Jim Bowen entered my thoughts at 7.58pm last night.
‘Come and have a look at what you could have won.’
He puts a hand to my shoulder and I’m forced to contemplate what might have been. To see a future I would no longer enjoy.
To witness the team Wolves were supposed to be. Organised, inventive and superior.
In a word, Watford.
That should have been us, I mumble through gritted teeth.
But instead I purr enviously over the opposition along with 18,000 other dejected Bullseye losers, all turning grimly towards their own unwanted prize board.
Stephen Hunt, full of gusto and good intentions but devoid of quality.
Karl Henry, proving more hindrance than help to the ever-changing back four.
Kevin Doyle, a shadow.
All the while, Watford dispel the notion you can’t pass your way out with foreign talent.
I wonder if Steve Morgan lost any sleep over that? He should.
Solbakken imports are our only chance.
Sigurdarson squanders, but shows confidence and willing.
Then there’s Bully’s star prize.
While the rest of the team miss the board, Bakary Sako hit double top again. And for all Watford’s superiority, he was the headline act.
The footwork, the pace, the swagger – it belies our lowly position and the dross that surrounds him.
Drink it in, savour it, because he’ll be packing his bags in May.
We can only hope that before then, he stops us checking out.
Morgan+Moxey should go cap in hand to Solbakken, there aint no shame in admitting a mistake. It’s often seen as a strength and this is imperative to us getting off this slide to oblivion. SS had vision what can be said of that cretin JM. Good summary Ben.
SS is history no point looking back at what if DS is there now Henry,Huntt,Doyle are not the future soon as there dropped for good and binned end of season we only woke up last 15 mins of game,we can win on Tuesday and take the red dogs next weekend.
Agree totally re: Doyle and Co. he put Cassidy on for 26 min the lads been on the bench for weeks whats the point he just getting warm up the the game ends. Saunders you should know this being a striker yourself and why drop Batth just when I thought you’d got the message about Johnson. For want of a better word we are fucked no vision in the board room sole concern is money and a manager ringing round his mates for advice.
Thanks Thomas i concurr. However we are where we are and we are a millions miles from Watfords pass and move. I hoped Solbakken would take us in that direction but for whatever reason it didnt happen.
On the players Henry was hesitant and sat to deep which ultimatly led to there goal though from where i was sitting it looked a soft free kick. Hunt looked like a little frustrated terrier that had run onto the pitch and was trying to join in the game. Gorkss looks like a short term stop gap loan signing. Doyle isnt a long ball centre forward. On the plus side the taller quicker Siggy looked a threat but unfortunetly put his 2 good chances hard and straight at the keeper. I think Doherty looks stronger and calmer than Foley.
I didnt jump up when we equilised because what we need desperatly is a win
Colin agree with everything you say but cannot get my head around you not being able to celebrate our late equaliser! It rescued a valuable point and was scored by the only bright light of our very gloomy season!
Of course i was pleased we equalised just didnt get the usual rush of joy my trouble is i am always putting things into context !
A football ground is not the place for putting things into context and neither for contemplation. That does not lead to a vibrant atmosphere, which acts as the twelth man and is what is required in Molineux at this very crucial point of the season. We need every fan who attends games to do their part. Assuming you were at the match last night!
The only reason Solbakken couldn’t get the players playing the football he wanted, was because the old guard wouldn’t do it. They addmitted as much after his departure.
The imports and kids sre are only shining stars.
Given time and completion of his January shopping list, I’m convinced we would have turned the corner.
Can’t understand how Hunt got a start over Peszko.
Mr incognito i said i was at the match though you can believe what you like. Also jumped out of my seat plenty of times i always do just feel that these draws wont be enough to keep us up.
Actually Cognito there was also another reason i didnt jump up dont worry to much about getting your head round it.
The only occasion that I have not celebrated a Wolves goal (meaning going mental) was a late winner at the old Baseball Ground when I was in the Derby end!
Re jumpgate: I didnt jump up when i was in the Forest end but i hadnt had a drink that day.
Your
Right draws no good.
Twelfth man, if we had 24 men
On the pitch I still couldn’t see us winning a game fans can only do so much every ones been saying players are shell shocked and in a rut how do you think the fans feel whos raising the fans spirt certainly not the owner, CEO or the manager with his team selections and TATICES.
It is interesting reading through the posts and you come to the conclusion that most fans are pretty much in agreement over the team and the formation. Unfortunately managers like to tinker with personnel and formations. We need to stick to 4-4-2 playing our in form players rather than chopping and changing every game.
The team
keeper Ikeme
right back Doherty can’t understand how our once most reliable player Foley is so awful!
left back Robinson can’t fault Wards effort but he is suspect defensively.
centre halves Batth really unlucky to make way for Gorkks and Johnson but l can understand DS going with experience. Perhaps Johnson/Batth.
Width provided by Sako and Peszko. The Polish lad has always impressed me he can run around like Hunt but actually do something with the ball. We need a decent service for the strikers. The other possibilty is Adam Hammill.
Centre mid Davis must start over Henry. Why does every Wolves manager rate him so highly, are we missing something? Ridculous tackle on the edge of the box. O’Hara should also play although he is under performing and giving the ball away too often.
Forwards has to be Cassidy who looks like a proper centre forward and Sigurdarson who looks livlier than Doyle who has completely lost his way and seb who has missed too many gilt edge chances.
I can’t understand how so many players have lost form notably Doumbia, Foley and Doyle while some never had it in the first place i.e. Edwards, Ward, Henry.
Not over impressed with DS, who talks a good game but he seems pretty clueless to me. He openly admits he still does not know his best team, perhaps he should start reading some of these blogs!!
Again I felt DS bizarre team selection cost us any chance of a win last night. The one player we have that looks like a threat to the opposition and gives us any kind of attacking threat he has shifted in successive games to areas of the pitch where he’s clearly not anywhere near as effective. Playing Sako on the right to accomodate an appalling Stephen Hunt on the left was like playing Fatty Blake in goal. Surely when you’re tinkering looking for a winning team you start by looking at the few things that are working well and leaving them where they are, not moving them around! The body language of the players last night (especially Henry, O’Hara, Doyle after his initial run around like a dick head 10 mins and Sako when he was on the right) was appalling. The only bright point is that the last 2 games have been against the top 2 and we’ve shown that even when we remotely get it together for 10 or 15 minutes we can cause them problems because they really aren’t that good. Hopefully against some of the utter dross in this league (of which I include us at the moment!) we can pick up some points and restore some much needed confidence. What we do need is for DS to at least pick the best 11 for the job and stop fucking around with bizarre decisions. By the way, superb ‘Ben style’ report Thomas. He will be proud!
I knew I shouldn’t have used a tenuous analogy…
I’d actually assumed it was Ben from the writing style!! I’ve had to just scroll back up to the top to check!! haha
I can’t remember Ben ever using the Jim Bowen analogy before but I’m sure it was brewing somewhere in his extensive thought bank. He’ll be gutted you’ve got it in there before him!
Great blog Thomas.
Please can we all get together and have a whip round to keep Bakary Sako at the Mol?!
I’m not swimming in sausage and mash but I would gladly drop a ton in the kitty to keep him.
Of the rest, Siggy would get a pony and Cassidy could have a score.
The young lads could have a Nigel Benn each.
The rest of the squad aren’t worth a Lady Godiva between them.
Must have been watching a different game to you guys, we played the in form team in the league and we drew 1-1, the overall performance was not brilliant but it showed fight which is exactly what we need at the moment.
I thought Saunders was wrong to initially play Doyle and Hunt, but to is credit he changed them and also had the balls to change Henry who in my opinion was awfull, he also acted with enough time on the clock, Hunt coming off with 30 min to go.
I hope we can get a loan striker in which may give a bit more of a cutting edge.
COME ON ME BABIES
“You’re everywhere and nowhere, baby That’s where you’re at.” Stephen Hunt was able to personify this seemingly paradoxical statement. Clearly keen to kick something on his return he ran around kicking any player who could not get out of his way. Occasionally he would kick the ball in a way that suggested that he had been studying Brownian motion during his absence. Lacking in pace he tried to use guile to beat the Watford defence. This consisted of running directly into the defender and hoping the ball would continue to move in a forward direction. Clearly these tactics had been discussed with Deano as he was not substituted until the second half and Sako had been moved to the right to allow Hunt to roam around on the left. In the second half O’Hara made a glorious cross field pass to find Hunt in space bearing down on goal. Hunt lifted his foot and watched the ball roll under it and out of play, in frustation, he tried to kick himself. He missed.
“Saying everything is groovy. When your tyres are flat” Karl Henry needs a break. He struggled to get into the game. Watford found it too easy to bypass him and when he had the ball the speed of his decision making about what pass to make was reminiscent of Cliff Thorburn preparing to pot a red on the edge of a pocket.
“Hi Ho silver lining” Siggy and Sako both played well with pace movement and purpose. I suspect neither will be playing division one football next season.
“Though it’s obvious” Come on Deano play your best team
Are you Ben in disguise?!
No he’s younger and more good looking
Last night crystallised what has been the problem for too long. We are being outplayed in midfield by virtually every team we meet. Sako (allegedly part of the midfield) was hung out to dry on the right touchline in the first half. Hunt ran round in ever decreasing circles on the left, and O’Hara and Henry were overrun in the middle. We don’t need another striker on loan, but a midfield player who can put his stamp on the game. Our strikers can score, it’s just that they don’t get any decent ball, so when they do get a chance they snatch at it.
The selection of Hunt (who was clearly not match fit) in midfield last night goes to show that Saunders just doesn’t get it – he’s probably a nice guy, but so was Terry Connor.
Well put. Our midfield is the core problem.
If the pass from O’Hara to Hunt, (which he missed completely), had fallen to Cassidy or Siggy, it would have been in the back of the net.
Quality post. You have set a precedent now! Wonder what song you’ll pick for post Millwall match? Hot Chocolate’s “Everyone’s a Winner”….
I agree with Thomas about Stale’s signings. When I heard on the radio on the way to the match that Stephen Hunt was starting, I nearly turned round and came home. Why, when Saunders has complained in the past about a surfeit of right wingers at the club, doesn’t he play one? I can’t understand why Peszko is so out of favour that Saunders doesn’t even deem him worthy of inclusion in the squad. I’d like to know what the situation is with Boukari. He was supposed to be fit by February, but that’s come and gone. Maybe he’s joined Doumbia in whatever his problem is.
Peszko is only on loan so will presumably go back to Cologne at the end of the season, so why not play him while we’re playing his wages?
At least I know Boukari exists as I’ve seen him, which is more than can be said for Margreitter. I can’t believe he’s so poor that we’d rather bring two defenders in on loan than play him.
Oh well, it was worth going for that goal at the end.
NIce summary Danny.
Watched the match on the TV
Was encouraged by all the younger players.
Cassidy’s shot/cross which Robinson missed rebound of, galvinised us.
He should be playing 90 minutes with Siggy.
No use crying over spilt milk, but we should of kept SS and backed him in January.
Still possible to avoid the drop….
Make Sako captain….
Forgot to say, please, please, no more Hunt or Henry this season……
Only 5 to go, Deano, to beat clipboard’s record.
You are doing quite nicely son, changing a reasonable team selection to include Hunt. Why didnt you bring Ward and Berra back last night as well, to guarantee the non win?
Tick Tock, the relegation noose looms nearer.
Clipboards record was against Premier League teams! Connor would have won games in this league. Saunders is an idiot, he’s the football version of Norman Wisdom
I can only think that the inclusion of Hunt last night and the switching of Sako to the right was either for Hunt to try and prevent Cassetti getting forward or because he believed Watford would have a plan to stop Sako on the left. Either way it didn’t work.
People complained at MM playing players out of position and it seems DS has the same problem. When players are lacking confidence they need the ‘comfort’ of not being asked to do things they are not familiar with. Sako in the second half was a different player from the first half. Thank God DS switched it around with enough time for Sako to make an impact.
Like others I can’t believe Peszko isn’t chosen ahead of the likes of Hunt and Edwards. What we desperately lack is creativity in midfield – even O’Hara has gone off the boil in that respect – his first hour was awful.
But there is hope – if we can pass the ball around as we did in the second half at Leicester we can certainly get enough points from the remaining fixtures to avoid the drop. The full-backs looked good enough and Sig and Sako offer plenty of threat. Davis must start instead of Henry and Baath instead of a somewhat flaky Johnson, but please – we need creativity in midfield and we need to stick to 4-4-2.
But I’m all for begging Solbakken to return…
70 minutes with Henry we lose 1-0. 20 minutes without Henry we win 1-0. The time has come. Finally, the prospect of a Wolves 11 without Ward, Berra, Henry and Doyle looms large and 3 points will follow.
also include Foley, Edwards and Hunt
What you’re actually saying is rid the team of M McC deadbeats.Now you’re talking.What a bloody bunch of no-hopers they are.Thank you M MC for F**k all.
Excellent post Thomas. Spot on in so many respects.
I only can hope that you are wrong about Sako, but can’t see it. That lad is going to be a big name in English football one day, just can’t see it being with the Wolves.
In regards to Solbakken, we hear the saying “be carefull what you wish for” a lot in the Wolves arena.
I only hope those who called for his head are happy with what they achieved, which in my opinion was a massive step backwards. After the meeting the other night it is clear that M&M do listen to the fans.
I hope those people who have been saying “Morgan out” reconsider their position.
While believing for some time that this club would be relegated, last night was the first time I actually thought ‘ and they deserve to.’
That was truly abysmal.
Good Players : sako, sigurdson – when given the right roles.
Acceptable performance : Doherty, Davis
Play if you must : Johnson, Gorkss, Ikeme
Poor Performance : Robinson.
Must Never Play again : Henry, O’hara, Blake,
Must never play again even if means 10 men on the pitch : Doyle, Hunt.
As for Cassidy…. I’m not conviced guys. He got 1/2 hour this time and still looked ineffective.
Sako must play on left or central support striker. If he’s on the left then , I’m sorry, but you have to have Ward. Robinson is not an attacking full back to support Sako and looked poor defensively last night too.
Next team : Ikeme, Gorkss, Batth for defence. Doherty, peszko,Davis on right triangle; Ward, Sako, Doumbia on left triangle. Sigurdsson and cassidy (then Mcalinden).
Disagree.
I thought Robinson last night made some mistakes, but is way better than Ward.
Also he has enthusiasm and spirit.
Compared to Hunt, Henry, O’Hara etc he deserves his place.
Agree. I thought Robinson was fine, especially for a young lad who has just arrived. AND he’s displaced one of our undroppable star players, the superb SW. Can’t be too popular with the rest of that clique.
I thought Ebanks-Blake did well when he came on. He offers so much more than Doyle with his bustling, physical approach. The elbows jutted out when he runs to ensure that defenders can’t get close to him and if they do. they get a good, hard jab in the ribs for their efforts.
The problem with Ebanks-Blake is that he doesn’t get the service to do what he does best and service was scarce once again on Friday night for these reasons:
1) Playing your best outfield player this season out of position to accomodate Stephen Hunt.
2) Playing Stephen Hunt.
3) Not playing a right winger when we have Peszko, Hammill and Ismail not even making the bench.
4) Playing left-footed non-wingers on the right wing.
And, just for the record, I thought Henry was absolutely awful. I have defended him a lot over the years but he’s a spent force for Wolves and that was horribly, horribly evident on Friday. And IMO he did foul the player for the free kick which led to the goal. He pulled him back then (whether on purpose or by accident) clipped his heels – even if it wasn’t on purpose it wasn’t acceptable for him to do it. I heard one fan describing it as “naive” as we left the ground. It wasn’t naivety, it was plain stupidity and is unforgivable in a senior professional.
Peterborough 2 up!
Hunt, Henry and Johnson should not play again.
Ikeme’s positioning for their goal atrocious.
Dean get a grip. Pezsco must play on right and Sako on left, maybe even just behind Siggy.
Doherty sound. Baath must come back in.
What’s happening about Church?
Sure O’Driscoll will get a big welcome when BC come to town.
Not looking good folks, more wine needed, to stem the pain.
UTW
I’m sure you are all aware of this but looking at the table Peterborough and Bristol City have games in hand. Now you don’t have to tell me that games in hand are only that not points but a psycological advantage? I think so.
Ok ! There are a couple of things that could change the fortunes of this great club of ours . One is to get stale back and tell him that we made a mistake and we would like him to be our manager again please. The other thing is the re instating of the grey peas and bacon outside the ground . WAS THIS YOUR DOING MOXEY ? They must both be bought back !
Peterborough sure are cracking whips today! No favours for us unfortunately.
So, squad bingo to clear house in two months?
Actually, couldn’t we just forfeit the season right now and at least have the extra time to put the new and improved Wolves team together and give them longer in training? I tell you what, if we are down a league next season and still managing to miss the top of the table I really don’t think I can handle it.
i thought we were terrible again last night when but for sako recue act again we would be bottom now,why bring johnson back when batth was doing fine, as fore the midfield why not try to get a player on loan with some ability and fight someone like huddleston at tottenham he can,t get a game there.
he probably wouldn’t get a game here at the mo.
Great Blog Thomas. It was really difficult to get inspired in a Geordie pub to watch the game. There was real hope when their goalie pulled off a great save from Siggy, but sadly that was soon extinguished.
Deano please look at how many first or second balls we won from that awful long ball tactic!!
Look at the gap between the forward and “supporting midfield”, I use that loosely.
I admired how Solbakken set about the task to get the team to play more as a unit. Move together play the ball on the ground, not just put in a shift but try and make meaningful contribution with key players making an impact.
That unfortunately is in the past and we can dream of what could have been. The reality is here!
If we dont find that positive contribution and impact from a few more players, we can kiss this league goodbye. Third lowest goalscorers in the league doesnt bode well!
But we were still out in our Old gold and black, in a Black and white pub!
Come on me babbies.
Looking at the team for the next game: Surely when tinkering looking for a winning formula, you have to look for things that have worked well and try to keep those together, and tinker around that.
The back 4 of Robinson, Doherty, Gorkss & Johnson have just conceded one from a set piece to a Watford team that have been rattling goals in for fun so keep that the same and let them build up some kind of understanding.
When we’ve had Sako on the left and Siggy on the right for big chunks of the last two second halves we’ve created more chances than we have for most of about the last 8 games put together. (Against the top 2 teams in the league as well). Therefore play them there! I’d be all for giving Davis a go with O’Hara in the middle, who has looked sharper than Henry when he’s came on in the last couple of games.
Up front, we’ve seen Blake and Doyle play and fail that many times together it really is getting boring. Opposition centre halves get their pipes out when they see their names on the team sheet. Therefore play Cassidy with one of them. I don’t think he’s brilliant but if we’re going to persist with lumping balls from back to front which seems inevitable, he looks more capable of winning balls in the air than either of them. He also looks more likely to get on the end of the sort of quality crosses that Sako and Siggy have been crossing to nobody in the last two second halves. I’d go for Blake alongside him purely because he scores goals and Doyle doesn’t. Cassidy also seems able to put himself about a bit which could make up for Fatty’s lack of workrate a little.
All seems fairly logical to me. However I have absolutely no confidence that DS will apply any such logic whatsoever at Millwall on Tuesday night. I’ll happily buy a pint for anyone who can second guess the next tactical masterstroke he’s got up his sleeve. A debut for Margreitter perhaps? I doubt he’ll stop at that though, he’ll probably really go for it and play him on the left wing and drop Sako into centre half!
Totally agree carl
Simply do not understand why we didn’t start the game with the 11 that finished against Cardiff.
Selection was totally baffling. Hunt ??? Sako on the right ??? Doyle up front ???
Piss poor from Saunders.
Sporting bet were offering £80 return for a £10 stake on Doyle scoring the first goal.
I’ll give them £80 if he scores any goal…..
I’d happily go with that with or with the possible changes of Baath for Johnson and Sig up front with Fatty and Peszko on the right.
If barnsley win their game in hand we are 4 points from safety. We last won a game on dec 21st against blackpool in which they absolutely battered us. In this period we have not won in 12 league games and one cup game -luton. What does really surprise me is how fans still back morgan. A few well chosen words to pre-determined questions at the FP and the world is all right. How far does morgan and moxey have to go, how much damage do they have to do before fans wake up and smell the coffee. Morgan doesnt listen to the fans. Did he listen when he gave connor the job. Did he when he gave stale the job, did he when saunders was given the job. Its all bullshit and some fans are lapping it up. When we are relegated, some fans still be saying morgan has the best interests at heart. With or without hindsight, as people use this phrase when they make shit decisions, we will be relegated and morgan is a money sucking parasite that is not good for our club. If i am wrong, i will hold my hands up and admit it.
I was feeling a bit more optimistic but reading the above has made me feel depressed.
However we have made up some ground, we have the best player in the league, in Sako and have home games that we can win albeit probably playing under pressure. 50 points will do it easily forget the other results. 4 wins and few draws.
Posts above suggest we need to strengthen both midfield and our strike force, however there is one other major omission as I see it and that’s a captain, someone to lead, someone to make this group of individuals work as a team. Henry is now so insignificant and lacking in confidence that one can forget he’s playing until he messes up. There are no obvious replacements but someone’s got to step up and soon.
Other advice: get the ball on the floor, stop backing off and get some tackles in. Oh and what the he’ll was Hunt doing on the pitch last night, I thought he was one of the mascots!
Ledbury, agree no leader on the pitch and to be frank, can’t see anyone.
Henry went off and the armband went to Ikeme.
In the good old days with cull is we had two dressing rooms. One for established Internationals and one
who wanted to be in that dressing room. You had to be invited to go in there.
Bring it back!
Sometimes you have to take whats been given and last nights result could i hope kickstart our survival.
Watford were head and shoulders better than us in football terms, but for endeavour we showed for once we were willing to give it a go especially in the second half.
A bit surprised with the team sheet with the addition of a couple of players,for me he shouldn’t have played Hunt, he was always gonna be good for five minute stint and thats it.
Johnson another who really didn’t give a shit one way or another,gotta bring Batth back for the Millwall game,we also need to get rid of Henry and bring in a pacey midfielder from somewhere with a striker to play along side Siggy.
Whats happened to Peszko why isn’t he playing ? and please Deano keep Sako on the left where he belongs stop the f##king tinkering.
With posh winning today its getting more frightening to think we will go down unless we start that winning run starting with the Millwall game.UTW.
If you want cheering up Martin youtube” John Motson gets destroyed by Brian Clough” very harsh on Motty though,however he made an average bunch the best in Europe, only because he told them they WERE the best in very basic terms, well, thats how I remember it back then. last season we should have appointed a quality manager who should have got far more from this shower, my fear is if/when we go down who will want to pick up these pieces, in the meantime between games wrap our -one- best player up in cotton wool, back to the grap e juice.
Can somebody reassure me that Dean Saunders is the right man for the task as I remain unconvinced after watching last night. No creativity, no shape, a different team every game,I know we have a large squad but he must know who the majority of his best eleven are by now.Udinese reserves looked a different class, I know they could not finish us off and we should be applauded for getting a point but I fear for the future with this set up.
what does Kevin thelwrll do.
God help us if he’s the guy directly advising DS
Good report Thomas .. you mention one thing which is putting me off renewing my ST .. and that’s selling our best player again .. Sako ! It will be a continuance of the downward spiral. As for the performance .. well I think we should excuse Hunt a little .. he’s hardly kicked a ball and had no pitch time in what 12 months. Sure his touch wasn’t good but his in your face attitude was a pleasure to see and made us far more aggressive and competitive than we have been of late. Agree that Sako on the right was on odd choice but he impressed in his normal position. I’m not convinced about Cassidys contribution at this level compared to Div1. We certainly lack a cutting edge although Siggy has come on a lot. Our biggest problem for me is that we are weak in midfield with poor ball pass and move players. It’s getting to a nervous phase now and Ties will be crucial.
Hope the New Blogger .. TIMEKEEPER is ready to join in..
The Timekeeper’s late! Sit down!!!
WHERE’S THE TIMEKEEPER ? ..
Which way forward from here ? We need to off load Mccarthys old guard. If we get relegated this might actually be easier. Morgan has got to attract a manager who can do what Lambert and Adkins did at Norwich and Southampton.
More merlot for me.
What people really aren’t seeing here is that Morgan has given himself an escape route.
We will get relegated, the club will be self destructing and Morgan will say
“you want me out so I’m Going”
He has sown the seed now so that when things get really bad next year he will walk away and leave us in the s**t
He has had his play at owning a club for a few years and proved its a job too far for him.
And it will all be the Fans fault !!!
Forgot to say.. Never let Hunt pull the Jersey on again !
He was useless from the start while on the cocaine but as soon as it wore off he looked like a cold Turkey….
Our next 4 games – millwall away, forest away, bristol city at home, middlesboro away. Tough games!
We’ve needed a win for weeks, months now, i don’t care how it’s done on Tuesday but lose, then this is going to be one ugly blog site, just leave the dead wood out and we might stand a chance.
Next 4 games will decide our fate.
Agree with Nige. Moron will sell to anyone with enough liquidity. He won’t care and neither will Greaseball. They will be gone like scalded cats.
Make no mistake, this bs talk from the Parliament will just sound like empty words. thats just what they are.
Wake up Happy Clappers.
Iv’e just agreed to travel to Charton on 20th april,(whats wrong with me)i hope by then we’ve won a couple games,at least it’ll be a day out!!.
Lets just hope it starts on tuesday and as i said, kick start our survival.UTW.
It will be day out…..Hope for you it’s better than that
Agree alf and nige. Sir jack sold to who he thought was the best person. Morgan and moxey will sell to the biggest bidder, no matter what their credentials are. Hopefullt tge honourary VP who support wolves – bully, plant and heyhoe flint may have some say, but i doubt it
“biggest bidder”. We’ll be lucky if anyone will be interested in buying a League 1 club. There wasn’t a stampede when Sir Jack put the club up for sale in 2005.
Come back from Oz planty and save us make it a celebration day on Tuesday, don’t want to be sick again !
http://www.twohundredpercent.net/?p=22170 – has anyone else seen that?
Thanks for that T’OM. A pretty fair summary overall although no mention of the lunatic decision to spend money on knocking down a lass than 20 year old N Bank instead of rebuilding the team.
Incidentally, it appears the £30m ‘investment’ in the club by SM when he acquired the club is in the form of a LOAN.
Presumably, were SM to leave the loan would have to be repaid? Wonder if thats what Sir Jack had in mind when agreeing to the sale???
Still, Jez is still there looking after our interests so we’re in safe hands!!!
Yo, baldy, look on the archive footage on the link above, and you will see your fave commentator, him with the big appendages on his arms, Huge Onds, with your fave comment when The Doog went up for the ball, “Dougan on the jump”
Fuckin’ priceless!!!
Forty years ago, but they could still beat this present shower of shit which purports to be our team.
Watch Waggy’s precision crosses, The Doog scoring twice against Everton in the black and white snowy Mol, Johnny Richards netting twice to beat unstoppable Derby and Hughie Curran scoring the only goal of the game at White hart Lane, when Grimmy Jeeves was in his prime.
“Those were the days, my friends”…………………….
Yes, Scooped Moxey is “working night and day to improve things” said Moron.
That’s ok then…….
Getting to the point where you can start playing with BBC’s Championship Predictor again. I think the only thing I can actually take stock in when messing around is that the teams immediately above and below us all have tough games too.
It’s by not means over. But it’s looking pretty bleak.
Varying levels of optimism from me put us anywhere from 17th to 24th…
I hate the way Moxey has run this club, I think our manager is a chest beating novice, but from now on we all have to back the club totally or we are off to oblivion again… DS if u read these sound bites, just pick a team a system and stick with it we need consistency the time for medling with players and systems has gone..
Up the wolves
And still sack the fat man,,,,but in June
Good to see Griffiths getting a hatrick today, glad we have someone at the club in a rich vein of goal scoring form….oh wait…that’s right…he isn’t good enough to get in the team is he….FFS!!
Totally agree get him back give him a slack round back of his head wind him up and let him loose on for the last 2 months and see what happens
You seem to be posting under the same name as me.
leigh griffiths hat-trick , oh my God .
Scotlands highest scorer . How much would we pay for that ? Two million plus ?
Any Chumpionship club must be coveting such a signing . Far too good for the 3rd division .
Kind of strange really , ….who owns his contract ? Which club is he deemed not good enough for ?
Have I just awoken from an inebreated sleep , hearing this ?
Yes , I have . And immediately pissed again . Trust in Saunders , it’ll all come right in the end . I obviously no nothing .
Up the Wolves . Sweet dreams to you all …xx
Sorry , Know nothing .
The crazy thing about this is that we have given Hibs a sum of money for this guy (not sure what we paid), but then they have had him back from us and even if they are paying 100% of his wages, which I doubt as he would probably have had a pay rise to join us, they are still that lump sum up AND getting his services…another lump sum of money that could have gone towards someone’s wage bill in the Prem perhaps??…and if this kid doesnt want to play for Wolves (no idea why he wouldn’t when he hasn’t even tried yet) then we should sell him in the summer for a profit, and not back to Hibs who won’t have the money to spend, but to a side willing to give us a good profit on what we paid….we will need all the cash we can get to help us get out of division 3 next season!!
UTW
He cost £150k .. he’s got a bit of baggage .. but son have a few of the current squad.
He’s pissed off with WWFC coz McCarthy never had him in the squad in our halcyon days and it seems his attitude towards the club is preventing him coming back .. me for one would put history to one side a get him playing for us. He did come back at the beginning of Jan but went straight back to Hibs when Saunders deemed him no better than thje current front line. Says it all really .. Your spot on about us wasting the £150k buying someone who probably wont ever pull a shirt on !!
Article by Daniel Taylor in the Observer Sports pages today titled “McCarthy’s success exposes the boardroom buffoonery at Wolves”. The last line finishes thus:”The last 18 months have been crap”,says Steve Morgan,and then Taylor asks the question,’And whose fault is that ? ‘
Answers in not more than two words please.
Sign Cote De Rhone!
In terms of the match, I can only watch ocassionally from Australia, I thought Gorkss was pretty good. Ikeme solid throughout, but we are so direct, so one dimensional and look pretty easy to play against.
A real issue is that if we play this long ball stuff (which we did under MM in the championship the first time), we need a proper #9. Iwelumo was amazing at that level at that time, but we have shifted players like Vokes and now have too many small forwards.
The real issue for me (I’m still angry at Solbakken’s sacking, more so after how eloquent he was in his interview the other day) is that we changed direction but only half committed to the change. We’re now stuck between “English cloggers” and “European nouveau Swanseas” and do neither well. I didn’t like what I saw on Friday, I really didn’t.
If we can pull ourselves out of this one (I now think we wont) I’ll be delighted, but it must be a summer of turmoil and turnover.
Positive for the day: The Championship is not played over 38 games.
Wolves forward scores his 20th goal this season, having scored a hat trick on Saturday !!!!!!
TRUE
His name………. GRIFFITHS, and he’s out on loan. That’s how Wolves conduct business.
God forbid we allow him to actually play for Wolves, he may actually score a goal and we know that’s not what we do !!!
I see Stephen Hunt has been slagging off Wolves supporters on Sky Sports for booing him off and being less than happy with football team. How dare they? Reckons it was embarrassing and they need to have a look at themselves.
Happens every time the long suffering supporters can’t take any more, these overpaid rubbish players turn on them.
Much easier than facing the truth. It’s the players who need to have a hard look at themselves and embarrassing was a good description of your performance mate. Your only saving grace was that it was extremely amusing as well. Suggest you read Danny Vellinski’s post above. Says it all and i bet he didn’t boo once.
Yep, just seen this on the Sky site, this is what he said.
Wolves winger Stephen Hunt has slammed a section of the club’s supporters for their behaviour during the 1-1 draw at home to Watford on Friday.
Hunt, who made his first Championship start of the season at Molineux following hip surgery, was “shocked” to hear his 64th minute substitution met with cheers from some fans.
He was also unimpressed with the negative chanting ahead of Bakary Sako’s late equaliser, which handed second-bottom Wolves an important point as they fight for survival this season.
While Republic of Ireland international Hunt says the supporters can be “fantastic”, the 31-year-old admits he felt embarrassed on Friday.
“I was shocked when they cheered me coming off,” he told the Birmingham Mail. “Thanks for that lads. It was my first start in a long time.
“The fans can be fantastic but they can also be against us as well and that didn’t help.
“I am not going to worry about what happened when I came off. It was more of a shock to me when I was sat there listening to them singing horrific songs.
“It is embarrassing, it is just embarrassing.
“They may boo me for saying that but I have always been honest.
“They can be fantastic as well so don’t get me going all the one way here.
“But to be the way they were, to roll off five of six songs in a row of the calibre they did then they need to have a look at themselves.”……….un-fucking-believable, it’s the fans fault we are in this mess….I should have known all along…Mr Hunt may just have signed his own P45?
It’s part of official club propaganda now on the insanitised. Full unabridged version with more advice to the fans such as,
“We can deal with the boos and the abuse coming down the tunnel and getting jeered off.
That would be a better time for fans to get rid of all their frustrations, before or after the match.”
Yeah, and a better time for you to your talking is DURING the match with your feet.
DS’s deluded lunacy has come to the fore in another great story in the express and shite this morning. He’s just repeated his rhetoric about how we only need one win and everything will be alright. Then he goes on to say he’s thinking of dropping a ‘flair player’ to make us more solid but that it’s not Sako.
My first reaction is when the fuck did we sign this ‘flair player’?!
Secondly, I’m sick of hearing this same old bollocks. If we get a win everything will be ok. If, if, if……. If my Mom had balls she would be my Dad! And what is the answer? Not let’s stop messing around and play our strongest team. Let’s mess around some more and sacrafice some of the last remaining bits of flair we’ve got left in the team! I can only imagine he means O’Hara so I would expect to see Henry and Davis in the middle on Tuesday. If he’s going to drop anyone for Davis it should be Henry. I’m not a Henry hater but surely you can’t play the two of them in the centre midfield of a team already looking devoid of any creativity apart from Sako, who he can’t seem to play in the position where he does most of his damage from! DS you’re bizarre team selections really aren’t helping us one bit.
What’s wrong with DS we can all see that Peszco is one underutilized player who could bring a little pzazz to the midfield. I can only dream of Sako and Peszco given a licence to torment any defence – Tuesday would be a great start. I can only summise that the said Polish speedball has been caught giving it to Mrs. S.
Maybe he’s been bringing a little pzazz to Mrs S?! Sometimes there is a lot going on at football clubs than meet the eye. For example, most fans were clambering for Hammill to be given a chance under MM. However, it’s since become clear that the bloke is clearly a complete cock. Footballers are essentially a bunch of blokes working together and will perform better when morale is higher. (Fuck knows how low ours must be at the minute, although DS seems to think we’re actually playing quite well!) You can only assume that Peszko has done something to seriously upset the camp. This still doesn’t explain DS’s bizarre attempts to fill the right mid gap though. For me it’s simple, Sako left and Siggy right has created more chances in the second half of the last two games than about the previous 6 put together. He doesn’t seem to apply any such game by game logic though. I dread to think what he’ll do on Tuesday.
Well said Carl. DS always said we were overendowed at rightwing but he never seems to play a fucking right winger. As a sidebar every photo still I’ve seen of DS he always looks as though he’s hailing a cab ( I just wish)
Pzesko is a strange one. Deano appears prepared to try anyone there but him. He even plays people out of position there. I’ve always felt that Sako and Pzesko in wide positions will cause problems. You are also in a position to play Siggy up front where he is most dangerous. There must be a reason but Fc*k knows what it is.
Worrying that Deano intends to drop a falir player but not Sako – wonder if this could be the Sig. Struggling to think of any other flair players we have. Worrying because flair players can win you matches and 3 pointers are what we need.
Confusing. Perhaps he really has been wapping the beastly thing to Mrs S.
The mantra that needs to be stopped is “The players are good enough”. You hear it from the owner, the ceo, the manager, the piundits, the E&S and of course, the players.
They’re good enough, they just need a bit more…
LUCK
CONFIDENCE
EFFORT
ETC, ETC..
It’s delusional bullshit. No pace, no class, no flair and a loser’s mentality.
Until that fact is accepted by all involved, we will continue going down the leagues.
YOU CAN’T SOLVE A PROBLEM UNTIL YOU IDENTIFY WHAT IT IS.
I’ve not read every comment as I’m at work and jumped on to give my prediction. So apologies if someone has already said this. Millwall 0 Wolves 1 (Andy Keogh own goal!)
Millwall 1 Wolves 2.
Please!