The Definitive TWF Wolves XI Thread (1970 - present)

[FrankMunro-371]

Their loss

In ten years people won't have seen Bully. He was great. Andy Gray was also great at a higher level for a shorter period. Time distorts memories. Gray incredibly probably that a better all round game than Bully. As did Dougan. The results are really unlikely to reflect that though. But we were there.........

King John was head and shoulders above any striker I have seen in Wolves colours, but i doubt very much that he will get as many votes as Bully.

 

[darlowolf64]

King John was head and shoulders above any striker I have seen in Wolves colours, but i doubt very much that he will get as many votes as Bully.

He won't but he should be the second striker....If not then I give up!

 

[Deleted Cyber]

King John was head and shoulders above any striker I have seen in Wolves colours, but i doubt very much that he will get as many votes as Bully.

Fair point. Richards played at the wrong end for me in my childhood. I was 10 in 74. Gray era I was 16 and influenced by us scoring, winning and finishing top 6. Gray was a fave with me. Hindsight tells me just how good he was!

 

[FrankMunro-371]

He won't but he should be the second striker....If not then I give up!

Well given that Frank Munro did not make it into the top two centre halves, anything is possible...!!!

 

[NE66Wolf]

King John was head and shoulders above any striker I have seen in Wolves colours, but i doubt very much that he will get as many votes as Bully.

Agreed unfortunately - he was pure class and my favourite player of that era

 

[Kenny]

If someone can invent a time machine I will pop back go the 70's and watch him from the North Bank.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

If someone can invent a time machine I will pop back go the 70's and watch him from the North Bank.

You would have like him. Richards had every attribute a centre forward needed back then, and he got one cap as a winger...

 

[Quirkafleeg]

 

[Parkins left foot]

He won't but he should be the second striker....If not then I give up!

Though Keane & Bull as a pair might have challenged

 

[Kenny]

I'm betting on Paskin or McLoughlin. Jackie Gallagher might just miss out

 

[AndyWolves]

Imagine this thread in 5 years time if all our Fosun related dreams come true!

"Your putting so an so in? He didn't even play champs league!"

 

[nimrod]

Agreed unfortunately - he was pure class and my favourite player of that era

JR was my favourite player too, though i was only watching from '74 onwards initially only tv highlights. best finisher for us in my time and he never lost that. even by 79-80 past his best he had a great partnership with Gray. scored some brilliant goals that year. my favourite past clemence to beat liverpool.

there's no doubt Bully would have succeeded at the highest level though, and he would have been far better protected. some of the games teams were just terrified of him and couldn't cope. you got a buzz whenever the ball went to him anywhere near the box. he was pure energy and the main man. maybe it's the context of what happened to us but when you've experienced that 4 year shambles with everybody taking the piss and then starting to pity you, then you know there's really only going to be one choice.

 

[Deleted Cyber]

If someone can invent a time machine I will pop back go the 70's and watch him from the North Bank.

Bloody horrible stand then!

 

[Parkins left foot]

JR was my favourite player too, though i was only watching from '74 onwards initially only tv highlights. best finisher for us in my time and he never lost that. even by 79-80 past his best he had a great partnership with Gray. scored some brilliant goals that year. my favourite past clemence to beat liverpool.

there's no doubt Bully would have succeeded at the highest level though, and he would have been far better protected. some of the games teams were just terrified of him and couldn't cope. you got a buzz whenever the ball went to him anywhere near the box. he was pure energy and the main man. maybe it's the context of what happened to us but when you've experienced that 4 year shambles with everybody taking the piss and then starting to pity you, then you know there's really only going to be one choice.

Bull should/will get the No 9 shirt (though King John will be a more than useful understudy)

People ask whether he could do it in the top league - as he showed in the few England caps he got that he could then the answer was an obvious yes.

 

[nimrod]

Bloody horrible stand then!

I used to be on the north bank in the late 70's with my uncle and his mate who used to swear like the clappers, esp at Kenny Hibbitt. if it wasn't that busy people used to move away from him. every other game or so a copper would be over to have a word. anyway, I quite liked it there.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Bloody horrible stand then!

We called it the North Bank, others referred to it as the cow shed.

 

[nimrod]

Bull should/will get the No 9 shirt (though King John will be a more than useful understudy)

People ask whether he could do it in the top league - as he showed in the few England caps he got that he could then the answer was an obvious yes.

yep, no question, the better the players around him, the better he'd have been too. a robbie keane around him 5 years earlier and he'd have got us up no prob. shame really.

 

[NE66Wolf]

I used to be on the north bank in the late 70's with my uncle and his mate who used to swear like the clappers, esp at Kenny Hibbitt. if it wasn't that busy people used to move away from him. every other game or so a copper would be over to have a word. anyway, I quite liked it there.

When I was a teenager I loved the North Bank, great atmosphere, great fun - although I kept away from the "All Together, all together" moments when the police helmets went flying up in the air!

 

[nimrod]

When I was a teenager I loved the North Bank, great atmosphere, great fun - although I kept away from the "All Together, all together" moments when the police helmets went flying up in the air!

didn't dougan go in there when he'd come back as chairman? I was there that day and wondered where he was as I think he got lifted up at the end and I didn't see it. simon garner nearly ruined that day - one of those peter ward type characters that always seemed to score against us.

 

[NE66Wolf]

didn't dougan go in there when he'd come back as chairman? I was there that day and wondered where he was as I think he got lifted up at the end and I didn't see it. simon garner nearly ruined that day - one of those peter ward type characters that always seemed to score against us.

I'm pretty sure he did but I was working that day and missed it!