Help Needed - How to get rid of Mick McCarthy

[Freddeno]

Swansea at home 2-2 right? with superplayer Danny Graham running the show..

 

[Langers]

The first time I wanted him to go was after the 1-5 to Albion. So not til the very end. Hindsight suggests that Swansea game might have been the best time to have changed it. Assuming the replacement was appropriate of course.

TBH when any of our fans slag him off and call him 'Thick Mick' etc, I tend to avoid talking to them and automatically form the impression that they're a bit dim and rather bloody ungrateful.

 

[Tony Towner]

Yes, from memory it was 2-0 with about 20 mins left. Gued and O'Hara turned it around

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Yes, from memory it was 2-0 with about 20 mins left. Gued and O'Hara turned it around

Vokes did well too I think.

We were fucking shite for 70 minutes, Johnson was pathetic and the South Bank was booing Henry like the top top fans that they are.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Game against Villa early on that season killed it for me, was never a big fan anyway but his negativity with substitutions in that game really put me off for good.

 

[Freddeno]

Fucking Roger Johnson.. I actually thought we got a top player there.. We should have bought Scott Dann in hindsight..

 

[Tony Towner]

The first time I wanted him to go was after the 1-5 to Albion. So not til the very end. Hindsight suggests that Swansea game might have been the best time to have changed it. Assuming the replacement was appropriate of course.

TBH when any of our fans slag him off and call him 'Thick Mick' etc, I tend to avoid talking to them and automatically form the impression that they're a bit dim and rather bloody ungrateful.

Still got the mug Langers?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Game against Villa early on that season killed it for me, was never a big fan anyway but his negativity with substitutions in that game really put me off for good.

Seven points from three games after that! But I know what you're saying.

That was the first time I started to be concerned about JOH and him looking like a hippo.

 

[Tony Towner]

Seven points from three games after that! But I know what you're saying.

That was the first time I started to be concerned about JOH and him looking like a hippo.

And top of the Premier League for a couple of hours

 

[Langers]

Still got the mug Langers?

Yes!

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Seven points from three games after that! But I know what you're saying.

That was the first time I started to be concerned about JOH and him looking like a hippo.

Just seemed needlessly negative given the 2 wins beforehand.

Was a shit game going nowhere for either side, plenty of attacking options on the bench to shake things up but took both wingers off for fullbacks and just gave up. Ties in with the earlier 'every points a prisoner' attitude even though we had nothing to lose given the good start.

Seemed like Wolves were finding their feet at that level and starting to progress a bit then Mick went straight back into plucky underdog mode.

 

[Parkins left foot]

Seemed like Wolves were finding their feet at that level and starting to progress a bit then Mick went straight back into plucky underdog mode.

Think that that is his ultimate downfall - third season in the Premier we should have been looking to move on, but don't think that he could.

That was what finished him off & a change should have been made much earlier that season

 

[YoungWolf]

Everton away was awful, when I seriously started to doubt him. We didn't have a shot on target in open play, were hopeless and then Mick hailed it as some kind of great away performance if I remember right. Though I only actively wanted him to go immediately after the Albion game, and that was just as a reaction. It was too late to get rid of him at that point. For us to replace him with Connor was just baffling.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

He said after Everton that (paraphrasing) we might as well get used to that kind of performance away from home because that's the way we were going to play. They were totally there for the taking and we just let them back in, it was horrific.

 

[jd1981]

For me Mick had three good seasons and two bad so overall I have good memories. Winning at Anfield and Spurs and being the first side to beat Man Utd in 10/11 season.
His time should have come with the Swansea home game where we somehow salvaged a draw from nothing in a dreadful performance, he then went to war with the fans which is never a wise thing whether you think he was right or wrong.

The thing that annoys me was that for about 2 years after he left everyone told us you should never have sacked MM, without properly looking at the facts. Even prior to the drubbing by the Albion our form had been poor 2 wins in 15 matches and playing desperate football.
Even had mick stayed that season we'd still have gone down comfortably but it wouldn't have been as humiliating as it was under Terry Connor.

As most have said our downfall was down to continuous poor decisions by the board and incompetent management.

 

[Lupo]

The thing that annoys me was that for about 2 years after he left everyone told us you should never have sacked MM, without properly looking at the facts.

A bit like those who thought Jackett was hard done by at Wolves and believe that Fosun should have let him continue in the role to 'see what he could do with some serious money'

 

[Sid]

every club he's managed millwall, sunderland and wolves were relegated after sacking him.

good luck.

 

[Tony Towner]

every club he's managed millwall, sunderland and wolves were relegated after sacking him.

good luck.

Milwall didn't sack him, he went to Ireland. The others sacked him because he WAS taking them down.

 

[Donegal Wolf]

Milwall didn't sack him, he went to Ireland. The others sacked him because he WAS taking them down.

He did in fairness also take them up in the first place, didnt he have something stupid like a budget of £4million (including wages) at Sunderland when they got promoted.

 

[Tony Towner]

Agreed re Sunderland, I don't think there is a manager around who could have kept them up with that squad and budget.