They say a week is a long time in football.
Friday alone felt like an eternity for Steve Morgan.
Saturday didn’t look much better as of 3.45.
Thankfully for our beleaguered chairman and everyone else in old gold, Terry Connor played it steady to drag us out of the dropzone by 5.
Stepping out from behind the clipboard, TC was everything our board haven’t been the last two weeks – bold and decisive.
Removing skipper Roger Johnson was a gutsy call and one that delivered on the promise he made in yesterday’s press conference to do things his own way.
Richard Stearman gobbled up the chance and looked assured throughout.
The same can be said of Ronald Zubar, thrown straight in and showcasing the pace and power he has in spades that we always desperately lack in his absence.
Zubes was my man of the match without question.
Sadly, Christophe Berra, another player recalled by the new gaffer wasn’t quite so rewarding.
The Scot’s early gaffe allowed Newcastle in to plunder the early goal we all dreaded.
And when Jonas Gutierrez pinged in an unstoppable second minutes later, you wondered what else could possibly go wrong for poor old Terry.
It would have been easy to panic.
But he kept his cool.
Wolves continued to pass and probe as they had done from the very start, eventually enjoying the luck they deserved to drag themselves back from the dead.
Matt Jarvis doesn’t score many, but he’s looking more likely right now, aided on this occasion by wicked deflection to see the ball loop into the net.
From nowhere – salvation.
Kevin Doyle deserved his goal, leading the line as we know he can and gleefully prodding home the equaliser when the ball ran loose.
Suddenly it’s all eyes on the dugout.
We’re back in it, so now what?
Jamie O’Hara withdrawn. Michael Kightly on. Fresh legs. Immediate action.
The clock’s ticking down and Newcastle are coming forward.
Jarvis off. Hunt on. More cover needed. No messing around.
Injury time. 5 minutes to see out.
Milijas on. Rundown the clock. Disrupt the rhythm.
I understood each and every one of TC’s decisions today and would go as far as to say he played it to perfection.
If this was the first test of his fledgling managerial credentials, he passed.
And following two weeks of bickering and uncertainty, why wouldn’t you smile?
I think it’s about time we all allow ourselves one of those.
We are Wolves.
Hope he proves my doubts wrong. Good result – in response to your match update request – 🙂
TC handled going two nil down well, ‘a bit like the way I handled your blogs being plagiarised?’ as Ben might (not quite) say.
Happy to be proven so dreadfully wrong with my predication.
It’s a glimmer of hope. Currently watching City stuff Blackburn (What a header from Dzeko there!) and the league tables looking a little less depressing. Didn’t watch the match myself so as of yet I can’t comment on the performance, but checking the updates on my phone and from what you’ve put here thomas, It’s encouraging.
All any of us want is Wolves to do well, who ever is in charge. T C has got his campaign off with a well deserved point. Nobody knows what the future holds but there is a chink of gold showing through the darkness
I laid into someone on here (can’t remember who) last week for suggesting TC might be a decent option. I know it’s early days but whoever it was, you might well be right and I’m eating a delicious slice of humble pie right now 🙂
TC was not one of my preferred options but “credit where credit is due” – not only a good result but, for him and the team to turn round a two goal deficit away from home is encouraging and smacks of “spirit”.
I’m smiling !!!!
UTW
A very pleasant surprise, especially after the first 18 minutes.
The timing of the substitutions was excellent and we got a point!
I thought Zubar had an excellent game and seem to have a ‘freer’ role.
It is down to the players and TC now, but perhaps Jarvo’s ‘fortunate’ first goal, may be a turning point in this awful season, for Wolves fortunes.
Never thought I’d feel, we’d might still stay up after today’s match, but I do….
Something to build on. Well done lads. Well done TC.
TC is currently the only unbeaten manager in the Premier League. Long may that record continue.
I’m totally stunned , for the first time in a long while Wolves got the ball down and kept it .
Even after Berra did his usual scots league 3 quality huff to leave us looking into the darkness
up popped the football . Then two nil down [ great finish ] . Still got the ball down and played football . There seemed a very different feel to the play and we kept to the script .
Newcastle soon lost their way and come the second half there was only one teem looking to play .
So , I reckon TC is already proving to be a diifferent cut from Mick .Early days I know , but a spring In my step ….just watched Citee do it so much better than us but , bring on the next 12 games …
love you all …
I absolutely agree, we actually played the ball on the ground and kept possession. You know Mick, possession, when we can score and the opposition can’t. HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH! At last.
As you say, early days but in some ways all the more admirable that he can make such an impact straight awsay. It may not last but i feel optimistic again at last.
Great debut for Connor – really pleased for him! Agree with everything you’ve said on this blog Thomas, especially with the call to drop Johnson – I don’t think that Mick would have done that!
Let’s hope he keeps this up – surprise us all!
UTW!
I feared the worst being 2-0 down at half time. But fair play to the boys for getting us an important point away from home.
Same again next weekend away to Fulham and a home win against Blackburn will do us nicely.
Saw the second half and thought we outplayed the toon. Happy with the subs but as for Johnson although he has not done his stuff I would have him in before the shirt tugger.
Just hope TC has the gonads to stick the likes of Zele Ismail and a few of the other youngsters on the bench for the odd game that was one of my biggest disappointments with MM never gave the young ones a chance
Shocked really…Game will be on here in the states in two hours but was watching the BBC and ESPN updates. Beyond happy to top the “relegation” table.
Well done TC and all the lads who played today….
Excellent start for TC thought he made some intelligent changes – nice to read some positive blogs too- wondered if i was on right site !
Christ – here we go! Happy clap trap time!
We get a point and all of a sudden the fiasco of shambles Jesteve is a distant memory.
Well not for me pal. I wont forget and I wont forgive the tossers who’ve dragged my beloved clubs name through the mud.
The only people who’ve dragged our club’s name through the mud are the media and the rumour mungers. Take your anti-Moxey glasses off for 1 second and you might see that we as a club choose to do our business behind closed doors. I don’t think it’s the best thing to do as it leads to a lot of bullshit being written and believed by narrow minded fans. Do you really think Moxey and Morgan would have got where they are by being as stupid as some people think they are.
“Happy clap trap time” why do you find it so offensive when fans try and be positive and supportive. As far as I’m concerned, if you’re not a happy clapper then you might as well sack off. We’re in a desperate situation at the moment and as a fan the least you can do is be positive and support the players, manager and board.
So you’re happy to be the laughing stock of football?
Well good luck to you. I hope your faith in the board is not misplaced but they scare the shit out of me.
As for me getting behind the team – I’ve always done that and always will. Yes even when the Bhattis ran the club yet
according to your perverse logic I was out of order to criticise them I suppose???
What’s with you? How dare somebody sound HAPPY after a well-deserved point! What the bloody hell is this world coming to, eh?
Morning Louie. Why the new handle?
I think the two things are completely separate Scooped.
My disgust with the 2 M’s remains but i was absolutely delighted, not just for the point, but with the way we played. We actually played the better football for long periods even when we went 2-0 down. A terrible individual mistake and a wonder goal and we still played intelligent sensible football. Not the shit or bust Swansea reposte under Mick. And he made a statement to Johnson as well, which i loved.
Early days but he couldn’t have done much better.
‘Terry Connor comes to me,
Speaking words of wisdom
TERRY C TERRY C’
Thomas I usually agree with you and most posts from sane fans on this blog, however I am stunned by the reaction today. Just please tell me what were MM’s last 5 away results including Arsenal and Tottenham may I add. Please as fans stop and think! This is how we probably would have played with MM, ok TC dropped Johnson but is anyone on here telling me that Berra and Stearman are PL Centre Halves. As fans we now need to stand up and support TC and the boys whatever, but the board need a strong message that this is a disaster and their treatment of the fans is beyond laughable. I may be a pessimist but if we stay up it will only be because Bolton, wigan and Blackburn are fecking useless, not through TC, MM or the fat controller or Kenny Daglish’s biggest fan!!
Stunned by the reaction? Dunno what you mean – since TC is an unproven manager and was underwhelming when appointed, he managed a good comeback against a class side! Of course people would be happy with that!
And as for ‘this is how we’d play under MM’ – I’m not so sure about that…
No, I see your point and I agree with the sentiment. I just think that there has been a detachment between playing squad and the board, for the sake of the lads.
An example of your point: Moxey defiantly saying we only offered the job to one other manager, after saying that the ‘people that matter’ understand the process they’ve gone through etc…
I’ve no doubt we offered it to one other, seeing as the 7 other blokes we approached deffed us out before we had the chance to offer them the job!
Jez argues semantics to assume the PR ascendancy and implies we don’t matter if we suss him out!
How can you be sure of that? Maybe they did interview those seven people but maybe it was the board that decided that they weren’t good enough and not vice versa?
Still v. hard to seperate truth from lies w/ the media!
Well, we can be sure Smith was approached as he said he didn’t want it, while we know we approached Reading because they confirmed it by giving McDermott a contract extension. We also know that Pat Murphy offered Jez Moxey the opportunity to refute the media’s claims once and for all. He changed the subject.
I’d take the footballing men’s words over Jez Moxey’s, personally.
Curbishley confirmed the deal stalled over differences in outlook.
At best, Jez Moxey is disingenuous
Smith was never interviewed – he was asked about speculation over the Wolves job and he’d said that he didn’t want it for personal reasons. And wouldn’t Moxey saying he only approached one manager besides TC him refuting the claims? Interesting that he changed the subject though – haven’t seen the interview personally!
Like I said, we can guess but no one knows what really happened with the negotiations – we have Conner now so it’s a moot point but still, it looks promising for him in his early manager days so that’s good! He’s the man that has to try and save us now!
Hamlet you reply as if you were actually party to the events!
We do not know what Smith was ‘asked’.
It was a disaster that will not be resolved until we know which league we will be playing in next year.
We go a point and are all relieved, but I do not think the set up as it is, will solve some deep seated problems in the Molineux hierarchy….
Disingenuous. You are being very kind there Ben.
You could also add, ‘… a lack of empathy or remorse, false emotion, selfishness, grandiosity and deceptiveness’. Wikipedia definition of a psycopath!
Dont understand why some fans have got to keep trying to rip the club to shreds they seem to hate everything about it and wont stop campaigning to destroy it – just find it a bit odd.
Who is trying to destroy it Colin? Is rational discourse on a blog not allowed? I guess not…you lap up these last 10 days like you’re being fed Pedigree Chum and i’ll reserve the right to challenge. PS, ‘hate’ a strong word.
PPS I have seen 98 per cent of all home games since 1988.
Yoir tacit acceptance of what the entire football world sees as an utter shambles is a disgrace.
And to throw insults at fellow fans who dare to question the bullshit that Moxey spouts is a bigger disgrace.
Shame on you!
‘treat others as you would like to be treated’ is a moral I apply to life. Thus, I would never imply I HATE the very club I’ve lost thousands of tears over just because my standpoint differs to that of another.
Being defensive is one thing. Being downright insulting to a club I’ve written 100,000+ words over is quite another.
Meanwhile Colin, I’ll continue to respect your opinion while you concoct another insult to throw at me. But hey, that’s just me…
Well, at least you normally agree with me, which is more than most! 🙂
Like you, I think MM would also have setup 451, but with different personnel and style.
There’s no way he would have played Stearman center-back, as he didn’t consider using him there once this season, despite it obviously being his best position.
Henry, definitely. Berra, probably with Bassong out. Zubar, perhaps.
But team selection aside, the football was clearly of a superior nature to that we witnessed under MM, particularly in recent months.
I was worried about TC not offering enough of a departure from MM, but was encouraged by this early evidence.
Fulham will be another difficult test, but I’m keen to see what we can produce at home.
It would be very easy to see TC as the saviour and jump on the clipboard bandwagon so i’m determined not to get carried away……. BUT just how refreshing were the tactical changes made today!?! After so long of everyone in the crowd knowing what was needed ony for it to be ignored by Mcarthy, at long last we see substitutions that make sense!!
1 down 12 to go!
I was listening to the radio while I was at work and it came ove the news that we were 2-0 down after 20mins I was gutted. I have not watched any of the game but that is a good result against a solid team. COME ON YOU WOLVES I STILL BELIEVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good start to the Connor era. Great comeback by the boys. I think we all know that Blackburn game coming up is huge, but a couple of away points before won’t go amiss. It’s a start.
Credit where credit due, to TC and the players.
The irony is that if under TC`s tenure we actually do stay up then Tc will have bailed out the club, but also got Moxey & Morgan off the great big hook that they had caught themselves on.
While the table this evening looks better, many a false dawn has arrived before, don1t get carried away – its the home form which will test TC the most. One down 12 to go, and I can sleep well tonight.
Careful Mark, according to some far superior fans on here, your comments inextricably = hate for the club. You appear to be ‘campaigning to destroy the club’. Forget the fact you stood on the South Bank when the Bhattis ruined us…your voice is poison as you are ripping the club to shreds. Yes you, Mr 50 year, unconditional-love-for-wolves supporter. How dare you.
Don’t you usually have a picture of yourself Ben? Random question I know – just wondering! 😛
The pic doesn’t come up when I upload from my phone for some reason hamlet, but does off my computer. Basically, when it comes up you’ll know I should be working!
Ah, I see! Guess it’s a good thing when I don’t see it come up often! 😉
You stole my thunder – was going to type that!
If we do stay up, Morgan and Moxey have got very very lucky. I really doubt they thought/think Connor is a good manager, they just wanted, as quite clearly no one wanted the job, someone who knows the players and someone they might fight for!
Agree on home form, it will be very interesting to see how we approach our home games because Mick quite clearly couldn’t get it right. Interesting because last season our home form was excellent and away we were dreadful!
Cool blog. MOTD less painful tonight.
Where is Nige ? FOWBA !!!
I’m still here, I been working.
A good second half display..
But… Same old. 2 down BEFORE we start playing, cant keep a level of performance for 90 minutes.
Good point though and I do hope we stay up inspite of the idiots running our club.
Glad to see TC dropped Johnson, a good move..
Moxey OUT!!! Morgan OUT!!! TC OUT !!!
Very very proud. Keep it up TC.
Well done me babies! Feeling proud today. Maybe TC can do it with our support! Still think Berra wouldn’t make it into an American kids team though!
I’m pleasantly surprised (for once by wolves) good start by tc especially dropping Johnson. Personally will be happier when we’ve got the quality to replace both him and berra. Bassong and stearman worth a try?
Positive performance with a positive result for once. Here’s hoping its the first of a few and I and a few others end up wrong about tc!
Hear hear. TC wasnt my preferred option but respect to him for the way he’s taken up the challenge.
A very encouraging start that has lifted the spirits of everyone.
Thrilled to bits about 2day but still worried to death about Jesteve!
Well played TC; well played the lads. Dropping Johnson was a masterstroke. I wonder how long TC had been wanting that to happen?
I thought the game was up at 2-0 down, even though we’d fashioned a few chances. But TC did the business at half-time, and you couldn’t fault his substitutions. Not wanting to detract from our excellent battling performance, it must be said that Newcastle were really surprisingly poor in the second half, though. Overall we deserved the draw in a very tough venue.
Looking at the bottom five teams bunched together, 33 or 34 points could be enough to stay up this year, and I’m a bit more optimistic of us reaching that tally now than I was 24 hours ago!
good result but effectively the only change was the sacking of Mick. Same problems on display – performance no better except we got lucky for a change.
if anyone here really believes Mick would not have dropped defenders after their last display they’re either dumb or following a new agenda.
Terry’s ok or he wouldn’t have been Mick’s right hand man but many of you are applauding the empereror’s new clothes because you hepled tear out the club’s heart without recognising the danger. Hindsight does not offer excuses so how exactly are you all going to make it right now? Only the players could ever keep us up and the current team is aging and many will leave now because of what has happened. Where is the way forward for a club without money, heart and integrity?
Good result – I would have taken a draw if it had been on offer at the start of the match.
Agree with dropping Johnson – that guy has really shown himself to be a poor signing in my opinion.
It’s early days, but I’m giving myself a smile just like you said Thomas.
I can only hope that teams around us continue to be poor – it’s looking that way. So IF (and it’s a big one isn’t it?) we can keep grinding out a few points, I see no reason why we can’t scrape it. That’s what I’m hoping for!
Watched the game on the internet and it appeared to me to be Mick’s team but this time playing without fear as they passed their asses off. Never seen us complete so many passes in a long time but yes the odd gaff was retained for good measure.
The past week or so has been embarrassing but aside from Curbishley the rest were either average at best or unproven. So why not go with someone who already knew our strengths and weaknesses ? And yes I am being wise after the event but when it was announced on Friday there did seem to be a perverse logic in the appointment and whilst it might all go tits up next week I was quietly confident on Friday and deliriously happy today. TC has worked alongside one hell of a lot of managers in his time at Wolves so it would be impossible for him not to have gleaned the best bits from each one. Given the options available…..I for one am willing to give the Board at least some credit given that none of us really know what went on in there.
Very pleased to get a point. But worried by an absolutely awful first 20-30 minutes. It looked like the new TC plan was to be so bad that the opposition is lulled into a false (or true) sense of security.
At 2-0 Newcastle were coasting and somehow they never woke up or found another gear.
Good effort for Wolves not to drop their heads and then play a bit better and fight back – but I am not sure that was the template for success over the next 12 games.
Guys, come on. Why does everyone have to be so negative. You’d think we were bottom of league 2 reading some of these comments. All I was hoping for from this season was survival and at the moment we’re 2 places above the bottom 3 so I’m happy. It’s too easy to critise and moan when things aren’t going well. We’ve got a new manager so lets get behind him and the players.
The boo boys have succeeded in getting rid of the best manager we’ve had for 20 years lets not let them do any more damage to our club.
well done fellas good result for yous lot crap result for us,best of luck with the rest of your season
Very proud.
TC seems like a good bloke I can get behind.
UTW.
Exactly, I’m as anti Mick and anti Moxey as anyone. But it’s nice to feel positive after 2 weeks if humiliation and anger. I’m still FOJMing on an hourly basis, but happy to get behind Terry C.
When I find myself in times if trouble….
Tafkag, I really think you’ve got something with this. Its brilliant! Would I be dreaming the impossible dream to encourage you to put it to the club as the elusive anthem they’ve been casting around for?
We could stand under Jez’s window and serenade him with it. And, just think – if it became a huge success we might cop for a pie and a pint:)
I agree. Everybody start singing it at the next home game.
It’s been playing on repeat in my head for 3 days straight now – let’s make it happen
Whisper words of wisdom
Let TC…….
He’s gold
He’s black
He’ll never get the sack
Terry C
Terry C
Like that one too.
Come on fellas, after all the embarassment and humiliation we’ve all had to endure over the past two weeks, who can, with hand on heart say they thought we’d get anything at Newcastle.
Very very few i’ll bet, I certainly didn’t. I walked out of Molineux after the tesco game and felt as though the world had come to an end along with thousands of others judging by the look on everyones faces. So, can we all please just enjoy the result. Put a smile on your face, we can all go to work on Monday with ourheads heads high again.
Well done to the lads, Doyler was back to his best. T C has been dignified, calm and kept his head when all around were losing theirs, top bloke.
With you about all of that but just a word of caution.
Be very careful about mentioning the embarassment and humiliation stuff
….. Our owner said there was nothing to be embarassed about so theres a good chance you’ll now be told to f off down to Sandwell by one or two on here!
I know what your’e saying Scooped but if our last home result wassn’t embarrassing and humiliating i don’t know what is mate.
Point taken Scooped, cheers mate
One swallow and all that – 12 still to go . . . . . . . mind you, would have been easy for heads to drop at 0-2. Great start and hope we can keep it up – can’t help feeling M&M are temporarily out of jail on back of this.
Would have settled for this at 3.30 on Saturday, (or Friday probably). Smile on my face today 🙂
I’m a toon fan and just wanted to say fair play for yesterday, your boys did you proud. Most people predicted an easy win for us yesterday and at 2-0 up us Geordies were hoping to improve our goal difference. But to be fair, it was never as one sided as that and your boys stuck at it.
For what it’s worth, I think you board have done the right thing sticking with TC. We got Shearer and Dowie in and asides from the fact they had fewer games that TC, they didn’t know the players and really, had we went with Hughton instead – who went on to do a great job, we may not have went down.
Really hope TC does it for you’s and you stay up, I fancy Wigan, Bolton and Blackburn to drop this season.
Good luck to you
You are a breath of fresh air Sharpy17 – Thank you!
Thanks for the kind comments Sharply. Best of luck for the rest of the season. Top bloke
Sharpy17, yosser, rod…get a room.
Good result but long long way to go. Yet again awful start and could have been terminal…better teams wouldnt have let us back in. (they arent man u…they were champ team season before last). Pretty sure the boys would have been fired up after recent events and still just a point – got tougher games than that to come and still don’t think we will be premiership come next season.
Happy clappers clap on…see how peeps are feeling in 2 weeks.
Great result. I’m not ready to jerk off to TC just yet, but as everyone has said he made clever substitutions. To be fair all four goals were quite random, but I’m pleased with the way it turned out.
Anyway, about his team selection. The back 4 he selected did well, except some errors from Berra. I feel like out of Stearman, Berra, Bassong and Johnson we have four almost identical player types, and not that different in quality, even though I prefer Johnson to Berra and rate Bassong the lowest.
Offensively I was kind of confused about the positions people were playing at. I get that he started Foley over Kightly because Kightly is so overly focused on scoring goals and that this was a tough away-match, but I don’t get why Kightly ended up playing left win and Jarvis on the right..
Patrick Collins’ piece in the Mail today was a fun read. He nails Jez in just two sentences.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2106474/Terry-Connor-treated-shamefully-Wolves-Patrick-Collins.html
Yeah that sum’s that cock up perfectly. Had time now to watch MOTD looked like a good second half performance and we had chances in the first half. Want to keep it positive but did see a few stray passes from Henry leaving people in the shit so some things never change. Come on me babies you can do it.
Morgan and Moxey ‘portraying necessity as a virtue’. That’s exactly what i saw and made my blood boil. The smug dishonesty of it all.
Careful Adam. Moxeys thought police are on the prowl round here.
But here’s a thought. How does Morgan stick with a chief exec whose complacency has totally shafted him?
Cant imagine Morgan has enjoyed the unanimous disdain of the entire football press over the last couple of weeks.
Surely he’ll need an answer fro Jez as to why the highest earning CEO in the country has no contingency plans in force.
Just a thought.
“Alongside him, the chief executive Jez Moxey, seemed to uncoil himself before the cameras. Smooth, glib and unpersuasive, he recycled a slither of slick clichés while revealing all the gravitas of a snake-oil salesman. ”
Thank you, Patrick Collins.
Of the millions of blogs written over the last 2 weeks about our dear leaders, that sums up moxey better than anything.
As I and many others have said on this blog this season, I believe we have the players capable of keeping us in the Prem, they just need different ideas and coaching.
Yesterday was a good start, a point no one really, honestly expected us to get.
But to the Nick Daltons et al on this blog, we are not:
a) suddenly world beaters.
b) out of the shit
and c) back in love with fatman and throbbin.
The rest of this season has to be addressed in two seperate, distinct ways.
First, get right behind OUR team, that is the one that puts on the old gold and black, Nick Dalton, in case you are not sure, and runs around a bit on the grass.
Second, get out the figurative knives and axes, and have a concerted effort to get rid, once and for all, of the cancer in the other team, that is the one which sits around in a hotel in London, skimming and scamming as much as they can from the club.
None of us want failure on the pitch, but ALL of us should want morgan and moxey ( I use lower case derisively) gone from our sight, forever, ASAP.
Oh, and in case I forget…..FOWB
Still divided opinion and as Ben rightly points out Colin; no one here ‘hates’ Wolves.
The club has gone through a ‘dramatic trauma’ which has yet to be completely resolved.
Many have felt, rightly in my opinion, that MM was not the manager to take us forward.
After the WBA disaster Morgan did what we wanted and sacked him.
It was an emotional response, for the timing and replacement element was not well thought out.
Yesterday it was up to the players and TC, (“TopCat”) to bring the whole affair back to the football pitch and they stood up and were counted.
I noticed that Zubar had a much more influential role in defence, playing sometimes as a 3rd central defender and he was very good.
Doyle was excellent, but above all there was less panic when we drew level than under MM…
I am not advocating “TopCat” should be our permanent manager, but one thing Wolves fans, moxey,morgan et al, am sure are united about, is that if he keeps us up, we will all be eternally grateful to him…
Thanks for a solid beginning….
Well done TC I have every confidence in your ability as a coach. It’s such a pity that those conniving, scheming, sneaky, underhand pair will bask in your reflected glory and feel vindicated that their methods were justified. You are the only one in this whole affair who has come out with his character and personal standing intact and even enhanced, even if it still goes pear-shaped. I’ve always had respect for the sterling work that you have done behind the scenes without fuss. You really do represent Wolves DNA.
Up the Wolves !!!!!
Well said Clive AND Patrick Collins.
Think the team played with more freedom and less fear than under MM.
TOONARMYELITE, Nice comment, thanks. The true spirit of sportsmanship!
In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve added a ‘Like’ button next to comments. So please do show love to your fellow fans if you agree with their thoughts. 🙂
What about a dislike button for comments which imply fellow fans ‘hate’ the club they’ve spent years supporting, just because they have the temerity to ask questions of the men running the club?
Or other comments that politely advocate absconding on the club they love because their comment challenges the way the owners are handling things?
Just a thought…
Like the word like is like vastly overused like, like over here, and I like don’t like it so, I’ll like, not click like like, and if y’all don’t like, like it, well, like, tough!!!
Too Daily Mail, the dislike thing! Still, I think I could have a little bit of fun with it if it did come up!
Isn’t that right, Clive? 😛
Is it cheating if you like your own post by the way?
Pah. It’s becoming more and more like the Daily Mail website every day. More gratuitous pictures of bimbos in skimpy underwear will be next (please).
Go on then, red arrow me and see if I care.
Oh, you can’t …
What is evident to me is that far too many Wolves fans believe what they pick up from the media. The papers and BBC speculated like hell after MM was sacked. Because the journos couldn’t get information from the club about the interview process they reverted to type – don’t let the truth limit their message and make things up, only some of which was based on half truths.
You can and should critisice the manager and players all you like because, if you actually attend games, you can see for yourself where it is going wrong. But to relie on the media, who are only interested in selling more of their papers, or attracting more listeners and viewers, will result in you just peddling the same half truths and inuendoes. Anyone who listened to Steve Morgan on radio this morning will know what I mean.
Comment on what you can see for yourself – commenting on what you cannot know or on what appears in the press is not helpful.
It may not surprise you that I disagree completely with that comment earlier today ‘Well said Clive and Patrick Collins.’ One doesn’t attend and the other is a journo!
But we can take the Wolves website itself as a reliable source – ‘This is not a job for a novice’ and we do appoint to a manager’s job a novice. Whether this was a sensible move or not waits to be seen but I can’t stomach all these fans that seem to be re-writing the comments of our own Chairman and Chief Executive even as sometimes relayed on our own web-site. I agree with the comment far above in the blog Moxey is being disingenuous at best with his comments now and to see that (again as reported on the Wolves website) that Morgan is insulted at suggestions that club had taken the cheap option should possibly have been at the Albion game if he really wanted to get a sense of what being insulted felt like or reflected on the comments of his Chief Executive who reports on our website and I do paraphrase slightly ‘The people who matter… will not think we have reacted in an irresponsible way’ – so the only people who matter are the ones who agree with him? – Well that rules out a significant number of Wolves fans then.
The club quite clearly have offered the managers post to at least one person, and at best given serious consideration to others, some who remain ‘strong contenders’ possibly in the future, – and then for whatever reasons after quite some time have made an interim internal appointment. How our Chairman and CEO can view this as acting decisively is beyond me – but hell, I’m just a numpty!
Does the fact that I see every game, nearly, in full, every week, on TV, preclude me from having an opinion, because I am not at the match in person?
I bet I see more away matches than a lot of you on this blog.
To reiterate what many have said before, this is a blog, where opinions are all important, and if we all agreed all the time, how fuckin’ boring would that be!!
So excuse me if I don’t agree with you, but keep the barbs and comments coming, we are all Wolves fans together at the end of the day.
Talking of which….y’all have a nice one, now!!
So you believe Jez Moxey and Steve Morgan, who are obviously going to paint hthemselves and the club in the best possible light ? Ahead of national journalists who have a network of sources and will be getting tip offs from agents etc ?
I think a lot of journalists are morons with the ethics of alley cats. But if they were lying/making things up that made Morgan and Moxey look incompetent, then the 2M’s could threaten them with legal action and their papers would print a retraction. Everything that comes out of Moxey’s mouth is designed to maximise his personal reputation, fopr that reason he simply cannot be trusted
There was something different about Wolves yesterday, calmness. For the majority of the game we looked calm and comfortable on the ball and not the usual panic stations and hoof the ball as far away as possible. Players were actually showing for the ball. I can only assume what we saw was a transition into a team who no longer play with fear. Although we still looked toothless, it was nice to see Hennessey make a pass from the back on occasion.
Now as long ss Berra never gets the opportunity to pull on a Wolves shirt again, we may actually get away with this season!
Lovin Wolvesblogbook.
We kept possession well, for the first time in a long time. Breath of fresh air, positiveness around. TC is the man to keep us up. We seemed coherent, we seemed like we had a plan, everything made sense. Sadly it has been a while since that occurred.
As much as Saturday was a good result and a fantastic come back. I’m still not getting carried away about Connor. It remains to be seen how much he can change the outlook of the side. Our survival depends on two things one of which looked decent in the Newcastle game.
1. We need to stop conceding stupid goals. we haven’t kept a clean sheet in the league for ages and for the most part hand teams head start. Berra and Edwards were culpable for the first. Berra has given away at least two goals in the last four games. We showed no signs of stopping that trend yesterday despite playing 451.
2. We need the rest of the team to chip in goals as well as Fletch. With Fletch out TC was forced to look elsewhere for goals and luckily he got a response from Doyle and Jarvis. That said Doyle fluffed a couple of good chances before he scored and Jarvis’s goal was courtesy of a humungous deflection. We need O’hara, Doyle, Jarvis and Kightly to start firing on all cylinders especially if we can’t stop the gaps at the back.
TC is lucky he has a team that over the last few years has very rarely been found wanting for commitment or drive. But he does have to combat the flaws in our team and that will be his biggest challenge over the next 12 games. Here’s hoping for 12 stirring performances before the end and at least a few more results.
‘We’ve done one now and we move on to Fulham. We’ll look at Fulham and make plans for that game and I will pick what I think is the best team for that game regardless of captaincy, what anyone cost or a player’s reputation.’
Brilliant. After dropping Johnson, TC confims selection on merit alone to achieve the best for Wolves in each game. No favourites now. Love it.
Now for Berra and Ward, and does your logic apply to Moxey??
I think Ward’s been worth his place this season even though he’s not a natural left back. He does have a lot of admirable qualities though and hopefully he will keep on learning the job.
Anyway we haven’t got any left backs in the squad. Something i reckon TC will address if he’s successful enough to be given the time.
And i wouldn’t play Moxey, he’s too fat.
It was a gooed result, no mistake about it.
TC made the right calls and actually had us playing football. Clearly planned tactics I thought.
Was right to drop Johnson, right now he does not deserve his place. His poor clearances have led to several goals against.
Zubar made a big difference.
Am glad to see TC shake it up a bit. We just might have a decent manager on our hands.
Anyone else worry about O Hara, on his day great but whan was his last really good game. Prone to giving it away and getting dispossesed. I like his style but where is the end result.
I too have been sickened by the bad press we have had, but thats what it was press bull s**t.
Ok he made the decision way to late but was loyal to MM (maybe because he was undemanding). They had to make the decision MM was lost. All we know about what went on is what some folks leaked to the press. Given what was avaialable right now they probably made the right call.
As generally pleasing as the result and performance were on Saturday, I’m afraid I can’t get too carried away with it for several reasons. Firstly, it’s very rare that any new manager doesn’t have some kind of positive affect in their first game in charge. I’d have been seriously worried if we hadn’t at least looked motivated for the game as we did! Secondly, I really don’t think that there was that much different to what could have been an MM team selection and performance. People forget that we did actually play some good football and pick up some good reults at times over the last couple of seasons under MM! Looking at team selection, MM also dropped Johnson earlier in the season, also played Zubar every time it became clear that the bloke could physically walk again, regularly played Foley out of position in midfield (and was criticised for doing so!) and MM would also have recalled Henry without any doubt. I do feel we passed the ball slightly more than usual but we have also had games under MM where we have done so pretty well. Another thing that smacked of MM was that as soon as we equalised our mentality changed from attacking and pressing to containing and we consequently nearly got done at the end. Other than bringing O’Hara off slightly earlier than usual, all 3 subs were subs that MM used to make regularly. For me, not much change! Despite my slight pessimism/realism, I’ll still be going to Fulham on Sunday singing ‘clipboard for England!’
Can’t believe that some of you are congratulating TC for a point at Mid table newc. Within the last 8 weeks under MM we got a point at each of Tottenham and Arsenal. This is Micks team and will be until at least the end of the season.
If TC had been rated by anyone he would have moved to be a manager elsewhere long ago or else would’ve replaced any one of 3 previous managers.
Has anyone had the forethought to consider what will happen at the end of the season. If we scrape through then because TC did such a good job he’ll be given a go and we’ll be looking again before the transfer window. If we go down he will be given a shot at the championship.
I predict all this congratulation will turn to vitriol at the first hiccup.
I would rather have had Lee Clark or Paul Ince or Alexander the Meercat but we couldn’t once our owner said that it would have to be someone with premiership experience and he wouldn’t have been able to spin his way outa that one anymore than many believe his ‘only one offer’ crap. He must think we’re all idiots if he thought we would buy that (with the odd exception of course)
TC appears to be a man with humility, who is down to earth and not someone seeking the limelight. Whether we don’t get another point and go down, you have to say it is refreshing not to have the wall of arrogance that seems to come with premiership football and the senior management at Molineux. This guy is someone I can get behind and while I don’t really know if he is capable, he seems like a nice chap and hope he can do a good job. The challenge he will have is organising a defence that leaks goals for fun and secondly how is he going to accomodate Fletcher? McCarthy never managed to accomodate Doyle and Fletcher and this was a factor in his demise. Hope that TC can organise the team so that we can play them both but can’t see how. with such a labored central midfield.
Would stick to 4-5-1 myself, but it seems that we actually have a choice now instead of having to just rely on Fletcher! After the Newcastle performance Doyle might even start ahead of him.
TC has a difficult decision to make there!
I look after our websites at work, and are well aware of the time and commitment needed to keep things up to date, how on earth Ben & Thomas do such a great job on this blog, in their spare time is a wonder. Keep it up chaps please.
Today feels like a timeout from the pr disaster that has engulfed the club since MM`s inevitable departure after the albion game. He may have been our most successful manager for years, but his time was up, and I echo scoope`s point that the CEO, who could have sacked him at the end of last season, obvioulsy had no successsion plan in place.
I also read the Sunday Mail, and anyone who hasn`t read the Pat Collins piece on Moxey should do so. Sadly its word perfect, and who knows what will be the fallout from this traumatic season, both on and off the pitch.
Maybe a change of ceo perhaps?
Change of CEO .. now that would be like all yr birthdays coming at once .. But it’s about as likely as winning the Euro lottery. FOFBM
F*****ng b*****rd Moxey?
Two right out of three .. but yours is better so lets go with yours. still hate the greasey weasel. Did you see him on his mobile during the game? dedicated fan NOT!
Yeah were’nt they shitting themselves at 2-0 down? Imagining all the flak they were going to get. Seem to remember them smugly content when we were losing just enough to keep us out of the bottom three and the spondoolies still coming in.
Guess we are all catching our breath before the nex t instalment of WWFC. By the looks of things TC has a grasp of what needs to happen. The next team selection will say more.
Following Marks comments would also like to thank Ben and Thomas for their work over the Managergate time.
UTW.
I think that Ben and Thomas don’t actually have lives, and spend all day, watching their ‘puter screens, all agog and a twitchin’, waiting for ANY comment which they can instantly hurl abuse at, or answer logically (sometimes)
They must be self employed, who else would let them spend every waking minute, ( and some sleeping judging by some blogs!!) writng brazillions of comments and blogs.
My sympathy goes out to their obviously long suffering wives, who must pray to the lord almighty, whoever that is, that they don’t talk in their sleep, coz all it would be is Wolves this, moxey is a wanker, and other such choice titbits.
In fact, now I come to think about it, perhaps Ben and Thomas are one and the same person, a double act if you like.
Even, dare I suggest it, Morgan and Moxey in disguise???!!!
You can tell I’ve had a few Boddingtons.
Life is good, have a nice day y’all.
FOWB
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