Becoming a millionaire, travelling the world and being mortgage free…
…They are just three of 50 things we all dream about but rarely ever achieve, according to the Daily Express.
If they’d have conducted the poll in the WV1 postcode, the wish-list might have featured less materialism and more modesty.
A vision of a few weathered souls springs to mind, who plead for their football club to be resuscitated from its interminable state of unconsciousness.
Foley losing possession; Doyle treading on the ball; Berra getting caught; Ward giving possession away; Ebanks-Blake isolated.
The same old losers, making the same old errors, failing to register a meaningful shot on goal all game.
If there’s even a molecule of energy left in a poor supporter’s soul to scratch his/her head, Jez Moxey will soon take aim with his tranquiliser gun of soundbites to force them back to sleep.
In every way, this soporific, pathetic football team is the very epitome of a club that makes absurdity an art form.
On the pitch we have a right back playing right midfield.
Off the pitch we have no money to strengthen despite an embarrassment of riches (and a fabled treasure chest).
On the pitch we have two immobile, wretched strikers incapable of fashioning a single chance.
Off the pitch Dean Saunders says they’re the best in the league.
On the pitch we have no discernible quality anywhere across it.
Off the pitch we need to offload a drove of donkeys – who nobody wants – to ‘bring a couple in.’
And if all that wasn’t enough, one manager is sacked after six months in place of another who needs two years.
If nothing in black and white makes sense, then what rationality for black and gold, against a team who are supposedly poor?
If Steve Morgan’s boundless levels of idiocy are anything to go by, then don’t expect it to change either. If you’re not already unconscious, then don’t even dream.
Picture becoming a millionaire, travelling the world and being mortgage free instead.
it’s all about attainable ambitions
I predicted a draw and got it – i’m delighted!
A few people said draw after I laid the bait.
I’d say it’s all about nullifying ambition and aspiration full stop.
Your right the only ambition Morgans has got is the make as much money as he can out of Wolves and the people, and land in Wolverhampton I even think this owner is worse than the Bhatti brothers they were also only interested in making money out of land deals. Cracking article but as supporters and fans where do we go from here, do we keep turning up come what may some people would say if your a true fan you do and I have in the past but watching something you love and care about being dismantled and plundered stripped of all it’s dignity I don’t know anymore . I supporters should start to think about making there feelings know via a Pertiction boycott club shop demonstrate outside main entrance before and after game call for Morgan to sell up, what’s that going to achieve the answer is I don’t know but it will let Morgan know we don’t want him ruining our football club, that would be a start
It all comes down to some funds to get rid of dross and bring in players that are footballers
in the purest sense.
Make no mistake if nothing happens we are looking down the barrel of relegation.
12 days left and counting………..
it seems to me that M and M like the idea of below half-way mediocrity, don’t have to pay the wages that goes with ambition. Foley , ward, berra , henry et al are way past there sell by date. Morgan and Moxey are the Bhatti Bros in disguise.
The difference is that the Bhatti Bros were trying to asset strip the club – M and M are just making Laurel and Hardy look competent. “Another fine mess you’ve got me in Stanley (Steve)”.
Its about time Doyle gets dropped or even leaves the club. We have been carrying him for to long now.
My solution: Steve Morgan to pay off the remainder of some contracts with the huge abundance of cash he pretends he doesn’t have. It’s Saunders’ only chance to avoid becoming another miserable statistic.
Funnily enough, he did just this with Nenad Milijas – a player with more talent in his scrotal sack than the 11 on show today. Ahh the logic eh?
Different rules for this lot of losers. Different financial rules full stop.
I am as exasperated with the charade as you are Ben.
Get rid of the losers, Doyle, Blake,Ward, Foley, Berra, Stearman, they are past their sell by date.
Terminate their contracts and get in some new blood.
Also get rid of Moxey…
really hard to take but i suppose till players move on we cant be sure what to expect….dark days indeed..
They went for the draw, they got the draw – WAY too negative but I can only hope this is still Dean Saunders feeling out the team and that it won’t be the norm further down his time here as Wolves manager! Crap game but a point’s a point even if a better team would have beaten us!
Peszko at least looks bright – want him to start next game if he can!
You’re missing the point entirely. Wayhay, let’s flop our nobs out because we sneaked a point against one of the worst home teams in the league. So what? So what if we’d won? Is this the sum of your expectation? Is this what you support a football team for?
It ceases to matter when our chairman speaks loudest only at the unveiling of a Compton show home. (see E&S website for further information)
When a manager says he has to sell to find enough cash to bring players in.
When a CEO gets £2.5 million for 2 years of incompetence.
When a new stand grimaces alongside swathes of Benham BMW tarpaulin.
The whole place, from top to bottom, stinks.
To dream the impossible dream sang Jez Moxey, after thrusting uncouth song cards in our faces.
To dream? There’s the rub!
I dream that an aching chasm between a gutless, lying owner and an ever dwindling fan base can one day close.
Drawing 0-0 amid the backdrop? It assumes as much relevance as a Coronation Street storyline.
Ben your summary is spot on from my following of the game on BBC text.
A shambles, 54% possession and 2 shots.
Why play Blake and Doyle, with Cassidy and Sigudarson on the bench?
At least the latter two are not used to losing most games.
Foley, Davis and Henry in midfield? –
Come back Edwards all is forgiven!
My fear is that Ståle’s imports will not get a decent chance under Saunders.
I doubt very much whether there will be any transfer activity, in or out.
Maybe Moxey might sell Sako to a Premiership club.
Am offline for 10 days as I am moving!
Will miss the blog, let’s hope our next match is a victory!
Ben your disillusion is fully justified and is difficult to answer. I certainly didnt flop my knob out on the final whistle. Having said that my expectations as a football fan have long since been tempered by a realism and a cynical knowledge of how it all works.
I never said I was happy with the performance – we could have won that game but we never even tried, we just went for the draw like I said! That we got the point and that we got the clean sheet are the only positives really!
Fantastic report Ben .. highlighting the priorities of the pricks at the top of our once great club. The milking of fans cash to line greasels pockets. How anyone can justify Moxeys incompetence beggars belief. To earn that much money and manage with complete and utter failure of responsibilities only serves to show how much they are treating the fans with total contempt. Oh . please don’t flop your knob on Sat mate ..
Take your microscope, just in case!!
Clive .. LIKE IT … (the comment that is) .. I think BEN might be thinking of becoming the next Erica Rowe.
Earlier this week DS issued a 10 goal target to Blake and Doyle, perhaps a 10 shot target would be more appropriate after today’s performance; just 2 shots in 90 minutes is not good enough not even if we were just playing for a draw. Changes needed before Blackpool.
Does Morgan has the Midas touch. It looks so. The myth was a warning. In the end everything he touched turned to gold , and that came to no good – he could not eat gold, he could not drink gold – and his downfall followed . What is the point of money if you employ no one who knows how to spend it wisely. So many times we have seen Wolves try to be clever with money. Morgan has not employed one man to date who knows how to invest in football. We have a division three manager – we could well be a division three team.
What amazes me is that Saunders hasn’t shook the team up. He knows we were a shower of shite before he arrived, yet he is persisting with most of the same dross.
Next game, start O’Hara, Pezko, Batth, Cassidy and Siggy. Need to inject some passion and desire into this team.
Also sign a striker who knows where the net is, a decent centre back and a left back (an actual real left back).
This has been going for far too long and it is becoming truly boring.
Spot on once again Ben. Listened to the commentary and even the WM pundits were suicidal, more than once they echoed what we’ve been saying for a long long time ‘same old, same old’ . I really want Saunders to do well however the omens aren’t good. He’s already backed himself into a corner with Doyle. I think the Berra situation will be the acid test , if he gets a new contract than we know it will be a slow but certain demise for our new manager, and a real possibility we’ll be relegated.
Gotta hand it to Wardy, a classic clearance right across our own box was the most creative chance any of our players put in today. God help us because I can’t see anyone else tossing us a bone anytime soon.
I find it absolutely unbelievable that we have a manager saying we have to sell before we can buy??…we made millions over the last 6 months, multi-millions, our squad was supposedly one of the lowest, if not THE lowest paid squad in the prem last year and if rumours are to be believed most of the squad had wages reduced even further when relegated….Mr Morgan and Mr Moxey are taking us all for a very disturbing ride here, yes the squad is too big, some players will never play or the club again, if other teams don’t want them release them, pay off their poorly paid (not compared to us mugs obviously) contracts and move them on, get it down to 25 and see then what we need….I see Griffiths scored again today, glad we bought him, Hibs have got great service out of him!!
Glad to see the usual culprits came out to play today. Now we’ll see what Saunders is about . …. His next selection is a pivotal decision for me as to where we are gonna be in six months. He needs to bare his teeth , These arrogant wankers think they’re above being dropped!!
‘Picture becoming a millionaire, traveling the world and being mortgage free instead.’
What, like Steve Morgan you mean Ben, sometime to become a billionaire no doubt if his cynical manipulation of our once great club is anything to go by.
An owner who has allowed our club to plummet from premier league to being unable to produce a shot on goal against the dregs of the championship. Not to mention knocked out of the FA Cup by a non-league outfit.
All this while £30m incoming transfer fees, 3 years premiership payments AND parachute payments lay safely in god knows what bank account, tucked away for more Morgan empire expansion. No money to spend until players are sold we’re told.
In the 70′s supporting Wolves made me happy and proud. In the 80′s when we had no money it made me sad. Now my over-riding passion is anger. Anger at the waste of the great opportunity Sir Jack bestowed. Tens of millions in the bank and donkeys on the pitch who can’t fashion a shot on goal between them.
It’s a disgrace, it’s a shambles but according to our CEO it’s a very well run club!
Just watching albion vs villa. We are light years behind albion as a football team.
We’ve been light years behind for a few non light years in my opinion.
Yep WBA 52% possession 25 shots at goal!!!
This is all going to end in tears. Most fans now realise what is going on at wolves, that morgan is raping the club and wolverhampton for what he can, while spending as little money as possible. When we survived on last day of the season we bought ONE new player into the 1st team. Roger johnson. That was the chance for heavy 1st team investment. Not squad investment. If morgan didnt do it then, he sure to god aint gonna do it now. The only way out of this mess is to get rid of morgan. Protests outside the billy quiet, not renewing season tickets, banners and boos. Not nice. Others will say, it harms the team, does the team no good. I say, what is currently going on is harming the team. We need to get morgan out sooner than later before it is too late, but i personally think it is too late.
Loving your post W4E but you’re right, it’s too late. Nobody outside of the club hierarchy knows the difference between Wolverhampton Wanderers Ltd and Wolverhampton Wanderers Properties Ltd, of which both are listed in Companies House. Nobody knows where the transfer fees go, which pot the parachute payments go, or even where the mythical ‘treasure chest’ resides. There is NO transparency, nor will there be.
If the club was sold by Morgan tomorrow, we wouldn’t even know if the club we love has a single penny in it.
Possession is 9 tenths of the law and for the sake of a tenner, Steve Morgan has made the quickest – and biggest – buck in history.
Doesn’t seem that anyone in the local press is even prepared to question this either. (They do compile quite enlightening videos on the new Compton show home though)
Perhaps Moxey’s real skill is in legalised money laundering.
He is no good to Wolves in the footballing department.
Spot on, Ben. Really interesting point about the media. I saw a respected financial football writer claim recently that Morgan had funded our promotion – even the accounts show he had done no such thing!
Is there a scandal at the heart of this? I don’t know. But it would be nice to have contacts on the council and in the building trade in order to find out. Sadly, I’m not sure anyone outside of this blog is interested enough to care.
heartbroken. I can’t believe the absurdity of D.S. spouting on about selling Sako if the price is right he evidently fits in quite snugly between two self-promoting twats. Pawnbrokers have three balls and are of some value to most; today, to my eternal disgust has convinced me that all we have to show is three knobs.
He also said the squad only needs tinkering with…as I said in the blog, expect more of the same for the foreseeable future.
Yes I think if a Premier league club came in for Sako he’d be sold by this lot.
In fact I am expecting it.
For goodness sake doom-mongers, Saunders has only had 2 games, and January’s not over yet. Sheffield Wednesday have just won 4 out of the last 6, so Saunders was playing a defensive midfield, and played for an away point. I know it’s bloody boring, but I can understand why he did it. The likes of O’Hara, Pesko, and Siggy are coming back from injury, so I can also understand why they weren’t risked from the start. The biggest disappointment for me at the moment is the form of Sako, who really is playing like he can’t be arsed, but to be fair to him he must be wandering what he has got himself into. However it is time for him to man up, as he has the ability to win matches on his own at this level. I’m hoping for good things from him & O’Hara, Pesko and Siggy in the remainder of the season… Come on me babbies!!!
Jez its not about us being doom mongers its about the player’s not being good enough and not giving a shite..i just hope deano’s not got his hands tied.?
Jez, Sako must be disillusioned by being the only one with any creativity.
What might motivate him is if the players around him, actually built on his abilities.
I agree about the others coming back from injury and it only being Deano’s 2nd game.
However it was a woeful, doleful performance.
I hope our new manager doesn’t play the losers against Blackpool.
No Doyle, blake, Henry, Foley Berra or Ward….
One can but dream….
Agreed. I saw a better team display at boro!!!!
What troubles me the most is that although under Solbakken they were still playing so bad I would have had a shout of getting in the first eleven (and I was terrible), his ideas and the players he’d brought in left me with the belief that long term this was going to work.
I was assuming we’d see the back of more of these talentless millionaires and would be excited to see the arrival of at least 3 or 4 more foreign gems.
Now I believe the plan is to get the best out of what we’ve already got. The problem is I think we ARE seeing the best out of what we’ve already got!
I’m thinking Solbakken’s ‘players to go’ and ‘players I need in’ list for Steve and Jez was what saw him out the door. (Well maybe a few shit results too ha ha.)
Very good points Gc k w. Saunders was a very clever appointment by Morgan. Cheeky little chappy, very likeable for the players and supporters alike. And no doubt cheap as well.
Gave Morgan a breathing space because all fair-minded people, like Jez above would have to give him a new manager time to turn things round.
Didn’t have time to work out who to keep and who was shit so that’s this transfer window gone. And before you know it the crap’s still here here, that’s another season down the pan and all the doom-mongers( ie objective realists) are proved right again.
That’s what worries me too. Solbakken was after complete top to bottom reform, a total transformation. The old guard knew their time was up, so did they did all they could to get him the sack. M&M saw the value of the squad falling week by week, and under such circumstances Solbakken’s ‘in and out’ list became very expensive. We’ve been here before, Mark McGee was promised Paul Ince by Sir Jack when he took over (we got him eventually years later when he was finished), Dave Jones was not supported when we got into the Prem in 2003, and Mick only managed to add Roger Johnson last year. M&M are not going to ‘cut their losses’ on the old guard, and I fear that Saunders will have to do with what we have.
Are you jez moxey?
Very disappointed in Deano’s team selection first and foremost, our only hope now is he’s seen enough to recognize what we’ve been seeing for the past 3 years and get rid of the dross
asap,then if he gets any money which i doubt, spends it quick before Moxey gets his dirty dabs on it….TOTAL REBUILD REQUIRED .But the only thing Morgan can build is house’s and at a very extortionate price.
Another fear for me is that Deano’s not going to start wearing those rose coloured spectacles
that we’ve been accustomed to.
VERY DISAPPOINTED.
What I don’t get is with a squad of 45 players, why have 4 different managers always picked basically the same team over the last 12 months??…we must have 30+ players who are absolutely awful if they can’t push for a place in this team??
And one left back, that is a striker
I share your bewilderment!
Saunders was and remains a truly dreadful appointment. If I wasn’t so angry it would be very, very funny
He wasn’t good enuf 6 months ago so I questioned his appointment recently. Before I get a load of of diatribe….
It’s what I said a few weeks ago. I will support the team, but………
After today and Blackburn I can’t see how this is better than mcarthy
I seem to have lost track now.
I thought the players had got rid of Solbakken and wanted to play for a new guy called Uncle Dean.
Maybe they just don’t want to play full stop…for anyone…
Great Blog Ben Spot on as usual, coundn’t have put it better myself.
I think anger and frustration are still the order of the day.
Next Game is a must win for me.
Nige I love the optimism but…………………
HELLPPPPPPPPP
Spot on. ‘Same old losers’ sums it up. I actually bet on a draw. Most teams rally with a couple of wins on arrival of a new manager but Wolves are nothing if not predictable. We’re supposed to see drawing a winnable game against poor opposition as progress and a clean sheet as laudable. Given the starting line-up, the only surprise is that we actually played for a draw and got it. We didn’t deserve it by the sound of things, which has been par for the course this season. We keep hearing about players coming back from injury (‘like new signings’) but we’re sticking with the usual suspects and *drum roll* getting the same awful performances.
I suppose we have to bear in mind that Deano has not had to sit through this turgid rubbish for the better part of three seasons like the rest of us have. We’re already well aware that players like Henry, Berra, Ward, and co are not up to the job. Saunders appears to be finding that out the hard way.
At one of hie earlier press conferences the new boss observed that we’re not scoring enough goals and he needs to decide whether it’s ‘the gun or the bullets’. Having subsequently declared that SEB, Doyle and Cassidy are three of the best strikers in the division, we have to assume he’s concluded it’s the bullets. So why is he scared to load the gun? It’s painfully obvious to most of us that we need a new back four and yet successive managers have put Davis and Henry in front of them instead. At what price? Henry, Davis and Foley in the same midfield = zero efforts on goal. Quel surprise! I hope the latest encumbent wakes up and smells the coffee pretty quickly. If another transfer window comes and goes without signing us signing some decent defenders I fear the worst.
I’m only surprised that everyone didn’t see this coming. Those relegation bets from 3 months ago are looking good now.
I said I’d give him 5 matches to change at least 9 players from the team that lost to Luton otherwise I’d know he wasn’t trying. He’s got 3 to go.
As an american president once said ‘ It’s the players stupid.’
Solbakken lost the dressing room but from the fans reaction around me this afternoon at a dull Hillsborough these players have lost the fans. Ward is reviled, he broke up nearly all of our attacks, and always looked dodgy at the back.
Only Ikeme came off with any glory. O’Hara, Peszko & Cassidy did’nt do bad, but O’Hara, although he got lots of the ball, & did at least try to force the play, made too many stray passes. Sako was pants! Mind so were the rest of the outfield players.
It won’t surprise anyone that it was hoof ball from the off, a really poor game. I’ll avoid away games for a bit.
I do think we should have patience with Saunders, its just 2 weeks! But he will need to show his mettle now, because it won’t have escaped him that he is the Manager of a pretty poor side.
He does need to change it with a few new faces v Blackpool. I struggle to see how he can play Ward again but we’ll see. I’d also hope he would be more attacking & have Peszko on the right instead of Foley.
The problem is Ward has no one competing for his place…
Elokobi is out for the season
Ward can play as bad as he likes but we’ve got no one else to stick there
Foley can play left back.
Foley’s been just as poor as ward for me. Get Doherty back from loan? Even Stearman?
Why can’t he be more radical & pick wing backs? The need for Ward would then disappear! Baath, Johnson & Berra. Then with Zubar & Peszko as wing backs. Henry & O’Hara centre midfield, with Cassidy, Sako & Doyle up front.
Don’t know if it’d work, but from yesterday it’s clear he’s gonna sling the ball quickly up in the air, he therefore needs Cassidy to knock the ball down.
But no-one’s got the answers. Yesterday’s game was a real reality check for me, how bloody awful were we? How far has the regression gone since just less than a year ago?
To see Fletcher knock two beauties in for Sunderland, then Jarvis put in cross after cross for the bloody `ammers on MOD was sickening. Sometimes the much derided MCarthy could bring in some very good players!
Reading through tonights thread its almost as one dimensional as our performances – all we have got to do to reach the promised land is get rid everybody. When all this vitreol was heaped on Mccarthy and i said fine but what happens next i was a happy clapper, drunk, smoking wacky baccy ect.
Perhaps i shouldnt take the blog too seriously but i am prepared to play devils advocate.
What are thoughts Colin, on what the situation at molineux
Its not good i am fed up of us playing the same shape and never getting in behind the opposition defence. I also think Morgan needs to be far more exlpain why more money is not being spent. Heck there are loads of problems but i have been a fan through all phases of my life since my grandad took me so i wouldnt bulldoze the club.
I am being too nostalgic here most owners are now corrupt and players greedy and it isnt a level playing field. if football disappears up its own backside Que sera sera.
“Bakary Sako handed a licence to thrill by new manager Saunders”? Didn’t the E&S report Stale saying those very same words a month or so ago? Since then, and again now, the lad seems to have done very little.
To me, although we were having a poor run of form under Stale, like most, I clung on to the hope that the transfer window would enable him to start phase two of his shakeup.
How timely his sacking therefore, despite the initial words that we do not expect promotion in the first season of his tenure.
Think of the pro’s for M&M………………..
1.) A scapegoat, although appointed by them, for the dip in form and dwindling attendances.
2.) Chance to bring in a cheaper replacement who will have little time to assess the team or possible targets, and who has probably been sold the illusion that he can work with what we already have. And before he realized it would be too late.
3.) Avoid having to spend the few millions Solbakken probably needed for his targets for the revolution he (and we) were promissed. After all Stale called Jeza to talk exacly about this when the axe was dropped.
4.) Attendances (and thus balti pie sales) may pick up when Cheeky Chappy Deano is wheeled out and with appropriate media coverage and no doubt at least partly scripted words about “fight”, “passion”, “playing with the determination of Bully”, “improved discipline” etc. and people actually belive it for a moment.
I have never been a doom and gloom merchant, and have always tried to remain positive about our great club.
But I said to my dad when the plans for the stadium redevelopment were announced, that it didn’t feel right……That is not where the money should be going right now……This reminds me of when the “New Stand” went up and the dark years of that time.
I know a club has to have a vision and a want to improve things for the fans, and I admire that,………but surely giving us the simple pleasure of watching a winning side with stability at the highest level of football should have come way before swanky new bars and hospitality facilities?
I like many on here am strugling to decipher many of the recent decisions at Wolves, and am becoming more suspicious and angry at them the more time passes, and the more the little soundbites are dropped out in the media which seem to be aimed at softening the blows which I fear will confirm our worst fears.
At present,believe it or not,I’m reserving judgement on Morgan. I’m still in that group thinking all he’s guilty of is poor decisions.The problem is,they are mounting at a rate.The McCarthy fiasco; Connor; Solbakken and now,Saunders.On top of all that is the stark fact we have an extremely poor team.A number of these players have been here six years or more and Mr Saunders rates our three strikers as amongst the best in the Championship.I had to read that again when I saw it.What planet is he on.I had severe misgivings when he was appointed and obviously we cannot judge him after a couple of games.The scary thing is WE all know our team is crap.WE all know we are in great danger of a second relegation.WE all know the bulk of this team must be discarded ASAP,and he comes out with statements like that. Mr Saunders,get a bloody grip.Stop talking about play-offs and start discussing how to avoid RELEGATION.
The appointment of Saunders was just another act of papering over the cracks of what we mostly see to be a crumbling football club. Short-termist thinking at its worst.
The money men failed to back SS and are proving the same with DS, with the we must sell before we buy banter during the only, and now dwindling opportunity he has to change things.
Other than the introduction of Cassidy and Zubar last week, Saunders has done little with the previously failing side. Even return to fitness players which I’m sure SS would have used like Peszko and O’Hara have been given bit parts, and untimely at that today.
Why do we keep persisting with SEB and Doyle???????????????
I wonder if they persist in playing SEB and others to keep up their selling price, as so called first team players they want to keep; if they are dropped they’ll be seen as of no use to us and therefore going cheap – which is what they should be -going asap for whatever price can be obtained. It is Moxey’s Scrooge like tendencies that have lumbered us with a collection of no more than average players, if that, with long contracts at higher wages than they merit.
#hadenufofthisbullshit.
Ben once again this blog is the only light….
Well done again!
Why o why are they allowed to do this to my club?????
Great write-up Ben. Eleven knobs flopped in Sheffield, that’s for sure – never has so much money been spent by so many to watch such rubbish by so few players of talent.
Who actually is someone in the wolverhampton wanderers football club organization that we can be proud of at the moment. Sorry about grammar. Please someone give me 5 names, from top to bottom?
robert plant x5
Stevie Bull, My Dad (season ticket holder), The no doubt under paid girls in the pie & pint kiosks who get everyones wrath when everything is sold out even though it is not their fault, Is John Richards still there in some form? and Thomas and Ben.
See the wage structure at Sunderland is suiting fletcher, couldn’t afford those implants on a wolves wage…… Oh and he’s still scoring too by the way jez
If M&M were real ambitious and really wanted to get back up, neither Fletch, Jarvis or Kightly would have been sold.. He would have paid them to help get us back up.
And there lies the problem.. Cheap, Cheap, Cheap.
Everything about this club is cheap at the moment and not fit for Purpose.
Except the stuff they want us to keep buying from the club shop…..
it leaves a really bitter taste to see OUR boys performing so well when if we had PAID curbishley what he needed we would still be IN the prem WITH our boys and would have not been whinging about how our club is run sooooooo crappily!
The team Saunders set out achieved all it could.
7 defensive players, 2 off the pace strikers, one incredibly talented french winger would couldn’t be bothered and one insanely good keeper to keep us in it.
0-0 was written there from the beginning.
Despite us all screaming at Sako to move he was content to just stand on the touchline. I remember I think it was O’Hara getting into a left wing position with a potential cross on the cards. Sako, instead of making a beeline for the box, sat back on the touchline ready to watch O’Hara loop it in to no one.
Our best three players? (aside from the always brilliant Ikeme):
O’Hara, Cassidy, Pezsko.
So why the hell didn’t any of those start over the dross? Pezsko made perhaps the only true wingers attempt to get into the box and get a ball away. O’Hara looked a class above all of the other 21 players on the pitch and Cassidy looked more like getting a goal in his 10 minute cameo than SEB did in 80.
I want this team playing:
Ikeme
Zubar – Johnson – (New Signing) – (New Signing)
Pezsko – O’Hara – Davis – Sako (trying)
Sigurdarson – Cassidy
Seems a no brainer to me….
your defence isn’t good enough. Johnson is not only a poor slow player, he’s also the dressing room disrupter -ever since MM made him captain. He has to go. Zubar is a liability.
Try Batth and Margreitter in centre with Foley and a new signing as full backs.
Is Johnson really the bad guy? Or did he just come into the very dressing room clique that we’ve been moaning about for months now at the wrong time? He was also given the arm band in a very bad decision which would have alienated himself further from the above mentioned clique. I’m not saying he’s a world beater and I’d bet my bottom dollar the blokes a nob head like most professional footballers. Any more so than the rest of these tossers than we’re moaning about on here day in day out though? And on the pitch, he’s also the only bloke in our entire team at the moment capable of winning a header. Whether it’s in our own box or the oppositions, he’s our only player that really shows any desire to attack the ball. Take him out at the minute and we’d concede far more from set pieces and may as well pass our own corners back to Ikeme!
I’m with you completely. He’s no Vincent Kompany by ANY stretch of imagination but he’s the best defender we’ve got at the club currently. His aerial ability is definitely commendable.
We need a decent, young, fast centre half to play alongside him and a decent, young, fast left back to play along side him. Then a new right back. Not until we’d sorted those 3 positions out would I look to replace Johnson personally.
I’d be very keen to see Batth given a go in place of Berra but I’m beginning to wonder what the fuck we’ve bought in Margreitter. When a player is out for a while with a long term injury that’s one thing but he seems to have stumbled from one pathetic little niggle to the next. As soon as he’s back in training and anywhere close to kicking a ball he’s out again with something else. They may all be genuine but you have to start questioning his mental toughness and his desire to be here.
Agree Morph, the team selections just haven’t been up to scratch.
For Solbakken, that was largely down to a chronic lack of options, but Saunders has had a decent pool to choose from.
I’m all for keeping the back door shut, but why does that have to mean sacrificing any and all attacking threat?
To me it’s a no brainer to send out a 5 man midfield.
That way you can keep Henry and Davis sitting, effectively making their job one of side to side rather than back to front.
This then frees up the likes of Sako, Peszko and O’Hara to just get forward and do the damage.
I’ve seen nothing from Doyle/Seb/Cassidy of late to suggest one is more deserving of the sole striker role. If Siggy is fit, I’d probably give him the nod.
If I see a teamsheet next weekend that includes Foley, Henry and Davis in midfield, I’ll be very disheartened.
“If you don’t perform you’re out”
I remember Saunders saying something like that. Doyle and SEB didn’t have a single shot on target between them so by his own reasoning. They should both be dropped.
Think I’ll despair too should Foley feature in Midfield over Pezsko. I thought your 4-5-1 in the preview would have suited the game really well. Plenty of attacking intent without sacrificing anything at the back.
See if anything changes for the blackpool game…
Doyle had 1 shot it just missed, well it sailed over the bar, but it were’nt a bad effort. But what you say is right our 2 forwards are only firing blanks at the moment.
Yeh, we followed that up singing “we’ve had a shot on goal! we’ve had a shot on goal!”
86th minute we register our first shot. Says it all really doesn’t it?
Players have it too easy here. Good money, guaranteed place in the team – happy days!
This isn’t a young and hungry policy Moxey – it’s a bloody shambles and you and Morgan have created it. The only hungry bit is SEB waiting for Greggs to open.
As earlier post said, we have over 40 players on the books – it is time we saw some of them!
40 players on the books maybe, but around 15 or so of those are first or second year professionals. The first team squad numbers around 25 give or take. Of those 25 five or six should have their lives spared, the others should be summarily executed and buried in unmarked graves.
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Morning all I have just read this latest blog from top to bottom. Looking at the league table Cardiff have 60 points and we have 33 points, that’s how far we are out of touch in this league. Someone said that we are light years behind the scum down the road I don’t think we are that close.
My other thought is not so much how we got in this state but how the bloody hell are we going to get out of it? We were spoiled in the 50′s 60′s 70′s and part of the 80′s we were one of the biggest clubs and one of the oldest, then along came Sky TV and all that stupid money just look where it’s left us.
My best mate is a Chelsea fan and he has seen just the reverse at The Bridge, now quite rightly he thinks R A is a first class knob, all be it a rich knob, who will spend money when needed, Morgan needs to get some money spent and inject some purpose into the team.
In the real world we are in division 2 and on these last 2 performances we are heading towards division 3, it does not matter what they are called this is a reality check. If Morgan won’t spend then why won’t he sell the club. Sometime ago there was a strong rumour about Robert Plant, what an ideal owner he would be. All my thoughts in a few lines.
Brilliant blog and follow up posts.
i cannot dissagree with anything you have said s.b.o.t.i.w. makes depressing reading though. planty would be an absolutely perfect owner and would build a football stairway to heaven cos he has a gold soul ! these two bum chums have left the club dazed and confused!
If saunders came out with the fat one next to him and said, we are going to build for the future. We are going to play some of the younger players so bear with us. Results might not be good at start, but we have a plan”, most fans i know would welcome this and would support him. But rolling out the same out shit, overpaid players that have had plenty of chances is unacceptable. Come on saunders, grow a pair of bollocks. Surely you can see by playing the youngsters will even buy you more time.
The problem with football is that for every winner there has to be a loser.
The Championship has a lot of clubs that are better-run and more ambitious than Wolves.
If Wolves survive relegation this season there is not a cat-in-hell’s chance they will be promoted to the Prem until there is a complete shake-out (and not just of the dog’s dinner of a playing staff) starting at the “top”.
Fans are going to have to stop tugging their forelocks and turn the heat up.
You can’t make a silk scarf out of a pork scratching.
Morning fellow sufferers,having scanned the blog and agree with most,its now clear were in deep trouble and need someone with a big pair to get us back in line ,the present set up aint gonna do that still believe that given the time and support from the board stale would have made a difference but player power and the unwillingness to spend big put paid to that.deano can talk the talk but i doubt if he can deliver would he have been at doncaster if he was a top bloke? aint sure what to expect for blackpool will deano grow a pair and make a wholesale change , at worst we can lose and were used to that
I tend to agree Peter. The more I think about it the more I feel Staale was the new wind we needed. I also agree that player power didn’t help his cause but neither did Moxey and Morgan. These guys have had 4 managers now and they are still languishing down near the dead men. Four managers, same players and look where we are – it ain’t rocket science. The problem is that no one wants them – not even Mick. Moxeys long term contracts don’t look so clever now do they?
It’s a complete fc*k*ng shambles.
I know its only two games in but we did needed a complete change of direction to establish ourselves in the prem – instead, I think we’re going to go back to a similar style to that we had under Mick. It didn’t work then; why are we expecting it to now? I don’t understand.
At the moment I feel there is litle to be said.
We can talk all we want about team selection and tactics, but the fact is it is in the hands of two blokes. I am not quite at the point of giving up on Morgan but close. Moxey I gave up on years ago. Decisions i could not understand, bullshit explanations that made no sense to anyone. Failure to execute the policy, a desire to show how clever he was and that he and he alone had the vision to change football. Buying players on the cheap and hoping for magic wands to make them into Beckhams and prem players.. In my life i have always found if you keep doing the right things eventually regardless of luck or anything good things happen. Likewise if you keep making dumb decisions eventually you run out of excuses and other people to blame and the roof falls in.
Mr Moxey this mess is entirley of your doing, your policies have failed, your attempt to rewite the Football operating manual has failed. There is no where to hide, no-one to blame. Please admit defeat and F***k of.
Do the honnorable thing.
I am now further stunned to see our manager beleives we dont need any surgery just a bit of tinkering. I will give him every chance but it sounds like he has swallowed a moxey pill.
Deano I wish you success but just remember if you follow Moxeys instructions and then start losing games you will be on your own and fall guy number 4. It has to be your train set.
I had it better than you lot over there yesterday.
My internet server was down, I took the missus shopping, and I didnt have to suffer all the crap coming from Hillsboro!!!
I’ve been saying what all comments on this thread are saying, for years.
Same shit, different day.
Great blogs to all. I dont think I’ve read soooo many blogs that are dead on. You know that Moxey reminds me of Fagin from Oliver Twist. Counting the money after every game, telling Morgan (Artful Dodger) “lets steal more money from our fans” we have to make more so you can continue to build homes and me well, I need to stuff my fat face with pies and, I have my eye on that fancy BMW 750i. For pete’s sake Moxey, get the heck out of our club. You’re ruining it no….you’ve ruinued it period…
One of Saunders’ earliest press conferences contained the following words of wisdom.
‘I will say to my right back ‘right, what’s your first job? If that left winger is getting crosses in, you’ve got to stop them. That’s the first priority. Stop those crosses coming in. Second, see what you can give us at the other end of the pitch. Third, when you pass the ball, pass it to a player who’s wearing the shirt of Wolverhampton Wanderers. And fourth, defend the back post when crosses are coming in from the other side. Do those things, and you will be good for me.’
Am I the only one to be amazed that he should need to give such instructions to his highly-paid players given that these are basic principles I was taught when I was playing schools football at 11 years of age ? Heaven help us if that is the best he has to offer.
As a fan who has only missed nine home games in 62 years i have to say the problems at molineux are Morgan and Moxey. Morgan waved a £10 note at Sir Jack and now has the local council in his pocket who sanction the building of houses. when previous planning applications had been rejected. He is using our great club to further his business interests.When you scan the balance sheets where is the war chest ?,where is the sky money?Where is the transfer money? Saunders says we have to sell before we buy!Moxey robs the club of a million pound salary year after year and makes a balls up year after year. Do this pair care for the fans , i dont think so! Descisions made by these two jokers in last few years you couldnt make it up!I have never in all my years of supporting our great club felt so dispirited and can see no hope until the two ronnies have gone.We need to spend in the transfer window but cant see it happening can you?By the way this is my first blog .
Treeman, agree all you say.
What a fantastic attendance record. I salute you. Even when i lived in UK i could not match that. My pain for what has befallen our beloved club must be nothing compared to yours. I salute you!
Treeman that is amazing. Missed only 9 home games in 62 years! Your opinion counts for so much.
Thomas and Ben, i suggest we make these few words the subject of our next blog.
i too think its time for the two idiots to go..we are in such a footballing mess though and morgit will not want to relinquish his money machine whilst his fat boyfriend is filling his pockets…so sad to see whats being allowed to destroy our club.
Treeman, I bow to your support. That is really impressive. How does the current situation compared to the batty bwoys
The bhatti regime was totally different. They were two brothers who bought the club hoping to use the clubs assests and ground in the hope of selling all to maybe developed by a third party. When the council refused planning permission The Bhattis then started to sell off the best players There were public meetings and organised demos in wolverhampton till finally bhattis left. With the current situation Morgan bought the club with the promise to sir Jack he would invest 30 million in the team, what he failed to say that if we were in the prem he would receive approx 40 million per year sky money plus transfer fees received. Morgan cant be compared to Bhattis as he is using the premise of building a training ground ,which he has,to build luxury houses for which he takes the profit. When Moxey was asked where is the war chest he answered “i dont know” I will say when Wolves were in the 4th div they gave 100% on the field. In all my years of watching this last few months has been the most boring football i have seen at molineux. Just realise this our ceo gets a million per year and our players are all millionaires and Morgan is making millions from being owner of wolves . I love wolves with a passion but remember Morgan may have spent£10 to own the club . Moxey is screwing the club for a million a year The players are only passing through but YOU FANS WERE HERE BEFORE THEY ALL CAME AND WILL BE HERE WHEN THEY HAVE ALL GONE
Treeman .. your support is synonymous along with all the “wolves thro the veins supporters” far and wide.
We all in the dilemma of seeing Morgan syphon of all of the football money into his building and hotel empire, but we are all powerless to have any influence. Sir Jack, another man with black and gold blood was conned and deceived when he sold WWFC.
Why should Morgan sell up? There only one reason it will happen, and it’s if someone makes an unrefusable offer ..which isn’t going to happen. We’re up the creek and without the paddle. The only way forward for the fans who want to see us back where we once were is to stay away .. hard I know.. but without the cash cow .. the club’s sale value diminishes.. and that wouldn’t be on Morgan’s agenda. Of course there’s the media route and that’s always an effective medium to highlight the damage Morgan has done.
Depressing isn’t it . it’s taken me 56 years to get to this low and my team!
Missed 9?
Thats disgraceful!
Call yourself a fan???!!!
I wish you could be introduced to greasel and moron, just so they could look in your face and see true love, commitment and unbridled passion for our beloved team, and hopefully understand just how much it means to so many thousands, and maybe, just maybe the light will switch on…………….
My hat ( and scarf) goes off to you, Treeman.
I know its only been a few weeks since we acquired Deano, and i for one was glad to get rid of solbakken but after hearing his post match exchange i fear he’s been given a script by the management and the player’s. why o why can’t he tell the truth, we played shite and he should say we played shite,then he will get the respect of the fans.
So come on Deano man up and get the dross out NOW and don’t forget these player’s only think of them SELVES.
DEANO THE FANS CAN’T TAKE ANYMORE OF THIS UNRELENTING SHITE…
Can’t believe that Steve Morgan’s expertise lays in construction. We all know deep down that it really is in demolition and it is soul-destroying. As for that other fat plebian he can only be the essence of NERO.
Only thing to do is stay away. They aren’t going to listen but they will once
the cash register stops opening and closing.
I couldn`t be bothered to go to Hillsborough even though I work 10 miles from Sheffield. Watched the rugby on sky sat afternoon, mixed with the football coverage, and not once did the presenter go the reporter at the game. No great surprise a 0-0 draw and a point that we may well need towards the end of the season.
It seems we only need a bit of tinkering to be a good side in this league, according to our new manager. Well everyone knows thats bollucks, looks like the only way we can get rid of players is their contracts expiring, then a free transfer. Well I`ve got better things to do with my Saturdays than than waste any more time and money, while the club stagnates going nowhere while Morgan sits on the cash earning interest on the millions going where excatly – not into the football side of the club. Until that changes, some players are changed or donated to charity, then stuff them all.
Everybody just boycott the club hit them in the pockets
This is a bit of a joy amidst the gloom isn’t it? http://pinterest.com/imagesofwolves/
dboy Thank you!
Stop the b*****ds in their tracks. No cash, no fans. Change. Do it now.
Don’t like it but what else have we got??
I didn’t see the match, not possible in Australia at the moment (not until Leicester anyhow), however I maintain the emperor has not clothes. Why do we do the things we do? For the first time since Hoddle was in charge I feel despondent about Wolves. Saunders as an appointment lacks the class of Solbakken, from what I saw last week and read this week (shots on target = 0, shots off target 2 according to BBC, that is 1 per half). At least under Solbakken it was under transition to better days, this is rubbish and regression simultaneously. I don’t trust Saunders to rebuild the squad, I can see us selling Sako in the summer. The first 6 months of the season has convinced me the squad needs overhauling. Who do we trust with the keys? Moxey? Morgan? Saunders?
I am just so disappointed we have squandered what we had, and what we waited for a generation to have a shot at.
I think Saunders needs time. I don’t have many concerns about his appointment. I think he should be OK as a manager, but it’s very early days.
It’s what isn’t changing that worries me. Still the same old players from MM’s reign (mainly), but a squad that is in fact weaker than before.
Is it going to be another transfer window where we make no meaningful progress?
Where has the money gone?
Does Morgan have any ambition to even compete in the Championship?
Feeling pretty gloomy from everything I read…
Today’s E&S suggests that we are now competing with Doncaster to secure the services of Jason Scotland and fighting with other clubs to take Craig Dawson on loan from WBA. That’s alright then !
War chest ? More like petty cash.
Jason Scotland – presumably that’s M&M’s idea of building for the future…? They’re only 6 years too late. Clueless.
fighting over mick mccarthys and the baggies’ scraps … fuck me, Is this the level of our aspiration..
How do we just sit by whilst morgan rinses this club in broad daylight ?? Is there nothing we can do ??
For those of you that can’t be arsed reading the e&s here’s a couple of quotes from their interview with DS this morning. ‘We need just a bit of tinkering around, I don’t think major surgery is needed.’ (I think this may have been paraphrased from a previous interview unless he is cracking up and repeating himself already!) ‘I don’t want to panic-buy and bring a player in who’s not as good as what we have got. These players are good – they have just had the stuffing knocked out of them.’ And most alarmingly……….. ‘If they play like they can play, we won’t have to sign any players, so I will try to leave it as late as possible’.
The gist of the article is that DS allegedly wants to leave bringing any players in until as late as possible in the transfer window. The party line is that this will give him time to assess the current squad and make sure that he brings the right players in. However, the truth, as I’m sure we well know, will be that by the end of the transfer window we will be left with the absolute dregs of the market that cost either next to nothing or absolutely nothing on loan. My conclusion is that, as most of us on here suspected, DS has been brought in as somebody to steady the ship on the pitch (which I happen to think he’ll do reasonably well) whilst going along with Morgan’s plan to rape and pillage our great club and indeed city to add to his wealth. I’m afraid for this crime, I’d have DS in the dock for conspiracy just behind the fat controller and Morgan himself on the day of judgement.
Don’t forget the best one of the lot Carl, ….. I’m not going to change it straightaway so that we are like Real Madrid’.
You couldn’t make it up could you?
Maybe he prefers the Barcelona way as opposed to Madrid? From the way he described Doyle last week I thought he was describing Messi!
I noticed this, in fact most of the deadbeats were talked up. trying to sell or more Moxey Pills.
Like if we say they are good they will be good.
His quotes seem very similar to Solbakken’s a few months ago.
As for the Real Madrid thing, I’m all for havin a laugh like the next bloke, but isn’t he making himself look just a little bit silly…
Please Dean change it straightaway, make us like Real Madrid or even Swansea for now.
Or even Ipswich?!
Talking of Ipswich and Mr. Scotland, it looks like they have released him, and looking at the comments on this story:
http://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich-town-news/22316/clegg-and-mccarthy-pay-tribute-to-scotland
I actually think he could be just what we need to kick start our season (before its over!) Seems the Ipswich fans would’ve preferred to see him stay…but wait for it…they understand the ‘young and hungry’ policy put in place by Mad Mick and Clipboard!!!! Sounds rather familiar!
Something tells me the so called war chest has gone with the solbakken co, with compensation payments to him + doncaster.
Any money we had in the coffer’s has been spent on the redrow compton development.there it is no money to be spent unless we sell.
Sell thats a laugh who’ gonna buy any of our player’s,except perhaps Ikeme and Sako the rest
wouldn’t get in a local pub team.
Deano’s got a big problem with these player’s and with what he’s saying at the mo its a bit frightening to think he’s gonna wait a while longer to make any decisions on signings if any.the later i think.
If it’s between us and Doncaster who gets Jason Scotland what chance do we have. They are bound to offer him more money.
With Wigan reported interested in Zubar, why do i have this horrible premonition that Jan is going to be like last summer only worse. Anyone who can be sold will be, and we will be left with whats left. Crap.
Perhaps I am worrying about nothing.
Personally NY, i’d be glad to see the back of Zubar. Another loser with all the following attributes. Goes down like a little girl at the slightest knock, clueless defensively, slow footed( i know he can run fast, i don’t mean that) and even more slow-witted.
Having said that i wouldn’t be sorry to see the back of nearly all of them. Follow the Blues and put the whole first team squad up for sale i say. Trouble is nobody wants them. Not even the manager who said we didn’t need to replace them when he was here. Interesting that isn’t it?
Apart from the goalies and maybe Johnson, Sako and Siggy, i’d love to see a new manager replacing the lot of them.
I watched the quality of football newly promoted Southampton played last night and the quality of their 17 year old left back. And then i thought of Stephen Ward. And then i cried.
And in the stand was their owner whose one aim, whatever it takes, is to make his team one of the best in the country. What’s the aim of our owner i wonder?
Morgans Aim? ….SCREW US ALL …
‘…Apart from the goalies and maybe Johnson, Sako and Siggy, i’d love to see a new manager replacing the lot of them.’
I think that was Solbakken’s plan….
Unfortunately all he got rid of were the class acts and kept the crap. Baldrick could have come up with a better plan than that. But then it’s M&M who make all the decisions not the manager, that’s why we’re f***ed.
Maybe DS will surprise us on Friday according to The Excuse and Stir.
On the other hand……..