Wolves 1 Fulham 1
Saturday 23rd April 2011, 5:10PM BST.
Wolves were improved but had to settle for a hard-earned point against Fulham in a niggly clash.
Mick McCarthy’s side led through Steven Fletcher’s 22nd minute towering header against the run of play.
But Fulham, whose manager Mark Hughes was dismissed by referee Michael Oliver for his angry reaction to Brede Hangeland’s 57th minute booking, deservedly levelled through substitute Andy Johnson 10 minutes from time.
Wolves goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey had made a superb flying save from Carlos Salcido, while Clint Dempsey and Eidur Gudjohnsen both missed two excellent chances, while only a relatively tame effort from Fletcher threatened for Wolves.
And the equaliser came when Wolves, for whom Karl Henry and Fletcher were excellent, appeared to be heading for a priceless victory which would have lifted them out of the relegation zone.
Instead, McCarthy’s men moved just a place up to second bottom and a point from safety before West Ham’s game at Chelsea at 5.30pm.
McCarthy made three changes to the side beaten 3-0 by Everton two weeks ago.
Jody Craddock returned for his first Premier League start since October, as Kevin Foley dropped to the bench.
That saw a reshuffle with Richard Stearman moving across to right-back.
Nenad Milijas was recalled at the expense of Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, who also found himself among the substitutes as Wolves reverted to 4-4-1-1, with Jamie O’Hara behind lone striker Fletcher.
The other change was the one that McCarthy confirmed earlier this week, with Stephen Ward recalled at left-back for the injured George Elokobi.
Fulham made the much brighter start and it was a nervous Wolves left hanging on in the early stages.
Left-back Salcido saw a superb rising shot from 30 yards brilliantly palmed away by Hennessey.
Then the visitors only just failed to turn the ball home after Simon Davies’ resulting corner had been headed back into the danger area by the unmarked Brede Hangeland at the far post, before Adlene Guedioura cleared.
Wolves had a let-off in the 14th minute when tempers became frayed as Stearman was only booked for a two-footed lunge on striker Eidur Gudjohnsen, when he appeared to go over the ball.
They had another reprieve three minutes later when Clint Dempsey ballooned over the bar from six yards with only Hennessey to beat after Steve Sidwell’s chip had exposed Wolves’ right side, with Salcido running on to volley the cross.
But, for once, Wolves weathered the storm and took the break they got in the 22nd minute.
Club-record signing Fletcher met Henry’s first-time cross with a towering header from six yards for his eighth goal of the season, in a move started by Guedioura’s run and pass outside Salcido.
The history between the teams meant it always promised to be a niggly affair and so it proved.
Guedioura and Fulham’s Bobby Zamora have both come back from broken legs to players on the opposite side this season .
Danny Murphy’s comments that Wolves are ‘too pumped up’ ensured he also received lengthy abuse before being substituted in the 69th minute.
Fulham and Dempsey missed another golden chance in the 42nd minute when the midfielder drilled wide, with the ball judged to have come off Christophe Berra’s foot.
O’Hara was then a yard wide with a turn and shot, after Fletcher headed down at the far post.
But the feisty nature of the game continued with Murphy leaving Henry grounded after an off-the-ball shove in the face.
Then, as the teams walked off at half-time, the pair had to be pulled apart while Fulham boss Hughes exchanged words with Stearman.
The niggles restarted on the resumption with Chris Baird booked for bringing down Matt Jarvis in full flight.
There was a moment of panic when Hennnessey dropped Baird’s cross, but the much-improved Henry was on hand to slide in ahead of Moussa Dembele.
Guedioura then tested Mark Schwarzer from 30 yards, with the goalkeeper saving at the second attempt on 50 minutes
Fulham wasted another chance three minutes later when Gudjohnsen skipped past Craddock and Stearman but, with a reducing angle and Hennessey to beat, the striker blazed over.
There was another flashpoint in the 57th minute – and this time it did result in a dismissal.
But it wasn’t one of the players as Fulham boss Hughes was sent to the stands, after Hangeland’s booking for a tackle from behind on Fletcher in front of the dugouts.
Fulham carried on creating chances and Gudjohnsen hooked over the unguarded goal, when Hennessey punched clear before Sidwell’s deflected shot was saved and substitute Gael Kakuta drilled straight at the goalkeeper.
But Wolves responded through the hard-working Fletcher, who curled wide after cutting in from the right before he fired too close to Schwarzer, whose poor kick had put his side in danger.
But Fulham got the goal they deserved in the 80th minute.
It was from the first touch from substitute Johnson, who turned and fired home from just inside the box, after fellow sub Zamora had outmuscled Berra to win Hangeland’s free kick.
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We certainly taught Fulham a footballing lesson!!!
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whats happened to o”hara and jarvis aint the same since hes been with england. 3 point against stoke or we down !
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terrible perfomance, we didnt create enough chances and were lucky to get a draw in the end, 20mins from time and trying to protect a shaky 1-0 lead …with our defensive record and vulnerability for conseding late goals! what are we playing at? im sorry to say but we heading straight for the fizzy pop! games are running out fast. dont think i could take sandwell town sending us down….
one miffed wolves fan….
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That was the worst I have seen this season, our tactics are pass the ball back to hennesey and let him kick the ball up the pitch. Rubbish footbal, rubbish players ie ward and henry
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oh yes and what did i say about all the big talk….maybe Mick and the lads will learn to keep it shut now! where was the footballing lesson???????
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That’s it then, goodnight Premeier League.
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Iam sure all you lot were saying this was a must win?
I guess u will see the same old happy clappers saying it was a good point earned :/
U had a great chance to get out of bottom 3 BUT failed yet again
Stearman was lucky to stay on pitch for his 2 footed lunge
Where’s laughing wolf who said we aint out of relegation fight yet and ur going to finish above us?
well heres the news mate we drew with spurs at their place and now have 40 points while u linger on 33 in 19th
I guess now u didnt win ur MUST WIN game today, stoke is now a MUST WIN game?
P.s SEB looks rather overweight in the above picture :/ YUK, 5ft 8 and 14 stone? THATS REPULSING
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get ready for the numpties to start calling for mick to go,as mick says its where we are at the end of the season
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said it before and i’ll say it again, bring in Bully to sort em out, i know he talks some saftness on twitter but he’d have us champions league in 2 seasons
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Well I guess we are all disappointed, but it was always going to be a tall order to get the win today due to changing the formation again with too many midfield players losing us the home advantage of putting them under attacking play, and as has happened so many times this season we drop back in the second half trying to defend the one goal, we have again been punished at the back this afternoon for not signing a commanding CB, Berra being at fault again, along with changing formation and tactics again at too late a stage in the season.
This was a game we should have won, however we still have the game in hand, which can be our saving grace.
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steven fletcher was really the only good player and the defence is shockin championship defence and what has hammill done wrong to not even get in the lineup and u can just see which bloody teams gonna send us down
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At this time of the season-not good enough.
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Micks gotta goo
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Poor performance and lucky to earn a point. With 7 players on that formed part of our Championship it was understandable. Far too negative up front and clueless at the back. The midfielders completely lacked shape and all played too central .Messrs Morgan and Moxey were absent so perhaps they know more than the rest of us. Soon be plenty of space in the new stand in the Championship.
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We are a team that talks a good game in the mid week press. Just shut up and get on with what you are paid for you over paid and overated wasters. Rubbish again today ,no improvement from the last dross performance against Everton.
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Another must win game goes begging, and to be fair we were lucky to get a point. Fulham put us under the cosh for the firtst 20mins and we somehow nicked a goal. Never looked like being enough and we hardly created another chance second half.
Other teams down with us are playing well. Blackpool were unlucky not to get three points and so were Wigan. Two great goals from Sandwell Town put them safe.
Its going down to the wire and I think we are lucky to be still in with a shout!
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Yet more pathetic ineptitude from this excuse of a Premier League manager. to make a ‘tactical’ change and go with 2 holding midfielders inviting pressure for the last half hour with our defence shows just how thick (or stupid) this manager is……will he NEVER learn his lesson.
NEGATIVE, NEGATIVE, NEGATIVE right until the very very end…..did he really want to win it?
Going down with a whimper, not even a fight…..DISGRACEFUL !!!
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Neither a numpty nor a happy clapper
But i see it as 2 points dropped for Wolves again, problem is Mick’s negative tactics as normal, we have a decent side we have beaten the likes of Man U, Man City, Chelsea but its no good beating them if you dont pick up wins to the teams around you, & i think its cos of mick’s negative way of reading the game.
example of this today
1-0 up at home, he decides after 60/70 mins he going to defend the slim lead, he takes off Milijas & puts on manciene (who’s barley featured this season & is natualy a defender) instead of switching Guediora into the middle and bringing on kites…
…. no, he waits till they bring on there two fresh strikers, lose the 3 points then panic and take guediora off for kites when too late, then lose our hieght upfront in fletcher for seb who at that point in the game when were on the back foot wont be as efective as fletcher !
I mean Johnson was on the pitch for 18 seconds, & SCORES ! (Berra at fault and all over players again).
Even saw Mick tellin the suporters to cheer them instead of groan, when on attack we we stop to pass back and waste time, thats NOT what you do at 1-0 mick you
NEGATIVE MICK, FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE !
Man U are best example of this….
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HI HO HI HO ,OUT OF THE PREM WE GO,3 OF OUR NEXT 4 GAMES ARE AWAY FROM HOME,NOTICED HOW HENRY AND WARD BACK IN THE TEAM ,ANOTHER FINE MESS MICK GOT US IN,MICK HAMMILL IS BETTER THAN ADLENE,OUR GREAT DEFENDERS TO OUR RESCUE AGAIN,DEFEAT VS STOKE ON TUES WILL ALL BUT SEND US DOWN,LETS DO LESS TALKING TO THE MEDIA AND JUST GET ON WITH THE BUSINESS AT HAND AND FOR GOD SAKE BERRA YOU ARE A LIABILITY ,(ALWAYS SHIRT PULLING)
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Disappointing performance. We’re running out of games now. We looked so uncomfortable on the ball today which is a real concern. The substitions seemed to disrupt the team.
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Fact : the worst manager in the premier league ever
No matter what the happy clappers think he is the worst
We will go down
This team is HIS team
No more excuses ….. Mcarthy you r judged on results like i am wheni go to work but diff is that i am not on 1million wage per year and if i performed like him i would get sacked
We had two years to strengthen team and he wasted 35Million
Mcarthy you have to answer that question
Went to newcastle away … Met one fan who seen wolves coach leave compton … He waved to coach none of the players responded …. Says it all
R.I.P
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Lets face it, not good enough. Lopsided formation, very weak going forward and suspect at the back. Barring a miracle it’s the championship for us. As many people have been saying all season it’s about time we got rid of MM and clipboard. Ah well at least we will get more games for our money.
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Dont worry, fellas, Mr Mcarthy quite categorically stated a couple of weeks ago that we would not go down. He’s in charge, we’re just numpties, aren’t we?!
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It was like watching Barcelona, what a footballing lesson Fulham have been taught today?
Adéu and hopefully goodbye.
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Can’t believe MM stuck with the one winger and negative tactics after the poor performance against Everton . Adam Hammil surely must be better on the wing than Adlene Guedioura . We looked so dangerous with two flying wingers and Ohara tucked behind the forward but some reason MM has changed it and we’ve taken a massive step backwards. Problem is he’s so stubborn that he’ll play this for the rest of the season and take us down rather than admitting he’s wrong . Sandwell town are gonna smash us if he picks the same team :-(
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Glad to see the back to basics training worked a treat , nice one mick : /
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Well it’s a point, more than some of our rivals got. On the plus side, Henry and Fletch were great today. On the minus, does O’Hara gell in this team or is he a bit of an individualist who does not link up well as, say, Dave Edwards does? I’d be interested in others’ views. Bet he scores at Stoke now I’ve said that !
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I still think you have a good chance of survival. Wigan and Blackpool are poor and a win for you against the clayheads means everything changes in a tight league. With 3 midland derbies in the next 2 weeks surely every fan wants all four midland teams in the Premiership again next season. The banter has been superb.
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Lucky to get a point from today’s game, I was very surprised at quality gap between our players and Fulham’s lot, the Londoners had so much more composure on the ball and patience, technically better than I originally thought before sat myself down before kick-off. The most alarming thing about Wolves was how sluggish they all looked considering they had no game last weekend, Fulham were so sharp to everything and we only scored against the run of play and really do much else, I was shouting at the players to just keep hold of the ball. I don’t know what Hammill has done wrong, I don’t think he’s been spectacular but he’s consistent in steady performance and brings balance to the side plus he knows what he’s doing out there. Again I do think Guedioura is way over rated just because of over ambitious shots and running about the pitch, how many times he lost the ball in the second half then again he’s not a winger, and another thing? Did we have leader out there today? No one in a Wolves shirt took control of the game for us; Fletcher did his best with whatever service he got and took his goal well. Performance wise the lads look like their tanks are nearly empty, with still the worse away record in the league we needed to win this game and the next two home games, its sadly looks like we are heading back down the championship unless a miracle happens
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FLETCHER was class the only highlight of the day, what could of been if mcclueless had played him most of the season??
To sum it up at home to a team who have nothing to play for and we were totally dominated 2nd half SHOCKING. What has hammill done wrong? I LOVE guedioura but not wide right, we have no width with him there
But what do I know hey? I’m just a happy snapper who has said all season the only way is not Essex, it’s down with this clueless man in charge!! Happy snapping all the way to the championship.
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Brilliant bring back cackock and still play barry and phil chuckle in defence
Manager !!!!!!!!!!
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The catastrophe of hope.
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Well it wasn’t the result we all wanted, but it wasn’t the worse either. Lets see what Tuesday night’s game bring us,if we can get 1pt or even sneak all 3pts, that would take us out the bottom 3? Although i now only listen to the match on Beacon radio, it sounded like Henry played well even crossed it for Fletcher to score,i thought Fletcher played well, as he was mentioned alot on the radio, i thought O’Hara had a poor match,although its hard to tell on the radio, and Jarvis seems to have gone of the boil, like O’Hara as. Why does MM persist in playing AG has a wide man,when he always moves into the middle of the pitch, cause its his natural instinct to play there? Yet we’ve two far better Right wingers in Hammill / Kightly, who would be far better suited to the 4.5.1. system were you want two natural wingers? Good to see Fletcher score again, i have to say im sure MM had given SF more games, we wouldn’t be were we are today? But MM makes all the decisions not us, i also thought MM made the wrong choice in bringing an attacking mifielder Milijas off to replace him with a defensive player in Mancienne, with 26mins to play, which let Fulham push us back and concede a goal? Why didnt we keep the same shape until say last 10mins? UTW:
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Question – Where’s Hamill????
24, Shouldn’t you be keeping an eye on your gaffers sunbeds???
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we are not good enough players no good and an idiot manager no good ,time to get martin or big sam in now and give us a chance to go back up next season.
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What a great team display !
I love mick he is the best manager
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the cullis dome you say henry was great today no wonder we are going down
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Yes we might be down and yes we might stay up, the truth is nobody knows! By my own predictions of the run in we are still up taking max points from last 2 home games and a point somewhere from our away games. You all need to look at who the other teams are playing in their last 4/5 games (some of them are playing each other) 40 pts will do, B’pool & B’burn have only taken 2 & 3 pts from their last 7/6 games! We have taken 8 pts from 6. Get your excel spreadsheet out and predict yourself! Ps been with the club when we went to the fourth (best times of my life) will be WITH the club regardless, it never dies we are Wolves!
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1 The problem is not the formation,if we had not been defensive Fulham would have picked us off like Everton did the other week.The problem is the lack of quality players,all over the place.As a number have said on here,we have not done enough in the transfer market.It is too late now and we must live with yet another failed opportunity.Ironically,Mick wanted to sign Johnson in Jan, according to reports, Fulham wanted a full sale whilst Wolves would only do a loan deal.Another fine mess Mr Moxey.
2 Cullis, I agree, as I am sure all who attended the game will,Fletcher was excellent and Henry was back to his best form.As for O’Hara you are right,he is either totally out of form,carrying an injury or is just not bothered.Edwards would at least run and track back.
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So Everton & Fulham were your easy run in ??
They were the 6 points that were taking you above us ??
Well one point later laughed atwolf seems to have disappeared from our boards (at least under his own name).
For what its worth I still think you will wriggle out the botttom 3 if you beat Blackburn – but you need at least 2 wins to have any chance.
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Feeling a bit deflated. Fulham deserved their point. Fletcher was superb but after that I can’t single anyone else out. Everyone gave their all – no doubt about that – but we lacked quality today, whether through nervousness or what I don’t know. I would like to have seen Hammil. We now need something from the Stoke game.
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According to the bbc predictor will need to beat Blackburn to stay up.
Doh panic,it eh time for gornal to get his banner yet…
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The overall effort was better than the last two disastrous performances but we hardly gave them a “lesson” did we? FUlham could fairly argue that they should have had all three points as they were the better team. Fletcher can take a lot of credit for his overall game and excellent goal. HEnnessey did much better in this game but Stearman was very lucky not to get thrown out for that dangerous lunge on the halfway line in the first half.
ANd what is the deal with Berra? Why does he continually grab the opponents shirt even in safe areas of the pitch? Personally, I thought Jarvis was really poor today and O’Hara was below par.
OVerall, the games this Saturday leave us in a similar potion but there was little here today to suggest nothing but a gut wrenching end to our season. Stoke next and I cannot see a three pointer coming our way on the strength of this performance
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Once again we get the lead are not able to defend the wolves fans are to good for this club all morgan and moxley are interested is making profit
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9 – Mutchey
That is so funny, me and my husband were in stitches all night with this comment. Champions League – are you serious? You are so deluded. How do you expect Steve Bull to manage when he can’t even manage to string 3 words together?
Absolutely priceless. Heheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh
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Still confident. We have no right to beat Fulham or anyone else so get over it. Stoke next and away from the Mol they might just play football without so much fear. We are not capable of scoring three or four goals so it has to be that we stifle the game and hope to nick one. After two horrible losses the draw is ok, now we need at least another and hopefully a win. Against Stoke we have to be physical and get them on the break, I fancy a win. We no longer bottom and our goals difference is looking like it might just save us. UTW.
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We missed Hammil.
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At least West Ham lost and we still have a game in hand. Keep the faith.
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Well how was that for a footballing lesson!!! Well Fulham now you know how to play if you want to get relegated. Pity then that they ignored the lesson otherwise we might have won.
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If it comes to the last day against Blackburn Rovers you should be safe. Rovers in total free fall with an idiot in charge who makes Mick McCarthy look a genius. We got rid of the only bloke who could save us.
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4-5-1 AT HOME! SHAMEFUL.
With a manager who goes public to demand his team win three from their last six to survive and he goes 4-5-1 AT HOME? TO FULHAM, WHO BOASTED ONLY ONE AWAY WIN ALL SEASON!!
We get called numpties because of a Numpty like this. Spare me!!!!!!!!
Apart from what I’ve already said, words escape me. If we can’t beat Fu Fu Fu Fulham at the Mol, please. TRY TO DEFEND A 22ND SECOND MINUTE LEAD for 68 more. Who does he think he’s kidding?
Shirt puller was lucky not to get a red, Stearman was all at sea. Hennessey can’t keep hold of he ball, on the odd occasion it comes his way. What do McCarthy and Co get paid for. he doesn’t even photograph well.
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A must win game against a team who has won only 2 away games in the past 2 seasons. We are simply not good enough. MM has a poor premiership win record. As much as I hate to say it, the baggies did a wonder trick to bring in a fresh manager to the helm, and look where they are now. Championship beckons with this manager. Should have gone for curbs, o`neil or even big Sam in Jan.
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RONS FLOWERS,
I was thinking, since the final whistle blew, to say all the things you put on your post. I w3atched the game on P2P and noted the reargaurd comment that the lads were booed of the pitch, by ony a small contingent of the crowd. damage limitation in the boardroom as well as the pitch eh?
Get gone Micko. Fulham should have been easy meat. A second goal by any other team would have ended that game. Fletch off. Disgusting. He played his heart out. McCarthy=Clueless=Championship.
Dream on we can win at Stoke.
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Yeah bet he does Cullis Dome but it won’t be from anything he learned at Compton. You’ll see. Anybody the fans take a shine to gets frozen out. There’s only one personality at Wolverhampton Wanderers right now and that’s Mr None personality Numpty O’Mick. The quicker we get shot of him, the better our footy will be.
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Painful to watch at times, we didn’t play well, we were lucky to get the goal and to be honest we didn’t deserve it lack of passion from half the team! Fulham luckily for us couldn’t hit a barn door today. Why is it out defence stands off from putting in a tackle so much 3 players within 4 yard area of dempsy’s attack not one put a foot in :/ sums up our defending. Karl Henry had a stinker as did o’hara, ward just isn’t premiership material and Mick is an old dog that won’t be taught new tricks 2 seasons and still doesn’t know his best team.
To sum up if the players don’t put passion and a fight into these next games I won’t be happy watching us play championship in 6 months!
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Happy Baggie (Post 7); its good to know that both our clubs have genuine, mature supporters who have exchanged congratulations through this ‘forum’ on our respective ‘threads’ when either team has beaten the on of the ‘big boys’. Those supporters will, i’m sure will want Villa, B-ham, Wolves and Albion to continue in the top flight where those genuine fans can enjoy that extra buzz of a local derby. Just a pity that you are obviously not one of them.
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Yet again we were let down by this absurd idea that we can hang on to a 1-0 lead. Davo Wolf is dead right, even though I haven’t seen his post yet. I take this position.
How many times have we seen a lead lost, nay frittered away this season in games we could have, should have, easily won?
It’s abysmal. We must be the joke of the season. Ward, Elokobi!!
Attack them down the right channel lads, that’ s where the cash dispenser’s at it’s most generous. Or better; let them take the lead early, that way we’ll have the rest of the afternoon to win or at least forage for a point.
Micko. Go back to Barnsley buddy, the party is well and truly over. You’re shot!! not to mention out of your depth.
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Listen to Mick in the post-match, and you can hear in his tone that he doesn’t believe we’ll make it. If he doesn’t, then there really is no way the team will. It’s still in our hands, but I really can’t see how we’re going to win when morale has clearly taken a big hit and there are too few games left to get it back. That means we need all of those around us not to win either…
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BAMBO, wadda weeno? Godot has spoken. Just who der hell R YA to Kwestion Godot Mick? Koff up yer early bird quids bud, or go support another numpty outfit. Whydontcha?
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unfortunatly we looked like the worst side in the prem today, ohara looked liable every time he touched the ball, too many back passes by henry,,, we’re not out of it yet so im gonna keep the faith and support our team one overlooked factor fulham played well
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No 1. DEAD RIGHT. IN MICKO WE TRUST AND ARE SAVED, HEY?? IN MICKO THERE’S RUST AND NEEDS A DOSE OF UB40 WHAT? BIG BAD JOKER
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What’s your point, comment 27? Trying to defend a 1-0 for 60 minutes yet again only to be faxed by a sub who’s only been on 50 seconds. Get real you dope. We need express relief. Not a goddamed point at HOME TO FULHAM!!!!!!!!!!
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Poor result, needed a win. Let Fulham play too much football, and I fear for us.
Also No. 7… do you mean repulsive?
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Of course it’s were we are going to be at the end of the season Mick? In the bottom three like the rest of it.Berra not good enough,I wish his feet was like his arms Stearman static, Crying out for a quality centre half and a new manager come to think of it.No efforts on target second half at home, To a team who have only won once away this season .Disgraceful.
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Yes Mick of course it depends on where we are at the end of the season.It’s where we have been for most of it in the bottom three.No effort on goal at home to a side who have only won once away from home this season. Berra just wish his feet was as quick as his arms, Stearman static, Crying out for a quality centre half and manager come to think of it 1 point out out of 9 with what should have been an easy run in, Disgraceful.
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the way i see it were stuck with mick.(sadly) if we stay up (massive if) he will be plauded and given more money to buy strikers n wingers and tell us all he knew the defence would keep us up. and when we go done the board will say who better to get us back up..the club is a joke, thought morgan would give mm 10 games see his selection and tactics were ccc and get rid but for some reason he loves him. oh well back were the board want us in the ccc.
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^27 i hope your right!
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OK, where’s the “easy run-in” ? Surely a home game against a team who have only won once away is as easy as it gets? This is a disgraceful assembly of players for a manager who has been there almost FIVE years. This is due to staying loyal to a Championship-class manager. We have now been in the bottom-4 for two whole seasons. And now for our reward.
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Goodnight nurse
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23 Happy Baggie_23
Do me a favour mate let us stay up.
It is Sunday after all so Let us Prey:-
Please dont relegate us at Home.
Please dont put Tesco Carrier bags on the backs of the seats.
Zippy Please dont give us a pie and a pint to make up for losing our seats to WBA.
Morgan please invest in the team not the stadium.
Morgan please get rid of Bungle.
Project Manager Please make sure no one spells “Blues” in the Block pavings outside the Main entrance to the stand.
I cannot stand it anymore.
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Well, we were fortunate to go away without any points! Still, these last five fixtures will have me wearing my ski mittens, as I want to keep all my finger-nails intact! Cone on you Wolves, let’s come a cropper and get after those Potters! UTW!
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Trying to be positive we only need a point on tuesday to get out of the relegation zone and still have the most favourable run in.
On the other hand our defence ball watching for the goal is the latest in a long line of mistakes which they have cost us this season. Also if we are playing 4 5 1 lets have two wingers on the pitch. What has hammill done wrong? We need more width not 4 centre midfielders!!!!!! I still believe we can do it, its unlikely that it will be over 41 points now for safety as i cant see wigan and blackpool winning 3 of their last 4 and west ham would have to win 4 to get to 42. I think 2 wins and a draw will be enough and we CAN do it. Lets just get behind the team for these last games and judge them and the manager at the end of it, starting with stoke tuesday! IF we do stop up we must strenghten the defence with a left back and maybe 2 centre halfs. Ward and berra both out. Up the wolves.
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More comical defending from Berra; but all 3 points would have been an injustice. Wolves’ performance will have to improve dramatically to conjure up 3 wins in order to survive and our away form is dreadful. This was another must win home game. Very disappointing. Signs are not good.
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Doomed, draw NOT good enough.
Taxi for McCarthy please.
Pick anyone from 4 please as a replacement next season.
Martin O’Neil
Big Sam Allardyce
Ian Holloway
Gus Poyet
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Once again negative tactic’s, when will you admit you are wrong?. You continue with HENRY in mid-field and still think that WARD is a Full Back wrong.
HENRY does not do anything other than loose the ball or pass in back so negative.
WARD cannot control the ball when no one near him!!! then he turn his back on the player when he feigns to cross the ball. Runs like a crab with the player instead of tackling.
MM should have been sacked well before Christmas but he must know something about them that is not public.
Once again get rid and bring in ALLERDYCE and Steve BULLnow, at least we would go down fighting.
Remember we got most of our points wehnHENRY and WARD were injured!!!! Do’t play either again.
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Get big sam in!! That’s if he will come now.
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Mad Mick ain’t got a clue.
he takes off players who can keep the ball and presents it to the opposition on a plate, tactically inept
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Rubbish tactics again, disjointed formation. What on earth has Hamill done, upset MM perhaps, would have been a far better bet than Kites who is nowhere near ready. Morgan please get rid of the worst management team in the prem.
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Henessey does nothing to inspire confidence, does not dominate his area and is very weak off his line. Why oh why does he persist with hoofing the ball up directly to the opposition. As for Berra with his shirt pulling and holding he is a liability. Then again apart from Fletcher the others were as bad and look completely lacking in ideas and confidence. On the bright side at least the grass is growing.
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10 mins from 3 points, but too negative. The Stoke game is crucial and 3 points would go a long way to keeping us up. Lose and we are more than likley to be playing in the championship. It almost seems like MM is banking on beating Blackburn to stay up which is a risky game to play.
WE ARE WOLVES!
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7) See you on the 8th. Good to see that your defence is keeping the record going for being the worst in Premiership history for not keeping a clean sheet.
Not great performance but a draw on Tuesday takes us out the bottom 3 I think. People who are knocking Henry and Ward watched a different game to me, as they were two of our better players. The obvious tactical error was playing Guedioura on the right as he kept on drifting in. If we play 4-5-1 we must play Hammill!
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Got to say this fellow fans TIME FOR CHANGE and thats what I want- What about you lot ?
Crazey Dave
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Never mind all the derision on here from all the usual moaners, our season is basically 5 games long now, and we have to win three of the remaining 5, and I think we can, the other teams do not have the run in that we have, and we still have to play 3 of the other threatened teams ie Brum, Sunnerland and Blackburn, as Magic Mick keeps saying, its where we are at 5pm on Sunday 22nd May. It was a point won against Fulham and we moved up the league one place. Against Everton and Newcastle we were rubbish, but there was a definite improvement on Saturday. We can avoid relegation, I know we can, all you have to do is keep the faith!!
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4Joeyessex “rubbish players ie ward and henry”
were you at the match – now i’m no fan of Ward but he played as well as anybody in defence yesterday and as for Henry – he was excellent (last ditch tackles plus fantastic cross for Fletcher’s goal)
As for the idiot in charge of the team – well that’s a different matter. Why is he the only one in the ground to see that the formation was not working?
Lost count of the times that O’Hara, Henry and Milijas got the ball and looked up to find and pass to the wings only to find that Gouediera was stood 3 yards away from them in the centre of the park – not Goudi’s fault he’s a central midfielder by nature!
Jarvo has gone back into his shell again – did he manage to beat a player yesterday – i don’t remember many occassions.
and what’s happened to the O’Hara that we saw against the Baggies / Blackpool?
I’ve no prob with a 5 man midfield but it’s got to be Hammill, Henry, Jarvis and any 2 from O’Hara or Gouediera and Milijas.
only one bigger fool in the ground than MacCarthy and that was the ref – absolutely shocking!
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Disappointed that we did not win this game, which we badly needed to do. However, we have gained a point and moved off the bottom of the league with a game in hand on others above us.
The positives from this game was Fletchers performance as the lone striker. This is a role I doubted he could play as effectively as Doyle. Thought he was excellant.
Also, I thought Karl Henry produced a captains performance, which is not before time.
The negatives were all too obvious: Unconvincing defence, even with the recall of Jody Craddock, subdued contributions from both Jarvis and O’Hara.
We must start winning some of these “must win” games soon, and not simply talk about it. A few weeks ago we were looking at possibly up to ten or eleven teams that could be involved in a relagation battle. Now it is probably down to six.
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OK – I thought we should have played Kites/Hammill on the right as the balance was wrong. But nobody in the first 27 has bothered to point out what a fantastic game Karl Henry had (why say something positive when you can slag off the same players 19?). For those resigned to relegation, can I point out that if we get a point at Stoke (our game in hand) we will be out of the bottom 3.
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This man is as thick as the Yorkshire puddings my missus used to make. Footballing lesson I ask you. Come on do us all a favour go and take all you cronies with you.
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This was never a ‘must win’ game with points so close at the bottom and the teams fighting relegation rarely win too many, which is how it’s working out.
Nevertheless it was a disappointing performance from some of the players. What was wrong with O’Hara and Milijas ? Fulham dominated us in midfield and although he made one or two mistakes, Karl Henry had to work really hard in front of the defence because his midfield partners seemed to lack the stomach for a fight. Apart from his silly tackle Stearman did quite well at right back and he came more and more underpressure as Guediora faded and quite rightly got substituted.
Why did Mick bring on Kiteley,this isn’t the time to be trying to get a player who’s been out for two years match fit. ….and just what has Hammill done wrong ?
In the end a fair result, we just about deserved the point IMO.
Two away games now from which we need two points preferably three.
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When seen in relation to some of the other results yesterday (W Ham, Wigan, Blues), the draw against Fulham still renders it possible (though improbable, imv) to stay up. A lot of improvement to be desired: Hennesey starting to get shaky because of the pressure? The same to be said for the back four? Imbalance in midfield due to changes in line-up? To me, only one piece in the jigsaw is a certainty for the upcoming games: Fletcher to start up front, at least when Doyle is missing! We can still make it, but the team, the manager and everyone involved need to pull themselves together big time – UTW!
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We came up with a Championship defence and it was the same selection as yesterday and it shows despite spending many millions we have not bought quality defenders.Tom Ross was critical of McCarthy saying hes had two years to fix the problem.Its probaly a combination of Moxey unwilling to invest along with Micks blind loyalty to poor players remember Neil Collins,Stephen Elliot,Andy Keogh etc.
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Dear No27, fletch was immense,nd ohara form is worrying,although henry did some very good tackles especially when wayne dropped the ball.However he continued to give the ball away,sliced the ball luckily back to wayne,nd passed the ball backwards or at best sideways.Personally i dont think hes a good game 4 ages .I would play adlene in the centre where hes best nd play hammil to balance the right side for the first hour then play kites the last 30 mins There was too many below par performances yesterday,regards David
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Awful performance & absolutely ridiculous, idiotic tactics employed by Mick yet again. What is the point in trying to defend a 1-0 lead for an hour? We really do need to beat Stoke in our game in hand on tuesday, although even a draw will take us upto 17th. Come on you WOLVES, wat are you playing at. You’ve turned us into a laughing stock & you wana sort it out & fast!!!!
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O`Haras gone off the boil because he doesnt want to sign for us next season. He is a footballing midfielder, we bypass the midfield with long balls so he knows his game and international ambitions will go backwards with us.
That said he should be dropped and replaced with people who want to play for us. or maybe we try and play football and keep possession by passing it instead of hoofing it. Saw albion at stoke a few weeks back and stoke couldn`t get the ball off albion 2nd half because they kept the ball on the floor and outpassed stoke (not difficult I know) and albion got the point and nearly got the 3 they deserved.
If we constantly give the ball back to stoke they`ll murder us.
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We Played okay but once we went 1-0 up we stopped and didn’t go for the all important 2nd goal and tried to hold on for a 1-0 win then once they scored we still sat back and didn’t go for it in the final 10mins plus added time =/ a bit disappointing and Mike Oliver wasn’t great at all refereeing.
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My findings: O’Hara, seems to be a bit of a brat in the team. Watch him when wolves are awarded free kicks etc. the way he interacts with the other players seems like he seems he rules the roost; Stearman, I was impressed by his performance at right back, he seems to be thinking more and his decision making and timing is much improved; Milijas, lazy, didn’t put a shift in again, ok he has talent in spurts, but it seems to be at a cost. If you watch him in warm up, he spoons more than anyone. I’m not sure about him; Mcarthy, the team really lacked sharpe, Guardiora (realise my spelling is poor) was constantly being pulled in the middle, you could almost see him reminding himself to get out wide, put 2 minutes later would be back into the centre. Secondly as far as the manager is concerned, if you are only going to play one up front, then fine, but properly consult the midfielders, so when Flether picks the ball up towards the edge, the others are doing all they can to get in the box.
On the whole, I don’t think this was a premiership performance, and if we put a similar performance in against Stoke, it may be Preston et. al next season. (I hope the ticket prices will come down if this is the case)
Regards.
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Another day of hope and mild expectation with great weather to match. Couldn’t fault MM’s selection,even though I often do. Given injury and form he picked his first 11.
Looking at the Fulham 11 you could see they have more quality and class. This showed in the first few minutes and they could’ve easily gone ahead. As always WWFC played with grit and I felt a little more comfortable with old man Jody at the back. Still, we dropped too deep and did not press enough. We I never, first real break and one million pound per goal man gets a great header in. So far so good.
Started the second half and I could not help but look at their bench. When will Zamora and Johnson come on. Ours was didn’t quite have the quality. Then our first change. I know he was trying to shore up the defence but taking off the only player with a hope of keeping possession??? Mancienne has been out for quite a while and there was no way he was going to get back into it at this stage. O’Hara was playing the most forward of mid-fielders and AG isn’t a wide player. Either of those could have come off and Kightly on as wide right. Jarvis has his worst game by far (hasn’t been the same since England début.
Then it was route one. Why? please someone tell me, Hange….is about 6’10″ and we pumped the ball right up the middle and defended the inevitable. I hoped we would hold but realistically, I would have been gutted as a FFC fan (ecstatic as a WWFC) if they hadn’t have scored. No surprise, it was like watching Kevin Phillips all over again.
One point, MM put on a brave face for the media we will get relegated. Of that I’m sure. Tactical substitutions rubbish and we still need a LB, CH, CM and clearly another striker when Doyle goes.
I’m not being negative, just honest. Last year we were lucky because there were at least three teams worse than us. Are we better than Wigan, Blackpool, West Ham, Blackburn. They have all beaten us and the only reverse we’ve had was against 10 man Blackpool.
The ironic thing is, that when the Baggies sacked their manager, I was almost glad that MM was still in a job. Look at where they are. MM is an honest manager, who does get the team to put in effort (in fact his buzz words are effort and hard work). Without quality and at least some tactical knowledge you cannot stay in the PL.
Oh I dream of results against Stoke and B’Ham and then I’ll happily eat my words.
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I agree with Mutchey, Bully might talk rubbish on twitter but he is a Wulfs legend and would lead the club back to were we belong! We invented European football after all!
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We got something when everyone else didn’t, but for so long it looked like 3 points, but once again we seem to forget two goals will win a game, but we score one then sit back. Typical Mick tactics.
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One point from safety with a game in hand?
Nice to see so many so called fans have given up already!
It’s a good job the players don’t read these comments.
UTW
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Can we find a manager that believes theres more to the Premiership than finishing 17th.
Seems like we start and end the season believing we have no chance of winning anything.
As I live in the states I have to watch on TV now. The commentators were getting on the fans for booing when Wolves had the ball on the edge of the Fulham area and finished up back in the middle of their own half without Fulham touching the ball, but we don’t look comfortable enough on the ball to be playing it backwards. Every pass in our own half is an adventure.
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whre is the fight gone in the team?
thats what i have loved about wolves these last 2 seasons more than ever!
i am shocked that we have lost that fight when we really need it.
I have always respected wolves, win or loose, when they fight for everything and send men forward to win games.
I only listened to the match, but reading the comments on here and comments on wolves player – we need to bring fight back and take a chance!
Lets go down fighting wolves, 1 point is important though. every point is a prisoner, as mick says! Lets get some more, but please lets play positive football.
POSITIVE: we stopped loosing and started to score and get points.
Lets look forward to Stoke!
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Was I watching the same match? Henry “excellent”?? Let’s try and forget the fact that he called for Guerdiola to play the ball back before the Algerian played it forward to allow Henry all the time and space in the World to put a cross in.
A hard earned point but we are still making woeful errors and not closing players down. It was reported that Andy Johnson had only been on the pitch 18 seconds before he scored – for 17 of those he was on the ball in front of our defence before he picked his spot.
I think we need two wins from our last five games – considering we’ve taken 8 from 16 away games and one of our home games is a banana skin against the Albion, where are the points coming from? I can see us needing to beat Blackburn on the last day and rely on other results as well, if we’re lucky.
It is Connor and McCarthy who have us in this position through poor coaching and technique and a clear lack of method on the pitch. Yes, we were better on Saturday but not good enough to beat a team with one of the poorest away records in this division.
I desperately want us to stay up, but where is there any future in the Premier League with Mick and Clipboard? If we do stay up we’ll be in the same position this time next season.
I see games at Brighton and Doncaster coming up……..
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foles player of season 2 years ago on the bench, stears totally inept still in the team!! adlene who can score from long range out on the wing, hammill n kites on the bench?? o’hara gone missing but most of all no doyle no chance!! to the sandwell fans crowing on ere make most of it as u are riding on the crest of a wave once the brown stuff hits the fan woy will have u nil nil draws every week!!!!
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On February 21, 2011 at 11:24 am Grace posted the following:
“That said, Albion are a poor team & will be relegated at Molineux in April.”
How funny!!!
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the positive and most important thing was that we got a point from a game we should have lost. Also a few results went in our favour.
As for the match We were outplayed in every department and only poor finishing from fulham kept us in the game.
It was good to see craddock back but the defence very shaky. hennessey handling was also poor.I thought Ward did pretty well.
Mick took a big risk again playing both o’hara and guedioura as neither had not played much football. Both looked behind the pace and struggled to make any impact. This put extra pressure on Henry and Miljas who tried hard but is not a defensive midfielder.
Fletcher likes the ball to feet and was fed on scraps throughout. He showed if a good ball was put in the box he could get his head on it, but we put very few crosses in.
Jarvis needs a rest and looked tired.
After the last three games I cant see where 3 wins will come from, but as I said last week,
im just going to get behind the team for the rest of the season and then see where we are.
SEB should start at Stoke as the lone striker but we really need doyle back for sunday.
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27 HENRY wasgreat you must have rose tinted glasses the same as MM. HENRY was rubbish gave the ball away and still only passes the ball like a crab. sideways or back. Cannot argue with FLETCHER but he takes him off and brings on EB if he’s fit I’m a dutch mans uncle.
MM you are taking us down because you continue to play HENRY, WARD and BERRA, he fell over once because he couldn’t grab the players shirt.
Don’tforget we got our points when HENRY and WARD were injured so wake up MM and leave them out alon with HENNESEY.
But we are all wasteing our time because you know best and we are all numpties.
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I thought Wolves looked tentative at the start and could well have been out of the game had Fulham taken the chances before Wolves scored. Once again a one goal lead is not enough. Just not good enough, ineffective in midfield, just one mistake in defence and bang a goal is scored. Not sure where the next win will come from. Ward just gives too much space on the left. Not sure playing one up front is the right tactics.
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Such a shame you guys are going down, its been great having all 4 in the prem for the 1st time.
You`re a hard working side but I think you should take a leaf out of your neighbours book and try and play some proper football instead of all this huffing and puffing and long ball, they look great to watch and are definitely the surprise package this year.
You`ve too many sub standard players and sorry to say but a sub standard man in charge (bit like us, although I wish him a speedy recovery). And don`t worry we`ll beat the baggies this saturday, we`ve got the curse over them.
Hope you come back in 2012.
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Never seen Henry play better – he was immense. Superb goal from Fletch and I thought Ward had a great game too.
We’re moving in the right direction…. onwards!
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75 et al same old rubbish blaming Henry and Ward who had excellent / solid games
84 – actually passing an opinion based on the game we watched rather than writing the comments in advance – well done!
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Fulham played well because we allowed them to! When you are playing above your station and need to survive you need to play ugly i.e close the opposition down and make life as difficult for them as possible we did not. Guedora is not a right sided midfielder he should be in the centre closing down and surging forward once he has won the ball a la Everton away.
McCarthy and his tactics have made O’Hara peripheral to the play as he is constantly bypassed.
Why oh why do we continually pass the ball back to Hennessey for him to belt it upfiled to a loan striker? To be fair Flecher and latterly Syvain won more than their fair share of flick ons but they have no one to flick it on to which results in loss of pocession.
Fletcher our best player on Saturday was taken off why could we not go for another goal and killed the game off by keeping both strikers on?
I agree Hammill has been good since his arrival yet does not get a look in now. Fletcher plays well and is constantly substituted why? The manager needs to be less pig-headed and forget his favourites.
Jarvis since his England call-up has done less tracking back exposing our already weak area further drop him and give him time to self assess.
I sincerely hope we stay up but have grave doubts due to tactical ineptitude and favouritism.
UTW
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102) Greenwolf
Were you watching the same match ? Clearly not.
If Henry hadn’t battled as hard as he did in fron of our defence, whilst O’Hara and particularly Milijas stood and watched we might not have even got the point. Yes he made a couple of errors, one of which he redeemed himself, but which Wolves player didn’t ? Fulham midfield ran the show for most of the match.
Also if you think AJ was on the ball for 17 seconds before he scored you definately need to go to SpecSavers.
One of the few positives to come out of the game was Fletcher playing the lone role. Guediora needs a seat on the bench and MM needs to start Hammill. Save Kiteley for next season he’s not going to help us one iota in this crucial run in.
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108 – We completely out played you at Villa Park and as a Villa fan you should know that extensive injuries take their toll. I’d be more concerned about your dip from 6th to relegation battle?
1 point from safety with a game in hand. I would love a point at Stoke and we need to attack Blues as they are all over the place but unfortunately won’t have 9 players out like they did against Albion!!!
Getting to 40 points in style!!!
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109, GENEVA, MARK MINE, YOU’LL EAT YOURS.
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No.9 You are either a throstle in a not very convincing disguise or have a mental age of 4, Bully was a legend as a player but not so great as manager (Stafford Rangers). Good point about catastrophe of hope from whoever that was; Tomwolf you really need to learn how to write. A point was a good return in reality as we were second best in all departments, Henry and Fletcher only credible performances. So many times this season I have thought that’s it we’re done for, yet we are still in with a chance, check out the betting (3 teams shorter odds, you never know….
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Gutted we`re in this mess. In february after we beat man u and the albion were in free fall I envisaged us sending them down at the mol in may. Sadly now it looks like it`ll be the other way round.
Credit to the baggies, they have bought far superior players to us and now its showing. We needed to rebuild and strengthen over the last 2 years but instead we`re stuck with basically the same team that took us up. Can we loan odemwingie, olson, thomas, shorey,scharner and molumbu now that they are safe?
With our inferior GD We need 2 wins and 2 draws from our last 5 games. Come on me Babbies!
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81 Brummiewolf , our lack of clean sheets is worrying me to death as we sit 12th in the prem you just worry about Thick Mick’s wins to games ratio in the prem ! probably only 2nd to Billy Davies !
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No 88 Bertie, A good summary in my opinion.Stearman also won a number of headers from set pieces.We will need that on Tuesday.
No 99 Sir Billy,’It is a good job the players don’t read theses comments’. What are they mice or men? On £20,000 a week you would think they might allow themselves a little peek.But you are right it is still all to play for.
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106 I agree with you. Henry did have some good spells of good football, but, he also had some really bad spells, including his usual his pass backs to Ward , which were all too often, particularly in the 2nd half.
Henry will never ever be of sufficient quality to play in centre midfield in the premiership.
Getting tenser by the day, biggest derby in years tomorrow at Stoke.
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The only reason people were claiming that Fulham was a must win was because it was a home game, and our away form has been poor. We had 6 games left and needed a maximum of 3 wins, we had 3 home games so most people thought that those were the games that the wins were going to come from. Now we have 5 games left, and possibly need 3 wins still, maybe 2 wins and a draw. A draw against stoke would get us out the relegation zone, and put us on same games played as every one else, so even this next match isnt a must win. But i think the way we are curently playing, we will be lucky to get anything from the match. We have all seen this group of player play so much better than they have done in recent games, lets hope they get back to that form, then i have no doubt we will pick up the 3 wins that will almost certainly gaurentee our safety.
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Get martin or big sam in now and get rid of this idiot manager he justn aint got a clue.
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I think the players look terrified every time they take the park at the moment; McCarthy’s trying to appear bullish in the media, but something’s definitely being lost in translating that into performances.
We don’t have the greatest record under McCarthy of performing well in high-pressure games, which might be down to poor preparation, tactics, lack of mental strength and/or leadership on and off the field; or a combination of all of the above.
The frustrating thing is that the goal of survival still remains perfectly attainable, and we saw as recently as the Villa game that this group of players are capable of controlled, mature, Premiership-standard displays. As one of the contributors has noted, it needs a collective bucking up of ideas and a serious display of bottle to obtain the desired outcome.
Having said that, it would be grossly misjudged to try and play Stoke at their own game; Bolton tried it in the semi, and look what happened then. Get the ball down, keep it for as long as possible and try to kill the atmosphere. A draw wouldn’t be a bad result at all, so we needn’t go Hell for Leather about it.
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Isee billy blockhead aint got much to say but he is a happy clapper
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Quote ”
Wolves, for whom Karl Henry and Fletcher were excellent”,
Can’t dissagre with Fletcher excellent, but Henry What?
He is a passenger every game no wonder we struggle!
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113 – go on then – name the 9 blues players out when we beat them….. you can’t because there wernt that many.
In fact we made more changes for that game than they did, AND we played our previous game the day AFTER the cup final so we were more tired than they were !!
(good to see you getting the excuses in early again though)
Oh – and what “style” are you going to have in the next few games cos your manager is back to “putting a foot in” to quote your captain.
PLEASE come back and post on our site – we have all missed you these past few weeks – loser !!
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125 – missing him for a few weeks? We missed you for the best part of 2 years! Glad to see you are on holiday from the woodwork again.
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Laughingwolf,
You’re like Tinnitus, droning on about injuries, we’ve got the gist, no need to keep elaborating on your excuses why wolves will take the, big dive. Hope wolves are ready for our “Trebuchet” like goal getters, who strike from anywhere on the park.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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74) and just why would a top class manager be attracted to a moribund team like Wolves? no structure, no scouting or youth team nous, and definatly not progressive, which is what you need to be to attract some one of Hodgson calibre! you need to learn throwing away (or wasting as its turned out) millions to buy “BIG” names does not work, and before any of you’s try to slate Hodgson, or attempt to make witty comments (because being bottom three for most of the season isn’t that funny, is it?), with hindsight (or progressiveness as we like to call it) knowing what we know now, and the way the season has panned out, how many of you would NOT have swapped Mick for Roy back in January? any takers? no? I thought not. Lets face it, RDM was having a better season than Mick, and look what happened to him, but that’s what happens when you have no ambition or class, only deluded sugar daddy’s to splash the cash, who think that is the be all and end all. As Sir Jack found to his cost (very costly has he found out) it does not work. You cant buy class!
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124) Kev B
If you don’t think Karl Henry was excellant on saturday I would love your expert opinion on Milijas, O’Hara, Guediora and Jarvis, his compardres in midfield.
Go on, indulge us
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@ 104
Ah well can’t be right all the time
By the way congrats to you lot
Looking forward to seeing on Britan’ s got talent, with all the other divs!!!!!
C u in a couple of weeks………
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126 – its true I don’t post on your site that often these days – and thats despite you being in the bottom 3 all season…. its been tough but I found the will – however on the odd occassion I ventured a few words your moderators kept me at bay.
Actually with those blocking skills if Mick had played the moderators in your defence you would have won a few more points !!
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Never thought I’d say this but I truly hope Wolves stay up…It’s been so long since the West Midlands Big 4 have been able to consolidate in the top league, that for any of us to go down is just more fuel for the London/Machester press brigade…although a baggies fan, I definately do NOT want to have anything to do with sending Wolves down…it’ll scar the Black Country..
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Hennesey at fault again for the goal, get Hannamam back in for the rest of the campaign, 3ft to the side of him and along the floor and he’s struggling,, just not good enough, must win at Stoke – still think we’llsurvive but only just, big clearout needed from top to bottom,,,,
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I have said it before and i will say it again get big sam or martin in now and get rid of this clueless idiot of a so called manager
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Big Sam? No thanks. I don’t want my eyes bleeding for the next two seasons ta.
We are 1 point from safety. We have a game in hand to play tonight.
We got lucky on Saturday and that may give us the little boost we need to get over the line.
However, another 130 plus posts of negativity from the E&S as usual.
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Good Luck in your remaining fixtures, I honestly hope you don’t go down and look forward to the BCD on the 8th, Hopefully we will be 3 points better off against the Villa and won’t need the points. I’ve said it before that I want as many Midlands sides in the Prem as possible especially with the travelling costs to games going up and up all the time.
Fulham are an established side in the Premiership you didn’t lose against them so 1 point isn’t the end of the world.
Keep the faith.
Here’s to many more BCD’s in the future
Boing Boing!!!
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I agree with 136-while there is still a chance,you have to believe.
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