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Why isn’t Adlène Guedioura in the squad.
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MICK OUT
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There’s only ONE Robbie Keane, there’s only ONE Robbie Keane, ONE Robbie Keano,there’s only ONE Robbie Keano; KEANO KEANO KEANO !!!
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WOLVES R GOIN DOWN
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henry a disgrace…throw him on the transfer list
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Rather sums the day up. One poor tackle puts us behind. Great effort to get back and ahead, then two quality strikes from someone who we could never afford leaves us nothing.
Can’t say too much about Henry’s red card. I’m a fan but that was crazy leaving the ref no choice.
Mick puts on Stearman in the 80th minute when we need to win. Ward makes a break in the 83rd and crosses. Guess what, only Fletcher in the penalty area. Then Mick puts on SEB in the 89th.
Well, it is pretty clear to me, Steve Morgan will say and do nothing. Mick will bemoan bad luck and say we were the best team for an hour. Let’s face it, unless there are 3 teams significantly worse than us, we’re going down.
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Just take a look at Sunderland’s and QPR’s results. Both win and on the way up because their chairmen had the guts to make a difficult decision. Our board do nothing and guess what, we get the same – defeat.
Great strategy, build a new stand when you don’t need it, don’t but a left back, central midfielder and forward, then wonder why we struggle.
I’ve just about had enough.
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love child should never play for wanderers again EVER.MM needs to go quickly just dropped into bottom 3.is Moxey real?couldnt give a fig about football.didnt you just know it robbie dumping wolves in it.
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thats it act now morgan
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Just waiting for Micks excuses
Its getting worse than desperate now.
Nothing to lose – urgent taxi for Mick and get on the phone to Ray Wilkins
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karl henry you are a disgrace, mick, moxey and morgan you get what you pay for keane = goals but you were too tight werent you mr morgan get out of our club all 3 of you , you are a disgrace to be associated with wolves !
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That has to be it now. Adding insult to injury.
While we were building Morgan’s Folly we let O’Neil go and let Keane go to Villa.
2 goals against the team that brought him up.
I think it’s the right message to get rid of McCarthy – thanks Robbie!
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get rid now of the idiot
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‘Noise’, ‘Sir Billy’, ‘Jonwolf’, ‘Stato………’, Your boy’s took one hell of a beating, are you listening, one hell of a beating! So much for saving the players for this, Henry took on his responsibilities well, didn’t he? Why oh why did some blockhead fans applaud the lout off ? You must be denser than your Demi-God MuckCarhty, is that why you still believe in the cliché ‘Mick is the man’; It’s now 3/5 for the drop on paper, but in reality it is Wigan, Wolves and a.n.other!
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Muppet, Grease ball, Connor and Morgan, thanks for taking the pride out of this club!!BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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if mick doesnt buy atleast 3 or 4 players he should go always knew he should of gone earlier and we could of brought in martin oneil or mark hughes. sick of mick and his stupid excuses hes done a lot for this club but we can afford getting relegated karl henry again a massive let down how stupid can you get the club is lacking ambition we neeed to spend the top division isnt the same you say we need stability mr jez but us not spending makes us less stable the club is really underachieving cant believe ive said all this about the club i love
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No 7 – spot on. No need to say more.
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Who cares anymore. We`re going back where we belong.
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mick and his team out get fresh blood in
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Now he has gotta go!!!
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Mick,
Please do the honourable thing and walk now. Absolutely no idea who is left to replace him, but this cannot go on.
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Did you not know? Henry is the first name on the team sheet!!!!!!!! What are those substitutions supposed to do??? Farcical.
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Last year ok…. we coulx not sign Keane! wtf about this year? we should give him whatever £ he wants because he can do that!
Now break the bank for wilkins!
OR ….. souness & j redknapp! do it now! or we all know the alternative!
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Will Morgan bite the bullet? Hard to say, he has his own agenda and WWFC’s success is not necessarily linked to that; The Americans at ‘Scouse Utd’, having been so shamed by the racism issues there, especially the disgraceful behaviour of the Manager, are looking to off-load the club, sooner rather than later; Certain people with the means have been sounded out about taking over there; I have no concrete information that S.Morgan is one of them,but make your own assumptions !
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Time for a big change, only the supporters can change whats going to happen at wolves they have to vote with there feet.
What a poor christmas and new year if wolves dont buy 3 really good players i cant see us staying up.
Also according to moxey we maybe one of the top spending clubs buying players in? but you have to buy quality, 1 quality player costs 5,million plus wages of 80.000 a week puts us in the bottom 5.
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Time Morgan and Moxey do the right thing and sack Mick, how on earth can we play brilliantly in the first half then come out and play the normal dross in the second its just astounding.Never been a fan of Henry and to be honest he is a very average player imo and he let the whole team and us fans down by being sent off when the game was in the balance.
Now we are in the relegation zone and I think with Mick still in charge we will stay.Today was 3 points lost as Villa were there for the taking but again tactics were changed at halftime and we were punished for it.
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MICK NEEDS TO GO. !!!!!!!!!!!
MICK IF YOU REALLY LOVE WOLVES DO US A FAVOUR AND RESIGN. GIVE US A CHANCE TO GET SOMEONE IN WHILE WE HAVE A FEW GAMES TO ATTEMPT TO TURN THINGS AROUND. A NEW STAND IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP WILL NOT HELP.
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WE GOING DOWN LETS FACE IT, NO MATTER HOW WE TRY WE PUT A BRAVE FACE ON IT ,WE NOT SIGNING ANY PLAYERS OF QUALITY ,YET ALONE DEFENDERS,WE RELYING TO MUCH ON FLETCHER,WE KEEP SUPPORTING OUR CLUB THROUGH THICK AND THIN, BUT A BLIP HAS BECOME A TREND,NOT ONLY THAT THE BOTTOM CLUBS ARE OVERHAULING US,THE PLAYERS CONFIDENCE WILL SOON BUT ALL DRAIN OUT.UNFORTUNATELY MICK GOTTA TAKE THE BLAME LIKE ,WARNOCK AND BRUCE BEFORE HIM ,SAD TO SAY 3 YEARS IN THE PREM AND WE GETTING WORSE NOT IMPROVING ,WE NEED NOW TO WIN 8 OF OUR REMAINING 16 MATCHES TO STAY UP(CANT SEE IT PERSONALLY WHEN WE VE WON ONLY 4 FROM 22)
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Lack of vision. Lack of management skills and total lack of focus in the areas that we should be focusing. This is a joke. Morgan, get a grip or sell, because you are clearly not very passionate about our club. Building a new stadium before you have built an adequate team is a complete joke and I seriously wonder how on earth you were or are successful in business with such moronic thinking.. Get a grip! Now!!
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So what will the excuses be now? Henry, MMs’ #1 pick every week stupidly losing the game yet again. About time someone with some brains takes over this great club. MM, you may be a nice man but it hasn’t helped you at all in the premier league your record is terrible, it’s time for you to go so we can get someone in who will give the young skillful players a chance to shine & show off their skills. The club needs a big shake up & some new blood.
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Today highlighted two players who let us down again and again – Berra and Henry. At Spurs last week Berra was awful. Nervous on the ball, slicing clearances, getting out of position. And today the penalty was pathetic. Its no surpirse Johnson has looked uncomfortable with Berra next to him.
Frimpong has shown Henry up for what he is – an average championship midfielder with a tendency to do the wrong thing. We could have won today, or at worst drawn after that first half, but we lost because we lost our quality in the centre and then threw it away with Henry’s childish petulance.
Kightly’s return has been great, as has Foley (in his prper position), Jarvis scares his full-back and Fletcher will kncok em in. But today I think I saw a relegation side on that defensive display . . .
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Having given up my season ticket after 21 years for this campaign, I have watched from a distance the apathetic progress of this team for the last 5 months. The club appears to be following a strategy of alienating fans with a complete disregard to any investment on the actual pitch. As someone with a comprehensive finance background you are taught that any sensible company should embrace some form of debt in periods of low interest rates, yet our board appear to adopt the policy of hoarding as much of Sky’s money as possible. This fear of debt will send us down, and as said many times on the web in recent weeks a 31000 seat stadium will look very sick with average crowds of 18000/19000 ( or less) next year. I am not lucking for a manager witch hunt, merely a club that has some ounce of guts, ambition and drive.
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Surely Wolves management must now be moved to act immediately and sweep out Mick and his cronies. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Get Jody to caretake the team then get the new man in – fast, with perhaps Jody as assistant. Ray Wilkins is a good shout, or gamble on Roy Keane. He would not be afraid to take tough decisions to sort out the deadwood. Something has to happen!
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“You remind me of a man!, “Who do”, “You do”
What?”, “A man with a power”, “A power of what?”, “A Power of Hoodoo”, “Hoodoo?” “You do”…….WHAT HOODOO ? That finish just about balanced the heartache of 70 years for me. I shall kneel down by my bed tonight and give thanks. You Baggies must all do the same.
Now promise.
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It’s time for Morgan to act, Mick should either go himself as his tactics do not fore anyone with enthusiasm, so, he needs to be fired, with enthusiasm. Always liked Henry but his actions might just have done a muscat on us and get us relegated. Unable to cope with change made by villa.terrible result and if they care, the club now.need to act.
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CLUB GOING TO THE DOGS
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why can’t wolves play for the whole match, we only seem to have one good half in any game, we proved in the first half that when we attack we are at our best. Championship here we come
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Dear Mr. Morgan
Let me preface this by stating that I have been a supporter of Wolves ever since I can remember, through very good to really bad, and I would like to think that I have a passion for the club and for the beautiful game of football as a whole. But let’s take the word passion out of it, as everyone at the club seems to be doing currently, and view this current situation from a financial standpoint:
1.Is the team playing a brand of football that will fill the ground today? Never mind an increased capacity
2.Are the team playing a brand of football that will justify increasing the prices for tickets?
3.Is the current management team buying and selling the assets (players) to make a profit for the club?
4.Is the current management nursing the players to become better and therefore become greater assets?
5.Are you doing enough to foster the support for future generations to come?
Sir, from a purely business standpoint, I think that you will agree that the answers to all of the above is a resounding “No”. I like loyalty but surely something has to change.
I am reminded of the old joke …. How do you run a small business? … You buy a big one and do nothing.
Yours sincerely
A realist
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TAXI FOR MM
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keep up the good work super mick.going down.boing boing
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Defeat from the jaws of victory!!!!
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Just hope frimpong isn’t badly injured or we’re stuffed.
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if i remember last year @ stoke Roy made a head turning change in the team (in defence)like he has today (up front). It was also the start of a very good run.
Biggest signing in January for Albion SIGN ROY HODGSON ON A NEW CONTRACT!!!!!
COME ON ALBION XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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REMEMBER ITS KARL AND TEN OTHERS
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Qpr and Sunderland win,Blackburn draw, they all invest in new players. Villa have the foresight to get Keane on loan. What do we do, absoltely nothing, intransigent MM puts Henry on the teamsheet first, last season at Wigan and now today he costs us points but will MM change – no because he is too arogant, Wolves deserve to go down its as simple as that, MM is taking us back where unambitious mediocre clubs belong
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WE SHOULD HAVE SOLD DOYLE,ELOKOBI AND HENRY IN EARLY JAN, THUS RELEASING FUNDS FOR A PLAYER IN LB POSITION AND A STRIKER ,ALSO I DONT KNOW WHY JONSSON WAS BOUGHT .LIKE HAMMILL HIS CHANCES WILL BE RESTRICTED ,AND THEN THERES KEOGH STILL ON WOLVES BOOKS ,VOKES
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The game went as expected, Henry (first name on team sheet – first name to be sent off).
Robbie scores twice against us. Hope Frimongs OK. Where were Guedioura and Hammill? Get new man in quick or we will lose them to other clubs.
Mick is way out of his depth and digging himself yet deeper in the mire.
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Souness & J Redknap…………………..Are you having a laugh. Thank god your not in charge!
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This is depressing. The gap between the bottom four and the others is widening. It will soon be too late to recover. Wolves fans deserve better than this.
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Lost the plot comes to mind, will someone give him a Red Card as well as his best friend
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Wretched defence will undo any decent work done at the other end, and as if that wasn’t enough Henry acts in the manner of an irresponsible hooligan.
However, ‘must win’ games come and go with no wins recorded and all we will hear will be ‘positives’ and frustrated sound bites. After which things will stay the same.
The owner may see it as too late to do anything, and with that I am pretty much in agreement. But, I must admit, I don’t think I can recall such nonchalance shown in the face of a minor disaster.
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Up to now, I have resisted the call for Mick to step down and have criticised those who have, in my view, unreasonably caused undue pressure on him, the team and the club. How can anyone play with confidence and remain in the Premier when there are so many nasty comments?
Since promotion those in the club have bombarded everyone, especially MM with unwarranted abuse.
I have felt that continuity within a club and its management is crucial to its prolonged success which is why SM & GM have presumably retained MM’s services. I cite Sir Alex Ferguson as a prime example of how continuity has been outstandingly successful.
I have now changed my mind. I feel that it is time for MM to go in the best interests of the club. The board should to seek another manager who may be able to create the success that we all crave!
Whether it is MM’s fault (or GM or SM), is debatable. Who could possibly survive under such a barrage of criticism?
I do not think that MM can continue in the current situation his status is untenable. I congratulate and thank him for what he has done for the club. His achievements are outstanding, but MM MUST GO NOW.
UTW
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We played superb in 1st half but clipboard, MM out guessed by Mclesh, he saw the danger of Kites and responded, what did those two do? Henry gets his legs held, gives a little back heel,sending off correct, but what was the vill boy after an Oscar? 40 – 60 mill spent, apart from 3 players we have been conned! If MM and Co get the boot, who would want to manage this lot?
Suppose Mcghee might come, but I know K Muscat has stopped playing and we have a brilliant manager at Waitakere Utd, a certain Neil Emblem!!!
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A very poor christmas and new year time for a big change it’s not working.
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@26
Thank god you’re not in charge of spelling and punctuation (if you know what that means). That goes for a lot of you on here you dimwits! Mmm not numpties – I can see why they call you that – most of you kids on here are dimwits.
Why did Karl Henry kick the Aston Villa player?
Any suggestions dimwits?
Why does Hennessey give possession to the opposition every game dimwits?
Why do we play headball instead of football dimwits?
Why is the crossing so poor dimwits?
How much do we make when we go down and then pop back up dimwits?
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I said we could not loose this game. we are going down for sure. Mcarthy please go your no good for this club. the players need new ideas. We need a manager to keep us up. you wont so let some one else try.
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WOLVES fans stick together and lets get MCARTHY out of our famous club he has had is day…
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How many more games have we got to lose with this clown in charge before Morgan wakes up and takes action.I know were not a hire and fire club but this now getting riduclous.
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