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Ex-Wolf Watch

The main squad was definitely from humble stock

Hennessey (youth who would never have played if Murray didn't break)

Foley (Luton)
Stearman (Leicester when they went down to L1)
Craddock (Sunderland and shite for years before Mick got here)
Ward (Bohemians, and definitely NOT a LB when we signed him)

Kightly (Grays)
Henry (Stoke and they more or less gave him away)
Jones (Derby, cost a third of what we got in for the big lug he directly replaced)
Jarvis (Gillingham)

Iwelumo (Charlton, and had been a complete jobber for years)
Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth)

Backed up by Keogh (Scunthorpe), Vokes (Bournemouth when they were L2 and bankrupt), Edwards (Luton, another bankrupt signing), Collins (pennies from Sunderland), Hill (cheapo squad fodder from PNE), Ikeme (youth who generally went on rubbish loans), Elokobi (Colchester and before that not much above parks football)
 
Wasn't the money signing that Summer Shackell, who was binned off before Autumn was out?
 
It's fucking amazing when you properly think about. Everything every single one of those players (and mick too to degree) had a career that, before and after those few years, was jobbing at best.

To get that football out of those players...it makes no sense 😂 I don't want to say it was a fluke or lucky, but the fact we stumbled on such incredible chemistry that for 15 players would never be even close to replicated, for 'season of your dreams' individual form to happen for so many people at exactly the same time, it's fucking mental.
 
Tony Towner said:
Wasn't the money signing that Summer Shackell, who was binned off before Autumn was out?
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Think Stears cost more, Shackell was £1m but Mick did that thing he sometimes did of signing someone and deciding after about three weeks he didn't like him
 
A few curios from that season:

Sam Vokes came off the bench THIRTY TWO times which has to be some kind of record for Wolves at least
Micky Gray was still here for a bit and scored an important goal at Watford before he left
We had two Darren Wards, can't think of another time we've had two players with the same name (I'm not sure Paul Jones x 2 overlapped)
No-one has since passed SEB's 25 league goals in a season for us and won't do either while we're a PL team
Jarvis only actually started 21 games which seems really low
Shackell ended up with more league appearances than Mancienne, just about
 
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Stephen Ward went on to have the longest Premier League career too I reckon.
 
Willian Jose leaving Real Betis for Spartak Moscow
 
Joleon Lescott's son signs scholarship forms at Preston. Apparently 6'2'', going to play for the U19s and he's only 16.

There you go, now you all feel old :D
 
Ben Goodliffe to Colchester and Scott Malone to Crawley
 
Deutsch Wolf said:
Joleon Lescott's son signs scholarship forms at Preston. Apparently 6'2'', going to play for the U19s and he's only 16.

There you go, now you all feel old :D
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Indeed! There's a Sidwell at AFC Wimbledon that's just signed pro terms. Had to check, it is indeed Steve's son.
 
Rui Patricio leaving Roma with immediate effect following the expiry of his contract
 
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