Football Banter

I'd back the decision to appoint Alan Curbishley, if he wanted the job. He's got experience of coming in to a premier league side before that were staring down the barrel (West Ham) and he kept them up through the final games of the scrap.

I'm listening to a local radio station now which is running a text poll on who Wolves fans think should be in next - and so far the runaway leader of the poll is Birmingham's Chris Hughton.

Chris Hughton would be an excellent choice. I think he was unlucky to lose his job at Newcastle, however I think he will more then likely be loyal (what's that in football?) to Birmingham as I think in the short space he has done a lot and been through a lot. He deserves a medal for what he has achieved already given the circumstances.

I'm afraid I tipped my own team Wolves to get relegated before the season even started. I did so taking into account what I considered to be a rather pathetic transfer policy response to two successive relegation battles in a row where we came closer to relegation the 2nd time round than the first and made little or no meaningful progress on the pitch. In our entire time in the Premier League we have spent most of it demonstrating an inordinate, remorseless and relentless ability to shoot ourselves in the foot in too many matches to such a degree it feels like everywhere the team goes there will be a trailer full of bullets following them. The art of doing all the things that can least afford to be done at all the worst possible times in matches has been mastered to almost superhuman standards. Don't concede from corners or throw ins or free kicks. Don't concede sloppy penalties, don't get stupidly sent off, don't concede an early goal or a late goal or immediately after scoring yourselves. Don't miss a barrel load of sitters, don't lose matches from winning positions etc etc. I could try to list every footballing cardinal sin in the entire encyclopedia of football ineptitude safe in the knowledge that Wolves have committed every single one countless times over. And Wolves's answer to all this ineptitude in the 2011 transfer window. Sign a player who was equally as culpable as his former Birmingham
teammates in helping get them relegated. Wolves's problems were and still are far
more severe than just in central defence. The summary: Useless at both ends and not
much better in between. Just before that window shut McCarthy even said if no more
players were signed after Johnson he was happy with what he had and was aiming for a mid table finish. My sides have been splitting with incredulous laughter ever since. And Chairman Steve Morgan not only sanctions such a pitiful lack of transfer activity but compounds the stupidity of it all by deciding to spend money on stadium improvement when anyone with (a) a brain cell and (b) any degree of inclination to use it could see the money needed spending on the team. The chickens have come home to roost, the transfer window has oh so conveniently shut and the manager has fallen on his sword while the chairman is conveniently on a Skiing holiday and leaving someone else to tell the manager he is out of a job. The net consequence of this: Relegation will happen and be followed by an utterly futile and wasteful increased
stadium capacity for next season when Molineux will quite possibly be half empty due to mass Wulfrunian despair and disillusionment at such mind numbing incompetence at all levels of the club. You just could not make it up its so ridiculous. Who should the next manager be? To be honest I am that fed up I almost don't care. It may as well be Lord Lucan for all I know. This is the most depressed I have been as a Wolves fan in a long long time. It is simply soul destroying.

Portsmouth on the brink, Portsmouth to enter administration this Friday, Portsmouth nearing the end?

aaron - If Portsmouth do go under, I would wager their fans will put together something pretty special and we can look forward to seeing a club that is well supported and owned by those that actually will be around for the long haul rather then these "owners" who looks really for a quick buck !
The thing I find hard to understand is a good number of people seem to understand what is wrong with the game but are totally apathetic when it comes to doing something about its, i.e. get to grips with what the Trust movement is all about and do thier bit to help push the industry towards a goal of sustainability/supporter governance. This would safegaurd clubs like Portsmouth from these fly by owners who only leave the club in debt and the fans with out a team to support.

I think hand on heart it'd be a blessing in disguise if Pompy were to fold. You will have fun, believe me, I just hope Pompy reform the right way. You'll be supporting one of the best run clubs in the future if they did.

According to news reports, Mick McCarthy is to be offered the Leeds job.

(14-02-2012 00:30 )Money_Shot Wrote:  I think hand on heart it'd be a blessing in disguise if Pompy were to fold. You will have fun, believe me, I just hope Pompy reform the right way. You'll be supporting one of the best run clubs in the future if they did.

Thank you for your comments Money_Shot. You may even be right in what you say. I think it's distinctly possible that you'd be right. We would be kicked out of the league though if we fold and have to start several leagues down. Then we may need investment to get back in the league, which means looking for owners with money to do that, and so the cycle may begin all over again.

Tevez.. has returned to Manchester.
He's going to apologise to Manchini. And it looks like he will be back in the team soon.

Racism, player petulence, administration... its not the game I used to love

(14-02-2012 01:27 )Don Tingley Wrote:  This bit is EXACTLY what has just happened at Leeds, I feel for you mate, I really do. It really can bring people down and fed up about their own team, because that's how I feel right now.

We have the 6th highest match-day ticket prices in England and we are a mid-table Championship side! My ST last year was £670, in the Championship! If I was to renew it this season (which I haven't) it would have cost me £750

Meanwhile, Ken Bates has spent £7million on re-developing our east stand, adding corporate boxes and get this, also funding a club museum , we've had some success but not a museums worth! All that money he is spending, yet, apart from a handful of players (who are on around £7,000 a week and have been for years) our squad is made up of 18 year olds, freebies and loanees. Oh, and recently in the space of a couple of weeks, we sold our home-grown club captain to Norwich for £750,000 (not £2million like Bates wanted us to believe) and sacked our also home-grown manager.

Ken Bates

Well he built a museum at Chelsea and we've won f*** all!