Heskey or Cascarino?

[Ivo Stas]

Just curious, who was the worse signing..?

[VillaSpen]

Casc. Perhaps I'm romanticising the 1990 side but I was a genuinely excited 11 year old when he signed. I was promised that he'd see us through to the title and the fact that he cost over a million was amazing to me.

Also, could anyone really see Heskey impressing abroad like Cascarino did?

[OzVilla]

Both were poor but Cascarino was the greater liability imo.  Atleast Heskey has occasionally looked the part.  I can't recall a game where Cascarino was anything other than a useless lump that got in the way.  He wasn't even that great in the air. 

We absolutley robbed Celtic blind when we sold him too. 

[brian green]

Neither is as bad as Tony Hateley another in our tradition of useless lumps miraculously dumped on some other gullible club.

[eastie]

Simon stainrod was just as bad if not worse.
Cascarino was the wrong choice  , we should have signed sheringham his millwall partner.
Heskey has quite simply been an embarrassment considering hes on £65000 a week.

[robbyfvillain]

Neither is as bad as Tony Hateley another in our tradition of useless lumps miraculously dumped on some other gullible club.

Can't agree with you here Brian, great header of the ball and prolific goalscorer for us. Relegated the season after he left if my memory serves me correct.

We have had far worse players than Hateley and certainly the two discussed here.

Cascarino worse for me

[Phil from the upper holte]

Cascarino was awful, he should have been so much better, I hate heskey more but tony was worse

[Legion]

Cascarino suffered from a crisis of confidence. His autobiography makes excellent reading.

[TopDeck113]

However bad we perceive Heskey to be (I don't think he's actually that bad: wrong club, wrong time), the reality was Cascarino was much worse. 

I did desperately want him to succeed, but I can remember in one of the many FA Cup ties with Wimbledon we had back around that time him missing the simplest of chances. That was when I finally lost it with him.  Complete waste of space.

[The Laughing Policeman]

I'm a Tony Hateley fan too, his league record for us of played 127 scored 68 stands comparison with any other centre forward of his era.
As for the other two.......can I vote for both?

[villasjf]

Bosco Balaban

[andyh]

Cascarino by a country mile.
I seem to remember that to me, it looked like he never really wanted to be at the club
Its probably borne out by the fact that he now never has a good word to say about us.

That said, neither of them will ever be really considered 'Villa men'.

[barrysleftfoot]

   

  Cascarino............cost us the championship that season.I'm convinced if we had bought Le Tiss, or Harford instead then we would have won the League that year.

[MarkM]

Cascarino signing upset the balance of the team, and we thus failed to win the league.

So in terms of impact on the club Cascarino was far worse.

I still don't rate Heskey, mind you I never did

If Heskey plays for England so can I......

[Chris Smith]

Cascarino suffered from a crisis of confidence. His autobiography makes excellent reading.

He also suffered from a crisis of ability.