London Wolves annual “Meet the Players” was held on 29th April 2005  at the team hotel for the Reading away match (what a great win). The players all seemed up for the match and they all applauded warmly as their choice of Players’ Player of the Season was also awarded WWLSC Player of the Season for the second time - Joleon Lescott.  Lee Naylor, runner up, said “My award was bigger and it’s still on my wall”. For the WWLSC Roll of Honour please click here

Glenn Hoddle had kindly agreed to continue this tradition and spent 45 minutes asking us questions before fielding the obvious one (amongst others) himself. 

Asked by Stef what he could say about the contract negotations, he spotted a water skiier and asked what on earth Kenny was up to.

More pictures, including Kenny without his hat on, Glenn’s pro-zone quiz questions, and some of the other answers from Glenn are on the Meet the Players page in the members’ section (here).

The players had come down from Wolverhampton to the warmest day of the year, brilliiant sunshine and a training day at England Headquarters at Bisham Abbey, well prepared for a great result at the Madejski on Saturday (won 1-2).

 Glenn did say he hadn’t yet got to discussing personal terms because he’s more concerned at the moment to understand what the Club will do for promotion and what will be done to preserve Premier League status.

The players had come down from Wolverhampton to the warmest day of the year, brilliiant sunshine and a training day at England Headquarters at Bisham Abbey.  Jonah said they’d done the same before the QPR match.

Here are our goalkeepers - coach Bobby Mimms with Jonah and Oaksey and Reading winning goalscorer Rohan Ricketts in the background. Coops and Mickey Cameron are getting cosy, Coops again, Jolon and George, Kenny (who very kindly removed his ever present hat) and smiling after talking about his two goals against Rotherham and Reading scorer Leon.  Smoth Rob Edwards, Mikkel Bishoff and Soel were strolling in the grounds with Reading Man-of-the-match Seyi George Olofinjana.  Mikkel answered questions from one Londoner and Travel Secretary Peter Woodifield decided to spend all the Club’s funds getting Seol to sign a long term contract.

After the players went off for dinner Glenn chatted with several of the Club, and told Dave Slape he was looking for a speedy winger and Dave signed up after checking that Glenn himself was staying.  (But won’t reveal the answer.)  Fortunately Dave had turned up ready to play. Glenn had already explained his tactics to other members including Robert G.

Then Glenn surprised us all with a “who knows anything about Wolves” quiz.  Revealing that he had been using Pro-Zone for the last ten matches to help the players understand what they were doing well and where inprovements can be made. Of course, we were all (well nearly all) way out with some of our guesses, but if you want to try, the questions are at the bottom of this page.  Hopefully Blake seen here with the laptop next to Glenn will be sending us the answers soon!

And it certainly had us guessing, although I don’t know why Dave thinks it’s worth reading Stu’s answers!

Our thanks to Glenn Hoddle, the players and the Wolves staff for giving up their time to give us a great evening and again to them for an outstanding performance at Reading with the 1-2 win the following day.

If you have any more pictures please let me have then at londonwolves66@ntlworld.com

ProZone WOLVES Quiz.  Quizmaster: Glenn Hoddle 29th April 2005

answers very kindly provided by Blake, Prozone Club Consultant

THE QUESTIONS:

The 10 matches concerned are (by my calculation)
1 Derby (A) D 3-3
2 Crewe (A) W 1-4
3 Preston (A) D 2-2
4 Burnley (H) W 2-0
5 Stoke (H) D 1-1
6 Leeds (A) D 1-1
7 Leicester (A) D 1-1
8 Coventry (A) D 2-2
9 Rotherham (H) W 2-0
10 Ipswich (H) W 2-0

1. How many goals have Wolves scored in the last 10 matches? 20
2. How many goals have Wolves conceded in the last 10 matches? 11
3. How many goals have Wolves scored from set-pieces in the last ten matches (free-kicks, corners and penalties)? 9 (1 pen, 3 corners, 5 free kicks)
4. Wolves have the best record in the league in terms of their recent unbeaten run, but for how many matches does this run stretch back? 16 matches
5. And (for a bonus point) which team is second behind Wolves in terms of their recent unbeaten run? West Ham (8 matches)

In the last 10 matches, which Wolves player has:

1. Scored the most goals, and (for a bonus point) how many?
• Player: Miller or Cort
• 6 goals each
2. The highest number of assists
• Naylor (5)
3. Delivered the most crosses
• Naylor (53)
4. Delivered the most crosses in a match
• Seol (10 Vs Ipswich)
5. Made the most interceptions
• Lescott (302)
6. Made the most tackles
• Olofinjana (38)
7. Made the most tackles in a match
• Bischoff (9 Vs Coventry)
8. Won the most headers
• Craddock (172)
9. Won most headers in a match
• Cort (30 Vs Leeds)
10. Made the most clearances
• Craddock (74)
11. Passed the ball the most
• Kennedy (372 passes)
12. Passed the ball the most in a match
• Kennedy (62 Vs Crewe)
13. Achieved a 100% pass completion in a match
• Lescott (Vs Coventry)
14. The highest pass % success rate (average for all matches played in)
• Kennedy 81.51%
15. Passed the balls forwards the most
• Naylor (202)
16. Committed the most fouls
• Olofinjana (19)
17. Received the most balls
• Seol (417)
18. Received the most balls in a match
• Cort (63 Vs Burnley)
19. Passed the ball into the penalty area the most
• Naylor (131)
20. Passed the ball into the final 3^rd the most
• Oakes (153)
21. How many penalties has Oakes faced in the last 10 matches?
• 6 (3 Vs Derby, 1 Vs Coventry & 1 Vs Preston)
22. Which 2 Wolves players have the strongest passing relationship with eachother (i.e. pass to eachother the most)?
• Kennedy & Naylor
23. Against which team, did Wolves achieve their highest team pass success rate of 79.3%? Was it:
• versus Rotherham
24. Against which team did Wolves have the most shots, and (for a bonus point) how many were there?
• Opposition: Crewe
25. Against which team did Wolves deliver the most crosses in a match and (for a bonus point) how many were there?
• Opposition: Crewe
26. Against Leeds (away), which Wolves player covered the most distance (KM) in the match?
• Olofinjana (11.45km)
27. Against Leeds (away), which Wolves player covered the most HI (High Intensity) distance (KM) - i.e. High Speed Runs and Sprints? 
• Ricketts (4.93km)
28. Against Leeds (away), which Wolves player made the most sprints?
• Naylor (41