Burton Wolf
Just doesn't shut up
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Is he still in the bookies on Perton?
Claridge for ****s sake!Who could ever forget that ridiculous SF line up at Villa Park -joke
Hoddles football bored me senseless, 18Talking out your backside mate, completely ****e managers can't go on an 18 game unbeaten run, even though he bored the opposition into submission. Stale Fraudbakken, Terry Connor, Dean Clownders, Paul Thickbert and Walter Dumba were all worse.
As I put it earlier I didn’t class him as a manager more of a ****in **** , sorry for the bad languageNope, l can't agree that Hoddle was the worst ever - Clownders for one....
Dave Bassett IIRCThanks for the replies everyone!
Can anyone recall who McGhee beat to the job? I see that when we appointed Graham Taylor, we were also considering Robson and Gerry Francis!
Been shut for a few yearsIs he still in the bookies on Perton?
I should've been able to remember, because I wrote articles about it for our Danish Wolves fanzine back then, but its slipped out of my memory, and the magazines from back then are stored away in the basement. But I do believe O'Neill was in the running. Chris Nicholl, then at Walsall was mentioned too. So was Dave Bassett.Thanks for the replies everyone!
Can anyone recall who McGhee beat to the job? I see that when we appointed Graham Taylor, we were also considering Robson and Gerry Francis!
was fantastic in training!I remember the delight when we signed Corica and then the despair a few games after seeing him in action!
Long time since I lived thereBeen shut for a few years
Pretty sure it was Dave Bassett? I definitely remember the season video showed a clip where Jonathan Hayward announced somebody else instead of McGhee when he was being unveiled as the new boss. Side splitting humour it was not.Thanks for the replies everyone!
Can anyone recall who McGhee beat to the job? I see that when we appointed Graham Taylor, we were also considering Robson and Gerry Francis!
Completely forgot about Dave Bassett he’s 77 now. He was the Sam alladyce of the 90sPretty sure it was Dave Bassett? I definitely remember the season video showed a clip where Jonathan Hayward announced somebody else instead of McGhee when he was being unveiled as the new boss. Side splitting humour it was not.
Just echo what everybody else says really. Was glad we got McGhee in at the start. Lets not forget some of the football in the last days under Taylor was terrible. Felt uneasy when McGhee quickly slagged off the fitness of the players he'd inherited and that unease grew as we realised his penchant for doing other teams motivational speeches for them. Should have got promoted in his first full season as we won tons of away games, but our home form was dismal and a Bully sending off at Oldham? lost us momentum at the sharp end of the season.
Second season the league form was poor, but the Cup run to the semi-final saved him. Final straw for most was the team selection at Villa Park.
That was such a great day.The best thing about Mark McGhee is that without him we wouldn’t have had a 6-1 celebration party the first time we played after his sacking. Wolfies fight with the the pigs. Lots of tension eased that day.
It's a Funeral Directors nowIs he still in the bookies on Perton?
I disagree .We were near the bottom and that final performance against 10 man Charlton was abysmal .Yes he ultimately got Watford up but how long were we going to wait for him to turn things round ?If only we’d stuck by Graham Taylor
No we were terrible under TaylorIf only we’d stuck by Graham Taylor
There was one interview when we were doing badly, and he was asked about the pressure he was under.He was a big headed fool, who beleived he would be the next Alex Ferguson.
It showed how clueless Jonathon Hayward was when he sacked Graham Taylor, after an underwhelming start to the season, and cost the club a fortune in compensation to Leicester to obtain McGhee and Lee.
His signings were expensive and mainly poor e.g.
Corica
Iwan Roberts
AdrIan Williams
Simon Osbourne,
but his biggest **** up was the Leicester goalkeeper Zejlko Kalac who cost us £650,000 and we couldnt get a work permit to play him! He should have been sacked just for that alone.
There werevmore expensive signings, we messed up promotion yet again, and of course his actions prompted the “golden tit” interview from SJH.
McGhee set us back years meanwhile the Premier League got richer and richer, and of course harder to get in and survive.
I feel the same with all our managers, even McCarthy and Nuno. Every manager who was sacked (or left by mutual consent) was serving up football that was clearly in decline, and it was obvious our fortunes could never change for the better while they remained in charge.No we were terrible under Taylor
In the excellent book Between The. Golden Lines (David Instone) it mentions that Little was universally liked by players, staff, media etcI feel the same with all our managers, even McCarthy and Nuno. Every manager who was sacked (or left by mutual consent) was serving up football that was clearly in decline, and it was obvious our fortunes could never change for the better while they remained in charge.
Turner, Taylor, McGhee, Lee, etc had all reached a pinnacle (as far as that respective manager could take us) in their Wolves career and we were on the downward spiral when they each left the club.
The only Wolves manager who was sacked that I genuinely felt sorry for was Brian Little.
Yes, Brian Little had actually stopped the rot. We had suffered three consecutive relegations, and with relegation to non league a new thing in 1986/1987, there was a horrible feeling if the relegations continued we really would be in trouble. We were far from perfect under Little, but at least under him we started to stop losing every week! Graham Turner then became available and the rest is history.In the excellent book Between The. Golden Lines (David Instone) it mentions that Little was universally liked by players, staff, media etc
I saw us lose 1-0 at Leicester a short time before McGhee joined us and Corica was absolutely sensational for them, as he had been all season apparently. Why he couldn't reproduce that form for us only he (and MM) would know.Steve Corica tho - I mean, why? Looks like he went on to do well as a coach but as a player he was way below the standard needed for English football. Perhaps he had the skill but not the physicality or temperament, and he was also injured a fair bit. Hard to blame Corica when it was MM piling on the pressure and picking him.
Sorry @crocos quote post didn’t work“We were a bloated noisy boat,
with no wind anywhere,
with a kipper for a skipper,
And a bull benched in a semi for a dare…”
Longer than 18 months I would have hopedI disagree .We were near the bottom and that final performance against 10 man Charlton was abysmal .Yes he ultimately got Watford up but how long were we going to wait for him to turn things round ?
I wanted him to do well but we were dropping like a stone and the football was direLonger than 18 months I would have hoped
Exactly right.I wanted him to do well but we dropping like a stone and the football was dire
Don't really need an opinion.. Facts speak for themselves.. Barn door springs to mind with him.....pompey fans remembering claridge said he was a fans favourite where ever he played and scored goals
couldn`t be bothered to give them my opinion!
I was tooI was really pleased when we got McGhee as manager.
It shows what I know…
It's a Funeral Directors now
With respect to rewriting of history and Graham Taylor just look at the injuries that season.Exactly right.
History has been er-written by some regarding Taylors reign. Given the resources we had he should never have failed to get us up that 1st season.
Then the season after that seemed like terminal decline. I would liken it to Nuno’s last 10 games in charge, including the 0-4 home loss to Burnley. He was done, the players did not buy into it any more.