There’s potential throughout this young Wolves squad.
The only question is: how quickly can it be realised?
Sheyi Ojo is just one of many youngsters populating the team this season who’ve suffered an indifferent start.
Too often the on-loan Liverpool winger simply hasn’t looked interested.
In the defeat to Cardiff and the recent stalemate against Brighton he remained on the periphery of the action throughout.
But after coming off the bench to great effect against Preston and more tellingly last night, there’s encouraging signs about what’s to come.
The same can be said of Dominic Iorfa, who perhaps – up until last night – hasn’t yet hit the same heights he managed in his debut campaign.
A timely return to form then from the rangy full-back who turned in the type of powerful, swashbuckling performance that became his trademark last term.
Like most people, I’m glad to see Jack Price back in the team. His steady influence once again looks the best bet for coaxing Kevin McDonald into top form.
A stat was doing the rounds on Twitter last night that Wolves have only lost 5 of the 51 games Price has started for Wolves, adding further credence to the consensus he should always be starting.
What about James Henry too?
We don’t need to talk about potential where he’s concerned. The only question mark is whether he can deliver what’s he capable of on a consistent enough basis.
It’s fair to expect a better goals return from the wide man this season now he can finally get a look in on free-kicks.
Byrne, McDonald, Le Fondre and Martinez also turned in performances to suggest a team may finally be emerging from the shadows.
More encouragingly though is the energy and verve with which Wolves played even before Fulham were reduced to ten.
And of course the sending off helped us, as did the opposition who are prepared to stand off and let teams play their passes.
But the significance of this result should not be overlooked and the confidence it will give our young team is priceless.
With confidence comes belief and with belief, who knows how far this group of players could potentially go?
How did price play? As his influence on results seems to differ slightly from his obvious visible influence on the game. considering we are now back to a league one midfield why have we bought so many cental midfielders?
I know I’m going to get shot down for this, but here goes. I think KJ has been accommodating Edwards to the detriment of the team, he’s a no 10 (IMO) when Edwards plays, the balance doesn’t look right. Let’s see how we play Saturday.
He definitely rates Edwards and I personally think his contribution to our progress over the last couple of years is underestimated by many. KJ also recently said he thinks Edwards is an unorthodox player that a lot of opposition teams struggle to get to grips with. I’d agree with this assessment. He was our match winner against Charlton.
All the above being said, the midfield partnership of Coady and Edwards in a 442 made me feel very sad against Brighton. Neither of those players are capable of setting the tone or playing the type of clever passes we need with our setup.
You build your midfield around players like McDonald and Price who keep things ticking over and then add the athleticism/work rate of Edwards or the ferocity of Coady when required.
Brilliant result lads last night, let’s carry it on and hammer huddlesfield on Saturday, then we will be in the play offs, not bad for a team with no direction and manager who lost the players, c’mon the wolves!!!
A very important victory for the fans and the players. After a toothless performance against Brighton they’ve managed to rise. The anti-climax which followed the game, the announcement of Morgan’s wish to sell the club, was the only thing that kind of neutralised the effect of optimism effected by our strong win. If the club falls in the hands of wrong owners we might get a new manager and new team.
Price was very good last night. He showed J o’Hara how to play central midfield…Like a mini Pep Guardiola
Hause and Batth were also very good.
I’m not sure how many more times Jack Price has to come in and out of the team before KJ realises he’s actually quite good. He’s now attempted to replace him with Evans, Saville, Rowe and Coady and none have proven any better.
Wow, I wasn’t expecting that! Pity I didn’t see the game. It’s amazing how one result can change the mood! Wonder if they felt some sort of conflict at the club had been resolved (or at least pressure released) with the Morgan statement.
Price is great, although he couldn’t exert any influence at all on the Boro game (I was at that one, and boy does he look tiny from up in the Riverside’s stands!) until we were 2-0 down. I also thought that despite the abject defeat that night, the two fullbacks (Iorfa and Deslandes) were the two starters that could take heart from their performance, so it’s good to hear Iorfa continues to play well. He’s definitely higher quality than most of the team (and I mean right NOW, not even taking his potential into account).
That night, Henry also came off the bench and bombed down the wings like a man possessed a couple of times – pity his end product that night was forgettable, but that will come.
Looking forward to digging out a highlights (or even full match if it’s out there) reel for this match.
UTW
In case anyone thinks “it was only against 10 men” I can tell you that for the opening 35 minutes when it was 11 v 11 we were outplaying them from the first whistle and were already in control. In fact it was only the next 10 minutes up to half time that we looked a bit lost as we struggles to cope with playing against 10. After that though it was one way traffic.
Just like on Saturday the introduction of Ojo (this time at half time) had a massive influence on the game, he was outstanding. We should also not underestimate the impact that Batth’s return to the side has had. Regardless of what anyone might think of him as a player his return has visibly lifted everyone at the back and has steadied Hause considerably. In addition McDonald is looking like the player we all knew and loved in League 1, strong, skilful, great range of passing etc. Overall we played extremely well against what was, until last night, along with Middlesbro the form team of the division. Before the game Fulham fans were, for them, unusually optimistic and were saying their 4-0 demolition of QPR the previous Friday was the best they had seen them play for years. Its a funny old game eh?
It’s worth remembering how we played vs 10 men the game before against Preston, a worse team than Fulham. contrast those two and it’s even better – it’s just the performance Wolves needed but it can’t be wasted!
I was there and we. Richly desrveed the result, Fulham could have had 14 mrn, it would have madel no diffnelrnence. Batth, price, were very effective, Macca and Henry were excellent. JH would be constant if I get KJ’!s job after the takeover!!!!!!!!
It was a grest performance, well worth the late night. Thanks to StuWolf for the half time tea. I can’t make Saturday’s game, but last night will stay in my memory for a while. There is hope for Wolves and old gits like me after all, perhaps.
It just goes to show how people see things differently. Most of the match reports in the media and the reports from you lucky folk who were there, say we were on top before and after the send off.
Fulham manager Kit Symons said on the BBC that his team were on top but the send off completely transformed the match. Mmmm, now who shall I believe.
Either way, fantastic (literally) result from an excellent performance. What’s changed? Looking forward to Saturday and the rest of the season with renewed hope.
COYW
Damn you James Henry !! I was set for my second-on-the-trot correct score prediction….and then you spoiled it !
OK I forgive you! 🙂
Great win and you can see the whole of the 90 mins, courtesy of Fulham
here
http://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2015/september/30/90-minutes-wolverhampton-wanderers
I am going to have a smoke and a cuppa and sit back and watch it !
Enjoy!
🙂
Me too – sod work!!!!
Back in 97 minutes.
Thanks for the link Sevlow, that was well worth watching. On that form we’ll surely win at Huddersfield.
Maybe the best team has finally been found; I’m looking forward to the next few matches.
The full 97 mins of the match is now on Fulham FC for free and not need log in
I saw London Wolf, JerryD, Steve Showcase at the game, to a man I’m sure they will agree we saw a more relaxed, clinical happier team. From the k/o they performed far better than Fulham in every department, up until the sending off we must have had at least 70% of the play.
This was the Fulham that destroyed QPR 4-0 and I was shocked at how poor they were against us.
Wolves were by no means great, still half a second off the pace we know them capable of, but one hell of an improvement.
And I predicted right. Henry screamer, Afobe and I’m sure MacDonald got something to Ojo’s effort, how else can we explain the goalies farcical effort at stopping it.
All in all a good night after the Morgan announcement, even our Clive for Hastings was texting me all game, so he’s happy tooooo.
Moxey to resign and the transformation will be complete.
Onwards & Upwards
Stu,
Clive gave me an autographed program from the Fulham match that I understand was all your doing. It’s a great addition to my collection.
Thank you very much!
I managed to get to this game and I echo the comments above. I can’t remember seeing such a one-sided game for a long time. We were well on top even when 11 v 11. I’m not sure how much of this result we can put down to us playing well or Fulham playing dreadfully.
Great game for the background stories as well – amusing to see JO’H getting barracked and Stears getting such a well-deserved send off. I was glad he waited around on the pitch at the end and that he got such a rousing farewell as the last man to leave the field. An average player, but a fantastic contribution to the club with 1005 commitment over his years there. The same couldn’t be said for O’Hara
All I ask of any Wolves team is to play to their potential.
To give it 100% for the full 90minutes (+6 for stoppages).
To come off the pitch knowing that they’ve left nothing out there.
To boldly go where no ma…… Ooops! I think I’m getting carried away here.
It seems that, last night, they did that.
If they do that in every game, we won’t be far off.
But consistency is the one thing that most sides in this division find very hard to find.
Never mind – we’re off and running.
Game on!
And there’s them that say you should be carried away…………………….!
I try not to get carried away win or lose and I try my hardest to not wear gold and black glasses. I was listening to this game whilst working. We were by far the better team from start to finish we are now 3 points from the play offs and this is all excellent. However contrast that with the performance before and it makes me realise more than ever we have the potential to be fantastic at this level while one week later dreadful. It’s a very long season and I think the play offs may be achievable but I wouldn’t put money on it as we have a very young team.
As for Morgan selling the club it’s doesn’t matter what he’s done good or bad it only matters who he sells it to.
I hear that the Bhattis are back!!!!
Only joking. I agree with you Sven, it all depends on who buys the club now. Fingers, toes and everything else I can cross is crossed.
Now back to watching the remaining 67 minutes.
What a fabulous 24 hours!
The shit throwing away a 2 goal lead , at home, to lose, morgan running away, tail between legs, and a superb 3 – 0 win at Fulham.
I just watched the whole game, thanks Sevlow, and I was highly impressed. It was like playing against 11 dustbins, in fact the dustbins would have made more of a match of it.
Poor old Richard Stearman, looked totally lost, and even did his best to give us a penalty.
One thing I couldn’t understand, why were the two sets of Wolves fans so far apart?
Did Stu fart?
For the first time this season the shit-eating grin is firmly in place here in Houston, or Hastings, or wherever I am!
FOwb
Just watching the match and the Fulham commentator has said twice in the first six minutes that Benik Afobe is on loan from Arsenal.
We’ve been had!
No wonder Morgan is selling up, that’s an extra couple of million he’s pocketed.
Yeh what a pair of plonkers the commentators are!
Damien Martinez in goal for Wolves………….who?
After being blocked to see the first goal as I am a short arse I must say to go to the match with Stu and my son was some experience..
Fulham were completely taken aback.. their supporters gobsmacked but in particular we took the game to them from the first minute..
Initially Martinez looked absolutely solid and I mean confident solid and DB looked confident almost fearless..
But for me the man of the match was KMac he owned the middle and had a fantastic game close second to him was IMO Iorfa who constantly raided down the right with his long dangling legs ..even before their sending off we were looking good in possesion.
Once they were down to 10 men we just passed the ball about and started to create chances..it was just a matter of time..
ALFs flick was indeed some goal didn’t quite see it until the replay all I saw was the ball going in off the post and all around me going banana’s..
Ojo got lucky with the second but Henry’s free kick was masterful
as the highlights showed..
This is a different team and as I said at the bottom of the preview it’s as if we have been let off the leesh…
Another 3 points against Hudds and we are knocking at the door once again ..
This was a very well picked team KJ
..I wonder where will Edwards fit in…?
COYW
Hopefully Edwards will fit in nowhere, unless we have an injury. I will be pissed off he he does not stick with this team. They gelled well and I liked what I saw. What was good about the video (thanks Fulham) was I could rewind it and watch the goals again and again and again and again etc as opposed to watching just five mins on the football league show.
We won 0-16 by the time I had finished.
I agree K Mac was superb and I could not fault any of the players. Let us hope this confidence and slick style of play continues.
So what changed ? The plethora of newly signed contracts, the return to form of KMac, the return of DB or the departure of Morgan ? Well, only one of those occurred since the pretty average performance at PNE so I know what my moneys on. Maybe there was uncertainty at the club in the last few 6/7 weeks which was transmitting itself to the players, because I think we all know they are a lot better than the results they were getting. Maybe background issues were impacting on KJ.
We may never know, but as far as I’m concerned our season starts now…
I like that – Our Season Starts Now!! Brilliant.
The cheek of it – he’s nicked my phrase….!
http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2015/10/05/jubilant-kenny-jackett-our-season-starts-now/
Got another rambling abusive post off that dribbling retard .. Garry the bell end gonzo last night .
Would nt mind putting a face to his name .. And one of my plates , right in his Jacobs for that matter!
Where’s the post mate? I want to read it and respond accordingly lol
Love it – Plates and Jacobs – made me laugh.
I was at Craven Cottage with Fulham mates in the Chairman’s Club. The positive comments above are broadly true. Before the sending off it was apparent that Fulham were up against far stiffer opposition than they thought. They thought they’d turned the corner against QPR. Bless.
How many times have we felt we’ve turned a corner? It ain’t that easy.
We were looking calm, cool and collected and should have been ahead. Then the red card came. Funnily enough we struggled from there till half time. Kenny adapted our stragegy in the second half bringing on Ojo. We started going wide and wore Fulham down. They were chasing shadows at the end when we played keepey-ball. Was 0-3 a fair result? No. It could/should have been 4 or 5 goals.
The thick c—t s still on the pne page .. It’s took him this long to type it .. Already responded tho
Lol
I found it and reposted it on here to make it easier for us all to give him shit, rather than look back to the PNE v Wolves post millions of posts away. What a tosser.
Garry Gonzalez says:
September 29, 2015 at 7:46 PM Garry Gonzalez(Quote)
Idiot old men many of them bald as baboons bums abusing an owner while they all hide in the gutter safe from Stevie Morgan being able to abuse them. BUY THE CLUB NOW YA BUNCH OF BUMS !
THIS IS YOUR CHANCE BUT THE TRUTH IS YOU HAVE,NT GOT A POT TO PISS IN BETWEEN YA HAVE YOU ?
Deluded silly men who don,t own Wolves but frighteningly think they do in their mental state. Telling the board what to spend and on who and telling the manager who to play and who to get in the market.
Cuckoo Steptoe and Son Wolf Cuckoo you deluded headless chicken Houston Cuckoo the rest of the dummies who think they own the club posting here. No better than Albuion fans. As for taking note of what Bully says while an exciting Wolves player he has a retarded way of putting vwords together similar to your Cuckoo posts.
If I didn’t know any better I’d say that was the PMDG’er under a pseudonym.
It’s the way she speaks to me all the time.
I’m bald so f-off.
Oh dear! He, or she, seems a little angry at the world.
Probably best to ignore him/her as looking at his/her post and his/her grammar/spelling etc, it’s obvious he/she is highly educated and far too clever for us lot.
London, Brompton, Clive et al, best thing to do is not dignify him with a response. No true wolves fan would send a barrage of insults like that to a fellow wolves fan no matter how divergent the opinions. He needs to get a life.
This……..in spades.
Wow, Brompto, you learned to copy and paste!
You got ‘lectric in your tent now?
Yeah. Did you see the “deluded headless chicken Houston Cuckoo” bit. I laughed. The man(?) is a nutter mate. Best to ignore the fool like Sutton suggested.
What a result credit where credits due. I think Price deserves a mention he seems to bring the best out of MCDonald and Ojo finally showed why Liverpool rate him so highly in fact the whole team performed brilliantly .
This result is extra welcome after the week that was. I’ll make this last comment on Morgan. 9,000 fans at MK 30,000 fans at the final game in League 1 at Molinuex average gate 22,000 in League 1 we wolves fans put our money where our mouth was why after promising to do so didn’t you.
Yes you built a new stand, yes you’ve got us Acadamy 1 status but as I blogged many times what good is that if we are languishing in the championship bottom half of the table or worse League 1.
4,750 fans at Wigan last game last season best away support in the championship and many a Premier League club would envy, it was there and still is for someone the word sleep giant gets banded about a lot but is true the posibilities are endless if someone has the conviction and balls and yes funds to realise it after all Chelsea were heading to then secound division average 18,000 when bates sold them to Abranovich.
Abramovich stole his money.
I wouldn’t careless if he did to Wolves what he’s done for Chelski.
Great performance but why have we had to wait until now. From what i have seen only Boro have been up to much this season and little hard done to ken hasnt got such a bad team after all.
…not really having a go at Kenny. When i was growing up there was a chap at the end of our road the spitting image rode a moped with
one of those peaked helmets.
Having seen the full 90 now, I concur that we seemed back to our best. The defence looked cool on the odd occasion they were under pressure. McDonald stolled around as though he owned the place, which he did. Byrne, Ojo and Henry impressed in the wide areas. Iorfa was back to his rampaging best. What a future the boy has. Special mention for Jack Price. Considering his lack of action recently, he proved the perfect foil for Mac once more and it was great to see him back doing his thing.
High hopes for Saturday’s TV game now. Same team please Kenny.
This was just what the doctor ordered and shows that perhaps all hope is not lost. With the old Macca back I just hope Kenny leaves Price in and doesn’t just revert back to Coady, who I’m undecided on. It’s been a miserable few weeks and it may not be the team of last season but maybe things are looking up. One win and I’m getting carried away!
Who’s up for Derby away?
Could be a good away 12th man following again.
M4 blocked last night, so decided to use A4 only to find they diverted M4 traffic there. Know London well so took a rabbit run through the traffic? (I thought), turned the corner into a stand still. Ended up working back A4 then M4 and had to park near to ground as I had Steve Showcases tickets.
Returned to the car to find a parking ticket, Bottom! Dash, bother were all mentioned. Had to drive to Port Talbot as I was teaching there today but within half an hour the game had me singing my head of in the car. The power of Gold & Black.
Met fellow bloggers, saw a great game, Morgan Pissed off what more could a man desire,
Oh Happy Day
I might be in. Will look at my “social calendar”.
You said “what more could a man desire”? Moxey to piss off too?
Great result lads,
Let’s keep the same team and go shooting up the table
I thought we would win,but not the way we did.3-0 Fantastic.
Let’s not get to carried away with the result ,but let us rejoyce and keep it going when we play one of our bogey teams come Saturday lunch time kick off,another three points most welcome.
I know its hard but we must kick on and forget about the turmoil that surrounds us at the moment.
So let’s get behind the lads and roar them on to victory.
If we can play like that now that KMac has signed his new deal it seems to me that we would be top 3-4 if we had not been penny pinching and given him the contract he deserved before the start of the season.
Price to start every game with KMac and we can get onto a roll.
Those were the days
Interesting read from Inside World Football:-
30 September 2015 GMT: 20:48
Matt Scott: Wolves’ Morgan has done well on house that Sir Jack built Published on Wednesday, 30 September 2015 12:36Ever since the Great Fire of London devastated its capital, Great Britain and its inhabitants have had an obsession with architecture. It is a nation that has spawned many Great Builders, such that naming only Wren, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Sir Joseph Bazalgette or Sir George Gilbert Scott is to commit a gross injustice to the others who came before and after them.Â
Steve Morgan is a great builder. His achievements are of a more modest sort than his Georgian and Victorian forebears but he is a modern magnate of construction nonetheless. Redrow, the firm he founded in North Wales in the 1970s as a drainage specialist, is now a £1.66 billion house-building concern listed on the FTSE250 stockmarket.
For the last seven years the 62-year-old has been the owner of Wolverhampton Wanderers, but on Monday he put the club up for sale, meaning all the major Midlands clubs – Aston Villa, Birmingham City, West Bromwich Albion and Wolves – are now on the market. More than for any of the others – who have achieved a fair amount of stability over the past decade, with several seasons in the Premier League, Wembley appearances and even a trophy to shout about – it has been a rollercoaster period for Wolves.
During Morgan’s tenure as Wolves owner they have graced three different divisions. The highpoint was two seasons’ survival in the Premier League before a double relegation took them down to League One, England’s third tier. But bouncing around the leagues is nothing new for Wolves fans.
In 1984 they dropped out of the top division and immediately suffered three successive relegations, eventually climbing back to the second tier before Morgan’s predecessor, Sir Jack Hayward, took over and brought some stability to Molineux. Not only that, his millions (70 of them ploughed in to the club by some estimates) also bought a new 31,700-capacity stadium that ensured better revenue generation to compete.
It was a sound platform, so that when Morgan took over for a token £10 with the promise of continuing Hayward’s legacy with a minimum £30 million investment in the club, fortunes soon improved. Within two seasons Wolves were champions of the Championship and had a three-year spell in the Premier League ahead of them.
Naturally that dramatically improved Wolves’ financial fortunes. But within the richest league in the world, their internal-revenue generation was no longer as impressive as in the second tier. In their first season after promotion, Wolves had the seventh-worst sponsorship, advertising and commercial income in the Premier League and the fifth-worst match-day revenues.
In 2012 Wolves’ commercial, sponsorship and advertising revenue had fallen by more than 8% but was still better than nine other clubs’. With on-the-pitch performances suffering, matchday revenues had fallen sharply by 2012 – down by nearly a quarter on 2010 levels – but there were still four clubs with lower gate and catering income than Wolves.
Morgan recognised that for Wolves to progress on the pitch, the internal revenues would have to improve. In 2010 he unveiled plans to improve Molineux. But, five years on, the computer-generated designs have never taken shape in reality.
Indeed he may have thought there was no pressing need. If the Premier League were a contest of turnover alone (and clearly it isn’t – Manchester United finished seventh under David Moyes) then Wolves would probably still be a top-flight club. After coming up for the 2009-2010 season, theirs was the Premier League’s 13th-highest turnover. In 2011 it slipped but was still the 15th, and although it fell to 17th in 2010, there were still three sides who generated less money, including Bolton Wanderers and Blackburn Rovers, who both joined Wolves in relegation.
So it was not so much a deficiency of revenue generation as one of expenditure, as the table below shows.
Wolves income and expenditure under Steve Morgan
NB: Player-trading figures for seasons 2007-8 and 2008-9 are unavailable
Wolves’ under Morgan is a story of financial prudence. In their first season in the Premier League the wages-to-turnover ratio was a tiny 43.56%: lower than Manchester United’s 46.14% the same year on 4.7 times the revenue. Incredibly, this was achieved despite the £1.1 million paid to their highest-paid director – unnamed in the accounts but probably the chief executive Jez Moxey. Over their three years in the Premier League the cumulative wage bill was £93.8 million, compared to Blackburn’s £147.2 million, Bolton’s £166.4 million, even Wigan Athletic’s £117 million. (With that unnamed director taking £3.5 million in pay and pensions over the period.)
There was more adventure in the transfer market, with a net £26.7 million spent on transfers over the period Wolves spent in the Premier League but the cash surplus after core football expenditure on wages and transfers kept racking up. Over their three years in the Premier League Wolves made post-core surpluses of £65.2 million in this way. It was not as if they had debts to look after with big interest bills either as, at the end of the 2010-11 season, the club was completely debt free and had £25.5 million in the bank.
What is very interesting is how a great deal of this post-core-expenditure surplus was spent. Fully £19.9 million went on capital expenditure: real estate and infrastructure improvements. Even upon their short-lived return to the Championship, Morgan’s Wolves stumped up another £8.5 million for that in a single year.
Wolves fans will remember how he flirted with a Liverpool takeover prior to buying the Molineux club. He’s not instinctively a Black Country man. Though there is no way his strategy would have seen Wolves in England’s third tier in 2013-14 as they were, the figures show he was not prepared to break the bank for success either. There is nothing wrong with prudence, but a surfeit of it can be damaging to a club’s football success.
Now Morgan is a builder. His investment in infrastructure is more of the kind of thing that he is used to. Of course it is impossible to tell from analysis of the clubs’ accounts with whom Wolves spent all that money in their infrastructure developments. But there is no suggestion it went to any of Morgan’s personal business interests such as the Redrow company of which he owns 40%, since there are no related-party transactions listed in the audited accounts. There can be no suggestion at all of any wrongdoing in this area because what he did with his club’s money is absolutely his business.
But Morgan did not throw £30 million at the club through his boyhood love of it and is not the vanity type either. He is surely canny enough to have gained some wider benefit from his ownership of Wolves. Particularly as Redrow has since around that time been involved in a large development of executive homes in the Compton Park area of Wolverhampton worth several tens of millions of pounds. It would only be natural for local suppliers, even planners, to be better disposed to a man who owns the local Premier League football club than to a developer from outside. Who wouldn’t?
It is unlikely that another owner would derive that kind of indirect benefit from large infrastructure spending while the owner of Wolves, now a Championship club. The fact is, Morgan is a builder – a great builder – not a football man, and he has proved as much in his ownership of Wolves. But it is unlikely Wolves fans would have shared his vision for their club.
Journalist and broadcaster Matt Scott wrote the Digger column for The Guardian newspaper for five years and is now a columnist for Insideworldfootball. Contact him atmatt.scott@insideworldfootball.com.
I read that too. It would have been easier for you to just place the link lol.
Brilliant analysis but you are giving him to much credit. To summarise he is a not so complete prick and his ex wives are getting the ride they really wanted.
Says it all.
Well researched, Baldy!
Now to put the pigeon well and truly amongst the cats!
I would really, really, really like to see some mega wealthy person/entity buy the club.
If you cant beat ’em, join ’em, and we have proved we cant beat ’em.
Its all very well wanting a local businessman to buy, and pour loads of dosh into players, newer stadium, etc. etc, and have nothing but British players sweeping all before us………but let’s wake up, it aint gonna happen.
Most of us moan and bitch about Chelsea, Man City and others buying success, but aren’t we just jealous?
I’ve seen fabulous Wolves teams, in the fifties and the seventies, but time waits for no man, and whilst we have the obscene amounts of money floating around, we will never get a slice unless we compete on a level playing field, and that means mega investment, from really, really rich people.
If you asked all those Chelsea and City fans if they would swap places with us, I bet there would not be one who said yes.
Well, I for one want our slice of the pie now, not in some distant, murky time in the future.
I am in my sixties, and don’t have the luxury of 50 plus years to wait for another great side.
And, we are a much more attractive proposition than the other midland clubs on the market.
Because we are not in the Prem, yet, we will be less expensive, so more to spend on improvements, and, we have the best looking fans!
Right, Doogle?
FOwb
I can’t argue with you there Mr CfromH.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t say very much for the other clubs’ fans.
Still cutting off my nose to spite my face and refusing to participate whilst this blog continues to accommodate the abhorrent foul-mouthed Clive from Texas. It’s a great blog except that it needs to be moderated.
For instance, West Bromwich Albion are our local rivals (and frustratingly have been more successful than Wolves for far too many years now) but they are also a Midlands team and a real club not a Sky Global Marketing Brand. It’s fun for opposing Wolves and Baggies fans to tease each other over success and failures, but only in a friendly fashion that recognises whatever the colour of our scarf we are all football fanatics.
The braindead obscenities spouted by the likes of Clive only foster the hatred and violence that ultimately end in cases like the brutal attack on the Watford fan Nick Cruwys after the game at Molineux that can never be redeemed even by the fund of £22000 raised by true Wolves fans.
I can’t support this blog until it takes a proper stand against hate-speech and demonstrates that it is not prepared to give a platform to the outdated ugly vitriol concomitant with the mindset of a seventies hooligan thug.
If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen. Or on the other hand just lighten up and enjoy a bit of banter, if you can’t, in my opinion good riddance we can do without you.
Yawn. Well said Tipton, my thoughts entirely. Can’t wait for Clive’s response!!
Not worth the effort!
Would much rather comment about important stuff, like anything Wolves related.
Got some nice big words in there, though, don’t he?
I’m off now to check my thesaurus.
Hope he has fun with Zebedee, Florence and Brian.
I bet your’e fun to be around, what a total prat.
You don’t have to read this stuff you could go elsewhere and watch some paint dry.
Are you the DylanWolf that occasionally comments on the ‘Guardian’ site ? If so, I am surprised as you make some reasonable comments there. Lets try to keep this in perspective. Many of us have been to the Hawthorns and enjoyed a match/laugh when Wolves match has been postponed. Probably most of us have friends/colleagues who follow them. I seriously doubt that anybody contributing to this blog would consider violently attacking any WBA supporter merely because of their allegiance. The world has moved on since the 1970’s. The Nick Cruwys incident (now up to 39k, by the way) whilst reprehensible was a regular occurrence in the 1970’s but, as evidenced by the reaction, an isolated one in this day and age. Finally, all the evidence so far suggests that the attack on Mr. Cruwys was carried out by local kids who posture at being ‘hard’ and who don’t even go to Molineux – hardly qualifying as Wolves fans/supporters.
I am indeed he, wolfman jack. Clive from Houston is by far the worst, but by no means the only, culprit on this blog. And I’d very much like to post here regularly. However, I’m not prepared to sacrifice my principles on this one. Either some regulatory rules are enforced that ensure a common decency (which really shouldn’t be necessary) or Clive from Houston agress to moderate his own contributions.
As neither of these are going to happen there’s not much I can do aside stay away and make these occasional visits to see if CfH has stopped posting.
Note that I’m not against friendly joshing between Baggies and Wolves fans, and the odd thrown in “fucking” as an unnecessary intensifier is not going to upset me much, but I do personally see a line drawn in the sand between that and ignorant caustic bile. A line that CfH is standing way beyond and that others skip over once in a while.
And besides I appear to be in a minority of one.
To utilise an analogy. Without anyone else complaining I’ll just have to walk rather than catch the bus if I’m the only passenger that doesn’t think farting loudly in public on purpose is not just acceptable behaviour but amusing and witty into the bargain. Personally I can’t stand the smell.
You seem like a bright enough bloke (for somebody called ‘Kevin’) – joke, don’t slag me for that…so here’s a couple of thoughts;
1. The concept of democracy is that of self-government by the people. For such a.system to work an informed electorate is necessary. In order to be appropriately knowledgeable, there must be no constraints on the free flow of information and ideas. Its called ‘freedom of speech’.
2. It is far more principled to discuss or argue a case with those who hold different views and to explore all avenues than it is to sulk in a corner.
All replies persuade me to continue my absence. Congratulations to all concerned. By the way I only read the blog occasionally, which yes is a shame and my own loss, but I can’t be persuaded to stand shoulder alongside those contributers whose posts are barbarous, crude and tribal.
Such attitudes to football support are the not so very thin end of the wedge that provides a breeding ground for the acceptance of obscene chanting, taunting and goading of opposition supporters, hooliganism, rioting, damage to property and violence against individuals, sexist attitudes, the selfish denial of a view of the game in seating areas to the elderly, the infirm, the young and the small in stature through an insistence on standing up and the welcoming of the abhorrent views of racists and the far right (this latter issue being very prevalent in Eastern Europe).
And if that means you think I’m up my own arse then so be it.
I am as passionate about Wolves as all you are, but I am also passionate about the game and outside of Murdoch, Scudamore, Sky TV and the corruption inherent in football’s governing bodies and the consequent prostituting of the game to commercial greed and the marketing demands of global corporations the biggest threat to football is the continued acceptance of aggressive, abusive and intimidatory behaviour by football fans.
If you guys see no link between attitudes of pig-ignorant tribalism and that cancerous culture of violence and hatred, then fine, that’s your choice. Clive from Houston is a grown man and capable of making his own choices concerning decency and respect. He has and he does. But if I’m going to contribute alongside him then Wolves Blog would have to incorporate and enforce some standards of behaviour.
And I’m not being twee. I can say cunt, fuck, shit, bollocks and so on too. They are only words. Amusing for children to giggle over and entertaining and witty to the weak-minded no doubt, but swear words nevertheless. If the Wolves Blog is fine with you expressing yourself by resorting to those terms (and you do have a choice) then regretfully I choose not to share the same podium. In the end Albion are Albion and the club and their fans deserve our respect; the latter may well be our personal friends, work colleagues or family members.
As I’m here today I will leave my thoughts on Mr Morgan’s decision to sell the club:
I’ve never been a “Morgan out” person, although his Liverpool match dressing-room intervention was a huge mistake and the appointment of Dean Saunders was an incomprehensible blunder. Solbakken’s rather less so, more a risk that didn’t pay off, given more time and a less toxic squad something good may possibly have eventually emerged from the emphasis on ball retention.
I disapproved of the appointment of Kenny Jackett, but couldn’t have been more wrong. He has done a brilliant job in transforming the squad by ousting the core of cynical disincentivised seniors and has built a new squad of young prospects.
I’d rather see Wolves team blooding youngsters and the club running on an even keel than splashing out millions on “superstars” that still can’t guarantee promotion to the economic wonderland of the PL that is getting thumped by the Sky Marketing Brands, paying double for a season ticket, having matches played whenever the TV company fancies and hoping against hope to avoid another relegation. There is an argument that being in the Championship is better in that all the clubs are better matched in terms of resources on and off the field.
Consequently I’m worried by Morgan selling up. The future for the club will be uncertain for as long as it takes to attract another owner and not only may that be years (if you were a multi-millionaire interested in a WMids football club you’d buy Villa not us), but also there’s no guarantee we don’t end up in the hands of another owner or owners akin to the Batti Brothers.
Kevin.
Well said Dylan, I like some of your opinions.
Goodbye.
Now here’s something to wet the tastebuds. Some nifty footwork involved.
Bring on the Huddersfield .
🙂
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It’s a shame that dylanwolf is taking this stand against certain persons who propound rather extreme views against our dear owners, CEOs and neighbours.
I read all of the contributions on this blog and, no matter how fruity or of questionable taste they get, a lot of them make me smile.
Everyone is entitled to their views and everyone should be given the opportunity to express them.
I think that most people on this blog have the intelligence to understand that a lot of what is said regarding ‘they who shall not be named’ is done with tongue firmly in cheek.
The sort of thugs who attacked Nick Cruwys would not have the brain power to even find the blog, let alone contribute or be influenced by the banter that flies around.
I sign off my emails to fellow bloggers with FOWB but I don’t think that any of them have been persuaded by those inflammatory letters to beat up a baggy.
And at a couple of music festivals recently I’ve stood next to a bunch of saddos from sandwell and we’ve ended up having a good craic about the state of Black Country football.
(They ARE now buried in Glastonbury Abbey grounds though).
I think that dylanwolf is definitely cutting off his nose to spite his face.
He’s obviously still reading the blog – but not giving himself the chance to put his point of view across. He must be getting VERY frustrated.
Come on mate! We’re all Wolves fans here!
Just got my ticket for Boro match at Molineux. Are you going? I will be in Parkview as normal prior to match.
Just your luck, your’e sitting next to Dylanyawn.
pmsl. see you in the Parkview mate?
Yep, just bought tickets too. (Or two tickets).
Park View is full for the whole week (what’s going on in Wolverhampton?) so we’ve got in at The Ely Hotel on the Tettenhall Rd.
We can either see you at PV as usual if there are going to be a few bloggers attending or I think the Ely has got a small bar if there’s just the three of us.
Hoping to make the game myself gents. I’ve stayed at the Ely in the past and it’s fine. Good Harley dealer up the road too. 🙂 Can I recommend the Combermere close by for pre- match refreshment. At least they sell proper ale, and not just fizzy pop like the PV.
I must say I liked a pint of Shipyard in the PV, but what do I know? I also liked the fact that the place was not full of football fans drinking prior to the match like the Goalpost lol
Is the pub you’re on about:
The Combemere Arms
90 Chapel Ash,
City Centre,
Wolverhampton
WV3 0TY
If so, I can meet you there around 12’Oclock (ish)
For someone refusing to partake in our wonderful blog, Dylan has been prolific of late.
Pity the same cannot be said for the number of “likes” on his posts.
Several years ago, I went off line for a while, because some troll was having a nasty, vicious go at my good friend Ben, which in my book was totally unacceptable and uncalled for.
Anyone who has ever met Ben knows that he is inoffensive, mild and an all round good bloke.
When I came back on line I made a point of not rising to any baiting blogs.
Even though, Dylan, you have seen fit to accuse me of :
obscene chanting, taunting and goading of opposition supporters, hooliganism, rioting, damage to property and violence against individuals, sexist attitudes, the selfish denial of a view of the game in seating areas to the elderly, the infirm, the young and the small in stature through an insistence on standing up and the welcoming of the abhorrent views of racists and the far right (this latter issue being very prevalent in Eastern Europe), and of being : barbarous, crude and tribal.
What next?
Am I responsible for World famine, Aids and all the trouble in the middle east?
Great.
What a CV I’ve got!
I will not lower myself or the tone of our wonderful blog by hurling insults at you, nor will I resort to slander or libel ( can never work out which is the written version of telling lies about someone, being as I am a foul mouthed, seventies, hooligan thug) so will just say this.
I am as entitled to my opinion as anyone else, its called free speech.
Moderation of thought, speech and writing, better known as censorship, has been tried before, ask those bastions of open mindedness and fairness, Adolf Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot etc, and it doesn’t work.
I will NOT respond to any more of the posts you say you are not going to write.
As my old Mum used to say, if you don’t like what’s on TV, there is an off switch.
My final comment: I am glad I don’t read the Guardian, preferring the high quality prose and pictures of The Sun.
You have a nice day, Dylan, and get a life.
People like Dylan are what’s wrong with the world. Saying we should all be this way we are all the same we are all equal. What a load of shit. We are all entitled to an opinion and we are all different. No one is killing anyone or raping anyone. People like him really wind me up.
That’s a pint you owe me Clive from Hastings. You said you wouldn’t bite.
Looking at your updated CV, I would recommend you get your name down for US Presidential nomination, your’e far better than Trump and boy when I was over there last week does he have his followers. I think you could nick it.
I’m going to see if I can get this bloke Dylan to sign the programme for your Donkey saving mate.
In his defence though, he never once mentioned us Scottish Gentlemen.
🙂
Meh. Who cares.
Grovel about in your sty Clive. Your welcome to it.
You’re,,,, ha ha ha
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