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Title: When We Were Good.
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on January 05, 2012, 10:53:51 PM


My best period of watching Villa.  Simply loved our style of play in them days.  Listen to the fawning of the MOTD pundits as well.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: pauliewalnuts on January 05, 2012, 11:07:41 PM
That's probably my favourite Villa goal.

What a marvellous side we were back then.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: Ross on January 05, 2012, 11:16:31 PM
Bloody hell we were relentless - streaming forward, running with the ball. Oh for Deano and Yorke again.  How good was Woods that day to keep it below 6!

Great find - thanks.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: Ian. on January 05, 2012, 11:25:34 PM
Bloody marvelous. Thanks Kippaxvilla, great memories. Maybe we'll see football like that again.
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Post by: Colhint on January 05, 2012, 11:26:55 PM
it still brings a big smile doesn't it
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: Somniloquism on January 05, 2012, 11:34:34 PM
Bloody hell we were relentless - streaming forward, running with the ball. Oh for Deano and Yorke again.  How good was Woods that day to keep it below 6!

Great find - thanks.

You do have to feel for Chris Woods. First Shilton then Seaman being around to stop a very long career as the nations number 1.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: Somniloquism on January 05, 2012, 11:36:04 PM
That's probably my favourite Villa goal.

What a marvellous side we were back then.

The two goals against Ipswich for two totally different reasons are mine. Well at VP anyway.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: usav on January 05, 2012, 11:36:47 PM
Wonderful times.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on January 05, 2012, 11:45:22 PM


And a snippet right at the start of this montage of my favourite away day in the history of mankind.  I don't think he I ever felt as happy at the end of a game.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: VillaSpen on January 06, 2012, 12:13:22 AM
I was 13-14 during this season and I'd started to stand on the Holte with mates rather than my Grandad for the first time. I just remember going to school most Mondays feeling immensely proud in my Villa drill top after another performance of the highest quality.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: usav on January 06, 2012, 01:24:05 AM


And a snippet right at the start of this montage of my favourite away day in the history of mankind.  I don't think he I ever felt as happy at the end of a game.

Yeah, just a brilliant day out.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: The Left Side on January 06, 2012, 02:05:30 AM
Fantastic Video, many thanks
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: JD on January 06, 2012, 06:44:43 AM
Great videos, they bring back some happy times.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: garyshawsknee on January 06, 2012, 07:44:08 AM
Great days,twenty years down the line,you wouldn't think its the same club.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: VinnieChase84 on January 06, 2012, 08:37:46 AM
One of my favourites also. I only started going down the Villa in 91 (was7). Hearing Big Ron after kind of depressives me even more about our current state!!
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: darren woolley on January 06, 2012, 09:53:42 AM
Happy days.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: OzVilla on January 06, 2012, 09:55:19 AM
I enjoyed this season more than the Title year in 81.  We were fantstic up until the last couple of weeks.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: garyshawsknee on January 06, 2012, 10:00:28 AM
If only BFR hadn't have dropped Yorke,we wouldve been Champions.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: The Man With A Stick on January 06, 2012, 10:06:13 AM
Great days,twenty years down the line,you wouldn't think its the same club.

We were in a worse state 18 months later than we are now, so I wouldn't get too depressed.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: Oscar Arce on January 06, 2012, 10:11:48 AM
Passing and moving...as Brooking says, exactly what we do not do now, the players just stand and watch, there is no movement whatsoever.
We were a good side then, and are a million trillion miles away from that now.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: LeeB on January 06, 2012, 10:45:12 AM
Goal of the month, every month.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: N'Rexy on January 06, 2012, 12:10:01 PM
Class. Look whats happend to Wednesday since then. Puts some of our current troubles into some sort of perspective.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: timeoutbigbar on January 06, 2012, 01:00:30 PM
This was the season before I started going down to VP at 6/7ish, but still a great watch.  Cheers for that.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: eamonn on January 06, 2012, 10:59:58 PM
If only BFR hadn't have dropped Yorke,we wouldve been Champions.

Is that the common consensus? Genuinely curious, was too young to remember every game that season.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: Warren Aspinall on January 07, 2012, 04:30:13 AM
If only BFR hadn't have dropped Yorke,we wouldve been Champions.

Is that the common consensus? Genuinely curious, was too young to remember every game that season.

I think so, Dalian Atkinson came back from injury & we tailed off. Looking at the league table we only got 6 points from our last 8 games.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: Witton Warrior on January 07, 2012, 10:54:20 AM
Passing and moving...as Brooking says, exactly what we do not do now, the players just stand and watch, there is no movement whatsoever.
We were a good side then, and are a million trillion miles away from that now.


Just what I was thinking as I watched it Oscar.

Move, pass, control, shoot <sigh>
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: garyshawsknee on January 07, 2012, 12:59:07 PM
If only BFR hadn't have dropped Yorke,we wouldve been Champions.

Is that the common consensus? Genuinely curious, was too young to remember every game that season.


It was,Yorke and Saunders had started to really work well together both scoring goals,the Big Ron brought in Dalian,who wasn't fully fit,i think he moved Yorke to the wing,and the wheels started to come off.

A few years later when Sir Brian bought Collymore,he tried to accomadate Yorke,Collymore and Savo,it never worked and we had a terrible start to the season,in hindsight we should have flogged Savo straight away as Yorke was so good he could play with anyone,he couldve got the best out of Collymore.
Title: Re: When We Were Good.
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 07, 2012, 02:43:34 PM
I remember going to the Sheff Wed game with a mate who was a gloryhunter Manc fan. This was his first ever live game. That first goal is near the top of my all time fave Villa goals. I remember as we leaving the Holte (left side of course) that it seemed something was kicking off outside the exit. As there was a real bottle neck and then loads of running to and from the top of the stairs.
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