It’s the hope that kills you.
Hope of dramatic late arrivals, new faces and fresh impetus.
Hope of a lazy, penny-pinching hierarchy taking decisive action.
Hope that different players in a different formation will produce a different outcome.
Hope that Ward will tackle and not retreat.
Hope that Sako’s scud missile will be the decisive turning point.
Hope that Henry will shoot and not shy-away.
Hope that your leading scorer will fire and not fluff.
Hope that a good performance is at least a sign of better things to come.
Hope that Danny Batth can play that well every week.
Hope.
But as the the clock ticks over to 11pm and the lights go off and the statement arrives, hope turns to disappointment.
Cheer up chaps, at least we didn’t sell Doyler. And there’s still the emergency loan window. Yippee!
Thanks goodness for that.
Because this is an emergency.
We hope for better.
Credit where credit is due. A much improved performance. Its the first time since John Barnwell’s days that I’ve seen a Wolves team play the ball out from the back – and they looked a much better team for doing that. If we can maintain that standard of performance and resolve our goal-scoring problems then there’s no way we’ll be relegated.
Two negatives. 1. Ebanks Blake isn’t a target man and was easily controlled for the first 80 minutes – surely putting Sigurdarson inside would have posed the Leicester defence a different problem ? 2. When will we learn to counter-attack effectively ? The opportunities were there but invariably ignored as the player in possession waited for support. Ironically we were only undone by two goals on the counter.
A speedy attacker was first on my list of must haves. And a speedy defender was second so we can stretch a team. Surely we had the money and time to work on that. Where there is a will …………..( or not in WWFC’s case)
I agree. A very strong team performance against one of the (best home) teams. We looked composed defensively, but was taken on a 2 counter attacks. The last goal was a result of eager to take the lead, just like one of the previous matches. Batth played well and I believe he’ll start the next game
I also think the 3 midfielders; Henry, Doumbia and O’Hara played very well, and as under Solbakken 4-3-3/4-5-1 is the formation that works best for the team.
Sako was very impressing in a free wing role, but I would like to see him as a central striker or just behind the striker (Blake or Sigurdarson) in the Doyle role. We need players of his calibre operating between the oppositions defence and midfield, just like Man city’s Silva and Nasri does. He is one of the best shooters in the league and he should play in a position where he can use his lefty as often as possible. And think about how much danger he could orchestrate if he dribbled of 2-3 players central instead of out wide. It’s kind of lost oppurtunities when he dribble of 2-3 players on the wing just to see his cross cleared from the leicester defence.
This was a promising team performance, and I can’t imagine us fighting for survival this season – the team is too good for that, and Boukari is on his way back too. We were very unlucky not to travel home with a point in the bag yesterday. Hit the post out
Spot on, wolf man. In a funny way, we played in the second half like I hoped we’d play under solbakken, and that can’t be bad.
you couldn’t make it up could you,in light of the comedy of errors in managerial appointments in the last year wolves stand out headline is to sign LEE EVANS
One for I can predict Evans future it goes like this: plays well scores goals create goals so we let him Train with First team travel with First team to away game. Stick him in squad, stick him on bench, loan him out and then sell him for less than we paid for him. Comes back with new club scores the winner against us. The future bright but not gold and black bright !
Henrys – Non shooting, indecisive actions were to blame for goal 2, and the fact we did not score more. Get the guy off the pitch.
My changes from last night would be.
Keep the formation. Swap blake for siggy. Stick doyle / peszco in siggys wing position. Drop Henry. Replace with Davis.
For one mistake? He’s one of the reasons we were composed defensively, and his strength is defense. Let Doumbia and O’Hara do the attacking part of the game.
That is it exactly, Thomas. Whenever hopes are raised this club manages to dash them without delay.
It was a decent performance and Baath showed he should have been given a chance before this as many on here suggested.
But god almighty, how much longer do we have to endure that imbecile left back. Retreat, retreat, turned inside out and finally, turn his back and hope the ball hits him up the arse.
I have promised myself i will never pay to watch a match again while that disgrace of a footballer wears a Wolves shirt.
And if i was the manager i would instruct Henry never to venture anywhere near the penalty box. Give it to someone else and get back to a defensive position where he might just be of some use.
No surprises really,
Beaten by a stronger more efficient team.
Our Hierarchy see’s no problem with a squad that’s already in a relegation scrap. Whilst others strengthened we weaken our hand by letting one of our better players go for nothing and another go on loan to our rivals.
Our only major coup in transfer window was to replace a man with vision and an eye for a player (Sako, Pezko, Siggy). For a man who’s idea of squad strengthening was Marlon King. Seriously compare Stale’s main summer targets Geromel and Demidov to Curtis Davies and you begin to see why we are in so much trouble.
Seriously, if Dean Saunders was the answer the only question was who is a decent manager to lead a promotion campaign from league 1.
My only solace is that we didn’t cash in on Sako and Siggy in the transfer window. I felt sure we were going to get a story on how they didn’t fit with DS hoof it and hope vision.
Thank you Sheffieldwolf for putting in a blog what my limited English does not allow me to do.
Agree 100%
It was wrong to get rid of Solbakken and he was replaced with a manager that shown nothing and lives in the 80s. He was put at the helm by a management that are incompetent.
We are laughing stock. We are fighting relegation!!! Has that actually caught the attention of Steve Morgan?
For Pete’s sake we played well last night & could’ve won. We were unlucky! Give Saunders a chance for Gods sake! Solbakken in my opinion was worse than useless, Saunders is several steps up from that, if not more.
I had used to love this blog but have to sign off now as the angst on here is beyond negative. If the players read this stuff then they’ll never win another game!
I won’t be reading my once beloved blog anymore as the views are far too down & negative. Yep I am frustrated & pissed off with no win in 8 but my, oh my I can’t get as down as you folks.
I really do believe we can turn it round. When a team is winning it does’nt matter what the owners & the CEO do or not do, who ever likes them anyway?
I can be proved wrong & given Wolves’ history thats an evens chance. But I want to see Saunders succeed, I love the Wolves & am as fed up at present as all of you. But I still have faith.
But for SEB missing a coupla good chances & inexcusable defensive lapses, not challening players running at us we’d have beaten a team that are likely to be in the Prem next season.
From here on in it’s just the sanitised & Molineux mix for me, as well as the You tube replays of games in the 70′s heydays when the Wolves could beat any team they played!
I thought I was watching a different team. Just the result was the same. Batth looked good and I cannot understand why he hasn’t played before. O’Hara is improving and WILL play the ball forward which makes a change from our usual midfielders. Sako was good too. But I agree that SEB, in a 4-5-1, is just not the player you need up front. Unless you are going to play deep and try to break with pace with balls over the top for a player to run on to (Sigurdarson?), then you need someone with an aerial presence who can play with their back to goal and lay the ball off or hold it up. Doyle used to be able to do that. SEB never has. I don’t know enough about him, but Connor Wickham has the physical presence to do that job and may be available on loan. Is he that sort of player? If not him, then who?
One still worries about the left back position. Has Doherty not come on? He goes on loan at Hibs and does well. Can score goals going forward. Is he really worse than Ward at defending?
Lastly, Cassidy is a better attacking header of a ball than SEB, IMHO, so, if you are using wingers, why not put him in instead of two late midfield subs. Tactically suspect those changes. OK at 1-1, silly at 1-2.
Yes Thomas – it is the hope that kills you.
What’s worse is that it kills you very, very slowly and excruciatingly painfully.
It’s been killing me since those heady days – seems like years ago now – when we were near the top of the Prem and Mick was saying that we musn’t get carried away.
Still. Onwards and upwards.
A little bit of comfort in the performance.
Impressed by Baath and the fact that we strung a few passes together. But we are still crying out for a striker who can hold the ball up and finish.
The thing that really worries me is that if we end up mid-table, which is probably the best we can hope for, at the end of the season someone will have clocked that Sako is a premiership player and make The Pieman an offer he can’t refuse.
(An offer involving money or junk food should do it).
And Deån’s team rebuilding will have to start all over again.
Sako will be gone in the summer. There’s no doubting that. It’s just a case of ‘to who?’ and ‘how much?’
He puts himself in the shop window every time the Sky cameras turn up. Against Blues, Blackburn and again last night he did some very good things.
No coincidence he enjoyed his best game for a while as we funneled the ball to him in good areas. In a good passing team, you’d get that level of performance consistently.
Goals too. What’s that, 8 now? Absolutely superb in a team as crap as ours.
No doubt in mind he’s worth £10 million+ but realistically having never played in the Prem, the best you’ll get is something silly like £5 million with add-ons.
He’ll go. Mark my words, he’ll go.
literally just posted on another site that exact same thing… and I also stated that just like £0 from the sale of Fletch was recycled back into the club, every penny of Sakos sale will go straight into that festering scouse leech’s back pocket…
This season:-
Transfers out total = £26,796,000
Transfers in total = £13,490,400
So where do you think the 13.5 million Solbaken spent in the summer came from?
That’s the sadest part of not getting promoted. I’ve never enjoyed following wolves like now a days, despite our poor results. One never now when Sako get’s the ball, suddenly BOOM and we’ve scored a goal, or he dribbles 2-3 players. No more boring Wolves like we’ve been the last seasons. And I’m looking forward to even more artistery when Boukari returns. Even if we would get 15 millions for him the club would earn money on not letting him go – if we gets promoted next season. Imagine Sako-Sigurdarson-Boukari together in a 4-3-3. Artistery.
Am as convinced as you are Thomas, along with all Ståle’s signings.
They will be gone in the summer.
How expectations change!
Who would have thought, 18 months ago, that being beaten 2-1 by Leicester, in the Championship, would be considered not a bad result?
Thomas, you’re dead on. Pie man is licking his lips.. 5 to 10M for Sako, we’ll spend 500,000 and Morgan will pocket the rest, oh yeah, Pie man will want his 10% commissions too.
Totally disgusting..
I posted this on the last page, and I got the reply that is attached. So if the player is playing at left back what should he do? Whose fault is it. I say it is the fault of the manager and the CEO and the owner of the club. It’s the managers job to manage the team and playing players out of position is his fault, he knows he is out of position, So who takes the blame. I’ve said it before and here it is again I’m 62 a couple of stone overweight but I could give Ward the runaround all day long.
someblokeontinterweb says:
February 1, 2013 at 9:30 AM (Quote)
Well watched it on the laptop bit jerky at time but here’s my thoughts. Until they scored we were very average, when they scored we lifted our game by miles, best 25 minutes from the team for a long time. However the wife said what are you shouting at I said Ward is about to give a goal away again, and he did. Second half up to our great goal (Really hope he meant to hit it that shape fantastic strike from 25+ yards) then lost the wireless conection all together. On that showing buying no players is a huge mistake but be fair we all knew that was on the cards. So if and it’s a big if we stay up there will have to a massive change in personel or we will be straight back into a relegation battle. Remember August 2011 top of Premership how have we fallen so far so quickly?
0 likes
Reply
pferdepferde says:
February 1, 2013 at 9:53 AM (Quote)
so who plays left back ? Transfer window is shut now. You’ve got 40 players so no emergency loan allowed. And bear in mind Ward is a striker. He didn’t ask to play left back. Part of the good attacking moments last night included ward up the left side with Sako. Wards REAL problem is that Sako can’t defend at all. When he tries we give penalities away. Maybe Ward could have tried to tackle the goalscorer but he could just have easily been beaten. And due to the counter attack Ward had made a lot of ground to even get goalside. Where was the cover for him ? He forced the guy wide which was correct. How did Ward know that Ikeme had weak wrists ? It’s too easy to blame Ward all the time.
I get what pferd is saying. You can’t deny Sako is less than useless defensively and Ikeme could and perhaps should have kept the shot out.
BUT…
Ward has been playing left-back long enough now to cut out this silly backing off nonsense. He didn’t force their winger wide at all, the ball over the top did that. He then proceeded to let him get into the area, where he was exposed and wrong-footed.
I would have loved nothing more than to see him cut that winger in half on the touchline. I’ll take the foul and the booking all day over the passive, non-defending.
I saw a bit of the second half last night and we looked like we were all over them. I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that we looked to be in control of the possession and the game, albeit the scoreline didn’t agree.
SEB should have scored when he hit the upright. A more accomplished finisher will have done.
BIG NEWS – I see is that apparently we accepted an offer from Forest yesterday for our only striker-cum-left back (Clive and many others will be happy) … but I don’t see it being reported anywhere else and does this mean a more regular spot at left back for Foley / Hunt?
http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/2013/02/01/transfer-rumours-feb-1/
Any truth in this guys?
We dominated parts of the second half with 75% posession to 25. Unlucky we were
I do honestly feel we would have brought a few new faces in if we’d stuck with Solbakken, players I’m sure Saunders would never have even heard of. So once more weve gone backwards.
I’m hoping Bath continues his good form and will hold his place once Roger is back.
I don’t think they would have mate. Isn’t that why Solbakken was sacked? It meant the club could carry on with this malnutritioned squad without investing into it! That’s how it’s looking to me.
If I’m honest I still can’t get my head around Morgan deciding our style would only take us so far, going for a guy to completely change it only to do a U-turn six months later.
I guess I need to except that were not a struggling prem side looking to push on. We are now a championship side with no confidence scrapping to avoid relegation.
I’m still in shock!
Causes for the 2 goals we let in – Fullbacks!!
Goal 1 – Ward doing his usual, backing off and giving away space and time in the box.
Goal 2 – Foley nowhere to be seen. Caught out of position in the counter attack.
The overall performance wasn’t too bad imo, a lot better than i was expecting, nice to see us play out from the back rather than just hoof it upfield and give it away. The same problems are still there in the defence though and yet again the problem is not resolved in a transfer window. I would much rather see Foley at RB than RM though and some positives can be taken from the performance.
It was difficult for Staale and its difficult for Deno to turn this around. Wolves have been a sinking ship for months. I remember Mox said it could be worse before it get better.
But sacking Staale was maybe wrong. He was bringing in some exiting players and a new system. Maybe the owners thought thath this will cost too much money. Lack of ambition.
And then we are back at 0 with a ”put in a shift” manager.
But when August come I hope we still are a Championship team and we can have a fresh start.
Football is strange. Its hurt and its depressing but you always have hope for the future
11 p.m. Thursday 31st January 2013, that is when it happened. After over forty years of watching my beloved Wolves I have finally been forced to admit defeat and make the following painful decision. I have paid to see my last Wolves game while those idiots Morgan and Moxey are at the club, congratulations M & M you have managed to do something that even the Bhattis could not achieve. I followed the lads home and away back in those dark days, days when winning a corner warranted a lap of honour and you were grateful just to have a team to watch. This may surprise people but my loathing of Morgan and Moxey runs deeper than that reserved for the Bhatti Brothers, they were con-men chancers and we all knew it, but at least they did not pretend to have the club’s interests at heart, unlike the two M’s they did not hide behind a facade of honourable intentions. Morgan is ruining my club , he is tearing the soul out of it in the name of financial benefit, never has the relationship between club and fans been more divided. The owner does not care for our great club and does not deserve its stewardship, it seems that we are being stripped to the bone of any self respect and as long as we keep on putting our money into the club we are `feeding the beast’.
So I will no longer fund Morgan’s Mayhem, I will not put money into the club when the owner is not prepared to, I cannot justify financialy supporting people who are killing our club.
I urge others to follow my lead, I appreciate that season ticket holders will still attend matches, I would expect nothing else, but please do not spend money inside the ground, do not buy their food and drink, do not buy a programme and do not spend money in the club shop. If you are not a season ticket holder then please stay away, do not fuel Morgan with the funds that he needs to inflict further damage on our great club. Ideally a mass boycott of a selected home game would be a good way forward, lets bring the focus of the footballing world onto our plight, lets give Morgan and Moxey a taste of their own medicine , lets see if they like the kind of humiliation inflicted on us over the last two years.
Sorry to be so dramatic but I can take no more, it has not been any easy decision to make but it is the right one for me and it is made with genuine regret, hopefully my excile will not be permanent.
Well Waggies left peg, you have with a great degree of eloquence, our thoughts into words. Can’t the F.A. see this travesty unfolding?
Waggy, I feel your pain mate.
I just hope that boycotting the Mol doesn’t mean you’ll be boycotting the blog.
If you’re not here I’ll have no one who can give me decent service from the wing.
Don’t you just wish for some of the old gold legends now?
They might have had off days but as the saying goes ‘Form is temporary, class is permanent’.
Unfortunately, lack of class is permanent too.
Don’t worry mate, the minute I finish my time machine I will let you know and we can take a trip back to the early 1970′s and watch a proper team.
Was at the game last night..
Thought Berea was an accident waiting to happen
Batt good
Foley no impact
Ward pointless
Henry a waste of space
Ohara tidy and looks to be improving
Sig lost on wing
Tongo got better and better and when started to really terrorise Leicester was subbed off
Sako clearly the best player on pitch by some distance. Struggled with a lack of ball from midfield and slow
Sylvan looked slow can’t play on his own poor touch, and never offered himself for a pass then complained after hiding behind a defender it wasnt passed to him. Thought he was useless.
I can’t have O’hara tidy. He gave the ball away in his own half 3 times in ten minutes in the first half and yelled at someone else as if it was their problem. He was not the playmaker I need. Doumbia and sako were much more incisive. I’s swap him for edwards
Sorry also thought deanos sub of tongo for Davis was poorly timed and wrong player. I thought Edwards was playing off sylvan! Thats a good message to Cassidy!
One thing that baffled me yesterday was that DS, having identified a shortage of left backs and a plethora of right backs, gets rid of some RBs and only tries to sign a left back as part of a complex deal involving Ward going to Forest on the last day of transfer dealing which then collapses somewhere along the chain. Even had that deal been successful, we would have been left with: yes, one left back. If left back was such a potential problem why not buy/loan one when the pressure was less intense and as part of a one-off deal more likely to succeed. Very little seems to add up at Molineux these days including DS’s arithmetic when it comes to left backs.
Well DS did say that the squad was unbalanced with only one left back so, fair play, we’ve balanced it now – we’ve only got one right back:)
Getting really worried now. Are recent diasterous decisions just the worst kind of incompetent ineptitude by M&M or is there a more sinister agenda?
Either way I’m not optimistic for the future with these two at the helm.
What chance of new owners? Feel thats whats needed if we’re to arrest this alarming decline.
Sorry to disagree Bill but we dont even have one Left badck otherwise bang on mate.
Saunders said he had five right wingers and one left back, and in the transfer window he needed to redress the imbalance. So what happens? None of the wingers are let go, and lo and behold, we agree a transfer fee for our only left back (which under the circumstances was quite handy that it fell through). What a way to run a railway. It’s no wonder the majority of honest fans posting on here are so fed up – it would drive a saint to distraction.
Hang On ! But if prices go up in January then surely it is a good time to sell. So why no takers for many/any of our players yesterday. They all appeared to be up for sale.
Didn’t watch the game. I was watching inception and hoping that this season was all just a dream. Where’s my totem…?
Found a great video stream, and then saw the score 0 – 1, and thought, “fuck this, I’m off to watch the paint dry”
It does not matter who played, how much of an improvement there was over the last episode, we still fuckin’ lost.
We are now only 2 defeats/wins by relegation rivals away from the bottom three, and once we are in that promised land, we will never get out.
The bottom three is the comfort zone for all our players, and management, coz that is where our experience lies.
Three years in the Prem, this year’s adventure, and an owner, ceo and manager who feel safe….down among the bottom feeders.
I hate people who say ” I told you so”, but….I been telling y’all for years, Ward will never be a footballer as long as he’s got a hole up his arse, but no, the happy clappers united against me…give him a break, its not his fault etc etc, ….well the turkey has well and truly come home to roost, hasnt he?
I said the same about McDickwadhead after that fiasco at Old Trafford, and was shouted down.
Look how keeping him turned out.
I am no footballing genius, but, like the rest of us long suffering fans, can recognize good and bad players, which is blatently obvious that the “powers that be” cannot, or will not.
No money for transfers in, but when we get offers we dont sell…anyone, which proves conclusively who is calling the shots with regard to footballing decisions, and it is not the manager.
Who has absolutely no footballing brain whatsoever?
greasel.
It is him and his puppetmaster who try and up the sales price of anyone who has the merest sliver of interest shown in them by another club, and instantly, reject the offer, coz if someone wants him, he must be worth keeping.
greasel logic 101
Luckily I dont have a choice about attending or not attending the next home match, because, like you, i would be torn between protest and watching my beloved team.
I would support a boycott of the next home game, especially as “we all fuckin’ hate Leeds” but will it do any good?
I doubt it.
As I’ve said before, we are now, more than ever,
DEAD TEAM WALKING
Only the actual execution date is undecided.
An excellent summary Clive which is unarguable.
I would certainly be a witness for the defence of your prophetic posts.
Don’t disagree with your assessment at all… just small point – if Ward is SO bad how come he was one of only 3 players from our 40 that anyone wanted to pay money for ? And why do Ireland keep picking him ? Trapatoni is no fool . Just for the record Ward made a lot of ground to get goalside before the first goal last night. He should have been covered by Berra on the breakaway while Ward ran to Berra’s position. This would have held the breakaway player up much quicker – before he got to the area. when he finally made the ground , he was in the area and pushed the player wide away from the goal. With the angle of the shot Ikeme should have saved. It’s not always Wards fault – others are just a culpable.
Trapatoni is Italian.
In the second world war, and I’m sure he was in it, the Italians could only go one way, and that was backwards!!
Therefore Ward going backwards is music to Trapatoni’s eyes, and why he gets picked. Simple.
Also, its the Man Utd syndrome.
If they are good enough for Utd, then they are good enough for Wales/Scotland/Ireland.
Same logic, if they are good enough for a prem side, then they must be good enough for their country.
Total bollocks, but why else does he get picked, hes certainly not a footballer.
Maybe his big nose reaches up Trapatoni’s arse just like it did up McDickwadhead’s.
Nothing against Deano, but hiring a league 1 manager proves the ambition of Fagin & Greasel. These idiots are ruining our club.
I choose to believe in Deano. The team played composed yesterday and even played some good attacking football. He’s only been in charge for 4 games, so how can you utter such ridiculous things?
When we actually win a game, in the second tier i will consider your comments.
I`m with Waggies Left Peg, and despite my season ticket I won`t be going to any more home games this season. And – in any other walk of life or business if your team had a weakness you would deal with it and sort it.
Well Ward has been standing too far of his winger, and continuing to back away for four seasons, the goal, deja vue, groundhog day, his lack of pace and mobility is so obvious and damaging to the team, anything he does going forward is irrelevant.
Of course having Berra next to Ward is another joke, another too slow and inept, the goal, and the two really good chances Leicester missed were from play down our left side. Too many players with not enough pace or mobility, Foley, O`Hara, SEB – misses a free header and hits the outside of a post when he should have scored.
Danny Batth – well done mate, our best defender, I`d play him instead of Johnson or Berra every time. Too good to go down, definately not, needed five or six new players yes, did we get any – no, well we will get what we deserve and lets just hope we can survive and the manager gets to build his new team out of the calamatous wreckage of this season.
Welcome on board Mark, hopefully many more fans will follow your example, to care about something often means taking tough and painful decisions, to do nothing is easier but much less effective, once again good on you Mark.
Ok! abandon this bad shaped ship in turbulent waters. Such supporters ain’t worthy of a wolves jersey anyway! We’re in better shape now than in years!
Karlir -
Have we been watching the same team for years?
‘We are in better shape than in years……’
How you can deduce that is beyond my comprehension.
You are deluded and people like you will ruin our club, some people care about the club enough to bring about necessary change, if you genuinely think the last two years point tous being in great shape then you obviously do not go to the games.
Like all disasters this has not happened suddenly and has been a long time coming. In common with other disasters it is a set of circumstances that fall into place that no one addresses until its too late.
Moxey was bought in by Sir Jack to bring in SOME financial controls after the golden tit era.
This was needed and no argument there, at the time it seemed it would be a short term assignment, not the total take over of our great club by a Footballing moron.
When we got to the prem the first time, I have absolutley no doubt it was Poxey who scared Sir Jack from making the investments Jones wanted. Two things have always stuck with me since that era.
1) Right after the play of final Dave jones commented that now the emphasis will switch from me to Jez and his boys, he has a list of players we would like and he has a lot of work to do to get us ready for this. Well we know what happened.
2) After Moxeys first Premier meeting he blurted about it being a whole new game and that they were talking numbers that were amazing. He looked like a deer in the headlights and was clearly out of his depth.
Subsequent events confirmed he was.
Why then is he still around 10 years later.
Happenstance, good fortune and being in the right place.
I can only believe that he was the main driver in brokering in the sweet heart deal between Sir Jack and Morgan. Whose side was he really on and is this payback time.
Since then he has taken his remit to the extreme and wrecked the club. Yes wrecked it.
He has been through the full list of posing that always happens with people out of their depth.
We have a plan
We know best.
We are smarter than others and are going to do it diferently
We have a better plan
It is some one elses fault (other teams, players and finally the manager)
We have an even better plan
And now the arrogant corned rat silence. Its nothing to do with the fans its our train set, we dont have to justify anything.
Please tell us what the plan is maybe its a good one and we are on track. Maybe the plan is to get us established in League 2. Tells us please tell us. Us fools thought it was the Premiership maybe we got it wrong and dont understand.
When us fans of 50 and 60 years die hard love and loyality decide there is nothing left to support and start walking, yes my friends he has wrecked it.
Revenue will dry up and moxeys only way of dealing with that will be further cuts. Its a self fulfilling prophecy. Have seen it so many times in business, most any numbers man can run a business right into the ground balancing the books all the way down the death spiral.
He has failled miserably and 10/12 years is more than enough. I do intend using all my efforts and methods to get a personall letter to Morgan may or maynot succeed but I want in a polite and business like manner to make him aware life long free sppending fans are desolate and walking away. Moxey has destroyed our support. these are people who having made the decision will not easily be won back.
Brilliant post NY Wolf, good luck with the letter, it is about time some one got an answer from Doddy Morgan, his approach is positive proof that silence is not always golden.
When fans like us have had enought things are desperate.
What happened to all the promises of taking the franchise globally and reaching out to the youngsters of the Midlands.
I will share developmments.
Good luck with the boycott, I know how much that hurts but I guess these guys are making it easier.
Like NY wolf and many others I have been watching Wolves for close to 60 years. Back then Wolves were giants of the game – arguabley, following games against the likes of Honved, rated the best in the world. We were giants – then bit by bit we became sleeping giants. Then just sleeping – now we are slipping into a coma and in danger of entering a vegetative state from which there will bo no coming back.
Mr Moxey, Mr Morgan can you hear me – you are killing our beautiful team
Watched the game on Sky, thought we played the ball around the park well, slowed the game down to our tempo and not Leicester’s, which considering they were at home wasn’t bad, and we certainly looked like the team more likely to win it after Sako’s thunderbolt so it was a sickener to concede to a breakaway killer goal.
Now the bad points.
Stephen Ward….back off, back off, back off, back off…twist left, twist right….turn back on the ball….goal….and then scream at Berra rolling about on the floor for some strange reason???….awful player, shouldn’t get another game in the Old Gold shirt.
Karl Henry….better game once we equalised, although he shouldn’t have been on the pitch after the disgraceful challenge he made in the first half, Ref bottled sendinging him off, he was massively lucky not to go and then when he finds himself in space instead of shooting, like everyone watching must have been crying out for him to do, he stops, does his little twirly round in a circle thing, allowing defenders time to get back….if he plays, he should never be further than 15 yards in front of our centre backs….full stop.
Substitutions, 2-1 down, 5 mins left (8 with added time) and we bring Davis on whilst leaving Cassidy and Doyle on the bench?…surely that was the time to gamble and throw another man up top, not another crab passing midfielder…pass left, pass right….never forward….even the commentator was bemused by that Saunders decision?
I haven’t even mentioned the Sako push in the box, another pen he nearly gave away….don’t ask him to defend, he can’t, leave him up top at all times!!
Basically we could have been down to 10 men and of had a penalty given against us on top of losing 2-1 so looking on the bright side, a 2-1 loss wasn’t bad….and this is where we have come to, believing that we might just be able to compete because our keeper passes to one of our defenders from his goal, and that defender passes to one of our midfielders….praise be, we are improving….really hope I am wrong but it’s still a skin of the teeth job just to stay in this league this season.
UTW
Best team selection all season and easily the best performance. Not great but certainly miles better than anything Solbakken served up. Sadly, playing well and losing means relegation.
Still we’ve signed Lee Evans, who in time will no doubt be the new Eggert Jonsson. And never mind the players we didn’t sign, what about the ones we didn’t sell, eh? They don’t even need to be injured anymore. The club has come up with a new way to spin the message that players who were already in the team are back ‘like new signings’.
I know a lot of people are fond of Doyle (I’m not and in my opinion his absence yesterday was one of the improvements) but when the Express & Star’s Tim Nash tweeted yesterday that he’d asked the Irishman if he was staying, the lack of enthusiasm in his response was palpable: “Looks like it”. It seems counter-intuitive that we’d be better off by letting players go but the departures of Zubar and Stearman, the head-turning offer for Doyle and suspension of Johnson at least enforced some refreshing changes. I, for one, was glad KD was on the bench. At least if they give him somewhere to sit, it saves me having to watch him lying down.
It was just like watching Brazil, no wait, Barca or was it Real Madrid. Seriously, we passed the ball out from the back pretty well especially in the 2nd half. The defending by the full backs lost us the game, the lack of clinical finishing by Seb lost us the opportunity to win the game. We need two full backs and a stricker whose conversion rate is better than 1 goal in 4 very good chances. Get these and we will be
O.K. Keep the faith.
And for those of you who suggest staying away at the next home game, who are you really hurting? Morgan, Moxey, don’t think so, they are here to stay regardless what all you bloggers say. Did Glasgow Rangers fans desert their team in their hour of need, they went into liquidation, demoted to the basement of SFL, yes they were angry, upset and mad but glad they still had a team to support and they did exactly that SUPPORT in tens of thousands. Why, because its THEIR TEAM, THEIR LIFE, THEIR BLOOD. I sit in the South Bank every home game, yes I moan when we play crap, yes I wish we could go out and splash the cash, I wish I wish I wish but I would never stop showing my support for the club I love, IT’S MY TEAM! MY LIFE! MY BLOOD. Every painfull defeat makes that one victory taste the sweeter.
WE ARE WOLVES. !!!!!!!
The full backs were both attacking when the opposition broke out. They can’t be in 2 places at once. Batth and Berra were the cover. Berra should have challenged and held up the attacker for the first goal while Ward ran back to central defence. The fact that ward got back at all was a miracle.
On the second goal Batth had 2 guys to mark, he went for Nugent (slightly late) and he curled a great shot round him and into the net. But none of that was foleys fault, when we had possession he was exactly where he needed to be; he had no chance of getting back.
Just for the record, Batth had a good game and I don’t blame him for the goal, he did the best any defender would have in that situation.
I went through all you mentioned and more during the dark days of the Bhattis and know when enough is enough, blind support is pointless if it causes damage to the thing you are supporting, it is a question of choosing not to back a regime that is hurting the club, is that not worth the effort, some people are willing to fight for what they care for in the way they see fit while others sit by the wayside and hope for the best.
It grieves me something chronic to say it but ‘Mongo the Builder’ and his sidekick ‘The Bonus Kid’ have just about killed off my interest in Wolves. I simply can’t take any more sh*te from either of them. I have reached the limit of my tolerance with both of them. It is blatantly apparent to me that neither of these assholes give a tuppenny damn for Wolves. All they care about is wonga, dosh, spondulicks, dough, cash and their own personal bankroll opportunities. So sorry Wolves, my lovely club, but I’m bailing out. I’ve had enough and that’s all there is to it.
You are making the right choice, a difficult but correct choice,.
This is the terrible tragedy unfolding, a I said yesterday I have to admit I am feeling the same.
Look I will always be a true Old Gold and Black bloodied guy. I will never lose that. I am also the kind of guy that always gets behind the team when i am at a game. But what is destoying me is the absolute lies bullshit and drivel they are feeding us. They are either incredibly incompetent or they know exactly what they are doing. But Mr Moxey and Mr Morgan please do not insult my intelligence. We are not dumb we know whats going on but we love the club too much to really believe what we are seeing. None of us wants to believe what your are doing wither deliberatly or by stupidity. But after years and years of it the period of appeasment has long since expired, we have finally and reluctantly realised. We all wanted to see the best side not the worst we have been way to forgiving.
You run an entertainment business steeped in glorius history. Not a F****n sweetie shop.
Either put a product on the fieild (and i dont meean houses Mr Morgan) or pay the consequences (like we are0 or simply just piss of.
You’re absolutely right.
The time comes when you’ve heard so much ‘spin’ (e.g. “we’re all behind the manager”, “he’s one for the future”, “all it takes is three wins on the trot”) that you no longer bother even to listen any more.
Can anyone give me details about BRIDGEMERE GROUP. They apparently own us. Not Steve Morgan.