What is happening at Molineux? Mick McCarthy By Simon Garner February 16 2009
Going into the New Year, Wolves were sitting pretty at the top of the Championship table, scoring goals and winning games. The feeling around the Club and the Fans (well most!) was of Premiership Football next Season. What the hell has happened since then? Now I am usually an optimist, always looking to the positives or looking through "Wolves Tinted Specs" if you will. I am now starting to think however that a few fans on this board are right, Mick has lost it and the team do not seem to know where the next win will come from. Let's take the performance at Burnley; one word Pathetic. The team looked totally inept, seemed to be lacking on confidence and generally, to me, didn't seem interested. To put it mildly it looks a completely different team that was playing well in the early part of the season. What is the reason for this? In my opinion it is because Mick McCarthy is playing a few of his favoured players, for example Michael Kightly, who, let's face is is completely out of form. Why not give Kyel Reid a run out? Jarvis on the right, Reid on the left (as I am not sure if Reid can play on the right!) Another player who looks like he couldn't catch a cold is Wayne Hennessey. He looks like he either has no confidence or that he just doesn't care. Maybe it is the case he will be in the Premiership next season with Wolves or without so in his eyes where is the insentive to try? I am not saying that this is the case, it could be and more likely is the case that our goal keeping coach Pat Mountain is not up the to job. Hopefully in the next couple of week Carl Ikeme will be back and will get a run in the team. Another problem is the defence. When was the last time we kept a clean sheet? I cannot remember the last time we actually kept the ball out of our net (hopefully someone will be able to advise on this.) If we are not keeping clean sheets, this is putting a huge amount of pressure on the strikers to get a minimum of 2-3 goals a game, in some cases just to get a point! (the Norwich game springs to mind.) After spending £2.5 million on Christophe Berra even he seems to be lacking in confidence, and from what I have seen he has no pace. Coupled with that he should have scored against Burnely and maybe against Coventry, which would have got us another 2 points in the push for promotion. Should Neill Collins be given a run out? How much a kick in the gentlemans area would that be to myself and other fans who have called for his head? You might think I am worrying for nothing as we are still top, and even if Reading and Birmingham win their games in hand we will be 2nd, although only on goal difference from Birmingham. Hopefully we can get back to winning ways against Cardiff, but seeing as they are in form, I honestly can't see this. I hope I am wrong and we do still go up, but at the moment I cannot see it. Onwards and Upwards (I hope!) Marcus Chantry ---------------------------------- Associate Director New Product Development - Insurance Macquarie Life (d) 02 8232 4259 (m) 0448 887 627 P Please consider the environment before printing this email. Important Notice This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may contain copyright material of Macquarie or any of its subsidiaries or third parties. If you are not the intended recipient of this email you should not read, print, re-transmit, store or act in reliance on this e-mail or any attachments, and should destroy all copies of them. Macquarie does not guarantee the integrity of any emails or any attached files. The views or opinions expressed are the author's own and may not reflect the views or opinions of Macquarie. The information contained in this email is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not disclose or use the information in this email in any way and should destroy any copies. Macquarie does not guarantee the integrity of any emails or attached files. The views or opinions expressed are the author's own and may not reflect the views or opinions of Macquarie. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Pig's pudding - it's a mon's dinner aer kid -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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