Comments on: Proud to be a Wolves Fan

By: Aikiwolves

Aikiwolves — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:03:28 +0000

Hi Dazza,

My Grandad was John Bird, thanks for remembering him and what he (and others) did for Wolves before Sir Jack arrived

Without the work before Sir Jack arrived Wolves would not have existed

By: Nathan Lloyd

Nathan Lloyd — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:01:42 +0000

Dazza, have you been at the meths under the cupboard again?

By: Nathan Lloyd

Nathan Lloyd — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:45 +0000

Ben, how on earth did you find out my middle name?

By: Dazza In Brisbane

Dazza In Brisbane — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:47:08 +0000

Ben..Nathan Lloyd is good looking dude …lol

Agree to disagree we will, and I certainly never meant to abuse you….apologies for that
We all get very apssionate about this club eh?
Enjoy the weekend

By: ben

ben — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:19:35 +0000

Dazza. That’s better mate. I decent, structured argument instead of an insult about me looking like Nathan Fucking Lloyd. :-0 (is my writing that bad as well?!)
So apologies for the abrupt response.
You haven’t got to go through the intricies of those dark days. I’m equally indebted to the council, the Gallagher brothers, and Jack Harris. We were probably sat together in pink faded John ireland seats at one point.
But answer me this. How was it a convenient time to buy the club when the ground looked like Baghdad, (which he could never call his own anyway) with no saleable assets and a commerical department consisting of Gary Leaver in a garden shed behind the North Bank?
Yes, he has been naive, petulant, and short sighted, but don’t question his integrity.
He made this club an investible propostion again, having rebuilt it top to bottom, and wrote of £40 million of his own wealth to make it attractive to another investor.
How can you have no time for him for that?
Of course he’s made mistakes, but not before pumping in millions of pounds into a club he adores.
His biggest fuck up IMO was ever appointing Jez Moxey, after appointing a succession of foolish family members before him.
He’s the one who shafted Colin Lee, Dave Jones, Glenn Hoddle (remember the famous programme notes?). And now McCarthy is suffering as he still blocks moves for players on average wages, despite seeing us suffer the consequences in 2003. I actually wonder if he prefers us going up and down – more bonuses for asset stripping that way.
He’s the one who oversaw a £40 million DEBT before SJH wrote it off. Yet he’s the one who is heralded as a business savvy God. And he’ll be the one pricing me out of a season ticket next year.

We’ll probably agree to disagree.

By: Bob China

Bob China — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:44:00 +0000

Hayward sold the club for a tenner, insisting Morgan injected 30 million. We are one of only 2 clubs in the premier league not in debt. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
Thierry Henry took 14 games to score a premier league goal. Give SEB a bloody chance. He’s just come back from injury and the service he’s received so far has been abysmal.

By: Louie

Louie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:34:24 +0000

We certainly don’t have the smallest stadium in the PL.

Portsmouth is smaller, and I’m sure Craven Cottage is too.

Hull and Sotke must not have big stadiums, nor would Burnley and Bolton.

It is true that we need to fill in those damn corners, will they ever. We have the potential to have a 35000 (atleast) stadium and have it packed week in week out

By: dboy

dboy — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:28:52 +0000

It’s probably worth pointing out that we don’t have the smallest stadia in the PL. Anyway, who’s seen this little gem doing the rounds?
http://cc.fulhamfc.com/forum/topics/read-this-quite-good-from-a

By: Dazza In Brisbane

Dazza In Brisbane — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:01:47 +0000

Ben, show respect for who? A guy that came in, when it was convenient, to buy the club on the up, then, to pull the plug on Dave Jones when he needed it most? You really are having a laugh !! Jones got us promoted with a similar bunch of players to what McCarthy did, yet, he had no financial clout to keep us up …sound familiar? So, my full respect will always be with Dave Jones and Graham Turner, the 2 best Managers we have had since McGarry. If Hayward hadn’t thrown a hissy, we would be well establshed in the PL by now. Haywards legacy to us is the smallest stadia in the PL, each new one that is built is far bigger than ours. Sorry, got no time whatsoever for the guy. He was good at making himself out be some sort of messiah… it succeeded with you….not me. I will also have the biggest gratitude to Councillor John Bird, it was he who truly saved the Wolves. He shoudl have been given the freedom of the city…not Hayward.

By: Adam Bate

Adam Bate — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:49:10 +0000

Dazza
I don’t know the full facts behind what went on in the mid-80s but I think comments like ”Hayward deserted us” and was ”nowhere to be seen” are probably overstating. I understood that Harris was in touch with Hayward during this process?
However, there is some truth to what you say in the sense that Sir Jack bought the club in 1990 when we were established in what is now the Championship. A lot of people do seem to think he bought the club at our lowest point when he did no such thing. So if you are being really harsh you could argue he left us in the same division he found us!
Jack Harris and others certainly deserve huge credit for the work they did to get the club through the events of 1986 and this recognition comes from, I believe, Sir Jack’s insistence that a Stand be named after Harris in the new Molineux.