Wolves' lowest ever top scorers

Henry, who finished third in the player of the season list, netted seven.

Championship top scorer and Wolverhampton-born Andre Gray, by comparison, scored 25 times.

Of course Benik Afobe was Wolves' actual top scorer, finding the net nine times in the league and 10 in all competitions.

And it's by no means the first time Wolves' most prolific goalscorer in a season has registered a low figure.

We've had a gander at five more low top-scorers in Wolves' history.

This was Wolves' first season back in the top flight since 1983/84 but the lack of a clinical goalscorer was one of the main reasons they went straight back down again.

When winning promotion a year earlier Dave Jones utilised four pretty prolific strikers, namely Kenny Miller (24 goals), Nathan Blake (14), George Ndah (11) and Dean Sturridge (10).

However with Ndah and Miller injured (Ndah would miss the entire campaign, while Miller wouldn't play until October), Jones' attack was threadbare and ageing (Blake was 31, Sturridge 30).

But 'threadbare' could also be used to describe Jones' transfer kitty, and so he recruited on the cheap in the form of Henri Camara (£1.5m) and Steffen Iversen (free transfer).

Iversen scored just four times, while the £2m signing of Carl Cort in January yielded five goals in 13 starts.

Camara's remarkable profligacy meant he netted a solitary goal in his first 23 Wolves appearances.

But then an astonishing purple patch of six goals in seven games towards the end of the season saw him finish with seven.

Anyone would think he was angling for a move.

However his heroics weren't enough to topple the man with no hair (but he didn't care), Alex Rae.

The Scot was the undoubted star of the campaign and chipped in with five goals from midfield (and a further three in the cup competitions, to finish as overall top goalscorer)

His strikes included a wonder-goal away at Bolton when he lashed a cleared corner-kick into the top corner, first time, on the volley, from 25 yards.

A proper scorcher.

And we thought goals were a problem for Wolves in 2015/16.

Six seasons ago they netted just 32 goals in 38 Premier League games under Mick McCarthy, the lowest total in all four divisions that year.

Again, goals hadn't been an issue when winning promotion in the preceding campaign.

Wolves scored 80 times as they romped to the title, with Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (25 goals) and Chris Iwelumo (16) the chief protagonists.

Neither player, though, would make the step up to the top flight.

In fact they managed just a meagre goal between them, from no fewer than 38 appearances combined.

It's safe to say beanpole Austrian striker Stefan Maierhofer (1) and Andy Keogh (1) didn't offer adequate support either.

So it's a good job McCarthy splashed out £6m on Kevin Doyle, who scored 28 per cent of Wolves' league goals that season, with nine.

With four goals in five games as Wolves began to find their feet from October onwards, it actually looked like Jody "he used to be s***e but now he's alright" Craddock would win the golden boot.

Doyle, though, scored roughly one goal in every five games, and then finished the season off with two in two.

Doyle won the players' player of the year award, while Craddock won the fans' award.

The darkest period of Wolves' illustrious history was in full swing in 1984/85.

The club was being led to ruin by the Bhattis and the team were plummeting down the leagues.

It was a truly miserable time. Wolves treated their fans to 10 home games in a row without scoring.

Under Tommy Docherty, they finished bottom of the old Division Two and scored only 37 times in 42 matches.

Midfielder Ainscow, who later became a fruit and veg delivery man, and former Blues forward Evans notched six to tie for top scorer.

That was from 45 appearances (Ainscow) and 24 (Evans), with the pair scoring just five times in the league and once more apiece in the cups.

That's the lowest top total in Wolves' existence. Even in 1888/89 when they played just 22 games Harry Wood still scored more than double that.

Andy King led the list with 10 the following season. And then came Steve Bull – top scorer for eight seasons in a row.

Ainscow and Evans may have been the lowest top scorers in Wolves' history, but for a more goal-shy team you only have to look back a season earlier.

In 1983/84 Wolves began as they would continue - failing to register a victory in their first 16 matches.

They were, of course, relegated from the top flight, and registered just 27 goals in 42 games. That the lowest they've ever managed in a single season.

More than one tenth of their total came in a single match – a 3-0 home win over Everton.

In all competitions that year, from 47 matches, they netted 31 goals. And a whopping 29 per cent of those 31 were scored by Wayne Clarke.

The local lad was in his last season for the club before moving down the road to Blues.

With a midfielder as a joint-top scorer you'd think it hadn't been the most exciting of seasons.

But with the McCarthy Wolves project in its infancy Wolves were a club reborn in 2006/07, reaching the play-offs with a hardy band of kids and mis-fits.

They finished fifth despite only scoring 59 goals and accruing a goal difference of +3 (mind you Blues finished second while scoring only eight more goals).

Jemal Johnson (3) and Leon Clarke (5) failed to find consistency, while Andy Keogh (5) and Stephen Ward (3) joined in January and Craig Davies (0 from 23 appearances) didn't trouble the scorers.

So Bothroyd (who memorably scored the winner against Albion) and Olofinjana topped the list.

*In total Wolves' top scorer has finished in single figures on three more occasions, namely 1900/01 (Billy Wooldridge, 9), 1978/79 (John Richards, 9) and 1981/82 (Mel Eves and Andy Gray, 7)