General Wolves News

[SSB]

Well if they were really important they’d have had a more central box…

Jeff Shi was in the same box with his mates a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Kenny]

Jeff Shi was in the same box with his mates a couple of weeks ago.

[Johnny] Did his mates look like this[/Johnny]

 

[Wellen Wolf]

Dazzling Dave was filming down at Bilston Town on Easter Monday with his dad when they lost to Droitwich 0-4..... so obviously I infer that we will be announcing that someone in Jeff Shi's family has bought them so we can have a partnership with the Steelmen like we do with Grasshoppers....

 

[AndyWolves]

From what I've read on MM it seems that the E&S podcast folk are doing some kind of announcement which has transmogrified into the club are making a big announcement

 

[AndyWolves]

I don't think this is really wolves related or new news, but it looks like fosun want to sell grasshoppers

Chinesen wollen bei GC wohl aussteigen – und fordern rund 35 Millionen Franken

Die chinesischen Klubbesitzer erwägen offenbar den Verkauf von GC. Der geforderte Preis dürfte Interessenten aber abschrecken. Zumal sich die Hoppers auch sportlich in einer schwierigen Situation befinden.

www.bluewin.ch

 

[Tony Towner]

I don't believe Fosun own them directly. It's Guo's wife I think

 

[AndyWolves]

I don't believe Fosun own them directly. It's Guo's wife I think

Yes, that's right. My mistake

 

[Tony Towner]

Hay Fever moment. Also great stuff from Lemina given he's been here 5 minutes and his previous reputation

https://twitter.com/x/status/1649454277772083200

 

[Paul]

Hay Fever moment. Also great stuff from Lemina given he's been here 5 minutes and his previous reputation

https://twitter.com/x/status/1649454277772083200

Thanks mate, must have been a hell of a dusty journey home , my eyes are leaking

 

[Leigh Griffiths' Hairline]

That kid is incredible, so positive. Mario seems like a top bloke. How much more human was that interaction than the robots of arsenal.

 

[Dire Wolf]

That's just marvellous.

 

[SSB]

Some good content coming out of the club recently.

Another piece from Johnny Phillips this week.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1647525427513024514

 

[Sniffer]

Haaland closing in on 50 goals for the season. The list below shows how rare it is and how blessed we were to have Steve Bull.

(From the Gruniad)

Half-century heroics​

“Erling Haaland is about to reach 50 goals for the season,” notes Victoria Osborn. “Who was the last person to score reach that milestone in English football? Let’s limit it to the top four divisions.”

Haaland’s beastly productivity – 48 in 42 games before Wednesday’s match against Arsenal – is without precedent at the highest level of the modern English game. The last person to reach 50 goals in all competitions for a top-flight team was the legendary Dixie Dean. He bashed in 63 goals for Everton in 1927-28: 60 in the league, three in the FA Cup. (Some sources say Dean scored 65, which includes two in the Charity Shield, but that match was played in October 1928.)

Clive Allen famously scored 49 for Spurs in 1986-87, when he took advantage of the service of Glenn Hoddle, Ossie Ardiles and Chris Waddle among others. But we think the last man to hit 50 was the Wolves legend Steve Bull, who did it in consecutive seasons at the back end of the 1980s: 52 goals in the old Division Four in 1987-88, 50 in Division Three in 1988-89.


Bull made his England debut against Scotland in May 1989, shortly after Wolves had been promoted to the second tier. England won 2-0, with Bull rifling the second past Jim Leighton.


These are all the examples we could find of players scoring 50 goals in an English season, most of which occurred in the aftermath of a change in the offside law in 1925. Those in italics were not playing in the top flight:

63 Dixie Dean (Everton, 1927-28)
63 George Camsell (Middlesbrough, 1926-27)
58 Ted Harston (Mansfield, 1936-37)
58 Joe Payne (Luton, 1936-37)
54 Terry Bly (Peterborough, 1960-61)
52 Steve Bull (Wolves, 1987-88)
50 Vic Watson (West Ham, 1929-30)
50 Tom ‘Pongo’ Waring (Aston Villa, 1930-31)
50 Clarrie Bourton (Coventry, 1931-32)
50 Steve Bull (Wolves, 1988-89)

 

[Quirkafleeg]

So it seems that we have joined the small list to be safe when bottom at Christmas

 

[Del Woppio]

Thanks for the update our kid

 

[AndyWolves]

Haaland closing in on 50 goals for the season. The list below shows how rare it is and how blessed we were to have Steve Bull.

(From the Gruniad)

Half-century heroics​

“Erling Haaland is about to reach 50 goals for the season,” notes Victoria Osborn. “Who was the last person to score reach that milestone in English football? Let’s limit it to the top four divisions.”

Haaland’s beastly productivity – 48 in 42 games before Wednesday’s match against Arsenal – is without precedent at the highest level of the modern English game. The last person to reach 50 goals in all competitions for a top-flight team was the legendary Dixie Dean. He bashed in 63 goals for Everton in 1927-28: 60 in the league, three in the FA Cup. (Some sources say Dean scored 65, which includes two in the Charity Shield, but that match was played in October 1928.)

Clive Allen famously scored 49 for Spurs in 1986-87, when he took advantage of the service of Glenn Hoddle, Ossie Ardiles and Chris Waddle among others. But we think the last man to hit 50 was the Wolves legend Steve Bull, who did it in consecutive seasons at the back end of the 1980s: 52 goals in the old Division Four in 1987-88, 50 in Division Three in 1988-89.


Bull made his England debut against Scotland in May 1989, shortly after Wolves had been promoted to the second tier. England won 2-0, with Bull rifling the second past Jim Leighton.


These are all the examples we could find of players scoring 50 goals in an English season, most of which occurred in the aftermath of a change in the offside law in 1925. Those in italics were not playing in the top flight:

63 Dixie Dean (Everton, 1927-28)
63 George Camsell (Middlesbrough, 1926-27)
58 Ted Harston (Mansfield, 1936-37)
58 Joe Payne (Luton, 1936-37)
54 Terry Bly (Peterborough, 1960-61)
52 Steve Bull (Wolves, 1987-88)
50 Vic Watson (West Ham, 1929-30)
50 Tom ‘Pongo’ Waring (Aston Villa, 1930-31)
50 Clarrie Bourton (Coventry, 1931-32)
50 Steve Bull (Wolves, 1988-89)

I think Tim Spiers quoted Bully as saying he was "like a dog off a lead"

 

[Del Woppio]

 

[Kenny]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1650897367019798547

 

[Del Woppio]

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Tickets to Incheon from Brisbane are sadly too rich for my blood with the visa to pay for. Shame.