How Long Will Bully's Record Stand?

[Dairve Ayeye]

I was thinking the other day about Bully and his Wolves goal scoring record, will it ever be beaten? A young player would have to come into the club, stick with us for a decade and score over 30 goals a season. I'm going with....NEVER, not even close!

 

[Langers]

Not a chance.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but AFAIK no player has scored 100 goals for us since Bully retired. In fact, I don't think anyone has got close to 100.

Who would be nearest? SEB? I don't think he passed 65 goals for us in total.

 

[Dairve Ayeye]

Not a chance.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but AFAIK no player has scored 100 goals for us since Bully retired. In fact, I don't think anyone has got close to 100.

Who would be nearest? SEB? I don't think he passed 65 goals for us in total.

SEB scored 61 according to Wiki... The rest of the big hitters apart from Richards and The Doog were all before I was born...

 

[broughtonwolf]

Unlikely to be ever beaten due the fact that player careers and contracts are different now. Also whichever way you spin it, we won't keep a player for the length of time needed.
Whether prem or shudder, back in the not so welcoming arms of the Championship, if we find a proven scorer he will follow the money or greater success probability of another club. Scoring in the prem is also proportionately harder than the 50+ seasons Bully had in the lower leagues, as brilliant as they were.
Or Shi/Hobbs or whoever follows them will have a financial plan to develop and sell-on.
I suppose Vardy is the closest comparison you could get these days (in terms of player type and loyalty) and he is somewhere around 200 for Leicester.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

Never be beaten. EVER..

 

[AndyWolves]

We'd need an international level player to be with us through the youth team and to stay with us bagging 20 goals a season for 15 years.

I just dont see it

The only way I can see it happening is via a similar set of circumstances that we went through when bully arrived.

 

[Kenny]

Fabio will smash it

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

We'd need an international level player to be with us through the youth team and to stay with us bagging 20 goals a season for 15 years.

I just dont see it

The only way I can see it happening is via a similar set of circumstances that we went through when bully arrived.

Or by becoming the best team in the country and getting a Haaland type player who gets with us young, and never wants to leave because we are the best and there is nowhere better to go...

So no, I don't see it!

 

[BillyDee]

I could do it after ~5-6 seasons on Sensible World of Soccer... 🕹

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Will never happen in my lifetime for sure.

SEB got 64 for us in all competitions, Raul got 57, Kenny Miller got 63. So between them they're absolutely nowhere near and they were all our top scorer for multiple seasons and none of them overlapped.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

If you add together:

Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (64)
Raul Jimenez (57)
Kenny Miller (63)
Diogo Jota (44)
Don Goodman (39)
David Kelly (36)

You STILL don't hit 306.

 

[Tony Towner]

Given 120 or thereabouts came in Div 3 and 4 it's a record you wouldn't want to see broken as playing at that level is the only way anyone could begin to approach it. Any Championship player scoring 20 a season would be gone after the second year now and nobody is likely to score 100 while we are a PL team.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I'm also not sure anyone is ever making it onto our top 10 appearance makers.

Derek Parkin 609
Kenny Hibbitt 574
Steve Bull 561
Billy Wright 541
Ron Flowers 512
John McAlle 508
Peter Broadbent 497
Geoff Palmer 495
Jimmy Mullen 486
John Richards 486

Doherty has been here forever (somehow) and is only on 368, he isn't going to play another 119 games for Wolves. Micky Stowell finished on 441.

 

[Tony Towner]

If you say on average we play 5 cup games a year then someone would break Parkin's record in their 15th season if they were never dropped, injured or suspended.

 

[Sniffer]

John McAlle got that many? He seemed to be just a sub in the early 80s and IIRC he once came on as a sub and immediately broke his leg.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

John McAlle got that many? He seemed to be just a sub in the early 80s and IIRC he once came on as a sub and immediately broke his leg.

Signed in 1967 though.

So it'd be like if we'd signed someone under Mick in 2011 and they were still here, had never left and played nearly every game in all that time. Also 42 game top flight league seasons as opposed to 38, some European football in there and two legged League Cup ties in multiple early rounds (and back then the first XI would just play all the time, no resting players because you happened to draw Rochdale).

 

[prawnking]

I wonder if sometimes we take Bully for granted a bit as he's so approachable and around such a lot.

What a fucking legend, a massive part of why I fell in love with this football club and still am

 

[Dire Wolf]

If you add together:

Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (64)
Raul Jimenez (57)
Kenny Miller (63)
Diogo Jota (44)
Don Goodman (39)
David Kelly (36)

You STILL don't hit 306.

Yeah but what about if we add Leon Clarke's contributions in, eh?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Leon got 18 goals for us.

Putting him level with Neil Emblen who played a fair amount at centre half and a whole one ahead of Jody Craddock.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Everyone to score 40+ goals for us and has played for us since 1970 (some of these got some of their goals pre-1970):

Steve Bull 306
John Richards 194
Derek Dougan 120
Kenny Hibbitt 114
Andy Mutch 106
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake 64
Kenny Miller 63
Raul Jimenez 57
Mel Eves 53
Robbie Dennison 49
Jim McCalliog 48
Hugh Curran 47
Andy Thompson 45
Andy Gray 45
Dave Edwards 44
Diogo Jota 44
Steve Daley 43

17 players there in 55 years, I've only seen 9 of them and I'm 44 so not young. Anyone under 30 will only have seen SEB, Raul, Miller, Edwards and Jota. If you're 25 and under you probably don't remember Miller.

Kightly 26, Blake 26, Afobe 29, Neves 30, Sturridge 33, Doyle 33, Dicko 35, Kelly 36, Sako 38, Goodman 39, Cunha is on 32 and Doherty is on 33

A Play Your Cards Right style game on that would be tough. I'd have had Thommo down for more goals than Robbie D