Comments on: Terrible: Crystal Palace 3 Wolves 1

By: Stourbridge Wolf

Stourbridge Wolf — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:58:39 +0000

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.

By: Stourbridge Wolf

Stourbridge Wolf — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:53:53 +0000

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.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:48:30 +0000

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!

By: Dazza In Brisbane

Dazza In Brisbane — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:45:13 +0000

Clive…nicely put, and totally agree

By: Dazza In Brisbane

Dazza In Brisbane — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:09:27 +0000

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

By: Clive From Houston

Clive From Houston — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:05:43 +0000

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.

By: mdwright

mdwright — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:52:45 +0000

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 !!!

By: Robert Niestroij

Robert Niestroij — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:25:59 +0000

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.

By: Adam B

Adam B — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:14:25 +0000

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.

By: Scooped

Scooped — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:33:29 +0000

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.