Worst Wolves yet for Mick McCarthy
Wednesday 27th April 2011, 10:30AM BST.
Grim-faced manager Mick McCarthy has blasted the performance at Stoke as Wolves’ poorest under him after his side folded at the Britannia Stadium.
The 3-0 defeat last night was Wolves’ third in four games and they remain second bottom.
And boss McCarthy, who has been in charge for nearly five years, groaned: “That was as poor as we’ve played. There was nothing from that performance to lift us.
“We’re in a scrap for Premier League survival and we’ve no chance if we play like that.
“We need more of a ‘Mick McCarthy performance,’ which that wasn’t and that was hugely disappointing.”
The Wolves boss called on his players to recall their famous wins over the big teams to inspire them to stay up.
He said: “We have to remember some of the performances during the season – the nine games we’ve won when we played very well.
“Playing for Premier League survival should be enough to motivate them.”
McCarthy has vowed this will be the last below-par display this season.
He said: “Rest assured we’ll be a lot better by the time the Birmingham game comes along.
“However we play, we have to compete better than that. They were better than us, stopped us playing and were a far better team than us – we just weren’t there at all.
“Last night was never going to be ‘make or break’ but, with four games left, we’ve got to play a damned sight better.
“It’s my team, my selection, my way how we set up so I guess it’s my fault and me to blame, not the players.
“We came up against a team more ‘at it’ from the start. But I don’t fear the players have lost their belief.
“It’s a difficult time when you’re in the bottom three playing against a good side who have just got to Wembley and played very well.”
McCarthy believes now isn’t the time to berate his players, for fear of them switching off.
He added: “We had words in the dressing room, but not in terms of tongue-lashings because sometimes that doesn’t achieve anything.
“I gave out some of that on Saturday and too much of it wears a bit thin.”
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Wouldn’t mind an explanation as to why Adam Hammill wasnt even in the squad.
I love wolves to pieces and I am a very positive supporter but I think going down will be the best thing for us…so we can get rid of some dead wood and maybe have a bit of a change at the club.
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Enough!
I love Mick but I think he has taken us as far as he can.
The defence has clearly needed strengthening for two seasons and nothing has happened. We need to regroup in the Championship and leave those behind who have no ambition.
Sadly looking forward to the Barnsley’s for the next couple of years or so!!
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It’s my team, my selection, my way how we set up so I guess it’s my fault and me to blame, not the players.
Thats right Mick. It is time for you to do the decent thing and go.
Steven Ward, is a consummate professional, maybe not the best player, but he tries his hardest. When he is asked to play three positions in one match, you have to question the managers tactics.
Hennessey, whilst a good shot stopper, is very poor at commanding his box and I would like to see Hahnemann brought back in for the last few games of the season.
Berra seems to be rapidly going downhill from average earlier on the season. His only game now seems to pull shirts.
Mr tough man Henry- needs to keep his mouth shut off the field and only open it on the field. He has been appalling since he came back into the team.
Jarvis seems to have an overinflated opinion of himself now and has not played well recently.
Hit and hope last night, we played like a team who didn’t know each other- possibly because they don’t know each other as they never know from one week to the next what position they are going to play!
I am so glad I couldn’t get the time off to go last night and watched it on ESPN instead. I won’t have that luxury on Sunday.
Stay up or get relegated McCarthy must go.
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How soul destroying can this get? I can’t help but think that is pretty much it!
We are leaking goals left, right and central. Cannot score the other end. Look tactically naive and very short on creativity.
Kites is not ready to come back and looks hopelessly lost, O’Hara seems to have lost his mojo over recent weeks and the defensive unit I fear would struggle in League One!
You don’t become a bad team overnight but this team look a million miles from the one that took on Villa, Man Utd and Chelsea only a matter of weeks ago! Which begs the question where does the problem lie?
If we do go down (and that must be almost a racing certainty now) then love him or hate him but there is no better manager to get us out of that league than MM! You only have to hope that if we do make it back out of the Championship in the near future that we give the Premier League a better go next time round.
I hate to be so negative but I’m afraid my rose tinted specs got trampled on last night!!!!
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(1)”It’s my team, my selection, my way how we set up so I guess it’s my fault and me to blame, not the players.”
(2)”McCarthy believes now isn’t the time to berate his players, for fear of them switching off.
He added: “We had words in the dressing room, but not in terms of tongue-lashings because sometimes that doesn’t achieve anything.
“I gave out some of that on Saturday and too much of it wears a bit thin.”’
As regards (1), mainly true but the players are also culpable as they are the ones who should do it on the pitch. Outthought, outfought, and outclassed came to mind last night.
Concerning(2), if the result of Mick’s tongue lashing on Saturday was the inept display against Stoke, you can only conclude that he has lost the respect of the dressing room as it was quite clear that nobody was listening to his words of “wisdom”.
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Mick I have never slated you on here or any other site and I won’t start now but please do the decent thing and resign, you have taken us as far as you can and you have done wonders for this club and for that the majority of us Wolves fans thank you. We the fans are the lifeblood of this great club of ours and we don’t deserve this, it was supposed to be a season of consolidiation to cement our place in the premier league but we find ourselves hanging on by our finger nails. So mick once again please go and go now.
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Sorry Mick but we just played a team who also got to Wembley and won a cup final.Guess what? We won!!! Boing Boing
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‘Grimfaced’ ? He aint got another one, he’s no ‘Stears’ , man at C&A himself; Mick loves Halloween, he can go about un-noticed! I know WWFC is a graveyard for Prem Footie, but Mick feels right at home!
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Incompetent.
Incapable.
Disgraceful.
Shocking.
Shameful.
Scandalous.
I’m not talking about the team!!!
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WE ARE NOT GOING DOWN!
The players are capable of getting in there and scapping to the end. Merlin Mick will turn it around!
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need more of a “mick mcarthy performance”
whats that then ? comedy of errors !
cus his tactics and team selection have been a joke , do they draw straws to see who plays in what position.
sorry MM but you are a good championship manager and motivator just out of his depth at this level.
Now the question is do The Wolves keep you to try to get them up again or try a prem quality manager like o’neill if they could get him now virtually a fizzy pop club ?
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No Guidiera from the start – Mistake, the only player who gives 110%
Kightley from the start – Mistake, Hamill is far better.
Craddack – last 4 goals passed us he has been responsible for 50% of them.
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What/Where is Zele Ismail – got to be 17 now and not even a sniff.
4 games left and i hope i am wrong, but we have fluffed it. Mick, you were a defender and you have failed in this position as a manager. Please go and take clipboard with you.
Next season lets get Big Sam & Ray Wilkins in – succesfull people in the premiership.
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I have been calling for Mick to leave since we got promoted as many other true Wolves fans.Mick’s Premiership record is appalling the worst ever of any premiership manager.
I have nothing against him but he just does not have the self beleif to do well at this level.We through all this season have had chances to get out of the mire we find ourselves in.Stoke beat us ok we can live with that,in our last 4 games we have created 4 chances !! our defence as been appalling and captiulates at the mereset sign of pressure.Mick now says it is due to being in the bottom three,yet all season Mick as been saying that we are best equipped to handle the bottom three due to the fact of being there.Mick is confused and lost this can be detected very clearly by the interviews the constant contradiction.
Manager at this level need to have a plan and stick with it,mick as no plans and is simply out of his depth.This does not mean he is not a decent being he is ,but this is not about one man and his ego,this is about a whole club connected to thousands and thousands of people across the world.
Mick talks about players giving every ounce of blood for the cause,in the last 4 games this as not been the case,we only need to review the last two performances and you can figure out troubles exist at the club.
We are not able to do the basics,we have no nous going forward or defending it seems very wishy washey.Clubs around us atleast have some methods to there play,Blackpool are still playing attractive football and look like they can score,we are not even creaating!!Stoke will not beat blackpool 3-0 this weekend.!Blackpool will create and create against them.
We only have 4 more chances left and I just cant see how we are going to win ? as we are not able to create,and at our own end we are hopeless at defending.
There are a thousand and one reasons as to why it as to be goodbye to mick.
The only reason he shoild stay is if he is given a job in MORGAN’S personal buisness as a reward for steering us up to the prem.
A few weeks ago mick was setting a target of four wins now its four draws…………GET OUT!
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Started with 9 players from the Championship last night despite spending 30 mill in two years is this the best we can do.
Shocking performance no passion second to the ball on most occasions ,it would have been 5-0 but for Hennesy.
With our poor defence 451 was the only option but no out tactical genius swaps it to 442 with no cover for our dodgy defence.
Dont worry if we go down we will only lose two or three players,Doyle,Fletcher,Jarvis the rest wouldnt get in Blackpools team.
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1) Why havent we brought a Left back? Playing a championship striker there is clearly no the answer and playing a heavy weight boxer there isnt either. We did sign one (JDV) and then Mick never played him at left back.
2)Why is a half fit Kightly playing?
I just don’t understand!
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Mick as marked his own card and it’s dire reading.I still beleive we can stay up,I and a few other wolves fans can do the job for free for the last four games and I can say we will win three,BLUES,WEST BROM AND BLACKBURN can and should be beaten.Sunderland is an either way game as we are away it favours them most.All I would do is play players in there specialised positions,play players that are 100% fit and focused and play players who can go forward and play with some know how.
Simply tell the players “we are at such a stage now that we can only go up as mick as us relegated already,so lets show no fear and go and WIN,NOT BE LOOKING FOR A DRAW!Showing fear and letting the pressure get to them is of no benefit as either way we will go DOWN.So go out and win the games,fight till you drop,put fear in the opponents and play with no pressure and remain totally focused for thw whole game and this applies to every player playing.”
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If that’s the way we’re going to play to attempt to get out of relegation then we deserve to go down. There was no passion, no fight, no determination (apart from Hennessey who pulled of some fine saves and spared our drubbing blushes). When we did have the ball, there was no movement, no runs, no help. The ball only went sideways or backwards and rarely forwards. On the odd occasion that the ball did go forwards, the pass was terrible or the first touch was awful. We looked nervous from start to finish and didn’t have a hope of scoring. We mustered 1 shot on target the whole 90 minutes.
I try to keep the faith but after watching that, it has diminished to very little.
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10 Wulfrunian, yes the players are probably good enough to keep us up, but MM and Clipboard are not. Inept team selection, obscure tactics and a complete lack of method on how to break teams down and kill them off.
MM has too many favourites in this club that simply have to play (Henry and Ward are prime examples). I’ve lost count of the number of players who have said something to MM and then suddenly disappear into obscurity – Jones, Van Damme and now Hammill??
Mick is a stubborn Yorkshireman and it’s his way or the highway – you’ve seen how many times he has had a go at the fans – imagine being a player for him……There is no way he’ll resign because the way he is doing things couldn’t be bettered by anyone else.
As much as I don’t want trips to Brighton and Doncaster next season, I can’t see us getting out of this.
MM and Clipboard are out of their depth at this level.
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We should have gone for hodgson when we had the chance! A masterstroke by the baggies.
MM has come to the end of the road, he actually looked embarassed last night, he really should do the honourable thing and resign.
Ask big sam to oversee the last 4 and offer him £0.5m or £1m if he keeps us up. Get him on the training ground tomorrow morning. He would fire us up and more importantly organise us for blues and albion and would just love to send Blackburn down.
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I cant think of a Prem Manager that would have survived being in the relegation zone for most of the season its crazy.
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Get the players involved on-off the pitch for the last four games and get there desires back,as some of our players have the ability they just need to br given a free licence to express with calmness and a maturity that Mick is not able to extract from them,Mick try’s but when Mick picks Kightly instead of Hamill questions need to be asked.Kightly may be a better player but surely he is no where near 100% mentally or physically and you dont get away with that in this league,were as on the other hand Hamill was putting in some promising performances yet mick puts him on the sidelines!!!
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Why are unfit players coming back from serious injuries (Guedioura, Craddock, Kightly & Mancienne) getting full games ahead of fitter players (Milijas, Hammill, Foley, Jones, etc)!
IT REALLY IS TIME FOR MM AND HIS SIDEKICK CLIPBOARD CONNOR (GOD KNOWS HOW HE HAS SURVIVED FOR SO LONG) TO MOVE ON!
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4 poor matches in a row at the most crucial stage of the season, playing Championship defenders and mostly Championship midfielders. Most of the permanent signings the past two years are either injured, on the bench/in the stands or loaned out. And if a fan dares to offer a word of criticism, he is termed a “numpty”. I guess we shall just have to see out this season, hoping for a combination of improved performances, some luck and other team’s failings.
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If a rich sheik took over Wolves tommorow and made two hundred million avaliable we would still end up with a Championship defence along with fixtures Ward and Henry who cannot be dropped no matter how bad they play.
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wolves are going down wolves are going down now your gonna believe us now your gonna believe us the wolves are going down!!!!!
sack mick mccarthy + jez moxey
both taking us down why is their a wage limt, we need premier players no champoinship, karl henry is crap but o’hara as captin!!!!
this has bin going on for years sort it out thought morgan wanted premier league football?
get big sam down here from dudley and a wolves fan!!!
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Watched Kevin Foley knocking a ball around at half time last night. If I was him I’d have got in my car and gone home. As the club’s best full back, I couldn’t have sat and watched another 45 minutes of Ward, Stearman and finally Mancienne…
Ugh… Everyone else has said it all already, I can’t disagree with a single word that’s been posted.
Thanks for everything Mick but that’s the single worst interview I’ve ever heard you give. Good luck old pal, I hope you somehow galvanise these players and cobble a couple of results to keep us in the league but I’m afraid that’s as good as you’ll ever do.
New balls please…
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players are not playing for MM. The defence was embarrising and such basic mistakes are down to the manager and coaching staff. We are dwon as i just cant see where we will score and how we will stop opposition scoring. MM has took us as far as he can – simply not up to the challenge of premiership football. This is not about been negative but real – if we do stay up that would be fantastic – but we still need a top class manager and coaching staff – and the worst is that next games are against our local rivals who will watch us go down. Gutted but still wolves forever.
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Having been to the Fulham game on Saturday I thought the majority of the players looked tired and sluggish. As I listened to the match on the internet last night this appears to have carried through to the Stoke game as we were completely cut apart and lacked energy, confidence and passion. Unfortunately the returning injured players (Adlene, Kightly, Mancienne) look to be off the pace and I can see now why ‘Arry is looking to sell O’Hara. I really fear for us in the upcoming derby games!!
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The reality is we have 4 games to go and only 1 point from safey. Best case, we need only 2 draws! A win against either Blues or the Albion and a win against Blackburn will do it. Any extra points along the way will be a welcome bonus. With 2 wins we will have accumulated more moints than last season (all be it only 1!). The teams coming up will be worse than the teams coming down so that should be motivation to stay in the league.
Save all of your moaning till 4pm 22nd May when we will know for sure our fate. Until then we are still in the Premier league.
UP THE WOLVES
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The thing that worries me, if we go down, which we won’t, but if we do, we could quite plausibly lose our goalkeeper, all four of our wing wizards, a couple of our strikers, O’Hara will go, Milijas probably won’t fancy it, someone could even come in for Zubes and, if they’re mentally unwell, Berra. And USA is slinging his hook, is he not? It’ll be a complete reconstruction job.
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I luv Mick, I really do love Mick, Mick and his pink pullovers, that angular facial mask, the gruff manly voice, that long slender pot-bellied gait, no ‘man at C&A’ Stears for me, much too girlie! What do ya mean it aint a mask, arghhh
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The trouble with McCarthy is,he has an ego the size of Mount Everest and cannot manage players who dare to answer back or have an opinion, generally thats why he likes younger players.
fall out of favour and you might as well leave now thats man management errrrrrrrrrrr
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Think it’s time to give Karl Henry a rest,before it’s too late!! doesn’t seem to be doing much.
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McCarthy said in the star some time after the Everton match that he was getting back to basics with the players to cure the defensive errors,well thats worked well hasnt it
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To be honest I am fed up with the same excuses l seem to hear from Mick, what was that team selection about last night, for god’s sake why was Foley not in at right back?, Milijas not playing and the fact he is our best passer of the ball, Mancienne plays for the first time in months, and unfit and not quite at full tilt Kightly when you have Hammill on the bench.
As much as I love Mick we should have had the guts to say look enough is enough and got rid of him in January like they did down the road with Di Matteo and look where they are now.
Fact is Mick although a quality manager in the Championship not good enough in the Premier League and his faith in average footballers astounds me, why was a centre half not bought in with a decent left back in the transfer window?, i’m sorry but were going down and knowing what usually happens to this club it will be Albion who seel our fate.
A very unhappy Wolf
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PeteNuts, you really are nuts ay ya son. Get real geeza, “the fish has left the trawller so the gulls have no feed”, as they say
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I have supported this club for a good few decades now and will continue to do so until I pop my clogs so to speak, but it pains me to see some of the performances that have been put in over the last few games.
They have just given way and capitulated, the first two goals against stoke their players were given so much room it was unbelievable, why were they not picked up before they got inside the six yard area.
Why oh why does he continually have to tinker with the team from one game to the next, why did he drop Guedioura who has been putting some good performances since coming back and replacing him with Mancienne (Chelsea can keep him), dropped Milijas and put in Kightly, who is not ready at all for this (he should have gone out on loan) and Hammill not even on the bench. Why was Foley on the bench who is a natural defender? I must admit that I thought Craddock would steady the defence and I fully admit that I was totally wrong he was just taken apart.
I really fail to understand his thinking at times and must admit have never been a fan of his since he was appointed. How can someone who played as a defender not produce what should be one of the strongest defences out? Why has he always looked at strengthening midfield and attack and not defence?
Mr Morgan must surely be having second thoughts about keeping MM on? I’m with the suggestion someone made earlier, get big Sam in with Ray Wilkins, he would really get them to put a shift in then.
I would really like to think that miracles do happen but as a realist I think the writing is on the wall if the last few performances are anything to go by.
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MM-its my team,my selection,my tactics,so i guess its my fault.Bloody hell mick your not even sure about that!! you say that was the worse performance under you well i dont know its certainly got alot of competition.Tactics you havent got a clue you set up 4-5-1 to try and play for 0-0 when we go a goal down you do nothing you keep the same team until injury forces you to act you move ward from LB to CF i bet shawcross was worried sick.also whats happened to your signings??this season mouyokolo,milijas,hunt,vandamme,hammil,guediora,bia,cassidy,griffiths have come in, only hammil,milijas and guediora have really played well and you promptly drop them!!sorry mick i really have to uestion you as a manager from picking the side to motivation to the transfer market,survival or relegation come end of season its time to go
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“Rest assured we’ll be a lot better by the time the Birmingham game comes along”
Heard it all before, after Newcastle, after Everton and Fulham!
As I shouted at the players last night when they walked off. “Do they want it or not! Its about time they pulled their socks up and act like they wanna stay in the league. You have 4 games left start playing and acting like you wanna stay before its too late”
Nice to see McCarthy tell the fans to **** *** at the end of the game.
Ive been patient with Mick and supportive of him in the past. But I lost it on Sat and last night. Keep us up and please leave. 2 years to sort that defence out and nothing. We didnt get promoted because we had a strong defence, so why stick with same players!!!!
Interesting stat – Which team has the lowest miles/ yards covered in a game??!! Yep team that puts a “SHIFT IN” every week!!
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I agree with the vast majority of the sentiments. We are going backwards and certainly can’t blame Doyle’s absence with the debacle last night. With Doyle’s injury MM needed only bring in Fletch and continue with Hammell and Foles on the right with Milijas in midfield. Kites needs a full pre-season(like SEB did). Foley must feel sick. Best full-back in club and has to move for Stearman who has been playing awful in the middle-obviously one of Mick’s boys.
Needed massive strengthening of defence in Jan and we bought in a kid from Dundee who isn’t within a mile of the first team, a winger (good winger) who is no longer in squad and a central midfielder who no has his sights on moving on after the season has finished.
Big Sam would big my choice. Proven track record, gets the defence sorted and would allow us to stabilise as a Prem team and kick on.
Even IF and it’s a big IF we stay up do we really want another season in the bottom 3 all year.
Nothing against the bloke but MM has to go NOW
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Pete, do you honestly beleive that Premiership clubs will come beating on our door for Championship quality players?
No, neither do I.
Not 1 of them has shown to be consistantly good enough to wear the badge on their arm.
As for McCarthy. Grow a pair and get a decent No.2 in.
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Sorry. I don’t believe we can stay up anymore. I expected a dour 0-0 draw last night not capitulation. I think the dressing room spirit’s gone.
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A point of order-you are NOT one point away from safety as your goal difference is worse than Blackpool in 17th place. :)
Boing Boing
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looked like kids versus men
we looked deflated like we,ve given up the fight .
fair few are not fit to wear the gold&black.
is morgan still gonna plough his money into a new stand? should of put it in the team .
think its time for a big shake up mick out moxey out connor out tony daley out (sick note)
come on morgan grow a pair . we was supposed to be moving forward when sir jack giffted you this £10 deal.
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Can’t defend for toffee, no tactical nous, players playing out of position or the wrong players – sounds exactly like a Mick McCarthy performance to me!
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I keep saying it but we got promotion 2years ago made no real progress the first season,[I didn`t expect us to be world beaters],and in our second season have gone steadily backwards.No improvement has been showed at all.We still have a Manager who is clueless in every way.Mr.Morgan,what hold has this idiot got over you?Surely you can see that he has never had the ability to manage in the top flight,his record at Sunderland and even with his national side shows that.Whether we go down or stay up he has to go,why are you pepared to back him when the evidence of his incapability is plain for all to see.If you have the ambition Mr.Morgan, which you have said you have,then get rid of him and let him take Ward,Henry and clipboard with him and make a little extra room for that self-centred idiot Moxey,then with Big Sam in we might just get our pride in our club back and go onto better things.
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As I recall Mick as a player you were a stopper, high on effort, you weren’t too worried about finesse. If it moved, you’d kick it.
Stop the opposition, that was the main priority. If in doubt, boot it out.
Snarl.
Head it.
Kick it.
Wolves are putting in many Mick McCarthy performances
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Does anyone know how much the season tickets are going to be.
I didn’t want to renew mine during the early bird window I thought I would pay a little more because the value for money we are getting is unbelievable.
I think they should increase them a little more so we can get some more of our premier league players on longer contracts. This should stop anyone coming and poaching the likes of Ward, Stearman, Berra, Henry, Elokobi.
If we lost those where would be be??
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Ince is sat at home waiting for the phone call Mr Morgan – get him in for the last 4 games to sort out this debacle!!
Bob was there last night watching the disgrace. Midfield was pathetic and should all be dropped. I’d have Hunt, Hammill, Guedioura, Jones and Milijas in for the Birmingham game.
Ward and Stearman need to be dropped – Foley at left back and Moyokolo at right back.
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I think MM is a likeable, decent human being who gives his all to our great club…. but unfortunately he just ain’t good enough at this level.
Whilst there is still plenty to play for this season mathematically, relegation now appears to be a racing certainty given our performances over the last 4 games – we seem to have lost whatever belief existed in the club that we could survive. Not being defeatist or anti MM for the sake of it… just a realist.
In the meantime, really hope we can muster some pride and passion from somewhere to avoid potentially humiliating defeats against Small Heath & Sandwell. I fear that things could get ugly at the Mol if Sandwell do their worst when we next play them!!
WTID
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43) Correct but there is a 1 goal difference and if Blackpool lose, that will not be the case. If Stoke play like that at Blackpool on Saturday, they will definitely beat them. Pennant and Jones were quality.
A lot of that team from last night do not deserve a shirt on Sunday but we are down to bare bones in some areas. I suggest a mass overhaul and have a team that looks something like this:-
Hahnemann Mancienne Craddock Stearman Foley Hammill O’Hara Guedioura Milijas Jarvis Fletcher
Hennessey made some good saves last night but it is time for experience and someone who shouts at defenders and will come and claim crosses!
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In my mind, I was even prepared for defeat – but a narrow one from which we emerged with credit. What I wasn’t prepared for was being the subject of a demolition job from which we emerged with our confidence badly battered. It’s our team’s state of mind going into these final four games that seriously worries me. Survival is still a possibility but are we still in any shape to achieve it?
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Mick should ave gone November,now only a top manager will come if he’s got loads of cash to spend mad mick spent 35 million .so I can’t see anyone coming in .mick & clipboard are here for years to come stuck in Fizzy pop league.
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Seriously where was Hammill? What has he done to be dropped into the void. Where are all the others Moyokolo etc etc etc. Never even given a chance. 1 Game or even a couple isnt a chance. No-one has had a chance to settle into the team changing from one week to the next, hes never known his best team, and his £mill’s of signings exchanged for the champoinship team that got us here. Fletcher may have been fantastic for us if given something more than a half chance stop start dissapear stop stop start chance in the team. Defence – What defence. We all knew the fundemental problems with the team, but relied on the “Wolves spirit” to carry us through. From the last few performences Im sad to say, that spirit has gone.
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The numerous disappointments of championship seasons ending in failure are eclipsed by this shambles of a season. We talked the big talk with crap about being a top six club and success being linked to the wage bill blah, blah, blah. We wasted cash on players; we stuck by a poor manager in the hope that continuity was better than hire and fire. Well I can tell you if you have no talent then loyalty won’t put talent where there is none. I “enjoyed” the Fulham game less than any game I can ever remember, in any division, home or away. I have a season ticket and have renewed for next season but I’ve had enough for now. I’ll be back in August, as usual, but when enjoyment is swapped for bitter disappointment and borderline humiliation I think it’s time to keep away for a short time. Good luck to my football team but, no matter which division we end up playing in next season, for God’s sake change the manager.
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Mick do the decent thing and go and take connor with you, so we can get big sam or martin in, if they will come
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Well we’ve gone full circle under Mick and soon we’ll be home back amoungst the Barnsleys of this world..
Granted Mick did a great job turning around the mess of “Hoddlegate”
Mick had a very sizable budget in the summer to address the areas which needing adressing.. This budget was bigger than most around us, but still since day one of Micks tenure we have no proper left back.. Ok Van Damme sadly didn’t work out, but as Mick bought him in you would have thought he would of replaced him in Jan…
I’ve said for months that the defence unless strengthened would cost us and its proving so now.. its our achilies heal.. Becuase the deffence is not weak, the midfield sits back, because the midfield sits back they struggle to support the forward/forwards.. Its not rocket science, and really only needed tinkering with some true quality in the back four..
For a former centre half Mick has a shocking record at signing defenders (Foley aside)
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If its any concelation mick, Blackburn away was probably the worst….
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Just have some questions: Why Mancienne and why Kightly..mancienne with henry in the middle=no attacking passes and poor handling of ball..
GUEDIOURA IN PLEASE has been great 2 matches now in a row..HAMMILL IN and FOLEY IN at RB!
Kightly not up for it yet.. Jarvis at LB so we keep up the pace at both wings..HUNT IN at LW..
Get some adrenaline going and play some attacking football so we dont get pressure on our defence all the time!! But that requires midfielders with some technical skills!! not mancienne who clearly is a defender and everyone sees that!
This is my opinion and im sure more people agree in some of my ideas…
MICK FOR ONCE PLAY THE BEST TEAM/PLAYERS!!!
Sick of it.. O´Neill should have been brought in by christmas..
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49. I think you will find that Ince is sat at home for a good reason – He’s failed miserably in the last 3 managerial jobs he’s had, 2 of them with lower league clubs! Team selection last night was appalling. Would love to have overheard the conversation between MM and TC when picking it. I personally think that Connor is a big part of the problem. He really doesn’t come accross as inspirational or full of ideas and our training (and I’ve been to watch it a few times) is very one dimensional, a bit like our play! Does anyone know if there’s been an official explanation for Hammill’s absense from the squad last night?
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Everyone knows stoke are a team that will always break through any defence eventually so the only way to counteract this is to score a couple first. This means an attacking formation.
Hunt, Hammill, Guedioura, Jones, Milijas, Vokes all players who can score goals on there own none of which started. Instead we opted for an ex striker at left back a full back at right back another full back in midfield and Henry might as well be a 5th full back too.
Dropping Foley is a joke. Stearman can’t cross and with Kightly lacking in pace that whole wing was none existent.
Finishing the game with 4 full backs in defence and were sitting ducks. I remember in January Mick says were OK at left back and don’t need to sign anyone how wrong you were. All you did was sign a 4th winger who never plays anymore.
8 Million on a striker who only gets a game because everyone else is injured.
Everyone but Mick could see our defence was rubbish. It was rubbish last season and it was rubbish in the Championship. 3 years he’s had to sort it out but he hasn’t.
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If this is the poorest yet in five years at this stage of the season, the players have obviously now given up on the Manager. Get rid now and bring in Big Sam last 4 games we have nothing to lose and even if we are lucky enough to stay up this guy has to go.
Our Great fans deserve better.
Kiwiwolfffffffffffff
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please can I say that we are staying up with mm so please give it a rest ok
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His team-selection last night was baffling. I know we have Doyle, Elokobi, Edwards, Hunt, Ebanks-Blake, Zubar etc ot injured but the team-selection was bizarre.
Changes are needed urgently for Blues but an away win infront of 4,200 away fans will kick start this relegation battle:
Hennessey
Foley
Craddock
Stearman
Mancienne
Hammill
Guerdioura
Henry
O’Hara
Jarvis
Fletch/SEB
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Tried to defend MM on this site before, but now he’s lost the plot. Too many questions to be asked of him:
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@36
I’m sorry, I speak English so I have no idea what you’re on about.
@44
Talk sense, man. As soon as clubs drop out of the Prem they get strip-mined for their best players, it’s a fact of the game.
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Sorry, that should say @41, not @44
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Sorry but McCarthy has too go… he keeps on about putting a shift in… Mick the players are not good enough, Henry can only pass sideways and Ward would not get into a championship side.Do the right thing and go and let Big Sam take over…. and lets go out with a bang and not a wimper……
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I would agree with your team apart from TWO .
I would drop HENRY, who I think is hopeless, and play Milijas. At least he’s creative and gives us more options going forward.
I would also drop Hennessesy whom I don’t rate at all, and play Hanneman.
McCarthy won’t do either though. So gawd help us .
I’ve been saying for a couple of weeks that Mancienne should be given a go at left back. We all know what WARD can’t do, so may as well try someone new.
It’s going to be a very very long season next year, regardless of which league we are in.
Still, at least we’ve got a new ground to rattle around in eh. Will be nice and echoy in the Championship that will.
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Questions for Mick:
1) Why do you still not know what your best team is after all this time? (Too much tinkering)
2) Why do you think Kightly having just come back from a 2-year absence is suddenly better than Hamill for this relegation fight?
3) Why do you persist in picking midfielders who keep giving the ball away, when you refuse to play one (David Jones) who knows how to keep it?
4) Why do you suddenly think that an aging Craddock is going to be our saviour?
5) Admitted Foley wasn’t at his best against Newcastle & Everton, but how is it fair to drop him so quickly when the other clown Elokobi gets away with murder week in, week out? (I’ve played with better left-backs in the Sunday League).
It’s not last night’s result that tells me we’re down, it’s the manner of the defeat – they are just totally devoid of confidence now and I can’t see where a goal’s coming from, never mind a point. Anyway, Brighton have a brand new stadium for us to visit !
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Terrible, tactics all wrong yet again, we hardly got any fit strikers. If we go down, get rid of mick for gods sake. maybe big sam should come home?
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51-If,if,if.
If I’d picked the correct 6 numbers on Saturday I’d be rich but I didn’t, so I’m not.
Let’s deal in facts.
Fact-worst goal difference in the division.
Fact-worst away record in the division.
Fact-equal 2nd lowest scorers in the division.
Fact-you’re going down on 8th May(if not before).
Boing Boing
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This was not our worst performance of the season. That distinction belongs to the Boxing Day performance against Wigan. Understandably, Mick seems to be able to blank out poor performances, which is why Henry & Ward continue to get in the side.
I remember an episode of Jimmy McGovern’s Cracker, when Fitz gets home and throws bundles of cash in the air expecting his wife to be thrilled at his win on the horses. She’s angry instead because (as she explains) it just perpetuates his gambling and she will have to put up with day after day of misery from countless failures that he manages to justify with one big win every now and again. I felt the same when Ward scored his goal against Liverpool and when Henry got his MOTM against Fulham.
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# 5. (2). They have switched off.
#62. Spot on.
MM has lost the dressing room and when that happens it’s all over. I’ve been baffled all season at some team selections, so have the players. What is cleaer shows in the tables. You can’t escape the fact that we can’t get it done.
My concern now is how many of the players will stay at the Mol if we are in the Championship !!!!!
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waiting for ward and henry to keep us up
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69. I agree, I don’t rate Hennesey at all but he had a good game last night, USA is far more solid.
Henry will add the steal to cpmpete with Ferguson and Bowyer and then he can go off for Milijas and we can win the match!!!
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It seems as though the penny is almost dropping, not quite yet though as he thinks it his fault, WoW
Morgan needs to tell him, what is wrong with the man.
We only beat those top sides because they had a bad day, don’t think he understands that.
He is pleased though he has good old Wardy!
What more can be said, will Morgan please sack him, as I really don’t think he will leave, well would anyone with the pay off these Managers get.
What will be his next team? Ward will probably be Captain, think that’s all that’s left for him, and no I don’t blame Ward at all, it’s McCarthy who keeps pickig him.
The silence is deafaning from the “I trust in Mick”,Fans, perhaps the penny has dropped with them, if not with the Manager
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no.49 -Ince-why??? he was a great footballer but not proven as a manager.
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good post Vinny #12 , spot on.
Even with the loss we can get out of this. With all bottom 5 playing 1 team in the same 5 its mathematically possible.
My biggest fear is that Albion could send us down on that game day. Apart from it being the biggest riot Wolverhampton has ever seen it would be a very sad say.
Keeping the faith (kind of)
Charlie
ATLANTA WOLVES
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Micks lost the plot, really hope we can stay up, but we need to win at least 2 out of our 4 remaining games, i cant see that happening to be honest, i doubt we will get anything from our 2 away games, so that means we have to beat the shit and blackburn, possibly a result against blackburn, but i feel that will be too late, its just written in the stars that the first time Wolves and WBA have been in the top flight they relegate us, its just our look, stay away from the southbank on that day albion, i can see lots of trouble happening after they rub in that weve been relegated. Next season, Chris Hughton, Big Sam or Ray Wilkins to take us back up, throw away dead wood such as useless ward etc.
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I will back you to the end of the season Mick, as its too late to do anything else, but as the writing looks on the wall for relegation now. Please clear off at the end of the season, as I don’t trust you at this level, you are out of your depth.
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Mr. Morgan – please call Mick into the boardroom this afternoon, tell him “You’re fired!” and order the taxi.
Mick will be successful again with a Championship club – but we need someone with brains not just brawn.
Only Kevin Doyle’s return for the last 2 matches can save us now………….
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Why is Dave Jones, our best midfield player, being ignored. Another case of the Manager being suspicious of good footballers.
At the same time he seems to continually find a place, whatever the position, for Ward.
Mr McCarthy has assembled a squad lacking pace, strength and above all ability. It would struggle to make an impact in the Championship.
Time for change has come.
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72) Keep your outstanding all-time Premiership record going please for the season – 30 odd games since a clean sheet and the second worst defence in the Premiership, behind the dire Blackpool defence. Now jog on, onto your own board!
69) You are agreeing with my team then?
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Am a great believer in levels of class. Certain players and managers reflect that. Look at Roy Hodgson, a good manager but not a top line premier manager as was the case with liverpool. MM is a good CHAMPIONSHIP manager not a premier league manager. His record states that, good Managers can attract quality players, unlike Mick who buys players who have played in similar relegation battles and failed. Hunt, myoloko, fletcher, doyle, hahnemann… as well as keeping most of last years squad who just managed to avoid relegation. How many players have the Albion got playing for them from when they got relegated 2 years ago!!!! I am trying to be an optimist and hope that this week will provide miracles, but since the tottenham game we look tired and bereft of idea. I am hoping the baggies don`t end our reign at molineux, if they do it will really kick off.
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“We need more of a ‘Mick McCarthy performance,’ which that wasn’t and that was hugely disappointing.”
Mick your performance is a joke.
Why are you still in a job ??????????
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NO WONDER THEY FLOGGING THE PREM SHIRTS HALF PRICE NOW ,I LL BET YOU THE CHAMPIONSHIP KIT NEXT SEASON WILL BE DOUBLE
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51 BrummieRob
I am ! Blimey, I think I need a lie down.
Seriously though, I think your team is spot on. The problem is, the manager wont!
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Another speech by Mick McCarthy.
Another re-hashing of the same tired, old words.
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just seen BERRAs comments on the wolves website if he only played football like he talks he would a decent player and not the worse player to don a wolves shirt ever
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What I don’t understand is…WHY DOES MORGAN INSIST ON KEEPING MUPPET MICK AT MOLINEUX?
Its a disgrace.
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Deeply disappointed with last nights performance, Wolves showed no pride or passion what so ever. We didn’t even look capable of creating a goal which is rather worrying. Not once in the last two games have i seen Stearman overlap or offer any kind of attacking support, surely Foley is a better option. As for the left flank, Jarvis has gone completely off the boil! Mancienne looked more solid at left back but again offers no attacking support as he’s all right footed. We worked the ball into good areas last night to whip in crosses but we seem to slow things down far to much. On numerous occassions Stoke whipped in early balls to the box and caused us problems all night. We won’t score if we can’t get the ball into the oppositions box! We must come out fighting on Sunday and at least a point must be gained, last nights performance can’t be repeated. “out of darkness cometh light”.
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mancienne back in ???
ward back at left back???
kites.. as much as i believe he is a top class player he has been out for a long time and we will only see the old kites after the next pre-season..which is looking like the chumpionship
now we don’t have a fit striker so if you want 442 it looks like vokes and keogh….oh dear
THE FUTURE LOOKS BLEAK…DEFENCE IS TOO WEAK!!
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drop henry – negative puts defence under pressure to much, slows down attacks to much and not the same since the zamora tackle. results have nose dived since he came back into the side.
drop kites – rubbish last night, not fit and not up to speed and what has hammill done to get dropped ????
craddock, to slow and as already said on here has cost us goals,
o’hara wasnt sure about him and after last night still not, moaned all night instead of getting on with it, drop him and put ady back in at least he gets stuck in.
and the kids what about playing some of them, mendez laing anyone ??
showing loyalty to the players after is all good and well but if you think the fans abuse wasnt justified then think again how many times did we change formation last night, my point exactly mick. smacked of desparation.
still got a chance but getting slimmer all the time lose to blues and were down cant see us winning a game given our form at the moment and thats the worrying thing, same mistakes over and over WE DONT APPEAR TO BE LEARNING ANYTHING THAT’S YOUR JOB MICK.
COME ON SORT IT OUT AND STAY UP, GOING DOWN WILL RUIN THIS CLUBS PROGESSION VITAL TO STAY UP.
WEVE GOT THE PLAYERS JUST PLAY THEM IN THE RIGHT POSITIONS PLEASE………………
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Players played with no passion or fight either Saturday or Last night we were second to every ball and their goal keeper didnt have one decent save to make unforgivable.
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82, doyle ?? what he going to do score a hat trick !! hardly likely mate. great a holding the ball up but terrible scoring record.
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our season always seems to finish the same time as the early bird offer finishes,perhaps next season we should run the early bird from march- end of april.
MM if you are taking us down please lets go down fighting.
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When your team has lost more matches than any other team in the division, phrases like “We need more of a ‘Mick McCarthy performance” could be said to be a bit ill-advised, at best.
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McCarthy should be showing them the video of Blackpool v Newcastle ,now thats how you fight when your in a relegation battle.
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a centre back & a forward (if u can call ward that ) as fullbacks, whilst a rep of ireland fullback sits on the bench twiddling his thumbs, kites no where to be seen ( not his fault , he clearly isn’t ready yet), mr i’ll pass back to the fullback/ anything other than take a defender on Jarvis ( to drop him on his present form would be the kick up the arse he needs,ooh were 3-0 down i’ll play ward up front ( 1 goal in 2 seasons/ ent goin to pull three out of the hat ishe) while a welsh int’l stricker is sat onthe bench chaffing at the bit.
i support u MM but these are MISTAKES we could all see from the stands, why can’t u.
every time we make a sub it takes 10/12 mins & clip board seems to fill there head with stuff they should either a)know already or b) they have had all week intraining to learn, i bet on saturday mark hughes told johnson GET ON THE PICH & GET ME A GOAL – RESULT – HE HAD A SHOT SIMPLES !, SOMETHING WE DONT SEEM TO DO UNLESS ITS 10 MINS TO KO AT THE KICKIN.
even at h/t against stoke whilst watchin the subs warm up (warm up thats a joke / theve warmed down by the time they have stood by clip board for 10 mins waiting to gat on) one pair passing (no pressure ) 30 yards to each other couldn’t keep the ball onthe pitch , whilst the other pair doing similar across the pitch couldn’t control the ball when recieve the odd pass wich was to them.
question have we not got a left back playing in the reserves – perhaps he could play left back (now thats a thought !)
anyway i will support MM & the gold & black too the end , but i fear we are losing our way & and a regroup of the squad is prbably a blessing .
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If there was a chance that Big Sam Alladyce would take over for the last 4 games I will personally drive to his house to pick him up and drop him off outside Mr Morgan’s house!
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Mick is not going to be sacked or walk at this stage of the season, so we may aswel get behind the team (not the manager) for the final few games.
Then Mick should go, his tactical awareness revolves around ‘stopping the other team’, but to be honest if he had sorted the defence out 2 seasons ago, he wouldnt have to worry about our opponents quite so much, and could focus on doing what we can do quite well – attacking!
So my view is, cheer on the team, and attack attack attack, go down fighting!
Mick, forget the other teams and playing central midfielders on the right wing in order to cancel out the threat posed by the opposing full back (?????????), get hammill back in the team, get a proper shape and go for it. Have you lost your bottle Mick?
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Opportunities wasted. Two seasons in the Premiership and both of them spent in the drop zone. This will totally hack off the fans and you have to wonder why neither Messrs Morgan & Moxey did not do something about it sooner. You do not become a successful Manager overnight and clearly MMs 5 minutes of fame is over.Let’s hope that someone upstairs is talking to big Sam and also getting Jez Moxeys cards ready.
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The only remote positive I can see…
The Club, The Player and The Management can cut all the blarney and waffle and acknowledge that based on current form we deserve to go down and are in the midst of a Crisis
From now till the end of Season phrases such as
‘Too Good to Go Down’
‘Young and Hungry’
‘£9 million Profit’
‘Top 5 Aspirations’
‘In the 3m’s We Trust’
‘Putting A Shift In’
‘A Mick McCarthy Performance
‘Unjust Dirty Wolves Tag’
Blah Blah blah
Bin em
Batton down the hatches ..Hard Hats On .. Admit its a Massive Crisis
Everyone else Park the negativity till mid May
No More Spin
Game On
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hope fletch is ok 4sun or it looks like good old wardys goin upfront again .r u a clown mick or is it just cus he`s your son in law 2 b always maintained we should have sacked you the day we went up 2 seasons ago
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I have been a season ticket holder for over 20 years & I am now finished with Wolves until McCarthy walks or is sacked.
I am not going to our remaining matches at home I just can’t imagine what Albion will do to us!
I have purchased my early bird for next season but until this total clown of a manager has gone I aint going.
I think a few others should do the same and then Morgan might get the message and do something about it!
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The back lash was inevitable and fully justified, although a lot of it is the same old recycled stuff we’ve been hearing from the usual lot most of the season.
We have to look at it from a purely professional point of view now and not get emotional, cos, hopefully that’s how the players and the management will, and we are where we are.
I said after the Newcastle and Everton debacles not to make wholesale changes. The players who had performed so well this year, up to and including the Villa match were surely the best ones to sort it, less the injuries of course.
Why Craddock, Mancienne and particularly Kiteley have been drafted in is beyond me.
O’Hara and Milijas need a kick up the backside; what a pity Dave Edwards isn’t fit to give that awful midfield of ours some bottle.
I don’t normally pick teams it always seems a pointless excercise, but, we have to make do with what we got, good or poor and not draft in players coming back from long term injuries and a yard off the pace..
Hennessey
Foley,Stearman, Berra, Ward (maybe Mouyoloko LB ?)
Hammill, Milijas, O’Hara, Henry, Jarvis
Fletcher
We now really are down to ‘must win’ matches, but, unless the players can find some confidence and spirit from somewhere, and the manager finds the plot he seems to have lost, it looks like Brighton next season.
Finally, on O’Hara. Someone on this thread has suggested he is made captain. After the Albion and Blackpool performances I may have agreed, but, recent performances show him to be lazy and disruptive and certainly not a leader.
Will the real Jamie O’Hara please step forward. (for 4 matches)
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84 BRW Thanks for pointing that out it is deeply embarassing and depressing, is that the best you can do ?Does this explain the abscence of yourself and loffinatwolf from the bright side can we hear from you soon please?we have missed your prescence
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Let’s stop the bickering and look to the future. I have gotten fed up of telling you where McCarthy was taking us.
Next season the Championship and a NEW manager.
Unfortunately the drop will rule Martin O’Neil out of the equation.
Ian Holloway with his all action attacking style is a much better option than the dire, no tactics, that we’ve had in the Premier, but if Blackpool stay up he won’t move.
Gus Poyet is an up and coming manager with the right attitude but he will already have a team in the championship.
So even if miracles of miracles happen and we survive McCarthy has to GO and be replaced by Big Sam, a local no nonsense manager.
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i was at stoke last night and it was a discraceful performance there is no fire in the wolves players bellies. The support that there get from our fans is fantastic we are to good we pay good money to watch and you have the likes of karl henry who is gambling our money away in the bookies every day.
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Good point, Wolfhound, 30 mill over 2 years yet started last night with 9 championship players! Not rocket science, is it?!
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To all you guys and gals calling for McCarthys head! Forget it. Read The Daily Swain and I quote ” his position is not under threat” Another quote from the same article “If Wolves go down it could be argued his position is strengthened”
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Think we’ll have to take a standing eight count after that result last night.
The truth of the matter #96 is that we haven’t won a match since Doyler was injured. Last time he played, we won 0 – 1 away to Villa, yes he didn’t score but yes we won. Next match, lost 4 – 1 away to Newcastle with the same team bar E-B for Doyle. And we know the story since. Wolfman you got a point, speedy recovery Kevin.
Mick needs to do some pretty serious thinking between now and Sunday. At least he won’t be wondering how B’ham will play, seeing as they’re coming off two defeats on the spin and shipping eight goals in the process.
Keep the peckers up my fellow dogears.
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The wolves fans should know that wolves captain kary henry is in the bookies most days gambling supporters hard earned money what we have to pay wolves fans are to good for this club.
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I watched the highlights of last nights game on sky after the Man Utd match. To me it looked like the players have given up hope….huffing n puffing, heads bowed low and 2 defenders ball watching as the first goal went in….
What has happened to O-Hara?? Before the Spurs match he was voicing his passion to get points to help stear his newly beloved Wolves to safety….and playing like a man possessed and dare i say it close to international style performances in my opinion! Yet last night he was guilty of giving the ball away way too much.
Stoke totally outplayed us, true they are tough at their place to beat but damn….they steam rolled us as our players looked like they just wanted to go home! After the Everton game in which we lost 3-0 by half time i wasnt so….upset as i knew we had played very well for about 20 mins n lost to 3 wonder goals, 3-0 flattered Everton, but last nights game was upsetting as it was embarrasing to see a team who talk about having the desire n belief to get wolves to prem safety….yet last night it looks like all that has changed…hope it improves soon or WBA will be the ones who will relegate us and NONE of us can live with that no matter what!!!
Love da Wolves!!!
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After watching the Stoke game, I am, for the 1st time convinced we are toast.
The last 3 games have been very bad and I do not know why. Before these last 3 games, we were flying, playing good football with great spirit. Now we are playing without a clue and with little spirit. Is it because of Doyle? If so, now what do we do with Fletcher injured?
MM makes mistakes with his selections and then cannot change on the fly to alter the outcome of a game. He is showing himself to be one of dozens of managers who are average (At the most), championship grade and who will never be successful in the premier league.
For the next 2 years we need a manager with experience and success in the Premier, there are 3 that I think qualify and are available. We need at least 20M to be spent on players with top flight experience, (But who, worth their salt, will come to a relegated team) not players from the championship or relegated teams and we need a youth policy to continue building good backup players for the longer term future.
Will any of this happen? I will let you know as I am looking at my tea leaves at this moment.
This is much worse than the last time.
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went to stoke last night,why do fans boo stephen ward ? i,m no fan of his but surely the boo,s should be directed at the clown who hung him out to dry playing upfront, when we had a centre forward on the bench.are there any logical reasons for retaining MM,s services ,NO,whichever division we find ourselves in next season top priority has to be 2 centre halfs and a left back , would you give MM anymore money to spend rather like giving a monkey a shotgun .finally get behind the team sunday, you never know, and if you want to boo anybody give it to the clown .
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It pains me to say this MM but it is time for you to go.This is a bit reminiscent of when Wolves came down to the Championship during the 2004/2005 season when Dave Jones lost his job at Wolves.Dave Jones ran out of ideas,out of time & out of favour as one bad result followed another.
It now appears that you are doing exactly the same thing as your predecessor did,playing players out of position (or square pegs in round holes as he used to call it).
Mick after this season is over please do the decent thing & go
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Last night – absolutely pathetic. Draw would have been a good result actually, but that……! Total s***.
No.55 – Spot on about the Fulham game. I don’t get to see many games coz of living almost 200 miles away, but thought I would get in one final game of this season. That game, oh God, I have told everyone since, that I enjoyed the journeys better. Only a few weeks earlier, I went to the Blackpool game and thought that was the best I have seen Wolves play in years, but God knows what has happened……
Despite being totaly fed-up – WE ARE WOLVES!!!
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Enjoyable as they were, the victories over the ‘big boys’ have only served to obscure the overall short comings which are now so evident. The objective at the start of the season for any club of our stature was to identify those sides likely to accompany us in the lower reaches and to concentrate all our energies into maximising points gained against them.From a potential 12 avaialble from W.Ham and Wigan combined we emerged with a fortunate single point.Never enough, as is now evident.
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we have an ex international manager ex international center half so why cant he sort out our so called defense
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Silly me, and here I thought there were four more fixtures, that by my calculations we still have q chance, a small one I agree, to escape the trap door. No good getting a new gaffer in, now, so going to keep the faith and push on Mick and his crew. Come on, lads, don’t give up and aim to save your premiership skins! Believe! UTW!
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Mick has done a fantastic job for Wolves.I hope he stays next season
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Don’t worry lads Mick will get us out of the fizzy pop league next year.
A lot of players will leave ,I predict 7, and we’ll go up via the play-offs.
We’ll also have a new North bank for the Premier league.
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Just a thought, is Hammill not playing so that know-one comes in for him, as I think he is better than Jarvis?
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The majority of the Wolves fans wouldnt argue to the fact that Carl Henry is too defensive minded. We would all prefere to see a change in the centre of the park. Why not try Putting henry in defence? Hes played there for us before. when mick first took over he played him there for a few games as we were short at the back and he did a job. Luton away he played full back we won 1-0. I know this is the prem but we need another option as the current options arent working!!
After alls said and done it is time for a change!
Big Sam has often said what a massive club wolves were and was interested after he left Newcastle. I feel his way of thinking and how he sets his teams up would suit the way we play!
Dudley Lad, Black country through and through. use to be critisised at bolton for playing long ball and playing ugly! Dosent matter does it! In this Results matters world!
Thing was though he used to grind results out similar to what Tony Pulis is doing at Stoke now.. boy could we do with some of that now!!!
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Job done then Jez
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I am shocked at our deterioration after the great win at Villa. Losing Doyle? The focus on Matt Jarvis over England? Sadly we have NOT had contributions from all the squad and some of our pre-season signings have been duds! I am sad that Jones has barely played. This time last year he was awesome. He ran Hammers ragged at Upton Park in that great win. Something has gone on there and I would bet he moves on in summer …………to Bolton? Players coming back from injury aren’t on the money for us. Again, we can’t buy a goal this season and now we are struggling, with barely a striker fit. What a capitulation. It will need something extra-ordinary now. I can’t bare Championship football again. C’mon Wanderers………..one supreme 4 game effort. Out of darkness………….
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Dear Mick,
On behalf of the grateful good people of Sandwell and Dudley I would like to thank you for the great job you are doing. There is a very good chance you will get the freedom of both boroughs if you can just keep it up for another three weeks.
if not you will get your reward in heaven I’m sure.
God bless you, you really are a golden wonder!
Yours most sincerely,
Delighted of Dudley x
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Look forward to the championship next year, better ticket prices, the league suits our expenditure, more competitive games.
Lets face it, most of the squad is not of the required level!
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Hold those thoughts Cuddly Dudley (107) because they should be revisited in a new blog – Tim Spiers, if you’re reading this, just a thought – as this one is reaching the end of its tether.
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I’m sure Henry, Berra, Elokobi and Ward are lovely fellas. They are just not premier league footballers. The same will be true for all players at the club if we let them drag us down.
Our biggest problem yesterday was that we gave Stoke absolutely nothing to worry about because we are playing two second rate defensive midfielders at the expense of a playmaker and striker, owing to the fact that our back four (pick any four even if they were all fit) are not up to the job.
I applauded the idea of playing with with two wingers but Kightly was rusty and Jarvis was playing like he knows his best chance of a decent job is if Wolves get relegated.
Hunt and Hammill should have been on before half-time except Hammill wasn’t even on the bench (WHY??). O’Hara looked tired. Henry was his usual clueless self (at one point he visibly paniced when he tried to perform his customary pirouette-du-sud and realised he was too close to the touchline). Ward was woeful at left back and only got anywhere near Pennant once (conceding a throw-in actually attracted some applause) before gettting rewarded with a role up front! HE IS A POOR LEFT BACK HE IS AN EVEN WORSE STRIKER. Hennessey is the only one who comes out of the game with any real credit. I lost count of our attempts at goal… because there weren’t any. BBC stats counted one but I think they just felt sorry for us.
I hope we stay up. I am not a happy clapper (see above) but I still hope Mick keeps his job because I think he’s worked a miracle to take us from the Hoddle era to where we are now. Having said that, we need a decent assistant with the backbone to point out that we need a whole new back four and show him videos of Paul Ince/Alex Rae to remind him what a decent combative central midfielder looks like [IT MOST DEFINITELY DOES NOT LOOK LIKE KARL HENRY].
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106 tettenhall wolf
April 27, 2011 at 6:05 pm
I have been a season ticket holder for over 20 years & I am now finished with Wolves until McCarthy walks or is sacked.
I am not going to our remaining matches at home I just can’t imagine what Albion will do to us!
erm ……can i have your remaining tickets for this season then if you are not going then!!
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Get your coat on, What’s on at the pictures?
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I address the following comments to both the Chairman and the CEO.
If you think that your current management team are good enough to survive the Championship,you are totally lacking sound football judgement, They are Not !
If you think that the present set up will be in the top six and spend a season competing for promotion thus creating big gates, You are Wrong.
You have both allowed this manager far too much rope. He has never been a class act, nor will he ever be. He is less than average and far short of the skill and knowledge to manage a EPL team.
The current debacle lies firmly at your door, to have kept him on shows up your lack of knowledge also, neither of you is fit for purpose.
To all those who are calling for Big Sam, I agree, he could be the best thing for Wolves since Stan Cullis. Sadly, I believe he would rather stay away than work with this jumped up CEO.
Finally, those naively calling for Ince, Wrong! I watched him closely at MK and any success he had there was down to Ray Mathias. He would be an improvement on McCarthy as he has experienced life Playing in the top tier but he is still a ‘Greenhorn’ manager and a poor one.
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Were you embarrassed Jez when you went to Stoke the other night and saw the PROGRESS they have made since you left them?
NO THOUGHT NOT.
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TIME TO DROP THE CRAB PLEASE!!
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I do love the clowns on these comment pages, the best one’s are the jackaasses who name a team ! Why, is he going to say, oh yes, that’s the team I should have picked for the last 2 years , ********* said it on the E+S website, kerching ! safety a cert, me’n clipboard are safe; Pity that yellow brick road was not built from the station to the Golden Palace (or custard bowl, depending on you loyalties ), we could do a remake of the Wizard of Oz, my leads would be; Muppet Mick as Dorothy (say no more), Henry as Tin-man (no-brainer), Daley as the scarecrow ( he was made of straw as a player, what the hell is in charge of fitness for, no wonder injuries are longlasting and the players unfit ), the lion could be Cooner ( too scared to say owt),Witch’s of the east/west, depends on if you like either Morgan or Moxey, but we might need a re-write with 2 Wicked Witches of the West; the King who was nothing really, WARDY!
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Is big Sam still available???????????????
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