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"I have to be able to manage the club and the players and maximise my resources and pick teams and be trusted by everyone concerned. And it's about all the games, not just today.
"I'm delighted we've got the result but I expected the performance from the players because of he decision that I made. The nice thing was that the players believed in me and trusted me and let me get on with it. They were 100 per cent behind me with all the decisions that I made and they played well.
"When top teams change their teams it's squad rotation but when Mick McCarthy does it then it's about changing ten players. I've been surprised by the level of reaction and there are one or two people's opinions of me that I do have a bit of truck with.
"We've got nine points out of twelve now and people who were here when we played Birmingham would have never thought that. We're on 19 points now and the position we are in looks a lot better. But we're still in a survival battle, without a doubt, we might get slapped by Liverpool or Man City."
McCarthy lauded the performances of Kevin Doyle and Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and added: "They were fabulous and full of running. The two of them couldn't have worked like that if they'd played on Tuesday."
Owen Coyle said after the game: "I think it was obvious that we lost two terrible goals. The first one there were probably two or three individual mistakes and at this level you have to defend well. We didn't do both of those well enough today and we paid the price.
"I don't take anything away from Wolves because Doyle and Ebanks-Blake were a handful all day. Partly that's because they are very good players, but partly because out centre backs took knocks.
"Clarke Carlisle injured himself early in the game and that contrived to play a part in the first goal, and the skipper felt his groin in the first half which was something to do with the second goal.
"I believe we would have defended both better, but we didn't and found ourselves two goals down.
"We carried the fight from that stage and had numerous opportunities. I felt we should have had a stonewall penalty when Fletcher was dragged and there was one other incident that could have been.
"I'm not saying the referee can see everything but that's why he has assistants. Having said that, nothing was given, so it's disappointing. We came here to win a game and all it does is add fuel to the fire about the away form, and rightly so."