Best debuts

[PaulTheVillan]

Darren Bent

[Axl Rose]

Dion Dublin, got 2 against Spurs on his debut.  Dublin had a great start to his Villa career got a hat-trick the following week against Southampton and then another 2 at home to Liverpool.

Dean Saunders home debut was one to remember I think his actual debut was away at Leeds though.

Another vote for Dion. I was at that game, and he had a third goal ruled out.

Carbone against Wimbledon gets a vote, too

[brian green]

Luc Nilis
Sid (his first tackle made the hair of the Holte stand on end)
Didier Six
Milan Baros
Spinky (some game in Holland.  Forget the details).

[Chico Hamilton III]

Dion Dublin scoring 2 against Spurs

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

Sid (his first tackle made the hair of the Holte stand on end)

Has there ever been a finer sight in football than a perfectly timed Gordon Cowans tackle?

[Chico Hamilton III]

Sorry for bring a pedant but didn't Spink make his debut against Forest about 3 years before Rotterdam?  Boxing Day game?

[brian green]

No there has not Mr Olney.  I was in full on misery mode when Sid took the field.  My actual words were "fucking hell they have brought on the kid who sells the Argus"   Shirt and shorts hanging off his skeletal frame he did that tackle we came to see a thousand times. In like a steam train, trailing leg under his body out the other side with the ball, pushing up on his trailing leg without breaking stride.  Sheer football poetry.

[TopDeck113]

Reading through the posts, it is noticeable how many great debuts failed to be the prelude to a stellar Villa Park career.  Perhaps we should therefore not be too despondent if our current crop of signings have hardly hit the ground running...

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Did Carlton Cole score on his debut and look a great player?

[Richard E]

Did Carlton Cole score on his debut and look a great player?

Yes, against Southampton. Unfortunately it just turned out to be that Southampton were rubbish.

[olaftab]

Darren Bent. And not sure if Dion scored a couple on his debut? Hesky "demolished" Portsmouth.

[Lastfootstamper]

Sorry for bring a pedant but didn't Spink make his debut against Forest about 3 years before Rotterdam?  Boxing Day game?

I felt I had to flick through to see who it was that had presented an alternative fact.

Can't lie, I'm a little shaken now.

[dave shelley]

Sorry for bring a pedant but didn't Spink make his debut against Forest about 3 years before Rotterdam?  Boxing Day game?

Yes, I was there and saw it.  He had a bit of a stinker IIRC.  At least I found a couple of quid on the ground on the way out.  I remember that.

[SoccerHQ]

Baros.

[steamer]

Andy Gray. Home game L.Cup against utd lost 2-1 Gray scored. we battered them, but as is the way we lost.
I seem to remember Petrov against W,Ham showing promise.