Summer 2026: Stay or Go

[Tony Towner]

I'm having Hennessey over him tbh.

Flawed but nowhere near as flawed.

Hennesey tried to single handedly chuck our promotion away, much too overrated generally by the fan base. I'm not a fan of Sa, he's a better keeper than Hennessey with equally shit attitudes

 

[Kenny]

I think the thing that made Rui so exceptional was his positioning.

Hands down the best keeper i have seen live on positioning.

Used to love closely watching him when he was at the North Bank end.

Some people used to complain!! that he rarely made stunning saves...yep, because he didn't need to do so because of his positioning.

 

[Tony Towner]

Hands down the best keeper i have seen live on positioning.

Used to love closely watching him when he was at the North Bank end.

Some people used to complain!! that he rarely made stunning saves...yep, because he didn't need to do so because of his positioning.

Agreed, that last season was a significant down turn though, how much you put on Covid is up to interpretation

 

[Kenny]

Agreed, that last season was a significant down turn though, how much you put on Covid is up to interpretation

Natural down turn i guess. He was ok at Roma but the Italian league is L1 standard or something.

 

[Lycan]

Some people used to complain!! that he rarely made stunning saves...yep, because he didn't need to do so because of his positioning.

Wolves fans in not appreciating what they have shocker

 

[Kenny]

Wolves fans in not appreciating what they have shocker

They deserve Sam Johnstone as their number 1 tbh

The rest of us just have to suffer it

 

[Lycan]

They deserve Sam Johnstone as their number 1 tbh

The rest of us just have to suffer it

The amount of Wolves fans who jumped on João Moutinho in his last season. 36 years old, out of position, in a failing team and managed by Bruno Lage...

Those idiots deserve Jackson Tchatchoua.

 

[Kenny]

Jeff Shi was one of them, unfortunately.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Hennesey tried to single handedly chuck are promotion away, much too overrated generally by the fan base. I'm not a fan of Sa, he's a better keeper than Hennesey with equally shit attitudes

Sa is way better than Hennesey.

 

[sycophantia]

Always thought Hennesey was way overrated. Decent shot stopper for the most part but such a big fanny whenever any forward got near him and always looked nervous under high balls.

 

[Tony Towner]

The amount of Wolves fans who jumped on João Moutinho in his last season. 36 years old, out of position, in a failing team and managed by Bruno Lage...

Those idiots deserve Jackson Tchatchoua.

It was Lopetegui at the end and whatever went on Joao refusing to turn up for his final game send off was disrespectful to the fans. It'll always drop him a notch in my view. We deserved better and so did he.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

The best thing about Hennessey was his kicking.

Could comfortably kick it 80 yards, with the technique of a man kicking with 20% effort.

Comparatively, watch Mike Stowell kick it, every single time he was trying to take the leather (plastic) off the ball and not getting the distance Wayne would.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

It was Lopetegui and whatever went on Joao refusing to turn up for his final game send off was disrespectful to the fans. It'll always drop him a notch in my view.

Maybe Joao knew he was going to treat him like a cunt like he did with Raul, and thought, na.

 

[Tony Towner]

Maybe Joao knew he was going to treat him like a cunt like he did with Raul, and thought, na.

...fans still deserved better. He was clearly going, he let us down.

 

[Lycan]

It was Lopetegui and whatever went on Joao refusing to turn up for his final game send off was disrespectful to the fans

That season was both Lage & Lopetegui.

I'm sorry that you felt you were so disrespected. No idea what your issue is with Moutinho but it's really fucking strange.

 

[Tony Towner]

The best thing about Hennessey was his kicking.

Could comfortably kick it 80 yards, with the technique of a man kicking with 20% effort.

Comparatively, watch Mike Stowell kick it, every single time he was trying to take the leather (plastic) off the ball and not getting the distance Wayne would.

Different eras different balls. Stowell was twice the keeper comparative to their era than Hennessey was. Those old videos you like to comment on firstly don't show the saves and secondly don't show the comparisons with other keepers at the time. For the early to mid 90s he was a PL keeper playing in the Championship, just like a number of our other players were, we just didn't have a combination of the luck or nouse to get there.

 

[Tony Towner]

That season was both Lage & Lopetegui.

I'm sorry that you felt you were so disrespected. No idea what your issue is with Moutinho but it's really fucking strange.

Refusing to turn up for a game for a club he was contracted to play for and I'm the strange one? He acted like a dick and disrespected the fans in doing so, if you can't see that then that's what it is.

 

[Derby Wolf]

Hands down the best keeper i have seen live on positioning.

Used to love closely watching him when he was at the North Bank end.

Some people used to complain!! that he rarely made stunning saves...yep, because he didn't need to do so because of his positioning.

To be fair, we had to wait until his second home game for an unbelievable save, from Raheem Sterlings shot. Unacceptable.

 

[Tony Towner]

@Lycan laughing at a post about an era he was barely born for. My hero

 

[YoungWolf]

Hennessey was a very good shot stopper. I know that’s his “job” but he was above average for it even in the premier league. The only reason we weren’t already adrift by the time we sacked Mick was because of him (and Fletcher a bit).

I never understood why we didn’t make better use of his kicking too. Horrific command of his box though, and especially compared to the keeper he inherited the position from.