Jez Moxey: We still trust Wolves boss Mick McCarthy
Thursday 27th October 2011, 11:30AM BST.
Jez Moxey has broken the boardroom silence on Molineux’s anti-Mick McCarthy lobby to issue a “business as usual” edict.
Wolves’ chief executive used his column in the club’s matchday programme for the Carling Cup tie against Manchester City to align himself squarely alongside a manager who has felt the wrath of fans angered by the team’s seven-game slump without a Premier League win.
Last night’s 5-2 home defeat by City hardly gave McCarthy, whose own programme notes continued his uncompromising rejection of the critics he labelled ‘mindless idiots’ before the game, fresh ammunition to fire back.
But the scoreline against the hottest team in the Premier League disguised an improved performance from Wolves which earned the appreciation of a Molineux crowd who were in no mood to repeat Saturday’s bitter outbreak of venom against the manager.
Moxey and owner Steve Morgan have resisted joining the debate to avoid any notion of the dreaded “vote of confidence” being offered McCarthy. But Moxey made it clear that the club’s trust in the manager was unshaken despite the team’s return of two points from the last 21 available.
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Great pic of Laural and Hardy.
Loose to Wigan and we’ll see how long their love-in lasts.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….. bored of hearing about the boo boys now can we move on ?? cant even report about the new stand without having a pop either ( see other story )
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Well done Jez
You obvisouly no nowt’ about football either…however as a money saving expert i applaud you.
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Time to get rid of both morons
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An Owner and a CEO who have no ambition whatsoever for our beloved football club!
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It is what it is . Time to put the negativity on hold. we need to be positive for wigan then if it goes belly up fair enough but until then, lets stop the moaning
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ok just tell me this how much better are we now mick goals last nite how many in how many mins please tell me
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Bet he won’t be saying that in 10 days time.
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Well done last night wolves I thought we did well. That’s what we love to see as fans is hard work and plenty if shots on goal. Milijas played a blinda and ward as well
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Ps – Same hymn sheet – same barber!
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Finally Jez ends his silence! Lets hope his fate lies with Mick’s and we can get rid of both of them!!
Went last night – defence woeful and Doherty particularly poor, heavy defeat as expected with Craddock and Elokobi at centre back.
Will be there on Saturday when anything but a hammering will be a good result – already looking at the Wigan game to be honest which is a massive one with Everton and Chelsea away to follow.
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This article will no doubt attract all the posters from the last few days reiterating their anti-McCarthy comments. While they are entitled to their opinions I think it only reinforces the division between supporters regarding our manager.
Assuming the statement made by Moxey has been made in all sincerity, it is likely that come what may, Mick McCarthy will probably remain manager for the time being, maybe until the end of the season. Supporters should acccept the fact and get on with supporting the team, the club and the manager.
Why people think that sacking the manager is the only solution to present predicament is beyond me. It’s knee jerk reaction. In the early 60′s Wolves sacked the finest manager the club has ever had in Stan Cullis. It achieved nothing, and we have only had a modicum of success in the intevening years.
I’m not suggesting that Mick McCarthy is on a par with Cullis, but he should be allowed the opportunity to turn the season around. The time for reviewing his management should end of May 2012.
People are throwing names such as O’Neil, Curbishly, “Big Sam”, etc as though they would miraculously turn us into world beaters. O’Neil has a tendancy to walk out on clubs when he feels like it. Curbishly likes the comfort of being a TC pundit. Allydice was sacked by the chicken farmers – hardly a recommendation.
McCarthy, like any manager who would be in charge of Wolves, has to work within the finacial constraints imposed by the club. In that respect, in my opinion, he’s not doing a bad job, and I doubt whether anyone else would do any better in the circumstances at this moment in time, and may do a darn sight worse.
UTW
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well,well,well,what a surprise.
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Never the twain shall meet
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oh did the Mccarthy haters give last night a miss,judging by the numbers missing looked about right,anyway back to the old faithfuls on saturday not the “second stream” players we played last night,wonder with the might of stears,berra and johnson man city might score more ! interesting
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moxey looks like his planning something in this pic got a new manager on his mind????
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I know were all feeling (slightly humiliated), but you have to look at the bigger picture.. Is it all MM’s fault when you look at what is classed as a budget, then price up the Man city scorers from last night Johnson £7 million, Nasri £22 Million, and Dzeko £27m just them 3 players are literally worth more than all the Wolves sqaud and the Moulinex put together … Its time to look at the board and see what their REAL ambitions are.
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As much as I want Mick out who would we have Hughes ?? He wants the Chelsea or utd job. o’neil who walks out on clubs no thanks mclaren get real more useless than Mick . Sven naa I’ll pass there was only one manager I wanted big Sam but west ham got him
I’m no happy clapper but might as well back him he turned it around last season can do it this season n yes I was one of thoses on saterday who telling him he was getting sacked in the morning but had time to reflect now n getting behind the team
Btw unlucky last night score line don’t tell the whole story played well same again saterday n soon have fans back on side
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Lets see how they still feel when we are in the bottom 3 again…
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No matter what our opinions are of MM and lets face it they are very mixed, he is going nowhere! FACT! so everybody may aswell just get behind the boys nomatter what and lets see if that has the desired effect! because if we carry on the only way is down! players are suggesting they play better when we lift the roof off the mol so lets give them what they want and see where it takes us!!
I recall a few seasons ago Moxey lowered our expectations before a season in championship and we all got behind the younger lads and it was one if the best seasons atmosphere wise to be a wolves fan!
Its tough sometimes as MM makes my blood boil but we are stuck with him thats for sure so lets just make matchdays enjoyable again no matter what the performance eh boyz??
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Bet he won’t be saying that in 3 wks time when we lose heavily to Man City, lose at home to Wigan, then another 2 defeats to follow against Everton and Chelsea….
Lets see them saying they still back Mick then…
What needs to happen to stop all the fans slagging them off is for Mr Morgan to come out and say exactly what is going on… Would they rather build a ground with a team in the championship, or spend money on the team…
Its been said by almost every Wolves fan since the last day of last season, buying one player will not make us a mid-table side… Its about time the chairman, chief executive and the manager realised this!!!
They must be deluded…
Another thing… When did any Wolves squad/manager be happy when they have just lost 5-2!!!
The club is being turned into a laughing stock!
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boring boring boring. the chuckle brothers are at again. one slags the fans off the other tells the fans no matter what mccarthys job is safe ! these pair make me laugh. lets see what happens after the wigan game hey ? ok last night was a slight improvement but lets see what the next 5 games bring. lets face it its the fans that pay these 2 there wages and without us so called ” MINDLESS IDIOTS OR NUMPTIES ” you would be out of a job. the wigan game is a massive game for us and if we lose that no doubt the dark clouds will gather over molinuex again. its gonna be a bumpy ride over the next few weeks for mccarthy and with the games we got coming up i wouldnt want to be in his shoes. lets see what happens !to be concluded !
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Wigan match vital. Lets hope they all do the talking on the pitch and not off it before the game. Got to start taking our chances and defending with some authority.
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The big problem is they are also good friends and near neighbours so he has to support MM.
The only hope we have is that Mr MORGAN realises that if they stay we will be down and he will have an empty new stadium.
SO PLEASE ACT NOW MR MORGAN.
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You can say what you like Moxey,it won’t be you making the decision!Did you see Morgans face last night?He looks a worried man.When we lose heavily against City Saturday it will all hinge on the Wigan game and the way weve performed the last two seasons at home against them I don’t hold out much hope!
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I haven’t posted on here for a year but still read the comments daily.
i think MM is a good man manager but has little idea as a coach maybe we should look at a new number 2 with good experience. One comment above said he turned things round for us last year, my freind Spurs & Man Utd are the reason we are here we lost our most important game.
Maybe this would be the compromise that would bring management and supporters backk together again.
I also think MM should look at the Blackburn manager who has dealt with loads more abuse with great dignity.
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5, WULVZ
Well first its WOLVES not WULVZ
And second…
NO AMBITION WHAT SO EVER ???
So what is that massive construction being built where the small northbank used to be then!
As the last time i checked its was part of a 50,000 seat planned stadium being built !!
In 2 years time the football world gets rocked with this new fair financial play rule coming in which in baisic terms means you cant spend unless you have the revenue to do it !
LOOK PAST THE END OF YOUR NOSE FOR SECOND MATE AND THINK ABOUT THE LONG TERM BENEFITS TO THE CLUB !
I aint a big fan of struggling for survial neither but to say they have no ambition is rubbish ! were a yoyo club right now who have managed to stay in the prem for 3 years….. OPEN YOUR EYES AND SMELL THE COFFEE MATE !
YES, if honest id of liked to have seen more money spent on the squad, but before we start going off on one at the CEO & Chairman lets see what happens in JANUARY eh ?
AND AS FOR MICK, WELL….. NO COMMENT !
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I dont get it!!!!
Last nights game was never going to be viewed other than a loss.
The above comment also applies to the Saturday game.
Wolves fans would never complain to an outfit that as had “MILLIONS” spent on it to create.
Wolves fans are realistic very realistic!!
Happy Clappers apart all the rest are aware that “MM” as managed 127 Premiership games and won a mere “25″!!!!!
No one not even the most ardent “MM” fan can defend this “RECORD” that is created by “MM”!!!
MM is the creator of his own “GRAVE” and he will bury himself in it in the very near future.
“MM’s” fans are asking for support and time….OK he as long as it takes,he is only been in the job 5yrs so lets give him another 5years to possibly improve the team!!!!!
MM as had ample time and money to atleast create a football team doing the basics right,so far he has failed miserabbly.
The situation we find ourselves as been written by “MM”.
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5-2 and that was their reserves, wait til saturday.
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2 points from 21 thats rubbish! how does Moxey want the fans to re act?
Just watch Mick he’s moaning at the players from start to finish! it’s natural. Yes we do care and we will moan when we are loosing and cheer when we are winning what’s the problem?
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The complaint fans have is that Mick has failed to create a team that can avoid fighting a relegation battle every year.
Surely even the most die-hard Mick supporters have to admit that Stearman, Berra, Elokobi, Henry and Ebanks are not Premiership players.
Now Johnson is looking like he has to be added to the list of failures that Mick has bought – remember Hoff, Mayokoulo, Mujambi-Bia, Serman, Halford etc.
As a Championship Manager – Big Success
As a Premiership Manager – Sorry Mick, Not good enough.
Time to go now with dignity…………..
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#12 Albrightondek
Quote:
“The time for reviewing his management should end of May 2012.”
You mean after we have been relegated to the Chumpionship?
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21. wonderwulf: Wow I’d love to have you in the trenches with me if war kicked off! Ever thought of applying for a job as a sports psychologist/motivator? Two really winnable games in the next four and you’ve got us written off already. Just the sort of negativity everyone at our club can well do without at the moment. Change two of the first four letters in your pen name and that’ll be about right!
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Going back in time, for me we should have added one of Mills/Dann/Upson/ANother to go with Johnson, a LB for competition/backup, and a striker as further backup. This
is not hindsight, I posted this from day one. We lost out on Mills – had we got him, would we have still gone for Johnson? My problem is we do not know what MM asked for and what he was given. He isn’t going to tell us and Jez certainly won’t. I may have wavered in recent days but, given the way things seem to be, I’m going to stick with Mick at least for now. Unlike some, I was happy with his appointment in the first place and, recognising what he has done for us, see no reason to kick him into touch at this stage.Despite his manner (disliked by some) I don’t see why he has to take all the stick for recent failings. Being old enough to have revelled in the glory days of the 50s when our name was revered in Europe, I accept that those days are long gone – we have to accept what we are, no longer the big club we were. But we must make the best of the situation, and that means staying in this league – and I look to MM to do that. But I also look to SM and JM to enable him to do so – and that will now have to be in January.
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Lets be honest usually when the fans start to protest unless your Alex Fergusson then the manager will lose his job. I think unless the board have decided to stick with him for the rest of the season then get rid of him now while we still have time to get someone else in. Although I do worry who would want to come Sven ? Hughes ? Grant ? etc unless we could get someone like O’Neil then is there a lot better out there cos were not gonna get a top top manager at Wolves with our ambition
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So, Jez is behind Mick? That, in turn, means Steve is behind both Moxey and Mick, so tell me something new. Mick’s going to be here forever, and we know it. I mean, if Steve can tolerate all that dross we’ve seen -yet still not dismiss him- well, he’s very easily pleased, or doing it on the cheap.
Expect lots more ‘Pro-Mick’ and ‘Anti-Mick’ battles on the internet boards as fans defend their (very) divided stance on all things McCarthy. Expect it for years to come, in fact -especially in the Championship.
Personally, I want him to do the honourable thing and resign while he still has my great respect. He’s going nowhere, though, so I’m stuck with him.
That said, there’s been no booing from me at Mick or the team, and there never will be. I’ve always supported the manager and team to the hilt during games, no matter what I think -Hoddle excepted!
So, if, like me, you really do not want him as manager of our beloved club, feel free to say your piece on these pages and make your feelings known. At Molineux, however, behave as supporters should and back Mick and the boys for 90 mins. If you simply HAVE to make a point, then wait till the game’s over before blasting anyone. You’ll keep the moral high ground that way and deny Mick (or the team) an opportunity to criticise you at the same time.
Pull together, everyone, no matter how you feel. There’s only one Wolverhampton. Never forget it.
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couple of things here, if you don’t want to have frustrated fans who vent their frustrations at you when things don’t go well, then don’t unnecessarily raise expectations by telling them a top half of the table finish is possible, when it is blatantly not!
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A question for all the NONE Happy Clappers.If MM did go,what makes you think that all these managers names that you bandy around,would even consider coming here.After Sky`s wonderful coverage of the Wolves v Swansea game last week end,beamed around the world,showing all your hate filled faces & screaming abuse at our manager.Yes, he is our manager,until he or the club decide otherwise.So bottom line is,you have basically alienated any potential quality volunteers for the job.What new manager would want to submit himself to that treatment,
if things did not go right for him.He would only have the same squad to work with after all.
Another thing,all this clap trap about fans paying the players & managers wages,gives them the right to hurl abuse at them,if they are not performing how they would like them to.Get a grip.As working people,through our taxes & NI contributions,we pay the wages of doctors,nurses,firemen,teachers & social workers,that gives us the right to hurl abuse & obscenities at them as well does it?
Support the team through thick & thin as I have done since 1959,if you have nothing pleasant to say,best say nothing at all.
UTW
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Wanderer in Eire – So you don’t think the side has improved in the last 5 years ?!
You’re right of course, the situation we find ourselves in is down to Mick, because no other manager has managed to keep us in the top flight for 3 consecutive years for around 3 decades now.
It must have killed you last weekend when Doyle managed a goal and an assist to earn us a point!
And to all those saying we’re certs to go down, we’ve been listening to this for the last couple of seasons, and before that it was “he won’t take us up”…….. he keeps proving you wrong, get over it & start being a supporter.
There is a massive difference between being a fan and a supporter, start realising it.
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Fact; teams that heavily invest in infrastructure to expand capacity and revenue usually spend less on playing staff…falling behind in the premier league usually results in one thing…relegation! evidence Derby, Southampton, to name but two.
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Realistically, we cannot expect to get anything out of Man City,Everton ( not wealthy but have an excellent Manager) or Chelsea. The gulf in class between the rich clubs and the rest is widening and it is doubtful if we can ever match these teams financial resources both in terms of transfer fees and wages. Equally, the top players increasingly only have one thing on their mind – Champions League football and we can forget ever getting to that exalted level given our ownership’s resources and mindset.
Wigan are probably worse than we are in the goalscoring department but do play an organized game and will be difficult to take anything from.
The management has nailed its support to the mast with respect to MM so there will will be no changes whatever any of us think. We are faces with the prospect of dicing around in the relegation places this season so everyone might as well get used to it.
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I now see O’Hara has said: “we’ll be looking to perform for the manager” in the forthcoming games. Very laudable, I’m sure, but it begs one question:
Why was there no mention of doing it for us fans, Jamie?
Mind you, we’ve heard big talk like this all season long from our players. It’s been plenty of chit-chat, plenty of promises but no action, so far. Do your talking ON the pitch, not OFF it, please.
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If you don’t want to support Wolves why do you bother posting such negative drivel week after week? whats your motive in doing that? bored, stupid or mindless idiot – you choose…
Yes no one that follows Wolves will be happy with recent results but some of us are capable of keeping things in perspective.
The last two seasons were our highest league positions for over 20 years, we are building a superb facility to watch our team and we have strengthened the squad evey season since MM joined us.
Never ever give up hope.
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‘ Business as usual ‘
Look forward to relegation in May then!!
Muppet Mick will then see players leave by the dozen and he’ll be back where he started with us after the Glenda reign. Oh Joy!!
Within 5 years of the last time Wolves and Swansea played together in the top flight both were in the old 4th Division. There’s something to ponder.
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No 12. Albrightondek. As you say we should ‘support the club’ ive always said on here i ‘support the club first and foremost’ and always have/will, no matter who’s manager, or who plays for us, as managers/players will always come and go. But im afraid i lost what little respect i had for McCarthy when he clearly told supporters to FXXX OFF,therefore i cannot give him my support, has i said the other day he crossed the line making those remarks that day for me and many other supporters, he’s always had a awful attitude towards people,when things dont go right for him, but with him being the main voice of WWFC, he must bite his tongue and keep his anger inside,even if he’s ‘right/wrong’. And to me should have been shown the exit door, for those words alone. And as for keeping him till the end of the season, well having only gained 2-21pts, im not sure thats such a good idea, as if that tally of points continues till May we will be relegated, and i dont think even you want that, for our club/supporters do you? UTW:
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38 – I genuinely DO understand and sympathise with what you’re saying, my friend. The Swansea game would have an embarrassment to behold on Sky TV. Not only the fans’ awful behaviour, though…
…the team’s performance was verging on disrepute, too. So, that did us no favours, either.
I take your point where criticism of doctors, nurses, etc is concerned. However, just how fair a comparison is it? The Health Service has set regulations and standards that MUST be met by NHS Trusts. Failure to do so results in penalties, public enquiries -even dismissals, where necessary. So, they’re ultimately accountable for their actions -as is any manager at any football club.
The big difference, as I see it, is that the NHS is in the public sector, whereas Wolves FC is most definitely in the private sector.
In either case, they’re both accountable to their public -more so football clubs, in some respects, because they’re part of the entertainments industry.
With respect, too, you cannot realistically expect fans to only say “good things” all the time. This is football we’re talking about, my friend. It arouses passions. Long may that be so because, without it, the game’s nothing.
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34. Solentwolves. I fully agree with your comments,as usual you always talk sense, regarding the signings of a further CH/Striker etc. I like you said in January last season, we should have bought Shane Long, i felt we only had 4 strikers, and top BPL clubs always run with 4 top strikers, especially given two if not three of our strikers do seem to get injured very easily. And our CH position as always been a joke,considering MM was an ex CH himself,players like Woodgate/Upson would have been ideal on a p.a.y.p.deal. Danns would have been a good signing too, but i fear as he messed us about before Jez/Mick wouldn’t go down that path again with him,which is fair enough i suppose to a point. Id like to see us go in for Huth from Stoke in January,as he doesn’t seem to be getting a regular game, he seems a decent CH to me? UTW:
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Sick of this
Why dont all boo boys, who just want to release their frustrations over thier little lives, just go and do it at the baggies?
They have a manager to moan about too.
Wolves dont need or want you
MM is right you are mindless idiots
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45 Tom – next time you are under pressure at work I’ll organise a few hundred people to come down and stand behind you and chant for you to be sacked. Sure you’ll take it in an entirely dignified fashion. Of course we could see if Hoddle is still available, sure he would turn the other cheek.
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#12
I agree.
At the end of last season, I said that I was no fan of MM but when we stayed up. I felt that we should retained him then and I do so now.
The “bo boys” have hounded out two England managers, several other “good managers” and are in danger of doing the same now to a man that has achieved so much forthe club. They destroy the club I have supported all my life.
IMO they are more of an issue to our Premier League survival than MM Gez or anyone else.
How do the negative comments and boos affect the team? Would a new manager be able to chnage things around quickly?
I say, (as I said in July), stick with MM, get behind the team and review IF we stay up at the end of the season.
UTW
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46:Ye Olde South Bank
Thanks for the reply,& level headed response.I just feel that as a group of fans, we let ourselves down very publicly,to a very large audience.
Regarding the Public v Private sector comment,we have no control over who treats us in hospital,who arrives to put out our fires etc(Public).If I am disappointed in the private sector,pub,restaurant,entertainment,etc.I complain,then vote with my feet.Will not go there again.That`s everybodies choice.We as loyal Wolves supporters have made our choice.
I understand totally that we cannot only say good things,what I did not like, is what was said & the way it was said, to the universal public last week.These Sky games get worldwide audiences,I know,I used to watch them when I worked in Egypt.It really showed us up in a bad light,more so than the display of inept football.Apart from the last 10 minutes.
It aint over til the Fat Lady Sings.
Never forget,Out Of Darkness Cometh Light
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No need for any of the boo boys to make any more comments on here after what’s gone on since Saturday,A few more like last nights attendance money, Will hurt Morgan and Moxey more than any booing Trust me the boardroom table will soon be getting very busy if it continues
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Football must be the ONLY business where the manager gets the sack for failures and the CEO takes no blame at all.
Moxey’s record of manager appointments and players signed leaves a lot to be desired to say the least.
If the business fails again this year the manager will get the blame whilst Moxey who buys and or negotiates ALL our players sits there smugly.
In ANY other business when the company fails the CEO is sacked, maybe Morgan should start looking at his CEO.
********* NEVER MIND WE ARE SOLVENT*******
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If you’re happy and you know it clap you’re hands
If you’re happy and you know it clap you’re hands
If we lost 5-2 but there was nothing we could do
If you’re happy and you know it clap you’re hands
If you’re happy we drew with Swansea clap you’re hands
If you’re happy we drew with Swansea clap you’re hands
If you’re happy we drew with Swansea cus we came from 2-0 down
If you’re happy we drew to Swansea clap you’re hands
If your happy with any selection clap you’re hands
If your happy with any selection clap you’re hands
If a strikers a defender and a centre half’s a right back
If you’re happy with selection clap you’re hands
If you love that we keep losing clap you’re hands
If you love that we keep losing clap you’re hands
If you don’t like ambition and you don’t like change
Then your happy and you know it clap youre hands
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Successful Premiership clubs with big gates and a prosperous infrastructure with sound Academy prospects enjoy it because they win games and are capable of competing at the highest level. Their fans can also be critical and loud and arguably the negatives can be interpreted as passion and it takes all kinds to watch a football match. The criticism of fans whatever the type of chants is completely unacceptable and Jez Moxey and the happy clappers should look at our demise in the dark days before Jack Hayward rescued us. Many gates were below 10000 and I wonder if Steve Morgan would be happy with this. Be careful what you wish for.
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It looks like MAD MICK has taken us as far as he can with the money the club is going to invest in the team. So if you don’t like it go and watch somebody else or save money and watch it in the pub.
It is as good as its going to be – FACT! Just staying up at best with MAD MICK and clipboard in charge.
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#45 Tomwolf
Why must he bite his tongue? Respect cuts both ways. I don’t believe any manager should be subjected to the foul abuse that McCarthy had to endure last week. I don’t care whether they are so called “paying customers” or not.
Clearly you are not a fan of McCarthy which is your perogative.
McCarthy is a man who will give as good as he gets. Just like he used to in his playing days. At 50+ years of age he’s not going to change. A bit like Marmite – you either like him or you don’t.
As for your assertion that on the basis of 9 games played Wolves will be relegated, what of the teams that are below us? In recent seasons we have seen many teams start well only to lose points later on, such as Blackpool last season and Hull the previous season. It’s far too early to say where we or anyone else will end up.
If you wish to be pessimistic then so be it. I don’t think McCarthy or the players have thrown the towel in yet and neither the majority of the supporters.
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I agree with other posts MAD MICK’S record is poor and not getting better. His days are numbered and Mr Morgan will not put up with him telling the Wolves fans to F-OFF. It won’t be Taxi for Mick please it with be a white van with blacked out windows stright jacket fitted and sectioned if he has another dolls out of pram moment. The next ‘must win’ game I would think…Wigan.
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Brightonwolf we pay our money we deserve a say ( and we dont use the pink pound )
Unfortunately I have a long memory so I’m torn.
Does MM need a good righthand man eg Ray Wilkins to freshen up his tactics?
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went to wigan last season ,not one shot at goal, live on sky to be humiliated in front of the nation! get bully in has a formard coach ?
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Told ya day I.
While Moxey is there Mad Mick is SAAAAAAAFFFFFEEEE
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AND WHAT IF WE DRAW ON SATURDAY AND BEAT WIGAN?????? no, i’m afraid thinking positively is not allowed any more.
wwfc forever. utw.
man utd first team 1 man city first team 6
wwfc reserves 2 man city reserves 5
there is no pride in defeat, but if heaven forbid wwfc survive this season, wwfc will need to recruit new numpties to fill those new seats.
come on me babbies
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Well here we are again!
You so called morons attacking Mick are barking mad!
This used to be a big club but we are a small club from a small city.
We have no oligarch from Russia or despot from the Middle East backing us!
We have an owner doing the right things and a manager trying to build upo a team on virtually next to nothing.
Where have we been for the last twenty years?
nowhere.
What do you want?
Eriksson?
O’Neill?
Allardyce?
NONE WILL COME
Get this: with a bunch of morons baying for the manager’s head like you do who the hell would want to manage this club?
NOBODY and certainly not Maertin O’Neill–he will never come here ever!!!
get a grip
Its time to take a step back and get behind the team.
I just wish Mick would build it round Milijas!
he is our most gifted player.
Martin
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Booorrrinnnggg…..
Hes here till he or Moxey leave by their own making!
Once you make a pact McCarthy – Moxey – Morgan then nothing will break it!
No one wants to get egg on their face….BUT one thing that has happened, the whisperings of Moxey into Morgans ear “dont listen to the supporters, they havent got a clue, I even let albion use their seats and only gave them a pie an pint”
Mr Morgan will one day wake from his zombie enhanced McCarthy, Moxey state and proclaim his sorrow at listening to the lies and misgivings of Moxey…remember the emperors new clothes?
I dont think we will see change this year, maybe not even next year BUT Morgan is a proud, honest businessman who listens to his intrusted personel – UNTIL their guidance proves to become costly – falling attendences, decreasing player value, relegation, lower season ticket sales, lower sky income
Time will tell….lets wait and see…
Always wolves
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1 NO16 RORY,No mate,he is just planning how
to invest his bonus.Bonds or Swiss Francs.
2 To be fair to Jez I thought his comments yesterday were more balanced than stated above.Bridges need to be built with the fan base.The booing was not restricted to the South Bank. I would like a bit more honesty,most fans even the happy clappers, would have liked to have seen more investment in players in the close season.Why not tell us the truth,because of the ground redevelopment they cut back spending on players in the summer.The money saved being earmarked for phase 2 of the ground redevelopment.Telling the truth would be a good start.
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I didn’t like the booing at the time, but I think it had the desired effect. Against City Doyle was sprinting, instead of jogging round the pitch also actually trying to beat an opponent in the air. Ohare closed down quickly when he came on and never stopped running, and generally every player put in more effort. So I think it got to the players in the right way. Now though as against City I think their efforts should be applauded. Must mention Adlene in parts he was brilliant really used the ball well, and kept it well too. I reckon if Mick doesn’t play him regularly he will be off in January.
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Feelings are running high for everyone connected with the Club right now & will probably continue to do so for the rest of the season. I’m sure Steve Morgan is feeling just as hurt, angry, disappointed, frustrated as any Wolves Fan across the globe. Sure, I have also been a critic in the past but now firmly believe we are passed that. All the negative rhetoric will not help these players out of their slump. Realistically we are facing another “heavy defeat” against the Billionaires on Saturday – yet I’m sure we will put in a performance like we did last season. Against the Swans we were afraid of playing at home & it showed bigtime. We haven’t had the decisions we should have had in previous games & this will affect performances as the team will be wondering what they have to do to get a result – this in itself will instil below average performances, frustration – but to have your own home support turn on you is disgraceful. Even in the dark days of the Bhatti’s & Div 4 the club had the true hardcore support.
Sure Mick should be able to motivate the players, but once they tread onto the pitch it really is down to the team & the captain. We have vocal players in Hunt, Henry, O’Hara to help the captain on the pitch so where is it.
In summary we are in a slump – so are Notlob, Wigan, Blackburn & I have to belive we can turn it around – no one is going to catch Man City & before we deliver diatribe after Saturdays game just recap on their results this season so far – Spurs 1 – 5 Man City, Man Utd 1 – 6 Man City are 2 that come to my mind.
Come on Wolves Fan get behind the 3M’s for the sake of football & our great club.
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39,Kentish Did we stop up last season because of MM or inspite of him? Last game win for definate survival,result Out thought,outplayed,and hammered by a novice manager.
19 defeats in year 1
20 defeats in year 2
And as wanderer in Eire points out a paltry return of 25 wins in 126 premiership attempts.
I believe that if MM is ever going to take us on from being just a 17th placer then an experienced(Ray Wilkins)no2 is urgently needed.Problem though is would MM listen to somebody else?.
Finally in response Fan/Supporter jibe how can any one be happy to be Humiliated by QPR outplayed for the majority by Swansea, and saying a 2-5 home defeat is a good result?
Beggars belief.
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Support the team during the game or stay away. As for MM next few results after Man City will decide that but lets look at the 5 years hes been incharge – we’ve had two seasons in the prem and now onto our third – I’d of taken that back then. Very poor against QPR and for 80 mins against Swansea but refs robbed us of points against Liverpool and Newcastle. Would 2 or even 4 more points have everyone chanting magic mick? Would Johnson and Craddock together work?
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Noisy, I guess that would be perfectly acceptable to Tom,if you paid him £600,000 a year.I never boo but I was annoyed and ashamed of our performance for 80 minutes against Swansea.The real worry is that this is a season too far and we will end up relegated with only 20 points, or even less.
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That’s it then. The manager has the confidence of the Board. Championship, here we come. As someone has mentioned above. Stay away and remove the income source until the team performs. Then we will see how much support the manager has.
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57.Albrightondek. Actually i think MM is a top championship manager, even a bottom half of the BPL manager. But im afraid i dont rate him a middle/top half of the BPL manager, like many players/managers i think he as his limits,and im sorry i dont see him as the man to take Wolves forward to the next level of the BPL. ‘IMO’ Im sorry but i disagree with you, in that any person who is the main face/voice of a football club should ever come out with words such a F.O to anyone, has i even wrote if he was ‘right/wrong’ like me you’ve watched football for many years, but how many managers have you seen use such language in front of ‘women/kids’ especially when they’ve got a TV camera stuck in their face? Or anytime for that matter at all in your lifetime? As for giving in the towel i wouldnt ever expect that from any ‘player/manager/supporter,that would be totally unacceptable. Im just saying on the basis of 2-21pts we will be relegated, is that not true? If not then the three other teams below us must be far worse than us come May?
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wont get anything at man city.get 3points against wigan and things might be on the up perhaps we can pick ourselves up again good luck to the boys we must stop up utw
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Got to laugh at you lot,yes Mccarthy can be an arrogant,stubborn sod,but from where your club was 5years ago to where it is now,for the guy to get that much vitriolic abuse puts shame on your club.Grow up you infantile mindless morons and get behind your so called team ,like true supporters.Baggies forever
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It is not Moxey we want to hear from…it is Morgan, a man more invisible than the Bhatti brothers.
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Im not a fan of boo-ing the team they dont pick themselves (Ward Excluded), but the manager is fair game..
What the happy clappers and Muppet followers dont seem to understand is, the fans do not expect top 3 positions, they dont expect to spend money like the top 10, but they do expect to see some sign of common sence in the squad selection..
They do expect to see a team that has the apperance of a game plan,
They do expect to see some signs of logical tactics,
With the existing squad i am convinced we could do far better, play some half decent football.
Against MC we actually looked capable of scoreing a very unusual thing to behold for a MM selected squad.
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Bottom Six season before last:
Wolves
Wigan
West Ham
Burnley
Hull
Portsmouth
Bottom Six last season:
Blackburn
Wigan
Wolves
Birmingham
Backpool
West Ham
Current Bottom Six:
Swansea
Wolves
Fulham
Bolton
Wigan
Blackburn
Can we see any consistant names?
Wolves, Wigan, Me think@’s that our turn for the drop calleth.
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Looking at Muppet’s and Moxey’s smile they and us have nothing to worry about. We were promised a mid-table finish this season. So lets help them along a little. Stay away until the team attains 10th position or better.That will wipe the smile off their faces, we will have some better quality football to watch and save money up to Christmas into the bargain.
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