McCarthy has no plans to change tactics

10th May 2010

Wolves boss Mick McCarthy has vowed not to compromise his side's Barclays Premier League future by giving in to the critics who have scorned his so-called negative tactics at Molineux this season.

McCarthy watched his side round off their first season back in the top-flight with a 2-1 win over Sunderland on Sunday which secured them a final finishing position of 15th - eight points clear of the drop zone.

With just 32 goals over the season including a mere 13 at home Wolves finished as the league's lowest scorers but McCarthy insists he will employ the same tactics again if it means a repeat of their survival success.

McCarthy said: "I said early on in the season if we stayed up by virtue of there being three teams worse than us, am I bothered? If we had stayed up by one goal, that wouldn't have bothered me.

"We had to stay in this league. Would Burnley or Portsmouth or Hull have swapped our position? The goals don't matter. All that mattered this season was finishing above the bottom three.

"There came a time in the season when we simply couldn't afford to get beaten. I had to manage and organise my team differently and I think myself and the players should take some credit for adapting to that. I had some shouts from the stand to play 4-4-2 but I wasn't going to go down with this team playing nice attractive 4-4-2 football and getting beat. If it comes to it next season the same thing will happen. It's about getting results."