Wolves cult heroes without (too) many games

[SingYourHeartsOut]

Noticed on WolvesTV comms recently, Mickey Burrows calls him Looms.

Was called that when he played, which made perfect sense as he was always refered to as I-we-loom-o. Only afterwards did we find out his name is actually pronounced I-wel-umo, which made looms a bit odd.

Congratulations to anyone understanding this post btw, I did my best!

 

[Shergar]

Marcus Hahnemann. USA! USA! USA!

Jon Dadi Bodvarsson looked like he was going to be a real hero up until his injury. Forget chants, he had his own thunderclap…

Good shout with Hahnemann. When he took over from Hennessy it saved our season and we survived, his contribution went largely unrecognised but IMHO he made the difference.
I remember meeting him and thanking him for saving our season, a very humble and polite man.

 

[glorybox]

Michael Zyro. What could have been.

 

[KnowNuttin]

Neil masters? Oh you spelt cult wrong

He hit the bar with a 20 yarder and made all the snow fall off. I guess he just peaked too soon.

 

[KnowNuttin]

Eric Young... He was always doing a Mark Knopfler impression and to be fair, after a gazillion consecutive years stuck in the second tier, we were in Dire Straits at the time, with plenty of players taking money for nothing.

 

[Adrian_Monk]

Anyone mentioned Shaka Hislop yet?

 

[Adrian_Monk]

Mark Walters. If we’d have signed him permanently I swear we’d have won promotion.

My shout as well. Looked absolutely world class in some games, I know the competition was weak but I remember one game, I think it was against Southend, and we won 5-0 with half our team out injured and Walters just ran the show.

I don't think Andy Sinton was around for too long but he was similarly outstanding, talismanic for a while.

Mark Rankine got to be worth a mention as well. Signed from Doncaster where he looked a tricky forward, came to us and was utterly useless until Taylor got his hands on him and turned him into a right midfielder. Shabba became one of the first names on the team sheet for a while.

 

[Mugwump]

I'm not seeing many cult heroes, just lots of players who played under 50 times!

 

[Dr Wolfenstein]

Jackie McNamara.

 

[SydneyWolf]

Zyro is a great shout. Don't think he ever recovered from that "tackle" by the thug from MK Dons, but looked great for a short while.
De Wolf and Iwan Roberts others for me

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Tom Huddlestone! Carlton Cole??

Biscoff, Gyepes, Rosa, Maurice Ross, Mark Little

 

[WickedWolfie]

Funny that a few short years ago he was the best player I'd seem down at the Mol.

I wonder where prime Fletcher would fit in to this squad.

Bench at best.

 

[Mardenboroughs Shoulder]

Steve Mardenbrough 9 games 1 goal BUT WHAT A GOAL

JANUARY 14th 1984 Liverpool 0 WOLVES 1

That's the very definition of a cult hero. At our very worst we managed to beat a legendary Liverpool side with one of the flukeist goals in history. If he heads it Grobalaar saves it, but looped up off the shoulder he had no chance!

 

[Mardenboroughs Shoulder]

Silas (9) and more recently Barry Douglas (39)

Silas the Assyrian assassin?

 

[Mardenboroughs Shoulder]

Tony Daley

And it would be pure irony to then appoint him as the fitness coach!

 

[CelebrityWolf]

Leon Clarke. Never has a player been backed so strongly by the fan base.

Ludovic Pollet, though he probably played 80 odd times.

Edit: Had no clue Leon played 113 games for us. Wow!!

 

[el gringo]

40 matches max played to qualify, but how many people required to form a cult?

 

[bully9]

Darren Roberts started off with a hatrick at bloose ,think he scored a couple more then that was about it

 

[WestChiltingtonwolf]

Leon Clarke. Never has a player been backed so strongly by the fan base.

Ludovic Pollet, though he probably played 80 odd times.

Edit: Had no clue Leon played 113 games for us. Wow!!

Was just going to mention Ludo. A rock and certainly a hero from a time we didn’t have many. Didn’t look like a centre half but bandaged Ludo was nails. 'Still got the scars' The Wolves warrior who became a bloody hero!

 

[Deleted member 7862Bler]

Cyrille Regis 19 games, 2 goals

 

[Deleted member 7862Bler]

Darren Roberts
21 games and 5 goals
3 of those 5 goals were a first half hat trick on his wolves debut against Birmingham

 

[Lycaon]

Dave Thomas, best remembered from his QPR days but made 10 appearances for us during the 79/80 season. I always thought he was a super player.

 

[Abbobrom]

Ronald Zoubar, although I think he played just over sixty games.

 

[WickedWolfie]

Darren Roberts
21 games and 5 goals
3 of those 5 goals were a first half hat trick on his wolves debut against Birmingham

Never lived up to that debut sadly...

 

[Mardenboroughs Shoulder]

Tomasz Frankowski anyone?

 

[Mardenboroughs Shoulder]

Or Stefan Maierhofer

 

[bully9]

The Legend That is Sir Robert Taylor , the word you would be looking for is similar to cult utw sov mtfg

 

[Manic88]

A lot of these are not cult heroes…they’re just ****

De Wolf - people from other ends of the country will mention “the best named player” Wolves had in the 90s. That’s a cult hero.

Denis Rosa - played once? And 300 times for the reserves, reaching ballon D’or levels in his reputation as Mick ignored him. Cult hero.

Mo Camara - still mentioned when anyone kicks a ball into the stand. Is that one still on the roof of Asda?! Cult hero.

Etc etc

 

[SmokeyGB]

Dave Thomas, best remembered from his QPR days but made 10 appearances for us during the 79/80 season. I always thought he was a super player.

DewsburyWolf fav player which got him into Wolves

 

[WolfInSheep'sClothing]

Maximillian William Kilman.
Over 3 seasons he has had 49 premier league appearances. In those wolves(and it is wolves rather than just him) have conceded just 30 goals.

 

[Hoganstolemywife]

Maximillian William Kilman.
Over 3 seasons he has had 49 premier league appearances. In those wolves(and it is wolves rather than just him) have conceded just 30 goals.

He's no Tyrone Mings though.

 

[SquaddieWolf]

Once this season finishes looks like Marcal will be added to this list

 

[WolfInSheep'sClothing]

Maximillian William Kilman.
Over 3 seasons he has had 49 premier league appearances. In those wolves(and it is wolves rather than just him) have conceded just 30 goals.

Which is incidentally the same amount of goals in this season that Villa have conceded when Mings has been playing and Man United have conceded with Maguire playing
(Watch this get picked up by the comms teams)

 

[ricki herberts moustache]

Danny Hegan

 

[WickedWolfie]

He's no Tyrone Mings though.

Thank **** for that...

 

[CodsallWolf]

A lot of these are not cult heroes…they’re just ****

De Wolf - people from other ends of the country will mention “the best named player” Wolves had in the 90s. That’s a cult hero.

Denis Rosa - played once? And 300 times for the reserves, reaching ballon D’or levels in his reputation as Mick ignored him. Cult hero.

Mo Camara - still mentioned when anyone kicks a ball into the stand. Is that one still on the roof of Asda?! Cult hero.

Etc etc

John De Wolf is top of the pile for me based on the lasting impact he had having only apparently played 28 games for us. What a player and character.

 

[Jamwolf]

Cedric Roussel

 

[TooMutchBull]

Marcus Hannemann?

 

[The House of Wolves]

Alfred N’Diaye

 

[Direwolf]

DeWolf is always the one that comes to mind for me. The long hair and the name just gave him that kudos.