A Team to rival this season's

[Fred Crump]

What do you estimate the combined weekly wage bill for that lot is?


Scary.

Goodness knows but it's heartbreaking when you think how much money has been squandered on dross yet we have virtually given away a whole team of class players - Barry, Milner, Cahill, Albrighton , Young, Benteke, snake  etc etc....

Given away? We received over £100m for them.

True but peanuts compared with their real value and the £200 mill that we will mis out on next season....

[Steve67]

Bloody he'll!! We really have had some very shocking players haven't we.  Two more to throw in, not sure if they both qualify though: Carlton Cole and Marlon Hardwood.

[gnrpoison]

Here we are, can anyone match this:

Gk: Kiraly (if loans do not count Steer)
RB: Bardsley
CB: Beye
CB:Knight
LB: Luna
RM: Tonev
CM: Osbourne
CM: Djemba Djemba
LM: Cole
CF: Harewood
CF: Bowery

Subs: Taylor, Senderos, Shorey, Salifou, Routledge, Dawkins, Holt

Both teams cancel each other out in an awful 0 - 0 draw

[supertom]

Bowery is back in League 2 now. Back at his level and he's not even a standout player at that level.

[edgysatsuma89]

Bowery is back in League 2 now. Back at his level and he's not even a standout player at that level.

His eyes standout.

[tomd2103]

Bowery is back in League 2 now. Back at his level and he's not even a standout player at that level.

A real wtf signing.  Had a very unremarkable scoring record at that level, so goodness knows what Lambert saw in him. 

[OzVilla]

Bowery was just a punt based on his physic - nothing else.   Summed up Lambert when after 18 months he looked just as poor as the day he walked in the door.  But then Lambert was never at training anyway as bullygate showed.

And we label Sherwood as a chancer.

[Ad@m]

Bowery was just a punt based on his physic - nothing else.   Summed up Lambert when after 18 months he looked just as poor as the day he walked in the door.  But then Lambert was never at training anyway as bullygate showed.

And we label Sherwood as a chancer.

Yep, a real Championship Manager signing - an example of where the whole is significantly less than the sum of its parts!

[brian green]

Bowery was even more catastrophic if allegations are true that he was available at an asking price of £250,000 but we paid £500,000.

Pity that poor performers have to be limited to the last ten years.  It is unfair to deny their place in the Piss Poor Pantheon to a roll call that would include

Burridge (GK)
Smith H
Craddock M
Gibson C (Mk 1)
Goffin B
Myerscough B
Moss A (sorry FMWMU but he was terrible)
Pinner M (GK)
Gallagher B
Norton D
Aspinall W,
Rioch N (totally redeemed by being a magnificent Villa servant over the years)

It should be noted however that not one of the above showed any trace of the lack of effort and commitment displayed by the current weares of the same shirts.

[Clampy]

Here we are, can anyone match this:

Gk: Kiraly (if loans do not count Steer)
RB: Bardsley
CB: Beye
CB:Knight
LB: Luna
RM: Tonev
CM: Osbourne
CM: Djemba Djemba
LM: Cole
CF: Harewood
CF: Bowery

Subs: Taylor, Senderos, Shorey, Salifou, Routledge, Dawkins, Holt

Both teams cancel each other out in an awful 0 - 0 draw

I think Senderos is a bit of an unfair one to lump in. He looked ok in the games that he did play.

[oldhill_avfc]

Bowery was even more catastrophic if allegations are true that he was available at an asking price of £250,000 but we paid £500,000.

Pity that poor performers have to be limited to the last ten years.  It is unfair to deny their place in the Piss Poor Pantheon to a roll call that would include

Burridge (GK)
Smith H
Craddock M
Gibson C (Mk 1)
Goffin B
Myerscough B
Moss A (sorry FMWMU but he was terrible)
Pinner M (GK)
Gallagher B
Norton D
Aspinall W,
Rioch N (totally redeemed by being a magnificent Villa servant over the years)

It should be noted however that not one of the above showed any trace of the lack of effort and commitment displayed by the current weares of the same shirts.

Alarming thing is that
fatty Asinal, Budgie &  Bernie are better than we've got at the mo

[brian green]

Do you remember oldhill when we once got a penalty at the Witton End and before our regular penalty taker could step up Warren Aspinall grabbed the ball, put it on the spot and side footed it about five yards wide?  Would walk into the current team.

[Dr Butler]

Do you remember oldhill when we once got a penalty at the Witton End and before our regular penalty taker could step up Warren Aspinall grabbed the ball, put it on the spot and side footed it about five yards wide?  Would walk into the current team.

from Wiki Brian:

After making only ten substitute appearances in all competitions for the Toffees, Aspinall transferred to Aston Villa for a then club record fee of £300,000, but could not help stop the club being relegated from the First Division. Manager Billy McNeill, who signed Aspinall, was sacked and replaced by Graham Taylor, as Villa bounced back immediately to the First Division, with Aspinall finishing as joint-top scorer. However, a poor disciplinary record prompted a warning from Taylor that this must improve or he would be sold. An incident away to St Mirren in a pre-season friendly involved Aspinall stamping on an opponents foot led to him being sold to Portsmouth for a club-record fee of £315,000 in August 1988. He played in 44 league games and scored 14 goals for Aston Villa.

UTV
The Doc

[Clampy]

I don't remember Aspinall being that terrible and like the above said, he did help us back up. Has anyone mentioned Steve Sims yet?

[Ron Manager]

Bowery was even more catastrophic if allegations are true that he was available at an asking price of £250,000 but we paid £500,000.

Pity that poor performers have to be limited to the last ten years.  It is unfair to deny their place in the Piss Poor Pantheon to a roll call that would include

Burridge (GK)
Smith H
Craddock M
Gibson C (Mk 1)
Goffin B
Myerscough B
Moss A (sorry FMWMU but he was terrible)
Pinner M (GK)
Gallagher B
Norton D
Aspinall W,
Rioch N (totally redeemed by being a magnificent Villa servant over the years)

It should be noted however that not one of the above showed any trace of the lack of effort and commitment displayed by the current weares of the same shirts.

I object very much to you including Miller Craddock in that list. Out of the thirty seven people I interviewed in Ledbury,Hereford,and Birmingham who saw him play, for my article in the local magazine you were the only one to give an adverse opinion. Dennis Shaw, in particular, who interviewed him gave a glowing endorsement. I know whose opinion I value.