Last Wednesday’s Fan’s Parliament meeting – that the Express & Star was not allowed to attend – has reputedly thrown up some staggering comments from Jez Moxey, as claimed by one stunned member to contact Wolves Blog.

While the claims can not be taken as fact, the member – who wishes to remain anonymous – told us that on Wednesday November 16, Jez Moxey told the audience:

• Stoke City fans are better than Wolves fans
• “Newsflash. You are fickle!” quote to fans in the room
• He would pull the plug on phase two of the Molineux redevelopment if it were up to him, stating: “Having seen it now, I don’t actually think it looks that bad.”

The final point contradicted a quote Jez Moxey made at a February Fans’ Parliament meeting, where he stated: “Molineux would look awful if we didn’t at least go ahead with phase two.”

The member also claimed that Jez Moxey said that £17.50 for the League Cup game against Manchester City proved that lowering prices did not work, despite the game being on TV and £2.50 more than WBA charged for a Premier League fixture against Bolton Saturday which attracted 26,221.

'Newsflash: You are fickle!' The alleged thoughts of Jez Moxey

The member’s notes of the Fans’ Parliament meeting are below:

The point of it was to discuss ticket prices for next season and there does seem a willingness on the club’s part to make some concessions in order to address falling crowds. There was a strong case made for bringing the price for new season tickets down to the same prices as current early bird renewals so as not to be prohibitive for new fans.

There was also a willingness on part of season ticket holders to accept dirt cheap pricing for matchday tickets on a one-off basis for the Norwich home game on a Tuesday night in order to fill the ground.

Moxey then claimed that it was a misunderstanding that if you halve prices then you double crowds, by arguing that we slashed prices for the Man City game and look what happened.

I couldn’t believe this. Moxey was claiming that by charging £17.50 for Man City IN THE LEAGUE CUP and only getting 12,000 this proved that reducing prices didn’t work. I thought he was joking and it was a bit scary that he was serious.

Things went downhill fast when we got onto the topic of the fans chants during the Swansea game and the treatment of Henry vs QPR. Some fans there were hoping to hear that the club weren’t totally satisfied with the way the problem was dealt with by the club: Johnson calling fans a disgrace, McCarthy labelling fans as mindless idiots and O’Hara calling supporters fickle, for example.

What followed was pretty shocking. Moxey got quite animated – at one point loudly exclaiming: “Newsflash, You. Are. Fickle!”

He defended Johnson’s sentiments and told fans they were too thin-skinned and liked dishing it out but couldn’t take it. He also told an anecdote from a friend of his claiming Stoke fans were far better than Wolves fans and he couldn’t imagine any other club treating its staff in such a way. The implication was obviously that he agreed with this friend.

It was pretty hard to take. While there are flaws in the argument – Stoke have been booed at HT and FT in recent games for example – many fans do agree he has a point. What really worried me though was that he didn’t even seem to get the point that some people were making, namely that there’s a difference between being entitled to have a pop back at the fans and it being a constructive thing to do. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

All this soured the mood from my point of view and the evening ended on an even more depressing note. Moxey revealed that expansion plans are in the balance and left us under the impression that if it is up to him he would pull the plug on phase two of the rebuild (the Steve Bull Stand) and leave the ground as it is.

He again cited the recent ECJ ruling about pubs showing games and also noted that attendance was down to 88% of capacity.

Although there are sound reasons for not going ahead with the rebuild, this was a particularly staggering announcement for those of us on the parliament who have attended meetings over the past two years hearing all about this huge project – presumably a strategic, long-term investment for the club – that was now possibly being scrapped with little explanation.

Somebody pointed out that in February 2011 Moxey had stated that “Molineux would look awful if we didn’t at least go ahead with phase two.” In response to this, Moxey simply said that “having seen it now, I don’t think it actually looks that bad.”

Tim Nash, Wolves correspondent at the Express & Star, has confirmed that the paper was not allowed in to report on this parliament meeting. However, this is common practice and not exclusive to this meeting alone.

Wolves’ official website states that ‘David Instone, respected local journalist, will attend each meeting of the Fans’ Parliament to take minutes and prepare an official review of the session. This will be published under the ‘Fans’ Parliament’ section of wolves.co.uk

David Instone was not present at the meeting on November 16.

Articulating how it feels to be a Wolves fan right now was supposed to be the hardest blog to write of all, until a political editor of a Sunday broadsheet unwittingly did it for me.

Her article about ‘How Cameron is out of touch with struggling middle classes’ wasn’t meant to talk directly to a Wolves fan, but more an ‘empty aspirational generation.’

She wrote: “Middle class families are not rich enough to be the Government’s friends, nor poor enough to merit their pity.”

Me as a mascot. With a captain who actually scored from 2 yards at the Hawthorns. Who never called me fickle.

I make no apologies for hijacking this sentence and applying it 100 per cent to how I currently feel as a desperately sad Wolves fan.

I don’t spit out my pie at Mick from the South Bank, nor do I shake a prawn sandwich from an executive box.

I sit next to Dad, alongside Tel, and behind the old boys in row P and we shake hands before each game and pipe up for an unashamedly tuneless version of silver lining.

We take it in turns to get the half time coffees in. We encourage, we cajole and we berate every referee as if they actually have an agenda against our beloved side. We quietly mutter exasperation at one or two players too, if truth be told.

To quote Kirsty Buchanan’s piece in the Sunday Express: “We are not hustlers, nimbies or home hoarders, just law abiding hard workers looking for a level playing field.”

The first game my Dad took me to was at home to Simod Cup holders Reading on September 3^rd 1988.

My last one, on Saturday, reduced my little boy to tears as he hated Daddy’s ‘wuulfs’ losing 2-0.

Yet the club holds me in contempt and I’m treated like a pariah.

Our manager tells me to f**k off, our captain calls me fickle and our chief executive tells me to cough up or forget a stadium rebuild.

West Brom fans just prefer to call me a loser. Again.

There is no middle ground supporting Wolves right now, only a stigma that I’m responsible for that fabled ‘Molineux Factor’ for daring to question what the hell is going on.

Despite ploughing thousands of money I’ve never had into the club I’m hopelessly in love with and only ever been guilty of encouraging the lads, I have never been more despised.

If I passed Mick in the street wearing my signed Bully Nutmeg shirt, Mick would cross the road.

If I met Jez Moxey in Penn Bowling Club, he’d tell me to get the hell out and support the team properly.

And if I got a tweet from Roger Johnson or Jamie O’Hara, it would feature a boo-boy hashtag.

Maybe I should just embrace the brush I’m being tarred with.

Or maybe the club should read Kirsty Buchanan’s article and take a bloody long look in the mirror instead of telling me to.

After all, ‘creating a fairer society is not just about pursuing the feckless. It is also about supporting the army of the ordinary.’

“If you look at West Brom, they’ve spent good money and they’re currently bottom of the league. Maybe they’re not paying enough to their players or getting the right quality in. Stoke have spent quite a bit of money, but probably not enough.”

I wonder if our esteemed chief executive regrets uttering these words on March 19 2009? Probably not – the early bird window had barely opened at the time, let alone closed.

Jez Moxey - Promises made

What about: “Having been there and spoken to people in the Premier League, it’s fair to say money is the be-all and end-all. So you’ve got to be competitive.”

Or: “If you draw up a table of the average over three years of where teams finish and then correlate that to their wage bill, they’re going to be very well aligned.”

So what has happened Jez? I haven’t even got to the promise of experienced Premiership players yet. And I’ve opted not to use another quote about how we have learnt from our mistakes of 2003. You get the point I’m trying to make.

We couldn’t afford Scott Dann, nor Roger Johnson, when we desperately needed defensive reinforcements. What price now? We couldn’t even lure Jerome Thomas on a free transfer, who opted instead for the club that Jez has promised we will not replicate.

He makes a fair point. We will not do a WBA, because when we make our inexorable plummet into that God forsaken league from Hell, we will not be coming back for a while. Not on Sunday’s showing.

It wouldn’t be so bad if we hadn’t been there before. Jez was there when he promised us the earth in 2003. Jez was there to deny that we hadn’t invested sufficiently in the team in 2003, and he is here again in 2009, admitting that we did make mistakes in 2003 and are not going to repeat them now. (Not after winning the championship – it was all the play-offs’ fault I recall)

He was also there when Colin Lee had to phone Radio WM, live with Paul Franks, to deny Moxey’s claim that Lee wanted to sell Ade Akinbiye. See you later Colin.

Anyone remember his programme notes when he publicly shamed Glenn Hoddle, only to beg for him to stay while eating ice cream in West Park?

The only thing I don’t recall is Dave Jones’ thoughts about the Molineux hieracrchy after he was sacked. Gagging orders prevent free speech.

So as I sat through one of the most inept and utterly depressing games on Sunday, I realised that there has, and always will be one constant denominator in whatever happens at Molineux. The Fat Controller.

The man who will price me out of my own seat at Molineux next season, (unless he re-addresses his obscene 30% hikes in light of this whole farce) is the man who has made himself one of the richest men in the history of Wolverhampton Wanderers.

For what? For “getting the job done.”