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Wolves manager Mick McCarthy tells Steven Fletcher to ignore the hype
Wednesday 14th December 2011, 10:00AM GMT.
Wolves manager Mick McCarthy today told Steven Fletcher to ignore the hype and carry on scoring – and dismissed the idea of selling him.
The club-record £7million signing is grabbing the limelight, after his six-goal tally this season took his record to 16 in just 23 Premier League starts since his move from Burnley.
McCarthy is aware the unassuming Fletcher is attracting the headlines but insists the striker’s only focus is to continue doing his job.
The Wolves boss said: “He’s a Premier League player scoring goals so he’s going to get headlines. Players always do when they’re scoring goals.”
Asked if he thought the 24-year-old would become a transfer target soon, McCarthy told the Express & Star: “No. If I say yes, then I’ve suddenly put him up for sale, haven’t I?
“So, categorically, no. All Fletcher can do is play and score, for his career here, and his Scotland career. He’s still only a young man, so all he can do is keep playing well and scoring.
“It’s a great feeling as a footballer to be playing well. He’s a very good player – he’s excellent. It’s his all-round game, but as with all strikers, it’s his goals that top his performances off.
“And he wants to score – he loves scoring.
McCarthy hasn’t set Fletcher any targets, only a desire for him to keep performing.
The manager said: “Fletcher just has to be as good as he possibly can. I haven’t set him any goals at all. My aim was always to play my best in the next game.
“As a Republic of Ireland player, I wanted to go to a European Championships or a World Cup, or to get promoted or win something.
“My call every week was just to be the best for the next Saturday or Tuesday or whenever the next game was.
“You can’t look further than that because you’re next goal is always in front of you. You play on Saturday, and whatever happens, the next one is there for you.
“I don’t think the goals are a guarantee – I think it’s the fact that he works hard at it. He does a lot of work on his finishing – he’s quite diligent at what he does.”
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MM, you worry about telling henry he is dropped for the sake of the team.
Also stop playing central midfields or right backs or left wingers on the right wing and play hammill. Or I notice Kightly is doing well at watford, get him back!?
But please stop playing Jarvis there, as he can only play on the left and hunt is so out of form it is un-true!!
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That is a fantastic goalscoring record that Fletcher has. He is more likely to listen to the “hype” if he finds himself left out of the team behind Doyle.
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GOD WE ARE DOOMED IF WE SELL HIM AND ARE STUCK WITH GOAL MACHINE DOYLE.
COME LIVERPOOL DOYLES IRISH THINK HOW HAPPY YOUR IRISH FANS WOULD BE HAVING HIM IN YOUR TEAM,YOU CAN HAVE HIM FOR 10MIL
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i would love to see Sam Vokes play alongside Fletcher, Both typical old style kind of footballers, and bring Danny Batth back, let,s get some of our youngsters doing the business for us, they,ve both had successful loans and proved their worth,leave Khiteley on further loan, maybe loan Ebanks out for a month to re-ignite his fire, We have talent at Wolves but not used due to Mick,s favourism, we will only get misfits and under performing players in january, wait till the summer then spend wisely, my only addition in jan would be a experienced loan defender to wisen Johnson up,………………
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Please don’t go or sell… he’s our star player and hennessey. We need the goals not the cash!
2-0 to Wolves the weekend! Fletcher and O’Hara to score.
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Well Done Fletch !
Goals win games, We need to see more of you starting games !
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As Wolves are fortunately in fairly sound financial position, there is no reason to sell Fletcher.
The only chance he would be sold in January would if the player himself expressed a desire to leave or a ridiculously high offer was made.
Come the summer and it maybe a different matter. All players are available at the right price.
However, I do think at least a couple of players may well be sold: Keogh and Milijas. If that happens, I think that Wolves, who seem to be favourites to sign Frimpong on loan, will also sign one or two others.
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What a surprise from getting splinters in hs back side last season because MM prefered DOYLE. He now thinks that FLETCHER is his best option for scoring goals. I think? MM this is what the supporters have been saying since he came to the club.
Stop picking your favourites and give MILIAS GUEDIOURA and O’HARA a run in Midfield. HENRY is not good enough but you persist in playing him.
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MM has created a team of untouchables…these players believee the hype that mad mick has spun around them.
1. Ward – bought as a striker, played as a winger, now a left back – never dropped after poor performances and now shockingly looks average…how bad are the other players then?
2. Doyle – Mr invincible – super shift, never gets the appreciation he deserves – OMG £6mil for a average work horse bought as a striker – How many goals has he scored?
3. Henry – hahaha first name on the sheet, HELLO – mad mick is now questioning his own sanity!
4. Johnson – Captain courageous, never misses a game??? Never defends well more like – £6 to £7 mill for Johnson, blues are laffing all the way to the bank – Oh but Johnson blames the fans for the teams demise!!!!
5. Ohara – Midfield dynamo with flare – the only one I will hang judgement on because of the illness of his child – BUT should he be playing then?
6. Berra – Quality centre half with pace…?? I think best suited as rugby player or wrestler – slower than a tugboat turning, but still not as slow as Johnson and £3mil cheaper
7. Hunt – the fiery winger we have been missing – I’m sorry but is he still missing, I haven’t seen him for the last few games – was in the team though
8. Edwards – box to box midfielder with an eye for a goal….erm – please visit specsavers
9. Elokobi – left back….left back at the gym to build himself up…what is all that about?
10. Mouyokolo – Centre half footballing defender….that good he has gone after 2 games…
Mad Mick has wasted so much money and knocked the confidence out of the quality players that deserve a run or have deserved a run – Milijas, Jarvis, Hammill, Fletcher, Blake, Guediourra – What have these guys gotta do to get a game?
MM time to go…..please
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I can’t fathom Mick sometimes
yesterday it was Mick saying that the big boys would be circling for fletcher, now mick is saying ignore the hype
surely the only person mentioning fletcher in the press is Mick, so is mick telling Mick to shut up or what
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Hope he ain’t trying to “BIG” him up, so he raises more in the Transfer window. The likes of Chelski & Man Spew, Liverpool & Newcastle can throw enough money at Moxey,he’d get an erection.
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…….Khiteley??????
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Streako P
If you dislike that many members of our squad & the manager so much.
Surely it would be easier if it was you that went elsewhere & do us all a favour!!!!
Thumbsucker!!
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So I said to my lad, we’ll stay up till Man U get a goal – cos we expected they would – ooops bad stuff from KH down one nil we go(he isnt upto much to be honest) so we said OK lets stay up a bit longer. 2-0 down at 230am here in 3187. No lets stay up cos they’re our team. Hold on second half gets going and MJ to SF…GOAL..we’re lovin it. We give it a go, but heyho the boys in gold & black ay as good as the red devils.
We wreck our Sundays – not much better on Mondays at work/school – to watch/suffer/enjoy/despair our Wolves at 2am.
So stop your moaning/whinging POMS act and say:
Wherever we are
Whatever we do
We are The Wolves
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grace please enlighten me to what a thumb sucker is is it playgroung talk or are you reffering to a baby ? think you need to grow up and start seeing wolves ,the board,the chairman,the manager,the ceo for what they really are…..i await your childish response
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oh and grace by the way i have supported wolves for over 35 years ,gone home and away but ive now realised what wolves as a club has become and it is deluded individuals like yourself and the other happy clapper brigade who keep the smile on moxey and morgans faces cant you see they are laughing at you ! and….. i bet you were one of the brigade that agreed with the liquidator to be banned, and that you are one of the cherry picked happy clappers that go to the fans parliament and agree with everything that is said …. get back into reality or the playground !
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Nice to see Mick admiring Fletch’s talents at long last. I wondered how long it would take. Amazingly, this is the very same, £7m striker that McCarthy used as nothing more than a seat warmer for long spells last season…before Fletch finally got an overdue look-in and saved our club’s bacon with some crucial goals.
Sometimes I think Mick just gets lucky at the right time because I honestly don’t think he knows his best players, let alone his best team. There again, I’m so confused after 5 years of puzzling McCarthyism, I’m not sure I do, either…
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Trust me he will be gone in January,heard it from a very good source. Lets be honest why wouldnt he leave,club is NOT making progress on the pitch and will be fighting to stay up and also he is not happy with how MAD MICK has treated him. On the bench at Everton being a great example. Fair play to him and best of luck.
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9 (Streako) You ask: “What have these guys gotta do to get a game?” Presumably wait until Karl Henry is either dropped (LOL!), suspended, or is injured so that there’s enough room to bring one in. Mick will then have to re-jig with Henners on the wing, Berra up top, Ebanks at centre-half and Fletch in goal.
Just kidding, before anyone takes offence and busts a blood vessel.
Well, partly, anyway ;-)
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Streako…of course you are right…MM is a lucky manager whilst he has been at the helm of the good ship titanic. Who would you prefer a well intentioned manager like Dave Jones/Graham Turner or the employment of a pure man manager such as Mr Hoddle. Then maybe we could have a manager who has given WWFC 3 seasons at the top table…now who could that be…let me think….whatever his faults, whatever your personal views of the man…he has delivered well above the managers we have had had at WWFC in my lifetime.
So…..
Wherever we are are
Whatever we do
We are The Wolves
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Well there is a farcical fee quoted on a Liverpool fansite of £5m. Add £10m to that and that would be the fee!
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As much as i would like you to stay fletch,i would think it better you leave cos you are not a thicko favourite and you wont walk right back in the team like the crab and his boy child and dont get the blame when the ground is only half full next season when we go down good luck to you fletch
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Selling him now and get some money in for better players. We cannot expect to keep him, so we should sell.
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16,Streako,you know the saying “the truth hurts”.Unfortunately people dont seem to realise how lucky we have been over the last three seasons. Fortunate to get promoted(every time we lost the chasing teams lost also)and lucky to survive in this division for the last two years(Blues deserved to stay up last year).As we have effectively only purchased one player this season (an average centre half may I add)I am now convinced Morgan has no ambition to build a team to survive in this division and is only interested in the “property side of the business” .As for the players,I think they do their best and have performed miracles to stay in this division.Unfortunately some of them are not premiership players and I fear we are going to be found out this season.
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It is very clear that we need some more Premiership quality players (especially defence & central midfield) to move out of the annual relegation dogfight. It isn’t enjoyable to watch and can’t be enjoyable for the players.
We DO have a number of players who can do well in the Prem: Doyle (current role sussed by opposition), Fletcher, Jarvis, Hunt (trying too hard to do too many jobs at moment), Zubar and O’Hara & Johnson (need some quality around them). Hammill & possibly Guedioura are currently only impact subs.
Please do some good business in January or we will struggle to survive!
I will continue to shout on the Wolves at Molineux, whatever!
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I’d be surprised if anyone bids for him in Jan, as he’s only played 23 games in the prem for us. Yes it’s a great goals to games ratio but no top team can take that risk, especially as I wouldn’t sell him for less then £20M.!
I actually think Fletcher is better then Carroll, so under no circumstances should he be sold on the cheap, I saw Liverpool were linked to him the other day. I don’t think he should be sold anyway and if we had a better midfield and defence him and Doyle are great as a front two.
We need to sign a good defensive midfielder if we are to keep playing 4-4-2 and another CB and LB. I also think Hammil deserves a run in the team as Hunt is out of form.
I think 4-3-3 is worth a try v Stoke and Norwich though.
Hennessey
Zubar Craddock Berra Ward
Guedioura O’Hara Milijas
Doyle Fletcher Jarvis
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24 robert perry…. a true post indeed mate glad someone has seen morgan for what he really is ! others on here seem blinkered/brainwashed !
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21 brummiewolf … so you are saying £15 000 000 for fletcher ?? do me a favour dont be my accountant
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Just to cap, Fletcher is not a Republic of Ireland player but a Scotland player who has fallen out with the current Scotland manager.
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26 john de wolf so you think if liverpool came knocking on the door we wouldnt sell ? regardless of the fee… liverpool are a much much bigger club than us and even if we didnt want to sell the player would want to go so we would be daft not selling regardless of what the amount was,footballers contracts in this day and age mean naff all (tevez for example) so it seems so its all pr again from mcarthy ,morgan and moxey
get in the real world !
morgan wheres the money gone ???
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Might we be not be right in thinking this “hype” that Fletch is supposed to ignore actually started right here in the E & S. Fuelled in fact by our manager who is not exactly the primo when it comes to PR. Tosh.
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Johnwolf. Who will score our goals & keep us up if we sell Fletcher as you have just suggested we should? If we did sell him and the goals dried up, you just might find the Numptys were right and you were wrong about our chances of Prem survival.
PS By the way, well done for writing a post in which you managed not to insult anyone, apart perhaps from your own intelligence
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Streako. From the length of your original drivel (9)to your various replies you obviously have a lot of time on your hands.
If you indeed started supporting Wolves 35 years ago, you’ve had a rough time of it. Apart from Bully running rampant in the lower divisions it’s been pretty dismal.
It’s not been perfect by a long chalk, but, the last five years have been a vast improvement and maybe, just maybe a top half finish, even Europa football could come our way.
However that’s as good as it’ll get !
Unfortunately with Platini’s nonsensical financial fair play plan the drawbridges are going up all over Europe so we will never ever be able to compete with the so called elite clubs who will totally dominate European, even World, Football. They’ll take all the top players from Clubs like Wolves, Bolton, Everton,Stoke et al, and there won’t be a thing we can do about it .
So do us all a favour and stop posting your ridiculous ramblings. Take up wind surfing or something !
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Streako
You are a total disgrace mate. To come on here and individually name and ridicule players is shocking.
You say you have followed Wolves for 35 years home and away. I’m telling you your sort of support we can do without.
And before you start, i’m not another happy clapper. I can see the issues we have and am not at all happy with the progress of our team over the last few seasons but it is out of order, totally out of order to ridicule players for their shortcomings.
Stop following Wolves NOW Please !!
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I’m not so sure Wolves have much cash to throw around yet it seems likely that management have joined the many out here who thought they were a couple of players short for this campaign.
January beckons and if decent offers were made for any of the few players likely to attract wealthier outfits I’m sure we’d be doing business.
After all, we are far from safe and need specialist players to occupy crucial positions, not ‘jack of all trades’.
Maybe >£10m might do the trick and if the sale of two of our ‘stars’ can rake in such an amount that part of the equation would be a case of job done.
Unfortunately, what quality players, with a care for survival, would want to get onto HMS Wolves as things stand? Quality loan players would seem to be the best possibilities.
Btw, Stoke look to be on a roll, so anyone (Wolves) looking for more than a point from Saturday’s game is quite an optimist – but I dearly hope your fortitude is rewarded! :)
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You finish where you deserve to over the course of a season. The last two years there have been at least 3 teams worse than us – they deserved to go down, we deserved to stay up.
How can you dispute this to the detriment of your own team?
I’m just asking, because I genuinely don’t know…
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They have just renamed this site as the wingers weekly. UTW
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28) Too right I am saying £15m. We paid £7m and based on his goalscoring record for us, his value has doubled. The side in question spent £35m on Carroll, so I would definitely back my fee! Also for someone who supposedly been going for 35 years – if you have I would know you as I attended my first Wolves game with my old man over 40 years ago and have been everywhere – you don’t have much of a clue if you think that Ward has been shockingly average this season. Easily our best outfield player and never on a losing side for the Irish.
As for other comments that we were lucky to get promoted? Over 90 points and 90 goals says otherwise and Blues definitely deserved to be relegated. Their goals for was appalling last season!
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11 Kent Wolf – a bit rude but I did enjoy your post. If what you say carries even a germ of truth whenever a big cheque comes his way no doubt be’ll be thinking he’s coming into money …. ;)
As for Fletch he obviously speaks his mind, not much boot polish on his lips. Not bad is it, he often warms the subs bench for Wolves yet he’s one of the few players we have that bigger sides could remotely be interested in. Strange old world.
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30) Liverpool are as big a team as anyone in England but if they come knocking on the door for players that they have been linked with like Jarvis and Fletcher, they have to pay the going rate! Them two are worth £20-25m minimum. Liverpool paid about £50m for Carroll and Downing, so irrespective what the players want, they have to pay the fee!
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I’m glad I work long enough hours to miss the rubbish that passes for debate on here in the week.
streako (and YOSB who should know better)
You want Milijas, Jarvis, Hammill, Fletcher, Blake, Guediourra to have a run?
Jarvis has played 11 and come on in the other 4. Form dipped but back to best and undoubtedly will play
Fletcher 8 and 2 subs (injured for most of the rest) on top form will undoubtedly play
Blake injured most of the season, not as good as Doyle, useful as a penalty box player if a team gets deep defending against us – does little outside the box
Milijas got a start and cost us a goal early on, 3 starts all together and not set the world alight ever despite cultured left foot
Geudiora came back from a long injury and gave the ball away constantly – rightly subbed at half time against Wigan for example. Love his attitude but needs to think more about how he uses the ball, not good enough to start (even if he is fit?)
The only one I think has had a bit of a tough ride is Hammill, however not being a Premier League and former International manager,or having access to the training ground I might be wrong on this one too.
So can you handle a debate or are playground insults more your style?
PS better than MAC though who called for O’Hara to be given a run!!
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#9 Streako; #17 Ye Olde South Bank and #24 Robert Perry
Well summarised! Totally Correct! A very lucky man is MM
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Streako… So you’ve been going the wolves home and away for 35 years… I can’t claim to have been going as long as you, I’ve only notched 23 up so far but I certainly haven’t experienced my beloved team in a better situation than where we find ourselves now. We’re in the top flight, got a good young squad, our most successful manager in my lifetime yet it’s still not good enough for you, and you say us ‘happy clappers’ aren’t in touch with reality!!!. You rip our team to pieces. You need to get a grip on reality, if we finish the next 2/3 seasons in 17th then so be it, I’ll be happy. If you weren’t jumping on other moaners bandwagons you’d realise wardy has been one of our best players this season and how you can criticise Doyle is beyond me, while you’re at these hundreds of games you go to pull your head out your backside and watch how much he creates for us. I realise your probably one of these people that thinks unless a stricker scored he’s useless. I’m sick and tired of narrow minded ‘fans’ with short memories getting on mick and the teams back. We all pay our money and deserve a little grumble every now and again but just get a sense of reality and stop critisicing everyone and anyone. Majority of the time the team and manager go out there and give it everything so just get behind them!
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#9 Streako – Nicely summarised. #17 Ye Olde South Bank I agree completely that MM has been one lucky man up to now but this will run out very soon unfortunately. I note that Stoke sent a second XI into European action last night. Usually following such a game Stoke capitulate in the Prem the following match. BUT I think that this might be a different Stoke on Saturday.
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Robert Perry-a lot of football is about luck all teams have a certain amount of luck good and bad.So to say we have had a lot of good luck, well maybe but we’ve also had a lot of bad luck!!! Streako I see your back still in a bad mood……
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34-felts well said my friend..then I would say that wouldn’t I! queen of the happy clappers..
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Streako – You take the bu=iscuit my friend of all the Numpties that write rubbish on here you have shown yourself to be top of the pile! (RichWolf64 will be gutted).
If you have been following Wolves for as long as you claim you must have had a bang on your head recently because you seem to have forgotten the desperate years outside the Premiership?
Maybe you prefer to watch Championship football?
There are over 100 professional football clubs in England and Wales wolves are in the top 20 – not bad considering the Premiership is recognised as one of the best leaguse in the World.
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Had the honour of supporting this team for over 35 years and your opinion is just that – an opinion that you can hold but I dont have to agree with …… and I dont. Fletch aint gonna be sold end of
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Let’s make a very cheeky bid to take Fernando Torres on loan from Chelsea, he can’t get in their team, and is behind Sturridge, Drogba etc, in the pecking order. We could blow the supposed £3m war chest on paying his wages for four months. The supply from Jarvis, and Hammill ( if thicko will pick him) will spell more goals, and for Fletch too. Form is temporary but Class IS permanent, and this team of ours doesn’t have much of that in abundance at the moment. JM and SM need to do something very positive in January IF this team is to survive to fight a fourth season in the Prem.
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Hi everyone!
Can I just ask why everyone is so obsessed with the number of years they have been going to the Wolves match? Constant attendance does not imbue a person with the powers of reason, analysis and intelligent debate, any more than spending every matchday in the Newhampton enjoying a hot pork bap saps them. How does the possibility that you may once have seen Derek Dougan stick one past Peter Bonetti, qualify you to more succinctly skewer our 2011 transfer policy or lack thereof? Does the fact that you know what the meat pies tasted like when John Barnwell was manager, better enable you to reason out Mick McCarthy’s perplexing obsession with Karl Henry? Someone who has sat in the stands of a football club for 40 years, could be said to be someone who doesn’t manage their life priorities particularly well, and certainly not someone to whose opinion extra significance should be ascribed… Pete out!
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Streako P
35 yrs home & away, yeah right!!!
If you need enlightening as to what ‘thumbsucker’ means, you really are as dumb as you act.
However you good news to come out of your reponses is that you no longer go to the games, which is a bonus.
What a proper fan you are!!!!
Which is also the norm on here, those who contribute the least shout the loudest & for some bizarre reason you actually expect other people to respect & agree with your derranged rantings, me thinks it’s you that is deluded my dear boy.
And as for this term that the whingers have bestowed on fans that have a balanced view on the club, team & performances in general as “Happy Clappers” is laughable, then again I’d sooner be happy than the misery’s a number of you on here are.
Merry Christmas one & all
Ho Ho Ho
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streako, you’ve been going to wwfc matches for 35 years, and your point is????.
wether a supporter has been going for 5 years or 50 does not mean they can spout any old rubbish and justify thier opinion as right and anybody that dissagrees as blinkered or brainwashed.
morgan is an investor, and as such expects to make a profit. The £10 pound fee he payed for the club is nominal and could have been £1, an is irrelevant, because his company wiped out our debts.
you ask where has the money gone from staying in the premier?. you cannot view the club accounts unless you a share holder or director.
so asking silly questions on these pages is futile.
so you can make all the wild statements you like about morgan/moxey,mcarthy/connor, you like, but unless you are going to put YOUR money where your mouth is , you will remain just another statistic.
utw come on me babbies
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Lets go to Villa and get “Ireland”!
Smooth as silk .
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Oh my, looks like my E&S Wolves brethren have frightened away relative newcomer, “Streako!” Please, Streako, come back! It’s a nice lot here, once you grow a cast-iron pair and develop skin thicker than a rhino’s!
Delap to score own goal winner for Wolves off a Big George throw-in!
UTMW!
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Pete Nuts, It goes with the territory of growing old.If you are lucky one day you will grow old. I confidently predict one day you will post on here how many years you have been supping in the Newhampton and saying how the wine and pies were so much better in good old 2011,when all we had to worry about was a little World recession.Also you should not knock experience.Thank God in fighting Hitler we had some leaders with experience, and not some of the boys that are running the Country today.Nevertheless,as you are right to say,the length of time you have watched the Wolves is a measure of our level of tolerance rather than intelligence.
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Chris Hoggard-don’t think it’s that you know more about football the longer you’ve been going, think it’s that you’ve seen a lot worse then we have now, so I think your right about tolerance, think as you get older skin does get thicker and older and wrinkled, oh well not too worry, always look on the bright side of life that’s my motto!!!sad old bird aint I.
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streako what a lot of sense you speak it makes a change from the happy clapping morons who think they are allways right like billy quiet.
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