If only our hopeless, fraudulent players could be replaced as regularly as the yardstick I use to measure this season of despair.
At the start of the campaign it would be the levels of nausea associated with that wretched violin track that accompanies our journey to the exits at full time.
You know the one. It’s the soundtrack beneath the ‘defeat’ button on the PA system, second only to the ‘drugs don’t work’ for soul destroying misery. I hate it.
By October the yardstick had shifted to my levels of repulsion towards David Dickinson’s Money Shop loan ad where a ‘seamless’ video wall once lived.
It keeps catching my eye as I look anywhere other than the football pitch for salvation and again, it defies my DNA.
But today, as I sit here contemplating yet another defeat with a shrieking violin in my ears, my yardstick has again been upgraded to cope with a new found low.
It arrives in the shape of my Bradford City supporting friend, who sat with me yesterday after I sat with him at Villa Park four days before.
One team, full of pride, passion and no little pace, reducing a grown man to tears and briefly rekindling all those emotions I’ve not felt for Wolves in years.
A law defying, humble team, more lovable than Charlotte Jackson in a swimming costume.
If there was a more deflated, dejected Villa fan than me at full time then I’d have been surprised, notwithstanding my delight for a good pal that has suffered more than most.
As we walked down Waterloo Road for the ‘return’ experience yesterday, I reminisced about the days when I could aspire for something special.
‘Ben, we’ve had 12 years of misery so it’s been a long time coming,’ he said at 2.55pm.
At 4.55pm, he’d changed his tune…
‘I feel genuinely sad for you. And I can’t see where you go from here,’ he consoled, as that blasted soundtrack violated my eardrums again.
A perennial League Two sufferer, supporting a once bankrupt-threatened club feeling genuinely concerned for a Wolves fan.
And the most sobering, upgraded yardstick to measure this season of unprecedented misery?
I genuinely feel envious of him.
*For a summary of the game: Zubar offered a refreshing alternative, set one up. Then Johnson cocked up. Then we were as crap as ever. Then Johnson cocked up again. Slow, ponderous shite.
I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again.
GET RID OF MOXEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seems like a Bahti Bros era once again!!!!!
The real problem is Morgan, he is the owner of the club and has the final say in all that happens at the club, so let’s focus on the organ grinder for once rather than the monkey.
So stuff “Moxey Our”, we need to swop that for “Morgan Out”.
I agree 100 per cent Morgans making the decision and Moxey wags his tail and implements them he has to go as well the blokes got no integrity hes a yes Steve what ever you say Steve more interested in his pay packet the the good of the club as a CO should be challenging Morgan and offering alternatives if he thinks Morgans wrong but he won’t. As for the game could not go I was working managed to catch it on radio. Doyle has got to be dropped and why are we looking a selling our top goal scorer to buy another one who’s hardly played all season, one word that somes M and M up MONEY. We have a young lad clapping at the bit on the bench gaining valuable experience ( I don’t think so ) ie Cassidy must be so frustrating for the kids at Wolves watching the slackers being picked week in week out. I know I sound like a broken record I just hope the man in the sky gets fed up of hearing me and takes pity on me and performs a miracle, Morgan sells up to some one with dose and real affection for the club And Moxey gets his contract ripped up in front of him and sprinkled over his head ? Know I now I’m dreaming it’s better than the reality at the moment.
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Punk chew ayshun woolf,
This is a blog about Wolves, for Wolves fans by Wolves fans, it is not a blog to criticize or pick fault with each other about our individual spelling or punkchewayshun abilities, nor indeed our grammer wot we rite.
If you look back at the previous three years or so on this blog, you will find few, if any bloggers doing the above.
We are all guilty of spelling, grammar and punctuation mistakes, probably in our rush to get over our points of view and agreements or not with our fellow bloggers.
If you have a problem with this, or if you really have so little a life that nit picking is all you can do, may I suggest you go to another blog site, The football columns in the Electronic Telegraph spring to mind, where you vitriol will be better received.
If you insist on continuing on this blog please direct any ire towards those most deserving, i.e. Morgan and his muppet.
If you persist in continuing to nit pick fellow bloggers, you will receive the full wrath of Texas..
Who gives a toss. I’m interested in what Paul and others have to say – not how good their punctuation is.
are you victor meldrew in a dress!
Obviously a mam who has never been in the throws of passion
Morgan is the opposite to Chelskis Abrahimovich, yet very similar. Abrahimovich likes to buy players and fire managers. Morgan don’t like to splash out money and doesn’t interfere in transfer aquisitions. I don’t know what’s worst. At least Abrahimovic can justify his fireings by buying top players of the crop. Morgan, it seems, thinks that managers can make wine from water – sticking with the same defence and the same attack. fire the manager and everything will change for the better. An analysis how chairmen influences their clubs would be an interesting read.
Spot on waggies left peg. Morgan is the problem here not Moxey. Time to go. Taxi for Morgan!
Fine but moxey is CEO he should have t he backbone to say t hat you do not let players contracts run down, it demotivates them or motivates them to dream of a free transfer and all it’s relative riches, not to mention costs us millions in lost transfer revenue….
Very logical if a player is two years before end resign or get rid and replace … That’s the fat mans job very simple…he needs to fxxx off
Waggy’s Left Peg, You have clearly been around long enough to realise the World is full of con men and people on the make who want to own a football club.Steve Morgan is NOT such a person.We need to be careful, we do not want to drive him away.We could end up in a far worse position.Steve Morgan has made mistakes and his communication skills seem to be awful . BUT he has sanctioned significant funds to be spent on new players,the accounts also clearly state he has not taken one penny out of the club from the profits earned. The problem at Wolves, and it has been a problem for years before Steve Morgan arrived,is that we have not spent wisely in the transfer market.I believe money will be made available for new players,but as a club we need to improve significantly in the quality of players we sign.That is the area of change necessary ,rather than seeking a new owner.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
For statistics, read accounts.
I for one do not believe a word that comes out of his mouth.
What significant funds?
He may have sanctioned them, whatever that means, but has he spent them, on players?
No.
You need to check which Wolverhampton Wanderers entity you are refering to before you say he hasnt taken out any money.
If he is so in love with the footballing side of the club, why has there not been ANY activity in January???
Three days to go, tick fuckin’ tock.
Clive, I have said on Wolves sites for years,mainly Express and Star , that the club should have spent more on the team rather than for example the new stand. I have also been critical of Moxey’s poor footballing record, and stated many times that his money pinching ways would lead to failure. I got a lot of stick for saying this at first:it seems everybody agrees with me now we at the foot of the second division. BUT my point now is we could end up in an even worse position if we drive out Steve Morgan and end up with an asset stripper.I am prepared to accept the audited accounts, when they say no dividends have been paid and profits have been transferred to reserves.In my estimation since Steve Morgan took over ,the club have spent a net of about £25 to £30m on players.It should have been more,but the biigest problem has been the no of poor buys,due to the penny pinching philosphy of Jez Moxey.I agree we must spend and spend some decent money in the next few days,but knee jerk ‘Morgan out’ campaigns could well result in us ending up with even more problems.
If Morgan is not an asset stripper, then I must be reading the wrong definition of the term.
Profits to what reserves?
Other companies under the Morgan umbrella.
No, I disagree, the man is the worst sort of owner we could have, one who does not care about anything but his bank balance, and how much he can fleece everyone and everything, thus justifying greasels position.
If he had anything BUT a crooked CEO, he would not be allowed to continue as he does.
Why do you think greasel gets such a fat bloated salary? To keep his fat gob shut.
In the last 5 years no one has criticised Jez Moxey on these boards more than me.He is cautious,lacks ambition,has poor jugdement on a footballer’s ability,is overpaid,BUT he is not a crook .
Is he your dad???
Good one Clive. My old man landed on the beaches in Normandy in June 1944 and he knew a footballer when he saw one.
Well, if he’s still around, he’d better keep away from The Mol, coz there aint no footballers there, except for the statue of Billy Wright, and if you put that on the pitch it would be quicker than the present defence.
If he aint, then a big thanks for his service in our county’s time of need, wherever he served.
They had a lot more to worry about than some poxey CEO back then.
Puts everything into perspective, somehow, dont it?
At least the result came at the right time. Saunders now knows he has to act. I suspect the attackers will get less support from wingers than under Solbakken due to heavier defensive responsibility. So we need pacey, fast attackers that can challenge defenders by themselves and score. We have one such gem in Sigurdarson, but he isn’t ready yet – according to Saunders.
We need new attackers. MM, Solbakken and Saunders aren’t bad managers – so it have to be parts of the team. Blackpool didn’t create that many chances – just as many as wolves. The difference was the quality of the finishers.
Yes but will he act on it , he hasn’t so far still playing Doyle, Bera, Henery, Jonhson same slackers he’s had 3 or is 4 games now he’s got no excuse now to keep playing the ones that aren’t performing if it means putting the kid in then so be it as I’ve said before I can accept mistakes from them when there putting the effort in and willing to learn it painifully obviouse we need change at the back and in midfield and if Doyle isn’t dropped we are looking at relegation and that no over reaction. Saunders cannot hide any longer under the clock of ” I’m still assessing the squad ” he needs to have the balls to go to Morgan and say I need major funds if not now definitely in the summer to get it right . Some how I don’t think he will .
bravo cumpa.
People need to remember that there are not loads of rich owners waiting to pump millions in like they have at qpr, Southampton, city, and they go on and on.
But we need to have a clear strategy and culture that we ensure we buy good players. We also need the right kind of coaches to mentor them to develop, build a team and create a legacy of quality for years.
Oops think it’s time for my medication again!
Get rid of Moxey? I’d make him play. At least we’d get to smile at Molineux again.
Groundhog day.
Promising enough first half, O’Hara made a difference and Zubar gave us some much needed forward thrust, culminating in the goal.
Cue self-destruct, second half no-show and panic stations.
Could have been different had Ebanks-Blake not missed the easiest chance any striker will get this season.
And once again we fail to stop the one decent player the opposition have from doing the damage.
Interesting week ahead.
It most probably won’t be an interesting week ahead, if it is in keeping with the rest of this season.
We are lumped with these abject failures who nobody wants.
So we need to slash the wage bill, irrespective of whether Saunders rates the players or not.
So this means Sigurdarson will go, possibly Sako if Deano can drum up enough interest in the E&S. (Note that nobody is talking about Sako leaving apart from his own manager!!)
I thought O’Hara made no difference at all. He is just like the rest, only with the inclination to pass forward. Slow, immobile, unathletic, uninspiring. A shadow of his former self. (Remember when he masterminded a 4-0 victory over Blackpool in the Prem?!)
I thought Pezsko had a decent game. Again, one-paced and unable to mount an attack with purpose, but an intelligent footballer at least.
As for the strikers. Well…you know my thoughts mate. I’d pay Doyle’s contract off. An abhorrent footballer who sums up everything wrong with the team.
Well, surely by definition if we sell Sako and Sig, it will be interesting? Ha!
I disagree about O’Hara. You hit the nail on the head with ‘inclination to pass forward’ something Henry/Davis simply cannot do. That alone made a difference. He occupied some decent pockets of space I thought and played balls our other midfielders can’t and won’t. Similar to Peszko, intelligent if not pacey.
Zubar was the biggest loss. When he went off, it truly unraveled. For all those who said he shouldn’t be anywhere near the team, I’m baffled.
Johnson makes more gaffes that Zubes, only difference being he doesn’t have the pace to recover.
I think Zubar will almost certainly go, depending on his injury status. He is a sick-note.
I hope Zubar stays, cant believe Doyle started the game, Henry was poor should have been replaced by Davies, cant believe Hunt came on at left back.
I will get slated for this – Johnson in my opinion is the one showing passion and grit at the back, I sit in the North bank he was shielding the ball when Ince scored, Ikeme was also at fault for this goal.
All in all we are in the shite, Saunders will have to pick players on their merit not on reputation. If that means selecting the kids so be it, only hope that it is enough, I honestly fear we might be in for the drop,
change interesting for depressing thomas …bit closer to the truth
Well, I never suggested ‘interesting’ meant good.
accepted leader tom
i just find it hard to see any positives. the “club” are disintigrating into who knows what?
Probably interesting in a Steve Davis way…
“may you live in interesting times”
Utter Shite – A new low and another second half surrender this sick horse of a team needs putting out of its misery.
Thanks for the blog. So Luton win at Norwich and MK win at QPR. I’m wondering if the respective boards will sack Hughton and Rednapp. I can’t see it happening. Last week I heard Paulo Souza describe the Swansea Chairman as a visionary. He brought them back from the brink of going out of the league and now they sit comfortably in the top half of the prem. The guy backs his decisions, especially his managers and they play football – they are the complete antithesis of what we have become.
What do we have? A couple of clowns who don’t seem to have a clue about what they want. They stagger from one disaster to the next spouting crap to try and justify their actions. We’ve heard the usual transfer window Moxey bollox again this week. Are we really expected to believe the phone lines are “going crazy” with enquiries about our players? Who on earth would want them? If that is true then why has no one left when we are told the club needs to reduce the wage bill? It simply doesn’t add up, yet again. Despite all the bullshit there are just a handful of days of the window left and no one has come in and only Nouble has left. I believe that a major factor in SS being given the boot was his insistence that he needed to bring in better players in the January window to replace the dross we have. That would have cost money.
Many will disagree with me but the more i think about it the more I feel we may have made an enormous error in sacking Staale. We had the opportunity for a complete change of direction; we had the right man to do it and M&M bottled it instead of backing him. We should have kept faith with a man whose tactics and ideas were successful against the likes of Barca and United at the very highest level of European competition and with a totally unfashionable club. We should have backed him with some of the millions from the sales of Fletch and Jarvis, the parachute payments and the mythical treasure chest. Instead we sacked him after 6 months during which time he was hamstrung by injuries to the players he brought in. We replaced him with a guy who got Doncaster relegated. We are looking to replace Fletch with Jason Scotland. Is that really progress?
With the exception of O’Hara the only decent players we have are primarily the ones that Staale bought. No manager could have succeeded with the sh*t that he inherited. These b*gg*rs have got 3 managers sacked and the way things are going it could soon be four. Now we are back to where we were under TC. It’s hump and hope at its worst. It’s a complete fcuk*ng shambles and brought about yet again by the two muppets who run this club. They have been responsible for balls up on top of balls up. We stumble from one self inflicted crisis to the next. For goodness sake Morgan, sell up and go and take Moxey with you.
Totally agree. m &m inept. but they wont let go. a director of football?
well put steps mate..we didnt need to sell the 3 amigos either but cos we did we stupidly waited for the money to be spent on up coming players………….watch the tumbleweed! morgan is clueless and the fat controller is tight and greedy leaving us where? looking forward to league 1 . bloody well written again ben.. says it all
cutting the wage bill: Hmmmm let’s start with that window-licker Poxey. And Steppenwolfe I believe all that you say to be 100% true
I gree totally nothing is going to change until M and M go not matter who is the manager if Morgans not going to give him funds to build a new team around the 4 o r 5 half decent players left by Stale and and some of the kids it only going to get worse and I mean the real possibility of another relegation
I couldn’t agree more. I was highly sceptical when Stalle was oofed out and with hindsight rightly so. Stalle’s imports are the best players we have,except for 3 good goalkeepers, and I was looking forward to him bringing in some more quality in this window. Now I am just deflated, just like everybody else. The only plus for me was that I didn’t get to see this game.
Spot-on post.
As an aside – I understand that ‘ the phone lines are “going crazy” NOT with clubs wanting to sign our players, but with agents trying to dump their unwanted, talentless clients onto our generous wage-bill.
Steppenwolfe I always felt we should have stuck with the SS evolution.
You could see what he was trying to achieve, but he was never going to polish the proverbial t#*d was he.
As You correctly say Swansea have a culture and stick to it. We keep changing. It’s clear Deano is in to do Morgans work. Clear the team. SS was too cultured for the apprentice unprofessional board he had to work with.
It’s time to see who has the balls for this now. What do we do? Write off the season?
Saunders was a toxic manager 7 months ago. No one has convinced me otherwise yet.
Swansea = a working model of fan ownership.
This is what the Wolves should be all about, not a toy for a rich man, a bonus for an CEO, or a plaything other token figureheads on the Board there because they are “genuine fans”.
I want MY Club back.
It’s been suggested 7 players need to go. Following yesterday’s debarcle can i suggest a large hoarding with the following information be put up outside the ground tomorrow:
PLAYER CLEAREANCE:
14 Johnson FOR SALE
16 Berra FOR SALE
32 Foley FOR SALE
Davis FOR SALE
08 Henry FOR SALE
09 Ebanks-Blake FOR SALE
29 Doyle FOR SALE
Any offers considered!
Once proud football club also for sale- would be the perfect buy for revered rock god.
Agree with all except Davis. He’s the only one who’s actually improved this season for me…
were,s ward for sale
Definately! but why buy an opposition player whose already passing the ball to your own team! LOL
The fact that days before the window shuts the talk is of us ‘cashing in’ on SEB and getting the wage bill down says it all. It’s come to a point where we must now hope the bottom three don’t start winning. A glance at next month’s fixtures and it doesn’t look like it’s about to get any easier.
a what a load of rubbish would not pay good earned money to watch that as much as i love the wolves ,concerned when deano says only needs a tweek here and there ,deano get shut now or they will get shut of you ,do a stan cullis and drop them and put reserves in except ohara ikeme peszcho zubar &sako then i will go to watch them again
Relegation beckons. I wonder what odds I can get for relegation to Division 2 next season. The 40-1 for this season looks tasty now.
This is the worst team we have ever had. They are worse than the team that were in the fourth tier. Morgan is the bhatti brothers all over again. I can see the molineux estate of Redrow houses with streets named : Toshack Drive and Keegan Avenue. And Morgans vision for Wolverhampton will be complete.
As for the football, I think its all over. This club will never recover. Prepare to become Bradford City or maybe Bradford PA.
mick did an incredible job ..this was the squad he kept in the premier league!
Maybe with the difference of hennessey craddock Jarvis knightly Fletcher!!!! But in the main his team
Downhill from here…
This is a team with too many players too used to losing. It lacks a backbone of sufficient character. It is, metaphorically (though not perhaps in the case of SEB), fat, bloated and slow. Content to take the money, there’s no hunger, no ambition and no confidence.
56% possession, 11 corners and yet just 1 goal and just six other shots. We need a goal sniffer even if that is all they do. So….
Let SEB, Doyle, Berra, Johnson, Ward, Hammill, Hunt go. Personally I’d let Henry go too. Write of the season and give some of the younger players a chance. Start with Cassidy and Sigurdarson up front, at least they will run with the enthusiasm of youth. O’Hara needs time and games. Don’t write him off now, he’s been out far too long to judge on a game or two. What about Doherty? Give Batth a run to prove what he might do. There are enough players in the Premier League snatched from the lower divisions to show what heart and desire can do at a higher level given half a chance. Surely Saunders must know who those players are after managing down there.
Trim the fat and make the squad lean and hungry. Like a wolf, really.
I think your right, the team needs totally rebuilding and off loading the old guard who are no longer interested.
I totally agree with giving the youngsters – tearing up the U21 league by all accounts – a try.
Sell Johnson, Berra, Doyle, Henry, O’Hara (just can’t tackle). We need to sign 4-5 replacements. And they need to play in the first team ASAP.
Why Have 4 managers been unable to change the team?
I cant work out why since Mm all there has been is hollow threats to players about being dropped but none have actually acheived it! instead deciding to keep sending out the same players who continue to let the club down. There is clearly an attitude issue within the club and the players have been given too much power. Otherwise why would we still have the same defense that has never worked? why are pointless and controless (our £9.5million) strikers still being employed up front. a different style of play and development of players will not occur without change. i thought the stale direction was excellent, but again the same old players were rolled out. Presumably cause moxey is so keen on not losing money on individuals that he is stopping them leaving, thus leaving managers powerless.
then to top it off ds comes in and said we need change, then we dont just tinkering, then we do, but still plays the same players… change wont occur cause moxey won’t get rid of bad eggs within the group to try and maximise money. but as a result the manager is unable to gain control and the root problem not solved.
fans get bored, uninterested, dissillusioned so stop showing up. but thats fine cause the players who cant wait to get juicy sign on fees in the summer are still in the side despite wanting to avoid injury and not giving a damn about the club, or the morale, or the manager……
I’ll say the same as the rest of you. We can all see it. We can see exactly what needs to happen.
4 different managers, but the same results. That indicates one glaringly obvious fact. It isn’t the manager thats the defining variable in this equation. The players are the main factor here and the squad needs a COMPLETE shake up.
We are a lethargic, uninspired group of has beens at the moment and the few sparks we may have are being extinguished by the rest. Move on the McCarthy lot. We need a fresh start.
Sadly it’s looking a little late to do that.
If a man can dream:
4-5-1:
Ikeme
Zubar – (New Signing) – (New Signing) – (New Signing)
(New Signing) – Davis – (New Signing) – Sako
O’Hara
Sigurdarson
Subs: (New Signing), (New Signing), (New Signing), (New Signing), (New Signing), (New Signing), Cassidy…
The bench is a little bit of a joke but I’m fairly serious about that starting 11….
I really really like Tongo Doumbia I believe he is a little gem and needs signing. Other than that I cannot fault your thinking. It is beginning to look like that Stale was a bit of a visionary wasted on Micky and Minny and I wish him the best – what a waste letting him go.
In my opinion Ståle would have needed A LOT of backing to achieve what he wanted to. To play that style of football with good passing and possession you need the kind of players who have the skill to do it. And that skill doesn’t come cheap.
Neither Köln nor Wolves could finance that and neither had the players to implement it. Especially not wolves with Morgan in control of finances.
If that bottomless money pit that is Copenhagen FC could fund this kind of football, surely WWFC could manage to move in this direction over time.
It was wasteful, stupid and short-sighted for the board to sack him when they did.
Given the situation, sacking Ståle is the most informed decision they’ve actually made so far as they weren’t prepared to back him. I don’t think Morgan was going to dig into his pockets at any point to buy the talent so we’d have continued our slide down the table.
Saunders plays cheap, messy football. It ain’t pretty but it’s a better fit at the moment with the board we’ve got.
Don’t get me wrong. I want to see some money invested in this team as much as anyone but it’s not going to happen with Scrooge Mcduck in charge.
Ikeme
Zubar Berra Johnson Ward
Hammill Doumbia (sub: O’Hara) Henry (sub: davis) Pezsko
Sako Boukari (sub: Sigurdarson)
Bath, Margreitter and Davis should come in as subs when these players underperform. If Jackson comes in he and Sigurdarson could lead the line up front. Now Boukari is fit also, and he can also feature as a striker. His strengths are pace and dribbling. My
Mr Morgan must take all the blame for the way we are going. He has not put a penny of his own money into the playing side,it”s all very well having three new stands but if the playing side is only first division standard then its a waste of time
Thomas I fully agree with you and i am feeling sick a donkey which probably resembles most of the Wolves team. Hopefully Johnson will get a ban and we can play Batth who i rate highly….
Can it get any worse we’ll just have to see after we’ve played free scoring Leicester……
Saying that we’ll probably beat them….hwers’s hoping……UTW!
yet more of the same old thing,if saunders is going to trim the squad he needs to act now .i noticed that without ward at left back we faired a lot better with foley there and didnt get torn to peices like normal,can anyone tell me if kevin doyle was on the pitch cos i didnt see him what a waste of time and money at least seb got agoal but then misses a sitter we need to give the young uns a go, never mind we go to liecester on wednesday that should be enlightening as they are scoring for fun but we will be without johnson but i,ll bet its stearman who plays god help us.i reckon stale checks the results and has a grin on his face to see that morgan and moxley got it wrong again and that saunders can give the talk but not produce the goods ,were going the same way he took doncaster andi can,t see it changing yet
This feels like an ailing marriage. You can only keep deluding yourself for so long. In the end it’s impossible to keep up the intense feeling of emotion when you’re getting nothing back. I’m not even upset anymore. I just roll my eyes at the inevitability of it all.
At 10 years old, I was a bit too young to really savour the glory League Cup win in 1980. I was a ballboy for our last game in the top flight and for the following seasons that saw us drop into the bottom tier. I know a Wolves side in relegation trouble when I see it. After that, we had the Bully years and the England goals, and the Sherpa Van trophy win, some entertaining but ultimately frustrating 7th placed finishes, FA cup runs and play-off semi defeats in Graham Taylor era but basically we spent the best part of 2 decades watching other clubs get rich to the extent we would never be able to compete with them again. I’d surendered my season ticket after watching McGhee’s Wolves playing bore draw football and losing 1-0 every week. I’d all but given up hope when Dave Jones came along, brought in some old Man United stalwarts and we won a play-off final to get to the ‘promised land’ of the Premier League. I recall a trip to the gents in silence at half-time as a stadium of Wolves fans shook their heads in disbelief at being comfortably in front and steeled themselves for having to witness a Sheffield United side stage the greatest second-half comeback in play-off history. It didn’t happen of course but as we streamed away from the Millenium Stadium, more in muted refief more than celebration, I remember a Sheffield fan pointing out to us that we’d actually won. We were in shock at a Wolves side who’d failed to read the script and half-expecting a steward’s enquiry to render the match void due to having fielded an ineligible player or something.
What happened next? We failed to back our manager and came straight back down. We gave him no money and sacked him for failing to compete with the rich boys. Enter Glenn Hoddle to bring the club to its knees and leave us floundering with a squad full of nothing. McCarthy (one of the only managers virtually guaranteed to get you out of this division) starts from scratch and builds a team on a shoe string that get promoted as champions. What happens next? Despite having first hand experience of the recipe for disaster, we fail to back our manager again. He somehow escapes relegation and Morgan and Moxey pat themselves on the back. Maybe we can just hold on to this money for now and use it for bricks and mortar? Let’s see if he can do it again. It’s painful to watch but he does. Morgan says “This won’t happen again” and you think the penny has dropped but he keeps the same manager and fails to back him again. Another manager given no funds gets the blame for failing to compete with the rich boys. Moxey says “No job for a novice”. You know the rest.
We’re now a bottom-half championship club, in freefall, entering a relegation battle with a side-full of failures with little talent, courage or confidencebut apparently (based on the selection decisions of four separate managers) still better than the 30-odd ‘players’ getting rich at our expense. We won’t be shipping out 10 players per day because even if someone wants them, they won’t meet Moxey’s inflated valuations and who will want to come here now? In the frankly unlikely event that we avoid relegation, the best we can hope for is another 2 decades of mid-table mediocrity.
In the past, Wolves fans have always had the Premier League to aspire to. Have we got the stomach to put ourselves through it all again? The difference this time around is that we’ve seen the movie and we know how it ends.
poetic and, sadly, oh so true
u have to dream look where the baggies r.
That just about sums it up. What a waste of time!
Magnificent wwwebs. If only the club’s management could see, or rather admit, the truth you so eloquently express.
From a purely footballing point of view, something that disappointed me about yesterday was Saunders decision making. For starters, Pezsko was one of our brighter players but don’t forget-he wasn’t meant to be playing until Ward got injured in the warm up, it was meant to be Foley playing right midfield again! He then brought Hunt on at left back who looked so unlike a left back it was unreal! He left O’Hara on the pitch way way too long. He was crying out to be subbed not long into the 2nd half, he was shagged for all to see! He swapped Pezsko and Sako over which only served to nullify any threat that either of them had. Ok to try but I recognised that this wasn’t working after about 2 minutes, DS left it most of the second half. Our forward line was also desperately in need of refreshing much earlier in the second half and we had Cassidy and Sigurdusson sat on the bench. Despite needing an equaliser he left it until 5 mins left to make his double sub! I didn’t think we were getting a tactical genius in Dean Saunders but I thought he might be someone that would do the basics right. After yesterday, I’m left questioning whether he’ll even do this!
Agree 100% – couldn’t understand the subs – why bring on a defensive midfielder when you are 1 – 2 down with 5 minutes to go. If you wanted a midfielder then surely Doumbia was the man for that specific situation. Siggy sat on the bench until 5 minutes to go and Cassidy didn’t get a kick. Bizarre.
At 1 – 2 down with 5 to go its shit or bust – you don’t bring on a defensive midfielder for an attacker when you’re losing . . . . . . do you?
Cheers for pointing out the choice of Davis to come on as sub when he did, I forgot to include that one!
Spot on Carl. It was obvious to anyone at the Mol’ that the the strikers were making no in-road at all and we could have kept playing until midnight and Doyle or Ebanks were not going to find the net, they barely had a shot between them, so as you say why not bring on Siggy and Cassidy, there was nothing to lose and everything to gain. The most frightening sight was Dean Saunders standing on the touchline, hands in his pockets, not knowing what to do. In a nutshell. clueless on how to remedy the situation. Week by week it is getting harder to turn up and cheer this failing side.
Omnishambles, nuff said
It’s ironic, that on a day Sean O’Driscoll turned round rock bottom Bristol City at half time against Mick’s Ipswich, that we might be in the same place this time next year and when we coming knocking on Mr O’Driscoll’s door he may not answer.
We don’t know enough about all the players but to many of us not using some of the youngsters sometimes has been our biggest problem, from the day Stearman hurt his toe at Anfield and Docherty came on- to Batth being a main defender for Sheffield Wed last year. TC, Stale, and Saunders could all make these changes but they haven’t.
On a lighter note what’s all this about only having 3 strikers, Saunders seems to have forgotten Wardy.
Steppenwolfe, dead on mate. To all of the bloggers here, awesome and great comments too. I fear the worse at the moment. We keep talking about adding new players which we need however, the way the clubs being run by (two clowns, two town jesters, two total idiots) call them what you want, who the f**k wants to come and play for Wolverhampton…. I really thought changing the manager would help but now, I’ve figured it out.
Since Mad Mick was sacked, the old guard and regime have decided they will no longer play with heart for this club anymore. They are plodding along, getting a pay check and until someone pushes them out, sacks or gives them away, what do they really care… They are in total disrespect of the fans (could not give a toss) and their respect or lack of it for Morgan or Moxey is now very clear.
I really don’t think sacking Moxey would help. I think Morgan’s out of his depth and he needs to sell (who will buy) lords knows but if he sells, Moxey will be fired anyway.
If Morgan did sack Moxey, I think the new puppet coming in would do a poor job anyway. His or her mentor would be Morgan, so the wheel keeps turning with the same results..
Who can legally look into the where’s about’s of the treasure chest… Has the money been used up in Woodrow, in an off shore bank account gaining 30% interest or, moving money around by creative accountants so its hard for anyone or the Internal Revenue group to keep track…
I think Morgan is a snake. He’s not stupid by all means but I bet in 5 to 10 years from now, he’s busted for something illegal.. Morgan arrested for money laundering or something and fat bastard will be part of the scheme too.
Of course fat bastard might be living in the USA by then and will fight extradition back to the UK. Mark my words, something is drastically wrong here…
If that bloated toad ever resides in America, I will find him………………….
You can read my last post on vargas12 dot com about Wolves, the Rotten apple.
In the last 56 matches, in all competitions Wolves have won only 10 games, since the sacking of Mick McCarthy. But the most horrendes fact, is that the same players loosing to West brom 5-1 in February last year- wich got Mick sacked, still plays for Wolverhampton Wanderers .Why?
Well written Vargas. Thanks for sharing that with us all.
Love Wolves hate moxey
Just a thought! If we were to play a team like below would the supporters at least try and encourage there efforts and not be so dismayed that the same crap is delivered by the same players without effort or an end game or even developing players…
Ikeme
Zubar Marg Batt Newbie
Forde (or Pescko) Davis Doumbia (or O’hara) Sako
Bjorn Cassidy
The argument here is 6 players will improve! Lacking in grit but if the future does come from within then kinda need to get em in the team otherwise like others before them they leave and now play in the premiership
I notice one other fan on here quoted from the Express & Star Saturday edition where apparently Moxey`s phone has been red hot with enquiries for our players. I don`t think too many of the crowd at Molyneux yesterday actually believed that for one moment.
I think Moxey must exist in a parallel universe, completely detatched from reality. Well he can face have a big reality check when he tries to spin the sale of next seasons early bird tickets. I won`t be travelling over from the East Midlands for matches next year, seven hour round trip for this weekends game,. Spoke to many other Wolves fans on the way, and they won`t be renewing either.
Hope Deano can turn this tragedy around, even regret buying a ticket for the Barnsley match away, although thats a Tuesday, I`ve no intention of wasting any more weekends going to watch the current shambles.
“The old guard”, namely Doyle, Foley, Ward, Berra, Henry, Seb, have become accustomed to losing. It’s a mental downwards spiral that won’t stop until at least 2/3 of them are moved on. Part of me thinks relegation would actually be a good thing…
As I have said before the players are only 50% to blame the remaining 50% is the appalling decisions management have made.
1)McCarthy should have been replaced when we survived last day of the season and the blues went down in our place.
2)They should have got rid of McCarthy in the December of last year not the February
3)They said the job was not for a novice and then give it to Connor who doesnt win a match in 13 attempts
4)They give the job to Solbakken who has no experience of the English leagues and who managed to get Colongne relegated at his first attempt.
5)The money that went into the new stand should have been spent on a new manager and new players securing our place in the Prem.
In conclusion a Director of football should be appointed and Morgan and Moxey should stay out of footballing decisions.
Wolfhound, I agree with points 1 and 5.
However I think that the club’s current ownership and off-field management reached the critical point of no-return 12 months ago (and their subsequent actions and lack of actions simply confirm).
Crisis is the word.
I disagree moxey should stay out of Wolverhampton, he is an inept CEO
It has been reported a number of times recently that “the players have got used to losing”; a ridiculous excuse but with losing becoming the norm, perhaps it is the mindset of the team that is the major barrier to improvement and success. No matter how unpleasant an activity is, if it happens very frequently maybe it becomes acceptable, perhaps these players have been together for so long that there is a collective denial.
My evidence to support this theory is that the same acceptance of defeat is becoming the norm for many fans as well; a Saturday afternoon defeat at the Molineux used to put me in such a bad mood that I didn’t really get out of until Tuesday, now however the constant poor performances seem to have dulled the senses and another loss is more easy to accept.
Looking back over the last twelve months, I have driven to Wolverhampton on 24 occasions, approximately 2,500 miles and watched Wolves win just four times in that period, that’s a win percentage of just 16%.
In previous years I have always had favourite players, ones I took extra interest in, ones that entertained but now I feel no particular alliance to any squad member; to be honest anyone of them can go, the more the better in fact. It’s time to break up the party for the benefit of the future of the club; there are many appropriate metaphors that spring to mind but surely ‘there’s no point in flogging a dead horse’ is somewhat apt at present.
So much said above must ring true for the majority of us on here. I havn’t been as depressed as a Wolves fan since our previous and rapid fall from grace.
Only this time, I can’t see when or from where the light at the end of the tunnel will come.
A Steve Bull only comes around once in a lifetime.
Even my American Arsenal and Man Utd. “supporter” mates, with whom I had 3 good years of banter with, avoid the subject of “how did Wolves get on today”, perhaps feelig my embarrasment after me talking Stale up.
He’s going to turn this club around I would say, he’s brought in some fantastic tallent I’d say. We’ll be playing you lot next season, or at least the one after I’d say.
Now fu#*ing look at us.
Why does DS continue with Kevin Doyle? He must be the lowest scoring “striker” in the league. Has he got something against sigurdarson? clearly in my opinion our best attacking threat.
How can he think that fielding virtually the same side that that SS had to, but with some cheeky chappy lads antics at Compton will turn us into a different team?
You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
Transfer window? War chest? Player sales, Parachute payments? What is going on?
Dean will become yet another scapegoat for the Muppets ill timed, knee jerk decisions (mistakes).
Like other posters, I too feel I am being overtaken by the loosing mentality. Numb to the pain that my love of our club is inflicting.
Someone, please make it end.
Vargas 12, I did go to your website and read the Wolves article. Great points thank you. Its such a shame that we, supporters and fans from around the world have such passion and drive to see our beloved team do so well yet, the man with money does not give a hoot.
I understand that Fernandes has offered to stand down as chairman at QPR. I hope this is a trend that spreads to our cancer
I didn’t go to the pantomime at the Grand this year. Fortunately, I didn’t need to as it had been transferred to the Molineux. Oh yes it has. I was not expecting the beautiful game and what I got was her very ugly sister. Apart from the goal with a glorious pass by Peszko, first time cross by Zubar and a (oh yes he can still finish but the rest of the time is frustratingly ineffective) header by Blake, the first half performance was as predictable as a Keith Harris punch line. In order that there was something to talk about at half time Johnson and Ikeme performed their Chuckle brothers routine and ignored the cries of he’s behind you while Ince glided between them to score. You had to laugh. Clearly the half time team talk did not touch on the pointlessness of hoofing the ball up to Doyle and Blake when both were marked by giant centre backs because this tactic continued throughout the second half. Ince looked the only player on the pitch who knew the plot and the Wolves players seemed surprised by his unorthodox tactic of shooting at the goal. I didn’t see Johnson’s violent conduct but as he runs like the back end of a pantomime horse looking for its front half I can’t believe the charge will stick. If anyone offers Dean a magic bean for any of these players he should take it. Meanwhile in the Billy Wright no doubt Baron Hardup was thinking about the cost of more seat covers. Boo Hiss
Extremely intelligent and very funny piss-take of the mess we are in Danny.
Unfortunately, i remember the criticism you made of the so called ‘doom-mongers’
and Ward haters a full two years ago, a time when we were poor but not yet a pantomime act. So Danny, what’s changed?
Well I could try to be stupid ,dull and consistent but there are others better at doing that.
Yes the ones who accurately recognised the team and management as poor and warned of this disastrerous outcome were consistent, dull if you like, but definitely not stupid.
To be fair the managerial sackings we have had in this downward spiral were all called for by the ‘doom mongers’.
By ‘management’ i mean much more than just the team coach but also the Board, particularly the CEO and the owner. McCarthy WAS out of his depth and needed replacing. There was a huge problem that needed fixing. The fact that M&M have made matters much worse doesn’t alter the fact and is certainly not the supporters’ fault.
Maybe with the difference of hennessey craddock Jarvis knightly Fletcher!!!! But in the main his team
Well I’m still going to give Deano time to turn it around! Yesterday was depressing & also predictable as the same format has been in evidence all season.
My optimism has taken a battering, I mean that mistake between Johnson & Ikeme what on earth were they playing at? Were were one up & a win was on the cards but again we self destruct.
At times we play good quick attacking football, but often the first touch of players is poor, Doyle clear through overuns the ball & the defender easily takes it off him.
Resignation is running through the fans & the players. A defeat is the norm, and you leave the ground not great
The second half syndrome came calling again with a disastrous outcome,another loss.
I thought the first half was ok but for the bollock that johnson dropped at the end, we were the better team restricting them to only one shot on goal.
Well Deano i hope your a man of your word,you said its their last chance,so get rid of the no hoper’s and cut your losses,because they WILL get you the sack.
also deano must learn by his mistakes couldn’t understand some of his tactic’s especially with to two late subs why didn’t he put them on sooner because doyle and ebanks wasn’t doing anything so he should have been sent them on as soon as we went 2-1 down.
I hope that phones still ringing deano and get rid of the dross we’ve had for so long.get some new blood in.Tom Ince in for one, give deano the money Morgan now.
47 years I’ve given to supporting our team, lost count of the promotions and relegations I’ve seen but this season as to be the most mind numbing , boring , inept garbage ever. Yes we have had worse teams but that was usually down to bankruptcy or owners who wanted to sell us . There really is no excuse for what we are having to put up with. To be honest we could sell anyone next week and it would not make us worse and where are we going to find players who will hopefully try and keep us up.
Ive said on here many times the man who makes the decisions is Steve Morgan and most of those decisions have put us where we are today. But how have this bunch of players dropped to what we are seeing today, if you look at Blackpool yesterday only Ince is any better on paper than anyone of ours yet twice in a few months they have been better than us ( still not sure how we won there, robbery it was). So it must be attitude , what the hell as gone wrong.
I’ve not seen a good team in this league yet and still we can’t compete , yesterday I think after 47 years I to gave up at the final whistle I felt nothing not even anger. My heart is telling me Oh well league 1 next tear new team new start but my head is saying sod it had enough.
Early bird soon big decision for the first time and I guess I aint alone.
The mood I’m in right now I think we should resign our position in the Football League. Start again and have some fun coming up through the divisions.
Seriously, what is the point watching the same god awful players make the same mistakes? Even the thought of watching Berra and Ward play another game for Wolves makes me nauseous… How long have they been here? People get less for murder.
The only thing worse than the football is the spin. That’s why I haven’t even got the stomach for a relegation battle. Celebrate staying up? Be told Saunders saved us? Moxey talk of a promotion push? Henry and Ward in the E&S saying 2013/14 will be different?
I love the club. I just hate the CEO, just about all the players, the CEO, the clown of a manager, the CEO, the owner, the CEO, the state of the stadium and the CEO. It’s making life bloody difficult.
Hear, hear. Well said Adam. Except I’d argue that it doesn’t feel like our God-awful players are ‘making mistakes’, instead it’s more like they are consistently playing to the crap standard to which they have become accustomed.
I just want Morgan and the weasel to admit they have fucked it up. The most worrying and annoying thing about all of this is that I strongly suspect that they don’t think they have done anything wrong at all
Superb AB. That just about sums it up for me too. End of. Oh and don’t forget that c**** of a CEO as well!
Grim stuff.
Why can’t we play more of the youngsters?
Surely things wouldn’t actually get worse and they have a point to prove, unlike our overpaid tossers in the first team.
I tell you what, I wish I could be paid half of what they are for being so rubbish at my job!
I really can’t believe that Roger Johnson will be paid while he is in the three match ban – it’s crazy.
In the midst of all this (very understandable) doom and gloom, i would just like to say thanks once more to Ben for such an exquisite piece of writing. When you are grieving,( i know that sounds melodramatic but that’s what we are feeling, grief,for the loss of our once great club), you need to get it all out and exorcise your grief. Ben certainly hits the nail on the head for me. And i know it doesn’t make our team any better but it certainly helps me to have the truth so poetically exposed. Great stuff mate.
Cheers Martin, most kind of you! It is torture at the moment and just when you think the disharmony can’t get any worse, it does. It probably underlines the love we have for the club when we can keep getting so upset about things (after telling yourself you no longer care!)
I genuinely do feel envious of my Bradford mate too. It reminded me a bit of the team we had under Turner in 87/88. I’d kill for some more of that, instead of the rotten fare we are served up with.
As another poster said, early bird will be interesting. I genuinely don’t think I’ll be renewing, (which is a bit of a worry as I’ll have nothing to blog about!)
I’m afraid for yourself and Thomas that isn’t an option mate. Even if us bloggers have to get together to pay for the ticket!
I saw that Bradford team on the telly and they, like every other i team i see, play better football than we do. No matter what league they’re in . I jest not.
Wonderful support, fantastic training facilities( the training pitches look as flat and perfect as the old Wembley one) and they haven’t got a clue!. It beggars belief.
For me it all started when they signed that Van Damme as left back and when he buggered off back to Belgium, they just forgot all about it and just pretended Ward was good.
That was just one seriously obvious problem that was not addressed so there must be hundreds of less obvious ones that are also being ignored. As a result Ward, shit as he is defensively, is now probably one of our better players. I can’t believe i just typed that!
I don’t think any manager has a hope in hell under this regime and with this group of players. Still, there’s always the rugby to look forward to.
Of course we will all buy season tickets again, that’s what we do. That’s what football is to us all. We bleat, we moan, we swear but we turn up because we are fans and the next match you miss “could” be the one where it all starts going right again. Unfortunately M and M know this and that’s why we will still get fucked over by them. The fans have become “the golden tit” and they are getting richer by the minute from us.
I have a question and I hope someone can fill me in. Just about 3 weeks ago I read in the Express & Star the McCarthy seemed interested in pursuing some of our crappy players (players that he put in at Wolves) I think Doyle, Ward, SEB the main ones with some other names mentioned too.
So, their his boys right, why is he not chasing them now!!!!!! What happened, Moxley asking for too much money for garbage……..
MM took Nouble instead and other loans. Put off by Greaseballs bonus.
It’s kind of apt that you mention Bradford in your post, Ben.
They’re a club that I knew well from my best bud at Uni being a season ticket holder. I keep an eye out for their results to this day, and we’re still in touch about our teams.
Sadly, a certain Steve Morgan has many parallels to Geoffrey Richmond.
Make of this what you may.
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BBC Sport’s Nick Clitheroe: “Wolves manager Dean Saunders has made no secret of the fact he thinks the squad at Molineux is far too big and the club would like him to get the wage bill down.
“Those who could leave include players approaching the end of their contracts like Christophe Berra and Sylvan Ebanks-Blake.
“As for new faces well clearly Saunders wants to make his own mark on the squad but that might mean looking for bargains lower down the leagues. The need to strengthen in defence has been an issue for a while and there’s interest in bringing in a striker as well to give them more options up front with free agent Jason Scotland linked to them after leaving Ipswich.”
This really p*ss*s me off. Jason Scotland is a free agent – no one wants him; he wasn’t good enough for Ipswich for goodness sakes. Do we really expect him to turn the season around? We’ve got Siggy and Cassidy who would benefit from a run out and still have SEB and Doyle. Is Scotland better than these guys? Boukari is getting back to fitness as is Pzesko. Why do we want to sign a player approaching his mid 30s who no one else wants?
‘Why do we want to sign a player approaching his mid 30s who no one else wants?’
Errrrm, he’s free and as he’s out of a job he won’t cost much in wages…obvious really.
Of course!! Sadly that is absolutely spot on. Fortunately he has joined Barnsley – probably because they pay more than we do and the job prospects were better.
Now, How does it go again ??
Ah Yes I remember Now…
Deano OUT!!! Moxey OUT!!! Morgan OUT!!!
I think i might have found a reason why the players dont give a shit. Imagine if you had been forced to take a 50% paycut but your boss was driving around in a topnof the range car, while building a massive brand new house. You would be mighty pissed off, thinking that some of that money could be going on improving (buying new players) things at work. If morgan had bought in new players, maybe we wouldnt have got relegated and therefore the players wouldnt have had to take a 50% paycut. Im not sticking up for the players as they disgust me at the moment, but something is definately not right at molineux. Maybe this could be the reason
Have thought exactly the same as you for some time now. .. lets face it none of us would swallow a 50% pay cut too comfortably .. especially seeing Morgan and Moxey carry on in the same old lifestyle as they currently are without a pay cut (ref Moxey) …..that would certainly piss me and probably a good few others off !!
Welcome to my World, isn’t that what any self respecting business does !
Pays the guys at the bottom pittance for doing all the work, while the owners cane it in and become richer and richer.
That’s life..(capitalism) As they say. Only reason they can cut the pay by half is because they earn so much in the first place. If my boss tried to do that I just wouldn’t bother turning up because my wages would be so low.
The players knew this when they signed the contract. As they say if you don’t like it you can **** ***
Quote that E&S attribute to DS
“I’ve got to try to do something,” he said. “Maybe it needs a few new players – it can always improve.”
Maybe, MAYBE …………………… oh for Fc*ks sakes!
So Blobby Blake looks like hes going to Palace….as a replacement for Zaha….now that is a joke!!
And we are looking at Connor Wickham ( where do they get these names?) ….on loan, i.e. on the cheap!!
Another million in the bank, and nothing in the spent column, again.
Same old, same old.
I’m looking to book a trip to England, when does the season end, so I can be there afterwards??
Clive…
I think you will find for Wolves the season finished sometime around the first week in August 2012…and it isnt scheduled to start again any time soon!
FOJM!
Jason scotland gone to barnsley on loan.
I knew there had to be good news somewhere.
Steps, apparently we are “eyeing” a Swindon player. What’s all this eyeing. We used to sign players.
Can someone get the keys to the safe off Greaseball.
Its total bollox Alf. We had frantic Friday, Shitty Saturday, Manic Monday and now it looks like turgid Tuesday. No one in AGAIN. Its just an exercise in not spending any money for these two b*ggers. What the fc*k are they trying to achieve?
What is the plan? Long term, short term, medium term – what the fc*k is going on at our club?
We’re going backwards at a rate of knots.
i bumped into an old fella in my local chemist in bexleyheath kent an hour ago . i recognised his wolves accent and we got talking..i asked him if he was a wolves fan and he said he stopped following wolves a while back because it wasnt the same wolves hed followed as a lad…. it made me think if id ever get to think the same when i reach clives age (only joking clivey) i thought id never wane in following me babbies even through the eighties when it looked like we were going to die ..those days we only had the express and star to keep us informed unlike these days with the web . maybe thats why it never entered my mind to stop as i waited with fervent anticipation for the e+s to come through the post..with the net we are too close to the action hearing every little scrap even before its out there. all i know is all the fun has gradually faded these last couple of years and i really dont think i could endure falling down the leagues all over again……thanks mrmorgan and mr moxey!
Wolves striker Leigh Griffiths arrested on suspicion of shoplifting.
Yet more bad press, don’t think things have looked so glum for a long time.
Wolves striker Leigh Griffiths arrested on suspicion of shoplifting
Scum bag!
Bring him back, lets see if he can steal a goal or two!!!
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/wolves-striker-leigh-griffiths-arrested-1250019
So Manic Monday is about the same as Frantic Friday. Looking forward to Tumultous
Tuesday and then Wanky Wednesday.
Tuesday is beginning to look interesting…..?
Just seen on Sky
Ipswich are closing in on Stearman on loan for the rest of the season.
LOAN !!
For f***s sake Give him away for free Please…
Along with the rest of McCarthys old crowd their day has been and gone and they F*****d it up.. And still are..
I find the decision to sell Ebanks-Blake incredible. Yes, I think everyone would agree the time is coming for him to move on and, of course, it makes ‘business sense’, but how does selling our only goalscorer – whether you rate him or not his ability to get goals at this level can’t be disputed – make sense when we’re heading for League One? Also, we made 30 million plus in the summer and have seen hardly any of it. We’re promised a ‘replacement’, but Scotland or Wickham are hardly prolific. The way the club is run just beggars belief. It makes financial sense they’ll say, does getting relegated?
On the evidence of the season so far, do you really think keeping fatty Blake and Stearman will stop us from getting relegated ?
No.. Not till we are rid of the rest of the McCarthy Clan.
Nige it depends who comes after them
I’m Still in shock that we were asking 1.8 Million for Stearman..
What a joke this club has become.
50p anybody ???
I think he’s done quite well when he’s played this season. I’m not saying £1.8m of good, but I’d say Stearman has actually been our best defender in the games he’s played this season.
Yet another example of a young player who has not developed, in fact gone backwards, at our failing club. I saw him when he first signed at the start of the championship winning season. He was full of confidence and looked a real footballing defender.
Even now he’s got decent pace and really bites in the tackle. I bet he’s another one who looks a much better player at a different club.
Difficult to understand as Stearman is the obvious repalcement for Johnson in the next 3 games – and a pity it’s not a lot longer.
How easily a wolves lad to get out of Wolves. Never rated him but it says it all.
The cancer invades all who touch it.
We are in a state of never ending……
The Languedoc has kicked in and let’s hope for better!?
Dean has got an impossible job it’s worse than Lamberts.
WARDOUT….ISAY WARD OUT….Please god!!?
I wonder is there any more depressing club to follow at the moment, after relegation this year and whatever happens next year, will this “ERA” go down as our darkest? We can’t even blame our relegations on bankruptcy , just exploitation . The frustration is sickening.
well ray I suspect no light at the end of the tunnel. I always told my kids that us Wolves supporters were a peculiar breed – optimistic when we are losing and depressive when we are winning for the first time ever I don’t think I’m right.
Selling Blake with just a few month’s left on his contract and not prepared to sign another one, does make sense(although selling a proven goalscorer aged 26 for a third less than we paid for him is par for this failing club). It only makes sense for the supporters,of course,if the £1m is destined for transfer funds and not Morgan’s construction company. Who knows?
But i cannot see any sense in Stearman going out on LOAN(running down whatever he’s got left on his contract) other than to save Morgan a few quid. Loan young players to help them develop or senior players coming back from injury, perhaps. But loaning Stearman to a rival in a relegation battle sums up where Morgan’s priorities lie.
Any suggestions for man of the match in our return fixture at Ipswich?
We’ve already played Ipswich at portman road. Beat them 2-0 in september.
Blimey so we did. Thank you Morph. Oh well next season then. If we’re both in the same league that is.
Blake is not half the player he was but neither is he getting half the service he did. He’s the only guy who can score for us and he’s a DS first choice. OK, I know his contract runs out BUT if we get relegated through a lack of goals will the £1M we get for him be worth the relegation??????????????
Its yet another bizarre decision by the board. I expect the board to come out and say something along the lines of rebuilding will take at least two years . . . . . . but wasn’t that what they said when they appointed SS?
2 days left of the transfer period and so far we’ve loaned out one McCarthy era player… to McCarthy. Makes me angry. What was all this talk of selling players to free up money on the wage bill for better ones?
My dad informed me they were singing, “where’s the money gone?” at the end of the blackpool game. Too right!
Morgan has a lot to answer for right now.
Shows how good they are, nobody wants them.
Warnock off to Leeds so “eyeing” didn’t work.
Yeah – just seen that. Looks like we’ve lost out there as well. He’s not the greatest but would’ve been handy in this league and with the mighty Wardinho injured we need someone.
We never had any intentions of signing Warnock! Its just the usual media tactic…so fat Jez can say ‘we tried!’ once the window has closed and weve signed no one!
See Wolves have signed Lee Evans today.
Should fit in well with the other comedians!