Comments on: Pro McCarthy

By: Dazza In Brisbane

Dazza In Brisbane — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:22:07 +0000

We’ll never be a yo yo team, we would buy cheap string that frays and snaps

By: Stourbridge Wolf

Stourbridge Wolf — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:05:18 +0000

I think a yo-yo team is the best we can hope for now! I think we will struggle if we are relegated as the confidence has drained out of the team. A lot would depend on whether SEB would start scoring goals again.

Doyle would be on his bike – too good to play CCC football, and the only Wolves player with any consistency this season.

By: WolvoWolf

WolvoWolf — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:24:54 +0000

Having read the above comments, I must add my two-pennorth to this thread.
Being in the PL is something all Wolves fans believe is where we should be. To get there takes one hell of an effort from everybody and last season that is what was done – from everybody!
Now we are in the PL we should have moved heaven and earth to ensure that we stay in it and that meant bringing in the players necessary to keep us there, this we have failed to do!
McCarthy and Moxey have basically pussyfooted around looking for bargains with an eye for the future. Had we been an established PL club I could have understood that for it would have been forward thinking – but we had only just been promoted, we did not have that luxury.
When the January transfer window opened we found attracting players to the club almost impossible, that is with the exception of the 2 Belgian lads, almost certainly because of our league position. Bids were made but all came to nothing and least said about the Hunt fiasco.
Birmingham, promoted with us remember, went about their business in the Summer in a manner that we should have copied to the letter. They brought in experienced players to IMPROVE their squad, did not put a spending cap on their salaries (although it has since been reported by David Sullivan, that £25K per week is the highest they pay) and played a settled 11 every game to ensure continuity on the pitch, all of which has brought its rewards – a high PL position with points aplenty, players giving consistent performances and a long unbeaten run!
Wolves on the other hand, cannot string 2 wins together, have no consistency and the players are rotated around so much, some of them have to be introduced to each other in the dressing room before each game! – Is it any wonder we are down the bottom of the PL?
Nothing can be done now, it is too late.
McCarthy getting the push will not happen (although many of us would like to see it, Morgan and Moxey are great believers in him), so we must get on with the job of keeping our PL place. IF McCarthy will keep a settled team and by that it means playing players in their rightful positions, employing tactics that play to OUR strengths and not to the oppositions, hopefully we can make the ‘great escape’ and keep our PL place for another season?
IF we can achieve those things THEN MOXEY and co must get down to the serious business of buying experienced PL players, offer respectable salaries and contracts AND bring in a manager who can take this club up to another level, for whatever people may think of McCarthy, like him or not, he is clearly NOT a PL manager! – Everyone is aware of the different opinions of McCarthy which appear almost daily in the news and on the internet – and not many are complimentary either!
IF Steve Morgan seriously does have any ambition to make Wolves a name to be respected once again, he should already be contemplating making some hard decisions in the summer, whether we remain in the PL or go down to the Championship.
Wolves fans do not want a yo-yo team, up one season and down the next, we all want to be established in the PL and to see where we go from there. Can it be done?

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:11:17 +0000

I see what you’re saying Adam, but last season we had a formula, a system, a pattern to our play.
We had 4-4-2 with two out and out wingers, a big man up top, who took a lot of the load off SEB.
This season there’s just no plan. We are no longer greater than the sum of our parts.
So for me, if this team today came up against our marauding team of August / September / October, we’d get thrashed.
An example: We did the double over Palace last season without ever looking that convincing. This season we get dicked 3-1.

Mick seems to have regressed to his 08 vintage, when he persisted with one of: Potter / Gibson or Stephen Elliott right midfield to combat the loss of Kightly.
He went all defensive on us with a midfield of:

Gibson Henry Olofinjana Elliott

It is shades of that all over again today, and I do fear the worst for Sunday.

By: Louie

Louie — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:34:54 +0000

and Dazza, how often have you seen Friend or Surman? last season when jarvis was injured and we seemed in trouble, Friend came in and did a really good job I thought. Surman, is about 21 and is not meant to be for now. when he has played he hasn’t done much wrong.

By: t'OM

t'OM — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:58:12 +0000

Daz – Neil Collins was in our starting 11 for most of last season.

Team 12 months ago vs Coventry – lost 2-1
Hennessey, Foley, Ward, Henry (capt) (Edwards 84), Stearman, Berra, Kightly (Reid 86), Quashie, Ebanks-Blake, Iwelumo (Vokes 62), Jarvis.

Hahneman – better than Hennessey
Foley same (out of position albeit)
Ward (much improved as a left back)
Stearman (Craddock is playing better than Stearman)
Berra (stillin team)
Kightly (would be in but injured)
Quashie (Would anyone pick Quashie over Milijas?)
Henry (Still in team, and improved player IMO)
SEB (Still here, out of form)
Iwelumo (Would anyone prefer Doyle? I would)
Jarvis (Still in team)

To say we’ve not improved is outrageous. We picked up a point against Liverpool last week, last year we lost to Coventry.

By: Dazza In Brisbane

Dazza In Brisbane — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:38:04 +0000

But those same players we had last season, are now considerably less effective. Yes, of course we are playing at a higher level, but we never cut our cloth to suit. Might not have lost any players but if you think dross like Friend, MaierhooferHalford, Castillo, Surman etc are improving the team, you are deluded. Milijas is half arsed too, cant even complete a game when he plays, and when he has played, just exactly what has he done? Doyle was bought to score goals, so at present he is the most expensive striker(goals to quids) that we have ever had. Iwelumo, Blake, and dare I say it…Henry , Berra and Kightly, all out of their depth. As I said, a worse team than this time last year

By: Adam B

Adam B — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:52:46 +0000

I don’t see how anyone can say we are weaker than last season when we haven’t lost any players?! And Hahnemann and Doyle have been two of our best performers.
Obviously, those same players have been appeared less impressive due to the higher standard we are playing at and the diminished confidence that defeats bring.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:28:24 +0000

Dazza, there is a difference between Championship and Premier League, i think you need to remember that. Winning breeds confidence. We were playing crap teams last year and as i’ve said already, we didn’t beat many top teams last year, especially at home.

By: col

col — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:11:07 +0000

On the subject of lack of transfer activity in the january window. the time to buy quality players was at the start of the season, you can’t blame players for not wanting to sign for a club with the prospect of facing championship football , Its alright saying we put bids in for Keene and Adam Johnson we all now they would never come, and 5 million for hunt was way over the top If we had brought in experienced players in the summer then we could be where birmingham city are now, the board keep saying the premiership is the place to be , :whatever: moxey is the problem at the wolves.