Its going to be Mr potato head. Curb’s obviously out of the running. I’d rather have clip board till end of season. Jokers

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Mr Moxey better be very careful with who he appoints. Both him and Clipboard are not very much liked and Steve Bruce is the worst name on the list – in my opinion.
If Clipboard is in charge at Newcastle, a defeat beckons!

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No-one wants the job!

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If steve bruce is given the managers job,serious questions need to be asked of moxey d morgan.the fans already disgruntled will be in uproar,its plain they do not want him

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just shows you cant always believe what you read in the papers..ha ha! Good luck yo all involved..interviews are not easy processes..sometimes the best candidates dont interview well and the interviewers need the skills and insight to see beyond that and ask the right questions and aee beyond thire own limitations and prejudices.. I d rather have a quiet determined manager than one who can put on a show for an interview or the cameras..passion and desire do not have to be shouted from the treetops..as all teachers know ..the loudest kids are rarely the most focused or best performers….

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Please for the love of God no. That was the highlight of my weekend when I thought he had withdrawn from the race and Warnock went to Leeds

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A group of tired old men going around Molineux with may be only one capable of saving Wolves,
Roy Keane would fit the bill, and I understand will in fact be the appointment

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Who’s running the club moxey or morgan?

For me we want someone in ASAP Before wednesday, it’s a seriuos situation and it’s like moxey’s running a school trip.

Fans are against bruce so no chance, wake up wolves.

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NO STEVE BRUCE AT WOLVES

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Act in haste, repent at leisure is the expression I believe. Whilst Mick was struggling it seems to me that getting rid of him has created a bigger problem than the one we had. The fans may call for Hughton, Curbishley et al but if they don’t want to come you can’t give them the job so it seems that we are now going to drift into the Championship! I will be sad to see the makings of a good Wolves side broken up on the back of this decision – one that Moxey and Morgan were pushed into by the fans!

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They should have done this at Christmas the new manager got no time if he can pull it off & keep us up he will be a hero in wolves history.i pray he Will.

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Well the small minority of numpties have had there wishes come true ( got rid of Mick) now where are the rest of us left ? Nowhere! With the managers out there is anyone of them really better than what we had? Answers on a postcard.

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I love all this rubbish speculation.

What do we really know………….

A list of people out of work…………
Nothing else!!!

Actually find it funny reading posts on various sites of people claiming they know more than the average person about who we are looking at.

It doesnt take a genius to assume Curbishley and Bruce have been contacted but anything more than that is pure speculation. Take the Tweet from Curbs son saying he is still interested but feels Steve Morgan may go elsewhere. Yet the speculation has it down as he is no longer in the running……… ??? Talk about a slant on things.

Find something else to do guys for a few days as speculation is all it is and people slate Moxey and Morgans potential appointments, when they actually havnt made one yet. Strange.

I will wait to see who they come up with. Then give an opinion on it. To renew or not to renew, now thats the question.

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This is truley shocking, i swear if they appoint steve bruce ill not renew my season ticket, he is by far the worse candidate we have been linked with. ask your selves this, would he get a job with any other top flight club? no ..not a chance, not with his recent record, any other premier league club would show a more ambition! no body quite knows why Curbishley has cooled on us or wolves have cooled on him but he is the only one i’d want to see get the job. Roy Keane being the only other one i’d even contemplate! Moxey and morgan really need to listen to the fans if they seriously do not want to damage revenue for next season cos the vast majority of wolves fans DO NOT want Steve Bruce as their manager and they will vote with their feet.

you have been warned….

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Im sick of reading that we should have kept Mick. I still maintain he did wonders bringing Wolves from where we were to where we are now – but he couldnt go any further!

Come on Moxey and Morgan…do NOT go for Steve Bruce! He got sacked from Sunderland so why go for a failed manager again! It doesnt make sense!

For me and most of the fans as well as those who know football, of the managers available it HAS to be Alan Curbishey! He kept West Ham up and it was only cus if the Icelandic owners that he was not kept in the job! ALAN CURBISHLEY is who we need so please Morgan and Moxey dont mess it up!

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I think Bruce although not everyones choice did do a decent job keeping Wigan in the league IF he is appointed we should all get behind him and give him our support. I do think though whoever comes in should move Conner on and get Ince in as his number 2. HE KNOWS THE CLUB!!!

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Number 17, what an idiot.

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If only there was a manager out there with international experience, the know-how of keeping a team in the premier league; working to a budget; honest; humble; funny; motivational…..

#bringbackmick

I cannot belive that we’ve sacked the best manager we’ve had in 30 years. We were’t cut adrift, he still had the dressing room and with Mick we would have stayed up!

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Moxey expects ‘complete commitment’ from the new manager, but we are only offering a 13 week contract? Not much commitment from us in return then is it? Also whats the chances of the manager being poached if we stayed up, if only on a 13 week deal? What a joke.

Get Curbishley in on a one or two year contract, he is proven and will get us playing proper football … Keane has been a disaster at his last couple of clubs. And Bruce is no better than Mick, too similar.

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Balham Wolf

What?

Short term solutions?

We need to realise that Brucey is a big name and nearly big enough for us. Wim a big club we am and as such we need the biggest name we can get. If he brings Tess Daley with him as his assistant like off that dancing programme my Ethel likes then defo let him have a couple of games.Only a couple mind and then we must start chanting him out, win or lose, cus wim better than that, and we must let him know that wim a big club we am, we am, we am.
But some of the numpties on here think we shouldnt get Brucey and thats a shame.

We have got to think big, yam all thinking small, just think next season we can sell advertising on the big cover we can put over the new stand. It will blow the socks off everyone who sees it in the championship, everyone will look at it and think, tham a big club they is.

Brucey could come out onto the pitch and thank the 13,000 or so that have turned up against Rochdale by saying, its nice to see ya, to see ya nice.

Hope ive convinced you all that Bruce is right for us. Ethel as nearly finished me banner it says welcome Brucey you were my favourite, on one side and Bruce out on the other.

Oh the okey cokey oh the okey cokey oh the okey cokey, bruce in, bruce out, ra ra ra.

No one does the okey cokey like the wo1ve5, thats cus wim a big club we am.

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As for the fans asking for MM to come back.

Why would he come back here with it’s poisonous terraces.

He is a proud and decent man, the way a lot of people at this club treated him was disgraceful.

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Morgan has already stated in one sunday newspaper that he is stunned by Wolves fans anger to the possible appointment of Steve Bruce.
Not only that mate,but wait till you see the reaction to the early-bird promotion.
Absolute PR disaster if hes given the job.

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N0 10 ..great post. couldnt agree more.

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Moxey is at it again, smacks of the rubbish he spouts at transfer window time. Firstly, we’ll definitely appoint before Newcastle game, now it looks unlikely. Next it’ll be we’ve trawled through and there’s just no one out there.
Wolves Fans lets go for a total vote of no confidence in the Chief Executive and Board by boycotting the early bird offer, they haven’t got a clue what their doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Rather have Mick than potatoe yead

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Dave Sims

I genuinely think you may be insane.

Mick was hopeless as a manager and despite the fact that I don’t want anyone on that list particularly, any one of them can’t be any worse. The question is, are they any better?

The whole thing has descended into Farce which isn’t a surprise because in my opinion the club is badly run from top to bottom.

Moxey and Morgan are now in a right mess. They should of acted 18 months ago but they didn’t.

They should of used £16 million in investing in the team ,not on a stand, they haven’t.

The should scrap the compton part housing development and use the money again, to invest in the team, and they won’t.

One thing is very clear, Moxey has not got a club on anything football matters.

Would I want Mick back ? Not a chance in hell! He was hopeless and part of the problem.

So who to replace him? Well I suggested Paul Lambert 18 months ago, but he’s well and truely gone.. so, I would go for :

Curbs with Ince as his number 2. Has to be, Moxey you need to bow to Curbs needs and swallow some pride.

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I bet training’s going well with plenty of positive high spirits and high jinks etc! That is if they’re bothering to do any training.

Clipboard’s probably on youtube trying to find highlights of recent Newcastle games. Newcastle on Tyne that is clipboard, not Newcastle under Lyme. Thought I’d mention it.

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Dave Sims, how you can blame the Board so wholeheartedly for this decision when the fans have been calling for Mick’s head for the past few months is beyond me. If he hadn’t been sacked last week there would have been chaos.

Not saying I agree that he should have gone – I’m a fairly patient and realistic fan – but how many fans have changed their tune and now think this is an awful decision, when the week before they were criticising the Board for not acting?

So fickle it’s untrue…

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36 Alex Angus

Well said.

100% correct and true.

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NO NO NO NO NO NO NO to Steve Bruce!! Wolves fans do not want him

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Chris H – sensible as ever. Funny though how Sunderland had a new manager lined up before they sacked Bruce whereas our board seem to have not had a clue who they might appoint.

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With only 13 games to go, EVERY game is critical. Looks like the players are going to continue to be confused, demoralised and in limbo for another week, so any hope of a point or more at Newcastle now looks extremely faint. I had desperately hoped for an announcement this morning to inspire the players and coaching staff and prepare for Newcastle. Surely a week is long enough to appoint a manager who is presently out of work.

Are the Board clueless as to who to appoint? Is there a huge disagreement between Moxey and Morgan on who to appoint? Or are they negotiating with some club to determine compensation for taking a manager who is currently under contract?

Surely it has to be MM for the England job. 1. He is English by place of birth.
2. He has international experience, including his decent spell with RoI.
3. He has experience of qualifying for, and participating in a major international tournament.
4. He will not suffer over-inflated egos, as he showed with sending Roy Keane home.
5. He is used to unfair abuse from fans.
6. He is available, so the FA will not have to pay compensation to any club.
7. He knows how to lose penalty shoot-outs (to Spain in 2002).
8. He speaks English (well, better than Capello, anyway).
9. He knows how to play players out of position at least as well as Capello.

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MM was a breath of fresh air. Such an honest man who told it as it was. He did not stand with arms folded showing no emotion during games. I am often ashamed of so called Wolves fans who think we are still the great club of the fifties. We are not, stop singing ‘Those were the days’ so last century. Watching the 1-5 drumming, TC and TD need to go. The team also should take responsibility as they lacked stamina and how TC has survived so many managerial changes is beyond me. Like so many, I do not want Bruce, worse win percentage than Mick when sacked by Sunderland. If that happens I will protest with my absence.

Liz – Steve Bull Upper

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Whatever happened to the boards promise of stability, Mick was going to stay, if we get relegated.
Morgan has put our club in crisis with a knee jerk reaction because we lost to the Albion.

Mick was the best manager we have had for years and those being touted to replace him
are not as good as him.

My choice ,forget Bruce, Curbs and any other has been,lets go for Clarke, young and hungry

We have nothing to loose.

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Guys, guys, guys.
Calm down.
Take a chill pill.
Relax and enjoy the day.
All this talk is pure speculation.
The appointment will be announced in due course.
We can then all go back to sitting on our perspective sides of the fence regarding the new manager.

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Liz

Are you for Real- You could see the look of desperation on Micks face after Liverpool, Villa and The Albion- No Emotion on his face at all!

He had to go! end of…

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Uproar if Steve Bruce gets the job, my sons and hubby have said they will not renew season ticket if he gets in, and they have had their season tickets for many years! i know alot more have said the same, so please dear God, don’t let this happen. They would have been better off keeping McCarthy and thats saying something!!!!!

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If all you Numpties could go back in time, honestly answer this now!!

Would you have been calling for Mick head so loudly? knowing what you now know?

Because If Bruce is the favourite then I would love to go back in time and cheer the team off the pitch after the WBA game, singing “Super Mick”

Dark days ahead I predict…….

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what is it about wolves and sunderland only craddock has been moderately successful, Bruce is a loser so is Keane all the other players that we have bought have been dire and there have been quite a few of them in the M’carthy era . Lighten up Moxey Bruces record at Sunderland was worse than M M cant say Roy Keane has been successful at any of his clubs . Loads of fans have said that wolves can stick there early birds it will cost Wolves more than they think . Why is Moxey so detached from the fans opinions

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NO TO BRUCE – Stop the madness!!!!!!!!!

Curbishley is by far the outstanding candidate. The rest are just awful.

Bruce is a shambles, google an article for him, where is says “he is not much into tactics” its funny unless he is your manager.

The guy is not competent to coach or manage, yet he is top of our list!!!!!!!!1

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There is something very wrong with the way the club is run. If there is some long term plan embedded in a wolves DNA, then when did Mick not fit into that plan and scheme , becuase the alternatives to do the job existed pre xmas when the results over two seasons plus were as clear as day light. there were good managers, a jan tfr window to do something, but this club seems to want to achieve this on the cheap. no more so evidenced by a £600/- signing. Morgan was saying we’ve spent x amount and we’re 3 points better than last season. It’s not that simple, never has been and any new manager stays with the club up or down, becuase if those two in charge were so concerned about relegation, then they had info info to have sacked mick way before then, and it’s not the responsibility of a new manager to get them out of their ineptitude and all this baloney about a 13 game contract. Anybody in belief of themselves would not take that on. There is an over reliance on keeping the finances so perfect it does look like it’s been run to pass on to someone else, not for internal investment for the good of the club and not the owner. This episode is doing more to show the true colours of Morgan than we would like to admit to ourselves, and it’s not nice. I watched on video, Mick leaving the ground and I think he looked relieved. When an owner walks into the changing room to rant, his motives are for himself and not the good of the club and thats what we’re beginning to see, what does this club mean to morgan apart from a tidy balance sheet to sell on?

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IS IT APRIL FOOLS DAY already??

Steve Bruce ….really???? noo thank you.

I didnt want MM but id rather have him back then Steve Pugface Bruce

#bruceworsethanmick

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I don’t see the problem with having Bruce on the touchline for the rest of the season.. she looks great on the Antique Roadshow…oh.. it’s not that one… :-(

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I have followed this great club for over fifty years, and what is happening now is far beyond the days of the Bhatti Brothers, and the dark days of Chorley. Messrs Moxey and Morgan have made us a laughing stock. How they even considered giving Bruce the time of day remains a complete and utter mystery. He is a failure on all levels, and WE DONT want him. IF he gets appointed then any coats, fleeces, replica shirts, polo shirts, caps etc…. are ALL being sent back to the two M’s until such time as they appoint someone who will take this great club FORWARD. Now is the time to be bold and spend decent money on getting the best man for the job, and one who will placate the fans. And to all the MM lovers….. forget him, he is history ( should have gone after Blackburn last season ) he was taking this club back to the championship. Yes he may have done a great job in getting us to the land of milk and honey, but has neither the tactical brain or motivational skill to progress the club…. just LOOK at the RESULTS, they do not lie and they are why we are where we are. Who is going to get the job ???? Who knows with Stattler and Waldorf in charge. MM was not one of those mentioned when the job was up for grabs five and a half years ago, so don’t be surprised when the appointment does get made….just PRAY it IS NOT BRUCE.

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Albion fan here, calm down people im sure your chairman will make the right decision, whatever manager you have, get behind him!
I think you will just avoid the drop by a point or 2 like last season, Wigan are awful, Blackburn in a mess,I think QPR will be okay, Its out of you and Bolton for me.

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God help us all if Bruce gets in ! and why oh why hasnt Moxey been given his p45 yet ?
Morgan either show some ambition or gtfo !

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You pay peanuts you get monkeys!

If we are to believe that the deal is indeed 13 games and then re-negotiate dependent on the outcomes is it any wonder that the best prospective managers are turning the job down?

Bruce is a failed mercenary – the fans will not back him so bring him in at your peril and fans will vote with their feet.

Mr Morgan & Mr Moxey – swallow your pride get back around the table with Curbishley make the necessary concessions and let’s get him in.

Time is indeed money & time is running out.

UTW

LB

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whilst i definately dont want mr potatoe head ‘bruce’ just look at our players :

yesterday to try and make me a little ‘happier’ i put on the dvd when wolves won the league with mick in charge when we got promoted to the premiere league, whilst for a while it made me happy i started to realise the team that got promoted is still playing :

hennesey
stearman
foley
kightly
ebanks blake
henry
jarvis
ward
berra
edwards

so we have been promoted and we still are playing championship players 2 years on ? WHERES THE PROGRESS MR MORGAN/MOXEY ?

GOD HELP THE NEW MANAGER, EVEN ‘THE SPECIAL ONE’ COULDNT HELP US WITH THESE 2 CLOWNS AND O’CONNOR STILL HERE !

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Please please please NOT BRUCE !!!
…… if that is the case – get Mick back.

Pity Curbishley is out of the running, but it would be interesting to see Dave Jones back – and given the backing he lacked first time round.

Failing that Simon Grayson wouldnt be a bad option until the end of the season – he had the rug pulled from under him at Leeds with his best players being sold.

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who ever the manager is ,lets support them 100%

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corals the bookmakers are now offering curbs as 6/4 joint fav from 3/1 THAT SOUNDS LIKE GOOD NEWS!!

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The only reason Morgan sacked Mick was because of growing pressure from fans. This could also account for poor performances at home. Players look scared to make mistakes in case they get abuse. I said after o’neil went to Sunderland, its no good calling for Mick to be sacked because there’s no one better to come in halfway though the season. If we all stuck together and got behind the players and manager who knows. I think hodgson may be proved to be right “be careful what you wish for”.

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Walter smith and Lee clark would do it for me plenty of exp with Walter smith and thinking of the future and new ideas with Lee clark…. Bruce i wouldnt have him runnin the ashma team on a sunday morning!!

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Give Dave Jones the job let him finish the job he started he was never given the money to keep us in the Prem or make big Sam a offer he can`t refuse

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Have to agree with majority of wolves fans,don’t want Bruce,big fan of macarthy definatly our best manager since turner,liked to have seen him stay till the end of season but after that mess against the baggies even his wife would of sacked him.wolves bosses talking rubbish they want stability yet are talking short term for the moment, doesnt make sense, I wanted curbs as he was best of mediocre choice, but he’s only as good as macarthy, if we,re to go forward we need to think and act forward.

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Curbishley is best of the names mentioned and unless we are looking at a manager currently in work then lets get him in NOW on a contract suitable for him.Bruce if appointed will empty the stadium before the next season gets underway and will lose thousands of Season Ticket holders.

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Get Lee Clark, young hungry manager, worked with our team which got us promoted, then ask Ray Wilkins as his number 2 for the experiance of the prem league!!!

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It’s not Curbishley…

How about Mike Bassett?

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Mick as gone and this was the “CORRECT” decision 100%.As for the timing of this decision was atleast 2 months late.
In my opinion he should have gone last season as he didnt he should have gone when we lost 7 on the trot!.
Bruce should not have been considered never mind being the fornt runner.!
Their is only one IMPACT manager out their “KEVIN KEEGAN” with Lee Clark as his assistant.
Kevin Keegan would have united the whole of Wolves and would have brought in a real feeling of joy which may have been good enough to save us from the mess we are in!
Surely Moxey and Morgan could see where we were going under “Mick”?
Swansea Norwich had shown that they may have been favourites to go down at the start of the season but that is far from the case now!
Swansea and Norwich have ammassed more points then we have managed in three seasons at the same “TIME”!
Which world are some of the fans and Moxey and Morgan living in?!
With the continued in “MICK” we trust $%**%£”‘@?!!
Roy Keane would not be a bad choice as he will get the best out of the players for atleast the 13 games,after that he would start losing the players with his “ATTITUDE” of being a now it all and done it all chap.
Even though with a few of his recent interviews it seems he is developing a little “HUMBLER” attitude.

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so basically Curbishley has ruled himself out because the board are not prepared to show the ambition required to progress in the premier league?? (or even stay in the legaue for that matter)

This just gets worse! I have no faith what-so-ever in the board hiring the right man.

Lat seasn we did worse than the season before in the premier league so that was a step backwards and thats when we should have parted with McCarthy and moved heaven and earth to bring in O’Neil then.

Not to mention we should not of dismissed the opportunity to sign Ba and Cabaye

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as a sunderland fan i would not touch steve bruce with yours, not only is the man a bad football manager he is an idiot , he has made a canny living on the back of failure , i cannot stress just how bad a manager this man is, and i use the term manager loosely, in his case, best wishes in your hunt for a manager and good luck . steve bruce no

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Fact…McCarthy had to go….14 points from a lot of games is very poor….In fact he should of gone last season.

Fact…new manager is needed at the Wolves.

Fact…the board must ensure the removal of clipboard from the Molineux as soon as.

As for a new manager…the players got complacent…a new broom, a new attitude. Bruce(I hope not). Curbishley(hopefully). Dave Jones would be ok till end of season. But what about Ray wilkins….

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Get hoddel back

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Yorkie – Really? Jones back again? He is a nearly man like Mick. Proven ever since he left Wolves too.

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The standing of the club in the premier league reflects the quality of the applicants we are considering (that should be who we are left with).

Its also a reflection on Jez and Morgan i’m afraid at this point – all bluster and spin, but no real overall strategic thinking.

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108: “make big Sam a offer he can`t refuse”

A pack of pork-pies, some Black Country Pork Scratchings and a sack of money should do it. In all seriousness though, why would Allardyce leave a promotion-chasing West Ham side (who have backed him financially) for a Wolves side looking completely devoid of ideas and money? I’m not here to lambaste you all but seriously, I’ve seen Benitez, Pardew, Lambert etc all bandied about the comments section and there is more chance of me guessing Jessica Alba’s phone number, her dating me and accepting my marriage proposal on the back of a flying pig chariot than there is of these names coming. Bruce may not be your fans’ favourite but he is surely preferable to the (largely) inexperienced Keane, Ince, Clark etc.? It beggars belief that Wolves didn’t get rid of Mick when there was actually a few decent PL managers available…

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Not a single positive from you guys.I,ll give you one,he does have a very good record against us.

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What a complete farce – a 13 game contract that would if unsuccessful diminish any managers reputation and standing in the game. Yet it is what you would expect to be offered from a scouser without a clue.
Would be in the clubs long term intrest to get relegated and then rebuild with a manager who has new ideas and focus. Its the only way we will get Morgan to spend some money on quality players cause if we survive then as we have seen from last season, he will believe the players we have are good enough so lets build another stand.

Morgan’s the problem

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What a mess!!!!

Our tightness has scared off the only worthy canidiate!!!

Though I am starting to warm to the idea of Roy Keane.

As for the rest -

Lee Clark – Sacked, 3rd Div draw specialist – No Thanks

Steve Bruce – Sacked, Great player very average manager, no better than MM, No Thanks

Dave Jones – Sacked by us!!! Never go back, No Thanks

Paul Ince – See Bruce – No Thanks

What are our board playing at???

Nice to see the roof has gone onto the new stand though, very nice

Where are our priorities as a FOOTBALL CLUB ?????

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Curbishley has really gone up in my estimation.
He must be desperate to get back into management but wont sell himself short or take a job where he cant progress the team.

I think he gave Moxley and Morgan a reality check about the limited quality of current squad and the level of investment needed to make us even a lower mid table premiership team.

104 the magic wanderer
following the shambolic display and defeat to the tescos.Just think of the pressure that would have been on Mick and the team if he hadnt been sacked??
Can you imagine our next home game and the tension??
At least sacking mick has released some of the pressure on the players as the news is not on Micks position after the WBA game, just about who the new manager will be.

As for Hodgson,just remember he got his job after the sacking of the unfortunate DiMatteo. The baggies had picked up far more points than we had under Mick when they still got rid of him? remember
But credit to the WBA board for wishing to replace di matteo with a top class premiership manager like hodgson and succeeding.
So their wish came true.
Why cant we do the same??

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If Bruce gets job I will not be going until he goes,Moxey & Morgan just look what Oneil done with same players surely your not that stupid!!
Can everyone get over Micks gone,if any other Prem managers had spent 40 million quid we would be in the top half.Just imagine what Woy could do with that kind of money.He gave away players like Elliott Bennett and bought in Eggert Jonsson need I say more.

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I think some of the critisism levelled at Jez Moxey is way out of order. He is simply going through the process of finding a new manager which, in normal circumstances would be quite appropriate. Unfortunately this process is more applicable when more time is available. i.e. 2-3 months prior to the start of the season – not when there is only 13 games left.

Reading between the lines I think the whole situation has been instigated by the owner following his dressing room tantrum. The rest of the board (including Moxey) are just following the wishes of Steve Morgan.

With Alan Curbishley now ruling himself out (for whatever reason), it looks increasingly likely that Bruce will be the new manager. There’re are’nt that many other suitable options available.

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So Alan Curbishley turns us down because his vision for the future of the club differs from Steve Morgan’s? What??? So Steve Bruce is now virtually unopposed to be our new manager? The lunatics have taken over the asylum! Morgan – GO! Moxey – GO! Bruce – WE DO NOT WANT YOU!

Bring back Mick!

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Steve Bruce to save us from relegation? You must be having a larf. He couldn’t motivate a Sunderland team that has now proved to be good enough to finish in the top half, so how will he get anything from a much poorer team?
Anyway, the appointment of Bruce will save me 430 quid which I’d put to one side for my early bird season ticket.
Bruce out, Bruce out, Bruce out!!!!!

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You must be joking,Steve Bruce? A copy of the idiot we have just got rid of.It`s a case of Ruin Sunderland and then carry on with Wolves.Why did Curbishley pull out?Was he offered too much money,or did the ambitions of the management overwhelm him?Why not bring back Dave Jones?he shouldn`t have been got rid of when he was,or there`s Benitez.Please not Ince,Erikson or Lee.I keep saying that,in my opinion,we should go after Hughton or even Pardew,but of course that would mean paying compensation.Whatever happens it has to be the right decision and I am worried about that coming from the Directors and Moxey.

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So Curbishly has ruled himself out of the running because he could not agree with Morgan on the future running of the club. That says it all really.He knows we are not prepared to recruit premiership quality players and pay the level of wages needed to stay in this division.What is going on at this club beggars belief.MORGAN OUT!!

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IF Curbishley is allowed to walk away from a job he openly wanted, then the board should hang their heads in shame….

and IF Bruce is about to handed the reins then the board should resign, they are (just like Bruce) unfit for purpose.

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mr morgan just go back to your beloved liverpool you and your sidekick have made us a joke pay peanuts you get monkeys

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Ok, im not exstatic about the thought of Bruce getting the job either,.

But lets look at the positives…

Bruce has been a Premiership manager for 10 years now. Alot of you have been harping on about Micks lack of Premiership experience, so he must tick a box there in comparison.

He was a very successful defender at Premiership level, over 300 games for United. Now if we need anything to improve, then its our defence, so again, he ticks a box for me there.

He can attract good players of real quality to a squad. Brown, O’Shea, Bentner, Sessegnon etc, so once again, a positive.

He lives in the area, so he knows how important a game like last Sunday would of been to us.

For me there are one or two attributes there that, a) Mick didnt have, and b) we need and have lacked!

Don’t be too down hearted, he is not the worst candidate by a long way.

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Again people, calm yourselves. There is so much speculation going on its insane. Moxey rubbished some of it the other day, most of this will be garbage too!

Until we have confirmation from the club theres no point in speculating. As for those that are now saying we should have kept Mick, 14 points from 66 says everything. Just because we havnt appointed anyone yet does not mean it was a mistake!

Time will tell all, but no point to half of the grumbling posts on here.

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151 Molineux Max.
Just read through some of the posts on this thread (including yours) and DHs is ENTIRELY appropriate.
“Interviewed more hot dinners than I have” Really ! If only you knew
Must get back to my Gazpacho whilst I’m stagazing.
DH !

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all i can say is if this true! we are a joke!
Bruce out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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this is becoming a bad joke bruce just the
the same as muppet he could not get better
players at sunderland to play so little chance
here, i have not felt as bad about wolves since the batti bros where here i would like
to see the lot go and start again. morgan
not interest in the football side at wolves
we the fan are being taken for a ride by him
and moxey.

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The two MMs have lost sight of what the Molineux is there for,its for the fans to be entertained and watch good football its not about having a huge new stand packed with restaurants and shops.They have lost sight of the product I am fed up of going to home matches and being beat week in week out it spoils your weekend.As for Mick McCarthy he had to go he has the worst Premiership record of any manager with more than a hundred games played in the prem and thats fact its just a question of getting the right man in with the right package to take Wolves forward.

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If you are following the bookies its looking like Lee Clark, now odds on….

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I have to say that reading this lot is unbelievable, the timing may have been wrong, but surely how can you be calling for a managers head who hasnt even been appointed yet. If i was a prospective candidate, it would fill me with dread reading these message boards. Let the board make the decisions and just for once get behind the club

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Dear Oh Dear!!!!
Stop fooling yourselves. No one wants the job except Bruce, and I wouldnt be suprised if he didnt pull out.

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Finchy – then take your own advice and dont call people “negative numpties” as you say, because they dont agree with you! Your a fool as much as we are numpties.

Your suggestion to stick with Mick until the end of the season must be based also on his track record over the last 23 games……… Or we could as the board have done, make a change and hope for a reaction of some sorts from the players. The only bad thing is it could have been done earlier.

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We of course don’t know the details of why Curbs has pulled out (if he has), but I have to say that all this bickering between us is not helping anyone…

I’m really not sure who we should get in now, although not keen on Bruce, I think we just need to get it sorted and try and get some forward momentum, for as long as it remains like this I do worry about the outcome of our season! Add to the fact that I don’t think I really care, as my energy levels for the whole charade is waining rapidly and I just feel glum reading reports and comments about the whole thing.

One final point I would make is that Ladywolf had it spot on when questioning Morgans intentions on what he wants from the club??

Here’s hoping for a brighter future for the Wolves?

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Well all of you “fans”??????????????????????who wanted Mick out have got your way repent at your leasure, problem is the rest of us have to lump it with you. Thanks a lot!
Dave Sims – you are 100% correct, just a pity the idiots who wanted Mick out didn’t realise it – but they will in time, point is it is too late.
p.s: please god let me be wrong! but I wonder how many of those outside and in the ground wanting Mick out will support the lads “if” we go down, also to all those on about not having the early bird etc, if we have this or that manager! well it just proves were your loyalties lie, me I had mine on the 14th!

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No to Steve Bruce – stop the madness!!!!!!!!

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That ‘taters gonna ruin everyting. NO TO THE POTATO!!!!!!!

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Ive just heard this…

Paul Ince in till the end of the season with Alex Rae as his number 2… Then there going to review it in the summer…

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181 have you been reading most of the comments from the fans.do you remember what crowds we got when mad mick said he couldnt care less about cup runs the same will happen if they appoint bruce.i wonder how many fans are sitting on the fence waiting to see if they appoint another idiot.

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I learned of the departure of Mick McCarthy with relief. His sacking was considerably overdue. Whilst loyalty and stability have to be admired at Wolves, under him the club was clearly going nowhere and that situation has been apparent for a couple of years. Mr McCarthy had shown himself quite incapable of organising a Premier League team able to compete effectively at this level.The defence lacked any structure or coordination and the mid-field and attack were not much better, unable make goal-scoring opportunities creatively.

I have been a lifelong supporter of Wolves for over 70 years and it has become demoralising to me to become so dismissive and despondent in my attitude towards the club. Game after game performances have become so dire as to be laughable to the extent that I have started to ridicule the team in any dialogue or conversation as I had no optimism to expect anything better.

I grew to respect Mr McCarthy for his dignity and honest assessment of matches but one should expect more from the manager than routine excuses of “bad luck” and “poor referee decisions”. Mick McCarthy was a failure with Sunderland and he kept up his track record with Wolves.

How many people watching live games or on TV observe the hugs between managers before kick-off and all the complimentary comments between and towards opposing managers as a sort of mutual admiration societyas they seek to polish up their respective CV’s in readiness for seeking their next appointment. There are few really good top flight managers and the majority are re-cycled has-beens. And so to the future appointment at Wolves; the names in the frame are hardly inspiring, with the possible exception of Alan Curbishley. Whether he remains in contention remains to be seen, as for the rest I hope not! However as a last resort if the right offer were made I might be prepared to come out of retirement.

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Im still so surprised to see the Mick McCarthy Happy Clappers Brigade!

Wake up! Mick is not good enough for the Premier League! 3 years in the Premier League and each year we have gone backwards not forwards! Look at the league position at the end of both seasons and you will see!

As for the next Wolves Manager…ALAN CURBISHLEY! Offer him a decent contract and get the man in!!!

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The paucity of candidates to Wolves post is known from some years now as you might have seen with the scarcity of English youngsters coming through in England. The FA thought wrongly to pay a mega £6M to a foreign manager knowing quite well England have no longer proper young players coming through. It is the same with managers who are very poor tacticians in England. So I am not surprised a man who has failed at Sunderland will get a far better improved packet to take over the job which will see our team plummeting to the Championship. Relegation in itself is not a drama as we cannot win at home where we are supposed to get some points for safety. And we regularly fail at Molineux and also we are not that good away from home. So relegation is a banker for Wolves because they are so easy to beat at home. I would go even further to say that they are easy meat to every team. And during nearly SIX YEARS not one single player from the academy has made his mark or been deprived of the chance to do so. That’s why the scarcity will become acute in the years to come. African countries produce better players than England. And mind you they do not have money like in England to produce players. In the meantime all English teams receive colossal sums of money from TV and sponsors to throw by the window. Recent examples of Torres and Carrol. Fans also are to be accused of pushing for more spending while neglecting the infrastructures which other countries are making good progress in these things. There will be many Portsmouth, Glasgow Rangers and other clubs before fans will realise one day that good governance and good use of money are vital to the security of clubs as England have already entered into a long recession which I hope will bring sanity back to the game.

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I would rather have Harry Redknapps dog than steve bruce !!!!

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mertonwolf – fair enough point about the cups and obviously Id agree with that. I would be shocked though if we appointed a new manager that is unwanted on these boards to see overall our season ticket figures drop dramatically. Even relegation I dont think would see numbers go down as bad as some may think.
I can see your points though but I thought this a few years ago in the Championship when we missed out again and the next years figures were fine.
My circumstances are more to do with what I will be doing most Saturdays as opposed to anything else. Love or hate whats happening, if im available I always go to the games. Gives you something to talk about and at times is entertaining lol

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189 Hughie Curran.
It wasn’t the 0-1 at home (if I remember it was a disputed goal and Sunderland were unlucky)…No, it was the result at St James Park….Newcastle 5 Sunderland 1
Sound a familiar scoreline ?
However what some of you posters forget is a manager can fail at one club (and just remember Bruce has not been a complete failure either) and then be a roaring success at another.
Just remember this. There were Villa supporters who couldn’t wait to see the back of O’Neill. Probably the same bunch who climbed all over the Villa Park gates protesting about McLeish.
Such is football

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Why are people mentioning Strachan, was terrible at Coventry, then did ok with Celtic (but who would not). Then left Middlesbrough in a right terrible mess.

As for Bruce, i dont think the board will go there, if they are listening to the local vibe, as he would be as unpopular as McLeish is at the villa.

At the end of the day, the boards incompetence at getting rid of mick to late and not having a plan B is coming home to roost.

We should not even be having this conversation as this should have been carried out, in November maybe December at the latest.

The board and its dilly dallying is causing us all to carry on bickering between ourselves. They have a lot to answer for.

Roll on The demolition of Newcastle on Saturday so we have something else to talk about and that will be Terry Connors managership for the rest of the season.

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Mick was a good man but our football had become negative and uninspiring.
Was speaking to my brother yesterday who is a Villa fan and McLeish has the same negative thinking problem.
We need to move with the times and appoint a forward thinking manager who doesn’t stick with rigid formations and actually has a plan B.
For what it is worth I would take anybody on the list over what we have had to watch this season as long as Megson isn’t on it.
Football seems to be moving away from the hoof ball and chase that has had some success in the past – look at the way Norwich and Swansea play the game on much smaller budgets than ours.

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MORGAN & MOXEY MUST GO!!!
Mr Heyward, please come back once again and save our wonderful club.
Morgan is only interested in creating work for his construction company.
Moxey is a numbers man, not interested in the progress of our Club.
Mr McCarthy, wonderful man, but he wasn’t the man for the premiership.
Alan Curbishley knows his football management and he saw the constraints Morgan & Moxey were imposing would not give him the tools to save our club from relegation.
MORGAN & MOXEY MUST GO!!!
Whoever is appointed manager now, the fans will know, has capitulated to the demands of Morgan & Moxey and has taken a job his heart tells him he cannot win. The salary, I suspect, is greater than the dole payment for being out of work.
MORGAN & MOXEY OUT, OUT, OUT, OUT!!!

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Roy Keane with Ray Wilkins as No.2

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ROONEY TWITED BRUCE FOR WOLVES COS BE NICE TO HAVE HIM BACK IN FOOTBALL . WELL WAYNE THERE ARE 28500 WOLVES FANS THAT WOULD SAY TO YOU NO THANKS AND CATOGORICALLY NO THANKS TYPICAL MANC .

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Bring in a manager with a track record of avoiding the drop…McCarthy..

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So Curbishley has turned us down. Why would that be? Anything to do with the fact as Moxey said last week “we will not change our principals” and “The manager must understand what wolves is about” Well that sounds like 1 thing to me after seeing what money SUPER MICK had over last few years, plain and simply, Please Mr Curbishley come and save our club from relegation your the only decent candidate and everyone else in the running is no better than SUPER MICK. BUT and this is a BIG BUT Mr Curbishley if you keep us up you will only be given £7,000,000 at the most to work on your team, oh and we want mid table if you dont mind oh and we wont be letting you spend more than £50,000 a week on wages even if the player is a top prem player (Like Demba Ba who Mick was after in the summer)Why should we pay prem wages to players!?! Morgan had a dream of europe in his 10 year plan does he not understand you need to invest to end uo in europe AND NOT ON THE STADIUM AND TRAINING GROUND YOU FOOL! Wolves will have an A1 Preiereship training facility which we wont need as we will be in the Championship same as we wont need the new stan cullis stand. MORGAN YOU ARE PROVING YOU ARE NO GOOD FOR WOLVES, NO INVESTMENT WHERE NEEDED AND INVESTMENT WHERE NOT NEEDED but hey when he sells wolves with new stands training ground he will get a hefty cheaque alot more than he has invested!

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The Reading Post understands McDermott is a genuine contender and on the shortlist for the role after steering Royals to third this season on a shoestring budget.

McDermott was a rank outsider this morning at as big as 90/1 by some bookmakers to take over at Molineux, but his odds have been cut to 14/1 by some bookmakers making him a joint-fifth favourite.

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I was wrong, I was totally wrong.
I did not want Mick out but with his sacking I fully expected Wolves to appoint Curbishley and so in anticipation of a revival and in order to show support Got my early bird on the day they came out. Please can I reconsider .
I too got suckered into believing Morgan and Moxey had the Wolves best interests at heart but it now looks as if we will be lumbered with a second rate manager who will take us back to the championship. At least with Bruce he knows the way and he will get us down quicker than most , unless Morgan and Moxey grow a pair and appoint someone with no premiership experience but plenty of talent , such as Lee Clarke , instead of someone with plenty of premiership experience and no talent .

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The entire situation beggars belief, and we as fans are absolutely correct in assuming that those who are running our football club are clearly out of their depth, they remind me of the politicians who run the country.

Steve Morgan should stick to construction and Moxey should go back to being an accountant. We as fans are simply being taken for a ride, the club is being run as a self supporting business with limited investment in the paying side.

Generally the club is being left to find its own level, as it was when the previous owner was in control. As long as the chairman and CEO take their salariesand bonuses they are satisfied.

What this club needs is a fan buyout and I have my tenner ready to put in the pot.

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Utter tripe on here as usual.

Moxey came out and said that all candidates had signed a confidentiality agreement.

So any speculation is purely that…speculation! It will no doubt work both ways too, so if Curbishley has indeed turned the job down, he certainly wouldn’t be able to go and tell the press.

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KEVIN KEEGAN !! THE ONLY THING THAT AS TO BE THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY IS STAYING IN THE LEAGUE…..HE IS THE MAN ….WE WILL BE ABLE TO BEAT THE LIKES OF BOLTON,WIGAN,BLACKBURN,NORWICH,SWANSEA WITH HIM AT THE HELM!!!!!!!!!!
MR.MORGAN FOR YOUR OWN SAKE GET THE MAN IN,I KNOW FOR A FACT IF WE GO DOWN YOU KNOW WE COULD BE IN TROUBLE BOTH ON THE PITCH AND FINACIALLY,THE STABILITY THAT YOU HAVE SEEKED WILL BE AT BREAKING POINT!!!
MOXEY MUST GO MR.MORGAN HE IS NOT WHAT WE NEED ANYMORE,HE WOULD DO A GREAT JOB WITH “BRYLCREAM”

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SSN are saying Wolves have asked Brighton permission to speak to Gus Poyet

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Sky Sports understands Wolves have asked Brighton permission to speak to their manager Gus Poyet.

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An article published in 2011 sums up why wolves do noy need Steve Bruce.

Steve Bruce was a manager who refused to move with the times

The former Sunderland No1 paid little attention to modern coaching methods, technology or tactics – and now he looks like man whose era has passed

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Louise Taylor

guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 30 November 2011 21.08 GMT
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Steve Bruce has been sacked after two and half years with Sunderland at the Stadium of Light. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA

Shortly after taking charge at Sunderland Steve Bruce was asked if he had considered experimenting with a Christmas Tree formation. “I’m not really into tactics,” he replied. At the time that response was easy to interpret as a deliberately flippant or, perhaps, a self-deprecating means of avoiding answering the question. As the seasons passed, though, the suspicion grew that the former Manchester United captain had simply been honest.

Arguably one of the principal reasons Bruce is no longer in charge at the Stadium of Light concerns his apparent inability to tweak formations or tactics during matches. Whenever a rival manager re-configured his system mid-game, Bruce invariably failed to come up with a countermeasure.

In recent months Alan Pardew, Mark Hughes, Roy Hodgson and, most recently, Roberto Martínez have all seemingly out-thought him as Sunderland dropped points against supposedly weaker sidesthey really should have beaten.

If he failed to cut it as a tactician, the 50-year-old did not seem much of a strategist either. Including loans, 30 players were signed – several of whom have subsequently been moved on – during Bruce’s two-and-a-half years on Wearside. That represents an unsettling “churn” factor and hardly proved conducive to developing either a clear playing philosophy or strong team spirit.

Always rather amorphous, if not downright scrappy, Sunderland’s high-tempo style lacked creativity, not to mention control, in central midfield. Unable to dictate play, the team frequently failed to press home early advantages.

In many ways Bruce’s decision to make the hot-headed, yellow card-prone Lee Cattermole his captain proved emblematic of a rather gung-ho reign during which players such as David Meyler were rushed back from serious injuries only to suffer further complications, the idea of hiring a sports psychologist was dismissed and the manager boasted about his inability to send an email. While Bruce – who did finally learn how to log on last summer when the club issued him with an iPad – may well argue this lack of computer literacy was hardly relevant, many of his peers spend countless hours checking out the latest sports science innovations, researching transfer targets and analysing Prozone statistics on their increasingly indispensable laptops.

Unashamedly old school, Bruce believed that motivation was the key to management but the influx of overseas coaches has raised the Premier League’s technical bar and despite his relative youth, he has begun to look suspiciously like a man whose era has passed.

Unlike many modern managers he did not coach the team himself, delegating that job to his assistant, Eric Black. While Bruce’s undoubtedly engaging, humour-suffused, personality had a broad appeal, he fell out with quite a few players, most notably Kenwyne Jones, now at Stoke, and Anton Ferdinand, now at QPR and who had by common consensus finally emerged as Sunderland’s outstanding defender when he was sold in August.

Shortly afterwards Sunderland’s manager was badly let down by Titus Bramble, who faces a crown court trial on sexual assault charges in January. Other bad buys included Matthew Kilgallon, Christian Riveros, Marcos Angeleri and Paulo Da Silva. Meanwhile Craig Gardner, bought from Birmingham for £6m, has barely figured in the first team.

There were some good purchases along the way, too, such as Lorik Cana, Asamoah Gyan and, above all, Darren Bent . Unfortunately Bent had become desperate to leave Sunderland six months before his eventual move to Aston Villa in January. Cana headed to Turkey after just a year while Gyan has newly gone to United Arab Emirates on loan. Money evidently played a big part in all these deals, but it does not represent the entire behind-the-scenes story.

Something was clearly wrong because, as last season’s promising beginning subsided into a post-new year collapse, managerial excuses increasingly became a recurring, if self-destructive, theme.

It certainly did not play well with Sunderland fans when the crowd were blamed for harbouring overly “great expectations” or that Bruce constantly bemoaned the difficulty of attracting players to the north-east. More recently, his loudest lament has been that locals would not accept him purely because he had been born north of the Tyne and grew up supporting Newcastle United.

Granted, a minority shamefully hurled chants of “You fat Geordie bastard – get out of our club” after Saturday’s defeat to Wigan, but the overwhelming majority of supporters did not care about his roots. Moreover their “expectations” were mostly pretty modest.

Two home wins since New Year’s Day have tried Wearsiders’ patience but, contrary to Bruce’s theories, many would have taken the odd defeat to Newcastle in their stride had there been signs of progress or a discernible playing pattern emerging. Maybe the core problem was that Bruce never accepted that, sometimes, the devil really is in the detail. Soon after Ahmed Elmohamady arrived from Egypt, Sunderland’s manager was asked if the winger would be observing Ramadan and if so, how the daylight fasting might affect his game.

The question was met with a blank look. “Is Elmohamady a Coptic Christian rather than a Muslim then?” the questioner persisted. It was an important distinction and the answer should have tripped off Bruce’s tongue, but he clearly did not have a clue.

Counted out

2: Points clear of the relegation zone, in 16th, having won only two of 13 league games this season

10: Sunderland’s position last season. The club finished 13th in Steve Bruce’s first full season in charge

28: Bruce’s win percentage, less than Premier League figure with Wigan Athletic and Birmingham City

30: Number of players Bruce signed since joining in March 2009, several of whom have left

15: Red cards received during Bruce’s reign, more than any other Premier League club in the same period

2: His second sacking. Bruce resigned at Sheffield Utd, Wigan (twice), Crystal Palace and Birmingham

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So if Steve Bruce comes in and manages to keep us up, all the Bruce haters on here will be demanding his sacking in the summer, right? And enough of the personal abusive insults directed at him, he`s a decent bloke.

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Poyet now 2/1 from 25/1 Job done me thinks

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Poyet and wilkins ? ….souness and ince ? …….. Romeo and juliet ? … Mills and boon ? ….. Chaz and dave ?….. May as well be the last pairing because we sure has hell got laurel and hardy trying to sort it out ! Moxey out ! And morgan wheres the real money gone ?

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Glos Wolf 1952 sounds good to me mate why cant we own our club sick of all these clowns riding on the back of wolves.Av ya tenner back and go.

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Why Poyet, Brighton thumped yesterday, surely we have to go cap in hand to Hughton at B’ham or eat humble pie, get Morgan to renegotiate with Curbishley and get a decent manager.

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Martin O’neill has turned Sunderland around with the players Bruce left behind.I think that answers the question why Wolves fans are not keen on him.

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Poyet with Wilkins as assistant!

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WITH THE ‘DREAM TICKET’ OF IAN HOLLOWAY AS BOSS AND PAUL INCE AS ASSISTANT, STAYING UP WILL BE NO PROBLEM!

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So many rumours but does anybody really know what is on Morgan and Moxeys table. Just hope they are being realistic in their expectations. Very concerning if only a short term contract is on offer, as is Curbs reasons for turning us down. Lets be honest none of us know and only time will tell. Fingers crossed it has been worth waiting for.

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The Daily Mail are reporting that Wolves want to speak to Poyet too.
Hopefully this is just speculation.
If Curbs is actually out of the running I don’t see that there is another viable option to keep us up. Not one that Morgan and Moxey will fork out enough cash for anyway.
Championship football next season I think.

As ever, Wolves ay we.

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Wikipedia is already saying Brian McDermott is Wolves new manager!

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Not too sure about Poyet, but like so many others, my expectations have been lowered so far he will seem like the messiah next to the other remaining options.

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This is not speculation….it is a fact, I have very close connections at the club, and this will hurt.
Alan Curbishley was offered the job at the weekend (Saturday)
He was willing to accept until he was told that he couldn’t bring in his own assistant and other staff. He immediately declined the offer.
Members of the press….please put this to Mr Moxey and Alan Curbishley directly and maybe we will discover why the club are so unwilling to dispose of Terry Connor. He has remained at the club under 6 managers, surely an unprecedented feat.
Is there something we should be told about Terry Connor that we don’t know? Is he part of the Moxey family?
Why is he obviously rated so highly???
Something is not what it seems I think.

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Mc Soggy #207,

Mmm Mark Hughes has done a spectacular job at QPR so far in’t he?

How many countless millions did they just spend and let’s not forget the abject failure he was at Man. City with the countless millions that were spent there.

Not the kind of pedigree I want here.

Young & Hungry.

The players have had a big enough kick up the jacksy to turn this around and keep us up.

Poyet for me, may bring some Urugayan style to the side.

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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any dafter it did! Are we now down to who will do it for the least money?

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Ill stick my neck out and say that McDermott wont come… he will want to bring his back room staff and sports science team and Dumb and Dumber wont spend all that cash to bring them all in…

Its gonna be Steve Bruce!!

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amazes me how many idiots come on here , these are some of the inane comments from the last 6 years.

1. why sell the club to morgan for a tenner???

2.why have mcarthy as manager?

3. why have’nt wwfc sacked mcarthy?

4. why have’nt wwfc got a replacemant lined up to replace mcarthy?

5. why does’nt morgan listen to the fans and appoint a manager of thier choice?

we dont want , manager x,y,z , why cant we have so and so as manager?

if wwfc appoint so and so we should not go to matches,not a question but a statement.

why is moxey still here? why is connor still here?

deluded, throw the toys out of the pram, knee jerk reaction,numpties. utw.

will support wwfc whatever league we are in whoever is the manager and no i am not a happyclapper. bring back sammy chung.

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Bring Back Mick McCarthy!!!!

Lets Protest now lol

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Well well well. There is a lot of TRUTH and analysis from comments going on that suggests that Wolves should have kept Mick!

Not one to stick my neck out – I believe Chris Coleman (Wales manager) could do both jobs on his head. He knows how to drink water too.

M and M hope, expect, we would like to, take our time, think deeply and not get a manager.
Moxey looking after the side could be called a manager in place.
M and M – interview Mick quick and make up for your mistakes.
Championship manger = championship future. Wolves burns – while you make money.

I think no one will be permanently in place before the end of February

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Are you Mick????

You must be if you think Doyle is a midfielder!!!

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270?

I know Doyle is a Striker – although at times you wouldnt even play him in Goal!

All these big ambitions that the owners have and they are fielding championship players?

Are they really that deluded? If they want Big they need to play Big – Talk the talk – but dont walk the walk!

Fed up of it – Im not buying a season ticket next season when the owners say something then change their mind and dont deliver!

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Let’s cler up one thing.

MICK WAS USELESS AT THIS LEVEL.

He was decent at Championship level. He got us up, just ( don’t forget our form completely collapsed from Xmas onwards in our promotion year).

Obviously, the memories of the ‘demolition derby’ as the baggies fans call it, are fading. And Liverpool too was also atrocious.

So, in my opinion, anyone but Mick is good for me!

However, the whole thing is now embarassing.. so a chorus of ‘You don’t know what you’re doing’ might be appropriate at Newcastle

I would really love to know our chairmans vision for the club. If it differs so much from Curbs, then please Mr Morgan, come out in public and let me know what it is!

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McDermott is going to sign a new contract at Reading so Wolves have gone back to Curbishley to try to get him to change his mind.
This is so embarrassing when we have to beg someone who hasn’t had a job for four years to be our manager – and he still says “No”.
Is there anyone – apart from Steve Bruce and Mick McCarthy – who wants to be Wolves manager?
Anyone who thinks this is a big club is living in Dreamland.

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If it means paying 2.5million, then perhaps that is what we should do? I think of the money we have spent on absolute shocking players down the years: Frankowski, Roussell, Robert Taylor, Harvard Flo etc etc

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Lambert should have been number one target but he has barely been mentioned. Curbishley would have done a solid job and kept us up but he clearly does not want it enough.

Given where we are now I think we could do a lot worse than give Dave Jones 13 games with a vastly improved squad than he last time with Ince as his number 2.

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280??

This aint an experiment mate? Its our beloved Footbal Club
We want to be proud in the stands and watch our team play against the highest level, with the full support of a High profile manager -

We dont want some “I want to be a manager” coming in just to fail -again.

All candidates so far are rubbish and wolves will only end up Rock bottom of the prem again by end of season – whos to blame?

THE TIGHT FISTED OVER AMBITIOUS DELUDED OWNERS!

Free up some money? Take a risk? Speculate to accumilate.

You only brought the club for a £10 for gods sake!

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280 – As many people have mentioned on here before me. What makes you think Lambert would leave a club in Norwich that is on the up, has a board that don’t interfere and has a set of fans that aren’t at each others throats constantly! You are living in a dream world if you think Wolves can offer him a package that would make him want to leave all of that behind and move to Wolverhampton. Dream on…

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Seal a Deal*

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You should listen to youselves moaning and whimpering ON here, reflect on what you have been saying about MICK, you NUMPTEYES are a digrace to the Wolverhampton population
also you are a blight on your selves and you families, i told you STICK WITH MICK

NOT LAUGHING NOW ARE WE..

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Please, please not Steve Bruce!!

Not changing manager in December will cost Wolves dearly. Agree Mick M had to go but the decision by Steve Morgan to dither and delay has made Wolves a laughing stock. It appears no one wants the job. Is it lack of money being offered or is it the short term contract being offered?

First it was “We want a manager with a proven
Premiership record” now it smacks of will anyone take the job!

What a mess Morgan/Moxey have got us into!!

Connor as temporary manager is a joke, he must shoulder at least 50% resonsibility.

Wolves forever!!!

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What an absolute shambles. The board sack McCarthy on a split decision without a clue about how to appoint, never mind who, was to be the new manager.

Clearly Curbs was the right man, just picked the wrong club amd owner. Morgan has now defined his football operation as second fiddle to his building empire. All he wanted was the real estate angle. Liverpool fans must be sighing hugely. What on earth would have happened to that club if he had gained control there?
Oh dear oh dear. A sad sad turn of events indeed. Two incompetents at the helm instead of three & Connor in charge of the team. At this stage I’d offer the job to Ince, at least he has some passion, even if his voice is squeaky. He couldn’t be more of a joke than Bruce. Do they know each other?

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western isles wolf, fantastic well thought out post. walter smith would be ideal for wwfc, experienced, knows the game inside out, and unlike mcarthy can change the game tactically, when needed.

and to freshen things up, as a young and hungry number 2 with a wolves connection, paul ince or driscoll could learn from the old master.

of course you will get the disrespect from the negative fans and tescos about(wwfc bieng managed by a butcher) after the first defeat.

utw.

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