29 Mar 2012 19:35:34
I don't often read blogs, so it's painful to read this record of my team and its bizarrely loyal fans caught in this destructive love/hate relationship circle. Despite the current climate of unrest, only 18% have opted out of Early Bird; effectively telling the club that most fans will turn up, no matter how bad things get! Yet every angry message that's left on a blog like this (or personal attack on a player holding his toddler in his arms!) makes Wolves a less appealing place for better players (and managers) to come; so, the situation spirals downwards.
If you want to make your feelings known, simply withdraw your support! Although I've been a Wolves fan for over 50 years, I've managed to break the chains – neither home nor away season tickets have been renewed. At the end of the day the only way to really make your feelings felt is to stay away. I now feel a lot better knowing I will go to a game when I want to next season – NOT because I've paid up front and feel I have to. I'll visit Walsall, Baggies, Villa and, of course Wolves, when and if I want to see a game next season. Before anyone blogs that I'm a traitor, consider this … do you go to a lousy restaurant every week, eat rubbish food, complain bitterly, and then go back for more the following week?
I find the blog comments about the 'new' manager a little surprising – it doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone that there may not actually be any further changes in the summer. As I understand it, Curbs turned the job down (twice) because Steve Morgan wouldn't allow him to bring in his own backroom staff. What manager worth his salt would want to walk into a situation where his hands were tied like that? I'm staggered that, in amongst the 'bring back Mick', and 'Moxey out' pleas there haven't been a few 'Bring back Sir Jack' messages; Steve Morgan is the real problem! Jez Moxey largely deals with the admin side – and very well, I suspect.
Wolves, like so many teams in our football leagues, are the 'plaything' of a very rich man. We swapped a rich eccentric who loved the club, for a businessman who bought Wolves because he couldn't get the club he supported. Unfortunately, the few decisions our current owner has had to make have been disastrous! No point listing them; they are well documented. This is a man who walked into a situation where everything was rosy. Mick, who had inherited the disaster that Hoddle created, had turned the place around and made the club look respectable. Nobody who stood and watched Mick's first game in charge at Plymouth some six years ago, could have imagined the progress we'd make. Of course, we all came to know, deep down, that Mick was never going to manage a mid-table Premier League team, and we all knew he had to go – but the timing error is something you would not expect a successful businessman to make, even if he was out of his 'comfort zone'. The frightening thing is that the new manager may well inherit a shambles similar to, though less severe than, that which Mick took on; the danger is that Wolves may not end up with a Mick this time around. It's a sobering thought to consider for a moment where Plymouth are now, six years on from Mick's first game!
Martin Swain (Express & Star) has had some very enlightening things to say about the need for Wolves to adopt a structure (like the Baggies) that leaves us less dependent upon the manager and less exposed when the manager gets things wrong.
The other thing that surprises me about this blog, is that nowhere has anyone yet discussed the biggest of all Steve Morgan's mistakes – Morgan's folly, the new stand itself. This, of course, is Steve Morgan's comfort zone(?) As I recall, one of the main motivations for the new stand was the need to improve the atmosphere at Molineux. Am I the only person to have noticed that the acoustics of the lower half of the stand are such that noise from the North Bankers is now noticeably less than before? Did nobody investigate the acoustics of the stand before the plans were rubber-stamped? I suspect the worst is yet to come, when the away fans of Barnsley, Peterborough, etc, find themselves high up in the nice new stand, and they realise how well their vocal support bounces off the tin roof!
I hope I'm wrong.
Sounds abit weird I know but the only way we will have our voices heard is if we arnt there........
That was a long message............
the new north bank will not have open ends eventually , ...if the other stands are developed...? that is the real question
Molinuex is gonna be the new carvers.