Jonathan Woodgate snubs Wolves
Friday 28th January 2011, 10:00AM GMT.
Jonathan Woodgate has sensationally snubbed a loan move to Molineux as Wolves appeared to be back at square one in their search for a defender.
Now they could turn their attentions back to Stoke’s Abdoulaye Faye, who they enquired about at the start of the month.
Manager Mick McCarthy asked about Tottenham centre-back Woodgate earlier this week, with a view to a loan move for the rest of the season.
The 31-year-old former England international, who earns around £65,000-a-week, has been made available for a temporary move by Spurs after recovering from a career-threatening groin complaint.
But the former Leeds, Newcastle and Real Madrid centte-back declined the offer, leaving McCarthy to pursue other options before the transfer window shuts at 11pm on Monday.
Instead, Woodgate, who joined Spurs from Middlesbrough for £8million three years ago, could force his way back into Harry Redknapp’s plans after being omitted from their 25-man squad.
McCarthy said: “We made an enquiry but it hasn’t happened. If he can get back to fitness – and he’s made every effort to do that – then he’s a world class centre-half and he seems to be back to that level.
“I thought there was a chance of getting someone of that ilk and getting the best out of him for five, 10 or 15 games. But he wants to stay there to fight for his place.
“I haven’t spoken to him but that’s the message I’ve got back.”
The Wolves boss could now look at Faye again, having already enquired about both him and Stoke team-mate Glenn Whelan.
Faye, who at 32 is also out of contract in June, could be trying to impress new employers on Sunday at Molineux after being pencilled in to play in the FA Cup fourth-round tie.
Faye, named Player of the Year in 2008-09, was stripped of the captaincy at the start of the season and dropped down the pecking order behind Ryan Shawcross and Robert Huth.
Whelan, a ball-playing midfielder, would cost £2million up front plus add-ons said to total another £1million, although Wolves’ interest is thought to have cooled.
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Don’t need him anyway.
He would probably be injured at some point and it will take him months to get match fit. Not worth it.
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Just offer Stoke 3.5mil for Whelan and Faye
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Hopefully this will shut the moaners up, as they will see we’re trying to get defenders
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Get Gary Bellamy out of retirement – while your at it see what Paul Stancliffe is up to!
Joking apart it’s all becoming a bit embarrassing down the Golden Palace
I can smell a panic buy coming our way soon!
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Dont need woodgate anyway he is very highly rated and no better than what we have offer about 4 million for faye and whelan be worth it! all january we been looking for a center mid whelan could be the man and faye is a good solid center back which is needed go get them mick!!! And dont wait till sunday or monday morning to sign someone then on the tuesday go to all the fans oh sorry we just didnt have time cause thats nonsence you have had 31 days!!
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Woodgate should have jumped at the chance for regular first team football. Oh well, enjoy the bench at Spurs. We dont want someone who has that kind of ambition anyhow. He used to be a good player but he isnt playing regular so more fool him.
Anyhow, we need someone in with the right attitude first and foremost. We could get the worlds best defender but if his head and heart are not in it then theres no point.
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I thought mick said he was happy with his squad and was confident we would stay up,
I think its suddenly dawning on him lmao.
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This is a blessing in disguise…
He reminds me of my first car, an Austin A40, always breaking down…. UTW
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They can’t win can they?
All month the moaners have been having a winge about our lack of transfer activity, but it is now clear we have been negotiating and exploring options in all positions.
Now that some of those discussions have to come to light Wolves are accused of panic buying!!
Faye would be a good, cheap, short term signing that would give much needed time for young players like Stearman to continue their development.
UTW
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I’m sorry, how can he be an option, yes he was a good player many a broken knee ago, I know we are a business, but it seems every other club around us is trying to push the boat out a bit with signings, I’m glad we are not panic buying, but I am genuinely worried now about relegation, can’t help thinking we may have got wheater or Davies, both still young and experienced for s couple of million??, still trying to keep the faith, u t w
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We are selling ourselves short again. Im not interested in past it rejects like woodgate and brown. We should be looking for quality as was stated at the start of the season.fine bring in hammill and griffiths,good future prospects but we need quality.samba,cuellar,bridge,boyata,lescott,jenas,n’daw,bentley,keane to name but a few who are available,yes wages are an issue but when u can keep paying nobodies £20/30k a week and plan a new stadium u have the money to do it.makes me wonder if mick can handle big names
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3— no it wont shut the moaners up, as we didnt get him!
further confirmation of MM’s ability to attract top players!
& lets face it woodgate is top drawer if fit!
happened with robbie keane lst year also, they had talks then nothing!
its just a smoke screen people!
i could go and have a look in the bentley showroom, sit down n talk numbers n stuff with the salesman, can i afford one? NO! do i really really want one! NO!
nuff sed
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Do we really need another older slow CB NO!!!
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I for one am glad he aint coming. Well overrated and injury prone. No thanks Woodgate – WOLVES ARE FAR TO GOOD FOR YOU MATE ……not the other way round !!
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I love the intro: ‘Woodgate sensationally snubbed a loan move.’
It’s about as sensational as Jordan saying she wants a new boyfriend.
Shock horror! Wolves miss out on another target in a transfer sensation!
When this disaster of a season finally trundles to its miserable, hellish conclusion, I want Morgan and Moxey to look in the mirror and say they did all they could to keep us in a league we’ve spent 20 odd years trying to get into.
Do we really care if we stay up? Spending the last 2 days of the window making idle approaches to players who would take a week of convincing to join us suggests not.
At what point did Moxey and Morgan make ‘aspiration’ a swear word at Molineux?
What happened to the comments of mid-table finishes by Morgan last year? The quote by Moxey that wage bills correlate to league positions?
And in all that time, we are making a half baked attempt to sign some crocked Spurs non-entity who would never drive through Wolverhampton on his way home, let alone play for us.
Meanwhile, I’ve just been told I need to pay my early bird money.
I can’t take much more of this season.
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when you scrat around in the bargain buckets at the end of the January sales you hardly ever find something in your size that you like !!
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THIS is the level of our clubs ambition?
a damaged once upon a time player
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A little disappointed but this would have been a big gamble. At the end of the day a message to Sidwell and Woodgate, Wolves are a far bigger and more famous club than you two would ever be as players. Fact!
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Jonathan Woodgate is a good player when fit but you have to go back to his Leeds days to see him get through half a season and it would take 6-7 games for him to get upto speed with the amount of time he has been out.
What about Matt Mills from Reading? Ashley Williams from Swansea? I like Boyata from Man City and he would do a good job. I think Craddock is better than Berra hands-down and as soon as he feels sharp he must come back into the side.
Just relax and go for it in the Stoke game, we do not want a replay at this stage.
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I think Sephen Ward could do a job at Centre Half?
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Woodgate playing on crutches is a better option than BERRA.
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No 18 and others.
WOLVES are NOT a far bigger club than the ones these players have played for.
That is in your tiny little closed minds.
Whilst Moxey is here we will remain a little club in a big league because if he can get something for nothing he don’t deal.
Big clubs DON’T operate like Moxey does.
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15 hindmarch
When did you get direct access to the Wolves boardroom?
You clearly have no understanding of the transfer market and the work that the 3M’s have been doing in the last month to bring in players that are right for the club. To suggest that they have only spent the last two days making idle approaches is a stupid comment.
With supporters like you it is like carrying a lead weight on the backs of real supporters.
Think seriously about your early bird ticket – gardening and fishing can make a pleasing alternative.
Happy Clapping.
UTW
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Who can blame onyone for not coming when they have to play for an idiot who would put them bench warming so he could play his favourites, i see billy quiets talking his useual happy clapping rubbish again
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I think its good we dont got woodgate, former player and has done his best. Faye could be a very good addition to our defence, very strong player and good in the air. SIGN HIM UP if nothing else comes up!
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I agree with 20. Ward for centre back! thats the best shout ive heard all season! LMAO
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“Jonathan Woodgate has sensationally snubbed a loan move to Molineux” oh come on express and star these players don’t see wolves as big as a club than you think. As if we were going to get him and then he probably end up injured very quickly. This is just publicity stunt of an attempt to sign a defender, like said we wouldn’t get anywhere close to signing that kind of player. I’m not against over signings but why we haven’t being looking at any affordable defenders so far has puzzled me. When we loose we hear the same old reasons poor defending, so why haven’t looked at players like say Jlloyd Samuel from Bolton? Heck I wouldn’t mind Lee Naylor back we haven’t really replaced him since he left and surely there’s an option of a central defender we can get whether that’s from one of the top teams in the Championship or one of our relegations rivals?
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22) Read what I said. I did not mention the likes of Real Madrid, I was referring to the calibre of player!
Brush up on your English, Exile, before you comment.
Wolves are still in the top 10 clubs in England, when you look at history, stadium, fanbase etc and at least we are not saddled with debt like many other clubs!
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“we’re doomed captain McCarthy, all doomed…”
did you notice the wide eyes and fake scottish accent…?
“We’ll be relegated before Easter, or so we will ..isnnee truuuee Captain?”
I can see the scene in the bosses’ office…
McCarthy to Hammil…” Can you play centre back boy”?
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Very disappointed with Wolves for even contemplating signing Woodgate with his sickening history of violent behaviour.Would you really want someone who could dish out so much off the field of play but could withstand so little on it, by the evidence of his apalling injury record.
Sorry,but if they could sign this article they could, by the same token ,sign Marlon King or the thing that is known as Lee Hughes!
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24 failed again
What kind of fan calls our manager an idiot? his record speaks for itself.
The manager that led us to the Championship Title and kept us up last season also took Ireland to the World Cup finals and got Sunderland promoted etc etc?
Supporters like you must be proud to wear the scarf!
Bet you were on the pitch at the end of the last two seasons singing ‘Super Mick’.
I’d rather be a Happy Clapper than a Negative Numptie.
UTW
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Sir Billy Quiet: Go on then, please enlighten me what goes on in the boardrom? No, go on, tell me. I am all ears.
On the evidence of this window and the last, not a fat lot.
You might be satisfied with a late, idle approach for Jonathan Woodgate, but I’m not.
Forgive a Wolves fan for dreaming of a bit more than a crocked Spurs centre half who can’t even pronounce Wolverhampton.
So aspiration, ambition and a genuine wish to be doing better than 19th place are bad things?
Its supporters like you who carry a lead weight on the club’s(presumably deplorable) once great reputation.
You might be desperate to kill any notion of progression, hungry for another Jez platitude to salivate over as this attrocious season continues.
It’s supporters like you who make me really sick.
Go on, lap up another hard luck story, tell your mates that we’re no longer a big club, tell them that Billy Wright was yesterday and that Bully was overrated.
Then slag off any fan who dares to think we should be aspiring for something a tiny bit more.
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Billy quiet you keep saying what thicko done for us, all thats in the past cant you now see that we are going down you thick happy clapping moron
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23,I thought the idea of this website was to enable fans to express an opinion.There is no doubt MM did a good job getting us out of this division(Although he had a great deal of luck doing so) but it is obvious he is out of his depth in this league.You seem to be saying the current management are doing a great job,if that is the case explain to me the following.
1 No decent cup runs.When was the last time we reached a semi final.
2 falling attendances.Unable to sell out for a game like Man City.
3 Unable to attract establised premiership players even on loan.
4No young home grown players coming through.
5Bottom but one in the premiership.
6 A pitch not fit for purpose.Are you honestly saying that I should be grateful To Morgan ,Moxey and MM for giving me all of this?
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Regretably the Woodgate farce illustrates the problem we have at Wolves.
No quality, experienced player will want to play for McCarthy. MM will not tolerate anyone disagreeing with him. Straight to the bench if you do.
Experienced players have experienced the quality coaching provided by the top clubs. They will not tolerate Micks ideas. They are also aware of MMs reputation about team selection and his lack of tactical ability.
I suggest that you all forget the “experienced” players and concentrate on the up-and-coming yougsters, as that is the only type of player we can recruit, and even the best of these will not leave their top clubs to come to the 3M Wolves.
Sir Billy Quiet – are you the worlds’ only surviving brain donor?
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Hindmarch 32 what sense you talk
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23 – Sir Billy
Everything you said to number 15 could quite easily be applied to you.
31 – Sir Billy
Again Ditto
Anyone would think you had some sort of detailed and specialist knowledge of football.
The problem is, you regularly spout absolute rubbish on here. So , please think before criticising others eh.
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Doesn’t this club ever learn from passed mistakes and history when it comes to buying injured players either on a permanent contract, or loan deal.This woodgate has history of injuries and past his sell buy date. we have loaned players from tottenham before, paul stuart and chris waddle a few years ago, what a waste of time they were.Just ask the your fitness instsructor (tony daley), Mr Mcarthy about the signng of injured players. Its simple Mr Mcarthy,when you go to your local mercedes dealer and you are ready to part with YOUR hard earnt cash, you take the mercedes for a test drive and make sure that everything works, thats supposed to work and that the engine starts when you ask it to start.
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Whingers and moaners we DONT need you go and support the ALBION….
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Sir billy quiet, you speak about mm’s record as manager, but failed to mention getting sunderland relegated with an embarassing points total because once there he cannot further a team.also back to my point about mm and big names, you reminded me with the roi job he couldnt handle arguably 1 of the best roi players in history roy keane, so pot kettle black with the narrow mindedness comments to others and have a bit of ambition.Perhaps you are helping mick draw up his end of year speech to make us think relegation is acceptable and mid table stability is a pipe dream
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nr 24 Robert, I agree with you completely..why dont we give young players the chance maybe?? they often are better on the ball and quicker..maybe have a little lack of physique but i would like to see MM try them on. As many other teams do..
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Didn’t the board do exactly the same last year?
I suspect we made Woodgate some ridiculously poor offer and he told us where to go. Just like last year when we NEARLY signed oh so many players.
But, amazingly, we have bought a winger to replace Jarvis when we are relegated and striker to replace Doyle and / or Fletcher for a staggering £150k.
Come on, don’t fall for this clap trap. IF we wanted players we would go and get them. Money talks, it’s not about the size of a club or anything else. It’s all about money.
The club doesn’t have any ambition and why should it. Morgan isn’t even a fan, so his decisions are going to commercially based hence his desperation to re-build a virtually new ground. He’ll make a fortune on the hotels and retail aspects of the club.
And moxey, he’s an accountant, only here for his fat cat salary and will disappear very shortly never to be seen at Molineux again.
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Do we really want a 32 year old who can’t get regular games with Stoke, as they have better players? If we must get him, then it should be as a loan signing, at least this way he will have to play well to impress the 3M’s into giving him a contract. And is Whelan better that what we have?
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To all my Numptie Friends:
To moan is a state of mind, nothing that has been achieved by Mick McCarthy and Jez Moxey has any relevance to the negative agenda set by the Numpties that continue to spout negativity on any story related to Wolves.
Anyone that dares to offer support to the Club, Players and Management team is subjected to abuse.
Happy Clapping because the club I support is stronger and in a better position than it has been for over 20 years – I call that positive progress.
You are not supporters, you are followers at best but more than likely you are Albion Fans.
Mick McCarthy’s Gold and Black Army.
UTW
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I don’t think a cb is that much of a priority – we have Craddock, Berra, Stearman, Mouyokolo, Elokobi can play there and Manc (when fit).
What I do think is a priority is a RIGHT footed ball winning midfilder.
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The reality is that the Premiership is becoming like the Scottish Premiership except that we have maybe a top six instead of a top two teams that are pulling away from the rest of the pack becuase of (a) their willingness to spend vast sums on players and (b) pay exotic wages to keep them. Everyone below the top six is between average to poor in quality. This season we are being found wanting, not in terms of effort, but in terms of quality both offensively and defensively.
The one player we have bought in is not going to make a material difference to our season. It will be a lottery as to whether or not we survive. If we do stay up we will be faced with the same issues next season because the Club for whatever reason will not invest in quality experienced players in the right areas that will strengthen our standing in the League. Buying “players for the future” seems a strange policy at this stage of the season when we need immediate help? Or maybe MM has the same deal as Ian Holloway and gets a piece of the action?
So enjoy the ride folks because it will continue to be bumpy.
COME ON YOU WOLVES!!!
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Is it any wonder he didn’t want to come? He’s probally read all the negative comments that fans have been posting about the 2 we recently signed and thought bugger that i’m not going there just to get slated.
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Sir Billy Quiet,will you please answer the points I made in my post no 34.To imply that anyone who is critical of the club on this website cannot somehow be a supporter of the club beggars belief.
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Simply facts……
Best CB at the Club Jody Craddock – now 35 and prone to injuries
Stearman – improving but prone to errors
The guy from hull whose name I cannot spell – has never been fit
Berra – lets all hug a striker in the box and show my lack of pace when being caught offside by raising my arm with figures crossed.
Lets face it a 50 foot blow up santa would improve the CB situation no end. But if Woodgate would rather sit on his arse and play in the stiffs at spurs then let him. There is better out there we just need to find a centre back quick!
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Sir Billy Quiet. Quite possibly the worst, unsubstantiated retort I have ever read on here.
I’m still waiting for your boardroom knowledge that you accuse me of having none of.
For the second time, what has gone on in the boardroom this month?
You are the voice of everything that is wrong with our club.
Kill reasoned debate, quash a desire for better, and live off a bland, clapped out cliche that we’re in the best health we’ve ever been.
You just keep closing your eyes to the implication of relegation to a league that has spat out more clubs than you have never bothered to visit.
I bet you can’t wait to see us relegated so you can glorify in more years in the wilderness and a ‘job well done,’ while simultaneously calling us WBA fans for daring to disagree – A moronic put down in itself.
Please get back to your George Orwell books, eat what’s fed to you, and let the grown ups talk rationally about issues that you’re frankly too insular and inarticulate to ever understand.
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I think George Elokobi will make a fantastic Centre-back. Big and rugged,he will certainly do the job. In all honesty, i think he is better than stearman and mouyoukolo anyway.
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44 – I will never come and here and moan about the club I love and will again be renewing on the early bird.
However, has this club moved forward this season compared to last? No it has not.
The club is still facing a battle to avoid relegation last season and got it’s buying strategy completely wrong in the close season. We signed players from failed premiership clubs and only Hunt has made any telling impression, Fletcher looks nowhere near a 6.5mil player.
Now we are faced again looking at players in the January transfer window scrabbling for players to keep us up. Hammell and Griffiths to me are players that I see to be able to help us more if we are relagated.
This is such a critical moment in Wolves’s history, relegation will mean no ground development. This is what is really needed to move this club forward so I just find it amazing that the club are not prepared to push the boat out to ensure that this work takes place with a couple of quality signings.
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So glad none of the bloggers on here have any real influence at Wolves. The moaners will only ever be happy when Wolves do the double, are unbeaten in the league, concede no goals and score in every match. Wake up dreamers. This is a game that entertains and our lives do not depend on it. Some fans need to take a serious look at themselves judging by some of the comments made.
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We desperately need a centre half because the two that are in at the mintute are possibly the worst in the premier. We need a good centre midfield player aswell because everyone who thinks we look better with Karl Henry in the team needs their head checking including Mick McCarthy. He is simply not good enough but for some reason ‘Magic Mick’ puts his name down first on the team sheet every week when he is fit.
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Robert Perry:
1. This years cup run is not over yet, but we are not a top four team so a semi final would either be through over achieving or as the result of lucky draws.
2.We sold out against Liverpool. Attendances are holding up compared with the Blues and Baggies.
3. Wolverhampton or London – you choose?
4. Wayne Hennessy
5. Better than the Championship.
6. The pitch is fine if a little worn.
Don’t know why I even bothered to respond!
Hindmarch – Boardroom Activity – Two signings so far this January plus extended contracts for current players.
Debate?? no its just moaning and unabashed criticism.
UTW
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Fordhouse Wolf: Here here!! Nice that you can make the clear distinction between ‘moaning’ and a genuine rational dialogue over whether or not we are moving forward and the implications of not doing so.
Also, far classier to state your debate without sinking to the depths of questioning a fan’s love of the club, and whether we’re ‘Albion fans’ – a pretty cheap effort in itself.
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Im with norway and hindmarch!
Sir Billy = Deluded and Patronising
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How on earth do you go from asking about Joleon Lescott, Carlos Cuellar and Richard Dunne to ending up chasing a Stoke reject.
For crying out loud….Get some ambition!!
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woodgate is a class act, an excellent defender far superior to any defender on our books. The fact that Arsenal has also enquired about him speaks for itself.
His injury record is the only bad point and the fact that he needs games to get match fit.
The communication from the Club has been contradictory. One minute Jez says were looking for an experienced defender, quality midfielder and striker , the next Mick says he’s totally happy with the squad and doesnt need anyone else.
We as fans deserve to be kept in the loop, about the reasons why there is a lack of transfer activity. Why cant Jez/Mick say we simply say we are still looking and it hard out there or we dont need anyone.
Like all the other prem teams do. Why because we still have that championship mentality.
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Sir Billy Quiet: You’re right, it’s not debate. Your blinkered, stifling insults challenge freedom of expression, inextricably insulting those who dare to disagree.
Oh, and saying the pitch is a little worn has just killed any argument you try to make. You are factually wrong. It needs a complete returf in the summer for a start.
Note: Next time you try to railroad fans into your train of thought, try not to get all personal about us being ‘WBA supporters.’ It doesn’t do you any favours.
UP THE WOLVES!
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Sir Billy = Clipboard in disguise!
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Hindmarch
Now I know how Mick McCarthy feels!
Looking forward to the next Wolves story when you can offer ‘rational dialouge’.
Slagging off the club you love, you should be ashamed.
UTW
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Hindmarch – I think the point being made was really that none of us really have any great depth of knowledge about the Wolves boardroom, or indeed what it takes to actually run a football club full stop. But that doesn’t seem to stop the more negative posters jumping off the high board at every single opportunity they get. Just a bit of balance would be nice.
Some are saying Woodgate is a damaged has been, but then in the same breath lamenting that we’re not signing the likes of Bridge & Keane! I’ve seen some moaning (on other articles) that we’re not chasing Konchesky, that will no doubt largely be because he has already played for both Fulham & Liverpool this year. As a player can only play for a maximum of 2 clubs in a season, the only club he can move to this month is Fulham !…. it’s nothing to do with a lack of “ambition” on our part.
I’d suggest it may be worth looking at the bigger picture, a little further ahead than the next few months. This club has come a long way in the last 4 or 5 years and even further in the last 25 years…… the aspiration will be to move the club forward over a long, sustained period of time, build solid foundations so generation after generation of Wolves fans can enjoy a strong and successful club, the aspiration won’t be to give you a 4 month thrill at any expense.
And I say that without any inside knowledge, but it’s the message that Morgan has given before is one of the biggest reason he is looking to develop the stadium.
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Sir Billy Quiet, with the greatest respect you have not answered any of my questions.Lets deal with the FACTS.Blues are in the final of the league cup.So we sold out for one game .So what.Lets look at the season overall,I am sure you would admit that gives us a better picture.What’s London got to do with anything.Blues managed to get Bentley on loan!!.W Hennessey: 1 PLAYER for heavens sake in the last 4 seasons!!!!!!!!.Finally your comment that bottom but one in the premiership is something to be pleased with makes me think that perhaps you are only coming on here to wind everybody up!
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Sir Billy
In post 44 you declare that you are subjected to abuse for supporting the club.
Well as far as I can see, it is mainly YOU who starts the abuse, directing it to any fan who’s opinion differs to that of yourself. And constantly calling fellow wolfs A****n fans for not agreeing with you is the BIGGEST insult of all !!
For the record, paying the highest season ticket prices ever in over 30 years a season ticket holder, national rate phone call queueing, £1-50 per ticket rip off tax…sorry booking fee, over £4-00 a pint, strip changes every year, early bird BLACKMAIL CON every year…..I and others expect better and deserve better, when I feel sold short I will complain and tell it as it is.
by the way, the Liverpool game was not a sell out (check the attendance!).
I will support Wolves and the team forever, alas, I find it very difficult to support the manager and aspects of the regime.
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44 – sir Billy, clearly a true fan and I applaud you in the face of the legions of Numpties who have no place at our great club!
Best advice to you mate is close this thread down and don’t come back to it, they can have a pop at me for supporting you, 3 M’s and my wonderful club but I won’t be here to listen to the usual negative bile that they throw up!
Very noticeable that they were conspicuous by their absence when we beat Liverpool and Chelsea and only come out the woodwork when we get knocked back half a step! They’ll all be there jumping on the Super Mick bandwagon at the end of the season you mark my words!!
Up the Wolves!!!!
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Sir Billy Quiet,
(and all other rose tints), whilst I sympathize with your views I believe that you are in the minority at Wolves. We survived last season and I think we all believed that this would be a season of consolidation. I agree that we are a team without debt and are likely to survive as a business, but I can think of no other retailer or service provider who disappoints as often as Wolves have over the last 25 years and still retains such support. Your view is that everything’s fine, the majority feel betrayed and disappointed. It must be fantastic to be that easily pleased but, believe me, it isn’t the norm!
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Think Sir Billy’s spot on – you moaners really need to go back and read your comments – short sighted, narrow minded springs to mind – think about the bigger picture!!!
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Kentish Wolf – agree with you to an extent, and don’t pretend to have any great boardroom knowledge. (although some others do, who are still to elucidate quite what we’ve been doing – apart from the bleeding obvious)
I am looking at the bigger picture and that’s what worries me.
Is it wrong to question the implications of not tighteneing our inadequate defence before the end of the season?
Is an insult worthwhile when questioning our window activity on Jan 28th, as we sit in a pretty precarious position?
Yes we’re on a great financial footing comparitve to so many others.
£60 million minimum for 2 Premiership seasons, plus parachute payments, plus a £30 million promise from Morgan, no?
It is precisely this reason that I ask if a small percentage of this sum is actually invested in a Premiership hardened player that we were actually promised 2 years ago? (rather than this last minute scrambling which smells of desperation?)
Sir Billy Quiet: So you acknowledge I now love the club? I thought you said I supported WBA?
No point going over old ground for an umpteenth time. How about a beer before the Stoke game? I’ll bring a dictionary!
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Thanks – thread ended!
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67 – considering it’s a “majority” that “feel betrayed and disappointed”, there don’t seem to be many (any actually) Mick out, Moxey out, Morgan our or all 3 out type chants ! If you truly believe in your message, maybe you should say it a little louder, somewhere you might actually get heard !
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Im not even going to waste my time referring to sir billy in this forum,sir billy would be ashamed of such small minded tripe. I stick by the fact that we need quality over quantity. I like the signings of hammill and griffiths and good luck to them both but what squad have we got?mick hasnt once signed a player from a team in a better position than wolves and quite frankly never will because he would upset his favourites.signing players from the championship and scotland isnt going to improve us.conference prospects, young irish players, why doesnt mick become a youth team development coach he would do a sterling job. I want to see the new developed ground full every week with wolves pushing up the prem with prem players in the starting XI,i’ll never apologise for wanting that and wont settle for championship when the former is achievable with some ambition.
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Hindmarch – I have the same concerns over the defence & relegation as you on the whole. I guess where we differ, is that I just don’t believe for one second the club are sitting on mountains of unused cash for the sake of it. I think the club will have been working hard to improve our squad but will have come up against a number of obstacles, the Sidwell situation offers a little evidence of that. I don’t believe McCarthy is sitting there turning down top class players because of the players we have, but I do believe that, with it looking unlikely we’re going to sign anybody, Mick has little choice but to come out and publicly back the current squad as it stands. Yet people will use those comments to launch a huge amount of stick McCarthy’s way without having any knowledge of the conversations going on between him & the board.
It’s not all the fans fault, it would help if not every single bit of news, half news or even non-news made it’s way onto the E&S !
To be honest, I just feel that club as a whole is working very hard to be the best it can be, in very difficult circumstances, without putting ourselves in a debt spiral, no matter how small…. & I think that is the right approach to take.
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And if that postis in anyway negative please let me know. Ambition,future aspirations bettering our beloved team i think you’ll find its all positive apart from not wanting any more lower league signings and start as we mean to go on with prem quality thats not short sightedness you should all me wanting this for the wolves and accepting less in my eyes is negativity in its upmost
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35, Norway Wolf. Spot on. I agree. What have we seen this season to think the management have done a great job? Second to bottom says the opposite. Wasted money says the opposite. And the best point of all is that it is clear as a bell no player who has had Premiership experience would want to come and play for a manager who has had two poor seasons and one dire one before that. That doesn´t mean they wouldn´t want to wear the Gold and Black!!!
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47, LOL yesss i am sure woodgate came on the express and star website and read the comments regarding wolves signing a scottish division one player, are you for real?! why would he come to us? your delusional, also wheres the wolves fan that came on here claiming ”inside info” that curtis davies was going to join us and you knew this from the players agents mouth lol some people live in dream land, only club that made an offer for him apart from blues were svens foxes!!
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Moan, Moan Moan, Moan
All I can say is I’m proud to be a Wolves fan and will be backing the lads, the manager and the board all of the way to the end of the season.
And then the next season.
And then the next season.
We have a strong squad with injured players back in the reckoning. We don’t need to be drawn into this transfer frenzy.
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First of all I would like to see a quality centre half, a left back, a central midfielder and possibly a proven striker but it is not going to happen. We have a fairly rigid wage structure and also do not want to gamble with the club’s existence – rightly so. West Ham and Blues are in last chance saloon.
You can carry on whingeing for as much as you like and the management team is not going to change. Put up or shut up!
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FordhouseWolf – good post. Make more sense than you do on a match day lol
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No Bickering now lads, enough is enough. All this talk about who knows what and who´s right and who not doesn´t do at all and all of you should better. Everyone knows the managers doing his best and likewise his best is far from good enough but he´s a tryer and like his lads he´ puts a shift in. When the same lads stop calling him the gaffer, he´ll call it a day for sure. i was in the boardroom and heard it first hand Sir Billy, so no more talk about what you don´t know. As I said before: No Bickering now lads! Up the Wolves
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