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We have put together a list of the top ten Wolves players of all time.

We know you might not agree with some of them, it even caused debate in the office.

What do you think? Who have we missed?

Present players excluded, for now!

Stan Cullis

Stan Cullis led Wolves to their first league titles and European glory. A cultured centre-half and former England captain as a manager he became known by Wolves fans as the Master of Molineux after steering them to three league titles in the 1950s.

Cullis’ Wolves scored a hat-trick of wins over top European clubs Moscow Spartak, Honved and Moscow Dynamo. The Second World War interrupted Cullis’ playing career and he won only 12 England caps although he also played in 20 wartime matches.

He captained England against Romania in the last international before the outbreak of war at the age of just 22, then the youngest player to wear the skipper’s armband.

He made 155 appearances for the club and would have made many more had the war not halted the league programme for seven seasons.

Bill Slater

A stylish wing half who played in an FA Cup Final at Wembley as an amateur, received a league winners medal as an amateur, in 1958/9 he was named as Footballer of the Year and was never cautioned throughout his football career. After spells with Blackpool and Brentford he signed for Wolves as an amateur in the summer of 1952.

He came into the side to play Manchester United at Molineux at the beginning of October in a crushing 6-2 win. The next season saw him miss only three games as Wolves collected their first ever League Championship. In 1960 he held aloft the FA Cup at Wembley after the defeat of B1ackburn Rovers.

Bert Williams

The club’s greatest goalkeeper Williams began his professional career with Walsall. In September 1945 he joined Wolves for a bargain £3,500. He made his league debut on the opening day of the 1946/47 season in a 2-1 victory against Arsenal, along with his former Walsall team mate Johnny Hancocks also on his debut.

Over the next eleven seasons The Cat was the clubs first-choice keeper, winning him 24 caps for England. Williams won a League Championship medal in 1953/54 and went on to play in 419 League and Cup games for Wolves before retiring at the end of the 1956/57 season.

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Billy Wright

The biggest name of them all. The first footballer to win 100 caps for his country, he captained England a record 90 times, he won the FA Cup and three League Championships. Wright was never once booked in his entire career. He picked up his first major honour when Wolves overcame Leicester City in the 1949 FA Cup Final.

Billy Wright’s captaincy was an inspiration to the team who then set about some of Europe’s finest clubs and demolished them in never to be forgotten floodlit friendlies. In nine seasons in the fifties he only missed 31 games for Wolves and several of those absences were caused by international call-ups.

Peter Broadbent

Both a goalscorer and creator, it was Stan Cullis who gave Broadbent his debut in a home game against Portsmouth in 1951. Over the next 14 seasons, he gave the club great service. He won three League Championship medals in seasons 1953-54, 1957-58 and 1958-59 and an FA Cup winners medal in 1960.

He won seven full caps for England, the first against the Soviet Union in the World Cup finals of 1958. His best season for Wolves came in 1958-59 when he top-scored with 22 goals including a hat-trick in a 5-3 win at Portsmouth. He left Wolves for Shrewsbury Town in January 1965 after scoring 145 goals in 497 games.

Ron Flowers

A captain of both club and country. Yorkshireman Flowers made his debut in September 1952 at home to Blackpool. After helping the Molineux club win the League Championship in 1953-54, he won the first of 49 caps for England when he played against France in May 1955.

His last game in a England shirt came 11 years later in a 6-1 win over Norway, a year in which he was a member of England’s World Cup winning squad.

Flowers won further League Championship medals in 1957-58 and 1958-59 and in 1960 won a FA Cup winners medal when Wolves beat Blackburn Rovers 3-0. He spent 15 years as a professional at Molineux and scored 37 goals in 512 games before joining Northampton Town in September 1967.

Jimmy Mullen

The youngest player ever to appear for Wolves in a first team match. He was just 16 years and 43days old when he played in the 4-1 win over Leeds Utd in February 1939. When League football resumed in 1946/47, the pacey left-winger appeared for Wolves for 13 seasons.

He won the first of 12 caps for England when he played against Scotland in April 1947 and his last seven years later, when he scored against Switzerland in the World Cup.

He also had the distinction of being England’s first ever substitute when he replaced the injured Stan Mortensen against Belgium in May 1950. With Johnny Hancocks on the right wing, Wolves possessed the best pair of wingers in the Football League.

Mullen won three League Championship medals in 1953/54, 1957/58 and 1958/59 as well as an FA Cup winners medal in 1949. He played the last of his 486 league and cup games, in which he scored 112 goals, in March 1959.

John Richards

One England cap never did this prolific scorer anything near justice. He made his debut in February 1970 in a 3-3 at Albion. He formed a superb partnership with Derek Dougan, but it was 1971-72 before he established himself as a regular first-team member, scoring 16 goals in 48 games and gaining a UEFA Cup runners-up medal.

The following season he was the country’s leading goal scorer with 33 league and cup goals and another three in the Texaco Cup. At the end of that season he won his cap when he played in a 2-1 win over Northern Ireland.

In 1974 he scored the winning goal in Wolves 2-1 win over Man City in the League Cup Final and in 1976-77 he helped Wolves win the Second Division Championship.

In 1980 he was a member of the Wolves side that beat Nottingham Forest 1-0 in the League Cup Final. He went on to score 194 goals in 486 games.

Kenny Hibbitt

A goal-scoring midfielder with an eye for goal he spent 16 years with Wolves from 1968-1984 when he departed for Coventry City.

Hibbitt enjoyed an excellent record of 114 goals in 570 appearances for Wolves.

He joined in November 1968 for a paltry £5,000 from Bradford Park Avenue.

He won two League Cup Winners medals in 1974 and 1980 and also helped Wolves win promotion from the Second Division in 1977 and 1983. He also lined up in the 1972 UEFA Cup Final against Spurs.

Steve Bull

Quite simply the greatest goalscorer in the club’s history. Joining from Albion in November, 1986, he joined a side struggling in the Fourth Division and about to crash out of the FA Cup to non-League Chorley. In 1987/88 he started out on the road to legendary status.

Wolves stormed to the Fourth Division Championship and also enjoyed a trip to Wembley where they beat Burnley to win the Sherpa Van Trophy.

Bull scored 34 league goals, three in the FA Cup, three in the Littlewoods Cup and 12 in the Sherpa Van Trophy giving him a monumental total of 52.

The following season saw him score four hat tricks and two four goal hauls as Wolves swept to the Third Division title. This time he ended the term with 50 goals.

The feat of scoring at least 50 goals in two successive seasons remains unique in English football. In May 1989 he came on a substitute at Hampden Park and scored against Scotland. In all he won 13 full caps, eight of them after coming on as substitute, and he scored four goals.

In 1992, Bull broke the Wolves goalscoring record set by John Richards, when he netted his 195th goal for the club. In February, 1998, he scored his 300th goal. A knee injury eventually forced to hang up his boots in the summer of 1999 at the age of 35.