The Definitive TWF Wolves XI Thread (2019 version) - 1970 - present

[Sniffer]

I love Jota & Raul but how anyone can put them above a guy that scored over 300 goals for the club, over a decade, is quite frankly - fucking absurd. I'll give Alan a pass as he probably wasn't watching us when Bully was around, but anyone else... I hope you feel the full wrath.

Steve Bull
Diogo Jota
Robbie Keane
Raul Jiminez
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
Steven Fletcher

Fire away. There was a reason why Bully stopped getting England caps and never got a move to a top club. He was a brilliant striker for us over a long period of time but IMO that doesn't make him better than the quality on view last season.

 

[lemonjelly]

Meh, opinions are like arseholes etc. I love Bully, he was my hero growing up, but I wouldn't say he is/was as good a footballer as either and certainly wasn't as exciting a player outside of the ability to score goals. And the obvious is sadly he didn't do it in the prem.

Fuck this bullshit. He did it in internationals!

Rare this is said, but Jinky is bang on. Bully would have scored in pretty much any fucking team. Really can't accept the "he never did it in the prem" argument at all.

 

[Parkins left foot]

Bull
Richards
Jota
Jiminez
Keane
Ebanks - Blake

A Bull/Richards partnership would have been devastating anywhere - I would love to be able to see either in the current team

 

[lemonjelly]

Fire away. There was a reason why Bully stopped getting England caps and never got a move to a top club. He was a brilliant striker for us over a long period of time but IMO that doesn't make him better than the quality on view last season.

He stopped getting england caps because of this "only in the PL" mentality. It was prevalent then, and it still is now.
He had offers to move to the PL, and abroad, and turned them down.

 

[Pablowolf]

Bull
Jota
Keane
Jimenez
Whittingham
SEB

 

[White Wolf]

Didn't see Bull or Keane so the top two is very easy for me. Shoehorned Sako in as he was my favourite player when younger and played as a forward for Palace, and I didn't want to pick Afobe (dislike) or Doyle (one good season followed by rubbish).

Diogo Jota
Raul Jimenez
Steven Fletcher
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
Nouha Dicko
Bakary Sako

 

[Tony Towner]

Fire away. There was a reason why Bully stopped getting England caps and never got a move to a top club.

A) Taylor was a twat, something which came to bite him a few years later.
B) Financially we were paying him in the Championship what he would have got in the PL so that wasn't a motivator. He could have gone to Villa when they were a Top 3 club.

 

[Tredman]

Fuck this bullshit. He did it in internationals!

Rare this is said, but Jinky is bang on. Bully would have scored in pretty much any fucking team. Really can't accept the "he never did it in the prem" argument at all.

13 caps 4 goals IIRC? Not going to do him down at all, I bloody love him, but if you are looking at international records thats hardly startling.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

13 caps 4 goals IIRC? Not going to do him down at all, I bloody love him, but if you are looking at international records thats hardly startling.

He's no Dave Nugent or Franny Jeffers.

Given he was never going to actively ask for a move, the only PL offer he had to turn down was Cov in 1995, and fair enough on that front. We never accepted any other bids.

 

[ndorsetwolf]

Richards
Dougan
Bull
Jota
Keane
Jiminez

Bully speaks for himself, top two did it over an extended period in the top flight. Jota and Raul have the potential to be as good or better than them. Keano for the amazing potential he showed in the short time we had him.

 

[Tony Towner]

13 caps 4 goals IIRC? Not going to do him down at all, I bloody love him, but if you are looking at international records thats hardly startling.

Have a look at the minutes on the pitch rather than the caps. Will translate to something like 4 in 8

 

[Sniffer]

He stopped getting england caps because of this "only in the PL" mentality. It was prevalent then, and it still is now.
He had offers to move to the PL, and abroad, and turned them down.

With regards to England, there were better players available. Robson picked him when we had just won the old Third Division and Taylor when he was still in the Second. He went to the World Cup as a Second division player and the Premier League wasn't in operation then.

Yes offers from elsewhere, no doubt some from abroad and yes he would have got goals anywhere. Still doesn't make him better.

 

[Lycan]

Jota

Keane

Jiménez

Bull

Fletcher

Ebanks-Blake

 

[Deano]

Bull
Jota
Keane
Jimenez
Whittingham
SEB

I very vaguely remember seeing Whittingham in his first spell, as this was when I first started going but had no idea he scored 8 in 13 apperances for us in that spell. Pretty impressive.

 

[Tredman]

Super Guy the Soldier! Not so super in his second spell.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

He was very much like SEB in his final season with us. Just scored goals. Absolutely nothing else.

David Kelly was a better footballer (once we stopped inexplicably hoofing it at him), we were right not to sign him permanently.

 

[BGreenWolf]

Bull
Jota
Jimenez
Keane
SEB
Fletcher

 

[Tredman]

He was very much like SEB in his final season with us. Just scored goals

That was Bully's strength too, IIRC we brought Guy in when Bully was injured and he did a good impression for a while

 

[b3h]

Bully
Jota
Jimenez
SEB
Fletcher
Miller

Can't really include Keane. Can include Bull because he's God and I did technically watch him live, although I was more bothered with shouting "you fat pasty" and thinking I was cool as it kinda sounded like bastard.

 

[WolfmanOz]

Richards
Dougan
Bull
Jota
Keane
Jiminez

Bully speaks for himself, top two did it over an extended period in the top flight. Jota and Raul have the potential to be as good or better than them. Keano for the amazing potential he showed in the short time we had him.

Ditto . . .

Richards
Dougan
Bull
Jota
Keane
Jiminez