Just how good were/was/is/are (Wolves Edition)

[Paddingtonwolf]

I loved Thommo. Doesn't matter whether he was the best or indeed the worst. He was ace to me. And that's all that matters in my mind.

 

[Paul]

I think at school age you only notice the speed demon wingers and the kid that scores week in week out, don't get me wrong it was great to see a local boy dun good !

 

[Tredman]

I went to school with Anthony Gardner. Proper speed demon, but you’d have never picked him as a future (very brief) England international.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

You mean the goalhanging bastard

Karl could obviously play but no more so than any number of other kids I played with.

I was never pro level in a million years but I guess you make your choices and I found pubs and girls more interesting than going to some dogshit-infested pitch at 10am on a Saturday morning. He worked at his game.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I went to school with Anthony Gardner. Proper speed demon, but you’d have never picked him as a future (very brief) England international.

That was a totally random pick. Some odd tour to the US, think Kieran Richardson and Zat Knight also played?

He was pretty decent for Vale but he's a total figure of fun for Spurs fans. To think they had both him and Gary Doherty at the same time.

 

[Deleted Cyber]

If he had a brain he would be dangerous. Shame he was a plank

 

[Wilf Wolf]

I went to school with Anthony Gardner. Proper speed demon, but you’d have never picked him as a future (very brief) England international.

Riso boy then!

 

[Tredman]

Riso boy then!

 

[Paul]

I was never pro level in a million years but I guess you make your choices and I found pubs and girls more interesting than going to some dogshit-infested pitch at 10am on a Saturday morning. He worked at his game.

I was a pseudo hardman canter half, never went passed the half way line and lived by the adage 'If in doubt, hoof it out' , my career was destined to fetching my own clearances back from the next pitch

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I could play, I even got paid to play in Germany. These being the days when I could run without everything falling to bits inside 20 seconds. Kenny will tell you, I've had my knee and my hamstring go just by standing up in the last 18 months. Held together with sticky tape now.

But there are levels, I never had the fitness levels required to go any further than good amateur football and being honest I don't think I had the ability either. It's all very well playing one Becks style crossfield ball, stroking your hair and thinking you look good. How about the rest of it?

At absolute best if I'd tried my absolute hardest I could maybe have done it at Conference North or the level below that. But that isn't a career, so fuck that.

 

[Lycan]

Maurice Dross

How fucking dare you.

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[Deutsch Wolf]

How fucking dare you.

So defensive of your own countrymen.

He was bobbins. Gets plus points for telling Ince to get tae fuck.

 

[Tony Towner]

[emoji3]

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

We won a shitload of games (plus two championships) with Thommo in the team, so he will always be remembered fondly. Plus he always seemed to care and to give 100%. Not PL standard, but we weren't in the PL and he was far from our biggest problem in the Championship.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Thommo was no world beater but was more than adequate for where we were at the time. I liked him and was never worried when he stepped up to take a penalty. Knew there would be no showy Penenka, but always expected it to hit the net.
Epitome of a good club pro, although for the life of me I can't understand quite how he manged to play well over 600 professional games. Shows what application can do - just imagine how good some of the others talked about in this thread would have been with just half the desire. Like Andy Mutch, had a much better few years after he left us than I thought possible.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

15. Carl Robinson

Carl Robinson (born 13 October 1976) is a retired Welsh footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently coaching Australian A-League club Newcastle Jets.

Robinson started his career as a trainee with Wolverhampton Wanderers. He made his Wolverhampton Wanderers debut during the 1996–97 season.

After over 180 appearances for Wolves over six seasons, he moved to Portsmouth in July 2002 under the Bosman ruling. He played 15 league games for Portsmouth in the first half of their First Division Championship season (2002-03) before finishing the season with loan spells at Sheffield Wednesday (where he scored once against future club Norwich) and Walsall (where he scored once against Bradford).The following season he was loaned out again, this time to Rotherham, Sheffield United and Sunderland. However between these loan spells he did return to Portsmouth to make one Premier League appearance against Chelsea.

In January 2012, Robinson retired as a player and joined the Vancouver Whitecaps FC as an assistant coach. He took over as the head coach of the club in December 2013. The club parted ways with Robinson on 25 September 2018.

In February 2020, Robinson signed a three-and-a-half-year contract as the head coach of Australian A-League club Newcastle Jets.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Carl Robinson was shit. Like Olafinjana in that he wasn't any good at anything. But didn't cost anything I spose.

 

[Derby Wolf]

I liked him, scored a beauty versus Bradford the night Bully got his 300th. Neves-esque! (Ok not quite)

For where we were particularly under Colin Lee he was adequate.

 

[Tredman]

A nothing player. Like so many of our CMs over the years.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Looking back I think he was a slightly better version of Edwards, not very good technically but got his fair share of goals. Always a travesty when we played him wide.

We signed Dinning, Cameron and Rae inside 12 months and the step up in quality on each occasion was marked. Albeit Dinning turned out to be a bottler.

In his credit he managed to displace Ferguson so I have to be grateful to an extent.