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Steve Morgan hands out ‘sack call’ warning
Thursday 12th January 2012, 1:52PM GMT.
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Steve Morgan today revealed his backing for Wolves boss Mick McCarthy – but stressed results were “not acceptable” in the first half of the season.
Morgan maintains Wolves are not a “hire and fire” club in the light of Neil Warnock’s sacking at QPR, who are on the same points in the Premier League.
Wolves currently have one fewer than they had at the same stage last season, when they were bottom. But the Molineux chairman said results must improve.
“Had we played to our capabilities this season, we should be comfortably in mid-table,” said Morgan.
“We certainly expected to be making progress on last season and, in terms of a running average, we’re behind the pace so it has to be disappointing.
“The reality is, through a combination of one or two bad performances, one or two silly mistakes where one individual mistake has cost us points and some pretty atrocious refereeing decisions, we are where we are.
“We’ve got to address it – it’s not acceptable, completely not acceptable.
“We have to address it. We have to sort it. But we’re not bloody panicking or throwing money at the solution.
“We have to sort it within our existing means and policies.”
Morgan stressed Wolves remain patient with a policy of helping McCarthy as much as possible.
“We’re a stable club; our management style is to work through problems and not to make knee-jerk reactions which end up costing a bloody fortune and provide no stability and unsettles the whole club,” he said.
“It’s not the way I do things in any other business and it’s not the way we do things here. All I can comment on is Wolves and we’re not a hire-and-fire club.
“But at the same time we have to improve. Is there pressure on Mick? Of course there’s bloody pressure on Mick. But that’s the nature of the job – there’s pressure on everyone. Management is not for the faint-hearted.
“If things aren’t right, we just have to sort it. But we’ll sort them in our way.
“This club is about stability and long-term growth, longevity and taking the club forward.”
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“This club is about stability and long-term growth, longevity and taking the club forward.”
the do it with the right people. If you believe this, don’t wait for QPR and Sunderland to show you what can happen, you are all responsible for believing we were a top ten team when we clung onto our lives by one point in the last ten minutes. Stability does allow for change, to know when people have met their capacity to perform and you can’t get any-more out of them. No new staff, reliance on a winning squad from three years ago and still trying to buy bargins, no offence Eggert, but it’s a great policy that still needs at this level, better quality to work off and with.
This ain’t about MM out brigade or happy clappers, but the club I love, now apparently waking up to what everyone knows about where our current management team can take us.
pass the smelling salts
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Blah blah blah….
As long as the building work gets done you don’t give a stuff do you Steve? Not all of us are as stupid as you think.
It’s about time people got off Micks back and started to question where the real problems lie, what happened to Morgans ambition? All set in bricks and mortar thats where!
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He seems to fail to stress the main argument, WE ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH to be playing with the mid table boys, which implies we MUST throw money at the situation. Grow up Morgan, you would be spending your childs inheritence money on players wages if you were at liverpool
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Que the negative numpties…. They will love this fodder!!
In Mick We Trust!!
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On a different subject. Just watched Keane sign for the vile on Sky. Is this the same Robbie that Wolves made,the same Robbie that loves all things Wolves, the same Robbie that at the end of his carear would only return to his beloved Wolves for mega bucks. Just hope my fellow numpties remenber this an give him the reception he deserves in a few weeks time.Greedy little boy.
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Mick will still be at Wolves in 2050
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i think we are playing to our capabilities, afterall we have a championship squad and tactically inept manager,
We have to address it. We have to sort it. But we’re not bloody panicking or throwing money at the solution.
“We have to sort it within our existing means and policies.”
id say throwing money at it is the solution to our overall lack of quality as our existing policy is to spend no money apart from the what? 17 million were spending on that eye sore of a stand!
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ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha, now SHUT UP THE ANTI MICK BRIGADE, LOOKS LIKE YOU WILL HAVE TO GO BACK TO SUPPORTING TESCO TOWN.
SUPER, SUPER MICK, SUPER, SUPER MICK, SUPER MICK McCARTHY……………..altoghether now SUPER….LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL,
We are Wolves you ain’t……
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Stop swearing!
Oh, and sack Mick and bring in somebody who prioritises the getting of results over home-spun quotable Yorkshire-isms. That too.
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This is very very sad news to all of us fans, muppet Mick has waisted almost 40 million and still he is still in a job.
This is a message for all the real Wolves fans not the johny come lately happy clapper we love u Mick brigade, who know nothing about football and passion.
We all know Mcarthy is the worst manager we have ever had and we must do every thing we can to get him removed!!
email the club or write to Mr Morgan not Moxey!! I do this every week. Start a pertition to get him out from other Wolves fans in the pubs, inside the ground and outside. Do not renew your season tickets until this clown is gone from our sacred beloved club
We all need to do as much as we can every little bit will help to force the boards hand.
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Glad u could talk to us mr Morgan what we all want to know is how you are going to get us out of this dire mess we are in haven’t u learnt anything from last season when u were nearly crying with relief well we won’t be as lucky again unless you show some backbone and bring in a manager than can a least try and save us act Now
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“taking this club forward”Mr Morgan it is obvious to most that McCarthy is taking us backwards.Two and a half years back in the Premiereship and no advancement made.I agree that we don`t want the club in financial difficulties but we need a manager who can buy the right players and who is tactically aware.McCarthy has neither of these qualities and unless change is made,and very quickly,we will be back in the championship once again and you will not be filling your new stand.McCarthy will not resign he would be after a payoff to go.
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8 johmwolf u are the biggest fool on this site, a man who claims to be a football fan but knows very little about the game.
We should of sacked this clown on the pitch at Barnsley once we were promoted he has waisted almost 40 million since we have been in the prem and yet small minded happy clapping we love you mick numpties like your self continue to back him, maybe we should have a pint together before a game just to discuss a few things
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Results must improve says Steve Morgan but what if they don’t?
McCarthy is as safe as the houses that Redrow builds because SM says so, so what is going to change?
Will it be the players that are shipped out because they are not up to scratch or the manager for being unable to roust his troops and employ the right tactics to gain positive results?
I think we all know the answer and the nice ground improvements are going to look very luxurious but very stupid with no bums sitting on them due to the team being no better than relegation material.
Still as long as Chairman Morgan is happy there is nothing to worry about!
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Only two or three poor performances? have u been watching the same games as me Mr Morgan? You could’ve added numerous inept tactical decisions, including poor team selection, players playing out of position and out of form. Poor buying record wasting money. Oh and while we’re talking about records a manager with the worst record in the history of the Premiership. What is it at the moment … that’s right! Played 127 won 28. Priceless! Wake up Morgan!!
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100% Wolves 0% Mcarthy and Moxey!!
Mcarthy out!! Mcarthy out!!
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5. If we dont bid for him he cant sign for us.
He needs a club while the USA league is on a break on to maintain his fitness for euros. Whether he loves us or not, who knows, but if we dont try to sign him he cant sign can he.
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How many bloodys was that Mr Morgan? Though we can all understand your frustrations. It makes even more difficult to accept when you look at the progress that the two less fancied promoted teams, Swansea and Norwich have made compared to ourselves.
Now for Maynard (desperately need someone to score other than Fletch) and Onohoa who can provide quality cover and depth at the troublesome LB and CH positions.
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Yes, we’re a stable club…..full of donkeys.
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Morgan is afraid of the cost of replacing Mick.
He knows full well that we are destined for a bottom three finish, and will not move to do anything to prevent that.
Here’s to the championship next season, if things stay the way they are.
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“results in the 1st half of the season have been unacceptable”. well done mr morgan, now back the manager with some money or suffer the ultimate embarrasment of relegation.
in some of the earlier games we have hardly tested the visiting keepers. We need to increase the attempts on target, and start to convert those in to goals.
utw.
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Still getting over the disappointment I registered on a different thread. There’s a lot more in the article above than there was in the BBC report or a video clip on Sky, but it added up to the same – MM is here for the foreseeable, so hoofball is god! How bloody sad!
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It’s nice to actually hear Mr. Morgan’s thoughts for once.
The most telling paragraph for me is …
“We’re a stable club; our management style is to work through problems and not to make knee-jerk reactions which end up costing a bloody fortune and provide no stability and unsettles the whole club”
Firstly, I find it hard to understand why replacing a limited Manager who has over the years alienated half the clubs fans and who has for a very long time been out of his depth should be classed as a “knee jerk reaction”
Secondly, doesn’t tedious, unattractive, football and relegation ‘cost a fortune’ ?
Thirdly, are Liverpool, Sunderland, Newcastle & WBA ‘unstable and unsettled’?
I can only wonder if Mr. Morgan will become a little more pro-active this time next year when we are a mid table Championship club with sub 20,000 crowds?
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It is very easy to blame poor performances rather than not enough quality.Common sense should tell anybody,if we only signed one new outfield player since last season ,how on earth can anyone say with credibility that we should be doing better than last season.Until we sign more quality footballers we will always struggle.As many people have said on here the nucleus of the current team is the old Championship side.They have been stretched too far,there is very little left in the tank.As no3 my namesake says,Mr Morgan is more interested in the ground rather than the team.As a lifelong Liverpool fan surely he realises how important it is to sign quality.What would Liverpool have achieved without Souness and Dalglish?. WE ARE JUST BEING STRUNG ALONG,FOR OUR SEASON TICKET MONEY.
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Mick just hasnt got sway with the big decision makers at the Club, and especially at board level.
If things remain as they are we will be propping up the table come May. I have such a dread contemplating Mick as the Manager…
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Thanks, Mr. Morgan! Great to hear how you feel. Let’s all get behind Mick and the team, press on and reconcentrate our efforts to play to our achievable aims, if mid-table. Come on, lads, you have heard the battle cry. We can do this!
“Never Surrender Our Spirit, Wolves!”
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‘Had we played to our capabilities this season, we should be comfortably in mid-table’
What are you going to do about it then morgan? continue to develop the ground instead of sorting the team out?
keep faith with a manager who is constantly playing his favourites wherever they fit into the team?
stability and long term growth is not surviving relagation on the last day and buying 3 new players in the summer, stability and long term growth is surviving on the last day and then spending 25 million on the team and pushing to be towards the top half of the league.
we have to respect everything that mccarthy has done for this club, but i’m afraid its time for change, wake up morgan and sort it out!
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To those who complain on this site, “yes they are entitled to their opinion” but from my thinking this is not about buying players we could probably go out and buy the players,the problem is the wages these so called players require. We are not the only team that are having these problems. If we do not want to go back to where we was several years ago then we have to do it this way.
We are in the Premiership, and I believe we will still be there at the end of this season, but I also believe that some but not all are expecting us to be up with the Manchester teams, Liverpool and the like right now, this is going to take patience but unfortunately that is something some of our fans do not have, but they are still entitled to their opinion.
I would much rather have a club in Wolverhampton that can hold its head above water than throw loads of money at so called players that are only interested in their salaries and not the football or the team. To wear the badge of Wolverhampton then you have to want to be proud of that badge.
We have a team at the moment that is prepared to fight and are proud to wear the shirt and believe it or not they also have the greatest amount of respect for Mick albeit that some of you do not think Mick is right for the job, incidentally I am not one of them and if that means I am a happy clapper then so be it.
Mr. Morgan is right we need stability in the club, something that we have not had for a long time. Sir Jack knew what he was doing when he handed the reigns over to him.
I am disappointed too in the way things are happening at the moment, we are not consistent and make some very silly mistakes but the refeering of our matches is also something else. Some of their decisions amaze me from where I am sitting but that should be no excuse. We have to fight the good fight.
Some of the younger fans,and don’t get me wrong we need the younger generation to support us, was not around when we nearly did not have a club, and I for one would not like to go through those days again. Patience is needed and a minority of fans do not have it.
Come on support your team through thick and thin it will come good in the end, even though some of the fans cannot see it at the moment.
“COME ON THE WOLVES”
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You all moan.. and there is a simple way to reslove this… BOYCOTT The FA CUP.
It might sound daft, but if you really want Mick out the only way these clowns will listen is to the sound of empty coffers.
Don’t waste your money, if you want Mick out, then boycott the FA CUP replay!
I am.
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I woke up to the headline “Warnock sacked, Hughes appointed and given 30m for players. 37 year old Jody Craddock returns for Wolves”. Need i say anymore?
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Steve Morgan: “Our management style is to work through problems and not to make knee-jerk reactions which end up costing a bloody fortune”.
Translated: “Our management style is to ignore all problems (including fans’ complaints) and not to make knee-jerk reactions which end up costing me a bloody fortune. That’s because I don’t want to off-load Mick McCarthy (who’s very happy to have any job, incidentally), nor do I want to invest in new coaching staff to replace those who’ve been here since the Ark was built by Noah. Nor do I want to find substantial funds for new players which will be the natural consequence of appointing a new manager. I do like building things though, and have done ever since I made a little house with the first Lego set I bought for ten bob as a child. By the way, I sold that house to another kid living in our street for a quid, plus a bag of crisps. Not a bad little profit, considering the Lego was as cheap as chips…”
Just fun, chaps ;-)
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I HEARD A STORY RECENTLY THAT AT HALF TIME AGAINST SWANSEA MM SHOOK ALL THE PLAYERS HANDS AND SAID THAT MORGAN AND MOXEY HAD TOLD HIM THAT IF THEY LOST THAT ONE HE WAS UP THE ROAD.
THIS CAME FROM SOMEONE WHO WAS IN THE ROOM AT THE TIME!
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yes watch the facup on tv save your money i agree with 29
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After staying up by the skin of our teeth last season, Steve Morgan said that he did not want to go through that again.
WELL IS THIS SEASON SO FAR ANY DIFFERENT TO LAST SEASON!
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These are the best times at Wolves for 3 decades.
All that time I dreamt of us playing in the Premier League, I always knew it would be a hard struggle for 4 or 5 seasons to establish ourselves.
We are only in the 3rd of these seasons and I’m loving the battle.
Thanks 3Ms. Up the Wolves.
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Going down with 29 points Mr Morgan and you must know that having seen how we have being playing and our fixtures to come. Players who are as good as our manager and his clipboard assistant manager I am sorry to say. We were very lucky last season that Birmingham kept us up but the way we are playing with no plan or system just wingers crossing for fletcher to score will be our downfall. Please ask Mick about a through ball or perhaps a few passes in a game rather than the rubbish he has given us this season. I can’t see 3 worse teams than us this year even with the problems at Blackburn, Bolton and Wigan
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adeyp… Mick has probably taken us as far as he can & I think we do need a new manager, but to make the statement “WE ALL KNOW HE IS THE WORST MANAGER WE HAVE EVER HAD” makes me believe you are a total idiot. He took us to the top flight on a tight budget after many years of throwing good money after bad on over paid prima donnas with several different managers including 2 ex-england ones. He might not be the greatest manager in the world but he is far from the worst one to be at the Wolves.
Robbie Keane will do a good job for Wolves, just like he did last year at West Ham with all those chances he missed..
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Steve Morgan is brilliant!
The numpties must hate it having someone in charge that won’t dance to their fickle tune.
Ground developments, new training ground, premiership football who can question this mans commitment to Woloverhampton Wanderers?
If you don’t like it try following another club – if you think QPR, Sunderland etc have got it right then get yourself a nice new stripey scarf in blue or red……
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4 finchy your one of several numpties on here, is it that the facts are becoming clearer and even our chairman is saying results are chocking!
8 johnwolf
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Aye up numpties .
Lovely to have some job security aye it .
Excuse me – Just in middle of taking a training session with the boys ” lovely back pass Karl” , good effort Doyle – you nearly hit the corner flag son , thats it boys 10 men behind the ball & keep passing side & back – lovely football boys .
Ere , pass us that clipboard Terry cos i just seen that Hamill bloke take a player on & pass the ball forwards , make sure he aint nowhere near the team Saturday ! .
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And there was me thinking that only Villa had problems with their manager! LOL
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Re:adeyp how can you say McCarthy is our worst ever manager, yes we,re an above average side with an above average manager of whom I like and respect, but I still see him getting sacked at end of season wether we stay up or not.meanwhile being the wolves fan you say you are get behind the team and put all that aggression into shouting for the boys in old gold n black….at least till the end of the season.nothing will change till then so meanwhile pent your frustration on the terraces.
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# 29 – RichWolf64
“boycott the FA CUP replay! I am.”
Oh good I am glad you won’t be there it will make my evening being there that bit more enjoyable knowing you are at home in your dark cave thinking of other ways to slag off the team you dont support….
Most of the moaners don’t go to games anyway they sit in the pubs or watch on the internet so your little one man protest will go by un-
noticed!
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#39 – wolves4eva
“4 finchy your one of several numpties on here,”
For your information I am a Happy Clapper not a Numpty….
Get it right before you start having a pop =)
In Mick We Trust!
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4 finchy your one of several numpties on here, is it that the facts are becoming clearer and even our chairman is saying results are shocking!
8 johnwolf How old are you? Ive visited a couple of other sites to witness the absolute tripe you write, your bully boy tactics are very old hat, you really are a madmick fool. Lets hope this little empire doesn’t come tumbling down on your neanderthal head.
24 chris hoggard nucleus of a championship team YES – BUT you are missing a very valuble point – madmick has spent £37mil whilst in the EPL to add to his championship squad!!! So why are we still faultering is it because a) his purchases are very poor or b) the championship squad are the only players that will obey madmick and play in the 70′s style of football that he is renown for, as his new signings very quickly realise after signing what a dinosaur the manager is! Funny how so many have left shortly after signing!
28 purewolves why do you think that the people who want madmick out are “young”?
I am 46 and have been to most league grounds to follow wolves, the old 4th division, Halifax away on a tuesday night with 980 of us there. I don’t see your point?
I thank madmick for promotion BUT he has reached his plateau, the guy can not move us on, as he reached with sunderland – madmick is a huff and puff manager full of his own old fashioned “I like what I say and say what I like” comments…..he is soooo 70′s.
You need to be reminded that madmick promised top 10 position – he is failing, even the chairman has said so, can I remind you also that he is very handsomly paid. Can you think of any other industry where a leader would be still in a position of employment for delivering such poor results, consistently over 3 years? I can’t
MR MORGAN – “Had we played to our capabilities we would be mid table by now” – well if that isn’t an admission of “our manager is not very good is he” then I don’t know what is! £37mil later whilst in the EPL and no further forward.
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“we are not throwing money at the solution” well he is right on that one.We can see where he is throwing it and it is not at the team.38,Sir Billy if wanting to survive in the premiership instead of having expensive restaurants/stands etc etc then call me fickle.Surely in heavens sake once you get into the premiership the overriding priority has got to be to attempt to survive in the division on a long term basis.We very, very nearly got relegated last season.I cannot see ANY reason for spending the sums being quoted whilst we are in such a precarious position.
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myheadhurts – madmick did not work on a tight budget – where did you get that from? He spent over £20mil to get us promoted in 2 seasons, £10mil a year in the championship is NOT a tight budget – please stop making madmick out to be such a miracle worker, he has had more than enough money to come up with the goods!
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What he is actually saying he is not prepared to pay the money for a Manager who will want to get us out of the hole that McCarthy has created.
Why because that Manager will want to spend money on new players, to get us out of the Hole McCarthy has created.
The hole that McCarthy has created has already been funded by millions of pounds. how many CB’S and Midfielders has he bought, not played and not been able to recover the money spent.
Sunderland & QOR have taken decisive action, Morgan and the rest of the board are dithering, the fans have it from the horses mouth now what he thinks of them (not a lot)
Will he change his mind possibly but not before it’s too late.
Second season same stage McCarthy dosen’t know his best team, result we are where we are.
Team: Henry plus 10 others, which will continue whilst he is here
Will he change? If Morgan influences him perhaps, let’s hope so or we will be relegated on current form.
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That’s great news Steve, enjoy your stability next season in the Championship with your empty new stand and useless manager, because most of us won’t be there to watch this time.
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YAWN….god knows how many posts of nothing but whinging, I certainly dont think mick is pulling his weight at the minute but for gods sake were in the prem, got a lovely new stadium etc etc!
I wish i was a burnley fan, blackpool fan, southampton fan, leeds fan, sheff utd fan…..thats sarcasm!
This club is going the right way, maybe just not at the pace we all wanted! And i still say if we go down, we go down…we will be in a great position to come back up with money to strengthen the squad, and a new stadium!
Theres one thing we certainly wont be doing soon and thats going into admin! But by the looks of what some numpties are saying on here, you would throw everything plus the kitchen sink into buying the best in the world….who has tried this recently, Newcastle, portsmouth and west ham, One is back in the prem and doing well, another is looking like coming back into the prem, and they have had to make it work, without those players they brought! so why couldnt we if we went down????
Get a grip people, coz the next few seasons are gonna be tough! Buy your season tickets, buy the programmes, dont boycott the club! If you want money spent you need to spend your money! We havent got the global pull that the uniteds or the liverpools have, we might have done in the 50′s but then the Bahty brothers turned up a few decades later, and pretty much killed the club, we have come a long way in 25 years, but one day hopefully in my life (im 26) we will once again have a mighty club that can take on the utd’s and chelseas and be a force to be reckend with!
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@40 Mick Mcarthy
An absolute work of genius, I tip my hat to you. So funny I actually thought I may have written it myself.
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wolves fans – doesn’t it worry you that
1. wolves have made the fewest tackles in the EPL
2. wolves have had the fewest shots in the EPL
3. wolves keeper hennessey has made the most saves in the EPL
Something tells me that something is not quite right at molineux under the guidance of madmick…..
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Mr Morgan I agree with you 100%, it is NOT acceptable, so maybe YOU should do something about it.
It seems that even after 3 seasons of going backwards you are still not going to sack the man responsible, so can I suggest you change his coaching staff for him.
As I explained to Sir Billy Quiet earlier, here is our ”progress” under your Manager, Mr Morgan.
2009/10 p 20 points 19
2010/11 p 20 points 18
2011/12 p 20 points 17
As you say Mr Morgan, ”not acceptable” so HOW ARE YOU GOING TO CHANGE IT???
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Finchy – if i died now i would still have been to “more games” than you will ever attend in your lifetime…..
What is it with your crusade to save madmick’s job…..look at the facts of where we are, results, this is a results industry. Mind you saying that you obviously have very low standards if you are happy to accept such poor results in your life.
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Decent man, the chairman, don’t think I’d mind working for him. Some quotes –
“We’ve got to address it – it’s not acceptable, completely not acceptable.
“We have to address it. We have to sort it. But we’re not bloody panicking or throwing money at the solution.
“But at the same time we have to improve. Is there pressure on Mick? Of course there’s bloody pressure on Mick. But that’s the nature of the job – there’s pressure on everyone. Management is not for the faint-hearted.
“If things aren’t right, we just have to sort it. But we’ll sort them in our way.
Probably right on all things except the bit about not throwing money at the solution – that Steve you will have to do in some measure – large – if you want us to stay Prem.
Pressure on now and nobody loosing the head – fair enough. Could be a mite trickier if it’s 17 out 23 at month end.
Still ..
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would people stop about mm and get behind him and the team .whats the solution if sm sacks mm ………bring in iain dowie…..bring back glenda hoddle………..i hear david o,leary is lookin for a job . be quiet and count your blessings.
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29. Be honest you probably wouldn’t be going anyway, or to any other game this season. Like a few others who come on here but don’t go to games. You may look at our position in the league and slag of the players and manager but the majority of fans still get behind the team. So stop trying to drag people into your moronic way of thinking and do one. UTW.
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Been waiting all season for Morgan to break wind.
McCarthy here to stay and we off to the Championship. Didn’t expect anything different from Morgan actually. Usually when the chairman backs the manager publicly, he’s on his way out. But hey, get real this is Wolves.
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40 – You don’t fool me. I’d recognise that tactical nous and stylish play anywhere…
Ee bah gum, lads, it’s the REAL Mick!
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Hahahahaha 40. great work sat in a library trying not to laugh hahahaha class. On a serious note are we ever going to sack this idiot ??? Everyone knows that when a quality new manager comes in it gives the place a lift, players have to impress the new manager need i mention O’Neil …
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Adeyp. Before you strip your bed of it’s sheets and spray paint your “McCarthy Out” slogans on it to create your protest banners you really should take some spelling lessons.
You’ll never get into Richwolf64′s gang of Mensa Intelligensia. You’ll never be part of his 5% and all your efforts will be “waisted”.
Unless you do it next Wednesday when he’s not there.
PS Try not to mix your metaphors. “Johny come lately” and “happy clapper” don’t sit easily with one another.
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If I am right the fans only care about the quality of football on the pitch and the status of the club compared to its nearest rivals,size of stadium number of restaurants are secondary until Mr Morgan wakes up and looks at the Premiership table and takes the appropriate action to rectify our position as Sunderland and QPR have done fans will continue to be unhappy.I personaly and many other fans are fed up with the load of dross that they call football that is served up by McCarthy and co on a regular basis,you get sick of hearing the away fans mocking our poor performances,the management have forgotten the basics of providing a good product fit for viewing we are the paying customers and were getting fed up and we will vote with our feet if relegation looms.
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Who said I’m happy with the results? I’m far from it. I don’t think the solution is to sack MM and I dint agree thy he is the worse manager we’ve ever had!
I’m not a fan of Morgan an I can see why people are frustrated with his spending money on facilities, but I can also see why he is doing it.
The facts are 3rd season in prem higher in table than this time last year and I believe will stay for another season.
It’s people like you giving wolves a bad name, don’t you hear the away support chanting and mocking our support!!! That’s caused by people like you! It embarrassing….
You don’t know me! You don’t know how many games I’ve gone to or will goto in my life time so don’t see how can you talk such rubbish. If you are such a BIG fan then act like it and don’t disrespect my wolves!!! Mate.
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56 derrywolf
how about somme old gold within the management/coaching ranks aka Keith Downing, currently doing the unthinkable at wba!
By all accounts Morgan isn’t going to remove madmick….but even the most loyal madmick fans must admit that the performances are well below par, and it is madmicks team after all.
I meen, he has spent over £37mil net whilst in the EPL – AND – have we improved as a team?
All of the mamick followers keep saying if only he had been given the money??? How much shoud he hav been given – Please tell me?
He has spent £57million – How much should he have spent to being us success?
wolves til i die
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can someone please check my sums as im rubbish @ arithmetic..£37 million over say 3 years is only £12 and a bit million a year… Less tha 10 if you wanna count MMs four and a half years.. Well im no accountant but that seems like peanuts to me .. Tho i appreciate the hard earned cash that fans pay..personally i havent been able to afford a ticket for over five years.. Andy Carroll cost £30 million alone..and he s not exactly firing on all cylinders at the moment.. A decent Premier side is going to easily cost four or five times that..plus wages bonuses etc.. Plus TIME. Manc City had the money to do it more quickly..we dont..and where did they get their nice new stadium? Some fans are being unrealistic.. Also some seem to have forgotten MMs “tactical ineptude” where he s made subs then we ve scored..as for “passing back” that is fundamental to football and part of keeping possession..had we more “quality” players then yes we could play the ball up quicker more accurately more productively.. But we aint..we re Work in Progress. swansea and Norwich will hit the buffers too..You cant change a ream wholesale unless youre billionaires and it still wont be perfect..ask mark hughes..we ve just signed frimpong who s a good prospect.. Yer thierry henrys etc arent gonna come here..onouah wont come to Wolves..he ll get a better deal somewhere else..i reckon we ll make about 16th..
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At last Mr MORGAN has said the results are not acceptable, which the vast majority of fans have been saying for months. I see this as a light at the end of the tunnel and MM with TC disappearing. Please do the honourable thing and get MM out.
Manager Steve COPPELl and Dougie FREEDMAN. with Steve BULL coaching the forwards.
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think we all would agree we have better players now, such as fletcher, ohara but we are not performing any better so what could that be down to ?? jusr a couple of suggestions, bad coaching? wrong tactics?wrong team selection?
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no50 Ad Man. A new stadium equals new debts.How on earth do some people ,not understand this.If we cannot buy the players now to keep us in the Prem,what chance have we got stuck in the Championship paying off debts for the next decade.The gates will not improve until we have success on the pitch.
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Personally, i think Robert Plant should be our next manager. And Jimmy Page as his no.2.
Spurs 0 Wolves 6.
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Work through the problems, If we go down that’s a problem I would like to see them work through,
The money we spend now could safe our season, if we go down would Mr Morgan support Mick on a new challenge getting us back to the prem.
I would love a mid table finish, start winning games and enjoy supporting the the club, but I think has the boss as said the first half of the season was poor I think the second will be a nightmare.
Good like lads.
Always Wolves.
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40- Hilarious and so true!!
Boing Boing!!!
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Under achievement is not acceptable. How about a manager that gets more from his team than expected?
Morgan look at the squad though. You expected mid table? Finished one above relegation last year didn’t we??? Oh dear.
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To me this sounds like a change of tone. After the previous customary “full support” messages for MM etc, now it’s “not acceptable” and “had we played to our “capabilities” we should be mid-table.
Even though there’s to be no “knee-jerk” reaction, and no throwing money at the solution, this is putting Mick McCarthy on notice. If there’s no upturn after the January squad changes, MM will be gone.
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For Steve Morgan to have made this kind of statement probably means that you have to read between the lines for the actual truth. If Wolves are relegated then everything changes including the Manager and many of the current squad. It will also stop further investment in the Stadium based on gates of 18000 being the norm. Let’s not forget that we are in the middle of a recession and fans will also expect to pay less in the Championship. Perhaps if more investment had been made on the playing side then all this anxiety could have been avoided.
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No ones got an ounce of proof that MM is not our best manager for yonks,
Just read the drivel above
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I was at the game where we played Honved celebrating the completion of the ‘new’ Molineux, with Ferenc Puskas sat with Billy Wright,and Sir Jack stood in the crowd for the first half.
The stadium that Sir Jack built has a capacity of 28,500. How many times during the past 20 years have you known us fill it to capacity? Ten, twenty times? Molineux is a modern stadium with modern facilities.
Do we have a massive waiting list for season tickets? Even as a mid-table Premier League side would we need an extra 10,000 seats?
Many of us, (quite rightly), spend a lot of time on this site bemoaning the complete ineptitude of Mick McCarthy and Terry Connor, but very rarely do we discuss the ineptitude of the chairman and how he is taking us fans for a ride. His statement today rubber stamped my opinion that McCarthy is the symptom and Morgan is the cause.
It’s about time that we all woke up to the fact that Morgan has been and continues to be a disaster of a chairman who believes in spending precious money on a white elephant of a stadium, where investment in the team is paramount.
Fur coat and no knickers will be his epitaph, and Molineux will be his fur coat.
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what are some of the idiots on here all about !!!! some say the way forward is to build a team slowly and not just go for the jugular so we have two scenarios number 1 is we spend ,spend ,spend and enjoy life at the top of the table (or close)with some big names playing at molyneux and even some european footy thrown in !!(every wolves fan deserves this !!!oh god do we deserve this ) or! we can carry on spending jacks..t on useless morons with a useless moron manager ..oh and that idiot clipboard for this season only (cos we aye staying up any longer !)and we will have at least three nightmare years to remember of our short time in the prem …i think i know which one i’d take a chance on!!
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Steve Morgan has got two choices…
he can either sack MM which would cost him a large pay off, then a new manager which is more money with the promise to spend £millions for new signings and still risk being relegated…
or…
Keep the faith with MM, if we get relegated, MM is the perfect manager to get us back into the premiership the following season.. with the slim chance that the Blackburns, wigans, boltons do slightly worse than us…
SM could spend millions recruiting a new manager with no guarantees or stay with MM and worst case scenario we still get the £15mill parachute payment from sky and a good chance of premiership return the following season.
Looks like he is choosing for Wolves to be a yoyo club for a few years.. short term pain for long term financial stability of this great club.
Not that i agree with it though..
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Geat news, looking forward to those hol’s with the money I have saved,instead of watching MM’s dross.
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In Mick we trust. Two useful January signing’s to take us forward already done.
Bring on Spurs; about time they were upset this season.
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Its also not acceptable Mr Morgan to knock down a football stadium stand and build another for no reason. The local area around the ground cannot cope with the extra car parking required, that you hope the “new ground” capacity could bring.
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50-Ad-perk-85-so much sense from one so young could teach some of the old codgers on here something.
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So, working through it Mr Morgan, where are the goals, points and inspiration coming from? And by the way, who ever threw anything at a solution in order to get an answer?
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Oh good day Mr Morgan. Can I have a ticket for the next game, but I will pay you £10 for the pleasure ?……. No you say ! ….O.k. then stop dicking around and realise you are supposed to be running a Premiership team not a team where no impovement in the Quailty will keep you in this league.
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@ adeyp.hmmm ” the worst manager wolves have ever had” makes me wonder who really is the one,who knows nothing about football or passion.well adeyp it looks like it’s you!!! Because Mick mcarthy is the only manager to get us to the prem and keep us there.but i guess that’s what a manger who knows nothing about football or has any passion does. But of course you must have all your FA coaching badges? Let me guess you could do better could you? I think not!!!!
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32 Bojangles Wolf – if that is indeed true then Mick must still be under real pressure as our position has hardly improved.
While I have never been a Mick fan before he joined Wolves he has displayed several qualities and developed a squad of players that portray a togetherness and pride to play for our club.
In his first season we overachieved with the best keeper in the division by a country mile( Matt would surely have been an England squad regular if he had been able to continue playing)and some shrewd business including an admitted blind punt on Mr Kightly. In his second season Kites came on for a few minutes ( to be injured again long term)to help us snatch a victory over non league Cambridge and probably keep Mick in a job after a dismal run of form. He went on to spend a not insignificant amount of money on players and won us promotion in season 3.
Some people questionned his premiership credentials at that time, but even those with reservations must have felt it would be unfair not to give him another shot in the big league.
At what point in our 3rd year in this league, when our points tally is below the previous 2 years at this stage and we can see no recognised style, flair or pace in our play are people allowed to question if Mick’s time has run its course without being accused of supporting other clubs?
I will never condone booing our team during a game and I have seen some rubbish. I too have always hated the abuse some of our players take from our own supporters – I was there the day Bully was booed against Bolton and remember the reception he received the next game as an apology.
Those who continue to support Mick I have no issues with but those who do not are no less Wolves fans.
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If I was Mr Morgan, Mick would have 28 days to improve or get his coat. He has had the funds to improve & even when games have gone our way, Mick presses the reset button & changes a winning formula that worked the game before. If its not broke why fix it? Injuries aside it happens week in week out. We badly need results now as the stress on the last day of the season last year was unbearable, luckily we stayed up but the thought having to go through that again is too much to bear. So please by all means Mr Morgan work it out with Mick to build on what we have, just like you would on a new building project, & bring an end to the fear of the drop. BRING IT ON WOLVES!
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Mick might be a very good manager but his stubbornness will probably prevent us from ever finding out. To change players wholesale in terms of their positions etc might work but that would only prove his critics to have been right all along. So sadly I think he will stick stubbornly to the same format until it works or till he ultimately parts company with the club. Ok so before anyone else says it if he’s stubborn then by definition he can’t be a very good manager. But you get where I’m coming from.
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richwolf64. heres an idea for you, why dont you boycott all wwfc games and let another SUPPORTER have your seat???.
and lets see if anybody cares.
flying nonsense, if your waiting for mcarthy to be sacked, its now 3 years and counting, and dont hold your breath.
and wolves4eva, nobody cares how many games you’ve been to. dont slate other fans standards when you clearly dont have any of your own. otherwise you would be gloryhunting at the etihad,the emirates,old trafford,anfield,stamford bridge.
utw.
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Personally I do not see this as handing out a sack call warning. MM will be at the Mol for a long time. When we go down he will be seen as the right man to bring us back up. As for Steve – “The reality is, through a combination of one or two bad performances, one or two silly mistakes where one individual mistake has cost us points and some pretty atrocious refereeing decisions, we are where we are” – ONE or TWO bad performances? You are joking Steve! I hope you are never asked to count how many bricks need to go into one of your new house builds. Sure there have been some awful refereeing decisions that have cost us but how about some of the even worse team selection and tactical decisions made by the Manager.
SM – “We’ve got to address it – it’s not acceptable, completely not acceptable”. Well DO IT for goodness sake. You know the only solution – get rid of this inept manager and his side kick.
SM – “We’re a stable club; our management style is to work through problems and not to make knee-jerk reactions which end up costing a bloody fortune and provide no stability and unsettles the whole club”. Well, I would not count almost 3 seasons of awful struggling championship football as a knee jerk reaction. There has been no progress on the field. Sure, off the filed there has been lots of building. I thought WBA and Newcastle were knee jerk reactions but they achieved the desired effect. Sunderland and now QPR acted and they will move upwards. Sadly, I think it is too late now and maybe next season the club will be sold on again for a nice profit.
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Steve Morgan says, stability is what is needed, and it’s not good to change your manager every five minutes.
Mick has been there over five years now, and has undoubtedly done a first class job, but surely,if Steve can’t see we’re going nowhere with him at the helm, then we are indeed in trouble.
I am a very big Mick McCarthy fan,and appreciate he is a fantastic manager,but like most Wolves supporters,I think he has taken us as far as his ability will allow.
Having said this,I think Morgan has decided to stick with him because, he’s tried and tested at Championship level.
Need I Say more ? Apart from, get ready for a bit of yo-yoing.
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“We’re not bloody panicking or throwing Money at the solution”. Unfortunately, that says it all! While other clubs are throwing money at the solution, we’re not. With such unambitious leadership, I’m afraid that it appears we are looking at championship football next year. At which point, I hope Morgan sells to someone with ambition and we can rid ourselves of having priorities in the wrong places!
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Mr Morgan- That is a load of old ‘tosh’ and you know it….. Do you still believe there are faries the bottom of your garden, what is your relationship with the Easter bunny and Father Christmas…..PLEASE,….STOP THE WORLD, I WAN’T TO GET OFF !!!!
This is pure and simple ‘Rattle of a simple man’
Wake up, and grow up Mr Morgan, start planning for the Championship because that were we will be next season unless you sort out your playing staff, bring in a new striker, and let your present Manager go….The Time Is Now
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Unless we bring in new players in the next two weeks, we are doomed.
We must get a new striker….if Fletcher is injured, we have nothing
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im bloody sick of the idiots that post on all these e+s reports, its always the mick out brigade mick cant do this cant do that, stop moaning you bunch of women, and as for petenuts……………..DIMEBAR !!
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#1 is sensible,calm and composed and quite clearly a true Wolves supporter. Johnwolf and Finchy – go back to the slums! You have no ambition, you don’t care about being competitive and you don’t want Wolves to succeed – I’ll give you a word you can probably understand – duh!
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Steve Morgan’s words follow the lines of those you find in standard texts books on management theory. In a classroom environment they are ok and are definitely the basis for practical application when you get into the real world, where, of course, he exists and where he has been very successful. However, he should be mindful that theories are guides not dictats, and in defending and retaining Mick, he ignores all the warning signs that say MM has problems at this level, and even if he (Morgan) can’t bring himself to sack him, he should insist on outside help being brought in, if only to get some form of agreeable strategies in matters of team selection and style of play etc. In disregarding practical problems Steve Morgan puts much at risk. But why?
Loyalty I admire, common sense and decency too, and he seems well equipped in all three departments, but I respectfully suggest he does need to stop thinking solely in terms of static bricks and mortar, and a little of the organic nature of a football club with the passion, hopes and despair it generates, and the need to react to fluid situations.
The Championship beckons, as an increasing number on here are now tacitly admitting and are prepared for, but the way back is uncertain and the financial and other disruptive ‘hits’ associated with relegation, are capable of derailing any worthwhile business plans. If it does happen it will be a fate that could and should have been avoided – sufficient funds have been put in to avoid it happening – in that event the lack of corrective action will represent poor business practice by any standards.Loyalty at any price? Quite simply, no!
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89, So when the Chairman says it’s not acceptable, you don’t think the writing is on the wall?
We know the Chairman has been inept, we know the Manager is inept.
Guess something has to give then!
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You do not have to be the brightest button in the box to realise that the players we have had on board (it seems ages ago, the Championship crew in fact, well most of them)who must be sick and tired of listening to the same drivel that McCarthy and his mate put out week in/week out when they have their team talks.
It must be absolutely boring as they cannot think outside of the box they are in.
So the answer is change the players and change the manager or visa versa. To do nothing is the worst thing of all.
Until Morgan realises this we will have to grin and bear it or do what Blackburn supporters are doing by showing their frustration
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Morgan has not said ‘MM faces the sack’ to paraphrase, in fact quite the opposite; He said performances must improve over the second half of the season, so that suggests MM has at least until the end of the season; Improvement?Well 16 points from the last 18 games is an improvement on current form, so that gives 33 points and relegation too boot; But we all know that MM will be in charge in August whatever happens, the very vocal Mick lovers will see to that; He MAY get the boot if by December, the play-offs seem a distant dream, but don’t bet on it; MM out NOW
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Nice facilities for the Championship
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mr mogan you can go to if you like you never
made your millions employing muppets like mcarthy he been here 5 plus years yes he got us up but now in our 3rd season we are no better we now spent 3 years in the botton 5.
we will be very lucky to stay up this time if
he stays,and then you will lose million of sky
money hes had his chance,he should gone the end of
last season.
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Steve Morgan is a business man not a fan. Exactly like the other 19 teams in the premiership and will make decisions with profit in mind, that’s what business men do. We had the most loyal fan in charge of the club and (Sir Jack god love him)and had one season in the top flight and an endless bitter disappointments of play off defeats.
However he seems a good business man who is keeping the club profitable and for those of use who remember when we had the Bhatti Brothers era should educate those who don’t and what is was like to have only two stands open and be two minutes away from never having a club at all.
But maybe the moaners are right and we should get one of the Venky’s mates in or maybe we should ask Carson Yeung to ask his cell mate if he has a few quid.
Let the protests start outside molineux now.
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97 – (Silver Wolf) Good post, mate. A certain section of fans have such faith in Mick to the point where, even if we get relegated, they’ll take it for granted that Wolves will be promoted after just one season’s absence -possibly two at most. What gives them that idea? Where are the guarantees? Are other clubs just going to roll over and hand us 3 points every week? How do we know that, for instance, another Al Fayed isn’t around the corner, ready to buy-up a Brentford and do another Fulham? Doesn’t it occur to them that we’re just as likely to spend another 20 years floating around the ‘No Man’s Land’ that is the Championship (or lower) if we go down? We can only live in the here and now, and that means protecting our Premier League status, or face the possible long-term consequences.
I’m very mindful and respectful of my fellow fans’ views, but I’m often astonished at just how much blind faith there is out there. It’s the kind of faith I myself had as a young man, nearly 30 years ago, when we dropped out of League Division One. I expected a quick return, too…but we all know what happened until Dave Jones finally succeeded.
We can’t survive on faith. We need progress. Quite patently, Mick cannot supply that.
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wolves4eva.. I think you will find Mick was working to a much tighter budget than his predecessors in the Championship and that is why we are now one of the few clubs that are running at a profit even though we are in the top 5 net spenders. Like I said I think its time for a change as he does not seem to be able to translate this spending into a better team but for people to come on here saying he is the worst manager we have ever had is a joke.
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97 – (Silver Wolf) Good post, mate. A certain section of fans have such faith in Mick to the point where, even if we get relegated, they’ll take it for granted that Wolves will be promoted after just one season’s absence -possibly two at most. What gives them that idea? Where are the guarantees? Are other clubs just going to roll over and hand us 3 points every week? How do we know that, for instance, another Al Fayed isn’t around the corner, ready to buy-up a Brentford and do another Fulham? Doesn’t it occur to them that we’re just as likely to spend another 20 years floating around the ‘No Man’s Land’ that is the Championship (or lower) if we go down? We can only live in the here and now, and that means protecting our Premier League status, or face the possible long-term consequences.
I’m very mindful and respectful of my fellow fans’ views, but I’m often astonished at just how much blind faith there is out there. It’s the kind of faith I myself had as a young man when we dropped out of League Division One, nearly 30 years ago. I expected that quick return, too…but we all know what happened until Dave Jones finally succeeded.
We can’t survive on faith. We need progress.
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FAO moderator. For the second time today, I see one of my posts has been duplicated, lol!
Please be kind enough to remove Post 106 as it is merely a repeat of Post 104.
Sorry for troubling you -and thanks! ;-)
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“Results must improve,” said Mr Morgan. The only way to do accomplish this is act NOW and get Mr Reliable Walter Smith, old adversary of Martin O’Neill, into the job. Keep MM as a ball boy by all means.
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So Mr Morgan, you are not a sacking chairman. You expect the manager to sort it out.
A manager who has only managed 28 wins out of 127 games
A manager who has spent the best part of £40 mill on players who warm the bench, are useless on the pitch, are farmed out to other clubs.
A manager sacked by Sunderland after delivering the least number of points in Premiership history
This same manager is going to sort it all out and take us to mid-table
Mr Morgan, you are either extremely stupid or taking us for fools.
Do you seriously expect to fill the new Molineux on current performances, sub-standard players and a manager plus assistant who couldn’t produce a winning run if they had Messi and all his colleagues on the pitch?
Good luck with the season tickets.
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Mick is going nowhere, at least until the season ends, and even then, should we either survive by the skin of our teeth, or dive down into the Championship, he will still likely be plugging away!
UTMW!
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89 dontpanic – you prove you don’t understand a thing as ever. The post about attending games was in reference to the previous posts by johnwolf finchy who claim to have seen every wolves game since b.c.
Your name sums you up…..let it all happen, nothing is wrong, our performances are fine, our league position is fine, we never want to see progress, why should we……it would mean change and no one likes change. We would have to do things differently and I might even have to travel to Europe!
Come on we all want what is best for wolves and sometimes change can be for the better
Wolves til I die
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105 my head hurts – ok so we want the same result, but madmick actualy spent £20 mil in the championship net – YES – a massive amount of money to get us up, then the £37 mil spent thus far in this 2 and a half seasons of EPL football.
Wolves til I die
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