By Joe Sharples
May 28 2002

If your expecting a nice, easy, calm Wolves supporter here then I suggest you read no futher as its all about to come out again... So there I was sitting doing some maths to see if I could afford a season ticket and then it struck me! All the pain, hurt, anger and tears built up inside and only a glass of Sprite could settle the fusion.

You may have been sick of hearing about this from your mates who are Wolves through and through but tough. People may think I’m abusing my power on this site and writing my feelings so I can influence you lot reading this. Well, maybe I am and maybe I’m not, but that’s just life.

Anyway, before you lose total interest in this ill cut to the chase. It suddenly hit home today as I was seeing which over 30 reject we were linked with today it struck me that in mid-august we would be returning to a dead Molineux with the die hard fans of about 19 – 20,000. Shallow chants of ‘Barmy Army’ and ‘we are Wolves’ echo round The Southbank as 10 miles down the road there are some Alb*on fans in a pub, due to sell out of tickets, watching their team getting hammered by Arsenal 5-0.

And as the thousands of loyal Wolves fans pour out at Molineux on the opening day as we win 2-0 against the mighty Reading, we sit in the pub after, silent and distraught, thinking of what could have been and what can be.

Gates again at Molineux don’t start to fill up till the final third of the season and the atmosphere doesn’t fill its potential until we get ever closer to our dream. And after reading that you must feel ill and sick so ill try and lift you up with more positive news…later.

Now I’m going to let off some steam about the appalling and let me emphasise ‘appalling’ back room organisation at the club. I.e. ticket office etc.
How many times had we heard complaints about the way tickets were dealt with? How many times were fans, like myself, cheated out of tickets because of the ‘turn up when we are doing well’ members?

A fine example of this was for the ‘title showdown’ on April 1st. Tickets we’re expected to sell out very early on. So to beat the rush I sent off a letter requesting four tickets for The Southbank on April 1st. Not expecting anything I receive a phone call telling me that I got my tickets however they will not be posted and I will have to pick them up before kick off at the ticket office. No problem there. So I arrive at the ticket office to find that I didn’t have any tickets for the match and none we’re even down in my name. No record that I even existed.

Fair enough if I lived down the road but to make a 300-mile round trip to be told that you cannot see the team that you love is totally outrageous! After them telling me that they had sold out 50 thousand times I did get to see the game as they had spare tickets in the family Stand, but the point is that I know some who weren’t so lucky and weren’t able to get tickets.

Well after that light hearted chat, ill move on to more positive things. The future is still bright. We don’t have to sell our best players to fund our spending and we are heading into 15,000 mark on season ticket sales.

With Goater and Dennis Irwin being strongly linked to us it would seem that we are going to improve the squad. As for the whole Blake and Newton saga, I’ve got passed caring with that. The facts are: Yes Newton did well for us at the start, yes so did Blake and yes without their contributions this season we might not have been in the position we were in but also a big part of our slump was down to those two players lack of effort. I’m not blaming just them but they did let us down big time when it really mattered.

So all we can do is look forward to next year, Albion and Blues down, Wolves up, Smallsall sack Lee and go down with no points. Well I’m being hopeful aren’t I?

No matter what happens though ill be they’re cheering them on starting every song I can, as I’m sure a large majority shall be doing with me. Until then its time to reflect and think what could have been. If anything this could of made you feel better that someone out there is feeling the same as you and made you feel that you aren’t alone in this time of grief.

If I’m being honest I feel like the Norwich game has just finished and all my dreams are gone.

Meanwhile, Muscat(the little..) has spoke of his choice to leave Wolves. He said that he had become "stale" at Wolves and had only won a first division promotion medal with Palace and wanted to do more in his career before he retired.

Well Muzzy, two things from me:
1) If you want to win things then why did you join Rangers?
2) I usually wish players leaving good luck but for you......nothing!!