positive inner midfield we would have had more possession and our wingers and attackers would have been more in the game.Instead we dont have possession and put more pressure on our own defence.. We have played such positive football without Henry in the team, and im SO SO tired of his passing sideways and back..and then our goalie kick the ball to the opposite team..

Doesnt McCarthy watch the games?? I can say I was almost a little positive while Henry got injured, but of course dont want players get hurt, but was excited to see what it could do to our passing game and i think we have played some really good games and won some.

PLEASE if youre playing Henry all matches of the season you have to play 5 men in midfield..its like that…tired of this, so bad Guedioura cant play cause of injury, he would break liverpool midfield himself!

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Greedy board-ticket prices for the FA Cup

Useless Manager who looks upon the people who pay his wages as numpties.

A Coach who backed so far away from McCarthey today he was practically in the back row of the Billy quiet stand. How come this loser has survived this long?

If this greasey slime ball Moxey is so keen to market Wolves as a product then its time to spend our hard earned cash elsewhere because the product is falling short of the mark and is vastly overpriced.

We are being taken for a ride.

Jog on happy clappers to the Chumpionship!!!

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c’mon the three M’s we need Danny Shittu, Curtis Davies or Gary Neville now

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On the plus side, and there weren’t many positives lets face it, Hammill can put dangerous early crosses into the box which is promising, the two of significance he produced would have caused more problems, if we had a big man there to get on the end of them, a Carew or Heskey, (I am not advocating we sign either of them) but a player in that type of mould. Too many below par performances today, Wardy was good i thought. Can’t see people’s problem with him really….

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Again and Again Mick say’s bad defending cost us the game, but still we have not brought a centre defender or left back, what a joke.
Morgan must be laughting at all the supporters, does not care about the club, if he is keeping mick in charge. Doyle & Fletcher are a waste of space.

Stearman, ward rubbish

Needs the Sack, But how much i go on know its not going to happen, I think Wolves fans should protest at the next home game against Man U?????

We want a Owner that as passion, and does mind us finishing bottom, playing championship football. if you do not care morgan take Mick and jez and sell to somebody who cares.

Rich

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Wolves are in this situation for many reasons,but mostly lack of players with premiership quality, they are basically the championship team which got promoted with a mixture of unproven overseas players and a few players who played in the prem league before ie craddock(relegated) doyle(relegated) Hunt(relegated) fletcher(relagated) hahneman(relegated) is it only me who has noticed the pattern thats emerging here, but pretty soon they won’t be the only ones with relegated after their names it will be everyone else in the squad, Mick Mcarthy(relegated) has a knack of signing players who have already failed in this league to go with the players who are not good enough in the first place then doesn’t play them in the position he bought them for maybe thats why he too has relegated after his name!!!!! you put failure with failure and it equals failure

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Wolves can be saved!!!I could pick out a few manager candidates from this site,who would do the job for “NOTHING”.
We fans are correct to ask WHY is MICK still in charge of our great club.
MICK and co need to realise we are on our way down,we need some inspiration,we need some players dropped,and we need to bring in players from our reserve team,if we are not willing to spend the money,VILLA buy BENT and he is one goal shy of what doyle as scored all season,and its only his first game!
Doyle,Ward,Henry,Hunt need to be rested for the season or put on the SUBS bench.
All players have bad games,but can anyone tell me what “DOYLE,WARD and HUNT”have contributed.Hunt as scored a goal or two but mostly as looked like a player who is well of the pace,he seems to run around in circles,I dont doubt his effort.
MICK as to go,he as done very well and that is appreciated,but it is not an excuse for him to make a total dog,s **llock of our club.
Yes these very players can bring us back up,but I am being totally fair by saying we are going down due to “MICK”.
I will back MICK,if he would sit down in the town hall and explain to some fans of some of his decisions,signings,tactics,defensive choices and what some of the methods he is applying are for?
This will certainly help him and the fans and may enable us to move forward together.
As mick makes some mystifying decisions,he says certain things on television interviews,and then his actions suggest the opposite!He seems to know the problem areas and were we are struggling,yet does nothing.!

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Morgan needs to splash out and buy the likes of
J bothroyd, Gyepes, also Abdoulaye Meite is leaving ALBION and he’s better than anything wolves have in defence. wolves could get him for free if he would go there. JACK the HAT.

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Karl Henry thinks he’s playing rugby. Will someone tell him that you won’t get penalised with a scrumdown to the opposition if you make a forward pass. We always look a poorer side when Henry is playing.

As for Steve Morgan, I think he has more ambition for Liverpool than he does for Wolves.

Very, very disheartening.

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Well done McCarthy once again.It is obvious to eveyone that we have a rubbish defence playing like schoolkids and making schoolkids mistakes,so,what does McCarthy do?He buys a Scottish Div.1.striker and a winger from Barnsley.Steve Morgan hasn`t got the bottle to get rid of the idiot and obviously was taking the P

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At least Mr Morgan will be happy that his beloved Liverpool won!
Last week MM said “we will definately stay up” wonder if he would like to bet his job on it????

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All i can say on todays performance, is why on earth was henry brought back in, he slowed the game down passing backwards, passing sideways,Leave him out he ay good enough.the team were playing well with out him. top marks to stearman and berra thought they done well, everyone else in big games you need to raise your game you no whats at stake, jarvis is off the pace my gran could cross a ball better a the moment. i feal sorry for doyle, works hard as a striker but never gets any open play shooting chances. sign a left back and get stephen ward back up front. i thought he played well up there, he looked comfortable and worked hard. MM time to get hard and not put on the pitch your favourites, time to put on the pitch the players who want to win. otherwise its the championship again. too much money and enough pride.

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everyone knows I don’t like Mick but I was pleased to see him start with a good midfield and fletch and Doyle upfront.. I thought fletcher and hammil were the only bright points of a terrible game.. I can’t understand why so many fans slate Henry ? Maybe I’m missing something? Yes today he wasn’t great And although he lacks creativity,he does a job which no other midfielder we have can do because our best in guedioura isn’t fit till march.. Ward was absolutely shocking AGAIN and so was stearman ( nothing new there tho )
We are a centre back and a left away from a decent team… Keep the faith and we look to have the bargain of the season on hammil

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Believe me, that was hard to swallow! Thank goodness for a week away from the League. Bring on Stoke and the FA Cup! UTW

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What an absolute load of rubbish, we have some talent in our squad which the muppet in charge of Wolves either under uses or plays out of position. Sorry Mick, its all down to you, you are not up to it, and if owner Morgan withdrew hi head from the ‘sand’ which seems unlikely now, the chance of a new experienced Manager could still, even at this late stage, pull us out of relegation.
Because of Morgans apparent lack of interest, suggests he would not be too fussed if Wolves were relegated, he would be able to divest himself of the club, and do something with his money that really interests him.
No other owner would have put up with half of Mccarthy’s antics, ask yourself why he is still there , then consider the owners options if relegated, its clear he wants to cut his losses and get out, dosen’t care if Wolves survive, clearly by his actions and non actions, he cares little if Wolves survive.

If Wolves are relegated which seems likely, there is only one person who must shoulder the full blame, and that is Mr Morgan, who has other agenda’s that do not include Wolves survival

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63,Sue Ward was ok going forward,but he was picked to play Left Back.The gaping holes that Liverpool exploited time after time showed just WHY he is not and never will be a good solid left back.MM is stumbling blindly onwards toward his 60th defeat in 100 premiership matches a truly awful record.2 or more goals conceded 15 times this season and if people were honest Chelsea missed a host of opportunities to make it 16.Tactically inept, Jarvis only started playing when reverting to his natural left position.
Clueless in use of Subs or changing things around to give us a fighting chance of getting something out of the game.
Arrogant beyond belief in his attitude.
Unfortunatly BOB THE BUILDER MORGAN,and JEZ(nice fat bonus)THE ACCOUNTANT have already decided our future and being part of the greatest league in the world is not in their long term plans.

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53 – I am amazed how anyone can say say Hennessey was our best player today. Every time i see him play its the same approach to hoofing it up the pitch. Time after time he gave the ball away and the pressure is back on us. Would the manager / coach / someone 1) teach him how to throw the ball and 2) teach our full backs to move into space so that they can receive the ball and keep possession. If we cannot do basics like this then we simply don’t deserve to be in the Premiership.

My eyes rolled when i saw Henry was playing. He must be the most negative midfielder in the Premiership. His first thought is always to pass it sideways or backwards – but its not the sort of passes that keeps possession like other midfielders are involved in – it usually puts us on the back foot. There was one instance today when he had the ball in acres of space and several passing options and guess what, he passed it back to the keeper. Either he isn’t good enough or this aspect of his game needs to be coached.

The tv commentators noted that there was no obvious talking between the Wolves players and no one seeming to want to take charge. I saw a quote from McCarthy recently that the team is lacking captains or leaders on the pitch. Well he’s had 4 seasons now to sign a leader but has failed miserably.

I don’t want to see Wolves go down but if we went down and a new manager brought in then i could see light at the end of the tunnel. What this team needs is someone to choose the right formation, play the best players for that formation, make us difficult to beat and from that should come belief and confidence and better play. It is obvious that Daglish is having an effect at Liverpool. What appalled me is that even if we go down Mad Mick will still be in charge. So we can all look forward to a few more years of this rubbish.

Will the Board please wake up and smell the coffee.

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Shocking performance yesterday.

Henry – agree with most points above. Negative, incapable of passing forwards or creating anything. No vision and no leadership (Captain? Hmmm..). He will never be dropped though, MM loves the guy ‘he is a good player for me, puts a shift in’ etc etc..

Quality of crossing was terrible, mind you we don’t have forwards capable of heading the ball anyway.

Defence – It’s like watching slow motion sometimes. I kept thinking the whistle had gone and that’s why they weren’t looking bothered. Clearing of the ball was embarrasing at times.

Kick-off – I just cannot understand this tactic of kicking it straight back to the keeper to go on and lose possesion. It’s negative and screams desperate long ball tactics from minute one.

Tactics – Honestly couldn’t say I noticed any. Get it wide and cross it into an empty box?

Substitutions – chasing the game with most players well below par but only making one substitution? Clueless.

The team will be the same at Bolton, Ward will keep his place from George. Mind you whats the lesser of those two evils..

We’re just not good enough this season and there aren’t 3 teams worse than us. For all this talk of good team spirit and battling qualities it’s pointless if we can’t keep clean sheets and/or score at the other end. Not feeling confident at all.

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Wanderers are bcomming a Joke.I wish I could see a way out of this mess but I can’t. Even changing the manager might not help, the fact is that half our squad isn’t good enough at this level ask yourself why there is no serious offer for any of them. The board obviously has little ambition and the poor fans are getting short shift.
Solution is radical action needed to shore up the leaky defence. Just play one up front and get the wingers bursting forward.I reckon that this will happen at Bolton and we might nick a win.
Up the wolves

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Looking at the league Im beggining to believe that 6 wins will not be enough to keep us up?

Also reading Grace’s comments I would like to vote for her to be the next Wolves blogger

As I’ve said many times before – Under MM and Co and Moxey at best we are in for seasonal relegation battles at best and a yo yo club at worst

We hope for far better

Up the Wolves!

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whats with hennessey?23 clearances 19 coming straight back.12 uneccesary backpasses,including straight from kick off!get lost mick !!!!!!!!

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Craddock must replace Berra for the Bolton game. Move Hunt to left back and start Hammill who looked very lively when he came on.

Henry must only play in a 4-5-1 which I believe we should play away from home and at home V Utd, Liverpool etc. Please, please, please buy a keeper if Hahnemann is off.

Team v Bolton:

Hahnemann

Zubar
Craddock
Stearman
Hunt

Hammill
Jones
Henry
Milijas
Jarvis

Doyle

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our club needs a good overhaul starting with the 3mmms then all of the players as there is not one player good enough for the premier

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What a laughing stock this thick manager has made our beloved club even you happy clappers must agree

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Saw the goals on MOTD and the defending looked very sloppy indeed although the 2nd was a peach I must admit.

Not many goals being scored and a poor defence spells relegation just like us 2 years back.

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It’s a sad fact but we will be playing Championship football next year unless Steve Morgan puts his hand in his pocket and buys a decent centre half and left back that plays in the Premier League. We have a manager whose best centre half is the only one he never bought (Jody Craddock) and whose idea is to put a centre forward at left back whose positionally sense is laughable. We are doomed i’m afraid.

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63 SUE, the buck has to stop with Karl Henry and justifiably so in my opinion because he´s gods own mouthpiece on the pitch. Or as captain, he should be. (Never mind being expected to play decently) It may well be true that you know nothing. Karl obviously knows nothing either but he gets paid shed loads of money into the bargain. That´s why Karl Henry gets so much stick when we lose. He can´t play and he shows no leadership qualities at all and he clearly dares not tell MM where his godot is going wrong. Bring back Jody Craddock as captain. Forget about Karl.

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The unfortunate reality is that we have a championship team trying to compete in the Premier League. Our lads do their best and within the limitations of their ability will regularly give us 7 out of 10 week in week out. The problem is that we need them to give us 9 out of 10 every week in order to compete against established premiership teams. With the best will in the world, our players can’t do that for every match which is why we can’t maintain any consistent form (as was apparent yesterday). Our manager has placed too much emphasis on players “putting a shift in” at the expense of everything else and as a consequence we have a team that in premiership terms has a great workrate ethic but very little quality. For example, (and I know its not a fair comparison but hopefully you will see the point I am trying to make), Kevin Doyle was so busy running all over the pitch yesterday that he offered little threat in front of goal, Torres on the other hand put in far less effort (unless you count cynical fouls and constant moans to the officials)but did what he is paid to do and scored twice. We all have our own views on why we are where we are but the table and results tell the real story. I believe that we will see a few more 9 out of 10 performances from the team between now and the end of the season but not enough to keep us up. I really hope I am proved wrong but I really can’t see how things are going to change.

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Ok

Just in case you’ve missed the point here.

We’ve bought Hammil to replace Jarvis.

This guy from dundee to replace Doyle.

Then, when we are relegated we will cash in on these players and the board and Fat Cat Moxey will be very happy with things.

Are you lot blind?? This club has no ambition whatsoever . They see us as a championship club that’s why they are happy to stick with Mad Mick.

When we go down, which we are odds on for relegation now, I honestly can’t see a team that is worse than us, we will have made absolutely no progress whatsoever under the 3 M’s. We are back to square one. The same as we’ve been in anyone of the last 20 odd years.

Under the 3 M’s this club will never progress.

We need to start with Mad Mick and then hound Moxey out. That’s the only way to change things.

DO NOT TAKE THE EARLY BIRD. IT’S THE ONLY WAY THESE COMMERICALLY MINDED PEOPLE WILL LISTEN.

Morgan is only interested in a profit on our club. He doesn’t give two hoots what division we play in.

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Just awful. I don’t think I’ve seen Wolves caught out so many times on the counter attack. It should have been six !
IMO only Fletcher and possibly Stearman came away with a modicum of respect.
We’ve seen how inconsistent Wolves have been this season, we just gotta hope that was a one of and they get it right for Bolton.
Let’s end on a positive note. What ar the odds on us being first to beat Man U ? Worth a punt ?

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To No45, Barnsley, Millwall and Sheffield United is your answer, as we will be finding out next season.

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feel sure our latest 2 signings are to replace doyle/fletcher and jarvis next season.bia has played well so is sidelined,henry as much as a donkey as mcarthy was when he played, please get sent off again soon carl ebanks blake our best hope of a goal,zubar no positional sense,and the club managed by an idiot,no hope for us

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A poor performance when nothing went right. We made them look far better than they performed. I’m sick of the Liverpool fans acting as though they are the chosen ones who think Liverpool is a religeous sect. We enabled the perfect headlines for so called King Kenny and I suppose Talk Sport won’t stop going on about it for a week. You didn’t know there was anybody there from Liverpool until they scored and then we had the usual corny you’ll never walk alone at the end – how sad was that?
I like Mick a lot but I’m very puzzled how a former ace defender like him can’t see that we need a top line central defender to hold us together along with another quality defender alongside. If we don’t then it’s the Championship for sure and bye bye to our best players. Forget the ground for a while – just try and keep us up (but I still hate the Premiership and everything it stands for).
Forever Wolves!!

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Taken me over 24hrs to get over the abysmal display yesterday.
After analysing the team I think we need at least a couple of wingers, at least two wide men and definitely a new Bl***y manager !!!!!!!!!

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Liverpool change manager and look what happens?

Morgan are you actually watching whats going on? There is only one option….get rid of muppet mccarthy and connor his lapdog.

One thing looks for certain currently…. Wolves will be relegated.

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63. Sue…..not sure if you’re for real or not but I will give you the benefit of the doubt. Why does everyone go on at Henry ? Because he cannot play in a 4-4-2 line up. He plays too deepand puts too much pressureon the defence. You’re right the midfield wasoverrun…..because Henry wasplayingtoo deep forcing the rest of the midfield to play too deep. This left oceans of space for Liverpool to play in. Because of this there was a complete diconnect between midfield and the front line. What’s more, with Henry’s negative play – always passing backwards – to the defence it was putting them under too much pressure hence the ‘hoof’ upfield hoping to find one of our frontmen. Not saying our defence was any good because at times it was woeful, but if you have your Captain continually playing backwards, what else do you expect ? One other point – How can you say Hunt had a bad day ? Were you at the game ? Some of his close control was awesome and it should have been Henry being substituted not Hunt. I’ve also said elsewhere that Milijas and Henry cannot play together. enry kills Millys game. Who would I rather have ? Milly every goddam time.

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The point with Henry,in my opinion was not his lack of creativity,we never get much of that anyway,it was his failure to do his basic job, the holding midfield role.He should have been picking up the runs of Meireles.For the crucial second goal there were two Liverpool players totally unmarked on the edge of the box. But this was a management fault,it was unrealistic to expect Henry to play two games in less than a week after his injury.Also we never should have played just two in midfield,or at least changes should have been made when it was obvious we were being over run in midfield.This one Mick was down to you,not good enough just to blame defensive errors.

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I did think at one time i was watching a Basketball game. Have never seen so many headers in a game. The tactict was for Liverpool to boot it up and then catch us on the break. At one time I really believed that Fletcher would be an handful for most of the game-Our forwards seemed to be ontop of one another and at one time Hunt and Matt were playing on the same side–The whole game seemed disjointed no real formation apparent.

Why play Henry when Dave Jones had done okay for us in his absence-Did not make sense. At the Start of the game i believed we were up for it and the South Bank were really vocal – But that fell away when the first goal went in.

Relay our defence has no class or belief if MM signed an experienced defender or two then things might change.

Really can make no constructive comment the Championship seems nearer and nearer–

Lets hope the Cup gives MM time to re-group if we play like that against Arsenal and Man. U God Help us.

Keep the Faith–Crazey Dave

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I read a lot of the posts on here. Im so glad im not the only one depressed here.
i still stick with my earlier post that Henry was more effective and kept the ball better than most did from what i saw on tv.So if you went to the match maybe you see it differently but one thing is for sure Henry is not an attacking midfielder and never will be.

I think willenhall wolf 119 is spot on. When do have a championship team and have to play really well like we did against man city just to compete. When were a little off like we were at liverpool we get easily beaten.

I now think we along with two from west ham,wigan, WBA, Brum, fulham and blackpool are likely to go down.

I just cant see how we can put a run of 3-4 games to turn it around seeing how inconsistent the team is and how hard they have to work due to the lack of flair and quality in the squad. without new blood I think were doomed. i mean experienced players not hot prospects like hamill whose time will come in 1-2 years

I wish Mick well and really hope he proves me wrong as I’m desperate for this club to stay up.

However if we dont stay up I dont think Micks posiiton will be as secure as he thinks

If Villa owner randy lerner realises now he should listened to oneil and spent money in the summer .
Maybe When morgan realises that micks win record in the prem is poor and will not get any better and he is therefore not the man to secure a regular prem status which will hamper his redevelopment plans maybe things will change here too.

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We are a reflection of our Manager. Huff, puff and grunt. “Puttin’ in a shift.” You have to be clever and/or crafty to be a Prem manager. Mick is neither.

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The way we kicked off showed how McCarthy thought to approach the game, thinking Liverpool would crumble under an ‘up and at them’ policy. The opposite was true and they were in fact dirtier and more physical than Wolves. Despite Stearman & Berra doing ok we still conceded 3. Ward was at fault for the first and Berra the second with a weak header that went nowhere. Same old same old in defence. And Henry offers no protection at all. The only attacking play he breaks up is our own! Did we miss him when he was out? Wins against Liverpool, Sunderland and Birmingham would suggest not.

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Everyone is entitled to a bad day on the pitch – shame so many of ours have them so often and at the same time.

Blame though has to firmly sit with McCarthy. As some posters have said here, Dalglish won it with his tactics and our maangement team didn’t have the ability to sense that this was the case for the whole 90 minutes. Our way of trying to bypass the five man midfield was to hoof it so that our renowned target men, Doyle and Fletcher, could go for the 50/50 ball against the midgets that are Skrtel and Agger. And this is despite our best performances recently coming by trying to play the passing game.

None of our midfielders or defenders had a clue which of Liverpool’s midfielders to pick up when they attacked. In the first half, we were lucky not to concede on two occasions when Milijas and Henry just watched players run past them. For MM to say that trying to play offside was our downfall is ignoring the bleeding obvious. We could have and should have already been a couple of goals down before they scored their first.

And then for the second goal, we held a line of four defensive players level with Torres when the free kick was taken. When the feeble attempted headed clearance made it a few yards, there was a line of 3 Liverpool players unmarked – about 5 yards goal side of our midfielders. So it’s pretty obvious that McCarthy et al had failed to spot the one key tactic that Liverpool were using to over-run us.

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no. 135 Filtonwolf-yes I am for real been going to the Mols for more years then I like to remember.
No.117 Sadwolf-you,re name say’s it all…
No.116 Flying winger-fair enough.
poorthorns-for once I agree but according to no.66 I don’t know anything about football is that because my name is Sue.
I’m seriously thinking of not coming on here anymore it winds me up too much, so much negativity , I agree we were bad on Sat, but one thing I will never do is give up on the Wolves what ever division we are in!!!

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Abysmal – Another one for the stearman own goals and gaffes video, ward is getting confused as to where hes supposed to be playing, zubar had a nightmare also and our perfect, correct in every decision he makes manager thinks our 4 man midfield can outplay thier 5 – shocking managememt.

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no quality, no stay up !!

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152, Bridgtet & Tony.

YOU stick with Mick if you so wish but please allow the majority of contributors on here to have an opinion. Differing from your Rose Tinted Glasses view does not mean they are wrong and you are right. I might add that feeble wit and sarcastic comment hardly justifies whatever point you are attempting to make.

“To Thine Own Self Be True”

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Like every Gold-blooded Wolves fan, I love this club with all my heart. That doesn’t mean blind loyalty, though, nor does it mean Mick (or anyone else employed by WWFC) is above criticism. The fact is, this season is a bloody shambles and, barring a miracle, it’s going to result in another spell in the Championship.

God knows how some fans can sit idly by, praising the virtues of MM (if not all three MM’s!) because the AMATEURISH DROSS we’ve been served for large portions of this season is not only unacceptable, but an affront to the fans.

Still, Mick got us up, so he’s God to some -and probably will be forever more. Well, I’m grateful, too, but he can’t live on yesterday’s successes forever. Besides, Mick got PAID to succeed, not fail. Anyone would think Mick did his good deed for free, judging by some of the OTT plaudits he receives.

As for Morgan and Moxey, well, how can you two just sit there, say nothing and allow our imminent decline to continue? Happy with the Premier League rich pickings, are we, lads? Happy to take loyal Wulfrunians for mugs as they shell out their hard-earned dough, following the Wolves? I can’t come to any other conclusion because nothing else makes sense to me. Any other club’s Board wouldn’t have stood for this nonsense.

Watching our beloved club implode is painful, heartbreaking -but was needless, too. I guess it’s the price we have to pay for sticking with the Premier League’s worst-ever Manager (official) while the club is administered by the most easily-pleased top brass, too. Thanks, MM’s, for taking us one step forward while taking three steps back. You couldn’t make it up.

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only 119 comments for our win against liverpool but were already on 155 for the loss. 66 comments for a 5-0 win against doncaster. 155 comments for our loss against man city, and yet we get a mere 104 comments for our heroic effort against chelsea.

It would seem that allot of the people on here lie in waiting until wolves next loss so they can pounce on these boards and post all they’re negatie drivel. Its alright saying that everyone is entitled to theye oppinion, after all thats what this comment section is for, but from the figures i have provided, its clear that some people would prefer to moan about our shortcomings than celebrate our successes. What kind of Wolves supporters are these.

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159. Good I wish I had said that instead of you,, I can spot the numpties from here to Hull.
STICK WITH MICK

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149. Sadwolf – I agree completely. It’s unbearable watching clueless clowns running the show on and off the field. Still, I respect those that feel so indebted to Mick for getting us promotion that they think he’s some sort of latter-day, footballing Messiah. I don’t agree, as I said, but I’m entitled to my view. Question is, just HOW BAD do things have to get? My loyalty lies with Wolves, not Mick (nor anyone else) because NOBODY is bigger than the club. Still, after 20+ years of being in the wilderness -excepting Jonah’s promotion season- I guess it’s understandable that some fans have elevated him to demi-god status. The real pity, though, is in the Board seemingly accepting Mick as the best we can ever hope for. So much for the bright, new future at Wolves that Morgan and Moxey promised. That being so, God help us.

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(164)
Woody,
So right, hope it’s in better nick when our footballers come play down there, or there will be a pitch inspection. Seen better in the Bilston youth league. Have the club any ground staff or do they just let cattle graze it. Definitely not up to Premiership standard, a bit like the team wouldn’t you say?. JACK the HAT.

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The sad fact is the supporters who follow the team make comments on here and we are all wasteing our time.Despite the fact that we can see that we are devoid of class players and the tactics employed by MM and TC are non existant when we are playing.
WARD and HENRY were completely out of their depth.
So Mr MORGAN why do you give MM and his team a seal of approval when they are taking us down…. Sorry forgot you are a Liverpool supporter. He would have the sack if he was working on one of your building sites.
Its not too late to bring in Sam Alladyse and Steve Bull as his assistant.
SO PLEASE ACT BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.

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165. i totally dissagree with you, if i may.

your gordon ramsey principle cannot be applied to football as the owner will only invest the minimum amount in the club, so if we do get relegated he’ll get less than if we did stay up but still more than his total investment which currently stands at 48 million.

so all the complaining by die hard loyal fans who pay hard earned money about rubbish players, managers and performances, will never make any difference as the owner will just get fed up and sell to the highest bidder.

if you dissagree with this point , thats fine but only man utd chelsea and recently man city have spent serious money on players so there is not any surprise when the trophies always end up at those clubs.

the rest will always be trying to play catch up but with only the odd cup win(pompey,villa) to show for thier efforts. utw. i would love it if we stayed up but its looking unlikely,

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!00% spot on Wolf. But then the British are famous for not complaining. Ho but then isn´t that what we´re doing now? What else do we expect other than to be sh*t on. Stick with Micko and watch Championship football next season Brigtet & Tonly? Got it in one!!

See we let Matt Hill go today, that´s two left backs out and none in and AGAIN Micko says he´s happy with his squad. I really think he´s lost it.

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Funny. Last year Doyle was a hero… Now hes useless.
Last year SEB wasnt up to the grade… Now he has to start.
Last year Morgan was a hero… Now hes a tight liverpool fan who wants to take us down. Amazing.
Last year ward was the best left back in the league… Nah, im just pullin ur leg on that one.

Fickle anyone? Grow up and get on with it. If everyone here is such a great manager/scout/chief executive, why havent i ever heard of you?

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Yes, there’s too many Bridget&Tony’s. They are satisfied with the Moxey-Morgan-Mick back-slapping old pals act which keeps the latter in a job. Mick’s been in charge over 4-5 years now and at best we’re “static” hanging on by a very fine thread to Prem survival which is all we’ll ever do in the Prem with Mick. We’re full-time bottom 4. The Blackpools, Stokes and Newcastles did not come up to the Prem to play a constant survival game at the bottom of the table. We’re a big once-famous Club – and deserve more “ambition”. We currently have none.

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Defence is too leaky, midfield offers no protection. This equals relegation.

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I agree with what your all saying about ambition but i think the most important thing is to stay in the premier league this year and next. and to achieve that i think mick will do fine. But once we have consolidated ourselves as a premiership club (we are not a premiership club yet) then it is time to move on. But right now, were not as big as you all think we are.

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What a good idea, why don’t you do that very thing, that would make it about 100 whingers max, then the other 24,900 ‘supporters, could identify you & deal with you accordingly.

You’re whats known as the noisey minority.

If you must make noise, be positive & support the club!!!!

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