Firstly, bravo Tom Byrne.
Tom was the man behind the petition (now boasting over 13,000 signatures), asking Jez Moxey to reconsider the club’s position regarding their shirt sponsorship agreement with The Money Shop.
A week ago, he delivered the petition to Jez Moxey at Molineux before sitting down for a meeting with club officials to discuss the situation and proposals to appease both sides.
As stated in his own words, the club listened to what he had to say, repeated their own arguments and sent him on his merry way with no ground surrendered.
In short: they’ve made their decision and they’re sticking with it.
But I admire Tom’s rebellious spirit, agree with everything he has to say and feel strongly this issue shouldn’t simply disappear quietly into the night.
To that end, I hope people will talk with their feet, boycott the shirt (buying the replica shirt doesn’t make you any more or less of a fan by the way) and keep putting pressure on the club to take more decisive action.
What might that action be?
Well, thanks to my old mucka John (Scooped), I was made aware of an open letter penned by Charles Ross, former editor of A Load of Bull, sent to Jez Moxey at the end of April.
In his letter, Charles not only addressed the issues at hand, but offered practical ideas on how the club could proceed and repair the damage caused by this whole episode.
I thought it was rather good, so after obtaining his permission, I wanted to publish it in full and in doing so endorse everything contained within.
Enjoy!
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From: Charles Ross
To: Jez Moxey, CEO Wolverhampton Wanderers FC
Date: 21 April 2016
Dear Jez,
Re: Wolves and the Money Shop – An Alternative Proposal
First up – please take the below in the spirit in which it is intended. Yes, I am horrified at the Money Shop deal. That said, I only want what is best for the Club. So I have tried to formulate an alternative suggestion which will put the Club in a far better place, short term and long term, than if this deal goes ahead.
The Proposed Tie-Up
1) No, no, no.
2) Not just an emotional reaction from me. I have, inter alia, chatted to other sponsors of Wolves, former colleagues (Director of Communications at a FTSE 100 plc, a Director of one of the country’s top four accounting / consultancy practices). They were, without exception, most surprised and bitterly disappointed that Wolves would even contemplate such a deal. (My professional background: marketing and strategy at Cadbury, then at leading management consultancies etc.)
3) The Club is for sale. Part of what any prospective purchaser will factor in is the Club’s image, reputation, values etc. This deal will be a real negative for a purchaser; it might drive them away entirely. It certainly gives them a huge stick to wield in any negotiation. A petition signed by over 3,000 fans. Acres of negative press coverage. The Council Leaders of both Wolverhampton and Dudley, plus 2 of the City’s 3 MPs, on the record as strongly opposing the deal. Due diligence will throw up a morass of problems and risks. Steve Morgan knows a bit about selling houses: what is the estimated decrease in the expected price for Chateau Molineux?
4) Money Shop per se. Not on the shirt. Not on the most iconic image of Wolves. They are obviously in it to use the good name of Wolves to promote their brand awareness and, more so I would guess, their image.
They will benefit from that association. Wolves will suffer massive, long term reputational damage. Way beyond the 3 years of the deal. How do you quantify reputational damage on a P&L? Let me put it this way. I’ll guess the deal is worth ballpark £1 million. I’ll guess our aggregate turnover in the next 3 years in the Championship would, without parachute payments or promotion, be in a ballpark £50 million. Ergo – Money Shop deal adds a max 2% to turnover. Let’s assume another sponsor could be found to bring in a total of £500k = 1% turnover. Depending whether we could find another sponsor or not – we are talking a difference to turnover of 1% – 2%. Is it really worth it?
5) I discount any and all statements re the Money Shop want to boost the industry’s image via Wolves, their standards are high etc. Sorry guys – that is your problem. Not Wolves’. The Financial Conduct Authority investigation, the £15.4m paid to 147,000 customers in October last year – that is their track record. End of.
6) They charge a “representative” APR 729% on the payday loans side of their business. The fact that it is legal and regulated is irrelevant to Wolves – the reputation of the payday industry is dreadful. Full stop. It is an issue in football c.f. Newcastle and Wonga. Bolton backed out of a deal with QuickQuid under pressure from fans and politicians etc. When it comes to reputation – “perception is reality”. Wolves will be helping sanitise their image.
7) Our shirts will be stained by association. Fairly or not – that is what will happen. Can a Wolves Board seriously, knowingly, endorse that? Endorse by implication an APR of 729% on a payday loan on the most visible aspect the club has by which to promote another organisation’s image?
8) Fan backlash. 3,000 people signing a petition via social media, (coming from someone I have never heard of), inside a week is extraordinary. Replica shirt sales will fall, consequential loss – but that would be the least of my worries. What happens if fans start active protests? Boycotting goods? Walking in late when the TV cameras were there (as happened at Stoke), or walking out early (Liverpool and Villa recently) in silent, peaceful protest? Who knows what else might happen? You know as well as me how the mood at Molineux can turn ugly in the autumn if the team aren’t flying. Given we are up for sale, and with the squad / injuries we have etc – I don’t see us being top six next autumn. The mood amongst many will be ugly from Day One in August if Money Shop is on players’ and replica shirts. The media will be waiting and watching. What a poisonous cocktail.
9) The Club has made enormous strides since the summer of 2013 to reconnect with the fans. A fantastic effort. But in one single deal – all that can be blown away. How do you put a price on that?
10) The Club has done great work in the community for many years. Largely unsung. But we have a well-deserved and good reputation. It has taken years to build; it can be destroyed at a single stroke. A payday loan company name on the shirt? That could do it. Worth risking?
11) Payday loans at 729% are typically made to the poor, the vulnerable etc – many of the very people Wolves try to help. To think that their 729% APR repayments to the Money Shop will in part have funded the cost to them of putting the Money Shop name on the Wolves shirt… I can’t think of much worse things to do. And the media will use those angles, mercilessly; and it would be fair comment.
12) Please do not be seduced by the argument that some people are better off with a payday loan than going elsewhere. Wolves will be actively promoting the use of payday loans – switching from other forms of provision eg Credit Union, Wolves Mastercard (which charges standard rates, praise be!), bank loans etc. And promoting increasing use of loans. Not just brand switching, but increased consumption (c.f. the laughably weak defence of the tobacco industry that is was only about brand switching, not awareness boosting and increasing consumption.)
I could go on. And on. 12 reasons, 11 plus 1 on the bench like the good old days! Suffice to say – there is no sensible business case for this. The risks are so great, the damage with fans and community so large.
Please. Stop it. Stop it now.
A Proposed Alternative
This is a sketch. An idea. But I have run it past some neutral, expert third parties.
1) Cancel the contact
* they can be cancelled. Yes, they can. For the Club to contend “the ink is dry” does not wash. Mistakes were made with players’ contracts; the “bomb squad” were, one way or another, eased out. Rightly so.
2) You have a well-deserved and hard earned reputation as a skilled negotiator. Great! I am not intending to patronise you by telling you how to suck eggs. Just here are some top of my head thoughts / angles. If one helps in the process – fine!
* would the Money Shop really take the Club to court? And put their previous track record into the most public of domains? £15.4m and 147,000 customers? The stack of consumer, politician, community etc opposition to them repeated – and extensively reported on? They would be better advised to hunker down and avoid coruscating reputation damage.
* the pill can be sweetened if needs be. It was with the bomb squad. They can get to keep their existing Sir Jack Hayward Stand deal. The Club can agree and co-ordinate press releases – the Money Shop, aware of the fan backlash, nobly have offered to withdraw at no penalty to Wolves; Wolves most grateful to them for generosity and dignity shown. They and Wolves both delighted to keep existing arrangements in place. Blah blah. If necessary – offer a sum for them to drop it and withdraw. If they want to play poker on this with your good self, I wish them luck: they will need it.
3) Wolves announce that they will offer the name on the shirt to xxxxx free of charge for season 2016/17. After that, they will seek another commercial sponsor as per Silverbug, Chaucer, Goodyear etc for the following two seasons. That recoups a decent portion of the ballpark £1 million “lost” by cancelling the Money Shop Deal.
4) The xxxxx – who. Now here is the biggest of open goals to turn everything around……………………
Hell, you could have a main name on the front, a second one on shorts. Etc etc.
Now – there is a Press Conference you could enjoy giving. “Look. We have listened to our fans. We always do. We got this wrong. Hands up – we got it wrong. So this is what we have done instead.”
Ensuing media coverage, local and national, would be fabulous. Ditto fan reaction. Reputation not just restored – easy to argue it’s been enhanced.
5) And by the way folks. We want to add this. The name of Compton Hospice (or whoever) will be on our shirts this season. Free. But that is not enough. We want to help them with desperately needed cash. So – for every replica shirt bought this season, we will donate £10 to Compton Hospice. So any fan buying one can wear it with real pride, knowing that they have in effect just donated £10 to Compton Hospice.
Imagine the press and public reaction. Current shirt price is £42. I can pretty safely estimate that total revenue of sales of Compton Hospice shirts at £42 to the fan, with £32 income to club, would far, far exceed total revenue of Money Shop shirts at £42 income to club per shirt.
And the Press Department would have a field day, providing regular updates “delighted to announce, 1,000 shirts flown off shelves. Here is photo of player Bloggs handing over a Wolves’ cheque for £10,000 to Compton Hospice”.
This part of it would certainly be of net financial benefit, and offset in part lost Money Shop monies. And it would be of immense reputational benefit.
6) A possible joker to help seal the deal with the Money Shop. Invite them to say that not only are they gracefully withdrawing – they will donate to the named good cause (Compton Hospice, UNICEF, whoever) the equivalent of what they would have paid for the one year of sponsorship 2016/17 i.e. a third of the total. Yes that costs them financially. But if they can afford £15.4m pay-out in compensation – a third of my hypothetical £1 million to donate to charity would give them immense positive PR and reputation enhancement.
7) And just to prove yet further what an ethically minded, CSR driven Club Wolves is – pick up on the idea sent to you by the local Councillors of some free advertising space, e.g. in programme, for local Credit Unions. Opportunity cost virtually nil. But what a great postscript to the story you can sell.
Details above of Proposed Alternative are clearly draft idea generation. But the underlying principle of donating name on shirt for a year 2016/17 is, I am sure, a pretty good “so what do we do next” in the exit strategy from the Money Shop deal.
Conclusion
I sincerely hope that you can see the above is written with good intentions, driven by what I perceive in my heart as being in the best interests of the Club. At the very least – thank you for taking the time to read through it.
Ultimately, it is for you and the Board to decide on the merits of the above. If you decide to proceed with exiting the Money Shop deal and finding a positive alternative – I do not doubt your ability to make it happen.
Of course, a decision of this magnitude and profile would need to gain shareholder approval, in practice if not under company law. Steve Morgan is the sole shareholder. I am firmly of the belief that this is the best way of maximising shareholder returns, both in the short term and in the long term. Even more so with the business being for sale. He is, of course, more than the owner. He is, like Sir Jack was, the custodian. This is a legacy issue for him; that has a value beyond pounds, shillings and pence.
Out of courtesy to you, it seemed only right and proper for me to give you the opportunity to digest the above before anyone else has sight of it.
Best wishes
Charles Ross
A good and well thought article and letter, but did Wolves management even read it?
Will I be able to talk to someone who can help me please
Couldnt agree more with charles no one would object to charity sponsorship on shirt just pity that club decided thst opinions off corporate is so muvh more important than the psying public untill alternativeoption aavailable I shall stick to old shirts & possibly purchase a retro one instead
Well written and perhaps someone with this amount of common sense should run for CEO, but as a wise uncle of mine says, the problem with common sense boy, is that it isn’t that common. If they keep these sharks on the shirt that is at least 3 that they won’t be selling next season
Lot of thought gone into that, and very well argued.
However, no mention of greasel’s slice being returned.
You can bet the fat bastard has already spent it or squirrelled it away offshore somewhere.
I would be amazed if greasel or rudolph even acknowledge seeing this letter.
We can but hope
Anyone know when the turd is coming to the States?
Be nice to be at the airport to welcome him.
Fowb
Both letters based on emotion and without reality of commercial life,
..not in this world at least unfortunately..
We took a deal on the table that fitted financially ..and hid behind the fact Moneyshop was being advertised before anyway…could of even been the old pals act..
An undoubted faux pas but indicative of the market disinterest in Wolves by advertising agencies or whoever – created by our low standing club profile….
I can’t imagine Leicester having trouble with sponsoring their shirts.
Did Wolves have a problem with sponsorship. I never read anywhere that we could not get a sponsor, so chose to go with Money Shop when they came calling. I just thought we chose them because we did, not because we had to.
Was Money Shop advertised at Molineux before?
Apparantly was with us since 2009 and sponsored the South Bank..
Thanks Steve. I could not recall.
Was always a big fan of everything Charles did with ALOB and his open letter shows he hasn’t lost touch either with the real essence of the club (as opposed to Moxey’s blasphemy ‘Wolves DNA’ ) or his touch with the pen – ok, keyboard but you know what I mean.
This letter will doubtless already have been consigned to Jez’s waste paper bin but it was still worth the time and effort it took to write because it’s undoubted resonance with so many fans will chip away at the rotten, clueless, empty shell that our club has become.
More chips will follow as we continue to challenge the ‘spin’ & bullshit and then more until one day the whole shabby edifice will collapse.
Moxey and his paymaster will be gone. As sure as night follows day, they’ll be gone and then, at last, this club can truly begin to restore it’s reputation and it’s status.
Greetings from Cuba!
Wolves fans of a certain age would love it here. Castro’s Revolution was in 1959 and in the intervening 57 years the world has moved on leaps and bounds. In Cuba it is still 1959 (good old communism!) so we are reigning Champions for the second year running, playing in the European Cup and due to win the FA Cup next year!
P.S. Can you believe there is food rationing for the locals?
Well thought out and undoubtedly well intentioned but I fear that you are preaching to a man who cares not to be preached to and whilst he may even approve of some of the ideas contained therein, I don’t believe that he’ll be able to find it in himself to implement them.
I think the expression goes..”painting oneself into a corner” but for the life of me I cannot see how or if he intends to resolve the situation in his terms.
“….on his terms”, rather.
We know when Moxey is leaving the UK to fly to the US of A. He told London Wolves members that he can’t attend their 50th Anniversary dinner on July 16th, a Saturday, (tickets still available, contact London Wolves), because he was “flying out that morning”. Don’t know where from, don’t know where to but I heard him say it so there must be some truth as it didn’t involve blah blah blah…
I am disgusted with the deal with Money Shop. Wolverhampton and the Black Country is a socially deprived area with pockets of deep rooted poverty. For the club to associate itself with an organisation which plants itself within the community and seeks to maximise profit on the backs of the desperate and the poor is a fucking disgrace. I am ashamed and embarrassed to have the shirt which I love and cherish defaced by people who perpetuate legalised robbery. There is more to this world than money and finance. WWFC would do well to take a backward step and consider the wider community in which it is entrenched and loved. Thomas is correct in that we should not let this rest, we have come too far. Let us send the exploiters on their way, we don’t want or need them.
The letter is well worded and no doubt it has received the expected response. filed in the Trash can as Clive would say.
Fans protested and Poxey and Wolves relented and produced a shirt for children without the logo, fantastic a first step, a breakthrough.
My feckin arse, look what the scumbags did, what a cheapskate, petty spiteful response. Right up Poxey’s street.
So maybe everyone should do that to their adult shirts, too.
Turn it back on them.
Is it easy to get an orange coloured iron on and iron it onto the adult shirt?
As usual Charles, an excellent letter eloquently written and very sensible and straight forward. Will anyone take notice at Molineux –
No no no no no no no no they will not. I have written to them telling them why myself, my wife and Son will not be renewing our season tickets for the first time in 35 years, bdidnt even have the courtesy to reply by either Jez, Matt Grayson or Lorraine Hennessey. Don’t
Don’t hold your breath then Charles……….
Excellent letter from Charles, ALOB we miss you. Might I suggest that if people are going to buy alternative tops or a retro shirt that they do not buy them from the club. This would be putting money into their hands and after this shameful deal with Money Shop the club do not deserve your cash. My suggestion would be to boycott all items in the club shop and to buy your food and drink outside of the ground. The impact such a boycott would have on the club’s revenue stream would quite possibly make them think again and put right this obvious error.
A thoughtful and concise letter from Charles.
But alas that fat money grabbing bastard poxey always likes a slice of the cake.
Also he’s so thick skinned he won’t give a shite what the fans think or the general public.
On that note All we can do is NOT buy the shirt and when it doesn’t sell for the extorsionate price don’t buy it when they dramatically drop the price a week after its launch.
All we can hope for is we get new owners in ASAP and rid us all of the cancer that’s Killing our club.
Power to the people.
“Ever had the feeling you been cheated?”
Reading the letter, and the ensuing comments from many loyal fans, I got to wondering if there is, lurking somewhere out there, anyone, anyone at all, who agrees with Wolves taking sponsorship from Money Shop. Just one person. Please come on the blog so we can get some sort of balanced discussion.
I don’t recall reading a single comment on any of the myriad of articles which followed this decision, in support of Mr Moxey. Can the opinion of so many who care be wrong and that of the one man in power be right?
The club are risking all the excellent work done over the last three seasons. It’s such a shame.
Wolfstroker, you need to read the E&L, apparently they did a poll and more people like the shirt than don’t, I’m just not feeling the love…
Good morning Senor Stroker!
I beg to differ with your last but one sentence.
I dont recall any excellent work being done this past, most recent season!
And if you wish a discussion with an avid greasel fan, I suggest you look no further than his number one supporter……..Twixfix!!
He would have his babies if he could!!!
Ha
Great seeing you again last week, hope you’ve dried out.
FOwb
Come on Clive that was a bit below the belt for err ….. Twixfix …yes that’s the one. I didn’t think he liked me that much especially now that you suggested babies etc.
Twixfix did write to Jez once telling him what a big fat wanker he was …. And just like the 13000 who signed the petition ….He ignored everything that was thrown at him…..after all he’s never wrong …even when the board say he is….so Bollox to you lot and leave my family out of this…..
I don’t know who you are love child …but knowing Clive ….he’d put that sort of comment on about me …..
I think that Jez has made a right (and left ) balls up of this Money Shop business.
The definition of bury-your-head-in-the-sand is when you know you’ve cocked up but won’t admit it.
Problem with having your head in the sand is that your ass sticks out waiting for someone to whack it.
Yeah, you’re right of course Clive. Their mask has slipped somewhat of late. Just my generous spirit giving them credit they didn’t deserve.
Oh, and talking of drying out, my little dousing the other day was nothing to what you Houstonians endured back along. But hey, everything’s bigger in Texas.
And great to see you too my friend. Never less than entertaining. 🙂
Good point, Wolfstroker.
I’ve always thought that we were lucky to have such an exciting brand name in “Wolves” which is why this 12-y-o living in Essex in 1970 actually came to support the club in the first place.
And yet we seem clueless as how to maximise it in such a way that sponsors might be clamouring to be a part of it.
In speedway, ice hockey, cricket and I think basketball clubs are dreaming up names to add glamour and attract fans and we have one ready made which should have bloody global appeal.
We should trying to sex it up to catch the eye of the football mad Far East.
And yet we totally reflect the small mindedness of the club’s thinking by selling out to may as well have been a pawnbroker.
Grrrr……
I’ve just bought this instead of a new wolves shirt 🙂
https://putshirt.com/products/limited-editon-wolverine-4
Please say the image StuWolf has posted isn’t how the kids top will actually look with a big whole where the logo should be? Surely they wouldn’t be that stupid? The fact they are willing and to do a kids one without proves its bloody morally wrong anyway. Grrrrrr.
BobbaWolf.
That is it mate the lousy mindless pillocks have done that to children.
I don’t see the problem chief.
Your boy Moxey should have come to me though.
I could do you a bag of sand at a monkey a month.
Or if you need a century you can have it for a pony.
Money Shop are mere amateurs compared to me and the lads.
We wouldn’t want our names on the front of your Dicky either.
It might get covered by the red stuff if you don’t pay up on time.
Remember, if you need a quick wedge or some Nelson Eddies, you know where to come. Anything from a Lady Godiva to a Bernie. Competitive rates.
Payment required on the nail though.
Or we’ll have your Steve Morgan off with a pair of pinking shears.
either way no cash is leaving my handbag until visible investment in the club is made. i might have a lot more times on my hand next season.
Thanks Thomas , I’d forgotten how much I used to enjoy alob , for a while there , living over seas I would pester my mom to rap a copy in with a months supply of the sporting argus so I had some reading material for my holls ? You can’t believe how many conversations have been struck up with fellow male family members just because of my copy of alob ! Days before internet and blogs eh ! Not so instant but just as real . Anyway Charles knows how to get his point across for sure , if only we could get a response from molineux! I’m of the opinion that nobody is even allowed to enter a negotaion ( buying the club ) on any level without first sighning a gagging clause so we are kept in the dark , or am I now getting a tad paranoid !!!! Utw
Charles Ross’s articulate, reasoned and thoughtful letter reflects his brilliant editorship of the now sadly-defunct ALOB. The underlying emotion evident behind every sentence reflects his passion for Wolves, a passion shared by many Wolves fans who, like me, are absolutely disgusted by the CEO’s action in allowing the name of an immoral money-lender preying on the desperation of the hard-up to be blazoned across the Wolves shirt.
I doubt very much whether Moxey or anyone in authority at Wolves will take any notice at all, but it is good that although the club’s reputation is sinking continuously, there are still people speaking out and trying to do something about it.
Well done, Charles, as usual. We all deserve much better.
JdP, Staines Wolf.
Wolves U21’s & U 19’s are playing in Germany this weekend in the tournament they won last year.
U19’s won 6-0, Arron Collins who was on the bench for the first team against Rotherham got a hat trick, Daniel Armstrong the wonder kid winger who loves the ball at his feet and takes anyone on got 2 and a-n-other got a final one in the last couple of minutes. Couldn’t work out his name, maybe an own goal?
These 2 great sounding under 19s Stu…will they ever get played (particularly with limp lettuce)..before their agent puts them in front of another more proactive club..
Have we not had one of the youngest teams in the league this season?
It was Aaron Simpson the defender who got the last goal for the U19’s. Two more games tomorrow,.
I cannot believe that is what the kids top will look like without the logo. What an absolute joke.
I really hope they sell no shirts. What a stupid, non-sensical decision, counter-productive decision they have made. It enfuriates me that they rely on our blind loyalty to the club. Moxey truly doesn’t give a flying fuck what the fans think. The guy is deluded. Keep praying for new owners that will make it their first priority to get rid.
Thanks for sharing the letter, it was timely for me, as I’d been checking the Hull result and noticed their ‘Flamingoland’ shirts on the BBC Sport website. It looks good, the Hull Tigers have more class than the Moneyshop Wolves.
Now if that was the West Midlands Safari Park Wolves, wouldn’t that be good !
A well worded and thoughtful letter but actions speak louder than words. Don’t buy the shirt don’t buy the the pies don’t buy the beer , it’s about time a statement is made and show the powers that be that We don’t want to be associated with a company that prays on the vulnerable,Wolves as a club and community are bigger and better than that .
We need to find the right balance between support for the team and protest. Occasionally on this blog we fall out but one thing is certain, we all fuckin love the Wolves and always will. Keep an eye on how we can protest without damaging the team.
I see that we’ve announced Crewe and Port Vale as pre season friendlies..
Riveting choices typifying our elevating Club profile and our continued aspirations to the PL..
Start as we mean to carry on..
And Cork on Monday the 18th 7-45pm. me and Jen de Wolf are up for that one, you wanna come. nice premier in by the ground two day trip through Ireland.
Has Charles Ross got nothing better to do with his time? While I’m no fan of the Money Shop, Moxey will not renege on a sponsorship deal. Charles, you’ve made your point, now give it a bloody rest!
I’m sure Charles has got lots of things he would rather do with his time and as editor of the wonderful ‘ALOB’ for all those years he showed he can spend his time pretty damn well.
The fact that he has taken the trouble to compile such a comprehensive critique of such a shabby piece of business, together with offering constructive alternatives, is all credit to him in my opinion.
I don’t know whether Moxey will renege on the deal or not but keeping the pressure on him in any way we can beats giving it ‘a bloody rest’ in my book.
I don’t know how these things work, but maybe if Moneyshop find they’re getting bad publicity rather than good, they’ll look to pull the plug so Moxey doesn’t have to.
It’s a nice thought, Wolfstroker, but just for reference – Newcastle still have Wonga emblazoned across their chests and plenty of people round the Toon are wearing the newest replica shirt. They got LOADS of bad press, and they just rolled with it and took the flak. No chance of them backing down, and no chance of The Greed Shop doing so either, I’d say.
Like all of the above the sight of the Money Shop logo on our next season’s shirt dampens my love for the club.
I think the Express & Star point that fans like the shirt is to do with the design not the cheap & nasty logo. I’ve seen some tweets to that from various sources.
I used to love ALOB, it seems now to have belonged to a more innocent & misty eyed era. Full marks for this blog raising it & for Charles Ross writing to Moxey.
I just fail to see how this brand association so blatantly placed on our shirts can be justified.
How much bad management can this regime get through before it finally morphs out of existence?
I just hope it doesn’t affect the players, but it’s symbolic of the way the Morgan/Moxey axis portrays a cheap & nasty version of Wolves.
How bloody easy would it have been to do a shirt charitable sponsorship deal? For fucks sake has no one got any concept of morality in latter day grab all Capitalism?
Well said Allen , I love the club, like the rest of us , I just don’t like it much anymore!!!
Corruption in football
It goes all the way to the top, where there is money there’s a Poxey or Moron lurking, wringing their grubby hands. I see another guy at the top of the FIFA money printing machine has resigned due to changes being implemented by the new President. How on earth do they appoint an Italian as the head of FIFA, the Italians make Sepp Blatter look like Mother Teresa. We don’t stand a feckin chance, those kind of people will look at some of the scumbag, lowlife tricks Poxey & Moron are doing and think, now there’s a good idea, as those nice people at Wolves would say one “for the future”.
I think we need to keep our hands firmly in our pockets, because if we don’t, one day we’re going to find theirs in there helping themselves.
Someone on another blog I was looking at said, “the trouble with Wolves fans is we don’t stick together” sadly he is right. Just look at the varied opinions on here to see Poxey & Moron know exactly what they’re doing. divide & conquer.
It took bulldozers and JCB’s to tear down the Berlin wall, the first bricks were taken down by hand.
West brim replacing 96 blue seats with red ones in the visiting end for the Liverpool fans who won’t be there , a real nice gesture from them up the road you have to admit. We get feckin money shop
You certainly didn’t do an Albion moxey you peanut
Wolves U 19’s got bear 3-1 today in Gernay by Standard Liege, playing last game this afternon to try and get through to final.
Daniel Armstrong scored again.
As Andy Warhol pointed out ‘there is no bad advertising.’
Even this post gives energy to ‘Money Shop’ loan sharks.
People shouldn’t give money to Wolves until the present hierarchy resign.
As long as the owner and CEO believe ‘fans’ will pay, regardless of how disrespectfully they are treated, they will take deals that make them the most profit.
They are working on the principle that people’s lives are very empty and supporting a football club overrides all.
It doesn’t.
To me, if you support Wolves now then stay away.
People are supporting Morgan and Moxey, who have disguised themselves in Gold and Black and are laughing all the way to the bank, on the strength of Wolves fans naivety that because Morgan owns the club, he wants the best for it. He doesn’t. He wants what is best for his bank balance, along with his lieutenants, Moxey, Jackett Thewell etc….
Have a good summer.
Pray for a new owner.
U19’s lose 2-1, now in minor places for 5th-6th spot, oh dear all going so well then the wheels came off. Well done lads, good effort.
The reality is, the only way they will stand up and take notice of your complaints is if you hit them in the pocketbook. This means not buying the jersey. Also, not buying beer and other snacks while inside the stadium.
Personally, I would boycott the games too but I know many of you would not consider that a viable option.
Now is the time to use social media to come up with a plan to hit Moxey and Morgan in their pocketbooks.
I’m sitting in the late afternoon sun, sipping a glass of ice cold Guinness and listening to 6.06 on Radio 5.
Two Spurs fans have just phoned in complaining about Pochettino.
According to them he’s overhyped, tactically naive and doesn’t have a Plan B.
They’re pissed off that they haven’t won anything and are disappointed with finishing third and in a Champions League place.
Pochettino’s a failure according to them.
They want him out.
It’s a funny old game isn’t it?
If he brings one or two of his “failures” with him, I would welcome him with open arms at The Mol.
Cannot believe an act of class from sandwell crem.
Fair play to them.
There is hope for all of us!
Are you watching, greasel, or stuck in your basement counting your ill gotten.
It’s a bit like the gooners constantly slagging off Wenger – Top 4 and CL every season and the odd cup thrown in.
Sending Moxey a letter isn’t going to achieve anything. As some fans have already pointed out, refusing to buy the shirt or any club merchandise bearing the Money Shop brand will have a greater impact.
It is May isn’t it? I mean it’s not April, specifically April 1st by any chance???
Only I’ve just heard from a previously immaculate source that we’re embarking on a “New Era” with the imminent arrival of…………David Moyes!!!
Has my man been out in the spring sunshine for too long, had more than enough Guinness or does he actually know something???
Let the fun commence:)
I vote for the ‘too much Guinness’ theory.
Now that would be a scoop! Hold the front page, whatever that crap newspaper is called, Excuses & Spin?
A new era would be even better with a new CEO. Even Blatter got splattered eventually.
Scooped,
If that’s a goer, I will by you a bottle of Vodka my friend. What a coup that would be. I shall trawl the sources and hopefully verify your source.
Clive & I will both go to Church next Sunday, still time for Clive but I’m screwed.
🙂
Father Christmas……jingle bells..
Charles Ross clearly has too much time on his hands. Get over it, move on. Buy a shirt, don’t buy a shirt but don’t be influenced by this rubbish. Think more about the kids in sweatshops who make them in horrible conditions for peanuts.
Woodywolf,
To be honest mate, we’ve become so wrapped up in trying to rid our club of the scumbags running it and financing it, we have forgotten such things. Fair play pal, well said.
Simple just don’t buy the shirt or anything else from the club… No shirt for me for 3 years..
Problem is 1000,s will still buy it . people already are it comes in gift wrapped money shop paper…that’s part of the reason Moxey won’t uturn on the deal.
Leaving the ethics aside the reason we are having this debate at all is a failure of vision and investment by the owner. I backed Mr Morgan’s ownership for quite a long time primarily because i knew finding another willing wealthy investor would be difficult. Also the work done on the Academy has been excellent.
Unfortunatly he has failed to follow through with investment in a manager/coach and a team that can return us to the Premier league. Putting the For Sale sign up is a tacit admission. This will now just leave us a feeder club for those that can and do.
Apparenly Sinead O”connor gone missing on a bike ride. Oh dear. What a fuckin shame. Hope all is well. . ..
Tim Spiers has just made sure that he’s off Jez Moxey’s Christmas card list with his ‘Alternative end-of-season Wolves awards’.
Well, it needed saying (apart from on this blog that is).
http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2016/05/16/the-alternative-end-of-season-wolves-awards/
Bravo Charles excellent letter and brilliant strategy proposed
I do hope that it is well received and acted upon accordingly.
i cannot contemplate supporting a Wolves team with that sponsor on the old gold shirt.
Let sense prevail !
More KJ yesterday..’we must drive on’ I’m double
thinking he’s staying again..re ‘Moyce rumours’ I
was celebrating…