Hands up - players you've wrongly written off

[Risso]

It's easy to forget how dire things were under Lambert though.  Benteke was getting all sorts of abuse on here.

[Rancid custard]

Just Cleverley for me, if he was the answer, I thought what the hell was the question?

[papa lazarou]

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.

Same here. Stan was poor for a long time before transforming into the great player and leader he became. I also remember Ugo having a miserable start to his Villa career.

[PeterWithesShin]

There's going to be quite a few who have to say Delph!

Gabby is the only one of the current squad I can think of. Oh and quite possibly Given.

What we will all have done is say XYZ is in awful form, or they had a gash game. Which is different to totally writing them off.

[kippaxvilla2]

Bosko Balaban and Ivo Stas

[silhillvilla]

David Unsworth.
Never given a chance. Harsh.

[Damo70]

Definitely Cleverley from this team. I called him a waste of space under Lambert. I seem to remember not being sure about Kent Neilson early on. Alan McInally in his first season. Paul Elliott went on to have a decent career but I never rated him when he was with us.

[silhillvilla]

Dave Geddis.
From comedy player to more or less a villa legend.

[PeterWithesShin]

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.

Don't forget that donkey Benteke Riss! 

[PeterWithesShin]

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.

Is obviously causing some problems!

[richard moore]

Ugo Ehiogu
Gary Cahill
Steven Davis
Peter Withe

to name but four who instantly come to mind....

[richard moore]

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.

Same here. Stan was poor for a long time before transforming into the great player and leader he became. I also remember Ugo having a miserable start to his Villa career.

An absolute stinker away at the Dell sticks in my mind regarding Ugo. I gave him dog's abuse at the end

[martin o`who??]

A centre forward called Peter Withe before he came to the club, shows how much I know😚

[silhillvilla]

Ugo's home debut v Norwich.

[olaftab]

Bosko Balaban and Ivo Stas

I bet you were made to eat your words.....I wish!