Not that I suspect it matters that much. I try to put a bit of effort into the original posts (kind of how the thread works, or is supposed to work) but I'm not sure how many people even begin to read or watch them. I mean I did the Muscat one, including his goal vs Ipswich which even has the title "Wolves vs Ipswich 1998" and LJ (bless him) pipes up later saying "I remember a thunderbolt of his, was it vs Ipswich" :icon_lol:
Anyway. A lot of people forget that the famous Bully "became a Dad and then drove straight to Norwich after 0 hours sleep" game didn't have a winning goal by Bully. It was Don.
Ferguson was horrendous however. I've liked many of the names you've popped onto this thread. I also appreciated some of the older posters discussing John Richards for example. Appreciate the effort, even if I do make a mess of it :icon_lol:
Seyi George Olofinjana (born 30 June 1980) is a Nigerian former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Olofinjana began his career with local sides Crown and Kwara United before moving to Europe with Norwegian side SK Brann. After two seasons at Brann he moved to English club Wolverhampton Wanderers. He became a regular at Molineux making 213 appearances for the club over four seasons before joining Premier League club Stoke City in August 2008 for a fee of £3 million. He played only the 2008–09 season with the team before joining another top flight side, Hull City, again for a fee of £3 million.
In July 2004 he moved to England to sign for Wolverhampton Wanderers for a fee of £1.7 million. After having become a regular player for the club, his second season was curtailed by a back injury that also forced him to miss the 2006 African Cup of Nations. In the 2006–07 season, however, finishing as the club's top league goalscorer as they made the play-offs under Mick McCarthy. He netted Wolves' opening goal of the following campaign in a 2–1 defeat to Watford, but could not repeat his goalscoring level of the previous season, scoring only twice more. He missed part of the season as he competed in the 2008 African Cup of Nations where Nigeria lost in the quarter-finals.
In August 2015 Olofinjana started working at Wolverhampton Wanderers's Academy.
Saw that Ayden chap who used to be in Hollyoaks on Twitter say that he would be a perfect Nuno player and he could have seen Nuno turn him into a dominant CB... :screwy:
Probably the first man who is tall and black and therefore must play like Patrick Vieira. Whatever you think of him, watching him for 10 minutes told you that wasn't his game.
I think he'll end up with a very senior role at the club as his intelligence seems to significantly outweigh his football ability
Moxey correctly gets a lot of shit, but selling him for £3m was some of his finest work
Seyi George Olofinjana (born 30 June 1980) is a Nigerian former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Olofinjana began his career with local sides Crown and Kwara United before moving to Europe with Norwegian side SK Brann. After two seasons at Brann he moved to English club Wolverhampton Wanderers. He became a regular at Molineux making 213 appearances for the club over four seasons before joining Premier League club Stoke City in August 2008 for a fee of £3 million. He played only the 2008–09 season with the team before joining another top flight side, Hull City, again for a fee of £3 million.
In July 2004 he moved to England to sign for Wolverhampton Wanderers for a fee of £1.7 million. After having become a regular player for the club, his second season was curtailed by a back injury that also forced him to miss the 2006 African Cup of Nations. In the 2006–07 season, however, finishing as the club's top league goalscorer as they made the play-offs under Mick McCarthy. He netted Wolves' opening goal of the following campaign in a 2–1 defeat to Watford, but could not repeat his goalscoring level of the previous season, scoring only twice more. He missed part of the season as he competed in the 2008 African Cup of Nations where Nigeria lost in the quarter-finals.
In August 2015 Olofinjana started working at Wolverhampton Wanderers's Academy.
I quite liked him, but that's largely down to him coming to prominence when I first really started engaging with the club- I daresay his performances don't stack up.
He's clearly well-respected at the club, and I'm happy to see him having a role with us going forwards.
I thought he was decent for us, although looking back i can't really remember a game where he was particularly stood out. Leicester away when we won 4-1 is the only game that springs to mind.
He kept it simple and had a knack for a period of being in the right place at the right time with some really shit 5 yard tap in goals, he never used his physique as well as he should have, as DW says he often got beaten to the ball by players far weaker than him physically.
He had a good technique a good passing range, and whilst he didn't hit the tackles like I would have liked, i never thought that he wasn't trying, which is more than can be said for some of his team mates at the time.
A game at Molineux in the rain (QPR?) the game probably shouldn't have been on and he was a master in the conditions. Probably should have waterlogged the pitch every week
I was at that 4-1 Leicester away game. It was pretty much the last game of the season and we needed a win for the playoffs (I think) and Leicester had absolutely nothing to play for (Worthington was their manager).
It featured a Panenka penalty from Andy Keogh too!
First up, he didn't have an easy job when he got here. Big signing (that was still a lot of money then) and he's directly replacing Alex Rae who pound for pound had been our best player for the last three years. He also came into a team that was declining fast and we weren't doing a great deal about it, all with a manager at the helm who - and let's be kind here - was somewhat limited in tactical innovation, which meant that if Plan A didn't work, we'd had it.
Of course, you shouldn't make assumptions about players based on their physical profile. But of course you do. You see some huge guy in midfield and think he's going to be a bit of a physical beast.
10 minutes in to his debut against Stoke and I was already having concerns :icon_lol: He looked slow and he certainly didn't seem to want to mix it. None of that ever changed. The thing is, even when you accept that he is what he is, you'd still like him to try a little bit to impose himself but he was such a fucking wallflower. He'd routinely get brushed off the ball or bottle 70/30 challenges in his favour. As I say, I've seen him lose aerial battles to players he towered over.
I've never known a Wolves player have so many excuses made for him. He's struggling to adapt to the pace. He's tired because Norway play a different season to us and he needs a rest. Oh, he's had a back injury for ages and obviously played through it. His passes are too intelligent for our players (a personal favourite of mine). I don't think anyone can truly say what he was supposed to be as a midfielder. He didn't work hard, he didn't break up play. His distribution was on the whole, absolutely shit. He couldn't dictate play. He had no presence or dynamism whatsoever. If you played him as a central midfielder, he rarely scored. His long range shooting was a joke. We paid serious money for this guy and he was rarely anything other than a peripheral presence on games. He was however a superstar at receiving a pass, looking down at the ball, up again, down again, up again then knocking it straight back to the original passer.
He had a limited run of success playing as more or less a second striker (leading to a run of goals that must have been from an average distance of about 2.2 yards) but this just meant we didn't have to ask him to do any running or any defensive work at all. Just hang around near the box and hope something falls to you. Even then, his finishing was ropy at best. Much like when we gave Edwards that role, sure, he might score you a few but it's to the detriment of the team overall as he won't do anything else and he certainly won't create anything.
Selling him to Stoke for £3m was a complete con job. I'm sure Pulis never watched him play properly. I remember the reaction of their fans when they saw us largely rejoicing, thinking that we were "jealous that they'd taken our best player". Oh yeah, how did that one work out then lads? Meanwhile we bought David Jones for a third of the price and he was a lot more than three times better.
He's a very nice guy. Very intelligent too. Too nice really, as I remember him being stood six yards out vs Norwich, ball rolling towards him, keeper out of the picture and he chose to pick up a Norwich defender rather than tap it in. Didn't want to risk a Sheffield Wednesday player getting injured in a challenge either so pirouetted out of the way like the world's tallest ballerina. He wants to sort out a career in sports administration and I have no doubt he'll make a success of it, be it here or somewhere else. I just wish I'd never had to watch him play.
I was at that 4-1 Leicester away game. It was pretty much the last game of the season and we needed a win for the playoffs (I think) and Leicester had absolutely nothing to play for (Worthington was their manager).
It featured a Panenka penalty from Andy Keogh too!
And me, as i remember it they took the lead, or equalised and there was an extremely fat bloke with a drum giving it large, he received a lot of stick as we scored our 2nd, 3rd and 4th goals. Was hilarious.
And me, as i remember it they took the lead, or equalised and there was an extremely fat bloke with a drum giving it large, he received a lot of stick as we scored our 2nd, 3rd and 4th goals. Was hilarious.
Probably the first man who is tall and black and therefore must play like Patrick Vieira. Whatever you think of him, watching him for 10 minutes told you that wasn't his game.
I think he'll end up with a very senior role at the club as his intelligence seems to significantly outweigh his football ability
Moxey correctly gets a lot of shit, but selling him for £3m was some of his finest work
That Norwich incident sent Kenny totally fucking nuclear. I almost had to pull him back from attempting to get on the pitch and lamp the bloke!
I was at the Leicester 4-1 away. There was a load of us there that day as I gave a tour of pubs that had been demolished since my student days. I also had the almost out of body experience of seeing Seyi and Eastwood have a good game at the same time - comfortable win at Hillsborough which also saw all four sides of the ground boo the introduction of Leon Clarke as a Wednesday sub. Ace times. I went to a ridiculous number of games in that season. I think I only missed two aways.
Seyi was a bit powder puff. His heart was clearly in the club. Otherwise he wouldn't be back here in his current capacity. Mind you, my heart is in the club too, by an infinitely larger proportion, and no sane manager would use that as the metric to have me replace Alex Rae would they!
"He's a very nice guy. Very intelligent too. Too nice really" He had a webpage on something for some reason which had some cracking music on it and he was tall, 'it really, Shame really wanted him to be the 'new Viera' but he just fell short, literally
And me, as i remember it they took the lead, or equalised and there was an extremely fat bloke with a drum giving it large, he received a lot of stick as we scored our 2nd, 3rd and 4th goals. Was hilarious.
I remember DJ speaking in wonderment about how we played Arsenal and they lined up against us in the tunnel, and they were miles bigger than us (I assume he doesn't realise that people look smaller on most TVs than they do in real life). I genuinely think we signed Seyi at least in part because he was huge. DJ's mind did work in such a facile way at times.
I can't speak for how good he looked in Norway - which wasn't and isn't a particularly good standard - I do know that DJ and Jez went over to watch him at least once. But unless he was a vastly different, far more dominant player over there, it didn't seem that we had much of a plan in terms of how to use him. Was he there to do the running for a quickly ageing Ince and/or Cameron? If so then he wasn't the right signing.
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