Do You Remember Michael McIndoe?

This month in 2006, we signed two wingers by the name of Michael, one with the last name Kightly, who is still a popular name despite his injury troubles, and the other was McIndoe, who we take a look back at and remember.

Before coming to Molineux, McIndoe set his stall out as a prolific goalscoring winger in the bottom two tiers of the Football League at Doncaster Rovers, being included in PFA Team Of The Year in 2004 and 2006 in the process. He felt he could go up another level and in July 2006, he did so and switched to newly promoted Championship side Barnsley for £125,000 and in the four months he was there he was a hit, scoring 4 goals in 18 matches.

When we came knocking at Oakwell, we were still rebuilding and just about getting by with homegrown Lewis Gobern and Daniel Jones occupying the wide positions with endeavour so some added depth to that area was welcome. McIndoe joined us just says before the loan deadline and at the turn of the year, we signed him permanently for £250,000 but all the talk and buzz around the ground was about the winger named Michael. As they arrived, change in form developed because of the quality of the widemen, mainly through Kightly, but McIndoe did his bit popping in with a couple of assists through his ever-menacing set-pieces. We never much success with converting corners into goals over the years but I fondly remember us scoring them more frequently when he was taking them. His open play game was pretty fine too, decent level of pace, good cross, doing the graft too but the goals were missing and his first didn't come until March in a scrappy draw at Sheffield Wednesday and his only other two came in a 3-2 defeat against Birmingham, where he missed a penalty to clinch a point and a hat-trick.

Michael McIndoe: Still chasing that 'big club'.

The end of his short stay in the summer of 2007 came as a shock to the club, just days after Matt Jarvis arrived from Gillingham. You would be entitled to think that he moved to Bristol City because he couldn't hack the competition but McIndoe insisted it was to further his prospects to play for Scotland, but that didn't stop him to have a dig at Wolves, stating "Some people see this move as a step down – they think of Wolves as a big club and Bristol City as a small club, but I don’t see it like that" as if he was suggesting that Bristol City were the bigger club and on at his first game back at Molineux in 2008, we beat his team 2-0 and timely reminded him that "this club's too big for you". Nice wee £150,000 profit we made on him however and two seasons later, we move divisions, he moves to Coventry City - a slightly bigger club from whence he came so he should give himself a pat on the back - where he flattered to decieve before falling out with new boss Aidy Boothroyd. Just last week he was farmed out on loan to MK Dons. So much for this unloyal swine's aspirations to play for his country.

Care to join me in a little snigger, anyone?

'Grobs'