Not. Good. Enough.
No passion. No fight. No ability.
Butterfield - Humiliated Wolves
How can we be outplayed for ninety minutes by Championship side pulled apart by administration? How can we allow a full-back to plunder three goals?
Pathetic Wolves. Pathetic McCarthy.
Say whatever you like about signings we have or haven’t made, but the manager and squad of players we do have let the fans down badly tonight. That kind of performance is just unforgivable.
I’m so appalled by such a weak, inept, disgusting display, I can’t even consider the thought of constructing a match report.
Oh, Henry’s just smashed one in. What does it count for? Absolutely nothing.
The Morning After
OK, so I’ve had a night’s sleep to recover, but I stand by everything I originally stated.
There’s a minimum you expect from a Wolves side and they fell someway short of that last night.
I always like to find one positive in any performance though, so I’ll point out that I think Zubar had a pretty solid game. The other ten just didn’t want to know.
I don’t know whether I’m more shocked by our lack of fight or the fact that Karl Henry scored a goal.
Think I’ll leave it there.
Cannot agree more. Embarrassed to be Wolves.
what a disgusting display from everyone who pulled on the old gold and black tonight, no passion, no fight, no nothing, we looked more like a blue square prem team, this had better be a turning point in our season because we cant possibly play any worse.can anybody tell me who was playing at the back for palace?? i dont remeber hearing there names more than once, it was a shambles, premiership?? not on this form
Watched on Setanta (worse luck)… I have never seen a more inept and gutless performance.We played better against Chorley!! McCarthy has no idea, he is total useless , and who told this Bia guy that he can play football? Utter rubbish. The guy netted a hatrick, and he hadnt scored any cup goals in 49 previous appearances. Berra is a donkey and can feck right off… Blake…Iwelumo…come on and did absolutely nothing. I think the players themseleves are sick of being played out of position, and Milijas hardly looked interested either. I’m afraid Morgan needs to grow a pair and get rid of thick Mick…..6 more wins to stay up….yeah right
I have to go into work, in Central London tomorrow. Think I’d rather top myself. Shocking display. Ashamed to be Wolves
How are you meant to beat anyone with so many players out of position and a team of defenders. It’s an absolute joke, why can’t he just sort out 11 players playing in their right position and stick with it. He’s loosing the plot. I’m normally pretty positive but even I’ve lost confidence in Mick now. We’ve stoped doing all the things that got us promoted last season.
Tonight was bad, dreading Sunday.
Pathetic.
Weasel Out!
attack that cant score and a defence that cant defend what a good job the manager is top class with his excuses.All i see now is Mick Mcarthy miserable face he had when he was Sunderland manager dishing out excuse after excuse as to why he just lost yet another game.
Sorry Mick but you are not a premiership manager so thanks for what youve done but time to move on.
A bold move would have been to sign Robbie Kean
Whats even worse youve made my hansome face look grumpy
‘Bag of Shite!!!!’
Worst performance I’ve seen in a long while. Could you tell which team was from the Premier and which was the Championship side in administration?
Living in London I don’t get to as many matches as I’d like, and I’ve always thought things can’t be as bad as the naysayers think. After tonight I’m not so sure, to put it mildly.
Just before Henry scored, Dave Jones had a shot. The guy behind me shouted “Don’t you dare score.” We didn’t even deserve the one.
A decent contingent of London based Wolves fans and four coaches from Molineux deserved better.
I know he’s only played one game, but that Belgian was appalling. Who recommended him to us. It’s a typical Wolves signing though. Half arsed at everything we do, and as for Milijas, what a complete waster this guy is… apart from 2 nice passes and one goal, what teh hell has he done? Argue this one… are we any better than this time last year??? I reckon we are now worse as a team than 12 months ago.McCarthy out!!!!
Enjoy that one T’om??
Haha, I have to say I taped it on Setanta and watched it with my girlfriend before we went to work. She compared our defence to Perth Glory’s defence… from last season.
Here’s a positive (I know I’m scraping the bottom of the barrel here)
Chelsea dropped points and Notts County beat Wigan – so at least we’re relegated to third in the news cycle. If those 2 results had been reversed we’d be back page laughing stocks.
Certainly justifies the three M`s decision to spend no money in January, who`s with me to follow suit when the early bird renewals drop on the mat.
t’om…what the heck did your girlfriend do to deserve that?
Embarrising to watch. Lot of hoof ball, no one wanted to run with it or even play a decent pass. I said to my gf last night and I’ll say it now, wolves are a confidence team and after that that could be our prem season over.
Damit wolves I can see all the potential and promise. Why does know one in power do anything!?
Anyone for Tennis?
Great blog lads.
Truly appalling last night.
I’ve been fairly positive most of the season, finding some of the doom mongers a bit OTT but last night was a shambles. It’s all been said before about 6 defenders, a defensive midfielder etc.
I was just wondering, what impact has the TOTAL failure to attract anyone of note to the club had on the players already there?? If i was Doyle, Milijas (only decent signings IMV) i’d be seriously questioning whether the club is ‘going places’, even if we do manage to stay up.
Also, do other clubs around us have as half arsed a coaching set up as we do? i.e TC and, well thats it isn’t it?
School of thought says we should have sacked Mick as soon as we got up….difficult to see where he’s taking us IMO.
Coyle
It looked like a watershed moment last night. Mick with his bloody eye, looking like an exhausted boxer waiting for the inevitable KO blow.
Remember back in May anyone…
…the songsheets, the golden flags and Frank Sinatra crooning over the Molineux PA system.
“To dream, the impossible dream.”
And there we all were, singing every bloody word like a bunch of besotted X-Factor losers.
“To right, the unrightable wrong,” we sang, each word spoonfed on a cheap piece of card. Ha!
And all that time, as they pinched our pounds of flesh, pulled at our heartstrings, then our wallets, Moxey and Morgan delivered nothing. Knowingly.
…But at least we tried to get Robbie Keane.
I thought Vokesy did ok 1st half but the fact our next closest player was still 30 yards behind him it made all his efforts look fruitless. If you are going to play one up top you have to have players supporting from midfield. As has already been said, with 6 defenders and 1 defensive midfielder on the pitch its just not their game to do so its a pointless system to be playing. It doesn’t matter who you have up front if there is no service into them there is nothing they can do. The other thing that is annoying me about the formation is if we are playing that many defenders on the pitch and having that many players behind the ball, the least we should be doing is making ourselves hard to beat and not conceeding. Especially not making such simple defensive mistakes. The 2nd goal for example, Stearman got drawn to the ball as it was being flicked on by Lee, who was Berra’s man, instead of marking his own man who then had a free run in on goal. Its basic schoolboy stuff and we aren’t even getting that right!!!
Yeah Ben, the board should have come out and said that we went in for Ronaldo and Kaka in the summer if just trying to sign players is enough!!!
Edward Milson – agree with both your points..
Its pretty obvious that in a 4-5-1 you need attacking midfielders. Some managers even like to call it 4-3-3 – are we seriously arguing Foley is a forward now?! (I suppose the Butterfield experience should tell us anything is possible). I thought Foley was the next Gary Neville not Aaron Lennon.
Secondly.. this Keane / Hunt / Johnson talk from Moxey??? Especially the needless Keane comments??? I thought the mantra was ”we do not discuss transfers” .. is it now ”we do not discuss transfers.. except when we need to sell early birds and deflect attention away from our incompetence.. in which case lets mention an 11th hour big money bid for a guy who had no interest in coming, in the knowledge he was a fan favourite and supporters will think we nearly got him”.
Prepare for the Propaganda Machine to go into overdrive over the coming weeks as we are asked to ignore the evidence of our own eyes.
Adam B. Agree 100%.
And if you remember back to Spurs away, in the run-up to the game MM was asked if he would be interested in Keane as he wasn’t playing for Spurs at the time.
He laughed it off (in an obligatory Yorkshire quip) and said he would love him, but we would need to win the lottery first. (or words to that effect)
How then, could we not afford Robbie in Nov, but could miraculously afford him at 4pm on February 1?
And if Keane had stayed at Spurs all along, would we have come out and publicly stated how we tried to get him?
How people keep buying into the spin I don’t know.
Ben, you did a good blog on this the other day, but I can’t help but revisit it.. some rafa-style facts for everyone….
ON SPENDING:
Moxey (March 2009): “If you look at West Brom, they’ve spent good money and they’re currently bottom of the league. Maybe they’re not paying enough to their players or getting the right quality in. Stoke have spent quite a bit of money, but probably not enough. While all these clubs have a fighting chance of staying up, having been there and spoken to people in the Premier League, it’s fair to say money is the be-all and end-all. So you’ve got to be competitive.”
The Guardian (March 2009): ”[Jeremy] Peace went on to mention that Albion spent £24m last summer, a figure that is near enough the same as Stoke’s outlay and a fair bit more than Hull’s”
Moxey (November 2009): “The wage structure is adequate for the type of players that we have been trying to attract. Scott Dann was not a player with Premiership experience. We were not prepared to sign him when he was in our building having a medical taking phonecalls from another manager – wanting to perhaps consider his options at that stage. If we are in that situation with a player like that, quite frankly – we are quite happy to stand our ground on this particular point. We don’t want that sort of player.”
ON EXPERIENCE
Moxey (June 2009): ”We intend to add Premier League experience. We all recall the important job players like Ince and Irwin did for us in the Premiership”.
Moxey (August): “I think we have done what we set out to do and what we wanted to do. Once again we have fulfilled our mission statement for the summer without question. Generally there’s a real sense of satisfaction that we’ve delivered with what we’ve done.”
Moxey (November 2009): “Of course the lack of Premier League experience is an issue. It was not only looked at, it has been discussed publicly by Mick McCarthy and myself. It is right that we did not get enough experience in, but it wasn’t through the want of trying.”
Does Jez not realise his ploys are totally transparent? Cannot wait for the early bird email. A big price hike will be a PR disaster
I have watched the team on & off for 50years last nights wasn’t the worst but l thought we are supposed to play football with the ephasis on foot!!!!!ball we were playing head the ball see how long we can keep it up. When will people learn that control of the ball comes with the art of passing the ball along the ground to their team mates and not as last nights show case in the air to the opposing side. If that is the way we are going to play ahho its down we go again, I’m not a season ticket holder can’t afford it but those that are will again pay up when asked for their contribution to get us up again next season because as sure as day follows night on last nights play thats exactley what will be asked.
Further what sort of idiots follow the Wolves l hope it isn’t the examples that turned out for us on the box in their summer attire?
Adam. BRAVO!!!!!
I really can’t add any more to that.
Apart from….After castigating Hoddle in his now infamous programme notes in 07, do you know he phoned the E & S up and demanded that a fictitious back page poll was set up to find the next Wolves manager, DESPITE Hoddle still being in a job. (the fans wanted John Gregory allegedly)
Just months later he tells us that he begged Hoddle not to leave, when he received a call in West Park from him.
He also gagged Dave Jones from ever talking about our Premier League campaign. (wonder what went on there then)
And best of all, he prompted Colin Lee to call Radio WM to deny Moxey’s point blank allegation that Lee was keen on selling Akinbiyi.
Lee had to call a live radio station to say that was false. A week or two later he was sacked. (what manager has ever been compelled to do that before?)
There’s a history of his lies and deception, yet half the fans praise him for not replicating the Bhattis and making us ‘stable.’ This despite SJH writing off £40m of debt when he left.
If MM is sacked any time soon (stands a chance) any right minded manager should think long and hard before stepping into the hot seat, with Moxey looking down.
GREASY WEASEL OUT!
Ben, the “debt” SJH wrote off would have been to himself, given to the club in the form of loans – it’s what Abramovich does with Chelsea, loaning the club money but never expecting it back.
Most managers sign a confidentiality clause when they leave a club; I doubt Jones was “gagged” from talking about the Premier League season (I don’t recall the writs flying when he wrote his autobiography, do you?)
The Colin Lee thing was despicable on Moxey’s part; I always felt sorry for Lee, as he was never really given a chance. As was Moxey’s plea with Hoddle to stay (I’d have said “thank you very much, now we don’t have to pay off your contract”).
I’m just going to take a lie down while I recover from the thought of John Gregory as Wolves manager…
Neil, It took Paul Butler to confirm that Dave Jones wanted to give him a two year contract but it was Moxey who blocked it whilst simultaneously claiming that it was Jones’ decision.
We’ve not been let down so much as raped by the Fat Controller and its just a shame that it takes a bunch of amateur bloggers on here to expose him while the professional ‘journalists’ at the E&S and Radio WM pander to his every whim.
I’m gonna burn my Early Bird reminder outside the main entrance (hope the pork bap van is there). Anyody fancy joining me?
Message for Scooped
Not only will I join you mate but I might even buy the pork baps and you can bring the matches.
Whats going on?!?!?!?
Last year we’d have gone to places like Selhurst Park and come away with a convincing win, or at least a decent account of ourselves. Yet we’ve ‘Strengthened’ …….scuse me while i stop laughing…… our squad for our crack at the top level. Wheres all the money that was promised and experienced premiership names?
All i’ve seen are hopeless signings and dodgy management!
I’ve always tried to be optimistic but last night was too big a blow!
We need somethings sorting and sharpish Mr Morgan!!
It was piss poor last night tbh. How can we have pretty much no chances against Palace? Incredicble, at this rate Blues will roll us over. By the way Karl Henry should shoot more often!
Fear of a backlash here but we did try to bring players in. 5 mill for Hunt which was over the odds, 70 grand a week for Keane. Hull didn’t want to sell and Keane didn’t want to come. Ok, we should have got someone, but did the 3 teams below us strenghten their squads?
Rich you make a very sensible point about the teams below us not particularly strengthening, although immediately above us Bolton got Wilshere, West Ham got Mccarthy and Mido, and Wigan got Moses. All of which makes me think they will score even more goals than us in the remainder of the season than they have done thus far.
However, I for one am proud of Wolves’ low wage budget and solid stance on not getting sucked in to giving already overpaid footballers even more stupid money – especially unproven players like Dann. If the fans and the history aren’t enough to make a player sign then I’m not sure I want them.
Back to the originial article, last night was utter dross. I really cannot see any reason for me to be optimistic about going to Birmingham on Sunday. Maybe bring Castillo back in to give the midfield some substance? It seems harsh he’s had such a long run out of the team.
I am no fan of the Fat Controller at all, in fact the day we “stole” him from Stoke I could have predicted bad things. The guy is a scam artist. He’s on a huge wage and runs the club to serve himself first. I mean take a look at him – who the f**k uses grease on their hair to slick it back???
However, in relation to our lack of signings, I can understand why we haven’t signed anyone of note in the window. Take a look at us, we are easily the worst team in this division by a country mile. We have no spine to the team. We have one player of quality who gives his all every game but is surrounded by mediocrity. If you were an aspiring Championship player, or a stable Premiership player, why would you want to come to Wolves? Chances are you’d warm the bench or you’d be played out of position. Not only that you’d be in a relegation dogfight without much chance of succeeding!
Yesterday we played 4 centre halves in the back 4, we played our best right back in midfield alongside another centre half. We played a midfielder who couldn’t get a game in Stoke City’s Championship side an unknown Belgian who looked every bit the disaster we’ve become so used to signing and one creative midfielder who was described as having such a sweet left foot its ridiculous – trouble is he can’t hold the ball nor can he tackle and he has all the pace of a one legged millipede. Up front we had a striker who whilst recently out on loan in League One was described as average to poor. So is it any wonder we got beat? I could have predicted it after the last debacle against Palace.
We play Birmingham on Saturday and with their power, pace, passing and movement I’ll be happy if we concede less than 5!
We will be in the bottom 3 after this weekend, and that’s where we will stay for the remainder of the season. I don’t think we’ll finish bottom as Pompey are due a 10 point deduction pretty soon – but that’s the only reason.
I hope Doyle has a get out clause in his contract and signs for a club worthy of his ability – I, for one, am truly embarrassed for Kevin Doyle – he should be playing for a top team not the shite team he is in at the moment!
agree with much of what has been said already, that was truly an abysmal performance and worthy of a sacking much like was inflicted on jones after gillingham
he’s taken wolves as far as he can and new leadership and new ideas are required to keep us in the premiership
Rob
And just who does our ‘low wage bill’ policy refer to mate? Does that include Moxey who was paid a staggering £2.1 MILLION bonus following our promoton in 2003.
Apparantly there’s no wage cap for our C.E.O.
And if you think Bham paid ‘stupid money’ for Scott Dann I guess you have a point. It was STUPIDLY CHEAP!!!! So cheap that Alan Hansen described the combined packages for the ‘unproven’ Dann and Johnson as “TWO AND SIXPENCE’!
According to the proven liar Moxey, we offered £70k a week to loan Robbie Keane (yes, of course we did) so what price the wage cap had that gone through? You’d have opposed that deal I assume.
I’m just approaching the window from this sort of logic:
1) There is significant money in the bank – We offered 7m for a player (Johnson).
2) There is no wage cap – We offered 70k per week for a player (Keane).
3) We were unable to make any significant signings in the window.
We all know money makes the world go round, so are we seriously saying there isn’t a single player on the planet who we could have got that would improve on what we saw at Selhurst Park?
I fear that in time we will all look back on this window as being a turning point for the worse in the club’s history – another opportunity missed.
Point taken about the Moxey bonus, agree with you that’s pretty sickening. I also agree with you that Dann and Johnson have been revelations this year, but they weren’t stupidly cheap. Johnson was £5 million and Dann undisclosed but estimated to be about £4 million. Cheap for Chelsea perhaps but not for us.
Finally, while I would have loved to see Robbie back at Wolves £70k a week is just a daft amount of money to pay anyone to play football. How fans can end up thinking players deserve that money is beyond me.
much food for thought, and great blogging. but when the dust has begun to settle on the abysmal selhurst park display, and the farce that was the transfer window, shoudnt we be asking, ‘ who decided to buy all these players that have supposedly strengthened the championship winning squad?’ and on what grounds?
the list of failures is endless; maierhoffer, surman, halford, castillo, 2 unknowns from belgium etc etc. and the number of workhorse players in the first team squad is frighteningly depressing. we know that, in the true MM style, everyone will roll up their sleeves and work harder, but whats that without quality in the premiership?
somebody tell me that we won’t be scrabbling around in the bottom five for the rest of the season. Please !!!
The one point I feel everyone has omitted to mention.
McCarthy is, in my humble opinion from Texas, a coward.
He bottled against United when they were going thru a bad patch, we could have won up there easily. Oh, I forgot, our players cannot perform twice a week, unlike the rest of the premiership.
He bottled against Liverpool, who were there to get beaten, and we were in fact better than them in the second half, but, no, we didnt go for the jugular, just settled for the unexpected point.
He bottled against Hull, getting Volkes ready before we equalized, then again settling for the point when we could have stuffed them.
Hull gain extra confidence from not losing to us and then get another point off Chelsea, which will no doubt vastly increase their confidence for the rest of the season, when we should now be several points clear of them.
I have not seen many of our games this year, “soccer” is not the most popular of sports in this land of philistines ( who can get excited about overweight men spitting tobacco juice while playing rounders in their pyjamas and 300 pound pigs in body armor trying to kill each other and calling it football ?) but what I have seen ……………………….leads straight back to the glory days of the championship, again.
I have not seen any bad language on this site, but I dont give a shit any more, Moxey and McCarthy you are both past your sell by date, now kindly fuck off so we have a chance of staying up.
Keep up the great blog Ben………….yer Dad paid me to say that.
Moxey reckon we did try and sign RK… yeah right…I’d say any old garbage to start pushing the early birds. No-one falls for your spin anymore you daft pillock
Clive…nicely put, and totally agree
Chaps
Agree with most of the things being said on this thread and feel MM has lost the plot with his team selections and formations.
I would like to add into the mix one thing I dont think has been mentioned so far and that is the level and standard of our scouting network. From what I can gather this is a one man band (Taff – forever living off Michael Kightly- Evans!)
I believe we have ‘people’ somehow affiliated to the club who pass on information in a couple of targetted countries but thats about the extent of our network.
It is no wonder that we make signings of the level that we do.
It would be nice for Mick to come out and explain the process he goes through before signing a player or does he rely on the word of his best mate and chief scout.
Where are our ‘noses’ in South America looking for quality and creativity, what links do we have in Eastern Europe for a snotter, who is in Africa looking at the next brick outhouse who is going to run box to box, where is the winning mentality and steel from Germany. Or is a sunday park in Dublin and a coffee house in Belgium the beginning and end of it.
PS if anyone thought that Robbie Keane or Adam Johnson were coming to Molineux then keep dancing with the fairies. Our transfer policy is non sensical to put it politely!
Dazza – great to hear someone else sl@g Millijas off, I thought it was just me.
This bloke has absolute quality from dead ball situations, but (and it’s a big but!) does too little in open play. I expect more from an international signing – this bloke is going to the world cup for f**ks sake!
Trouble is no one else seems able to hit a killer pass so that is the only reason I can see for keeping him in the team.
As for the Robbie Keane stuff – stinks of when Doug Ellis “tried to sign” Shearer by putting in a bid less that Newcastle just to silence the Villa fans calling for a big name signing.
Like Hunt and the fella from Boro – we never really had a chance of signing either. Hunt – Hulls best player, only just singed for them, Johnson attracting interest from Chelsea and Man City.
Get real – the whole transfer window was a sham. If we had signed them MM would have played them out of position anyway.