Hands up - players you've wrongly written off

[Matt Collins]

Time to fess up. At the start of this season I'd completely written off Clark and baker. I realise now the error of my ways and apologise. Who from the current squad have others written off?

I should say I was never one of those to write off delph, nzogbia or cleverley or Gardner

I have however given up on weimann, joe Bennett, tonev, helenius, sylla.

[Matt Collins]

Oh and I'm still writing off Darren bent at this level

[Richard E]

Clark and Baker have always been decent, just not as a pair together.

[OzVilla]

More recently Hutton, Baker and Cleverley.

Players of the past, I once had a massive rant about David Platt after an away match at Coventry when we were struggling. Thought he wasn't top flight quality (shakes head with embarrassment).

[Richard E]

Dwight Yorke. After we got beaten at Maine Road early in his career I said to my mate that if someone offered us a million quid for him we should bite their hand off.

[olaftab]

Peter Withe. It was a real WTF moment when Ron signed him but.....

[brian green]

Stylian Petrov. When he first came I slagged him off without mercy. In time he proved me completely wrong and I admire him immensely. Of the current squad Cleverley is currently twenty times the player I judged him to be when he arrived.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Not written off exactly but I certainly didnt expect Delph to jump from "hopeful young talent back from long injury" to "The Yorkshire Lothar Matthaeus" without stopping in between.

[pooligan]

From the past the two players who i had  all but written off the day we signed them,were Withe and McGrath.God,how wrong i was! From the present squad, i have to say since Sherwood arrived,Cleverley has made me eat my words somewhat.

[SoccerHQ]

Ciaran Clark.

[Monty]

Cleverley. I used to feel disappointed just seeing his name on the teamsheet; now, he's this dynamic superhero of a midfielder.

[silhillvilla]

Carlos Sanchez.

Oh wait,

[curiousorange]

I used to say Alan Hutton was the worst player I'd ever seen pull on a Villa shirt.

[Risso]

Where to start?  Delph, Bacuna, Cleverley, Westwood.  To be fair though, the transformation in just about all of the players has been nothing short of miraculous under Sherwood.

[TheMalandro]

Where to start?  Delph, Bacuna, Cleverley, Westwood.  To be fair though, the transformation in just about all of the players has been nothing short of miraculous under Sherwood.

More or less same for me, I'd add Clark and subtract bacuna.