tony gale/jack wilshire

[dave shelley]

Watched Tony Gale on SSN this morning creaming himself about Jack Wilshire on Wednesday night v Barca.  and him only being nineteen.  Someone should remind him that Sid was doing it in the old first division on muddy pitches firstly at seventeen and then as a regular at eighteen and was every bit as good and in my opinion better, than Wilshire is now and possibly likely to be.  It's sad to think that Sid played for the wrong club in the eyes of the biased media, otherwise (broken leg apart) he would have been up there with those close to three figure cap holders.

[richard moore]

Tony Gale is about one above Ronnie Irani but one below Micky Quinn and Tony Cascarino when it comes to insightful comments on football...

[Karl Bridges]

I thought Wilshire looked the part on Wednesday considering who he was playing against. Agree that some of the gushing is OTT, need to just let him develop instead of announcing him as the second coming of Christ.

[john e]

Wilshire gave the ball away just 3 times in the whole game, some of his passes were defence splitting not just small 3 yard triangle types,
 i was very impressed, did not look out of place at all sharing the midfield with what some people say is the best midfield of all times

[WikiVilla]

I was in the "whats all the fuss about Wiltshire" camp up until Weds night, his performance was out of the top drawer

[Pete3206]

Tony Gale is another of these 'Birminum' pundits. Only interested in the 'Sky 4', Spurs and West Ham. Asked about any other club, they'll say "not seen too much of Villa/Bolton/Wigan/Everton/etc, etc, but [insert manager name] will have them fired up for this one and they'll be solid and well organised"

[Rip Van We Go Again]

He's good, but they're hyping him up beyond belief.

I remember the Nationals spunking their pants over Anton Ferdinand, who is shit.

[peter w]

I know he's 19 and has great talent but I was watching his movement in the first-half when Arsenal hast he ball at the back and thought it was very poor. Its something that will be taught and I don't think he is a natural deep player but when ther back 4 of Arsenal needed an out ball he was on his heels too often and not showing for it. He was lazy and not looking for the work.

Not a damning criticism as he is still a long way short of the finished article and he did link up play nicely at times. Good luck to him as it'll only benefit England if players of his calibre come through into the national team.

But by then there'll only be 2 or 3 other decent English players so he'll be forced to carry the team - a la Rooney - and the pressure will be toog reat on him. Then the press will murder him very every on or off field mistake. Same old same old.

[darren woolley]

Good player he did play well on wednesday showed maturity beyond his years they need to let him develop naturally not put too much expectations on his shoulders.

[K3Villa]

I thought he was brilliant on Wed night with all things considered. Pleasure to watch.

[SO Villa]

Why do people get so worked up when the media praise anything other than Villa as though its some great big conspiracy?

[Hookeysmith]

I was in the "whats all the fuss about Wiltshire" camp up until Weds night, his performance was out of the top drawer

Exactly my thoughts  - though he was superb on Wednesday  - as much as i am proud as anything over some of our youth players lets be honest we dont have one anywhere as near as dominant and as good as him at the moment

[Sexual Ealing]

Watched Tony Gale on SSN this morning creaming himself about Jack Wilshire on Wednesday night v Barca.  and him only being nineteen.  Someone should remind him that Sid was doing it in the old first division on muddy pitches firstly at seventeen and then as a regular at eighteen and was every bit as good and in my opinion better, than Wilshire is now and possibly likely to be.  It's sad to think that Sid played for the wrong club in the eyes of the biased media, otherwise (broken leg apart) he would have been up there with those close to three figure cap holders.

That's right, because pundits should always stop and think when asked to comment about a player "before I answer, can I possibly make reference to an Aston Villa player from more than 20 years ago? I mean, the player I'm being paid to comment on has nothing to do with Aston Villa - and you'd imagine that the people who are paying me probably want me to talk about the player I'm being paid to comment on - but I'd hate to be thought of as a Sky-4-wankfester by some paranoid Villa fans who are trawling the media for things to feel wounded about."

[kipeye]

I was in the "whats all the fuss about Wiltshire" camp up until Weds night, his performance was out of the top drawer

Ditto. It was an enormously assured performance at the very highest level. For me he completely outshone Fabregas. Long way to go but fantastic prospect.

[The Man With A Stick]

Gale's another of those idiots that says "Birminum" so his opinions on everything are irrelevant.