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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: footyskillz on January 02, 2015, 11:05:59 PM
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So which 2 strikers from the villa past would you like to sign to bring the goals back to the historic club!
Dublin and Carew for me !
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Gary Shaw and Pongo Waring.
May as well lock the thread as i've just given the correct answer.
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waring
What a ledge.
His trainin habits sounded interesting too but boy did he score goals.
The top forwards scorers in premier league after gabby are Yorke, Dublin, Angel,
Benteke 31 goals only 4 goals off vassell and 6 off Carew that is some going by beast considering the attacking teams dv and jc they were in .
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Peter Withe would be one, even at training he was always ranting on at his team mates telling them what they should be doing. He wouldn't have put up with the ball barely being in the final third as in the last two games. He would I'm sure have told them to mix it up and get the ball to the front players quickly from time to time. Loved Gary Shaw, Gary or Brian Little would be number two. I could have suggested a wide player but that's not allowed at Villa Park it seems.
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Stainrod & Penrice.
Lethal
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Stainrod would be fine if we could play Exeter every game.
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Stainrod would be fine if we could play Exeter every game.
Be careful what you wish for
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Stainrod would be fine if we could play Exeter every game.
Be careful what you wish for
I'm not too worried about us dropping 3 divisions and having the rules changed to play one team all season.
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Looking at our current side, and what is horribly missing in midfield and up front, Dwight Yorke with Savo or Carew. Just imagine having an inform Benteke and inform Yorke in the same side. Heck imagine them playing in a midfield with Cowans and Platt together with McGrath and Laursen in Defence.
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Looking at our current side, and what is horribly missing in midfield and up front, Dwight Yorke with Savo or Carew. Just imagine having an inform Benteke and inform Yorke in the same side. Heck imagine them playing in a midfield with Cowans and Platt together with McGrath and Laursen in Defence.
Oh do stop! I feel ill now...
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If we're lacking one type of player from the modern era then I think it's Dwight Yorke. He's exactly the sort of front man who could link midfield with attack. He could do it all. Drift wide, drop back into midfield and also play on the last man if he had to. He'd have an absolute field day alongside Benteke.
To be honest, you slap Benteke into our 95-96 side ahead of Savo, and we'd probably be pushing Utd to the wire.
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I am not so sure the issue is strikers, its the stupid system that Lambert employs where all our midfield and he has 5 of them on the pitch are either camped out in front of the back 4 or just chasing shadows.
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McFly and Brown. Biff to come on and ruffle the defenders once Doc runs out of steam.
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Deano and Gary Shaw. Add a bit of Cowans and a touch of Morley/Young and we might start scoring again.
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Yorke and Little
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Yorke and Little
Little & Yorke for me as well.
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Agbonlahor and Weimann.
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Withe and Little
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Tony Hateley and Harry Burrows.
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Yorke and Carew for me.
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Joachim and Fashanu
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I would pick Little and Morley to replace Gabby and Weimann, I think they would have improved the team a tiny bit.
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Mcavennie & Aspinall
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Bowery and Holt...
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Olney and Cascarino
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Balaban & Scimeca
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Surprised nobody has mentioned JPA yet, one of my favourite Villa players but maybe just because I'm too young to remember any of the great Villa sides (such as they were...)
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Surprised nobody has mentioned JPA yet, one of my favourite Villa players but maybe just because I'm too young to remember any of the great Villa sides (such as they were...)
I actually think he'd do well playing the role Robbie Keane did a couple of years ago. He was always good at dropping off and linking up play. He had a great touch too. It's a shame JPA rarely played in Villa sides where keeping the ball on the deck and keeping the ball were encouraged. It's either been high tempo, or long ball and he often had to play as a target man, which wasn't his game.
Some of the better footballers we had at the club during Pablo's time occasionally struck up some good play with him. Merson, Hendrie, later Solano. I recall a cracking goal he scored against Southampton(?) in Gregory's era. It was Barca-esque. Sadly though Merson didn't last long after Gregory left, Hendrie was of course wildly inconsistent and Solano only stayed a year.
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Roy Race and Limp Along Leslie
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Peter Withe and Gary Shaw. Both proven goal scorers in their own right but also a proven partnership at the highest level.
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Shaw and Withe went together like bacon and eggs...and they sizzled!
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So which 2 strikers from the villa past would you like to sign to bring the goals back to the historic club!
Dublin and Carew for me !
Maybe Altidore in the future?
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Genuine partnership - Shaw and Withe.
Fantasy partnership - Benteke and Yorke
Morley and Young wide left and wide right supplying them.
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Before my time but didn't we have a fella called Gerry Hitchens who scored a few
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Bienlich & Breikrutz .
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Bienlich & Breikrutz .
That gave me an idea. Best Villa forward partnership based on Scrabble scores.
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Andy Gray & Brian Little for me. Lethal!
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Before my time but didn't we have a fella called Gerry Hitchens who scored a few
From what I've read, he'd definitely be one is like to go back in time to see.
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All of the above would have struggled to score in this team due to poor supply, so I will stick with Benteke and add Morley and Cowans to the team.
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All of the above would have struggled to score in this team due to poor supply, so I will stick with Benteke and add Morley and Cowans to the team.
Indeed.
Our problem now isn't poor strikers. It is the total lack of a functioning creative midfield.
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Before my time but didn't we have a fella called Gerry Hitchens who scored a few
From what I've read, he'd definitely be one is like to go back in time to see.
We can never know as we never saw him,
I used to go to VP with a friend who was 10 years older than me, and he always said he was the best striker he'd seen at Villa
Hitchens had a book out a couple of years ago I bought it him for Christmas
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Gerry Hitchens, along with Peter McParland were my first real Villa heroes. Both serious hard men and good with it.
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Just me who's got "World in Motion" in their head after reading the title?
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I wouldn't pick more forwards. Our problem is we're far too creative and attacking.
Need to tighten up at the back so I'd go for Andy Comyn and Colin Calderwood.
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Benteke has proven he can score when up front on his own, so for me it would be a case of getting him the right support. The ever popular Young and Downing either side of him, with Merson or Keane just in behind would do the trick.
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Deano & Dalian
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Talking of creativity magic man Merse would be a great signing. Ashley Young and Stewart Downing would provide numerous of chances. These 3 to play behind the front 2 in a free role !
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Trevor Ford and Gerry Hitchens ;)
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Gray and little with Gibson and gidman bombing down the flanks, you score three we will score four
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So which 2 strikers from the villa past would you like to sign to bring the goals back to the historic club!
Dublin and Carew for me !
Maybe Altidore in the future?
A rather obfuscating non sensical reply ?!
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Billy Goffin and Bill Myerscough. Billy Goffin had legs shaped like a letter "O" and Bill Myerscough was a fore runner or should I say fore hobbler of Concrete Ron except he used to play through all his injuries. He had more bandages than a mummy. Scored the goal that got us to the final we won though IIRC.
Dave, who was Limp Along Leslie's arch rival? He had a double barreled name and played wearing a monocle.
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Was it Sir Mortimore Childe-Beale? I always thought they took the example of the club that LLL played for was the Villa.
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I thought the same but as I got a bit older I realized that the stories in the comics were written like horoscopes, in that you could read into them whatever your imagination desired. Wasn't there a story line when LLL got special boots to compensate his one leg being longer than the other(hence the limp) and he played rubbish so he went back to limping. Can you imagine what the Massed PC ranks would make of such a story line today.
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Great memories Brian, back to days of innocence. The PC brigade today would be out protesting. A tin hat would be needed jus to read it. I remember the special boots alright.
Do you also remember Alf Tupper aka The Tough Of The Track. Full of chauvinism.
The Wolf Of Kabul, we won't even go there.
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Yes, Alf Tupper and his diet of fish and chips. They did a tribute to him in one of the papers and made a total horlicks of it. They had him in a vest with a number 1 on it when all us (old) kids knew he had a wolf's head because he was a lone wolf and was never in a running club. Better stop reminiscing and let them get back to was Harry Hampton better than Joe Bache.
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Surprised nobody has mentioned JPA yet, one of my favourite Villa players but maybe just because I'm too young to remember any of the great Villa sides (such as they were...)
I actually think he'd do well playing the role Robbie Keane did a couple of years ago. He was always good at dropping off and linking up play. He had a great touch too. It's a shame JPA rarely played in Villa sides where keeping the ball on the deck and keeping the ball were encouraged. It's either been high tempo, or long ball and he often had to play as a target man, which wasn't his game.
Some of the better footballers we had at the club during Pablo's time occasionally struck up some good play with him. Merson, Hendrie, later Solano. I recall a cracking goal he scored against Southampton(?) in Gregory's era. It was Barca-esque. Sadly though Merson didn't last long after Gregory left, Hendrie was of course wildly inconsistent and Solano only stayed a year.
Yeah nothing wrong with JPA. Good hold up play, decent skill, pace, and in the end I think his goal scoring record was decent for us. Had good work rate too which I like in my strikers.
Agree that with the right support Benteke can play solo, but the problem is that Lambert just don't seem to do natural wingers, and we don't have a good enough number 10 to really make that much of a difference. Plus you couldn't play like that every game.
Would go with Withe and Yorke from the past just for the combination play.
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Andy Gray & Brian Little for me. Lethal!
Yup. Check out 76/77 goals column.