‘The law is not a buffet at your local Harvester — you can’t pick and choose the laws to which you intend to adhere and those you will flout.’
These wise words from a Spectator journalist were publicised by the RSPCA on transfer deadline day, during their battle with a cold hearted fiend and his poor unsuspecting dog.
It caught my eye as I trawled twitter on the most distracting day of the football season, desperate for one morsel of goodness like a starved Pug.
As tick followed tock, our pigment paled and our croup began to crumble.
Like the injured, helpless breed defended by the good guys, we summon up one last drop of energy to stifle a dry yelp to our cruel owner.
The one who picks and chooses which laws to adhere to.
We limp towards his scuffed, toecapped shoes, wagging our tails like we’ve never been hurt before and paw gently at his ankles for a drop of affection.
Steve Morgan knew better, jolting sideways and booting us in the tummies we were so desperate he’d tickle.
Another transfer deadline day and a final crumb of hope snatched away like a roughhouse dog owner.
As Dean Saunders expressed his glee at his phone being off at the very time we all wanted it on, the realisation finally dawned that Steve Morgan couldn’t give a shit.
The man who promised the earth on the centre spot in 2010, yet refuses to pay for a player capable of playing on it in 2013.
While WBA moan about Peace, Spurs whinge about Levy, an ever dwindling group of mistreated Wolves fans have barely the fortitude to muster up a bark.
The potent Natalie Sawyer barely raises an erection these days, as her bountiful yellow glory fades to grey.
Where Jim White’s glib repertoire once raised a smile, only grimaces can now be summoned.
‘Hoops fans cock-a-Hoop with Hooper,’ he droned.
Back on twitter, when asked if he was staying at Wolves, Kevin Doyle graced an emaciated audience with: ‘It looks like it.’
In a season where just one jot of good news would be welcomed like Steve Bull’s 307th goal, Steve Morgan sits in the Harvester on transfer deadline day.
He salivates over his 12in steak as we slowly starve to death.
Steve Morgan has lied to us and is robbing us. I have been a season ticket holder, corporate hospitality member and occasional corporate sponsor for nearly 40 years. As much as it kills me to write this, I have decided I will not bless Wolves with my patronage for a day longer than the end of this season, when my current season ticket expires, until he and Moxey have left our club. For all the lows and occasional highs and all the range of emotions I have felt towards my beloved club, and for all the managers, players and officers of the club in that time, I have never ever felt that I was being treated like a complete c*** in exchange for my hard earned cash. But today I do. So goodbye Wolves for now…………. in my heart I love you with every inch of my soul but today I make my own little personal stand against the enemy from within that wishes to destroy you.
That’s so sad.
Unfortunately and quite depressingly I’ve got nothing better to do with my spare time.
I, along with an ever diminishing number of mugs, will be back next year.
Sutton wolf. We have a lot in common.
I’ve followed Wolves for over 55 years, purchased 4 corporate season tickets in the original presidents club (36 original members) and have (along with2 other family members) been season ticket holders since 1996.
I just cannot see how my loyalty to Wolves over this time can be so blatantly shat on by a semi billionaire who along with Moxey has contrived to lie, spin and convince me of their vision for the club whereby we would become an established premier league team. That money would be spent and that Wolves would be restored to a form of their former glory. It’s clear that it was just a huge pack of lies. I too am finding it very difficult to justify returning after May5 has been and gone. PLEASE MORGAN GIVE TIME TO ME AND MANY OTHERS TO LISTEN TO US.
Enough is enough,f….n pissed off!
that leaves me feeling that you speak for many more fans than yourself..truly bewildering as to what they are up to isnt it? i would be suprised to hear that any one with real football ability would want to join the wolves any way with the way we are being run. pride comes before a fall mr morgan! beware!!
Sutton Wolf, well said. Its disgusting what’s happening at Wolves with these two knuckle heads running this club. In one of my previous blogs, I noted the money that’s been spent by Morgan on his dream homes etc, has left the club in a very delicate situation.
I believe the money’s gone, I really do. No money left to buy good or half decent players either.
Depressed in Atlanta…
Brilliant blog Ben.
I don’t know what to say anymore – I feel it’s all been said before by others more eloquent than me and there is nothing that I can add to even begin to voice my frustration.
There is so much I don’t understand, off the pitch there are so many contradictions and so much that just doesn’t add up. On the pitch I don’t understand our tactics, our selections or our substitutions. I’ve grown weary of asking when no answers are forthcoming. I feel totally shafted but not in a nice way.
I’m becoming more and more convinced that we really fc*k*d up big time getting rid of Staale. It’s the players he brought in that look the bizz and if he’d been backed he’d have brought in more of similar quality and got shot of the dross. Instead we target Marlon King – Sheffield Wolf’s post in the previous blog summed it up perfectly. He’d have changed our way of playing – wasn’t that the plan? Now I want to cry – a chance to change our history gone begging. I can see the players Staale brought in being sold in the summer for ones that “put in a shift”. I too feel worse than when the Bhattis were in charge because it is worse than when the Bhattis were in charge.
At least the Bhattis were trying to asset strip the club. The current dynamic duo don’t have that cunning – they just don’t know what they’re doing – or even what they should be trying to do. Make Laurel and Hardy look like Leonardo Da Vinci.
Yes, we are better off financially now but that is one of the things that makes it worse. We had the money to bring in the players SS wanted but wouldn’t spend it for some reason only known by M&M.
So the Morgan hammer drives another nail into the relegation coffin and his architect greedily works out how many houses he can fit in to each penalty area.
Morgan you are not fit to run this football club and it is time you were gone.
Totally agree its about time the Scouse leech caught that ferry cross the Mersey!!!
Well put mate, i really want to put something worthy as a reply but i’ve been sat here for 20 mins and can barely muster a word. The apathy has completely taken over. People in work don’t even ask me about Wolves any more, i just get a look of pity after each game and might get a comforting comment about how ‘Evans looks like one for the future’. I’d only have one reply to that – I don’t want to think about our future.
Thanks for another top blog
Bally, is your first name Richard by any chance?
No Kwolf, but his surname is ‘Bollock’, hence Bally nickname
Thanks for clearing that up Ben!
Wouldn’t actually be surprised if we get relegated this season now unless we pull in some decent players in the emergency loan window.
No transfer fees means they might seem a bit more appealing though. Very depressed though. We’re been taken for a ride here.
I thought my protesting days were over after the “Marshall must go” campaign. Looks like it’s time to start warming up the vocal chords again!
Just shout, Morgan out ! And take ur greasy accomplice with you
Even allowing for buying players in any transfer window is a bit like playing poker, even Harry at QPR said he wouldn`t be signing any players – and look what they have done. There will always be contradictions and smokescreens, but as ever it goes back to what the club puts on the pitch to play the games that count.
If Morgan really was a Liverpool fan, and had ever watched the great Shankly & Paisley sides, surely he would know when players were fit for purpose or not. Half of the current Wolves side (thanks to MM and Moxey) are clearly not fit for purpose, lacking in mobility and pace, and instead of sorting these problems out, they sack the manager. Four of these in a year just sums up the gross failures of the owner and CEO of our great club, they should be hanging thier heads in shame, and explain where exactly is the transfer cash, the parachute cash.
No more home matches for me this season despite my season ticket, will go to Barnsley & Forest, then give my gardens some overdue tlc on the other saturdays.
Well said Ben, an excellent article.
Somehow we have been fooled again.
I was initially optimistic about Saunders appointment, but am now feeling really mugged off.
Did Morgan and Moxey appoint him to keep attendances up at Molineux?
Was it the cheap option, compared with the players Ståle wanted in and out, during the transfer window?
I am beginning to think so.
Ståle’s signings will be the first players sold in the summer and probably either abroad or Premier league teams.
I hope it isn’t the case but fear it will be.
Wolves, the team I supported since a boy, has become a subsidiary of Redrow Inc.
All that has happened since Morgan’s arrival, in terms of investment, has been in his building company.
During a housing market recession, Morgan spent his money building not a team, but a new stand and luxury apartments.
Something that Redrow, despite the Chairman’s supposed wealth, might not have been able to do, during a period of economic stagnation, without that turnstile money coming in, those parachute payments, etc.
I cannot understand why we didn’t let E-Blanks Blake, Doyle & Ward go during the transfer window.
We are better off with anyone at left back than Ward.
Morgan doesn’t care about Wolves except in relation to his other businesses.
I hate to say it, but people should vote with their money and stay away.
It’s tragic in a way.
Even as a child I travelled a lot.
Fortunately I missed most of the Bhatti Bros debacle, cos I lived in either New York or Ibiza during the 80′s.
However as a late teenager we moved to near Kidderminster.
I was lucky.
Myself and a fellow six former from school, would go to Molineux on his Scooter, me perched pillion fashion.
Saturday afternoons being enthralled by the likes of Dougan, Wignall, Waggie, Bailey, Knowles etc.
In those days, the idea of Wolves playing Kidderminster in the league was laughable, but now I’m not so sure…
I know why we didn’t let Ebanks go, because he’s our best striker and top scorer!!!!!!
He is our top scorer because he always plays.
In my opinion give Cassidy or Ziggy, a similar run in the team, they would score more.
He was good when we were promoted, but has gone downhill ever since.
Well, to be fair, a lot of fans were crying out for the appointment of a British manager towards the end of Solbakken’s reign.
After he left, and the appointment of the less-than-impressive Saunders, comments made by players clearly indicated that Ståle did not have the dressing room with him. It made me sick. Morgan has no idea on how to run a football club, Moxey is counting the money and the players are in charge. With Henry as the leader – a player who clearly would not have a future under Ståle with a more continental playing style – they simply did not give enough. I cannot understand how they can look themselves in the mirror.
Then Saunders came along – same mould as Mick – just worse. He speaks the language of Henry. Hard work, hoof and hope football, and no tactical inginuity. His style may work in division 3 but we will never challenge for promotion again with him. But he is probably cheap since he has no merits to his name as a manager. And it will probably stay that way.
I agree Clemens and was optimistic about Saunders, but this transfer window and results, speak for themselves.
Also the gulf in class between Ståle’s players and McCarthy’s is very apparent.
i dont think morgan wanted deano as a cheap alternative. 1- he (morgan) hasnt a clue about football . 2-nobody above league 1 would touch wolves with a bargepole . judging by what weve seen since morgan mugged sir jack im suprised we got deano in instead of having to beg blue square teams to let us speak to their gaffers. dark days are beckoning!
10 Steps to ruin a club.
No.1 – Following promotion to the premier league bang on about how we are not going to break the bank, both the management and board fail to acknowledge the failings of our defence, that the outstanding player (Craddock) was near to retirement and we had no replacement. Hire a decent left back come winger in Surman then refuse to play him.
No.2 – Following survival again fail to invest in defense instead buying a player who was cheap but didn’t fit Van Damme and Moyokolo (bad luck with injury)
No.3 – Following survival invest in the single most slow defender I have seen in Johnson because he was cheaper than Scott Dann. Promote him to captain ousting long term servant and fan of club Henry. Refuse to armband off player despite him obviously not giving a shit and insulting his fellow players.
No. 4-Fail to sack failing manager before transfer window.
No. 5-When presented with chance to hire experienced candidate who want’s the job (Curbishley). Piss him about so much that he refuses. Give job to complete imbecile saying it was the best choice available.
No. 6-After hiring new progressive manager, sell or release all key assets for an obscene profit before he can assess them. Then fail to back him to get his number 1 or 2 target central defenders because they cost too much.
No. 7- Completely undermine progressive manager by signing players on loan who he doesn’t want or need.
No. 8- Sack progressive manager after 6 months (suspiciously after he’s delivered his targets for transfer window) despite telling him he had time to make the long term changes the team. Sack his entire coaching staff despite waiting 13 years to do this previously.
No. 9- Leave the sacking until suspiciously close to the transfer window so new manager has no time to assess squad or make list of targets.
No. 10 – Appoint novice manager with no track record and who’s playing style is the opposite of what is needed in the modern game. Proceed to release key players and loan players to your nearest relegation rivals with no replacement
When you write it down it’s just insane.
FOSM FOJM FODS give us back our club
other club’s supporters only have to hold the manager solely responsible we unfortunately have a pair of wank dabblers.
F.O.Y.P.O.C.
You missed out the museum farce. Charging fans £7 to see their history. Morgan and moxey, you stink!
send it to morgan and wait for a reply…? or like the rest of us become so lethargic and dont bother cos silence will be your reply.
How many ” ones for the future ” have we seen disappear on the bench for weeks not getting a game 10 minutes here and there. Hamilton, Griffiths they we’re also ones for the future never given a real chance. suspect the same fate for this lad Evans and also the lad currently warming the bench Cassidy, give them false hope and then loan them out when they complain and eventually sell them on then they’ll return with there new club and score the winner against us. That’s what’s really frustrating me at the moment I’ve said all that can be said about Morgan and Moxey and sad that Sutton Wolf is not renewing his season ticket but totally understandable and justified but why bother spending all that money on Premier Academy if you then let the talent you’ve nurtured rot on the bench
That should read Hamill not Hamilton for all you picky f..kers.
The one thing that really winds me up, was that I wasn’t surprised by our nearly non-existant dabble in the market.
How many of the current crop would end up in this
http://www.wolvesblog.com/276/we-all-dream-of-a-team-of-gary-breens
Is Ben thinking of a re-write of it
I have made a stupid decision my heart has ruled my head. I am going to the Leeds game
last time I was at The Mol was Sheff Wed.
Talk on this blog of Waggy and Doog-I will be blissfully remembering former games against Dirty Leeds
as I gaze over the stadium that I first came to as a 6 year old.
Can’t believe we are where we are. Keep hoping some sense can be made of it all. Hoping my drive back to Norwich will prove to be a better journey than for the last few seasons.
What else have we got…..
FO MORGAN AND MOXEY.
UTW
nice one alf….the 70s – now that was a great era! makes me want to look on net and watch some of those great games plaed by REAL men!
‘treasure chest’? ‘bankrolling promotion’? – utter bullshit.
a club interested in figures, not football.
and when DS says he’ll have a team pushing for promotion next season, it will of course be from League One.
Disappointed but not surpised that we didn’t indulge in the transfer market and a market it is. what it is,especially when we haven’t any money to buy with,even though we have accumulated
£170 mil over the last 3 years.
we ask where has it gone, we all know where, F##kin REDROW Compton.
Well ben and thomas,i’m here again asking for that petition.
NO Confidence in the way our club is being run.F.OFF MORGAN F.OFF MOXEY.
PISSED OFF!!!
I think it’s time I made a confession to you all.
Ben’s blogs have increasingly torn at my heart strings of late. The rawness of his suffering so apparant in the poetry of his prose that it compounds my own hurt a millionfold.
And why should I be so affected? Well, wouldn’t any father do anything he could to ease his son’s pain? But for maybe the first time since Ben was born I feel utterly helpless in the face of the hopelessness of hurt that supporting M&Ms wwfc has become.
He’s a fourth generation Wolves fan and it’s all my fault. Sorry son. We all deserve better than this.
Many of us (told repeatedly to f*ck off down the A****n) have raised concerns over the financial integrity of the club, the agenda of M&M, the catalogue of catastrophes that have blighted us as well as many footballing decisions. Maybe the following I came accros today will point to some of the answers.
Although I can’t possibly vouch for the accuracy of this statement, it’s a compelling read and a plausible explanation of just how we’ve come to this. Maybe now the E&S will grow some journalistic bollocks and unearth the truth?
“In late April 2012, just a matter of days after Wolves had officially been relegated, Steve Morgan as Chairman and largest shareholder in Redrow threw the dice on an £80m punt on the London property market.
The result of which is what is currently impacting his financial commitment to Wolverhampton Wanderers.
I have wanted to put this on here for ages but TBH I could never be bothered to write it all out as its long and I am lazy. But after yesterday I should prob pull my finger out. So, in short here we go……..
· In early 2012, Morgan owned 29.9% of Redrow and sat as Chairman of the company.
· He knew at this time that he wanted to eventually make a formal offer to buy all the shares in the company and take it Private
· But he wanted to make sure that there was lots of financial upside for him when he made that move.
· Redrow had not historically operated in London
· Morgan knew (as does anyone with half a brain) that in terms of property London is the safest place to be in UK given demand and price stability
· Morgan created a new London division at Redrow and in March 2012, launched its first major central London development — One Commercial Street, near Aldgate East tube station — to buyers in Asia
· Given the speed and price at which this development sold out, Morgan attempted to do something very shady in my view
· In late April 2012, Redrow, guided by Morgan as Chairman sought to raise £80m for a continued London expansion via a share placing.
· Morgan’s plan was to raise cheap equity at Redrow from existing public shareholders to fund some initial land purchases in London
· He would then make an offer to buy the company in full and if successful, Morgan would be able to take all the financial upside of actually putting houses/apartments on the land purchased
· Under the terms of the share issue, Bridgemere (Morgan’s investment vehicle) would fully underwrite the £80m offer – which means that any shares not take up would have to be purchased by Bridgemere (so effectively Morgan)
· Unfortunately for Morgan, shareholders of Redrow failed to take up the majority of the firm’s £80m share placing with just a quarter of the new shares taken up by the market
· This meant that Morgan and his investment vehicle Bridgemere were forced to take up the remainder.
· Of just over 60 million new shares issued just 12 million were taken up, or 26%.
· As such Morgan and Bridgemere had to stump up just under £60m to buy up the shares for his failed placement.
· This was clearly not his plan and he just had a massive unplanned cash outflow
· Later in 2012 Morgan joined up with one of Redrows other large shareholders Toscafund to launch a formal bid for the company.
· Morgan’s plan was to buy the company then recapitalise it. He would have raised debt on Redrows balance sheet top fund a dividend to him and Tosca as shareholders which would have enabled him to claw back some of the £60m
· Unfortunately, his bid to takeover the company failed in October 2012 after Fidelity Investments (plus others) said his 152p per share offer undervalued the business. The stock currently trades at 190p so they were right
· So, if you are wondering where the Wolves war chest or transfer kitty is…there you have it
· Morgan would still have though t that up until late October he would have been able to raise new funds
· He failed, and as such he simply does not have the liquid cash resources to fund a transfer spree at Wolves
· This is not to say the money at Wolves from paler sales, parachute payments etc. is not there. I am just saying the Morgan himself just got hosed and no longer has the cash people think he does
· Asset rich. Cash poor.”
This just proves that all I’ve been saying for ages is true, he has never had any intention of taking an interest in the playing side of the club, just stealing as much as he can.
Some one needs to do some deep investigative journalism, and that immediately rules out E & S, to uncover all the shady goings on, and to find out just how corrupt this fucking bastard is, with a view to seeing the fucker in court, alongside his toady, greasel.
No fire without smoking and all that bollocks, something illegal must have happened.
Let’s sue the prick, and see how many Redrow chimneys he can see from a prison cell window!!
Scooped .. I’m sitting next to a fucking genius.. Absolutely first class analogy of the ginger twat and his d&$@y dealings. .. All designed to make him some more money and screw some other fucker in the meantime..
Well your last few words are very dangerous for him. In so much that ALL successfull businesses need cash flow to pay their way. Money tied up in assets is bad when the cash cow gets CJD. (MAD cow disease)
By not funding Morgan this could force his hand to sell (ie the need to generate cash) . I truly hope the wheels fall off his car, his houses don’t sell, his hotel business collapses and Redrow get some bad press. This is looking like something decidedly iffy.
Yo Twixy, let’s not go overboard.
“Fucking” genius.
Not what I’ve been told!!!
There is no doubt that Morgan is robbing Peter, (Wolves) to pay Paul (Redrow).
Ultimately they will both suffer but firstly Wolves…….
While I cannot in anyway consider myself a supporter of Mr. Morgan I would say be careful of what you wish for. I have lived in the Isle Of Wight since 1988 and as such am surrounded by a mixture of both Southampton and Pompey supporters. Both have had their problems since I have been here with chairmen and owners. However if you take the recent antics at Pompey as a lesson in what can happen when big money investors take over a club it tends to make you wary of crying out for a new owner. Most Pompey supporters would gladly swap their clubs position and finances for ours as they have been well and truly shafted over the last 10 years or so by owners, chief executives and a very dodgy, albeit successful manager. Most of them had never heard of the infamous Bhatti brothers and were both interested and horrified to hear my stories surrounding their tenure at Molineux. That could never happen at Fratton Park they said, well it did and it just got worse and worse. The only real hope they now have of saving the club is to buy it themselves. This will leave them with just a glimmer of hope that they can rekindle the club.
So, as I say, unless you know a multimillionaire true Wolves fan that would be willing to buy the club be careful about what you wish.
I think there has to be some middle ground.
I look at what Newcastle and QPR have spent in the transfer window to preserve their premiership status. Now I’m not saying we can afford the same amount but when we were in a similar position last year we spent Jack Sh*t.
It’s the same story this year when we are fighting to preserve championship status – we spend b*gg*r all.
It was the same story last summer with the centre backs Staale wanted to bring in and ultimately, I believe his desire to strengthen the side was a major contributing factor to getting him the sack.
Go back even further and look how Mick was hamstrung in the summer of 2011 when it was obvious we needed to strengthen having just managed to avoid relegation.
This is what I fail to understand. Being a premiership side didn’t seem to matter to them and I don’t think they’d lose too much sleep if we got relegated again. If they did care then they would have freed up some money for players.
We’ve got the money from the transfers, from 3 seasons in the premiership, from parachute payments, from reduced salaries and of course the substantial treasure chest. There is absolutely no need for us to be in this situation. I agree that our squad is too big and I too want to see some of the crud dispatched to other clubs but to suggest we have to sell before we can buy is ludicrous. Even more ludicrous and contradictory are the comments from Jezzer and Deano that the present squad is good enough.
Thoroughly agree. The reason I cannot take to Morgan is that he appears unwilling to back his managers or their judgment, so why hire them in the first place. I suspect the original post is on the nail and he has used the cash to bale out the other part of his empire.
Thanks Scooped,
It make for an interesting read.
I have to confess I don’t actually understand all of it, not being a business man.
It pretty much backs up what a lot on here have thought for a long time, that he is milking the club to finance other things.
As Owner that is his right.
I think the “scouse Mafia” banner should come back next week.
As for “where’s the Money gone” Well there it is in Black and white…
join up and lets get the two twats out
https://www.facebook.com/groups/516392735061828/
I am as disappointed as any Wolves fan at the lack of activity in the Jan transfer window,I am concerned we are going to get relegated,again, and I was about the first to express my concerns that building a new stand would restrict the funds available for teambuilding.BUT,I do not believe for a minute that Steve Morgan is asset stripping or ‘robbing us blind’.There are about 58 million people in this Country and there are less than 150 people who are richer than him.Since 2008 he has turned Redrow round and as Scooped says above the current share price is on the up.The reason other shareholders did not agree to the proposed takeover was,I understand,because they wanted to have a piece of future projected profits.So I don’t think the cuurent frustrations we have are due to cash flow issues.In my opinion Steve Morgan and Jez Moxey are merely taking a hard nose business approach in running our beloved football club .They want to make another profit and have to pay off extra costs for the new stand,instead of £18m it cost £20m,pay off the training ground at another £7m,and fund Stales’ severance package. In my opinion what they are doing is strategically wrong,but they are doing nothing financially wrong.
Theoretically speaking you may be correct Chris, but who built the new stand and training ground? –
Redrow….
The investment of funds promised or due WWFC were really used to ‘boost’ this share price and turn Redrow round.
I do not know where u live but there are more than 150 people in RBKC who are wealthier than Morgan, they may not be British, but then neither are the chairmen of every successful Premiership team.
On paper u r correct Chris but it is ripping off the football club, robbing Peter to pay Paul. It may be considered good business but it is morally depraved and stinks.
I wouldn’t try and excuse it by accountancy…
When all is shit at wolves at least one of our players isnt so desperate to leave, that they drive to another clubs ground and sit in their car begging that club to buy him. How embarrassing for the a****n. FOWB
I am on record here stating I still had not lost faith in SM.I have now.Thursday 31st January was the final day we could trade some of the deadwood-we all know their names-for something better.DS is on record as saying he would only bring in players better than those he already had. FFS, I could show him 50 players now.Just players with a bit of ‘want to win’ mentality.I had deep reservations about DS when his appointment was announced and I really want him to prove me wrong.He’s already proved he can ‘talk the talk’. Boy can he talk.It’s just a shame most of it is a complete load of bollocks.
Hello Walsall,Shrewsbury,Gillingham,etc. Mr Morgan,please F O.
Ben, that was a three handkerchief blog.
I’m still trying to dry out my keyboard.
All true Wolves fans – and that means everyone who contributes to this blog – feel for you and feel like you.
I was thinking that if we all clubbed together we could get Clive to arrange for a hit man to come over from Mobland and do what most of us feel like doing.
Shoot the bastards!
Except he’d need a wooden stake to finish off The Dark Duo.
They’re bleeding the life out of the club.
Where is our Van Helsing?
An announcement on the radio made me smile amidst the horrors going on at our club.
MM has a virus so Clipboard is in charge of Ipswich’s game! LOL.
And people wanted to sack McCarthy, haha. It’s the people upstairs not the manager. We have the same people upstairs, downgraded the manager and sold the best players = failure no matter what league we are in. McCarthy is 7/4/6 at Ipswich so far. Wolves 9/10/24 since his dismissal.
I’m gonna try really hard and place one tiny positive to this dust cloud that just won’t settle.
If we had managed to purchase a few new bodies to boost our survival chances there would have been every possibility of the mind virus that the majority of our players are plagued with catching. Like fishes caught in a net, the weak are oblivious and don’t fight but the few strong ones with some challenge try hard to make a break. Eventually without support they too give up and swim around in the net and forget how to be bothered.
We really do need a fresh palette with all players on the same charge, same enthusiasm, pride. Right now every man playing the games given, no matter how bad they may be or drained of talent and ability, they must know that we are on their backs.
I can’t believe that not one of them reads blogs such as these or papers or local soirts radio talk shows. They must be fully aware of the nicknames we all have for them, the picking apart of every stride and kick of every second of every match be it a victory or the usual failure. I’m as guilty for having a pop at them as much as the next man. It’s not nice though to be hated and unwanted and then we wonder why they want to leave the club. We are just as guilty for some of the turmoil.
What is missing right now from Wolverhampton Wanderers? Unity. The players have none, the idiots upstairs have never heard of the word before and the only unity we the fans have is in our negativity. Yes it’s hard for us having no reward week in week out but the negative attitude is seeping through every pore of this treasured soul of a club of ours. We can start the dominos moving again because it ain’t gonna happen elsewhere for a while.
We need a clean canvas, wherever we are for the star of the next season and right now that requires planning, performance and participation. For that, everybody is responsible.
Sorry for rambling.
Good comment – clean canvas – wasn’t this why Staale was brought in?????
Jeez, wednesday and ipswich both win, 2 points and 1 place from the drop zone.
Sheff Wed 35
Ipswich 35
Bolton 34
WOLVES 33
Barnsley 31
Bristol C. 28
Posh 27
I think you can officially call that a Red Alert on the pitch and a continuing Crisis off it……..
Not just them, but Barnsley and Blues won too, Ady. A horrible set of results for Wolves. Things are awful even when we’re not playing.
Must Beat Leeds!
It really does want to make you weep!! What has happened to this once mighty club is truly shocking and deeply sad.
Losing at home to Leeds is almost a foregone conclusion IMHO. Bottom 3 by the end of next week and we’ll likely stay there until the end of the season.
The Dirty Leeds game now is a must win or we are doomed.
Bad results today, its like De.ja vu all over again.
This situation is more grave than the exit from the prem,
what a load of dejecta.They ain’t gonna do anything so its down to us!!!
now is the time to get behind the team, fuck the likes of morgan n moxey and the shite board,
lets really get behind the lads and then perhaps we will make a difference and start to win a few games and get us up that league.
Pissed off with all this negativity.FOSM FOJM FOTHE BOARD….
It’s not negativity so much as it’s pragmatism – the team’s form is the worst in the league so why wouldn’t we be relegated. We also have a proven manager – he’s relegated teams to league 1 before.
I know timberwolf we are the worst team in the table at the moment for form, but we are better than that.Like i said its up to us now to try and salvage the rest of the season by getting behind them and to let them know that we are wolves.
and give morgan and moxey the trwo fingers.
And as for deano i think he’s worth a chance,we all know he wanted to bring in a bit more quality but he was denighed because we have no money left in the bank its all been spent on REDROW.!! UTW
i like that johnock cos when m+m leave and mark my words they will, WEwill still be here . makes more sense than destroying whats left of our club. we need some songs that back the players but shout against m+m !
Bring back the Molineaux Roar. For younger ones in the 50′s and 60′s the noise
The crowd made could be heard miles from the ground.
What else is there. I’m not one to lay down and accept defeat.
UTW FO SM and GREASEBALL.
We are now as low as 5/1 for relegation on some books.It looks like easy money if you can bear to back against your club.
5/1 ? I got 40/1 months ago. Could you not see this coming ?
Sorry guys I am so pissed i am just reposting what I said yesterday. I will not do it again.
This is the terrible tragedy unfolding, 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 of you not the worst but 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 are) or better still simply just piss of.
Nice one Ben,
Yes Albi*n fans may moan about Peace some of the time and Spurs never get a word out of Levy but ultimately, the truest of these fans TRUST their man and the teams results on and off the pitch.
I simply don’t trust Morgan. That’s where it starts for me.
Me neither. There’s something not quite right about a bloke who is a self made millionaire several times over but has made such appalling decisions on behalf of Wolves. Had he made similar poor decisions in the property market I suspect he would be bankrupt long ago.
congratulations to M&M.
the legacy of 3 years in the Premiership and of millions made in the transfer market is fourth from bottom in a very mediocre Championship.
Has anyone heard about a so called protest at saturdays game against Dirty Leeds, by wearing red and white scarves in protest to morgan to say where his true loyalties lie Liverpool.
I’m all for giving morgan and moxey the two fingers befor the match and after,but like i said we must get behind the team or else we are doomed.
16 games 48 points to play for so come on wolves lets get going up the table.FOSM FOJM FO,THE BOARD.
Ok, so there 250,000 people that make up the population of Wolverhampton, roughly.
There are also dotted around the nation and the globe ex-inhabitants of Wolverhampton.
Most football fans place their home team to heart and support them even if they do not go to very many games.
I bet even non football fans still know their home team and would still show pride for their part of the country.
Now, that potentially makes hundreds of thousands of Wolverhampton Wanderers supporters of different ages and creed and sex. Potentially. That’s hundreds of thousands of people that actually give a shit in some way about this football club.
We then have just two men that own and run the club who have no passion in the team, the game, the pride or the status of the Wolves. Unless its from a financial standpoint they could not give a damn.
Two men compared to thousands. They should be tried for mass murder because they have killed this club and the soul of every person with connections to it.
Financially, physically, emotionally, mentally we contribute to the running of this club. Surely that makes all of us a part owner of sorts?
I have this picture of being Morgan or Moxey in a bar, somebody asks what they do for a living, they tell them that they run Wolves football club. Anybody with any iota of sports knowledge would ask what the hell they were playing at and do they not give a shit?
100,000′s:2
It’s time we used the power of numbers to put some balance into that ratio of ownership be it in voices, writing or media.
Totally agree Krusty! As a minimum there should be a proper supporters trust with a representative on the board. Think you will find Norwich and possibly Swansea have such arrangements! Perhaps Wolvesblog is the medium to get this started, seeing how we are a collection of Wolves supporters that span the globe!!!!
Surely it is the local paper, The Express and Star, that should be petitioned to investigate this matter on behalf of the local population. They have commercial interests to think of , but their first priority must be to the locals who buy their papers. The board of Directors will not take notice otherwise.
I have this vision of Morgan in a bar, and someone doing an Alun Evans to him.
Just dreaming.
Look up your history you young uns if you dont know who Alun Evans is, or what happened to him.
Wouldnt hurt if greasel was sitting next to him either.
Just sayin’
Nice to see Spurms win today at the sandwell crem.
Well said Krusty,Very well put Sir.
Its about time the two shysters had their come-up-pance.
We need to be very careful.There is no comparison whatsoever between what the Bhatti brothers were up to and Steve Morgan. The Bhattis’ sold anything that moved and more beside. I have from the start ,not just now when results are so bad,criticised the building of a new stand and the training facilities ,but however you look at it these infrastructure projects are tangible and permanent assets that will benefit the club to some degree in the long run.When we were in the Premier ,Steve Morgan did allow the club to spend £40m on players,it should have been more,but it is still a significant amount of money.Problem was the money by and large was not spent wisely.The footballing decisions have been poor,indeed very poor.But that still does not mean we have an owner who is cheating us.We could and probably would end up with a worse owner if Steve Morgan decided to sell. Before Morgan arrived the most likely buyer was a guy named Brian Kennedy who at the time owned Stockport,and you only have to look at what has happened to Stockport to realise what a lucky escape we had.Currently there are lots of questions that need answers,but a knee jerk ‘Morgan out’ campaign could land us in even more trouble. First task in hand is to avoid relegation and then we must hope Steve Morgan gets alot smarter in his footballing decisions.
Or brings in a Director of Football to make these decisions for him.
Couldn’t agree more. The langue he understands is construction so lets be constructive.
There is a ‘happy’ medium, it just requires a less tight fisted attitude. This is a football club and was bought so. It’s not a mechano box with half an old Subuteo set mixed in.
If he wants to continue in his projects then fine but set aside the funds for the running of this club (and it is a business, that much he surely understands) and have somebody tend to the part of the job that he doesn’t seem to know or want to do as mentioned by Steppenwolfe. Surely there are plenty of capable people that don’t need a humongous wage for the job because that position should be one of passion, the success should come from that drive.
They stay out of the footballing business and we stay out of the property business and then maybe everybody wins……
There is a direct comparison between the Bhatti’s and Morgan. Neither of them know how to run a football club.
Under both we will suffer successive relegations.
Under both non league sides knocked us out of the cup
The money spent by both was less than the income gained.
The infrastructure build was Morgan keeping his own companies busy. His companies can’t build large screens for the fans like every other club has so we don’t get them.
He’s a Liverpool man not a Wolves man. Thats why Saunders is hee and not o’driscoll.
This club will go to the wall under Morgan (or his final legacy) – How could anyone else be worse ?
I think you are wrong ,certainly hope so. The Bhattis had gone by the time Chorley knocked us out of the Cup. But they presided over 3 consecutive relegations.They didn’t put any money into the club,borrowed the purchase cost from a bank and left the accumulated debt when the club went into its second period of administration.They took money out of the club.Wolves currently are debt free and it seems to me to be clear from the accounts that Steve Morgan did put in his £30m. At least Steve Morgan is a football fan,the Bhattis knew even less about football than Jez .Steve Morgan is a very rich man,no one ever found out if the Bhattis had any money at all. Things are bad at present,but we still have reasons to be hopeful,under the Bhattis there was no hope.We also need to get things into perspective.I am just reading extracts from a letter from a young lad to his mother…….’my little world is centred around you and dad,everyone at home,my friends at Wolverhampton.That is worth fighting for ,and if that strenghens your security ,and improves your lot, in any way then it is worth dying for too’. 22 year old Ivor Rowberry died at Arnhem,fighting for our freedom.Puts things into perspective,don’t you think?
What happened to Stuart Webber our talent scout? Either he’s having a terribly frustrating time being told no, don’t bother or a whale of a time taking it easy!
Lets hope it’s the former and that he is looking for the summer push. It would be interesting to hear where he has been looking if not at least to strengthen our beliefs that some parts or the back room staff have the clubs runnings to heart and are not just part of the wage bill that could be reduced.
And didn’t we also have a head of recruitment????
Now I hear in the E&S that we are looking to bring in loan signings. In other words we are looking to do it on the cheap again. So fed up with the spin, spin, spin which I am sure c omes from Moxey.
Thsnks scooped, for the info. It was apparent the guy wasn’t into the wolves cause. He wants to make money but wolves is not the cause where he expects to do that. Just a cash cow we are! I think that we will be collateral damage from bad business dealings.
JOSE MOURINHO, Want’s a new challenge so it says in The Sun, mmmm second thoughts perhaps even he could not do anything working for the clowns. FOSM FOJM
Hi Chris h, Would be interested to know where you seen the Wolves accounts,as out of interest I would like to puruse them myself.
Thanks
In The Beano?????
You can get them from the Dandy not the Beano or from Companies House. The football side is Wolverhampton Wanderers(1986)Ltd company reg 1989823 SIC code93120, There is a small charge involved,but they are in the public domain and can be downloaded.Also need to look at Wolves Property and the holding company.
Peter Lansley – of the Times is a Wolves supporter. Perhaps he may try to get The Times to do an article. Wolves are a famous old club , and we have gone through a great decline recently that would be worth any national newspaper doing an article. Think of the print spent on Blackburn , a club half our size. There should be some fans out there in important places who could ask where the money has gone. Money is the key to our failure. I think it is a legitimate question for Football supporters ( and season ticket holders – who pay in advance) to ask , the answers may be fine , but we do have a moral right as loyal supporters to know. I still think petitioning the Express and Star is the most effective method, they surely have a longterm interest in not alienating supporters. A simple explanation of where £50 million revenue went each year would suffice. ie £17 million wages etc…. £12 million on players purchases, £6 million buildings . They would be big figures, simple to understand . We’re not interested in the petty cash, light and heat etc ! And how was the initial £30 million spent ? In a football club these figures should be given out freely to loyal communities.