The FA Cup is considered a distraction by most, but that’s exactly what we all need right now.
Winning is all that really matters. Getting the job done.
Luton will fancy their chances of an upset, particularly on their own patch. But however dire Wolves are, there can be few excuses should we get turned over by a side operating three tiers lower.
The Hatters currently lie sixth in the Conference, 8 points behind leaders Grimsby, but with a couple of games in hand on all of the teams around them.
Recent form has been patchy, losing 2 of their last 3 league games. They went down 3-1 at Woking on New Year’s Day.
Looking at a couple of threads on their fan forums, the center of defence seems to be a problem for them. A couple of their players are also injured and/or cup-tied.
Nice to see we’re not the only team heading into the game with problems then.
Wolves
As I write this, I’ve heard nothing about who is and isn’t available tomorrow.
Cassidy has returned from Tranmere and is definitely ready for a game. I don’t see any reason not to pick him. Can you?
Stoke probably don’t want Pennant to be selected, which if correct limits our options as regards wide players. Sako is reportedly carrying a knock and with Peszko and Sigurdarson also injured, I’m not really sure who Ståle will pick. Hopefully Sako can keep going.
I’d expect the team to look something like:
It makes sense to give O’Hara a first start. Hopefully with a full game under his belt, he can come into contention for the Blackburn game. We desperately need a different option in the middle of the park.
Predictions
No PL points up for grabs this weekend, but I’ll back us to get the win. Just.
2-1.
Would losing spell the end for Solbakken?
Either way it would be the low point of an already dismal season.
Up The Wolves.
If we play some of the youngsters and some of the less used players (Cassidy, Nouble, maybe Zubar etc) then maybe we might actually see some fight in a Wolves team for once! I’m going 3-0 win
Hope so I don’t see why he hasn’t done that already in the League he keeps on saying he’s going to make changes I hope Cassidy plays and I’d give Nouble a game drop Doyle definitely but I don’t think he will do that probably bring them on for 10 minutes at the end if we are losing. It really bugs me that Stale keeps picking these so called senior pros above the kids who I imagine are champing at the bit to prove themselfs and want to show what they can do let’s face it they carnt be any worse mistakes will be made but at least they would try and be willing to learn. As for the result I’m torn between 1.1 and 2.0 to Luton I’ll be surprised if we win ?
Stale won’t play Zubar, will he? It’ll cup tie him and I thought he was looking to ship him out in the transfer window? I’m going to go for a similar 2-1 win prediction. It won’t be an easy game though, I imagine. If Nouble doesn’t get a game here, surely that spells the end for him under Solbakken, if that point hasn’t been reached already.
Interesting team Thomas. I think there’s a real chance of us losing this one. And i don’t think Stale will get sacked whatever happens. It’s not just him now is it, it’s his two newly appointed assistants who would have to go as well. We’re in a right mess. Strange, considering how well run the club is( according to the guy who runs it). 2-1 Luton.
It seems we’re lacking belief. Well, if the players don’t believe they can beat Luton, then there is indeed a big problem. Wolves to win 2-1.
hard to get worked up about this one.
there are currently much much bigger issues.
a manager who admits his team, in a poor Championship, are poor. so whats he been up to for 6 months? he patently cannot motivate his players, and the demands of the English game still appear to be a mystery to him. the players he’s brought in remain largely ineffective.
i didnt think things could get much worse after the farce of last season. but they do.
and no-one at the club has the wherewithal to do something about it.
hard to think of any other club which treats it fans with such shabby disregard and total lack of respect.
Hi good blog and posts on the whole. All the players he bought are out, he didn’t buy Nouble or Tank, he should have blooded some of the youngsters already. It’s all such a shame from this time last year, it was now a year ago we should have sacked Mick and given ourselves a good chance of coming 4th bottom, so sad. Anyway I agree with Martin, so lets hope we win 6 nil or 6 -1 and get something from Blackburn and ship a few out and ship a few in.
When Staale was hired did they put in a relegation clause. You could feel that a remit to a new manager at the mo would be anything above 4th from bottom IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP. That’s how far we have come in a year. MAD
I thought the players would have too much self respect to flop against Mick in front of a near capacity home crowd. Well they fooled me again. 2-1 to Luton.
Cant see where Stale has changed anything except taking the f out of ‘ putting in a shift ‘.
We need new players. It’s as simple as that. O’Hara got an assist in the last match and we one the match 1-0 in the time he played (from 60 minutes) :=) In newspapers in Norway an unidentified big club has moved in for Forren, a really good central defender. I cross my fingers it’s wolves. Fulham and Everton are two clubs previously linked with the defender.
I have seen Luton play at Lincoln this season, they have some aggressive forwards
who will be handful for Berra if he plays.
I would imagine that our team will be very much like the one picked in League Cup.
Less Sako, Boukari.
Best I can see is a draw.
Luton 2 Wolves 2
After the debacle of the last twelve months I’m not even sure about this one.
M&M decide to do away with Mick, months too late and then fail to bring a manager in before giving the job to TC who leads us on one of the worst runs in our history and gets us relegated. It’s such a disaster that it could be argued we are yet to recover from it.
Morgan promises the new manager a substantial treasure chest when he is appointed and JM tells us we don’t have to sell our best players following relegation. They then appoint a manager who has no experience of managing in this country, let alone in the championship and comes in after a disaster at Cologne.
After telling us there is no need to sell players we then proceed to sell three of our best players plus a couple of fringe players. This brings in around £30M. We also have parachute payments of £16M and of course, the substantial treasure chest.
The new manager brings in 5 or 6 players for less than £10M, marginally more than, also relegated, Blackburn spend on one player. We are told that because we sold our own players late in the window there was not time to bring in new faces. There was however, time for two centre backs to turn us down for other clubs – wages????
A loan window came and went with little in the way of imports other than JP who has hardly set the Mol alight.
All 6 players Staale brought in are on the injured list – well, four of them are and the other two are tired – with half the season to go.
Another transfer window arrives. It is obvious that the squad needs strengthening, to survive let alone get promoted, so we appoint a head of recruitment, (whatever that is), to go with the head of football development, but no players as yet. Oh yeah, we’ve also got a recruitment analyst called Chad.
M&M appear reluctant to sack Staale and his coaching team but they also appear unwilling to back them with cash to bring in new players to replace those who obviously can’t do what the manager wants them to. What the fc*k are the manager and his staff supposed to do?
The CEO, who appears to have no idea about football states that the current players need to “get” what the manager is trying to do when it is patently obvious that after 20 odd games they can’t. It’s another way of saying no money is available and reinforces what many already feel; JM has more influence than SS regarding bringing players in.
The owner is nowhere to be seen. The manager can’t find him and the transfer window is open and we still have another £20M from transfers, £16M from parachute payments, and of course, the mythical treasure chest in the coffers. We also have a much lower wage bill. I think the supporters have a right to know where this money has gone.
To cap it all, when the most successful manager in recent years turns up to the Mol, neither M or M have the courtesy to even turn up to acknowledge his return. That tells you everything you need to know about this continuing debacle.
You couldn’t script it. There is a total lack of ambition, we hear nothing but b*llsh*t from the CEO, and nothing at all from the owner. I doubt we’ll bring in much during the window which many of us predicted months ago. What a fc*k*ng shambles we are.
We’ll still beat Luton . . . . . . . . . won’t we?
Agree with your post 100%.
As for ‘I think the supporters have a right to know where this money has gone. ‘ There are now stronger rumours that Morgan is trying to sell the club. He’s taken a lot of cash out of it to prop up his building company during a long recession. Possibly its hard to justify doing more building work whilst the shambles on the pitch continues. My guess is that most of the money is still in the bank and will stay there during January as an incentive to potential buyers.
Steppen, nothing I can add to your summary, we are screwed with this lot.
Thinking back to odd little comments moxpox has made, I really do think in his mind things are going to plan. I recall about two years ago when he was bullshitting he mentioed we might have to go down to establish ourselves in the Prem (Whatever sense that makes). Sure enough we did. I honestly think his sole ambition is to keep us in the black. problem is one stumble and we are in free fall. In a way I think he feels we are right on plan.
We will win 3 1
Wow. It all started when Morgan went into the dressing room at the home Liverpool game.
on buying players, it’s got to be right that we should buy at least 3 players and that these players are good enough for the 1st team and that if Staale gets the boot the new manager would be able to use these players. Simple surely. ( Staale to get the boot after the Leicester game if we don’t get any points between then and now) Yes it’s the end of the transfer window, but, A) that makes no odds to Morgan, and, B) the comment above on buying players. Come on Wolves
Brilliant summation of the present situation, Stepp.
I disagree with your last line, though.
I see a Chorley.
There was a time when we would all stand around the radio at lunchtime on the monday following the FA Cup second round ties, anxiously awaiting the draw for the third round.
The plum in cheek voice, the rattling of the little wooden balls, and the hushed voice of the radio commentator telling us what numbers belonged to the “big guns”.
Then, groans or cheers when Wolves were drawn, depending on our opponents.
Great to get a home tie against a minnow, so we should progress, or great to get an away tie to OT, or somewhere, for a grand day out.
Them was the days of pride, wanting to get to Mecca, or Wemberlee as it was known.
Winning the cup was the holy grail, not an excuse to rest tired players, or rotate the squad, which was non existent anyway.
Bunch of pansies now, with all manner of new injuries, excuses to sit on their arses and count their unearned money morelike.
One would think, that with the prospect of Champions League football next season not really on the cards, the players would give their all to try and win a trophy for the club that pays them so handsomely, and to which they are so thankful and committed, wouldnt you?
Dream on.
All they see this weekend is a day off, to go play golf or meet with their agents to see who is trying to buy them. Those meetings wont last long then, will they? Ha ha.
I’m rambling, need caffeine.
Prediction?
Dont give a shit, they are all a bunch of losers and that is what we will do.
The only thing that will increase is our laughing stock, good time to invest!!
Spot on Clive, I too am expecting more misery, our shadow squad is even worse than our first choice eleven and that is pretty damn bad, the only hope is for Solbakken to grow a pair overnight and pick some of our promising youngsters, if he does not and we lose he can take a hike as far as I am concerned, and to think I used to love FA Cup round 3 day, bring back the early 1970′s I say.
Spot on Clive. Can you chose me lottery numbers please?
Steppen Wolf, excellent points. Well done..
Everything you say is pure sense . Difficult to add to your post . O’Hara is ,in my opinion , the only bright point in the near future . He even made Pennant look class – such was the quality of the ball he delivered as a sub at Palace . Still unfit but the best player on the park.
All in all though , this is all so depressing .
Many thanks to Thomas , Ben and everyone else for keeping the spirit and fluttering flame alive .
We must win tomorrow , surely . A scrappy win is not good enough . A resounding thrashing of a non league team an absolute must . Only that can help turn any corners .
I’ll be there , with a sell out away chorus . Anything less than a win by a three goal margin will be another nail in the coffin of this season .
Thank the Lord I shan’t lose any more points in the PL !!
In all the years of the Blog,
I think this post is the best yet.
Well said Steppenwolfe, you have managed to sum up how the majority are feeling.
Great Post.
Excellent post, to see it in black and white is truly painful. The two tossers upstairs are in denial, talk about a hindrance , they will never do the right thing. All we can hope for is that they have a major falling out, at least then the disingenuous public face of wwfc would be gone. Then we can all chip in and buy Morgan out….
Steppenwolfe
That is one of the best posts that I have read for a long long time on any forum / blog. What really concerns me is that so many on here can see the situation whilst the people who could do something about it refuse to see it. Drives me mad. If the club is for sale??? I will give him £20.00 (100% profit ) for it all he needs to do is walk away and take grease ball with him, oh and leave the money in the bank, I will need to get some of that spent before the end of Jan. I can be home insde 2 days to start work and have a team in place inside a week. NOW LETS BE FAIR I COULD NOT MAKE A BIGGER MESS OF IT COULD I.
I gree with every word unfortunately it could get worse I can see League One looming over my shoulder and if we think the Championship hard to get out League One is just as bad re: Sheffield Utd. The one crumb of comfort is I don’t think even M & M would stick around if relegation happened again……… Would they ?
Apparently Stale is giving the players no direction and they don’t understand their jobs on the pitch, so I thought this may help:
You’ve got to hold and give, but do it at the right time;
You can be slow or fast, but you must get to the line.
They’ll hit you and hurt you; defend and attack.
There’s only one way to beat them – get round the back.
I’d like to see Nouble get a run out and also Batth would definitely be in my starting line up but no matter what team goes out, there is no excuse for failure this weekend.
I’ll go for a 3-1 win
we’re singing for wandrers, WAN-DER-ERS!
I think it’s pretty obvious that we’re not a Team and SS doesn’t know what to do about it. You can see the players dont particularly like Sako – especially when he is virtually unsubstitutable!
He signed a decent number of players and although he’s been unfortunate with injuries, it seems that he’s alienated some of the existing squad and now they don’t want to play for him.
What troubles me is he’s been in the job for a good period of time and should have known exactly where he needed to strengthen and he we are, four days into the transfer window and nothing has happened. No-one has left, no-one has come in.
The thought of Jordan Rhodes being let loose on Berra and Johnson is giving me nightmares
Chatting to my chums at the gym this morning (I thought I’d slip that one in, not bad for a man of my age) I was forecasting a defeat.
However having seen your possible team sheet Thomas, if Cassidy and O’Hara start, I can see better things happening.
They will both be eager to put on a good show and they have both proved that they can be impressive performers. Surely we’ll be far too strong for Luton!
I’m predicting a comfortable win for us, maybe after an early scare.
Cassidy to score a couple.
4-1 to the lads.
just who is it that wont play for him? all comments from players I see seem to back him.
But they’re all on the official website or in the Suppress and Smear who appear to think it sacriligious to criticise or challenge the club in any way.
Tettenhallwolf I agree that the free talking press of Wolverhampton is a joke! But 250 miles away it’s all I’ve got outside this wonderful blog that I continue to praise. I think we have to read between the lines and even Stale knows and has come out and said that a number of players have put us in this shit! It sounds like Clive is writing Stales press releases.
2 -1 wolves Depending on who plays up front!!! I’m sure I don’t need to explain the WHO.
Time for new blood in the playing staff.
No sign of MM yet with his Ipswich chequebook, mind you the value of the players he may be interested in is falling as quickly as our league position.
I saw on the bench at Palace were Danny B. and the new centre half with pace we were desperate for pre season. I would think that those two lads should surely play, I mean why play Berra and get him cuptied if he wants away. He`s not worth much but that would make his value even less, cue MM – why did you pay so much for him, and how was the transfer fee split?
I`m so pissed off with the way the club is being run, with the football decisions appearing to be a complete disaster that a win will hardly mean anything. If the players can`t raise themselves to beat non league opposition, then bollucks to the lot of them. A 2-0 win but so what.
I agree Mark the central defence be Baath & Margeitter( not sure how to spell it).
It should NOT be Johnson & Berra.
Agree with your splendid summary Steppenwolfe.
Hermann Hesse himself, would be proud of such prose.
Redrow, has survived the recession at the expense of Wolves.
We are a mess.
No one is interested at the club.
The Chairman permanently away.
A CEO who looks and behaves like a fraudster.
A manager who admits he is so lost he cannot contact the Chairman.
Players who play, with a complete lack of enthusiasm or drive.
‘It matters not who lost or won/But if you played the game,’ wrote Kipling about cricket.
It would be good, whatever the score, that those who pull on the shirt for WOLVES tomorrow, at least give of their best.
For me that would be a start.
This is lutons cup final. They will give everything to beat a once great team like wolves. They will sweat blood and tears to write their name in luton folklore. Our players dont give a shit. They are a disgrace. They were shit under Mad mick when they all loved him, they were even shitterer under TC whi they all really loved, and now they are really fuckin shittererer under stale. Maybe its not the manager, maybe its the players. You can only flog a donkey for so long before it gives up. We cant keep changing manager. Easy win for luton 2-0
I guess we have all played sports at one level or another and know what goes on.
Can yiou imagine what it does for morale and spirit when they see for example that no one really seems to care!
Seeing players who are woefully inadequate (Left back) being automatic selections and no one trying to solve the problem after 3 years.
See players with spirit and potentiol to change games being shipped out for no apparent reason. Addy, etcetc spring to mind.
Youngsters also denied settled opportunities.
No excuses but no wonder they cant be arsed. If management doesnt care why should they. OK OK I know all about the money, but winning is everything.
NY Wolf expect to see The Guvnor attending…….
By the way have Dumb and Dumber appeared yet?
I would give Ince the job if we are going to get rid of Stale theres no way Ince would have put up with the performances of most of the team, he is a fighter and disaplinerian would have kicked some arses into touch by now, in fact I would love to see Ince as manager knows the club, respects the supporters knows what we want which is our team to fight and so passion win or lose and that’s what Ince was like as a player but he never lost many and hated losing. I know he got burnt at Blackburn but he will more than ever want to put that right and what better way than to save us and then get us promoted next year.
Your right I’m not sure if Stale should go just yet but every game he keeps playing the likes of Bera, Stearman, Doyle, Johnson, Ward and the biggest fraud of them all Pennant the more I think he should go I think we have all seen it in our working life at one time or another people not pulling there weight and getting away with it there is nothing more annoying and dispiriting and that’s why every player not given a chance who has left us has gone on to do better, ie Griffiths at Hibs, Cassidy Tranmere although he’s been recalled but for what probally to warm the bench for doyle when him comes off with 2 minutes to go. The lad who went to Forest even Hamil every player and when they come back to play Wolves with there new team the play out of then skin and 9 times out of. 10 score because they are saying ” so you thought I wasn’t good enough a, well I’ll so you ” and they do.
You are right. We can’t keep changing the manager.
I’m far from impressed with SS but I think we need to stick with him. However, if we do that we have to back him by giving him some cash to bring in the players he feels he needs. If we don’t do that then we are basically saying he is not capable so we may as well get rid of him anyway.
I just feel the guy who replaces him will have the same problems with a lack of funds. I really do think we have to look at the guys who hold the purse strings. I’m not suggesting we do a Portsmouth, QPR etc but SS does need to be able to have his own squad – not Mick’s.
If M&M have a long term plan and feel SS is the man to carry it out then they need to back him to do so – NOW, in this transfer window.
Feels more and more like history repeating itself. For Luton read Chorley. If the team is majority the same as normal then defeat will be the result. If however, Nouble, Batth, margreitter, mcallinden/cassidy play and Johnson does not then Wolves just might win. And if they do win … DONT CHANGE THE TEAM.
Bring on the youngsters and let them show the old gold passion that we used to love. Then keep them in the team and ship out the sick, lame and lazy. Youngsters to win it 2-0.
Luton fan here … well if you cannot beat us in our current state then I think you’d better write off this season and possibly the one after that. We are (to steal a cliche) “the Chelsea of non-league” … we get the pick of non-league players yet somehow we cannot escape from this hell-hole of a division. The fact that we’re only here because of the bitter vindictiveness of the FA and Football League is now a dim memory and if we don’t go up this season then I think the crowds (6,000-7,000) may find something else to do on Saturday afternoons.
To sum up Luton’s plight, we let 2 forwards go on free transfers this summer and instead we signed the previous season’s highest scorer from Gateshead. The 2 released players are currently 1st and 2nd in the league scoring table and the bloke from Gateshead has developed a habit of missing open goals.
We actually win a lot of away matches, but at Kenilworth Road the crowd get angry if we aren’t winning after 25 minutes. This transmits itself to the players and suddenly everybody is a bundle of nerves. If Luton are leading by 1 goal with 10 minutes to go then I would suggest you back Wolves for a 3-1 win. And our set-piece defending has, over the last 6 months, dropped to Keystone Cops levels of comedy.
Anyway, if you can just let us have Foley and Edwards back then that would be a start on the long road back.
For free my friend . Many here will be willing to drive them to Luton personally !!
No hard feelings , and good to read another perspective .
Good post mark, a lot of similarities with bad transfer decisions and uneasy home crowd . Best of luck Saturday, would like to see you guys back in the league. 2-2 draw .
Hi Mark
It’s quite comforting in a way to hear about other club’s misfortunes and mismanagement.
I guess that most fans are dissatisfied with their lot – Arsenal for instance who seem to think that they have a divine right to Champions League football.
Get real!
Always had a soft spot for Luton – except for the plastic pitch – punched way above their weight for years. Here’s wishing you get back into the proper league this season……
And get knocked out of the cup in the third round.
I take your point but believe me we are worse, you may be in for a pleasant surprise on Saturday, hope you make it back to the big time soon.
can you take the lot of em please….none would be missed. real shame to see luton where they are i really have a soft spot for them . good luck tomorrow mate! wont be long before the hatters are back
oh forgot to predict score….. hatters 3 – crappers 0
Hi Mark. Is Andre Gray still with you, and Fleetwood? I have heard great things about those two, but they might be the ones you let go? Both incredibly fast, which would worry the world’s slowest defence no end!
What the hell is going on? just read we want to send batth out on loan and Izmail is staying with MK??????????????????????????????????????
id be less suprised to see the pope riding shergar eating a marathon….we are becoming if not already a really crappy club with shedloads of money…its killing any enjoyment that supporting the wolves brings and i am boycotting every game from now on-id rather spend my money on my trike!!
oghad, I made that decision several games ago. Sick and tired of doing a round trip of 360 miles.
The drive back is a nightmare listening to Collymore speaking to Wolves fans who are saying the same as us….Just can’t do it anymore.
That must mean I will see you at the Mol just before Easter then??? LOL
Come on guys we know what it’s like. We all do it. We all believe it will change and players will be proud to wear the Old Gold n Black. I did the stupid thing of watching the Ipswich game after the peterborough debacle! ITS STILL OUR WOLVES! But I wasn’t quite saying that on the trip back up to the NE!!!
The only reason I will boycott them is to make a point to M & M!! But I will miss the Banks Holdens and Bathams though!!!
Once upon a time there was a tavern……..
I think its called ‘keeping the wage bill down…’
If we play around too much with a team who haven’t played together before it could be dangerous – we must play a strong team, including Blake (OK at this level) and Doyle, O’Hara. Not Berra or Ward, give one or two of the youngsters a chance.
We must surely win, but as Henry and Johnson say, it is in their hands, and if they choose to lose the game, we’re *****d.
We may just win easily
4 -o
MM has signed two strikers on loan so no movement there. Apparently he is interested in taking Ba’ath on loan.
Does that mean we might be getting a new stopper? Hopefully someone who can stop the opposition!
Still waiting for news from our new recruitment team……ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
What it means is Berra will sign a 10 year, no dropping me, contract, so we dont need any other defenders.
Always loved Luton coz Eric Morecambe was a fan.
Get out of that ,then!!
Clive, Who is that behind the curtain-could it be The Two Ronnies OR Dumb and Dumber?
It’s Laurel and Hardy, yeeeeeeeeeeessssss…!!!!!
Cwmbranwulf, think its more like Mike and Bernie Winters
i can see the tumble weed alf outside the mol. the silence is deafening
Old goldy had, yeah it’s becoming like a ghost town.
Who in there right mind is going to want to join this circus.
SS must be rueing the day he fell for the empty promises made by The Two Ronnies.
thats a new one alfy boy…where you residing these days? 360 miles is quite a journey..it takes the fun out of it when you hear the full time whistle and weve lost and not put ashift in knowing yove got the journey home..still at least we can sleep tight in our beds knowing hinge and bracket are lloking after our club!
Oldgoldy that’s Norwich, they haven’t any idea about football!
Oldgoldy want to be there but my old ticker can’t stand it-not like the old days
when we turned up with some BELIEF.
UTW
Yes, give Cassidy a chance to impress. Having watched Griffiths last night, I see no reason not to give him a chance as well. He isn’t just about goals,he has a presence all over the pitch.
On the basis that our defence has been chronic most of the season, I would like to see changes here too.
Defeat would mean the end for SS. I’m going for a morale boosting victory.
Luton 1 Wolves 3
UTW
Not really botherd if we win or lose,the thing is we a’nt gonna win it so i would give ALL the kids and the bench warmers a chance because apart from a couple of first teamer’s the rest don’t deserve to wear the shirt.
On the other hand if we do lose then perhaps we can say good riddance to solbakken and we can conentrate on staying in this league that to me is paramount.
In all my years of supporting the wolves i’ve never ever felt so pissed off.
it was bad enough last season but can’t compare to this.
If Batth can’t get a start in this team , when will he, when they are conceding on average nearly 2 goals per game? If he and many of the other youngsters don’t start tomorrow not only should Solbakken be sacked, he should be immediately escorted from the UK by Moxey and Morgan with a one-way pass to a Siberian salt mine! Apologies in advance to any Siberian salt miners who are contributors to wolvesblog.com
Howdy Mark and good luck to your boys tomorrow and the rest of the season! Who knows we may just be seeing each other in Div 3 in a couple years time!
Hopefully your lot will win by 4 or 5 goals and we can officially consign His Staleness to the scrapheap.
However my score prediction is only Luton 2-1 over toothless Wolfies.
Luton 1 Wolves 0.
I really really hope we can win this easily & put some hope back into the side & the fans. All this negativity & moaning is more than warranted but for pete’s sake it cannot go on forever can it?
5-0 Wolves, surely we are due a change of fortune? Surely the players will want to win it for the sell out travelling fans.
If they lose this then yes it is the end of Solbakken, he is lucky to still be there anyway.
Even this pile o’ shite should win this by a few goals.BTW,I was impressed by the way Stale told MM to f**k off and mind his own business.All that bullshit from Mick ‘these players have won championship medals’. Stale reminded him that was then and this is now.History counts for nothing when you’re in the shit. I really hope the likes of Cassidy and the other youngsters get a game.He might even show the regulars how it should be done!
4-1 to Wolves
No points at stake so I’m not gonna bother with a prediction.
Get the Kids in the team and give em a chance they cant be any worse that what we have seen at Molineux over Christmas.
Just watched Walsall beat Pompey on Sky and even they are playing better football than us.
Is Morgan back from his Hols yet ??? Anybody know ??
Quite honestly I don’t give a damn what the score is tomorrow. I just wonder what repercussions there will be if maybe, possibly we actually lose. I think the sh**e might hit the fan and if so I wonder what response Stan and Ollie will surprise us with.
As ever UTW…!!!!
Without any confidence whatsoever I’ll hesitatingly predict:
Wolves 2 – 0 Luton
God help us if we can’t win this one!
Redrow has a strong balance sheet with net assets approaching £450m with limited debt, its share price stands at a recent high of 168p after climbing from below 130p at the start of the season. There is no reason for SM to be borrowing from the Mol in order to prop up his property business even during these tough times. Carden Park Hotel continues to be one of the leading hotel, golf and leisure resorts in England according to the Bridgemere website which also states ‘Bridgemere also owns Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club’.
Accurate inside information is difficult to acquire but my limited research seems to suggest that there are no excuses to stop SM from backing SS; that obviously assumes that he doesn’t intend to sack him.
A win tomorrow is essential, a draw or loss will significantly undermine the value and credibility of all players and staff.
Ledbury, how much of Redrow’s balance sheet, during the past 5 years, is ‘underwritten’ by building work related to Wolves Property?
If there are no excuses for investment then the Chairman should inform his clientele, us the fans.
At least get a spokesman from ‘Bridgemere’ to speak, as they own Wolverhampton Wanderers Football club.
Perhaps Moxey is their spokesman?
Unless he is financing a project that has not reached fruition and he is using paper
capital- who knows what this buggers doing. It’s all a front and he’s got some.
I am begining to think Stale is deliberatly playing whats left of the old team every week and that some of injury bulletins are bollocks! I think they are a) being given enough rope and b) easing pressure on the new signings at every opportunity.
If they fail to gamble tomorrow and pass another 90 without creating enough chances against what should be inferior opposition; surely there will be casualties (on the playing side or on the management side). The dysfunction can’t continue can it?
No.
Luton 0 Wolves 2
I’m sure you’re right – he can quite obviously see for himself how bad the back four are – he has been demonstrating what a poor bunch he inherited, and needs support NOW from Morgan, to fully strengthen the squad.
Steve morgan recently tried to buy out redrow. Although he is a major shareholdet of redrow and started the company, he sold it for a massive profit. Redrow hit the wall and their value dropped. Thats when morgan stepped back in to try and buy it back. The board of directors turned down his offer as he tried to get it on the cheap (same as wolves, liverpool etc). I believe he is now using wolves to raise more money to eventually be able to offer to buy his real love, redrow. He needs to strength his asset base, which would be income revenue streams, ie buildings, stands, restaurants, musuems, training grounds, and limited his liabilities ie players demanding high wages. If you do internet searches you will find all this out. He is playing a risky game as from a financial point of view it does not make sense to invest heavily in footballers, but if the crowd stop going because of shit football this will harm his overall plans. Banks lend money based on
risk. Lending money on bricks and mortar is far more reliable than a footballer. This is why we must start boycotting the games until morgan invests in the one thing we want. Good, honest footballers. Not cheap. There is normally a reason why footballers are cheap. CUS THEY ARE SHIT!
its a crying shame that sir jack never managed to stay sitting at the helm…will we ever find another sir jack? probably never so the likes of sm are here for the long term . football has changed forever but we the fans expect loyalty from everyone at the club…what is needed is wolverhampton youth in the side and somehow a wolverhampton owner. will it happen ..probably not. i for one would love to see it even if i am dreaming…WTID
WolvesforEver excellent post and I agree with you.
Morgan is definitely using the club as an asset, in his overall ‘financial package.’
It means nothing to him, or ‘Bridgemere’, other than a figure in the asset column of accounts.
Anyway my prediction for today defies my despondency and despair….
Luton 0 Wolves 6
Us wolves fans have a dilema. Carry on supporting the club we love and accepting that the money we spend is being syphoned away from the club or stop giving our money to wolves which eventually means stop going to games and buying merchandise ie strips. Tough decision.
This call for a boycott does confuse me a bit as I’ve already given them the money for my season ticket & if I stay away the only achievement I’ll make is leaving a bigger draft in the Billy Wright!
I still retain hope as things can always change & do always change in football. Youngsters picked, change of formation & change of Manager. Its always dynamic.
But if things don’t change at the Mol then will I bother with a season ticket next season? No I won’t.
You do expect a team of our stature would want to keep the fans happy & attract more fans, they’d get 29-30,000 there regulalrly if Wolves were a good side.
Also Wolverhampton’s young people, setting out on their football supporting experience, are very unlikely to opt for this current bunch of underachieving losers. That’s being polite.
That’s probably why I seem to meet, amongst work colleagues etc, more Man U fans from Wolverhampton than Wolves fans. So something needs to change.
On the Manager, he does not inspire me with any confidence at all, my favourite moment from Solbakken was his battering of the dugout! Other than that in the media etc he seems uncharismatic & out of his depth.
I totally agree. I have already paid £500 for my season ticket. £500 that has gone to wolves. What i could have better spent £500 on. I have supported wolves since i was 7 when i got my 1st strip, the one with the 3 wolves across the chest. Too young to understand the bhatti era, but im old enough now understand exactly what morgan is doing. Not going to blackburn will cost me approx £23 already spent on the season ticket for that match. I will not be renewing my season ticket and will pick and choose which matches i go to. That way im in control of me supporting wolves, not being forced to go, because i have already spent the money. You only rip people off once and then they dont come back. Well morgan, you have ripped me off once and for all. Well done. After this season, you wont again.
And therin lies the rub.
They know we are tied to support The Wolves for life, and are playing on the fact that we need to cheer on our team, and cannot or will not get our football “fix” anywhere else.
It is ingrained in all of us that “thou shalt not support any other club” and they are relying on this to keep us coming back to bthe Mol time and again, ad nauseum.
It would be easy for me to say I would boycot games, not buy a season ticket, etc, if I lived back in ‘Ampton, but I know from many, many years experience, that I would be pissed off and tear off all my Wolves pictures from the wall after a crap performance on a Saturday, but by Wednesday I would be singing “come on you Wolves” all over the house, and by Friday evening would be raring to go again, to cheer them on come what may.
That is the unfortunate life of a true fan, and if we are all honest, we are still that way inclined.
greasel etc know this and are preying on it to maintain the hardcore 12 to 15 thousand die hard fans every home game.
Nothing is gonna change for the better until they are gone, which someday they will be.
Be lucky to scrape a draw against Luton with the way we are playing.
Luton 2-2 Wolves
I see Zeli is shipped out again and we are looking to send out Batth…who is out of contract in the summer, so that’s the end of him as well, fan-fuckin-tastic management we have, these lot should be starting for he first team the way we have been playing, but no, let’s play the same shit team every week…don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Can not lose this game, surely!
Luton 0 – 2 Wolves
Ridiculous management at the club sending our youngsters away when the first team can’t even hack it.
The only reasoning behind this is we are making some signings in the january transfer window but knowing this club. I don’t think that’ll be the case.
Absolute and utter shambles. I won’t predict today but I’ll be glued to the text commentary to dig for some scraps of hope.
Has a game against a non league side ever looked so tough? I wonder whether a loss would he too much for Morgan? 1-1.
Speakin to a sheff weds fan who said danny batth last season ( when shef weds got promoted into our league) was brilliant. They were gutted when he left and would love to have him back. We have a shit defence, leaking goals and he has come through the academy, “one of our own”. It makes no sense not to try him out in a few games, and drop some of the existing defence. Ward, berra, johnson are nailed on each week, no matter what the result.
The Ugly Sisters are at the game.
Luton 1 wolves 0
Matt murray on the radio just said he cant believe how many wolves players are just walking around the pitch
Matt Murray who is not quick to crticise Wolves also now saying no movement no passing and no game plan.
Wolves deeply shitty masterminds left early.
where is the inspiration?
where is the pride?
Love this club, but right now everyone associated with it is dead to me
AGREE totally hammers ..im in total shock…but lets see what they dont do……silence i guess
No hiding place now, you shower of unadulterated shit. Resign or commit hari kari, you are ALL a fucking disgraceful embarrasment.
Hahahah, glad we lost now, go sack the f****in lot. How dare you wear the Gold & Black, your all pathetic..
Go get a real manager. Bye bye Stale. Need some bus and ferry money home. Glad to oblige.
What a shambles.
UN-FUCKIN-BELIEVABLE. Morgan, moxey, all the players and for the first time, stale, all of you are an absolute shower of shit. You lot are disgusting. Lets wait for the excuses now you pathetic bunch of human beings.
Total humiliation. Total capitulation. WTF is going on?
thats it then alfie boy… officially the crappiest team and the biggest joke!! morgan should sack himself. ” OUT OF DARKNESS COMETH DARKNESS!!”
Yeah oghad, what are those two clowns gonna come up with now?
probably buy one get eleven tickets free alf
That must signal some immideate changes, Immediate as in NOW
Rumour is that they plan to give TC another chance, some time towards the end of February…
What is a football club? Why support only one? This one doesn’t deserve either my financial or moral support – I’m not buying into this do nothing strategy of Morgan and Moxey.
I’m off to support Manchester City, season tickets are a little more expensive but the quality of football and results will be much better – something to cheer and smile about – long time since I could do that with this club.
Abandon hope all ye who enter Molineux…
Not gonna defend anyone of them, but even without an owner, without the manager and without a single fan the lads should’ve won hands-down if they had a single fibre of pride in their body. “Utter shite” covers what I think of our pack of players at the moment – time they start bleeding for the club.
The only difference from the Chorley disaster was that this was not entirely unexpected. Yep, it’s the 1980s all over again, except that these days I’ve got even less hair to pull out.
Everybody, from top to bottom, needs to be sacked.
There is another difference between this defeat and the Chorley defeat.Chorley needed 3 games to beat us,Luton did it one.Also the players that lost to Chorley were not on £15k to 20k per week like the current lot .DISGRACE.
Absolutely spot on couldn’t have said it better myself…..
I have stood by Stale for a long while. Having backed him to shine when he gets his team of players, not MM’s tripe. However, based on our usual non-activity in the transfer window, I cant see Solbakken lasting much longer. I dont know how much is due to players not performing or wank tactics/inspiration from Solbakken. But something has to give.
i said stale was crap ages ago ..the problem is tis gonna cost a fortune to get rid! its a real mess and i think it will get a lot worse yet. think of all the fans we are losing now as well who will never come back.. i n eed a drink!! or several!!
Jesus, put any 11 of us on that pitch and we’d give them more of a spirited fight. That was atrocious.
Can it get any worse. Bet your bottom dollar it can…..Ugly sisters left early and are now making decisions.
We all know what that means……..stupid fucking penny pinching plans.
gutted but where do we go from here? we thought we had problems attracting anyone before what we gonna do now????? anything happening outside the mol anyone cos i think there needs to be something like screw the doors shut , and put a for sale sign up!
oghad, bet there is an empty WV1 tonight…..Just The Ugly Sisters on one table with
a calculator…..Hope they get food poisoning.
something to cheer about thatd be! pair of arses!!
Just leaving Luton now. Take nothing from them Town played well, showed real heart and wanted it more than our shower of Shite! Disorganised and woeful…Doyle should change his name to Dross! Sorry Stale time for this to end…this is no revolution…
freddy mate it must have been bloody awful being there..it was bad enough being nowhere near luton!
My worst fear is that Stale is playing bluff or dare with M & M. In other words sack me and pay up my contract for the next two years and do the same for my Scandinavian backroom staff. Whilst M & M are waiting for him to do the honorable thing and walk.
This is why I hate modern football. The lifestyles and expectations of the players and management are so far removed from the rest of us. If I perform badly at work I will be fired. These guys have five year contracts and £10 000 a week.
No wonder they don’t understand how we feel. It will get worse before it gets better. Stay loyal and take up another hobby until they get their act together. Fishing anyone?
Northern Wolf….Think there’s a lot more going on that we don’t know about.
Guess some dirty washing is about to be on view.
It’s getting like a soap opera….a bad one….a nightmare.
I wonder what the Express & Star will say!!! Any ideas guys?
Andrew, Moxeys writing what they will say right now. Which will include nothing about
investment in the team……
They’ll say whatever M&M want them to!
I know that maybe SS ain’t the answer for Wolves, but everyone of those ex MM players should hang their heads in shame.
It’s plainly obvious that they are trying to get SS the sack, and they could have well succeeded. That’s the problem with today’s players they have too much power, if they don’t like the manager, the toys come out the pram, just like spoilt little kids, football is slowly dying, and my love for football is slowly dying too, but not for Wolves, that will always be in my blood.
Personally if I was Morgan I would let them all go on free transfers, and buy again. But I’m not Morgan, and as we know him and Moxey will not spend the money, so I really don’t know what the answer is, something rotten is at Wolves, and it starts from the top. I think SS is an honorable man and I genuinely feel sorry for him. What chance has anybody got with Morgan and Moxey at the helm, and these useless players who quite frankly are a collective disgrace.
Moxey is the CEO it’s his responsibility plenty of clubs are run well,,,but think of manager fiasco last year, the players out of contract this year ,,,young and established, Moxey is 100% to blame….his judgments flawed
Guvnor to be given contract till end of season in an attempt to stave off relegation
and ensure fans will turn up.
This keeps heat off The Ugly Sisters. He will get a pittance and will bring in some
fighters on lower wages. It fits the pattern….cheap or cheaper…..
I correctly predicted that Wolves would lose 1-0 to Luton, thus increasing my points tally in the prediction league, so every cloud…
sorry to darken your skies but points for FA cup dont count mate.
What? This is a bloody travesty – I demand a recount!
Blackburn next…….???? No comment from moxey the incompetent,,,this has got to change we need a new CEO now