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Title: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brice jovial on August 22, 2011, 11:24:53 AM
Well i'm wondering how people are with former villa players still currently playing either in english leagues or elsewhere . Find it quite interesting how players careers once they have moved on from villa.

I mean whilst I was watching Bolton V Man City I noted there were a few Ex villa players involved. Cahill Knight Reo-Coker Milner and  Barry.
Barry scored a cracker  :o

I noticed too West Brom @ Chelsea  how Shorey was looking rather inept defensively messing up for both goals

BRAD FRIEDEL - be interested to see if Brad plays tonight for spurs against Man Utd  this eve. And also in this game if ASHLEY YOUNG wil continue to assit. I notice he seems to be staying on his feet a little more

Another Man U Villa link Djemba Djemba - these days a main player for OB Odense hoping to get past Villareal in champions league qualifying this week
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Hookeysmith on August 22, 2011, 11:30:00 AM
What ever happened to the great messiah that was Matty Berson?

Must go down in the Ivo Stas list of Villa greats
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: noodles_ on August 22, 2011, 11:33:09 AM
I always tried to check up on Juve when Mellberg was there. Think he's at Olympiacos now? Dwight Yorke did ok when he left us too. Which i was quite happy about because he was my favourite player growing up.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: London Villan on August 22, 2011, 11:34:01 AM
Didn't the Legend score a late equaliser for Forest vs Leicester too.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PONGO49 on August 22, 2011, 11:34:10 AM
any news on bosko babalon
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brice jovial on August 22, 2011, 11:37:42 AM
Mathieu Berson most recently played for Toulouse FC...

Harry forrester now @Brentford (rather than Ajax) wasnt involved on sat in 5-0 win.

Just one sub app so far 
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brice jovial on August 22, 2011, 11:40:50 AM
any news on bosko babalon

well according to below he was playing geek super league

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C5%A1ko_Balaban

maybe retired .. looks quite heavyweight in that pic
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Matthius on August 22, 2011, 11:45:08 AM
Lee Hendrie playing for Bandung in indonesia. Im sure i heard somewhere that this was an illegal league as well.?

Matthius
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PONGO49 on August 22, 2011, 11:50:36 AM
Juan Pablo can't hit a barn door is the MLS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pablo_%C3%81ngel
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brice jovial on August 22, 2011, 12:00:12 PM
So the magazine four four two  does a 'boys a bit special' article interviewing those promsing upcoming players who will one day be world beaters and legend in own rite

A few years ago 'ozzy' Osbourne  was being touted as the new vieira

well he got released and is with SPL side hibs under ex villa player calderwood

a snippet of what ozzy said back in the day

In five years’ time
I’ll be flying high at Villa and hopefully knocking on the door of the England team


Well hes still only 23 so you never now isiah !
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brice jovial on August 22, 2011, 12:07:12 PM
Juan Pablo can't hit a barn door is the MLS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pablo_%C3%81ngel

JPA was on fire with NYB back in the day
LA Galaxy not so

Howvere as a kinda roving attacker i think JPA will be fine with Chivas  scored on debut for Chivas in 2-2
he ll do a great job for the goats !

Check it out
"world class finish "

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brice jovial on August 22, 2011, 12:09:34 PM
Actually check out some of these players and how special they think they are Routledge for one is delusional

Who do you play like
"I couldn’t really say anyone, you know. There’s only one Wayne Routledge"

http://fourfourtwo.com/interviews/boysabitspecial/default.aspx


Whilst Gards claims he was always a villa boy
(from 2007)
Club supported as a boy
I come from a family of Villa fans, so there was only ever one club for me. When I signed my first contract at Villa Park, it was a fantastic moment.

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: garyshawsknee on August 22, 2011, 12:13:00 PM
Is that our Luke Moore at AFC Wimbledon ? Could be a warning to the Fonz if it is.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brice jovial on August 22, 2011, 12:16:30 PM
Is that our Luke Moore at AFC Wimbledon ? Could be a warning to the Fonz if it is.

Lukey Moore is EPL @swansea boyo
a benchwarmer mind you
prob score a hat trick carlin cup tie 2mrw @ shrews 33/1 for taht
5/1 first gs
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Clark W Griswold on August 22, 2011, 12:25:02 PM
Remember him. We all hoped he would be the new Roberto Baggio, but he fell slightly short...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio_Ferraresi
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Clark W Griswold on August 22, 2011, 12:28:23 PM
And this guy we all hoped was the second coming, but he failed also...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najwan_Ghrayib

EDIT: Not still playing, but managing so still involved.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: mal on August 22, 2011, 12:59:45 PM
I always tried to check up on Juve when Mellberg was there. Think he's at Olympiacos now? Dwight Yorke did ok when he left us too. Which i was quite happy about because he was my favourite player growing up.
50 apps 7 goals. Which compares well to 7 from 232 for us. Good old Olof
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: nico2708 on August 22, 2011, 02:34:44 PM
Julian Joachim has recently signed  for Boston United
(did you know that Joachim appeared in the  2000 film Hannibal)


Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Meanwood Villa on August 22, 2011, 03:18:03 PM
And this guy we all hoped was the second coming, but he failed also...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najwan_Ghrayib

EDIT: Not still playing, but managing so still involved.

I didn't even realise he'd played for the first team! 5 times apparently.

Julian Joachim has recently signed  for Boston United
(did you know that Joachim appeared in the  2000 film Hannibal)




I didn't know JJ was in Hannibal. Does he easily out-pace Lecter but then ruin all his good work by making the wrong decision and getting eaten?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Bent Neilsens Screamer on August 22, 2011, 03:37:20 PM
Lee Hendrie playing for Bandung in indonesia. Im sure i heard somewhere that this was an illegal league as well.?

Matthius

He wasn't in Indonesia a few weeks back as he was in the beer garden of The Drum & Monkey in Dorridge.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: DeKuip on August 22, 2011, 04:59:32 PM
Kevin Poole is still with Burton - on the bench for them on Saturday at the age of 48!

I imagine he's the Football League's oldest registered player - and I remember watching him play for the Villa youth team... help!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on August 22, 2011, 05:21:13 PM
I wonder what the African Pele is up to these days. He liked the LC games against lower league clubs.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: darren woolley on August 22, 2011, 06:06:06 PM
James Collins is at Shrewsbury.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: garyshawsknee on August 22, 2011, 06:10:40 PM
I wonder what the African Pele is up to these days. He liked the LC games against lower league clubs.

Remember reading this interesting piece anout him a couple of years ago.http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/feb/03/africannationscup2008.africannationscup1
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rancid custard on August 22, 2011, 06:46:16 PM
I wonder what the African Pele is up to these days. He liked the LC games against lower league clubs.

Remember reading this interesting piece anout him a couple of years ago.http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/feb/03/africannationscup2008.africannationscup1

I myself am wondering what's happened to the Togolese Zidane, not my words but the words of that Gobshite Adebayor. Oh, and Curcic? where's he these days?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eric woolban woolban on August 22, 2011, 07:03:36 PM
Peter Enkleman is at St. Johnstone, giving away and then saving a penalty yesterday.

I heard Robert Olenik (sp) name on Soccer Saturday on Saturday. Think he was playing in League 2.

And as we;re on a goalkeeping theme here, I wonder what ever happened to Adam 'rabbit' Rachel?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 22, 2011, 07:06:35 PM
Adam Rachel was at Solihull Moors, on the bench, last season. I saw him in the clubhouse after they lost to then-Brian Little's Gainsborough Trinity.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 22, 2011, 07:08:25 PM
Actually, maybe a good challenge would be... what's the lowest division we can find a former Villa player in?

Can anyone beat Stefan Moore of St Neots Town in the United Counties League?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: taylorsworkrate on August 22, 2011, 07:09:50 PM
Is that our Luke Moore at AFC Wimbledon ? Could be a warning to the Fonz if it is.

Not as much of a warning as Stefan Moore, currently plying his trade at St Neots Town.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: taylorsworkrate on August 22, 2011, 07:12:04 PM
Its also a warning for all of the promising youngsters we have.

Stefan and Luke were big prospects.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 22, 2011, 07:13:42 PM
Is that our Luke Moore at AFC Wimbledon ? Could be a warning to the Fonz if it is.

Not as much of a warning as Stefan Moore, currently plying his trade at St Neots Town.

"Our" Luke Moore is at Swansea.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: hilts_coolerking on August 22, 2011, 07:14:10 PM
Is that our Luke Moore at AFC Wimbledon ? Could be a warning to the Fonz if it is.

Not as much of a warning as Stefan Moore, currently plying his trade at St Neots Town.
You have to wonder why he's doing it.  It can't be for love of the game; if he loved it that much surely he'd have tried harder when he was at a top club.  Would he be semi-pro at that level?  I wonder what else he does.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 22, 2011, 07:15:36 PM
Halesowen were paying him ridiculous wages for that level, I imagine St Neots will be too. He won't be on £40,000-a-week, but I reckon he'll be full-time professional.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Macho Man Randy Savage on August 22, 2011, 07:16:01 PM
I saw Alan Wright playing for Cheltenham a couple of years ago. Not sure if he is still there though.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 22, 2011, 07:17:14 PM
He was at Fleetwood last season.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on August 22, 2011, 07:22:56 PM
And has now retired.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brice jovial on August 22, 2011, 07:43:02 PM
Man u v Spurs

Brad in gk tonight for spurs v Man u
he'll show de gea how it s done
(and keep score  down for spurs)
2-1 utd
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: DeKuip on August 22, 2011, 08:08:41 PM
Actually, maybe a good challenge would be... what's the lowest division we can find a former Villa player in?

What division to the Villa Old Stars play in? They're always packed with ex-Villa men!


Having sat and watched five ex-Villa men start yesterday's Bolton-City game on Sky we've now got three in Utd-Spurs.
At least the future's bright for the Villa Old Stars manager.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: garyshawsknee on August 22, 2011, 08:15:14 PM
I wonder what the African Pele is up to these days. He liked the LC games against lower league clubs.

Remember reading this interesting piece anout him a couple of years ago.http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/feb/03/africannationscup2008.africannationscup1

I myself am wondering what's happened to the Togolese Zidane, not my words but the words of that Gobshite Adebayor. Oh, and Curcic? where's he these days?

And the Ecuadorian Beckham?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brice jovial on August 22, 2011, 09:45:28 PM
Man u v spurs
Think brad kept goal well
young was effective and linked up well
slots in utd team very nicelyMan u v spurs
Think brad kept goal well
young was effective and linked up well
slots in utd team very nicely
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 22, 2011, 10:05:21 PM
Man u v spurs
Think brad kept goal well
young was effective and linked up well
slots in utd team very nicelyMan u v spurs
Think brad kept goal well
young was effective and linked up well
slots in utd team very nicely

What's the tune?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on August 22, 2011, 11:45:32 PM
Actually, maybe a good challenge would be... what's the lowest division we can find a former Villa player in?

Can anyone beat Stefan Moore of St Neots Town in the United Counties League?

How about a player's brother? Charisma Agbonlahor plays for Aston in the Midland Combination division two - step eight of the pyramid.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brice jovial on August 22, 2011, 11:50:32 PM
Charisma great name!
Does he have gabs pace?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: usav on August 23, 2011, 01:45:43 AM
Charisma great name!

For a girl.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Linus on August 23, 2011, 07:38:23 AM
Actually, maybe a good challenge would be... what's the lowest division we can find a former Villa player in?

Can anyone beat Stefan Moore of St Neots Town in the United Counties League?
How about a player's brother? Charisma Agbonlahor plays for Aston in the Midland Combination division two - step eight of the pyramid.
And also plays Gaelic football.

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: nico2708 on August 23, 2011, 06:17:35 PM
dunno if this one counts

Mark Walters

Walters joined Coventry Preparatory School as a Saturday morning football coach for the four- to 11 year–olds in February 2003; he then became a member of staff in January 2006, coaching years three to eight and is also head coach of the under-14s at Aston Villa's academy. Walters is also heavily involved with groups aiming to eliminate racism in football. Walters went back to school and obtained teaching qualifications. He is Head of Languages at Aston Villa's academy. His close friend Torben Piechnik teaches science.
 
Although now retired, Walters still plays in the Sky Sports masters football competitions for Rangers
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: hawkeye on August 23, 2011, 06:59:56 PM
Charisma great name!
Does he have gabs pace?
No Gaby got the pace his brother got Charisma
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on August 24, 2011, 02:03:41 AM
Actually, maybe a good challenge would be... what's the lowest division we can find a former Villa player in?

Can anyone beat Stefan Moore of St Neots Town in the United Counties League?
How about a player's brother? Charisma Agbonlahor plays for Aston in the Midland Combination division two - step eight of the pyramid.
And also plays Gaelic football.



Surely you jest.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: KevinGage on August 24, 2011, 02:39:52 AM
Possible, if he's an Erdington lad.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: KevinGage on August 24, 2011, 02:41:22 AM
I heard (and I don't know how true this is) that Spink turned out for one of the local Gaelic sides once.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Bent Neilsens Screamer on August 25, 2011, 01:20:14 PM
Actually, maybe a good challenge would be... what's the lowest division we can find a former Villa player in?

Can anyone beat Stefan Moore of St Neots Town in the United Counties League?

How about a player's brother? Charisma Agbonlahor plays for Aston in the Midland Combination division two - step eight of the pyramid.

I’m sure I heard it mentioned that he turned out a few times for Castle Vale Jaguars in the Sutton Premier division last season.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithe on August 25, 2011, 01:25:44 PM
Do you remember playing against Ricky Otto in the Sunday leagues?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on August 25, 2011, 01:51:58 PM
I'm pretty sure that Andy Marfell (the "Forest of Dean Figo"?) was playing in the Welsh League a few years ago.

I'm not sure where he is now

Here's a report from an U21 game between Villa and Wrexham in 2001  in which Andy played

http://www.redpassion.co.uk/oldsite/news/news0808.htm
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: The Man With A Stick on August 25, 2011, 03:10:31 PM
I'm pretty sure that Andy Marfell (the "Forest of Dean Figo"?) was playing in the Welsh League a few years ago.

I'm not sure where he is now

Here's a report from an U21 game between Villa and Wrexham in 2001  in which Andy played

http://www.redpassion.co.uk/oldsite/news/news0808.htm

Ah, Stephen Cooke.  Whatever happened to him?

Wikipedia - he's at Pelsall Villa.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave Cooper please on August 25, 2011, 04:41:49 PM
Actually, maybe a good challenge would be... what's the lowest division we can find a former Villa player in?

Can anyone beat Stefan Moore of St Neots Town in the United Counties League?

How about a player's brother? Charisma Agbonlahor plays for Aston in the Midland Combination division two - step eight of the pyramid.

I’m sure I heard it mentioned that he turned out a few times for Castle Vale Jaguars in the Sutton Premier division last season.

A lot of players playing in leagues like the Midland Combination and the West Midlands League also turn out for Sunday league clubs, I've known some who will play for a Birmingham AFA club on Saturday morning as well.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: tim on August 25, 2011, 05:27:24 PM
I'm pretty sure that Andy Marfell (the "Forest of Dean Figo"?) was playing in the Welsh League a few years ago.

I'm not sure where he is now

Here's a report from an U21 game between Villa and Wrexham in 2001  in which Andy played

http://www.redpassion.co.uk/oldsite/news/news0808.htm
Hitz played in that game too - can't believe it was 10 years ago that he was at Villa.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Apyadg on August 25, 2011, 05:38:00 PM

You have to wonder why he's doing it.  It can't be for love of the game; if he loved it that much surely he'd have tried harder when he was at a top club.  Would he be semi-pro at that level?  I wonder what else he does.

He was earning a living driving taxis a couple of years ago.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Bent Neilsens Screamer on August 25, 2011, 11:08:23 PM
Do you remember playing against Ricky Otto in the Sunday leagues?

That was a few years ago! He played for Kypros if memory serves me correct.  Didn't Sid Cowans' brother player for us as well back in the day?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithe on August 26, 2011, 11:25:46 AM
Yes, Vince. He was a good laugh.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brice jovial on August 28, 2011, 09:49:42 PM
Ashley Young @manu fantastic today ... :o
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Vancouver on August 29, 2011, 01:57:26 AM
Man u v Spurs

Brad in gk tonight for spurs v Man u
he'll show de gea how it s done
(and keep score  down for spurs)
2-1 utd

well you got that one wrong!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Louzie0 on August 29, 2011, 02:21:39 AM
Actually, maybe a good challenge would be... what's the lowest division we can find a former Villa player in?

Can anyone beat Stefan Moore of St Neots Town in the United Counties League?

How about a player's brother? Charisma Agbonlahor plays for Aston in the Midland Combination division two - step eight of the pyramid.

I’m sure I heard it mentioned that he turned out a few times for Castle Vale Jaguars in the Sutton Premier division last season.

A lot of players playing in leagues like the Midland Combination and the West Midlands League also turn out for Sunday league clubs, I've known some who will play for a Birmingham AFA club on Saturday morning as well.

Give me boots - quite fancy turning out for a sunday morning, after the hoovering.  Would like to play in the hole behind the striker, please.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brice jovial on August 29, 2011, 10:13:37 AM
Well ashley young has spoken of steeping up - theres a whole post dedicated to that fact -.
yesterday he produced another great display at his new club manu and gud luck to him
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: gaucho1966 on August 29, 2011, 10:36:47 AM
Charisma great name!
Does he have gabs pace?

Does he have Gabby's charisma?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: TheSandman on August 29, 2011, 09:17:32 PM
Isaiah Osbourne continues to be shit, even in the SPL, from what I gather.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ChrissyPrice on August 29, 2011, 11:53:46 PM
I wonder what the African Pele is up to these days. He liked the LC games against lower league clubs.

Remember reading this interesting piece anout him a couple of years ago.http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/feb/03/africannationscup2008.africannationscup1

I myself am wondering what's happened to the Togolese Zidane, not my words but the words of that Gobshite Adebayor. Oh, and Curcic? where's he these days?

I was chatting to some Serbs about football while on holiday in Montenegro. It seems Curcic is now bankrupt. Their consensus seemed to be that he is quite mad.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ad@m on August 30, 2011, 12:02:50 AM
Actually, maybe a good challenge would be... what's the lowest division we can find a former Villa player in?

Can anyone beat Stefan Moore of St Neots Town in the United Counties League?

How about a player's brother? Charisma Agbonlahor plays for Aston in the Midland Combination division two - step eight of the pyramid.

Lee Hendrie's little brother plays Sunday football round here.  I played against him in a cup game a couple of years ago.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave Cooper please on August 30, 2011, 12:12:06 AM

Lee Hendrie's little brother plays Sunday football round here.  I played against him in a cup game a

Stuart?
We had him at Tamworth for a short while, he was seriously shite.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ad@m on August 30, 2011, 12:13:59 AM

Lee Hendrie's little brother plays Sunday football round here.  I played against him in a cup game a

Stuart?
We had him at Tamworth for a short while, he was seriously shite.

Can't remember to be sure but that sounds about right.  He was a lot less gobby than his brother though!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on September 11, 2011, 01:20:21 AM
I have the Football League show on in the background tonight and found out Solano is at Hartlepool. I thought he'd retired.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Lambert and Payne on September 11, 2011, 11:03:32 PM
Ever heard of a player called Geoff Samuels? Was on the books here as a youngster, ended up playing for Cheltenham and Gloucester. Is now a college tutor at Evesham. Once at a college assignment we compared ourselves to a proffesional player, he, as an example compared himself to John Terry (while he was England captain) and he worked out he was better!! He was quite scary when he lost the plot aswell!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rich6by7 on September 12, 2011, 04:53:22 PM
Dariusz Kubicki is now managing Dolcan Ząbki in the Polish equivalent of the Championship-  clicky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dariusz_Kubicki)
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brice jovial on September 14, 2011, 10:17:59 PM
Olympiakos first match yester they lost to marseille jean makoun came on second half attacking play was okie but no end product from greeks.

Think makoun will get several opportunities in midfield and possibley used differently to role at short time here at villa...

Some mellberg guy there too remember him
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brice jovial on September 15, 2011, 06:15:42 PM
In kiev v stoke former villa gk sorryson is nets tonight.
Crouchie has been rested and not involved.

Be a good test for stoke
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Grande Pablo on September 15, 2011, 11:05:56 PM
Bouma played for PSV tonight too.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: The Left Side on September 16, 2011, 02:06:46 AM
Bouma played for PSV tonight too.

Did he have a good game?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brice jovial on September 16, 2011, 10:12:25 AM
According to goal . Com he was 6/10

this season for dutch league has 3apps 1 goal !

Boom boom boom
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Fernando Partridge on January 02, 2013, 04:28:34 PM
I see James Collins @ Swindon hit four goals against Portsmouth and has scored quite a few I dont think he can be higher than championship level.

Habib Beye is currently without a club  :o
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: SoccerHQ on January 02, 2013, 08:12:40 PM
Sam Williams scoring a shed load for Dageneham in league two.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on January 02, 2013, 08:31:13 PM
King Carlos is still doing a great job for us. A couple of own goals the other day and tonight he's given Suarez the Freedom of Anfield.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: martyn ellis on January 02, 2013, 11:03:07 PM
Interesting the number of ex-Villa players who no-one thought up to the mark and then moved on then emerge as very influential in their new clubs. examples are Maloney who is a revelation at Wigan, Sidwell who has been playing well at Fulham and Routledge at Swansea who looks a different player to when he played for us. A lot to do with coaching and 'seeing' a player's best role I think. Then there's Ridgewell and Luke Moore who seems to have carved out a top flight career for himself when many felt he may go the way of his brother.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Virgil Caine on January 03, 2013, 06:34:23 AM
A quick update on Stefan Moore, he is now at Leamington and scored a hat trick on his debut having been transferred from St Neots Town.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Matt Collins on January 03, 2013, 08:20:38 AM
I was thinking about some of the players we let go because they couldn't get in the side: Cahill, ridgewell, sidwell, routledge. All would be very welcome additions at the moment! NRC (who I don't think has even been first choice for Ipswich consistently) harewood and beye? Less so.
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Post by: N'ZMAV on January 03, 2013, 08:39:43 AM
I keep an eye out for Peter Whittingham
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Post by: Meanwood Villa on January 03, 2013, 08:44:53 AM
I watched some A League highlights last night and saw Ivanhoe hammer another one in for Newcastle Jets. Did his best to put it over from 6 yards mind.
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Post by: Risso on January 03, 2013, 09:22:12 AM
I watched some A League highlights last night and saw Ivanhoe hammer another one in for Newcastle Jets. Did his best to put it over from 6 yards mind.

I watched an entire match last week, it was unbelievably dire.
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Post by: john e on January 03, 2013, 09:58:12 AM
Olaf Mellberg playing for Villareal in the Spanish 2 nd div,
 so i was told yesterday be Dave the Mod

so still plays for Villa sort of
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Post by: Dave Cooper please on January 03, 2013, 11:29:09 AM
Not everyone's cup of tea I know but Lee Hendrie had an excellent game in Tamworth's 2-1 win over Scumeaton last night.
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Post by: Matt Collins on January 03, 2013, 01:13:27 PM
Interesting the number of ex-Villa players who no-one thought up to the mark and then moved on then emerge as very influential in their new clubs. examples are Maloney who is a revelation at Wigan, Sidwell who has been playing well at Fulham and Routledge at Swansea who looks a different player to when he played for us. A lot to do with coaching and 'seeing' a player's best role I think. Then there's Ridgewell and Luke Moore who seems to have carved out a top flight career for himself when many felt he may go the way of his brother.
Interesting the number of ex-Villa players who no-one thought up to the mark and then moved on then emerge as very influential in their new clubs. examples are Maloney who is a revelation at Wigan, Sidwell who has been playing well at Fulham and Routledge at Swansea who looks a different player to when he played for us. A lot to do with coaching and 'seeing' a player's best role I think. Then there's Ridgewell and Luke Moore who seems to have carved out a top flight career for himself when many felt he may go the way of his brother.
Interesting the number of ex-Villa players who no-one thought up to the mark and then moved on then emerge as very influential in their new clubs. examples are Maloney who is a revelation at Wigan, Sidwell who has been playing well at Fulham and Routledge at Swansea who looks a different player to when he played for us. A lot to do with coaching and 'seeing' a player's best role I think. Then there's Ridgewell and Luke Moore who seems to have carved out a top flight career for himself when many felt he may go the way of his brother.

I forgot about Maloney. Steven Davis too, to a lesser extent. Whittingham would be a useful dquad option too. I think like Moore looks quite decent as a squad player for Swansea. Maybe we'll jettison the current batch of young players less quickly than we did that lot now we're not looking to buy in immediate success.
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Post by: Fernando Partridge on January 03, 2013, 10:00:30 PM
Shane lowry doing well at millwall though often picks up a card. Millwall by all accounts have a good season.
Where's Jonathan hogg these days? last i heard he was at pompey or watford?  I remember seeing him play against man u in the middle and had a few other games .. Did the basics had no shot or any vast range of passes or creative play. Combative and steady.
And remember when cahill and ridgewell and whitts played at old trafford under odreary they put in a galiant effort in an early career apps
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Post by: SoccerHQ on January 03, 2013, 11:18:20 PM
Hogg is actually a regular in Watford amongst all the loan players from Udinese and Granada, one of the few of the Watford old guard who still gets a regular game so Zola clearly rates him.

Could be another one back in the prem soon enough.
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Post by: Fernando Partridge on January 04, 2013, 05:03:57 PM
Hogg might be off to Ipswich.. Can see him more as a mcarthy player than zola. Quite rite done well in an improving watford team
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Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on January 05, 2013, 03:17:13 PM
King Carlos involved in "one of the worst piece of defending you'll see" to allow Bolton to take the lead against Martino'twatface'ssunderland.
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Post by: LeeB on January 05, 2013, 06:15:52 PM
King Carlos involved in "one of the worst piece of defending you'll see" to allow Bolton to take the lead against Martino'twatface'ssunderland.

He's looked absolutely garbage every time I've seen him play for them.
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Post by: Fernando Partridge on January 05, 2013, 07:47:46 PM
James Collins hammers scores 2 and villa old boy townsend gives him man of the match.

James Collins also scores again for swindon
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Post by: Matt Collins on January 06, 2013, 07:00:38 PM
There's a reason 3 successive managers picked Collins and Dunne ahead of Cuellar, even when falling out with both of them at times. He's not that good.
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Post by: john e on January 06, 2013, 08:23:36 PM
I liked Carlos, but I watch him now and feel glad we let him go

He was another one of those players that got better and better with every game he didn't play
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Post by: cheltenhamlion on January 07, 2013, 11:57:13 AM
Stefan Moore scored again for Leamington on Saturday after a debut hat trick. Unfortunately for him Stourbridge stuck five in at the other end.
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Post by: paul_e on January 07, 2013, 02:07:29 PM
I liked Carlos, but I watch him now and feel glad we let him go

He was another one of those players that got better and better with every game he didn't play

Carlos was a nice guy in a defence full of despicable arseholes, it's no shock we all wanted him to play more, despite the fact that he really wasn't very good.
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Post by: badluckeric(gates) on January 07, 2013, 02:29:55 PM
Stefan Moore scored again for Leamington on Saturday after a debut hat trick. Unfortunately for him Stourbridge stuck five in at the other end.
Come on you Glassboys!
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Post by: Pete on January 25, 2013, 04:32:27 PM
Not 'still playing', but....Mark Lillis has been appointed caretaker manager of Huddersfield. It might be for a while as the chairman says he's in no mad rush to appoint a replacement for Grayson
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Post by: eric woolban woolban on January 25, 2013, 06:55:00 PM
Darren Byfield has re-signed for Tamworth on non-contract terms.
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Post by: SoccerHQ on January 25, 2013, 09:03:19 PM
King Carlos involved in "one of the worst piece of defending you'll see" to allow Bolton to take the lead against Martino'twatface'ssunderland.

He's looked absolutely garbage every time I've seen him play for them.

Yeah he has and I really rated him when he was with us.
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Post by: Dave Cooper please on January 25, 2013, 11:00:59 PM

[/quote]
Darren Byfield has re-signed for Tamworth on non-contract terms.

We're only hoping Jamelia is still soft on him.
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Post by: Fernando Partridge on January 27, 2013, 02:21:02 PM
Harry forrester performing well in today cup tie for brentford against chelsea. Lambert has said though
"he's not one we're looking at".

Brad is gk for spurs match today looks like he's used for the cup matches now -similar to given.
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Post by: eamonn on January 27, 2013, 03:22:27 PM

Darren Byfield has re-signed for Tamworth on non-contract terms.

We're only hoping Jamelia is still soft on him.
[/quote]

Jamelia is too busy being a judge on the Irish version of "The Voice".

Byfield and Hendrie back together again after starting out 20 years ago at the Villa. How they gelling?
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Post by: Dave Cooper please on January 27, 2013, 07:08:10 PM


Byfield and Hendrie back together again after starting out 20 years ago at the Villa. How they gelling?

Dunno, we haven't managed to play a game this year yet.
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Post by: SoccerHQ on January 27, 2013, 07:37:44 PM
You've resigned Hendrie's brother haven't you Dave.......
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Post by: Dave Cooper please on January 28, 2013, 10:16:08 AM
You've resigned Hendrie's brother haven't you Dave.......

We have indeed.
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Post by: Fernando Partridge on February 09, 2013, 10:21:57 PM
Hendrie scored for tamworth today. And Davies for Saints. Could do with some midfielders who get forward and score!
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Post by: Dave Cooper please on February 10, 2013, 12:41:54 PM
Hendrie's goal was a cracker, 22 yard screamer off the underside of the crossbar.
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Post by: villa kicks on February 10, 2013, 05:16:42 PM
Hendrie's goal was a cracker, 22 yard screamer off the underside of the crossbar.

Gareth Barry had aa neat finish too  - with his right foot!! ;)
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Post by: villa kicks on May 24, 2013, 03:03:51 PM
Tommy Hitz has been at everton in prem league this season but is to be relased. He hasn't played for much of season. GKs Stuart Taylot Boaz Myhill are out of contract. Someone mentioned Mellbergs out of contract too. Always interesting to see progress of ex villains . Stefan Moore was last seen plying his trade at 2 clubs with dual registration Leamington spa and Brackley Town! Euro Hot shot Baros left gala and went back to his first club banik ostrav. Djemba djemba is at hapoel tel avi   
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Post by: Damo70 on May 24, 2013, 04:29:19 PM
Tommy Hitz has been at everton in prem league this season but is to be relased. He hasn't played for much of season. GKs Stuart Taylot Boaz Myhill are out of contract. Someone mentioned Mellbergs out of contract too. Always interesting to see progress of ex villains . Stefan Moore was last seen plying his trade at 2 clubs with dual registration Leamington spa and Brackley Town! Euro Hot shot Baros left gala and went back to his first club banik ostrav. Djemba djemba is at hapoel tel avi

With Marshall going and Given almost certain to follow, maybe Myhill is worth a shout for number two keeper. Reasonable age and quality. He did well at Hull and Blues and looked OK as a stand in Premier League keeper at Albion. A bit unlucky to lose his place if I recall correctly.
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Post by: cdbearsfan on May 24, 2013, 04:35:18 PM
Surprised to notice the other day that David James is now plying his trade in the Icelandic League with IBV Vestmannaeyjar. Fair play to him, I'm sure he has enough money to retire but obviously loves the game.
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Post by: Damo70 on May 24, 2013, 04:39:40 PM
Iceland? I remember his reason for moving to Bristol City was to be close to his family home in Devon. He must have been in the same geography class at school as our mate Robbie Savage.
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Post by: PeterWithesShin on May 24, 2013, 05:20:18 PM
According to Wiki:

On 2 April 2013, James signed a deal with Icelandic club ÍBV until the end of the 2013 season.[45] ÍBV is coached by James' former teammate Hermann Hreiðarsson. The chairman of the ÍBV board stated that James was not on high wages while also stating that he wished some Icelandic players would accept the wages James was on and that James was mainly playing for ÍBV out of kindness and gaining experience as assistant manager to his former team-mate, Hermann Hreidarsson.[46] 
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Post by: eamonn on May 24, 2013, 06:12:56 PM
Fair play to Jamesy. Has matured from his nights of being addicted to Playstation and changing his hairstyle every month.
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Post by: Slaphead on May 24, 2013, 06:19:47 PM
Iceland? I remember his reason for moving to Bristol City was to be close to his family home in Devon. He must have been in the same geography class at school as our mate Robbie Savage.

I think he thought he was signing for th supermarket chain.
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Post by: eric woolban woolban on May 24, 2013, 06:19:50 PM
Reuben Hazell is our sandwich man at work.
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Post by: eamonn on May 24, 2013, 06:48:25 PM
Reuben Hazell is our sandwich man at work.

Really? A great name deserved a glittering career.
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Post by: Vancouver on May 24, 2013, 07:45:49 PM
Reuben Hazell is our sandwich man at work.

Surely a Reuben bread themed joke?
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Post by: eric woolban woolban on May 24, 2013, 08:19:08 PM
His company does buffets and I saw the name and wondered if it was him. A quick search on google says so.
Friendly guy too and his prawn chilli wrap is lush.
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Post by: villa kicks on May 24, 2013, 09:52:10 PM
According to Wiki:

On 2 April 2013, James signed a deal with Icelandic club ÍBV until the end of the 2013 season.[45] ÍBV is coached by James' former teammate Hermann Hreiðarsson. The chairman of the ÍBV board stated that James was not on high wages while also stating that he wished some Icelandic players would accept the wages James was on and that James was mainly playing for ÍBV out of kindness and gaining experience as assistant manager to his former team-mate, Hermann Hreidarsson.[46]

David James is doing his coaching badges at st Georges this week along with neviller
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Post by: The Left Side on May 26, 2013, 02:06:49 AM
According to Wiki:

On 2 April 2013, James signed a deal with Icelandic club ÍBV until the end of the 2013 season.[45] ÍBV is coached by James' former teammate Hermann Hreiðarsson. The chairman of the ÍBV board stated that James was not on high wages while also stating that he wished some Icelandic players would accept the wages James was on and that James was mainly playing for ÍBV out of kindness and gaining experience as assistant manager to his former team-mate, Hermann Hreidarsson.[46]

David James is doing his coaching badges at st Georges this week along with neviller

And my mate Steve
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Post by: *shellac* on May 26, 2013, 03:51:20 AM
Boateng is playing in the Malaysian Super League.
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Post by: ez on May 26, 2013, 08:37:16 AM
I wonder where the Togolese Zidane is now?
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Post by: gervilla on May 26, 2013, 08:49:01 AM
I wonder where the Togolese Zidane is now?

Without a club since 2012 according to wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moustapha_Salifou
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Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on May 26, 2013, 08:49:49 AM
Jlloyd Samuel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jlloyd_Samuel

Quote
On 31 December 2011, he joined Iran Pro League side, Esteghlal where he was re-united with his former Bolton team mate Andranik Teymourian, Samuel signed a two years contract with the club on 9 January 2012. He made his debut against Damash on the following day. He spent a good half season at Esteghlal but after the end of the season, Esteghlal's new head coach, Amir Ghalenoei named him in his list of outsiders. However, after meeting with club's chairman, he extended his contract and also got his favourite number 3 which was available after the transfer of Mehdi Amirabadi. Esteghlal fans nicknamed him The Black Diamond after his good form in 2012–13 season. He won the Iran Pro League title with Esteghlal in his second season at the club. He also scored sixth time during the season, three was in AFC Champions League.

(http://www.thenational.ae/deployedfiles/Assets/Richmedia/Image/SaxoPress/AD20120320823139-Jlloyd_Samuel_c.jpg)
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Post by: villa kicks on May 26, 2013, 10:43:06 AM
Boateng is playing in the Malaysian Super League.

Georgie Boateng was doing a bit on the sky and talksport outlets a few seasons back though he fancies a career in management than media. He also claimed in an interview it would be a dream to manage aston villa- have all the facilities in place and a massive club and great stadium.
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Post by: villa kicks on May 26, 2013, 09:57:56 PM
Short term loan player Mikey Bradley missed a sitter in coppa Italia early on for Roma. Lazio ended up winning it. 
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Post by: villa kicks on May 27, 2013, 05:19:18 PM
Kevin Phillip now @ palace scored in ET of Play off final. Penalty.
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Post by: richardhubbard on May 27, 2013, 05:29:03 PM
Phillips still playing and scoring at that level is unreal
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Post by: The Left Side on May 28, 2013, 04:40:56 AM
Phillips still playing and scoring at that level is unreal

Fair play to him
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Post by: curiousorange on May 28, 2013, 01:25:29 PM
Phillips still playing and scoring at that level is unreal

Fair play to him

I have nothing but respect for Kevin Phillips - played for some dodgy clubs but to still be playing such an integral role at his age shows how much he still cares about being a footballer. The flipside of that, of course, is how short on resources Palace are. They need to have Zaha back for the season if they can, because they could do a Derby without a major injection of new blood.
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Post by: PeterWithesShin on May 28, 2013, 01:28:11 PM
Fair play to Phillips for still going at his age. Although I was surprised that only once did he ever score more than 14 in a top flight season.
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Post by: cdbearsfan on May 28, 2013, 03:34:38 PM
Robbie Keane scored a hat-trick at the weekend for the Los Angeles Milky Way (or something like that).
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Post by: richardhubbard on May 28, 2013, 05:17:37 PM
Phillips at 40 got a better eye for goal compared to a number of strikers who followed. Baros, Heskey , even gabby could learn a thing from him.

Shame he got injured whilst with us but he recovered in his 3 years of football retirement
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Post by: Ad@m on May 28, 2013, 08:43:03 PM
Interesting little article here - http://sports.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106751.php

Suggests Ashley Young, at £130k per week, is one of the Top 10 most overpaid players in the Premier League!
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Post by: villa kicks on May 28, 2013, 09:10:29 PM
Ashley has been unlucky with injuries this season. He is good enough for man u and deserves what he earns. Its not Rooney who hasn't performed. And that list should basically show the qpr team as the top 10 overpaid players.
I for one am happy youngy got his  winners medal this season. Moyes will get he best out of him   
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Post by: Steve R on May 29, 2013, 12:13:27 AM
Young had some good games for ManU when he first went there.

It was after that disgraceful dive against us that he had a run of bad form and started to play like the kind of player that would struggle to get a game for Stoke.

This may be my imagination.
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Post by: villa kicks on May 29, 2013, 07:18:58 PM
Young had some good games for ManU when he first went there.

It was after that disgraceful dive against us that he had a run of bad form and started to play like the kind of player that would struggle to get a game for Stoke.

This may be my imagination.

More the euros 2012 where he was poor .. in the run up he was best english player....he was always gonna miss that pen
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Post by: villa kicks on August 06, 2013, 09:37:35 PM
Derick Williams has just come on for last few mins Bristol City debut @ Gillingham. Very good prospect and for me he could have beeen a part of villa squad. Elliot parish was on the bench next to him
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Post by: supertom on August 06, 2013, 09:44:56 PM
Ashley has been unlucky with injuries this season. He is good enough for man u and deserves what he earns. Its not Rooney who hasn't performed. And that list should basically show the qpr team as the top 10 overpaid players.
I for one am happy youngy got his  winners medal this season. Moyes will get he best out of him   

Very true. Their most consistent players last season were the ones who had the least reputation in the top flight. Players like Derry and Mackie who clearly aren't Prem quality but the only players who really bust a gut for them.

All the big money players coming with a reputation either half assed it or spent most of their time injured.
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Post by: Ad@m on September 04, 2013, 12:04:02 AM
Luke Moore signed for Elazigspor in Turkey last week. He's pushing older brother Stephen for the accolade of biggest balls up of a promising career ever!
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Post by: eamonn on September 04, 2013, 12:48:17 AM
I imagine he's quite happy rolling in lira and ladies over there. 
Expect a Sunday Mercury sex-romp exposé this winter: "Moore The Merrier as Luke Enjoys Turkish Delights"
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Post by: Dave on September 04, 2013, 08:13:48 AM
Luke Moore signed for Elazigspor in Turkey last week. He's pushing older brother Stephen for the accolade of biggest balls up of a promising career ever!
I'd say that's a rather spectacular exaggeration - at the same age Stefan was turning out for St Neots Town. Luke was scoring winning goals against the league champions as recently as last ten months ago.

The Süper Lig is hardly the worst league in the world.
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Post by: adrenachrome on September 04, 2013, 04:01:25 PM
Luke Moore signed for Elazigspor in Turkey last week. He's pushing older brother Stephen for the accolade of biggest balls up of a promising career ever!
I'd say that's a rather spectacular exaggeration - at the same age Stefan was turning out for St Neots Town. Luke was scoring winning goals against the league champions as recently as last ten months ago.

The Süper Lig is hardly the worst league in the world.

As my Turkish brother in law is wont to exclaim:
"Correct talk!'.
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Post by: Ad@m on September 04, 2013, 06:12:56 PM
Luke Moore signed for Elazigspor in Turkey last week. He's pushing older brother Stephen for the accolade of biggest balls up of a promising career ever!
I'd say that's a rather spectacular exaggeration - at the same age Stefan was turning out for St Neots Town. Luke was scoring winning goals against the league champions as recently as last ten months ago.

The Süper Lig is hardly the worst league in the world.

I'd argue that Luke is considerably more talented than Stephan so to end up at a club in Turkey that has never won a domestic trophy, is currently enjoying only its 4th season in the top flight and in a ground with a capacity less than 15,000, when he's at the peak age for a footballer is a terrible waste of talent.

At the end of the day, both are massively below where they should be given their natural talents.
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Post by: Woofles The Wonder Dog on September 04, 2013, 07:58:03 PM
Elliot Parish, Shorey, Marlon F Harewood, all playing for Bristol City tonight, not Williams though.
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Post by: UK Redsox on September 04, 2013, 10:01:50 PM
Elliot Parish, Shorey, Marlon F Harewood, all playing for Bristol City tonight, not Williams though.

And they even made Marlon captain
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Post by: eric woolban woolban on September 04, 2013, 10:18:23 PM
Wondering what the F meant for in Marlon F Harewood, Wikipedia points it to being Anderson...
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Post by: N'ZMAV on September 04, 2013, 10:19:07 PM
COME ON MARLON!
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Post by: Dave on September 04, 2013, 10:22:05 PM
Wondering what the F meant for in Marlon F Harewood, Wikipedia points it to being Anderson...
Think back to your reaction when you found out that we'd signed him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eric woolban woolban on September 04, 2013, 10:34:04 PM
Wondering what the F meant for in Marlon F Harewood, Wikipedia points it to being Anderson...
Think back to your reaction when you found out that we'd signed him.

Fantastic! ;O)
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Post by: Vancouver on September 05, 2013, 12:04:48 AM
Wondering what the F meant for in Marlon F Harewood, Wikipedia points it to being Anderson...
Think back to your reaction when you found out that we'd signed him.

Fantastic! ;O)

Fabulous
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Post by: Simon Ward on September 05, 2013, 03:26:29 PM
flippin' heck
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Post by: Weedy on September 28, 2013, 06:42:51 PM
George Boateng wants to manage Villa:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2301509/The-Footballers-Football-Column--George-Boateng-Steve-McClaren-best-manager-I-played-under.html

"...When I finish playing, my dream managerial job would be Aston Villa.
They have the training ground, the fan base, great stadium.
And I love the ground – it’s so big, if you’ve got good players, they’ll make it work.
I hated going to smaller grounds like Bradford and Portsmouth.
You want to play passing football but you can’t, people are constantly in your face.
There’s no space.
"
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Post by: Louzie0 on September 28, 2013, 06:53:00 PM
Noticed a lack of comment about JM in the match thread. Anonymous or not playing?
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Post by: eastie on September 28, 2013, 07:17:02 PM
Noticed a lack of comment about JM in the match thread. Anonymous or not playing?

Not one of his better games .
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Post by: AV82EC on September 28, 2013, 07:31:16 PM
Noticed a lack of comment about JM in the match thread. Anonymous or not playing?

Not one of his better games .

I'd say Luna marked him out of the game. So much so he was swapped to the other wing where he did bugger all against Bacuna as well. But we all know he's not a winger so what do you expect....
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Post by: Summers on September 28, 2013, 07:34:09 PM
Oh how I wish we still had Milner, in central midfield. He's such a talented CM being absolutely wasted out wide.
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Post by: Dave on September 30, 2013, 07:41:40 PM
Gareth Barry tonight becomes the tenth player to play 500 Premier League games.

Decent achievement.
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Post by: eastie on September 30, 2013, 07:53:04 PM
Gareth Barry tonight becomes the tenth player to play 500 Premier League games.

Decent achievement.

It certainly is and I was interested in Martinez comments that he hopes barry will be with everton for a few years to come - certainly deserves praise for his achievement and  I wish him well .
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Post by: saunders_heroes on September 30, 2013, 07:58:31 PM
Gareth Barry tonight becomes the tenth player to play 500 Premier League games.

Decent achievement.

Great professional. Not many players become a 1st team regular in the PL from the age of 17.
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Post by: SoccerHQ on September 30, 2013, 10:18:02 PM
Shows how rarely he's been injured aswell as he must have average 30 odd appearences in the league in his 15 seasons to get to that figure. Well done him, I would hope he would get a decent reception when Everton turn up in a few weeks now he's not at City.

Gabby must be halfway to the 500 as I would guess he must be on 250 ish league appearences by now?
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Post by: dekko on September 30, 2013, 10:24:39 PM
Shows how rarely he's been injured aswell as he must have average 30 odd appearences in the league in his 15 seasons to get to that figure. Well done him, I would hope he would get a decent reception when Everton turn up in a few weeks now he's not at City.

Gabby must be halfway to the 500 as I would guess he must be on 250 ish league appearences by now?

248 league appearances for Villa
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Post by: eamonn on October 01, 2013, 01:12:43 AM
Wished we'd have taken him back. I think the old heart-strings would have pulled him to us rather than Everton.
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Post by: MoetVillan on October 01, 2013, 11:47:11 AM
City fans bemoaning losing him, and Everton fans lauding him.  Well done Barry.  Great achievement.  Its not all roses for our ex players that we have sold for a lot of money recently, Milner has never really had the chance to show what he gave us.  Downing..... Good deal for us is all I can say.  The biggest disappointment has been Young surely.  I loved watching him play, yes he was Billybigbollocks at the end, but he always looked like he could get something for us.  Now he looks beat, short of ideas, short of confidence.
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Post by: LeeB on October 01, 2013, 11:55:01 AM
I'm sure he'll look back with regret that he never did get his 'dream move to Liverpool'.
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Post by: Virgil Caine on October 01, 2013, 12:12:46 PM
I'm sure he'll look back with regret that he never did get his 'dream move to Liverpool'.

I am sure any such regret is softened by the fact that he has a better haul of medals than he would have if he'd gone to Liverpool.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: LeeB on October 01, 2013, 12:37:25 PM
I'm sure he'll look back with regret that he never did get his 'dream move to Liverpool'.

I am sure any such regret is softened by the fact that he has a better haul of medals than he would have if he'd gone to Liverpool.

I was being sarcastic.
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Post by: eastie on October 01, 2013, 12:40:51 PM
Wished we'd have taken him back. I think the old heart-strings would have pulled him to us rather than Everton.

I'd like to think so but he did say the pull of everton and the fact that his kids could stay at school in the north west was a huge factor in his move there.
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Post by: Villa in Denmark on October 02, 2013, 11:01:38 AM
Re Barry and 500 PL appearances. How many more would it have been if he hadn't fallen out with Gregory around the time of the "doesn't get his shorts dirty" comment?
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Post by: SoccerHQ on October 02, 2013, 07:20:11 PM
From memory it was only half a season so probably another 20 games.

I'd have loved him back tbh particularly as Westwood hasn't got going this season.

I think Barry's role in Everton is partly why Ross Barkley has been so good these last few weeks, looks a good balance to their midfield.
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Post by: supertom on October 02, 2013, 11:00:21 PM
Barry's just a classy player. Great touch. Great range of passing. Really clever user of the ball. He has no pace, but he never has really. It doesn't stop him being able to get himself out of tight spots well because of his great balance and control of the ball. We did miss the boat, but honestly, we know Lamberts never going to sign a 32 year old on big wages. Westy will come good again too.

Now if we can just find a younger version of Barry, that would make for a good signing.
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Post by: eamonn on October 03, 2013, 01:56:49 AM
Re Barry and 500 PL appearances. How many more would it have been if he hadn't fallen out with Gregory around the time of the "doesn't get his shorts dirty" comment?

A dozen or so. Not enough to keep you up all night sobbing your heart out.
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Post by: PGW on October 03, 2013, 12:52:44 PM
I share many a pint with Gareth Barry's father in law and he tells me he would have crawled on hands and knees to come back to us after his falling out at City.
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Post by: AlwaysAVFC on October 03, 2013, 01:31:02 PM
I share many a pint with Gareth Barry's father in law and he tells me he would have crawled on hands and knees to come back to us after his falling out at City.

2nd hand from someone that spoke to Barry over the summer. He said he'd jump at the chance to come back but that he was about 10 years too old to play for us.
I imagine he would have been touted to us as well (along with many other clubs) but we weren't interested. No idea whether saying he was too old was in reference to already being rejected or just jokingly for the fact how young the team is.
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Post by: eamonn on October 03, 2013, 04:23:28 PM
The latter, surely. He clearly isn't too old enough to be playing for a decent Premier League side.
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Post by: Vancouver on October 03, 2013, 05:52:45 PM
I share many a pint with Gareth Barry's father in law and he tells me he would have crawled on hands and knees to come back to us after his falling out at City.

was there a proper falling out or just not in favour any more?
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Post by: Weedy on October 05, 2013, 03:00:15 PM
According to Sky Sports, Kevin Poole is on the bench for Burton Albion today. He's 50.
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Post by: eamonn on October 05, 2013, 04:29:37 PM
Fair play. Wasn't he once on our books?
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Post by: supertom on October 05, 2013, 05:58:42 PM
Davies was quality today. He's looked good for Bruce so far. I think the drop down to play regularly has helped him. This is the sort of age where he's got to find consistency and it's looking good at the moment.
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Post by: ez on October 05, 2013, 06:04:00 PM
The latter, surely. He clearly isn't too old enough to be playing for a decent Premier League side.
Just too old to play for Lambert.
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Post by: Woofles The Wonder Dog on October 05, 2013, 06:48:55 PM
Fair play. Wasn't he once on our books?

In the 80s. Fine shot stopper, but on the small side for a goalie. He made two of the best saves I've ever seen, from Kevin Speedie of Chelsea. Arse that Speedie was he still shook Poole's hand after both saves.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: supertom on October 05, 2013, 06:57:10 PM
It's amazing he's had a 32 year career but only played just over 400 games. But yeah, his height may have been an issue.
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Post by: Duncan Shaw on October 05, 2013, 07:07:42 PM
Fair play. Wasn't he once on our books?
Yes, which is probably why he's popped up in the "ex-villa players still playing" thread!!
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Post by: ACVilla on October 05, 2013, 07:49:39 PM
Barry Bannan not even in the squad for Palace today. Not injured, just dropped. A close family member is best mates with him, going out on the town with him in Liverpool tonight, tells me there was a huge bust up in the Palace dressing room at half time last week. Punchers were thrown and all that jazz.

They're doomed I tell ya, doomed.
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Post by: eamonn on October 05, 2013, 07:53:07 PM
D'oh!

Sounds like he shudda bin a jockey (horse - not the other two).
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Post by: Gerrin on October 05, 2013, 08:00:26 PM
Davies was quality today. He's looked good for Bruce so far. I think the drop down to play regularly has helped him. This is the sort of age where he's got to find consistency and it's looking good at the moment.

I always rated Davies, never understood why he was sold, he was a first team regular, did his shoulder, couldn't get back in the team when he was fit again, so he was sold. He's been somewhat unlucky with his career.
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Post by: TheMalandro on October 05, 2013, 08:15:40 PM
Davies was quality today. He's looked good for Bruce so far. I think the drop down to play regularly has helped him. This is the sort of age where he's got to find consistency and it's looking good at the moment.
He's been somewhat unlucky with his career.

Baggies and the blose, he really has
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Fernando Partridge on October 05, 2013, 08:41:37 PM
Interesting to see a lot of midfielders around.

Lichaj played and booked for Forest
Shorey Bristol city
Warnock Leeds
Jean Makoun taken off at Guingamp  for Rennes
Hogg Huddersfield
Dunne QPR
Sidwell Fulham
Gardner Sunderland GOAL
Whittingham Cardiff.
Milner Man City
Osbourne Blackpool


Bench
Lowry Milwall
Cuellar Sunderland
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Post by: supertom on October 05, 2013, 11:10:40 PM
Dunney's been different class for QPR so far. My R's mate is chuffed to bits, because I didn't really give Dunney much of a recommendation. But he's playing every week, looking fit again and has been rock solid for them. He apparently looks a cut above at that level. I'm glad our defence is doing well though, particularly our central defenders, because I'd hate to open up the "we shouldn't have let Dunne go" can of worms. lol.

Bannan is a waster to be honest. I don't think he'll ever make it at the top level. His head aint screwed on for this business. I think he'll piss his talent away down the leagues, year on year. Can honestly see him playing non-league within 5 years.
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Post by: tomd2103 on October 06, 2013, 03:01:48 PM
Although he is only on loan so not technically an ex-player yet, I see Bent got a goal yesterday.  I must admit I am becoming tired of the media still constantly questioning why he didn't play for us regularly last season.  Despite him scoring yesterday, I think the fact that he couldn't get into the starting XI for a really struggling Fulham side speaks volumes really.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on October 06, 2013, 04:57:11 PM
Speaks volumes about his lack of fitness more than ability imo.

Anyway, I wish Cyrille Regis was still banging them in somewhere like Frickley. He's not, is he?
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Post by: dave.woodhall on October 06, 2013, 05:44:11 PM
Talking of fortysomething Villa players, or rather players with the same name as..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24352543
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Post by: tomd2103 on October 06, 2013, 11:48:50 PM
Speaks volumes about his lack of fitness more than ability imo.

Anyway, I wish Cyrille Regis was still banging them in somewhere like Frickley. He's not, is he?

I was commenting more on why the media keep persisting with this idea that he was hard done by at Villa last season.  He was ineffective on the occasions he played for us, whereas Benteke was on fire and that is the simple reason why he didn't play all that much.   
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Hillbilly on October 11, 2013, 11:46:00 AM
Newcastle Jets marquee player, Emile Heskey, missed tonight's match against Sydney. Poor old Emile got taken out in a preseason friendly. In his absence, the less acclaimed Alessandro del Piero was the star of the show...
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on October 11, 2013, 11:53:26 AM
Lots of ex-Villa at Bristol City:-

Harewood
Shorey
Derrick Williams
Elliott Parish
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Post by: nick harper on October 27, 2013, 07:59:00 PM
Michael Bradley scores the winner as Roma break the record for the most consecutive wins from the start of a Serie A season.
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Post by: paulcomben on October 27, 2013, 08:08:38 PM
I went to Watford v Derby last week. That Dawkins fella who sat on the Villa bench from Jan to May came on as a sub.
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Post by: go on the dog on October 28, 2013, 04:39:40 PM
Lots of ex-Villa at Bristol City:-

Harewood
Shorey
Derrick Williams
Elliott Parish

Yeah watched them at Carlisle Saturday, Shorey was ok Williams looked poor and Harewood got 3 mins at the end. Jay Emmanuel Thomas looked a player though, like a mini Benteke  ;D but there again he was only up against my beloved Cufc
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Post by: Dave on November 07, 2013, 07:53:56 PM
Brad Friedel becomes the oldest player to ever play in the UEFA Cup (or it's various other forms) at the age of 42.

Well done him.
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Post by: villa kicks on January 19, 2014, 07:11:40 PM
Ash young was back in action but  getting a lot of stick v Chelsea today  they obviously saw him as a danger man .
I think he should have played behind wellbeck in free role roaming as the missing of Rooney and rvp set u p young to play there .
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Post by: Ad@m on January 30, 2014, 08:06:15 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25962305

Apparently Ash reckons speed limits don't apply if the road's quiet!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 31, 2014, 12:18:00 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25962305

Apparently Ash reckons speed limits don't apply if the road's quiet!

Getting done for way over the limit 2 months after receiving 6 points for the ton ( I thought that was an automatic ban ?) is either stupid, arrogant or a mix of the two.

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Post by: ciggiesnbeer on January 31, 2014, 07:16:23 PM
Andy Marshall retired today.

Andy Marshall ‏@andymarshallsga 45m

I just wanted to announce my retirement from playing Professional Football. Over the past 21 years it has been a fantastic opportunity


If you would like to wish him well you can do so here.

@andymarshallsga
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Post by: FatSam on February 05, 2014, 06:14:45 PM
From the Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/feb/05/manchester-united-eric-djemba-mirren):

Former Manchester United Aston Villa midfielder Eric Djemba-Djemba joins St Mirren
• 32-year-old signs for St Mirren until the end of the season
• Cameroon international set for debut against Dundee United

St Mirren have announced the signing of the former Manchester United midfielder Eric Djemba-Djemba.

The 32-year-old, who has been assigned No99, passed a medical on Wednesday afternoon and has agreed a deal with the Buddies until the end of the season.

The Cameroon international joined United in 2003 but failed to live up to his potential and later moved to Aston Villa. He has since had spells at Qatar SC, the Danish side Odense and Hapoel Tel Aviv in Israel before moving to Partizan Belgrade last summer.

However, his stint in Serbia lasted just six months as he was released after making 14 appearances. He could make his St Mirren debut in Sunday's Scottish Cup match against Dundee United.

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Post by: Hookeysmith on February 06, 2014, 12:46:07 PM
He must be either very brave or very skint

Could you imagine being a black player in Belgrade  :o  Not the most welcoming of places is it
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Post by: Tokyo Sexwhale on February 06, 2014, 02:02:18 PM
In this instance, I'm happy for him to be described as ex-Manchester United.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Broughty-Villian on February 09, 2014, 01:41:51 PM
played an hour in the cup match v Utd.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: adrenachrome on February 10, 2014, 01:24:11 AM
Sutton Coldfield Observer (http://www.suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk/Aston-Villa-Roms-pair-linked-moves/story-20592458-detail/story.html=)

Quote
Former Aston Villa and Roms pair linked with US moves


By Sutton Coldfield Observer  |  Posted: February 09, 2014

Former Romulus and Aston Villa defender Zat Knight could be heading for the United States.

Bolton Wanderers star Knight, from Erdington, has reportedly emerged as a target for MLS side Philadelphia Union, just weeks before the start of the American season.

Despite the British transfer window ending on January 31, clubs from the US can strengthen before the new campaign begins on March 8 - with outgoing deals from Britain still allowed.

Knight's contract at the Reebok Stadium comes to an end in June and he could be set to move.

Last week, another ex-Villa and Romulus player, Luke Moore, was linked with a move to the US.

MLS sides Los Angeles Galaxy and Chicago Fire have expressed an interest in the striker, who has been with Turkish club Elazigspor.

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Post by: Pete on February 11, 2014, 12:56:27 PM
Not a 'player still playing', but a 'player now coaching'. Spotted Mark Lillis in the local paper (Huddersfield) - he's youth coach at Town. They're doing well - drawn to play Man Utd in the 5th round of the FA Youth Cup. Beat the baggies in the last round.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: LeeB on February 11, 2014, 02:44:30 PM
Not a 'player still playing', but a 'player now coaching'. Spotted Mark Lillis in the local paper (Huddersfield) - he's youth coach at Town. They're doing well - drawn to play Man Utd in the 5th round of the FA Youth Cup. Beat the baggies in the last round.

You sure he's coaching and not just employed to keep the kids away from the fireplace?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Pete on February 11, 2014, 04:16:55 PM


Not a 'player still playing', but a 'player now coaching'. Spotted Mark Lillis in the local paper (Huddersfield) - he's youth coach at Town. They're doing well - drawn to play Man Utd in the 5th round of the FA Youth Cup. Beat the baggies in the last round.

You sure he's coaching and not just employed to keep the kids away from the fireplace?

Very Good Lee.

The link below illustrates how handsome he still is. And, slight mistake from me, he's not actually coach but academy manager. Not that it makes much difference.

http://www.htafc.com/news/article/academy-news-brighouse-preview-273642.aspx
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Post by: Chinchilla Bathhouse on February 11, 2014, 11:01:30 PM
Hahaha!  Thanks for that Lee and Pete, you've just sent beer through my nostrils.  Poor old Mark Lillis.  Bless him.  Can't remember him doing anything of note in a Villa shirt, but he looks like a nice bloke.
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Post by: Ron Manager on February 12, 2014, 11:41:42 AM
Darren Byfield scored last night for Tamworth.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Vancouver on May 12, 2014, 07:34:27 PM
Just passed Michael Bradley on the street in Vancouver as he is here with Toronto. Had the kids so didn't get a chance to talk to him
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Post by: Jarpie on May 12, 2014, 07:39:36 PM
Everyone's favourite Aston Villa goalkeeper Peter Enckelman is back in finnish league, after 13-14 years abroad.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Gregorys Boy on May 12, 2014, 09:18:28 PM
Sutton Coldfield Observer (http://www.suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk/Aston-Villa-Roms-pair-linked-moves/story-20592458-detail/story.html=)

Quote
Former Aston Villa and Roms pair linked with US moves


By Sutton Coldfield Observer  |  Posted: February 09, 2014

Former Romulus and Aston Villa defender Zat Knight could be heading for the United States.

Bolton Wanderers star Knight, from Erdington, has reportedly emerged as a target for MLS side Philadelphia Union, just weeks before the start of the American season.

Despite the British transfer window ending on January 31, clubs from the US can strengthen before the new campaign begins on March 8 - with outgoing deals from Britain still allowed.

Knight's contract at the Reebok Stadium comes to an end in June and he could be set to move.

Last week, another ex-Villa and Romulus player, Luke Moore, was linked with a move to the US.

MLS sides Los Angeles Galaxy and Chicago Fire have expressed an interest in the striker, who has been with Turkish club Elazigspor.

How old is Knight?  I am guessing early 30's. Surely he can still be a decent Championship player at least.
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Post by: eamonn on May 12, 2014, 10:30:41 PM
He is but the lure of the US must be big when compared to another year plodding around the lower regions of the Championship at a half-empty Macron Stadium (née Reebok).
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Post by: ACVilla on May 16, 2014, 07:16:49 PM
I see Ridgewell has been released by West Brom.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave Cooper please on May 16, 2014, 10:59:19 PM
I see Ridgewell has been released by West Brom.

Back to base Agent Ridgewell, mission not quite accomplished but a good effort.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: supertom on May 17, 2014, 12:33:50 AM
I see Ridgewell has been released by West Brom.

Back to base Agent Ridgewell, mission not quite accomplished but a good effort.
Agent Ridgewell, your mission should you choose to accept it, is to take the Blose down to League 1 next season. This message will giggle impishly in five seconds.
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Post by: adrenachrome on May 17, 2014, 11:55:31 PM
Luke Moore scored for Torronto in their victory over Noo Yoik Bulls. Defoe got the other in their 2-1 win.

Zilch for our old pal T. Henry.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: godzvilla on May 18, 2014, 03:17:32 PM
Fomer Villa reserve , Adam McGurk scored Burton Albion,s equaliser vs Southend yesterday . Burton  will now face Fleetwood at Wembley on  May 26 for a place in League One.
Just realised , thats both Derby and Burton going to Wembley within a few days of each other ..........Godzvilla !
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: pooligan on May 18, 2014, 03:59:24 PM
Pleased to see McGurk  score yesterday .I liked him when i use to see him play in our reserve side and felt he would be a certain first team player.However,like Gary Gardner,he seems to be injury prone
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Legion on May 28, 2014, 08:11:45 PM
Just seen yet another reason why I never want to see Alan Hutton in a Villa shirt again.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on June 07, 2014, 10:53:48 PM
Luke Moore's playing for Toronto against San Jose on BTSport at the moment
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Can Gana Be Bettered!?!? on June 07, 2014, 10:59:25 PM
Luke Moore's playing for Toronto against San Jose on BTSport at the moment

Is that who Defoe plays for?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on June 07, 2014, 11:02:49 PM
Yep. I guess Toronto have spent all their money on Defoe if they're having to use Moore L, as his strike partner.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on June 08, 2014, 08:04:57 PM
Former Villa legend Simon Dawkins is playing for Jamaica against France on BTSport tonight
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: FatSam on June 09, 2014, 10:11:02 PM
Don't know if this has been mentioned previously, but Zoltan Stieber (http://www.bundesliga.com/en/liga/news/2013/0000295215.php) has signed for Hamburg this summer:

Hamburg - Hungarian winger Zoltan Stieber has joined Hamburger SV after signing a three-year deal with the Bundesliga's only ever-present club.

The 25-year-old recently faced off against the Dinos as part of the Greuther Fürth side that lost on away goals in the two-legged relegation play-off, but took time out of a trip with his national team to complete the formalities on Monday.
'An Incredible opportunity'


“HSV are a huge club and Hamburg’s a big city. For me, this is an incredible opportunity to be able to come and play here. I can’t wait until the start of next season in the Bundesliga,” said Stieber, who admitted it was a “strange feeling” leaving Fürth behind following two seasons at the Trolli Arena.

However, he is now looking forward to adding to the 23 top-tier appearances he has made in his career at one of Germany's most tradition-laden clubs. “The atmosphere in the Imtech Arena in the first leg of the play-off was absolutely breathtaking,” said the former 1. FSV Mainz 05 winger.

Having seen Stieber impress in both games against the Red Shorts, setting up Fürth’s first goal in the second leg with a sublime piece of skill, Hamburg are convinced they have recruited a player who is ready to finally make his mark on the top flight. “We’re delighted Zoltan chose to join HSV,” said sporting director Oliver Kreuzer. “He’s incredibly versatile across the frontline, is agile, tricky and fast. We want to inject more pace into our attacking approach and Zoltan fits our requirements perfectly.”



Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ACVilla on June 23, 2014, 09:23:00 PM
Liam Ridgewell has signed for Portland Timbers. ITK and all that.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on October 04, 2014, 09:56:23 PM
Just noticed that Fulham's reserve keeper is none other than ol baggy trousers himself, Gabor Kiraly.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: supertom on October 04, 2014, 10:01:47 PM
Just noticed that Fulham's reserve keeper is none other than ok baggy trousers himself, Gabor Kiraly.
Bloody hell, he's still around??? Ha ha.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave Cooper please on October 05, 2014, 09:17:51 AM
Lee Hendrie went off with a hamstring injury in Basford United's 1-0 defeat to Mickleover Royals in the FA Vase yesterday.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Neil Hawkes on October 05, 2014, 11:45:20 AM
Just seen yet another reason why I never want to see Alan Hutton in a Villa shirt again.

Why, what's happened now?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Legion on October 05, 2014, 11:46:39 AM
I have no idea. I also have no idea who is currently masquerading as our right back.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on October 05, 2014, 12:20:53 PM
Lee Hendrie went off with a hamstring injury in Basford United's 1-0 defeat to Mickleover Royals in the FA Vase yesterday.

You're just making these team names up now aren't you, along with those nicknames the other day! ;)
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: supertom on October 05, 2014, 12:24:45 PM
Lee Hendrie went off with a hamstring injury in Basford United's 1-0 defeat to Mickleover Royals in the FA Vase yesterday.

You're just making these team names up now aren't you, along with those nicknames the other day! ;)
I bet even if we played Micklelover Royals we'd only have about 45% possession. ;)
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on October 05, 2014, 02:09:04 PM
Did anyone see Ethan Moore play when he was in Villa's junior set up ?

He's signed for Cinderford Town this season.

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: supertom on October 05, 2014, 04:31:34 PM
Did anyone see Ethan Moore play when he was in Villa's junior set up ?

He's signed for Cinderford Town this season.


A relation of Stefan and Luke?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave Cooper please on October 05, 2014, 05:23:19 PM
Lee Hendrie went off with a hamstring injury in Basford United's 1-0 defeat to Mickleover Royals in the FA Vase yesterday.

You're just making these team names up now aren't you, along with those nicknames the other day! ;)

Wait until I report on Thurnby Nirvana v Bilborough Pelican.

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on October 05, 2014, 07:29:52 PM
Did anyone see Ethan Moore play when he was in Villa's junior set up ?

He's signed for Cinderford Town this season.


A relation of Stefan and Luke?

Nope.

http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Ethan-Moore-hits-hat-trick-Cindeford-Town-thrash/story-23010966-detail/story.html

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: The Laughing Policeman on October 06, 2014, 12:51:33 PM
Stan's back playing again.
 Stilyan  (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2781986/Stiliyan-Petrov-stars-Sunday-League-Celtic-Aston-Villa-legend-continues-recovery-leukemia.html)
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Pat McMahon on October 06, 2014, 02:10:30 PM
Lee Hendrie went off with a hamstring injury in Basford United's 1-0 defeat to Mickleover Royals in the FA Vase yesterday.

You're just making these team names up now aren't you, along with those nicknames the other day! ;)

Wait until I report on Thurnby Nirvana v Bilborough Pelican.



I once played for a team called Nice Fridge in London. And for another team we played away on Crouch End Vampires pitch.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: supertom on October 06, 2014, 02:20:05 PM
Stan's back playing again.
 Stilyan  (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2781986/Stiliyan-Petrov-stars-Sunday-League-Celtic-Aston-Villa-legend-continues-recovery-leukemia.html)
Absolutely brilliant to see. That's someone with a genuine love of the game. Top bloke.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PGW on October 06, 2014, 02:24:25 PM
Stan's back playing again.
 Stilyan  (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2781986/Stiliyan-Petrov-stars-Sunday-League-Celtic-Aston-Villa-legend-continues-recovery-leukemia.html)
That is absolutely brilliant to see ...fair play to him, i wish i'd known in advance as that game was against Northfield over 35's at Northfield Town. I will have to give some bollockings out as not a single person gave me a bell. Would have liked to have been there.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: The Laughing Policeman on October 06, 2014, 03:07:38 PM
Stan's back playing again.
 Stilyan  (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2781986/Stiliyan-Petrov-stars-Sunday-League-Celtic-Aston-Villa-legend-continues-recovery-leukemia.html)
That is absolutely brilliant to see ...fair play to him, i wish i'd known in advance as that game was against Northfield over 35's at Northfield Town. I will have to give some bollockings out as not a single person gave me a bell. Would have liked to have been there.
Just checked their website, it has a page for the over 35's but it's useless. I went to have a look at their upcoming fixtures and it's almost a blank page. Pity really because I was thinking of turning up on a Sunday just on the off chance that Stan might be playing.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: adrenachrome on October 20, 2014, 08:05:29 PM
Irish Indie (http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/premier-league/richard-dunne-becomes-first-ever-player-to-bring-premier-league-own-goals-into-double-figures-30677133.html)

Quote
Richard Dunne becomes first ever player to bring Premier League own goals into double figures


Simon Rice

Published 20/10/2014 | 07:34


It was a bad day for QPR who lost 3-2 to Liverpool, but if anyone in particular was feeling it, then it was Richard Dunne.

The defender has become synonymous with Captain during his career. Whilst featuring for four Premier League clubs, he has proved himself to be a talented defender, although he also has a talent for putting the ball in his own net.

It was Dunne who scored the first goal in the thrilling contest at Loftus Road on Sunday as he needlessly put into his own net after 67 minutes.

It took his tally to 10 own goals in the Premier League, making him the first player to reach double figures.

Dunne scored six during his time at Manchester City, three at Aston Villa and took just three top-flight games with QPR to add to his tally.

The former Republic of Ireland international was already the record holder for most Premier League own goals, but now it's even more impressive. His nearest contenders are Jamie Carragher and Zat Knight with seven each, but with the former retired and the latter playing in the MLS, there's no chance of them catching up.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on October 20, 2014, 09:29:14 PM
Pah. Derek Mountfield could do that in one season.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: SoccerHQ on October 20, 2014, 09:36:28 PM
Did anyone see Ethan Moore play when he was in Villa's junior set up ?

He's signed for Cinderford Town this season.



Some poster on VT was claiming he was potentially the greatest youth player we'd ever produced a few years back.

Obviously not.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithe on October 20, 2014, 09:44:16 PM
Did anyone see Ethan Moore play when he was in Villa's junior set up ?

He's signed for Cinderford Town this season.



Some poster on VT was claiming he was potentially the greatest youth player we'd ever produced a few years back.

Obviously not.

Easy to get wrong, Sid was quoted as saying both Stephen Cooke and Barry Bannan were potentially the best players we'd produced.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on October 20, 2014, 09:54:21 PM
Did anyone see Ethan Moore play when he was in Villa's junior set up ?

He's signed for Cinderford Town this season.



Some poster on VT was claiming he was potentially the greatest youth player we'd ever produced a few years back.

Obviously not.

Easy to get wrong, Sid was quoted as saying both Stephen Cooke and Barry Bannan were potentially the best players we'd produced.

Sid told me Cooke was the most talented player at the club. I don't think I've ever known a promising player go through the divisions so quickly; they usually at least have the decency to stay at Walsall and/or Kidderminster for a season.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithe on October 20, 2014, 09:56:44 PM
He is bound to have a little bias given the type of player both were.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: supertom on October 20, 2014, 09:57:26 PM
Stephen Cooke was a hell of a player on one of the old Champ Manager games if I recall. He made the grade for my Villa.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: OCD on October 20, 2014, 11:28:52 PM
Some of the players at the time commented on what a talent Cooke was. I seem to remember a story about him lobbing Schmeichel in training from some distance. Unfortunately talent isn't enough. If they don't have hunger to develop to go along with it, it often goes to waste.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: adrenachrome on October 21, 2014, 12:36:30 AM
Gordan Cowans often tipped him to go an and do great things.

For sure, talent alone is not enough to make it, but there are may other factors apart from hunger or drive which may come into play. 
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ron Manager on October 21, 2014, 08:52:56 AM
Stephen Cooke has been mentioned before on other threads (usually by me) I really thought he was going to make the grade.

But he didn't. Possibly too lightweight to cope with midfield. Well could be any ammount of reasons. But he dissappeared from league football very quickly.

But he had talent. A lot of it.

Just checked on Wiki. Hes 32 and playing for Pelsall Villa . Also coaching them. At least he is still involved in football at roots level.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on October 21, 2014, 11:15:41 AM
Stephen Cooke has been mentioned before on other threads (usually by me) I really thought he was going to make the grade.

But he didn't. Possibly too lightweight to cope with midfield. Well could be any ammount of reasons. But he dissappeared from league football very quickly.

But he had talent. A lot of it.

Just checked on Wiki. Hes 32 and playing for Pelsall Villa . Also coaching them. At least he is still involved in football at roots level.

That was in 2010.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ron Manager on October 21, 2014, 11:46:39 AM
Stephen Cooke has been mentioned before on other threads (usually by me) I really thought he was going to make the grade.

But he didn't. Possibly too lightweight to cope with midfield. Well could be any ammount of reasons. But he dissappeared from league football very quickly.

But he had talent. A lot of it.

Just checked on Wiki. Hes 32 and playing for Pelsall Villa . Also coaching them. At least he is still involved in football at roots level.

That was in 2010.

That would make him 36 then and that isn't right. I will see what I can find out. Pelsall Villa were in danger of collapsing earlier this year but I know a few people from that area. Somebody might know what became of him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on October 21, 2014, 11:54:02 AM
Irish Indie (http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/premier-league/richard-dunne-becomes-first-ever-player-to-bring-premier-league-own-goals-into-double-figures-30677133.html)

Quote
Richard Dunne becomes first ever player to bring Premier League own goals into double figures


Simon Rice

Published 20/10/2014 | 07:34


It was a bad day for QPR who lost 3-2 to Liverpool, but if anyone in particular was feeling it, then it was Richard Dunne.

The defender has become synonymous with Captain during his career. Whilst featuring for four Premier League clubs, he has proved himself to be a talented defender, although he also has a talent for putting the ball in his own net.

It was Dunne who scored the first goal in the thrilling contest at Loftus Road on Sunday as he needlessly put into his own net after 67 minutes.

It took his tally to 10 own goals in the Premier League, making him the first player to reach double figures.

Dunne scored six during his time at Manchester City, three at Aston Villa and took just three top-flight games with QPR to add to his tally.

The former Republic of Ireland international was already the record holder for most Premier League own goals, but now it's even more impressive. His nearest contenders are Jamie Carragher and Zat Knight with seven each, but with the former retired and the latter playing in the MLS, there's no chance of them catching up.

But has he scored any own goals as good as Vergini's for Sunderland on Saturday?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on October 23, 2014, 11:05:29 AM
Heard today that Isaiah Osbourne is now at Scunthorpe United.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on October 23, 2014, 11:15:46 AM
Heard today that Isaiah Osbourne is now at Scunthorpe United.

3 month deal, played against Colchester.

*takes off statto hat

/closeswiki
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: supertom on October 23, 2014, 11:23:25 AM
Is that Isaiah Osbourne the new Patrick Viera, or Isaiah Osbourne the original Yacouba Sylla?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on October 23, 2014, 11:25:44 AM
In many ways i'm glad he didn't make it at the Villa. Some people have enough trouble spelling Clark never mind Isaiah Osbourne.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Weedy on October 24, 2014, 04:41:23 AM
Expanded article/interview with Stan:-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2805608/Former-Aston-Villa-captain-Bulgaria-s-record-cap-holder-Stiliyan-Petrov-returns.html
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: supertom on October 24, 2014, 10:48:11 AM
Had no idea that our old boy "Bobby" Pires was still playing. He's one of the marquee stars in the new Indian Super League. So far he's managed to get himself punched in the face.
https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/football-refile-isl-probes-allegation-assault-pires-072723748--sow.html (https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/football-refile-isl-probes-allegation-assault-pires-072723748--sow.html)
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: SoccerHQ on October 24, 2014, 11:32:03 PM
I try to forget Pires even played for us.

Houllier didn't half drop some clangers in his short time here.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: supertom on October 25, 2014, 10:47:21 AM
I try to forget Pires even played for us.

Houllier didn't half drop some clangers in his short time here.
I remember one of the first games he played for us was against Arsenal. He got absolutely mullered in that game. I think almost every Arsenal player, maybe even their keeper might have roasted Bobby for pace that day. Left him coughing on a dust cloud. He couldn't get near the ball all game. You just knew right then that his legs were well gone.
Still, the goal against Blackburn in the cup was class. I'll give him that.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: The Laughing Policeman on October 25, 2014, 11:23:07 AM
I try to forget Pires even played for us.

Houllier didn't half drop some clangers in his short time here.
I had forgotten about him until Wednesday night and he popped up on Sky and mentioned he played for us.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on October 25, 2014, 01:13:28 PM
I try to forget Pires even played for us.

Houllier didn't half drop some clangers in his short time here.

He was here for a couple of months at a time when we couldn't sign anyone else and we were desperate for numbers. He cost nothing, his wages were likely to be comparative peanuts and it wasn't like he was keeping anyone out of the team.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: not3bad on November 04, 2014, 08:44:40 AM
Isaiah Osbourne seems happy:

http://www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/Scunthorpe-United-midfielder-Isaiah-Osbourne/story-24041760-detail/story.html

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on August 08, 2018, 11:35:36 AM
Bumping this to hear and discuss former players,  its in my  preference  to  threads  on specific  players .

If those who feel same they can write but if others don't then they can do as they choose too .

(unless it's some legends do we really need to  pay such attention in giving own thread to past players ! Personally I think it should  be current players only)

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on August 08, 2018, 11:37:46 AM
 Wolves have officially signed winger Adama Traore for a club-record fee after meeting the £18m release clause in his Middlesbrough contract!!

I think villa get a piece of the pie!

So much for cheksea but I think he has talent to play in premier league and on his game is basically unplayable .
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on August 08, 2018, 09:36:45 PM
Talk of Carlos Sanchez off to West ham. I remember this morning world cup he was truly awful either getting sent off or intentional fouling and giving the PK for Harry Kane.

I think Pellegrini will fancy him for his south American flavor but I don't feel he's suited to British tempo .
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: London Villan on August 08, 2018, 09:37:57 PM
He's good at running about 5 yards behind the opposition player with the ball.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Virgil Caine on August 09, 2018, 06:33:39 AM
For those with memories of youth players that we thought would make it Janoi Doncenian who played regularly in the Accrington Stanley (resist the urge to say the obvious) team in their promotion year has bagged himself a transfer to the East Anglian powerhouse that is Ipswich Town.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on August 09, 2018, 02:46:14 PM
Jordan Ayew on route to Palace.

Is that palace getting relegated then?!

The partner ship

Ayew and Benteke !
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on August 09, 2018, 09:01:41 PM
Isaiah Osbourne to Walsall from Forest Green Rovers
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on August 09, 2018, 11:43:38 PM
I always liked Donacien and thought he would make it, perhaps he still will. Can’t be that old. Was thinking about Isaiah Osbourne the other day, as one of the Villa/Hibs players (McGinn, Bremner, Cropley, De La Cruz).
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on August 10, 2018, 01:08:25 AM
He's 25 in a few months, I liked him in those few pre-season games he played that one season and hoped at the time he'd be given a few competitive games. I guess his career since shows we didn't miss out on much.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on August 11, 2018, 08:01:04 AM
Benteke to score for Palace today Fulham have new / not first choice defence .

'pierrot' ayew on the bench for palace perhaps .

I don't know if Joe Bennett will be favoured think he could be below Cunningham now and be interesting to see how Cardiff get on against Bournemouth . Could be a 0-0

Gueye will be given run around by the wolves but thinking he be the midfielder destroyer for everton this season.

Westwood and Lowton .
Well tbf to Lowton at least he shows some intenet going forward.

Westwood seems more a place holder at this time and gets game time starts due to injuries




Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on August 11, 2018, 09:11:05 AM
Regarding the Fantasy Football, I was wondering if you could make a team from ex-Villa players.

I think the answer is that your have plenty to choose from, other than Goalkeepers.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on August 11, 2018, 09:29:17 AM
Regarding the Fantasy Football, I was wondering if you could make a team from ex-Villa players.

I think the answer is that your have plenty to choose from, other than Goalkeepers.

Challenge accepted loans included!


Can't find a prem gk!

Lowton  Walker  Clark Bertrand

Albrighton   Gueye Delph Milner

 Young
                   
Benteke Ayew


Subs
Traoré
Carlos sanchez
Hogg
Bardsley
Bennett
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on August 12, 2018, 08:16:01 AM
Ciaran Clark played for Newcastle v Spurs and kept Harry Kane very quiet .

Wonder if he be a mainstay after the signing of other centre backs
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on August 12, 2018, 03:40:22 PM
Milner two assists and a lovely head gear .
Ageless performance today v a tepid west ham
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Villa Lew on August 12, 2018, 06:10:07 PM
Yeah with all the new players they've bought in, I was surprised to see him start, but he was very good today.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on August 12, 2018, 06:24:45 PM
It's only the first game similar to Clark and Bennett though far superior and reliable

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Mossie Hennebry on August 12, 2018, 06:26:42 PM
Regarding the Fantasy Football, I was wondering if you could make a team from ex-Villa players.

I think the answer is that your have plenty to choose from, other than Goalkeepers.

Challenge accepted loans included!


Can't find a prem gk!

Lowton  Walker  Clark Bertrand

Albrighton   Gueye Delph Milner

 Young
                   
Benteke Ayew


Subs
Traoré
Carlos sanchez
Hogg
Bardsley
Bennett

Use a bit of poetic licence and put Schmeichel in sticks. For sub keeper, just pick some lad that will never start.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 12, 2018, 06:29:40 PM
There don't appear to be any ex-Villa goalkeepers. Closest you can get is Kasper Schmeichel, as his dad played for us.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: JD on August 13, 2018, 11:07:50 AM
No Cahill?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave shelley on August 13, 2018, 01:41:22 PM
What about Stuart Taylor for gk?  Whose bench is he warming these days or us he retired?  I don't know.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on August 13, 2018, 01:52:59 PM
Currently without a club after leaving Southampton in the summer.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on August 13, 2018, 01:53:03 PM
Left Southampton at the end of last season, having not played a game for them.

There can't be many players who have had a 20 year career and played so few games
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Pat McMahon on August 13, 2018, 02:13:48 PM
Left Southampton at the end of last season, having not played a game for them.

There can't be many players who have had a 20 year career and played so few games

Raymond van der Gouw springs to mind. He must have had more medals than appearances.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on August 13, 2018, 03:14:12 PM
Nope, he had a long career in Dutch football before and after his time over here
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on August 13, 2018, 04:52:03 PM
No Cahill?

My bad ! Great shout !
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 18, 2018, 03:43:29 PM
Isaiah Osbourne has just scored for Worzull.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on August 19, 2018, 09:56:21 PM
England left wing back Ashley young played as right back in a 3 -2 defeat at Brighton .

Was one of better performers in a very poor man utd team
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on August 19, 2018, 11:37:39 PM
Lowton with a great assist today. Shame it was for Watford.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on August 20, 2018, 09:03:44 PM
Milner Liverpool captain and scored a pen v palace. Apparently in the 47 times he's scored he's never lost a match in premier league.
Top player
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: London Villan on August 20, 2018, 09:04:58 PM
Another ex-player captaining at top premier league team.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on August 21, 2018, 09:55:20 PM
Andi Weimann a brace away at QPR this evening
Started season well with a few goals . Well played
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on August 22, 2018, 11:33:52 PM
Barry Bannan scoring absolute worldy tonight for Wednesday

Well played
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on August 26, 2018, 12:39:03 AM
Hogg was sent off for violent conduct.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Villafirst on August 26, 2018, 07:15:44 AM
Weimann top scorer in the Championship with 5 goals. A bit hasty that we let him go.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Exeter 77 on August 26, 2018, 09:58:15 AM
Weimann top scorer in the Championship with 5 goals. A bit hasty that we let him go.
A Tim Sherwood decision.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithe on August 26, 2018, 10:00:49 AM
Some players just need a move to reinvigorate themselves, Weimann being an example. Good luck to him but it was the right decision at the time to move him on.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Virgil Caine on August 31, 2018, 06:18:10 PM
Just heard that Peter Whittingham has had his contract with Blackburn terminated. Came as a bit of a shock to find he was 33, seems like yesterday watching him on his Villa Park debut. He had a great career with Cardiff amassing over 400 appearances.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Villa in Denmark on August 31, 2018, 07:04:09 PM
Gollini was part of the Atalanta side that lost to FCK on penalties last night. Close but no cigar with every penalty.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: mike on August 31, 2018, 11:08:44 PM
Milner Liverpool captain and scored a pen v palace. Apparently in the 47 times he's scored he's never lost a match in premier league.
Top player

I can't think of a player I have liked more than James Milner since Ian Taylor.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on September 01, 2018, 09:30:45 AM
Callum Robinson (Preston North End) has been called up to the Republic ireland squad



Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on September 02, 2018, 12:26:43 AM
Carlos played an important part in Adama's winner.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: SteveN on September 05, 2018, 05:52:26 PM
www.theguardian.com/football/2018/sep/04/steve-sidwell-interview-retirement-premier-league-brighton

Interesting article on Steve Sidwell.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: villa `cross the mersey on September 05, 2018, 06:26:10 PM
www.theguardian.com/football/2018/sep/04/steve-sidwell-interview-retirement-premier-league-brighton

Interesting article on Steve Sidwell.
good  read that - good luck to him -
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on September 05, 2018, 08:02:58 PM
Sidders effectively took a year out by going to chelsea from reading should have come villa then when in top form not after chelsea
64 times scored 4 goals.
The one against Everton was unbelievable hit
And his assist for a throw in probably highlights
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Exeter 77 on September 07, 2018, 07:30:41 PM
This list of players has a depressingly common theme.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/football/18-england-internationals-of-the-last-decade-who-have-totally-fallen-off-the-radar/ss-BBMX001?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on September 09, 2018, 07:51:07 PM
Peter Crouch:

"I became football's Alan Partridge"

Villa wanted to persuade me to sign. As negotiations went on I was put up at the Belfry Hotel. My room was incredible. The Brabazon Suite, overlooking the 18th green. I walked in with my dad and thought, this is unreal. My dad winked at me. Oh yes, son. We've arrived now...

I signed. I drove back to the hotel. I walked past reception. Hello, sir, the club have asked us to move you to a different room. Oh, OK. Key in the door. Almost banging my nose on the opposite wall, the only thing stopping me tripping over the single bed being the ironing board that took up the remaining floorspace. It was smaller than the bathroom in the Brabazon Suite.

I stayed in that room for three months, except when the Ryder Cup was on, when I had to move out even of that. It got so lonely I'd go out driving by myself, not aiming to get to anywhere, simply aiming to get away from the single bed and my reflection in the mirror. I'd look for places that had weird names.

I'd end up at a fast-food drive-thru, get a burger and drive back to the Belfry, sitting there on the bed with my quarter-pounder and fries. It got grim fast. I was going loopy even faster. I became institutionalised. I expected my towels to be folded each morning and to return after training to a chocolate on my pillow.

I became a footballing Alan Partridge. I was on first-name terms with staff. I ate in the on-site carvery so often, every day was like Sunday. Some evenings I'd sit in the resort nightclub with a pot of tea, just to hear loud dance music rather than having to watch bad TV in my room

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on September 09, 2018, 07:55:16 PM
Where's that from 'Skillz? Didn't Peter have the gumption to sort himself out with an apartment or was it bad old Doug's fault somehow?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Lastfootstamper on September 09, 2018, 08:06:24 PM
You do here of more than a few who sound like they'd starve to death if left alone for 36 hours.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on September 09, 2018, 08:06:51 PM
I assume it's from a new book as he suddenly seems to be talking about us, Rafa, Roy Keane and so on.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Damo70 on September 09, 2018, 08:09:52 PM
Peter Crouch:

"I became football's Alan Partridge"

Villa wanted to persuade me to sign. As negotiations went on I was put up at the Belfry Hotel. My room was incredible. The Brabazon Suite, overlooking the 18th green. I walked in with my dad and thought, this is unreal. My dad winked at me. Oh yes, son. We've arrived now...

I signed. I drove back to the hotel. I walked past reception. Hello, sir, the club have asked us to move you to a different room. Oh, OK. Key in the door. Almost banging my nose on the opposite wall, the only thing stopping me tripping over the single bed being the ironing board that took up the remaining floorspace. It was smaller than the bathroom in the Brabazon Suite.

I stayed in that room for three months, except when the Ryder Cup was on, when I had to move out even of that. It got so lonely I'd go out driving by myself, not aiming to get to anywhere, simply aiming to get away from the single bed and my reflection in the mirror. I'd look for places that had weird names.

I'd end up at a fast-food drive-thru, get a burger and drive back to the Belfry, sitting there on the bed with my quarter-pounder and fries. It got grim fast. I was going loopy even faster. I became institutionalised. I expected my towels to be folded each morning and to return after training to a chocolate on my pillow.

I became a footballing Alan Partridge. I was on first-name terms with staff. I ate in the on-site carvery so often, every day was like Sunday. Some evenings I'd sit in the resort nightclub with a pot of tea, just to hear loud dance music rather than having to watch bad TV in my room


I read that in his book quite a while back. I am guessing he has released an updated version. I accept that Doug pulled a typical fast one with his hotel room, but surely he could have quickly made other arrangements for himself. He was 21 and had a big fat signing on fee in his bank on top of whaterver previous savings he had. I moved two thousand miles away from home to be a DJ when I was 23 (I had always lived with my parents up to that point) and had enough money to last me about two months and needed to find myself a job and an apartment in that time, despite only having a very basic grasp of the language at that point.

It was also his second big move as he had already moved from QPR to Portsmouth.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on September 09, 2018, 08:10:16 PM
You do here of more than a few who sound like they'd starve to death if left alone for 36 hours.

You only have to read the Sidwell stuff above to realise how much they are basically kept from reality so as all they have to focus on is their football.

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Sidwell describes the jolt footballers feel when cut free from their high-pressured but numbingly cosseted world. “Football is about instant results. Yes, footballers live a luxurious life and we get given everything. If you split a pair of boots you get a new pair that same afternoon. If you’ve got a cough you see the club doctor. And you get a prescription that’s filled straightaway. Everything’s given to you instantly.

“You’re a commodity to the club, and they want you to have no stress. So you lose a little touch with reality. I’ve never had a GP because I’ve never needed to go outside my club but in the big world you need to pay accounts, sort out your MOT. People outside football won’t always grasp this but not doing these little things can mean you lose touch with society.”

It also means that some footballers don’t develop many social skills. “One hundred per cent,” Sidwell says. “It’s even more so for the top players. They get criticised if they go out or if they stay in. They can’t win so in the end they build up a barrier. Now when your career finishes you’re not really used to talking to people. And you obviously need that skill in the real world.”
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on September 09, 2018, 10:23:38 PM
How To Be A Footballer by Crouch is out On September 20th. If it's a newly-updated/revised edition as Damo suggests, you would have thought he'd wait til he'd actually retired - he's still at Stoke isn't he?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on September 09, 2018, 10:49:09 PM
Walking Tall came out in 2007. So I assume HTBAF will have a lot of the same stories as well as new ones from the last 11 years.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on September 09, 2018, 10:56:50 PM
The Crouch story is similar to Angel, who gained a lot of sympathy when he was apparently treated badly on his arrival. As was said at the time, "He expected help 24 hours a day, and Villa don't do that for anyone".
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on September 09, 2018, 11:50:37 PM
The Crouch story is similar to Angel, who gained a lot of sympathy when he was apparently treated badly on his arrival. As was said at the time, "He expected help 24 hours a day, and Villa don't do that for anyone".

That’s not remotely as I recall it. He arrived, hardly speaking any English. His wife and child were then taken ill, and he was messed around by the hotel he was in. Gregory admitted they didn’t do enough to help him settle, which is why they appointed the player liaison officer afterwards.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on September 10, 2018, 12:12:56 AM
The Crouch story is similar to Angel, who gained a lot of sympathy when he was apparently treated badly on his arrival. As was said at the time, "He expected help 24 hours a day, and Villa don't do that for anyone".

That’s not remotely as I recall it. He arrived, hardly speaking any English. His wife and child were then taken ill, and he was messed around by the hotel he was in. Gregory admitted they didn’t do enough to help him settle, which is why they appointed the player liaison officer afterwards.

He was asked to move his room in the Belfry for one night. That was the extent of his being messed around.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: mike on September 10, 2018, 06:49:54 AM
I’d have a bit more sympathy with JPA moving his whole family thousands of miles to a country where he can’t speak the language (and then them getting ill) than Big Pete moving a bit up the road. Having said that, I always liked both of them.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on September 10, 2018, 08:36:19 AM
Where's that from 'Skillz? Didn't Peter have the gumption to sort himself out with an apartment or was it bad old Doug's fault somehow?

From his hilarious book available online and in all good book stores
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: fredm on September 10, 2018, 11:16:45 AM
The Crouch story is similar to Angel, who gained a lot of sympathy when he was apparently treated badly on his arrival. As was said at the time, "He expected help 24 hours a day, and Villa don't do that for anyone".

That’s not remotely as I recall it. He arrived, hardly speaking any English. His wife and child were then taken ill, and he was messed around by the hotel he was in. Gregory admitted they didn’t do enough to help him settle, which is why they appointed the player liaison officer afterwards.

He was asked to move his room in the Belfry for one night. That was the extent of his being messed around.

Yes but this was a (relatively) young man who had just moved continents, I believe had a very small grasp of the english language, and had a wife, who presumably couldn't speak the language, and a small child who was not very well. Perhaps the reasons for him being "messed about" were not made very well to him leaving him frustrated and upset that no one seemed to bother to ensure he fully understood what was happening.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on September 10, 2018, 11:24:21 AM
The Crouch story is similar to Angel, who gained a lot of sympathy when he was apparently treated badly on his arrival. As was said at the time, "He expected help 24 hours a day, and Villa don't do that for anyone".

That’s not remotely as I recall it. He arrived, hardly speaking any English. His wife and child were then taken ill, and he was messed around by the hotel he was in. Gregory admitted they didn’t do enough to help him settle, which is why they appointed the player liaison officer afterwards.

He was asked to move his room in the Belfry for one night. That was the extent of his being messed around.

Yes but this was a (relatively) young man who had just moved continents, I believe had a very small grasp of the english language, and had a wife, who presumably couldn't speak the language, and a small child who was not very well. Perhaps the reasons for him being "messed about" were not made very well to him leaving him frustrated and upset that no one seemed to bother to ensure he fully understood what was happening.

At the time my heart bled for this man earning a fortune, who apparently couldn't contact anyone who speak Spanish to help him. It still does, as it does for all footballers. Incidentally, Sir Graham said that one of the reasons he couldn't get much out of Angel two years later was that he was still moping about his supposed ill-treatment. 
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on September 10, 2018, 11:30:46 AM
It wasn't just his son who was ill, it was his wife.  And if Taylor did say that, it was utterly pathetic of him.  What was his excuse for failing to get much out of every other player in the squad as well then?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on September 10, 2018, 11:39:43 AM
It wasn't just his son who was ill, it was his wife.  And if Taylor did say that, it was utterly pathetic of him.  What was his excuse for failing to get much out of every other player in the squad as well then?

Nice to see the Angel love-in still burns brightly. 2002-03 was a poor season; the many and varied reasons for that have been explained in full ever since. Sir Graham would probably have admitted that he shouldn't have come back - there's certainly enough evidence that had he known the full extent of what he was taking on he wouldn't have done so. I can't see how him being honest about a player years after the event makes him pathetic, but then again I can't understand why someone would want to stay in a job where he was so upset about being treated so badly.

I wonder what Ryu's doing these days?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: mike on September 10, 2018, 12:13:13 PM
It wasn't just his son who was ill, it was his wife.  And if Taylor did say that, it was utterly pathetic of him.  What was his excuse for failing to get much out of every other player in the squad as well then?

Nice to see the Angel love-in still burns brightly. 2002-03 was a poor season; the many and varied reasons for that have been explained in full ever since. Sir Graham would probably have admitted that he shouldn't have come back - there's certainly enough evidence that had he known the full extent of what he was taking on he wouldn't have done so. I can't see how him being honest about a player years after the event makes him pathetic, but then again I can't understand why someone would want to stay in a job where he was so upset about being treated so badly.

I wonder what Ryu's doing these days?

I'd normally agree with you on the spoilt footballer thing, Dave, but I think a man sat in a hotel in a country on a different continent where he can't speak the language with no family or friends suddenly finding his wife and young son ill is going to have a few problems, regardless of his income. I had the misfortune to have my son fall ill abroad and it was a nightmare, irrespective of the fact I am a mature man who has spent a lot of years in a tough working environment. Of course, you know more about the circumstances than I do, but I feel for him in that situation. I certainly didn't feel like finding an interpreter when I was at my wit's end.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on September 10, 2018, 12:32:07 PM
It wasn't just his son who was ill, it was his wife.  And if Taylor did say that, it was utterly pathetic of him.  What was his excuse for failing to get much out of every other player in the squad as well then?

Nice to see the Angel love-in still burns brightly. 2002-03 was a poor season; the many and varied reasons for that have been explained in full ever since. Sir Graham would probably have admitted that he shouldn't have come back - there's certainly enough evidence that had he known the full extent of what he was taking on he wouldn't have done so. I can't see how him being honest about a player years after the event makes him pathetic, but then again I can't understand why someone would want to stay in a job where he was so upset about being treated so badly.

I wonder what Ryu's doing these days?

I'd normally agree with you on the spoilt footballer thing, Dave, but I think a man sat in a hotel in a country on a different continent where he can't speak the language with no family or friends suddenly finding his wife and young son ill is going to have a few problems, regardless of his income. I had the misfortune to have my son fall ill abroad and it was a nightmare, irrespective of the fact I am a mature man who has spent a lot of years in a tough working environment. Of course, you know more about the circumstances than I do, but I feel for him in that situation. I certainly didn't feel like finding an interpreter when I was at my wit's end.

To be honest, I might have had a lot more sympathy for him if he'd tried to meet us halfway but it was Martin Swain, no great lover of the board of the time, who said that he expected constant attention even before Mrs Angel and Geronimo arrived on the scene. I think the whole Angel affair was just the most visible aspect of a club that was riven with discord from top to bottom. I've just gone through the book interview Sir Graham did   with me and it's incredible to look back at what he said (even the publishable bits) and think that this was a club with serious top four designs at the time. As he said, it was a wonder we'd got anywhere near the top of the table and being there for so long in 1998 was an achievement by John Gregory that probably wasn't appreciated so much either then or now.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on September 10, 2018, 01:57:07 PM

At the time my heart bled for this man earning a fortune, who apparently couldn't contact anyone who speak Spanish to help him. It still does, as it does for all footballers. Incidentally, Sir Graham said that one of the reasons he couldn't get much out of Angel two years later was that he was still moping about his supposed ill-treatment. 

That's a bit like Gregory saying that Stan Collymore was earming too much money to be really depressed.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on September 10, 2018, 02:00:33 PM
It seems like JPA and his family all arrived together.  Gregory thankfully, seemed to be fairly understanding in this case, praising Angel's attitude:

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/angel-finds-mercy-for-a-family-dedication-9240293.html
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on September 10, 2018, 02:05:11 PM

At the time my heart bled for this man earning a fortune, who apparently couldn't contact anyone who speak Spanish to help him. It still does, as it does for all footballers. Incidentally, Sir Graham said that one of the reasons he couldn't get much out of Angel two years later was that he was still moping about his supposed ill-treatment. 

That's a bit like Gregory saying that Stan Collymore was earming too much money to be really depressed.

It isn't, but never mind.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Damo70 on September 10, 2018, 02:09:08 PM

At the time my heart bled for this man earning a fortune, who apparently couldn't contact anyone who speak Spanish to help him. It still does, as it does for all footballers. Incidentally, Sir Graham said that one of the reasons he couldn't get much out of Angel two years later was that he was still moping about his supposed ill-treatment. 

That's a bit like Gregory saying that Stan Collymore was earming too much money to be really depressed.


I think a lot of people who haven't suffered from depression can have quite a dismissive attitude to people who do suffer from it. I was responsible for staffing twelve to fifteen betting shops and got quite intolerant with people who missed a lot of time from work due to depression. Having suffered with it myself in more recent years I have a totally different perspective of the illness.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on September 10, 2018, 02:14:47 PM
Completely agree Damo.  And I've also had friends and family who have been seriously ill, and when they are, the amount of money you earn, and the job you are supposed to be doing really do seem like unimportant trivialities, which I'm certain you are also all too aware of.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: john e on September 10, 2018, 08:04:58 PM
I follow JPA on Twitter and he still loves the Villa,
so whatever happened and whoever's fault it was didn't change that

I loved watching him
He had more skill and vision than the rest put together
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: hilts_coolerking on September 10, 2018, 08:22:46 PM

At the time my heart bled for this man earning a fortune, who apparently couldn't contact anyone who speak Spanish to help him. It still does, as it does for all footballers. Incidentally, Sir Graham said that one of the reasons he couldn't get much out of Angel two years later was that he was still moping about his supposed ill-treatment. 

That's a bit like Gregory saying that Stan Collymore was earming too much money to be really depressed.

It isn't, but never mind.

I think it is too.  It's never good to dismiss other people's problems, especially - seemingly - because they have plenty of money.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Chinchilla Bathhouse on September 10, 2018, 08:35:29 PM

At the time my heart bled for this man earning a fortune, who apparently couldn't contact anyone who speak Spanish to help him. It still does, as it does for all footballers. Incidentally, Sir Graham said that one of the reasons he couldn't get much out of Angel two years later was that he was still moping about his supposed ill-treatment. 

That's a bit like Gregory saying that Stan Collymore was earming too much money to be really depressed.

It isn't, but never mind.

I think it is too.  It's never good to dismiss other people's problems, especially - seemingly - because they have plenty of money.

It's nothing like it. There's absolutely no suggestion that SGT dismissed Angel's feelings because he had plenty of money. He simply said that Angel was still moping about something that happened two years before SGT returned to the club.  There's no dismissal of any sort. It's not even close to Gregory's views on Collymore which were ignorant in the extreme.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: hilts_coolerking on September 10, 2018, 08:37:28 PM
It's nothing like it. There's absolutely no suggestion that SGT dismissed Angel's feelings because he had plenty of money. He simply said that Angel was still moping about something that happened two years before SGT returned to the club.  There's no dismissal of any sort. It's not even close to Gregory's views on Collymore which were ignorant in the extreme.
I wasn't talking about SGT.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Chinchilla Bathhouse on September 10, 2018, 08:43:58 PM
It's nothing like it. There's absolutely no suggestion that SGT dismissed Angel's feelings because he had plenty of money. He simply said that Angel was still moping about something that happened two years before SGT returned to the club.  There's no dismissal of any sort. It's not even close to Gregory's views on Collymore which were ignorant in the extreme.
I wasn't talking about SGT.

It reads as if you're agreeing that SGT's treatment of Angel was akin to Gregory's of Collymore. Which it wasn't.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: hilts_coolerking on September 10, 2018, 08:46:12 PM
It reads as if you're agreeing that SGT's treatment of Angel was akin to Gregory's of Collymore. Which it wasn't.
Well I'm not.  I was simply disagreeing with Dave's remarks, that's all.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on September 10, 2018, 09:07:22 PM
It reads as if you're agreeing that SGT's treatment of Angel was akin to Gregory's of Collymore. Which it wasn't.
Well I'm not.  I was simply disagreeing with Dave's remarks, that's all.

Angel's problems, such as they were, weren't illness-related. They were down to his belief that he wasn't looked after on a round the clock basis two years earlier, which as I said, is/was something that no player got at the Villa. I couldn't then, and still can't, understand why, if he felt he or his family needed extra attention, he didn't pay for it.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Lastfootstamper on September 10, 2018, 09:14:12 PM
It reads as if you're agreeing that SGT's treatment of Angel was akin to Gregory's of Collymore. Which it wasn't.
Well I'm not.  I was simply disagreeing with Dave's remarks, that's all.

I disagree, too. Cluelessness, like many traits, is not obviated by wealth. He was an asset, he should've been treated as such.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Drummond on September 10, 2018, 10:20:17 PM
I guess the question is whether he asked for help. He should have done. If he wasn't happy 2 years later he should have requested a transfer. Or just get on with it.

If you're on that sort of money, you can afford any type of support you need. You just need to ask.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Lastfootstamper on September 10, 2018, 10:48:44 PM
I guess the question is whether he asked for help. He should have done. If he wasn't happy 2 years later he should have requested a transfer. Or just get on with it.

If you're on that sort of money, you can afford any type of support you need. You just need to ask.

But if you don't know who you can ask, it doesn't matter two jots how much money you have or haven't got.

Say you bought a race car. Or a race horse. Something of that ilk. You'd blown a not inconsiderable fortune on it, because that's how much it cost on the contemporary market. You'd hope for a return on your investment, be it either financial or accolades. Would the best route to realising this be, "fuck it, it cost enough, job obviously done"?

I'd even say that the more you pay, the farther you should go in ensuring that they're looked after, be that by mechanic, trainer or personal dogsbody. Their ineptitude as a functioning mortal is irrelevant.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ads on September 10, 2018, 11:30:52 PM
You ask your agent.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on September 11, 2018, 12:13:53 AM
Yep, Ryu/Forsyth should have kept his client sweet.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Drummond on September 11, 2018, 12:47:09 PM
I guess the question is whether he asked for help. He should have done. If he wasn't happy 2 years later he should have requested a transfer. Or just get on with it.

If you're on that sort of money, you can afford any type of support you need. You just need to ask.

But if you don't know who you can ask, it doesn't matter two jots how much money you have or haven't got.

Say you bought a race car. Or a race horse. Something of that ilk. You'd blown a not inconsiderable fortune on it, because that's how much it cost on the contemporary market. You'd hope for a return on your investment, be it either financial or accolades. Would the best route to realising this be, "fuck it, it cost enough, job obviously done"?

I'd even say that the more you pay, the farther you should go in ensuring that they're looked after, be that by mechanic, trainer or personal dogsbody. Their ineptitude as a functioning mortal is irrelevant.

Which is why we changed it to great effect.

However, you'd expect anyone with half the brain of a cat to realise that if they ain't happy they should ask someone for help. Agent, Manager, PFA, Chairman, Captain, fellow players.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on September 11, 2018, 01:19:37 PM
According to Gregory, Angel got on with the job just fine:

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/angel-finds-mercy-for-a-family-dedication-9240293.html

'Angel's assertion that "every hour, every day, I am working to make my game better" is underlined by his manager. "Juan is in most mornings at nine o'clock, in the weight room and the gym, working out, doing extra. He came back early in the summer because he needed to get himself a good pre-season here. He has really gone about his job in a top-class manner because he wants so much to succeed. He has drive and hunger. He is a good pro, a very conscientious boy." '

And Angel himself said "This season is my real start with Villa. I have prepared well, I am happy, confident."

He had a good season in 01/02, and again in 03/04, but didn't in the intervening 02/03 season because he was still moping? Nobody had a good season in 2002/03.  Crouch and Allback both struggled, and our top scorer was an ageing Dion Dublin with 10 goals.  I don't suppose anybody was happy at being nearly relegated, but I just don't buy it that Angel had his bottom lip out because of what had gone on two years before.  The biggest problem in that team was that it wasn't settled, and included dross like UDLC, Mark Kinsella and Oyvind Leonhardsen.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on September 11, 2018, 02:41:18 PM
Blimey, you can tell it's international week when we're getting such mileage out of this old story!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on September 11, 2018, 05:05:08 PM
According to Gregory, Angel got on with the job just fine:

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/angel-finds-mercy-for-a-family-dedication-9240293.html

'Angel's assertion that "every hour, every day, I am working to make my game better" is underlined by his manager. "Juan is in most mornings at nine o'clock, in the weight room and the gym, working out, doing extra. He came back early in the summer because he needed to get himself a good pre-season here. He has really gone about his job in a top-class manner because he wants so much to succeed. He has drive and hunger. He is a good pro, a very conscientious boy." '

And Angel himself said "This season is my real start with Villa. I have prepared well, I am happy, confident."

He had a good season in 01/02, and again in 03/04, but didn't in the intervening 02/03 season because he was still moping? Nobody had a good season in 2002/03.  Crouch and Allback both struggled, and our top scorer was an ageing Dion Dublin with 10 goals.  I don't suppose anybody was happy at being nearly relegated, but I just don't buy it that Angel had his bottom lip out because of what had gone on two years before.  The biggest problem in that team was that it wasn't settled, and included dross like UDLC, Mark Kinsella and Oyvind Leonhardsen.


Have it your way. Graham Taylor was lying, on tape and on the record. I don't care and I don't suppose he would have that much.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Exeter 77 on September 11, 2018, 05:46:55 PM
I thought that SGT was convinced Angel was leaving in the summer of 2002 which is why he signed Marcus Allbäck.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Damo70 on September 11, 2018, 06:16:15 PM
I thought that SGT was convinced Angel was leaving in the summer of 2002 which is why he signed Marcus Allbäck.

A few of us went on a lads weekend to Amsterdam in the early 'noughties'. I think there were six of us and I was the last one to go through customs at the airport. None of us had anything on us we shouldn't have had to the best of my knowledge. We were mainly drinkers and I think the one or two of our crowd who liked a smoke had kept it to where it was allowed. Everyone else was waved through but they stopped me. It turned out the customs guy had spotted my Villa shirt and just wanted to ask me what the Villa fans thought of Marcus Allback and how he was doing at the Villa.

It turned out he was a big Heerenveen fan.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Drummond on September 12, 2018, 10:23:14 AM
It wasn't just his son who was ill, it was his wife.  And if Taylor did say that, it was utterly pathetic of him.  What was his excuse for failing to get much out of every other player in the squad as well then?

Why does Angel get a pass on this but Bruce should just get on with it when both his parents died within a short time of each other having been ill for a long time?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: SoccerHQ on September 12, 2018, 10:32:00 AM
www.theguardian.com/football/2018/sep/04/steve-sidwell-interview-retirement-premier-league-brighton

Interesting article on Steve Sidwell.

Bit late to this but I read the article last week. I knew like many in that era he was very well paid here but bit startled to read playing for us was where he earnt the most in his career.

Mad when you think he actually joined Chelsea on a free transfer and we paid 5m for him. I always thought he actually took a pay cut to sign.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: SoccerHQ on September 12, 2018, 10:43:12 AM
Well JPA was actually having a pretty good scoring season in 2001/02. He had I think 12 league goals up to February and was linking up very well with Vassell so any settling in issues had to me seemed forgotten.

I just get the feeling he either wasn't Sir Graham's type of forward or they couldn't get on off the pitch. A few weeks later Crouch was signed and pretty sure JPA was benched for a few games which probably annoyed him particularly as Crouch was struggling to settle in on and off the pitch.

If you look at it JPA scored about 30 league goals in 01/02 and 03/04 and just 2 I think in 02/03 so something went wrong along the line when he was still at his peak as a forward and Vassell was viewing as forward with great ability.

They were our best strike partnership by a mile in those times anyway. Crouch not quite ready (we signed him too early) and Allback was very very average although those late goals to save us from relegation were much appreciated of course.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on September 12, 2018, 10:57:29 PM
I don't think we bought Crouch too early, the whole idea is to buy a player before they are the finished article. Mr Fickle just didn't have a clue how to use him. Pretty sure we were the only club not to make a profit on him, although you could technically add Stoke as they won't make a profit on him.
After selling him for a loss he scored 12 in 27 in the league for Saints, while our 4 strikers combined managed 13 for us, and between them those 4 made over 100 league appearances for us that season. Genius from the Pug nosed twat.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on September 20, 2018, 08:19:45 AM
Delphie making Captain error Lyon yesterday I see.
He's decent moving forward but at the left back he's prone to the error .

Milner dispatching penalty v PSG . Milner really playing and performing well at Liverpool credit to him 
Match of day he was interviewed and Linekar had to back track an old treatment saying what does James milner do.
Talk about ill informed , Gary has only recently realized what we all know how intelligent , committed and versatile a footballer he is . On top of that a thorough bred professional and as they said he's 32 and playing since 16. He hasn't deteriorated like a Wayne Rooney hasn't has injury issue lie Wilshire and hasn't suffered like Harry kane . Millie is great and has always had a fondness for the villa time .it's great he got to win at man city but I feel he's really suited to Liverpool and actually he would be beneficial to English national team as much as Henderson or alongside him that Eric Dier.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: tomd2103 on September 20, 2018, 08:29:48 AM
I don't think we bought Crouch too early, the whole idea is to buy a player before they are the finished article. Mr Fickle just didn't have a clue how to use him. Pretty sure we were the only club not to make a profit on him, although you could technically add Stoke as they won't make a profit on him.
After selling him for a loss he scored 12 in 27 in the league for Saints, while our 4 strikers combined managed 13 for us, and between them those 4 made over 100 league appearances for us that season. Genius from the Pug nosed twat.

From what I can remember the Crouch situation was a strange one.  Hardly played, came in for the 2nd leg of the League Cup semi final against Bolton and had a very good game, played the next game at Leicester and scored twice, and then hardly featured again. 
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on September 20, 2018, 08:34:03 AM
Forest beat Sheff wed and Grabban scored 2-1
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: themossman on September 20, 2018, 08:36:25 AM
Is he still tee total? Be interesting to see how far that stretches his good years. Fair play to him, a testament to who he is that I still wish him well even though he plays for them. 
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on September 20, 2018, 08:47:54 AM
Is he still tee total? Be interesting to see how far that stretches his good years. Fair play to him, a testament to who he is that I still wish him well even though he plays for them.

Jimmy milner ?!
I have no idea about this though think there are a lot of professional elite athlete's that take seasonal absistance as much as the ones that seem to go out drinking and do driving under influence and other shennaigans from unwise lifestlye choices.

I do think something needs to be made more that :
James Milner has not lost a Premier League match in which he has scored
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: glinch on September 20, 2018, 04:01:05 PM
Nice quote from Peter Crouch re: Villa and Sir Graham

Quote
Why failing at Aston Villa is Peter Crouch's biggest regret
Peter Crouch playing for Aston Villa in May 2004.
Peter Crouch has revealed one of the biggest regrets of his career... not making it at Aston Villa.

The veteran Stoke striker joined Villa from Portsmouth for £5m in March 2002, signed by Graham Taylor.

And in the second episode of his new BBC podcast, Crouch explains why he still has regrets over failing at Villa Park.

He said: "I wasn’t ready for the Premier League when I went to Villa, so I ended up moving to Southampton. I think they just wanted shot of me, basically. David O’Leary didn’t fancy me as a player.

"That’s my one regret, I think. Had I stayed around at Villa a bit longer I think they would have seen the best of me, but I don’t think they ever did.

"Graham Taylor believed in me so much. I remember I was playing for Liverpool and I came back to Villa Park. I was also playing for England then, and Graham was there working for the radio.

"He ran down after the game and gave me a massive hug, and was like, ‘I knew you’d do it. I believed in you, I knew you’d be the player you are now’.

"And it was just a shame I didn’t do it for him at Villa because he bought me and he saw that when not many other people did. It was nice to be able to get there, to prove him right, but I wish I’d done it for him. "

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/stoke-crouch-tottenham-aston-villa-2025865 (https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/stoke-crouch-tottenham-aston-villa-2025865)
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on September 20, 2018, 04:28:11 PM
He always seems pretty bright for a footballer, our Crouchy. Fair play to him in acknowledging that he wasn't quite ready, and fair play for a great career.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Chinchilla Bathhouse on September 20, 2018, 07:39:48 PM
I've always liked Crouch, he's intelligent, self aware and self deprecating.  Once famously responded to an interviewer's "What would you have been if you weren't a footballer?" with "Probably a virgin". How many of his peers would have the wit to come up with anything a fraction as good as that?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on October 14, 2018, 12:10:10 PM
Not exactly still playing but now coaching !
Shaun Maloney to become Belguim number two after the departures of Graeme Jones and Thierry Henry !

Is this really a dream ticket for Belguim generation to win a trophy.

Maybe it is and he will be a top head coach /manager in next few years good luck to him!

Martin O'Neil & Roy Keane move over Maloney the most interesting ex villan at international level ! After Southagte of course !
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on October 15, 2018, 12:21:13 AM
It wasn't just his son who was ill, it was his wife.  And if Taylor did say that, it was utterly pathetic of him.  What was his excuse for failing to get much out of every other player in the squad as well then?

Why does Angel get a pass on this but Bruce should just get on with it when both his parents died within a short time of each other having been ill for a long time?

What a bizarre thing to say.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Hillbilly on October 15, 2018, 05:10:33 AM
How's Okore going back in Denmark?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Drummond on October 15, 2018, 12:00:53 PM
It wasn't just his son who was ill, it was his wife.  And if Taylor did say that, it was utterly pathetic of him.  What was his excuse for failing to get much out of every other player in the squad as well then?

Why does Angel get a pass on this but Bruce should just get on with it when both his parents died within a short time of each other having been ill for a long time?

What a bizarre thing to say.

I agree, I still don't understand why you expected Bruce to just get on with it but let Angel off.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on October 22, 2018, 10:42:12 PM
Albrighton came on for Leicester and was booked for dissenting.

I think he will always be a claret and blue and would like him to come home if we go up move he's like a brummie Elmo
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on November 14, 2018, 09:49:29 PM
I'm only came here to say Guzan should be picking ball out net for USMNT v Southgate England in the Rooney international
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on December 08, 2018, 01:08:25 PM
The latest on Agent Ridgewell

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46453874
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Roysmert on December 10, 2018, 05:56:13 PM
How's Okore going back in Denmark?

Jores Okore creates problems for AaB

In Danish we do not have a word that frames it as accurately as they have in English. There is a liability when creating problems where one should in fact do the opposite.

It has been Jores Okore for AaB in 2018. The midfielder was expelled against AC Horsens at the 2-2 position, which was his third in the calendar year. In addition, he scored the two-quarters quarantine in April when he judged Judge Jørgen Daugbjerg Burchardt's performance in a match against FC Midtjylland with the words: "Are you racist or what?"

Okore is a regular member of AaB, and his three expulsions are one more than the team's normal captain, Rasmus Würtz, has had throughout his Superliga career. That kind of damage the team and did it again on Sunday.

Google translated it not old Roy here.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Roysmert on December 10, 2018, 06:03:42 PM
Chris Herd is somewhere in Thailand these days I think.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Mister E on December 10, 2018, 06:08:19 PM
Watched Harrogate Town play Aldershot on Saturday; the mighty home side winning 4-1.
Aldershot had a certain Lewis Kinsella at LB: he appears to have found his level - he was decent yesterday, but nothing more.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on December 11, 2018, 09:52:54 PM
West Ham midfielder Robert Snodgrass says his spell at Aston Villa last season left him out of shape.

Manager Manuel Pellegrini warned the Scot, who spent last season on loan at Aston Villa, he had to lose weight if he wanted a spot in his Hammers side.

"I said to the manager, 'You try travelling from London to Birmingham and eating at services and having a balanced diet!' I was travelling nearly 280 miles daily," said Snodgrass in the build-up to Saturday's clash with Crystal Palace.

"I was up and down all over the country. Because I was on loan last year, it was difficult to get any balance or routine. It was probably the hardest year of my life but it's the sacrifice you make to play football.

"I was trying to be a family man and a footballer, so it's difficult. I said, "I'll give you my all, just give me a fair chance and I'll take it with both hands — if I don't then I've only myself to blame".
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on December 13, 2018, 01:01:55 AM
Interesting...if it's good enough for Brucie, I guess he was just following suit.

Seriously though, surely he could have hired a chef to prepare him grub for his commute and he would have eaten properly at Bodymoor for his other main meal of the day.

Trying to think back whether it looked like Snoddie struggled with fitness and breathing out of his arse during the latter part of games but if he did he hid it well. His last-minute winner out of nowhere at Bramall Lane comes to mind.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Damo70 on December 13, 2018, 01:25:44 PM
Surely on his wages he could have afforded to rent somewhere or stay in a hotel. I understand him not wanting to be away from his family all week but surely he could have split his time between the Midlands and down South so that he wasn't doing the commute every single day.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on December 18, 2018, 09:40:31 PM
Albrighton scored for Leicester in Carabo Cup tonight
Love that guy !
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on December 20, 2018, 07:53:13 PM
Bolton released  Stephen Ireland didn't even know he was still playing thought he retired
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Chinchilla Bathhouse on December 20, 2018, 08:11:50 PM
Bolton released  Stephen Ireland didn't even know he was still playing thought he retired

He did, he retired when he was with us. Unfortunately he did it in the middle of a match and Lambert carried on picking him for months without realising.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on December 21, 2018, 04:26:09 PM
Bolton released  Stephen Ireland didn't even know he was still playing thought he retired

He's still only 32, pretty well the same age as James Milner and 5 years younger than Gareth Barry. Ireland had more natural talent than either Barry or Milner but probably lost his way when large swathes of his family apparently passed away over a couple of days.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on December 22, 2018, 06:02:16 PM
Sorry, Ireland was in no way more naturally talented than Gareth Barry.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on December 27, 2018, 01:50:53 AM
Lovely header by Mark Albrighton v Man city in a victory .
Delphy was sent off too.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: XXVilla on December 27, 2018, 02:56:14 PM
Sorry, Ireland was in no way more naturally talented than Gareth Barry.

I think he was. GB worked hard to compensate and SI is just lazy
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: mike on January 03, 2019, 08:33:33 PM
Good to see all round good guy James Milner start for Liverpool in such a vital match.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on January 04, 2019, 09:55:09 AM
Janoi Donacien has just joined Ipswich from Accrington for £750k
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Roysmert on January 06, 2019, 11:35:29 AM
He's been there on loan mate since August. And been wank.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on January 10, 2019, 11:10:25 AM
For Villa legend Simon Dawkins signs for Ipswich

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46812569
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PGW on January 10, 2019, 11:15:17 AM
Janoi Donacien has just joined Ipswich from Accrington for £750k
He was in the Ipswich side that we failed to beat at their place earlier this season.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave shelley on January 10, 2019, 07:03:53 PM
I see Agent Ridgewell has left Portland Timbers.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Chinchilla Bathhouse on January 10, 2019, 07:13:12 PM
Has anyone let Lambert know? Ridgewell can't have too many missions left in him, that one would seem to fit the bill...
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Blagg on January 11, 2019, 11:55:56 PM
Sorry, Ireland was in no way more naturally talented than Gareth Barry.

I think he was. GB worked hard to compensate and SI is just lazy
Ireland may have had more tricks and flicks, but Barry has composure on the ball, can read the game, has great vision and ability to hit a ball.  A different set of talents, less showy, but Barry has always been way ahead of Ireland.  To say he has worked hard 'to compensate' is just nonsense.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on January 13, 2019, 11:06:49 AM
Ciaran Clark scored a super header v Chelsea yesterday.

I always thought Bruce was foolish or just hasty in moving him on.

It was like Elphick brought in or Clark ?!
And i think Samba couldn't lace his boots
Clark all day and night for me in championship
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on January 13, 2019, 08:03:36 PM
Clark left when RDM was manager.

Apparently, he had a release clause which Newcastle met.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brontebilly on January 13, 2019, 08:10:53 PM
Clark left when RDM was manager.

Apparently, he had a release clause which Newcastle met.

was the right move for Clark at the time

Dont think he is top division standard mind
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: TheTimVilla on January 16, 2019, 08:45:50 PM
Jordan Amavi doesn't seem too popular at Marseille...

http://www.footmercato.net/flash-mercato/om-jordan-amavi-repond-aux-supporters_245400

After 16 games, they are 18 Points off PSG...
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on January 16, 2019, 09:11:04 PM
Jordan Amavi doesn't seem too popular at Marseille...

http://www.footmercato.net/flash-mercato/om-jordan-amavi-repond-aux-supporters_245400

After 16 games, they are 18 Points off PSG...

Not surprised, a truly awful defender.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: curiousorange on January 16, 2019, 09:13:04 PM
Saint Jordan. Capable of miracles outside of the confines of a football pitch.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Roysmert on January 17, 2019, 09:13:49 PM
Janoi Donacien has just joined Ipswich from Accrington for £750k
He was in the Ipswich side that we failed to beat at their place earlier this season.

Please don't remind me of that abysmal performance
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on January 22, 2019, 05:24:06 PM
PSG looking to sign Idrissa Gueye could be up a  reported £30 million

He's done well !

Good luck to him
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: mike on January 22, 2019, 06:48:54 PM
PSG looking to sign Idrissa Gueye could be up a  reported £30 million

He's done well !

Good luck to him

Don't suppose we put in a sell on clause...
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 22, 2019, 07:14:43 PM
PSG looking to sign Idrissa Gueye could be up a  reported £30 million

He's done well !

Good luck to him

Don't suppose we put in a sell on clause...

Highly unlikely as he had a release clause which Everton triggered.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on January 22, 2019, 08:09:48 PM
Why didn't we get a bidding war going...?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Roysmert on January 22, 2019, 10:57:32 PM
Janoi Donacien has just joined Ipswich from Accrington for £750k
He was in the Ipswich side that we failed to beat at their place earlier this season.

Please don't remind me of that abysmal performance

Gone back to Accrington, the poor bastard.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Des Little on January 22, 2019, 11:09:13 PM
Jordan Amavi doesn't seem too popular at Marseille...

http://www.footmercato.net/flash-mercato/om-jordan-amavi-repond-aux-supporters_245400

After 16 games, they are 18 Points off PSG...

Not surprised, a truly awful defender.

I know a much worse one...
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on January 31, 2019, 11:28:13 AM
Bacuna could be on move to premier league Cardiff
Stated he could be used in at right back

Good luck against likes of Son and Sane !

Preparing for championship life next season then !?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Damo70 on January 31, 2019, 11:38:11 AM
Bacuna could be on move to premier league Cardiff
Stated he could be used in at right back

Good luck against likes of Son and Sane !

Preparing for championship life next season then !?


He said he wanted to play Champions League football when he wanted to leave us. Does he think Cardiff will qualify for it by being the highest placed Welsh team?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on January 31, 2019, 11:54:37 AM
Bacuna could be on move to premier league Cardiff
Stated he could be used in at right back

Good luck against likes of Son and Sane !

Preparing for championship life next season then !?


He said he wanted to play Champions League football when he wanted to leave us. Does he think Cardiff will qualify for it by being the highest placed Welsh team?

Haha very good !
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: footyskillz on January 31, 2019, 11:56:45 AM
Rudy Gestede rejects Millwall loan from Middlesbrough

Apparently he's still at Boro ?!

Never plays and looking at it says
He has only scored four goals in 40 Championship games and has made just seven appearances this season.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: adrenachrome on January 31, 2019, 02:14:24 PM
Rudy Gestede rejects Millwall loan from Middlesbrough

Apparently he's still at Boro ?!

Never plays and looking at it says
He has only scored four goals in 40 Championship games and has made just seven appearances this season.


Stop your messing around
Better think of your future

Can't blame him for not wanting to go to that bunch of mugs though, he seemed a jolly decent sort when he was here.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: papa lazarou on January 31, 2019, 04:54:42 PM
Bacuna could be on move to premier league Cardiff
Stated he could be used in at right back

Good luck against likes of Son and Sane !

Preparing for championship life next season then !?

His contract with Cardiff is for four and a half years.
It beggars belief.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: FatSam on May 23, 2019, 10:00:17 PM
I see that José Ángel Crespo won the Greek league and cup double this season with PAOK.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: pauliewalnuts on May 23, 2019, 10:37:03 PM
I see that José Ángel Crespo won the Greek league and cup double this season with PAOK.

One of those players we've signed in the last 7 or 8 years who made absolutely zero impact whatsoever, and who are largely forgotten.

there's a shocking number of them.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: FatSam on May 24, 2019, 09:52:22 AM
One of those players we've signed in the last 7 or 8 years who made absolutely zero impact whatsoever, and who are largely forgotten.

there's a shocking number of them.
Yes, I’d completely forgotten he was on our books. According to Wikipedia he only played one game for us.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on May 25, 2019, 07:50:53 AM
I can't even remember if Crespo was rubbish or not, I genuinely can't remember having any opinion of him. He had a beard, didn't he?

I remember doing quizzes where you had to name all the eighties or nineties or noughties Villa players. Tended to get above 90% on each, you only forget the odd third choice goalkeeper or youth team centre half that was promoted to the first team for about two games during an injury crisis.

When someone makes the equivalent quiz for this decade I'll struggle to get 50%. Some absolute nobodies.

Except for the current squad, of course ❤️
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: in exile on May 25, 2019, 08:54:10 AM
One of those players we've signed in the last 7 or 8 years who made absolutely zero impact whatsoever, and who are largely forgotten.

there's a shocking number of them.
Yes, I’d completely forgotten he was on our books. According to Wikipedia he only played one game for us.

If my memory serves me well, it was a home game against Stoke
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on May 26, 2019, 09:14:02 AM
Was looking through some old squads earlier this week and ex-Villa and Derby legend Simon Dawkins popped up. Where is he playing now? Had completely forgotten him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on May 26, 2019, 10:03:44 AM
He was signed by Paul Lambert again for Ipswich. Has just been released.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Steve67 on May 26, 2019, 08:16:07 PM
Tshibola and Gardner due to come back?  Hasn't Gardner's contract run out?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: aj2k77 on May 26, 2019, 08:35:05 PM
No, we have another year.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: in exile on May 27, 2019, 07:46:57 AM
Wishful thinking
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Eckybloke on May 28, 2019, 11:09:52 AM
This is 80 minutes long (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vVzI9P_7Rk) Barry Bannan talking about his career.  Obviously mostly Villa but I found it good, honest and pretty insightful. 

Been around for so long, you forget he's not even 30 yet.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on July 25, 2019, 05:10:59 PM
Cross Darren Bent off this list. Officially retired today
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Damo70 on July 27, 2019, 02:41:28 PM
Apparently Crewe fans are pissing themselves laughing that Jordan Bowery has been considered good enough to be given a contract at MK Dons.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Exeter 77 on August 02, 2019, 04:51:09 PM
It seems Liam Ridgewell has joined Southend.

https://www.southendunited.co.uk/news/2019/august/ridgewell-signs/
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on August 02, 2019, 07:49:02 PM
It’ll be interesting to see how ‘The Other James Collins’ gets on in the Championship

Luton live on Sky tonight
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on August 13, 2019, 03:12:13 AM
Julian Joachim signed for Europa Point FC in Gibraltar earlier this week.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: wittonwarrior on August 13, 2019, 03:38:45 AM
Anyone see Harry McKirdy's move on Saturday.  Much too lightweight for us but looked good for Carlisle.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: in exile on August 14, 2019, 02:18:57 PM
I could be wrong, but I thought he had gone to Cambridge
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on August 15, 2019, 11:29:08 PM
It's Harvey Knibbs who has gone to Cambridge, Harry has gone to Carlisle.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: manic-road on August 25, 2019, 09:37:53 AM
Daniel Johnson is in a rich vein of form at Preston North End, 4 goals in his last three games and playing well including a man of the match performance against Stoke during the week. Looked good in the Villa academy, reserve and future Gen teams. I think he was sold for around 50k in 2015.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Roysmert on August 25, 2019, 10:11:03 AM
Which is incredible when you think of the absolute shite we were stuffing our squad with at the time. Lambert's a fucking cloown.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: in exile on August 28, 2019, 11:33:31 AM
It's Harvey Knibbs who has gone to Cambridge, Harry has gone to Carlisle.

Yes, of course. Thank you.
It's all those H's and my old age!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on August 28, 2019, 11:51:00 AM
Is Gareth Barry playing anywhere this season ?

I'm surprised that McCafu hasn't cropped up somewhere
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Exeter 77 on August 28, 2019, 12:43:27 PM
I think I read somewhere that Barry has re-signed for Smethwick.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on August 28, 2019, 01:01:31 PM
Adomah scored for Forest the other day. They seem to have a decent manager now that they've binned O'Neill. Lolley and Grabban in great form. I'm still surprised that Lolley and Bowen at Hull are playing Ch'ship football this season.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Damo70 on October 03, 2019, 06:23:40 PM
Concrete Ron playing for Az Alkmarr v man utd in Europa league.


With his injury record someone was obviously mixing the concrete wrong for most of his career. Too much water and not enough aggregate and cement.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: rooboy316 on October 07, 2019, 01:03:17 AM
I see Adama Traore has knocked in a couple.  Is he actually good now?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: adrenachrome on October 07, 2019, 02:32:41 AM
I see Adama Traore has knocked in a couple.  Is he actually good now?

He was very good yesterday. Whether he can maintain some consistency is open to question.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: wittonwarrior on October 07, 2019, 11:05:50 PM
Had to laugh at Shearer yesterday with his comments on Traore.  Spot on about being on the type of batteries he is charging himself up on.  To be honest he has progressed from the headless chicken he showed whilst at the Villa.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on October 08, 2019, 04:47:59 PM
I see Adama Traore has knocked in a couple.  Is he actually good now?

He was very good yesterday. Whether he can maintain some consistency is open to question.

That kind of electric pace is always dangerous, but it's seemingly taken until now for anybody to channel it properly.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on October 08, 2019, 09:07:17 PM
Kozak is doing well for Sparta Prague, since joining them in Feb this is his scoring record for each league game he has played

1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 3, 0, 1, 0, 1, 3.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on October 09, 2019, 12:49:57 AM
Wow, really?  I thought he had retired after we had to release him due to his failure to recovery from that injury. Delighted that he's back playing and scoring.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on October 18, 2019, 02:26:32 AM
Carlos Cuellar officially retires https://twitter.com/Cuellar24/status/1184879551945625600
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on December 27, 2019, 11:21:41 AM
Jordan Ayew goal against West Ham for Palace
Wow .
Providing to currently be more successful than Benetke as  Villa strikers still playing  of this decade
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on December 27, 2019, 11:24:45 AM
I see Adama Traore has knocked in a couple.  Is he actually good now?

He was very good yesterday. Whether he can maintain some consistency is open to question.

Adama Traore is the most fouled player, in terms of yellow cards, in English football this season. 25 yellow cards for opponents . 25 different players have been booked for deliberately fouling him. Those fouls must be pretty bad as Adama has won 42 fouls

Grealish considering he's been fouled 79 times, doesn't seem to have the opponents booked as much.
I can only think the flying pace thing is one of the issues. Because Jack has twice as many fouls against him than old boy Traore
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Roysmert on December 29, 2019, 10:55:06 PM
I watched Vale v Swindon today. Lyden came on for the Robins very early doors, and was absolutely ineffective. Tried to be a fancy dan, and left the pitch without a speck of mud on his shorts. He'll be gone the end of the season.

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on January 18, 2020, 11:57:05 AM
Ashley Young off to Inter Milan  Good luck to him.
I like how he has great respect for Petrov and supported him during his illness.
I also think he's been a great pro and it's good effort to his athleticism that he still going.
Proper leader these days and says a lot man utd wanted to keep him but he thought better of it !
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on February 13, 2020, 04:32:17 PM
Chris Herd is currently playing in the Bangladesh Premier League.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ChicagoLion on February 14, 2020, 05:28:56 PM
Ashley Young off to Inter Milan  Good luck to him.
I like how he has great respect for Petrov and supported him during his illness.
I also think he's been a great pro and it's good effort to his athleticism that he still going.
Proper leader these days and says a lot man utd wanted to keep him but he thought better of it !
Dived against us to get Manure a penalty, great pro indeed.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Simon Page on February 14, 2020, 07:25:49 PM
It was a penalty. It was also a dive after the event, but it was nailed on. He got a rare bollocking from Ferguson for it.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Damo70 on February 14, 2020, 09:53:38 PM
Young always went down easily. I seem to recall him buying a couple of cheap free kicks that led to goals against Small Heath. I didn't particularly applaud him for it but I didn't particularly knock it for him either.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave P on February 15, 2020, 06:55:10 AM
Young always went down easily. I seem to recall him buying a couple of cheap free kicks that led to goals against Small Heath. I didn't particularly applaud him for it but I didn't particularly knock it for him either.

I do wonder what our perception of Grealish on this regard will be like once he goes?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Lastfootstamper on February 15, 2020, 06:58:23 AM
I always thought Young was quite brave beyond his physique. He was pretty spindly during his time with us, but he was never shy about challenges.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: N'ZMAV on February 15, 2020, 08:16:20 AM
Young always went down easily. I seem to recall him buying a couple of cheap free kicks that led to goals against Small Heath. I didn't particularly applaud him for it but I didn't particularly knock it for him either.
his over-exaggerating antics used to piss me off.

Grealish takes a lot more kicks that Young did - and he handles it way better.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Smithy on February 15, 2020, 07:35:19 PM
Young had a habit of hanging a leg out and catching the defender, Jack has a habit of putting his body between the defender and the ball and making them foul him.  I think Young bought a lot of fouls, Jack buys a few, too, but he earns far more by making defenders come through him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: itmustbe_it is! on February 16, 2020, 10:46:59 AM
Young always went down easily. I seem to recall him buying a couple of cheap free kicks that led to goals against Small Heath. I didn't particularly applaud him for it but I didn't particularly knock it for him either.

I do wonder what our perception of Grealish on this regard will be like once he goes?

Behold, a heretic
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ROBBO on August 02, 2020, 02:30:15 AM
I have always thought we had the best of Ashley, he tormented defences and his crossing and spot kicks were spot on. I believe the amount of rough treatment handed out to him took it's toll and his game dropped off and he started looking for the free kick. Great career though.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: SheffieldVillain on August 27, 2020, 11:59:14 AM
One less ex-Villa player still playing.

Gareth Barry has just announced his retirement.

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on August 27, 2020, 12:19:11 PM
One of the villa legends by all accounts.
And most premier league appearances ever !
Cheers Gareth Barry.

Wonder if he'll get into coaching and management think he has the footy intelligence to do well.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Damo70 on August 27, 2020, 12:23:31 PM
I have always thought we had the best of Ashley, he tormented defences and his crossing and spot kicks were spot on. I believe the amount of rough treatment handed out to him took it's toll and his game dropped off and he started looking for the free kick. Great career though.

To be fair he was always good at buying a cheap free kick in his Villa days. To Small Heath's cost on a few occasions.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: SheffieldVillain on August 27, 2020, 12:24:29 PM
One of the villa legends by all accounts.
And most premier league appearances ever !
Cheers Gareth Barry.

Wonder if he'll get into coaching and management think he has the footy intelligence to do well.

I think there's a fair chance, I seem to remember reading somewhere he'd already taken some of his coaching badges.

It doesn't seem right that a player whose debut I remember watching so clearly can be old enough to retire...!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: JD on August 28, 2020, 08:29:34 AM
One less ex-Villa player still playing.

Gareth Barry has just announced his retirement.



He's seen the Albion's third kit and gone "f%^k me I'm not wearing that s%^t, I think I'll retire instead".
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on August 28, 2020, 09:36:21 AM
One less ex-Villa player still playing.

Gareth Barry has just announced his retirement.



He's seen the Albion's third kit and gone "f%^k me I'm not wearing that s%^t, I think I'll retire instead".

Shame he had to blot his legacy by having to play for them. Would have loved him back at Villa in his last few years .
To be ousted by Jake Livermore is a sorry way to go.
On WBA they are going straight back down .if you thought our strikers were struggling they have nonesxitsence in that squad.
Someone tell Callum Robinson not go back there!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: N'ZMAV on August 28, 2020, 10:03:39 AM
I'm happy for WBA to sign Callum Robinson, especially if they think he's the sort of forward that will score the goals to keep them up.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Exeter 77 on September 18, 2020, 11:48:10 AM
Ross McCormack becomes marquee signing.
https://t.co/DvHinfK0hE
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Damo70 on September 18, 2020, 12:19:15 PM
His Wikipedia picture shows him in a Villa kit. He looks the dead spit of 'Lee' off of Gogglebox, the guy who watches telly with the blonde woman in his caravan.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on September 18, 2020, 12:50:04 PM
Ross McCormack becomes marquee signing.
https://t.co/DvHinfK0hE

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54204947

Da Beeb
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He has had almost £25m spent on him in transfer fees, played alongside Usain Bolt and once missed training because his electric gates would not open.

Now former Scotland striker Ross McCormack is back in English football after joining National League side Aldershot Town on a one-year contract.

"It wasn't a hard decision to make to be honest (on joining the club), but now is the right time to come back and get going again in England," said the ex-Aston Villa, Fulham and Leeds man.

McCormack has never played in the Premier League, but he was prolific at Championship level for Cardiff, Leeds and Fulham, scoring 116 league goals in eight seasons.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on September 18, 2020, 01:30:12 PM
Rushian Hepburn-Murphy has joined Pafos in the Cypriot First Division. No competitive goals yet but scored 7 in a single pre-season friendly game, a 9-0 victory against a Riga FC XI.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rory on September 18, 2020, 02:18:18 PM
Rushian Hepburn-Murphy has joined Pafos in the Cypriot First Division. No competitive goals yet but scored 7 in a single pre-season friendly game, a 9-0 victory against a Riga FC XI.

I always assumed Cypriot teams just played in the Greek leagues. You live and learn!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: itmustbe_it is! on September 18, 2020, 02:53:38 PM
Rushian Hepburn-Murphy has joined Pafos in the Cypriot First Division. No competitive goals yet but scored 7 in a single pre-season friendly game, a 9-0 victory against a Riga FC XI.

To think we had such high hopes for him .
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on September 18, 2020, 05:01:42 PM
RHM should be playing at a higher level. Had high hopes for the little fella.

A bit like Luke Moore before him, I wonder if he sees football as something to accommodate his lifestyle rather than be driven to be the best he can.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: N'ZMAV on September 18, 2020, 05:10:43 PM
RHM should be playing at a higher level. Had high hopes for the little fella.
I didn't see anything in his limited first team appearances that he had much about him, to be fair to him, it wasn't a lot of minutes - but surely with how shite our forwards have been over the recent years (bar Abraham and Kodjia for one season each) the rest were pretty wank.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: manic-road on September 18, 2020, 05:13:04 PM
Ross McCormack becomes marquee signing.
https://t.co/DvHinfK0hE

Seeing as he is in Aldershot now I'd imagine he will be spending a lot of time in the Crimea Inn.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: itmustbe_it is! on September 18, 2020, 07:05:32 PM
Ross McCormack becomes marquee signing.
https://t.co/DvHinfK0hE

Seeing as he is in Aldershot now I'd imagine he will be spending a lot of time in the Crimea Inn.

Only so long as they don't have electric gates
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Lescottstweets on September 19, 2020, 09:34:08 AM
Ross McCormack becomes marquee signing.
https://t.co/DvHinfK0hE

Worth a punt to be top scorer in that league. For all his faults, he knows how to find the back of the net, just not the way around a gate.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: VillaSpen on September 19, 2020, 09:56:00 AM
Ross McCormack becomes marquee signing.
https://t.co/DvHinfK0hE

Seeing as he is in Aldershot now I'd imagine he will be spending a lot of time in the Crimea Inn.

Ross can Crimea river
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Kimaster1976 on September 19, 2020, 03:32:35 PM
Andre Green hasn't found another club yet and linked to no one.

For a player that many thought should be given a chance with us in the Premier surely most Championship clubs should have been queuing up to sign him on a free surely.

He has huge potential at that level.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on September 20, 2020, 01:42:44 AM
I wonder if we kept a sell-on on O'Hare. Even in our state of relegation scrapping though he was never going to get in ahead of Jack or McGinn, less so even now as we buy a higher grade of player than previously.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Clampy on September 20, 2020, 09:37:52 AM
I wonder if we kept a sell-on on O'Hare. Even in our state of relegation scrapping though he was never going to get in ahead of Jack or McGinn, less so even now as we buy a higher grade of player than previously.

I doubt it. We let him go for nothing, I don't think we sold him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on September 20, 2020, 09:40:15 AM
I wonder if we kept a sell-on on O'Hare. Even in our state of relegation scrapping though he was never going to get in ahead of Jack or McGinn, less so even now as we buy a higher grade of player than previously.

I doubt it. We let him go for nothing, I don't think we sold him.

You're right, his contract had expired.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on September 20, 2020, 12:07:30 PM
Don't we get a development fee considering his age? Maybe sell-ons can still be applied to those.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Clampy on September 20, 2020, 12:12:04 PM
Don't we get a development fee considering his age? Maybe sell-ons can still be applied to those.

But he was out of contract. He was no longer our player.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: manic-road on September 26, 2020, 05:43:22 PM
Callum Robinson gets an early goal against Chelsea.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Mister E on September 26, 2020, 05:55:53 PM
C Robinson doubles his goal-tally for the day.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Damo70 on September 26, 2020, 05:57:49 PM
3-0 Albion VAR permitting.

Oops wrong thread.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: enigma on September 27, 2020, 08:32:46 PM
Veretout has put Roma ahead against Juventus.

Edit. He scored 2.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on October 28, 2020, 10:32:38 PM
Andi Weimann out for the season (ACL). https://twitter.com/GeeMacGee/status/1321351241847525377
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ad@m on October 29, 2020, 07:21:44 AM
Andi Weimann out for the season (ACL). https://twitter.com/GeeMacGee/status/1321351241847525377

That could be career threatening for a 29 year old.  Such a shame - I always liked Weimann.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: rob_bridge on October 29, 2020, 01:20:21 PM
Andi Weimann out for the season (ACL). https://twitter.com/GeeMacGee/status/1321351241847525377

That could be career threatening for a 29 year old.  Such a shame - I always liked Weimann.

Agree a decent coach could have got a much better tune out of him
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ez on October 29, 2020, 05:25:34 PM
James Milner still being awesome.
Well played that guy on another trophy and league title
Must be the most successful player of premier league era that moved on from Villa
Complete pro.
We could do with a few more of his type at Villa !

It still saddening to me that players like Milner, Barry and Young had to leave us to win trophies.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Mister E on October 30, 2020, 07:59:27 PM
O'Hare only on the Cov bench tonight.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on October 30, 2020, 08:03:26 PM
James Milner still being awesome.
Well played that guy on another trophy and league title
Must be the most successful player of premier league era that moved on from Villa
Complete pro.
We could do with a few more of his type at Villa !

It still saddening to me that players like Milner, Barry and Young had to leave us to win trophies.

They didn't have to. We made a cup final and a semi the year after Barry left so hardly beyond the realms of possibility that we could have won a trophy if he'd stayed.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave shelley on November 07, 2020, 08:45:15 PM
I see the Fonz is doing ok at Bolton, I think he has about five goals for the season so far.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Villa Lew on November 07, 2020, 09:02:01 PM
Yeah scores 2 today, but sadly still finishes on the losing side.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Lastfootstamper on November 12, 2020, 07:33:16 PM
Steven Davis set to move within 2 of Shilton's home nations' caps record.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on November 12, 2020, 07:40:13 PM
I see the Fonz is doing ok at Bolton, I think he has about five goals for the season so far.

He's really running out of time to fulfill the Didier Drogba career trajectory that I was adamant that he was going to have.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: N'ZMAV on November 12, 2020, 07:41:12 PM
I see the Fonz is doing ok at Bolton, I think he has about five goals for the season so far.

He's really running out of time to fulfill the Didier Drogba career trajectory that I was adamant that he was going to have.
I predicted him to be another Stefan Moore - so he's done better than I thought.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on November 12, 2020, 07:57:57 PM
Steven Davis set to move within 2 of Shilton's home nations' caps record.

Jesus, what an indictment on the beautiful game. A steady eddie, showed promise of more with us, but he's hardly Puskas, is he ?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: N'ZMAV on November 12, 2020, 08:00:22 PM
Steven Davis set to move within 2 of Shilton's home nations' caps record.

Jesus, what an indictment on the beautiful game. A steady eddie, showed promise of more with us, but he's hardly Puskas, is he ?
Northern Ireland would love a team of steady eddies.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: algy on November 12, 2020, 08:08:26 PM
To be fair to Steven Davies, he's had a long career playing exclusively to flight football, either in England or Scotland. He's also been a first team regular for all bar one and a half of the last 18 seasons (wasn't getting games for Soton, but went on loan to Rangers and played regularly for them).

He's had an excellent career really.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Lastfootstamper on November 12, 2020, 08:09:03 PM
I'm under few illusions that had he been English, that cap tally would be somewhere around the zero mark. But unlike very few of our 'own', after leaving us he's gone on to have a solid, long-lived top-level and international career.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on November 12, 2020, 08:19:20 PM
Steven Davis set to move within 2 of Shilton's home nations' caps record.

Jesus, what an indictment on the beautiful game. A steady eddie, showed promise of more with us, but he's hardly Puskas, is he ?

Compared to the Wales record cap holder he pretty much is.

Click me if you don't already know and would like to (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Gunter)
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on November 12, 2020, 10:56:55 PM
Yikes!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rory on November 12, 2020, 11:01:39 PM
Steven Davis set to move within 2 of Shilton's home nations' caps record.

Jesus, what an indictment on the beautiful game. A steady eddie, showed promise of more with us, but he's hardly Puskas, is he ?

Compared to the Wales record cap holder he pretty much is.

Click me if you don't already know and would like to (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Gunter)

I have literally never heard of him.

Always rated Davis, though. Wasn't good enough for where we thought we were heading around the time he left, but would've been more than useful for us during the Lambert years.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Monty on November 12, 2020, 11:07:23 PM
In the MON days, my feeling about Davis was that I never saw what Sidwell had that he didn't.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rory on November 12, 2020, 11:49:32 PM
In the MON days, my feeling about Davis was that I never saw what Sidwell had that he didn't.

Ah Sidwell. I was there for what I think was his debut, against Odense. He got into some really good positions on the edge of the box, I thought he was going to be great for us. Shows what I know!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on November 13, 2020, 09:09:56 AM
In the MON days, my feeling about Davis was that I never saw what Sidwell had that he didn't.

Sidwell was a bit like Hitz, a cracking shot on him but very little else to his game.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rory on November 13, 2020, 01:38:54 PM
In the MON days, my feeling about Davis was that I never saw what Sidwell had that he didn't.

Sidwell was a bit like Hitz, a cracking shot on him but very little else to his game.

He was a good ball boy.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on November 15, 2020, 01:09:39 AM
...and a good ball winner for Reading in MON's first home game. He scored two goals in the return, too.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ez on November 20, 2020, 07:48:24 PM
Jordan Bowery playing for Mansfield tonight. 1 goal in 9 games so far this season.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: N'ZMAV on November 20, 2020, 07:50:14 PM
Jordan Bowery playing for Mansfield tonight. 1 goal in 9 games so far this season.
he's done well to be still stealing a living.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on November 20, 2020, 10:02:29 PM
Callum O'Hare playing the full 90 at home for Coventry at the Sty in a nil-niller while the away team has Hogan and a Gardner on the bench. Grim times.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on November 21, 2020, 08:32:08 PM
Jake Doyle-Hayes, released in June and signed for St. Mirren a couple of weeks ago. Scored the winner and was MOTM today in his second league start for them. Happy for the kid from Cavan.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54941165
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: SheffieldVillain on January 14, 2021, 03:22:12 PM
Andre Green finally found a new club. Signed for Sheff Weds.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on January 15, 2021, 01:59:45 AM
Good luck, Andre.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: mike on January 15, 2021, 10:34:19 AM
Good luck, Andre.

He was a massive Villa fan and a nice guy as well.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ChicagoLion on January 15, 2021, 11:31:18 AM
Jordan Bowery playing for Mansfield tonight. 1 goal in 9 games so far this season.
he's done well to be still stealing a living.
thats a litttle unfair, he was not good enough for us but hardly his fault we signed him, he is playing at his level now.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Gareth on January 15, 2021, 01:23:36 PM
Jordan Bowery playing for Mansfield tonight. 1 goal in 9 games so far this season.
he's done well to be still stealing a living.
thats a litttle unfair, he was not good enough for us but hardly his fault we signed him, he is playing at his level now.
And he has played fairly constantly since he left here so he is obviously a decent player - most of us would give a hell of a lot to be a journeyman pro playing football for a living
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Clampy on January 15, 2021, 01:28:29 PM
Jordan Bowery playing for Mansfield tonight. 1 goal in 9 games so far this season.
he's done well to be still stealing a living.
thats a litttle unfair, he was not good enough for us but hardly his fault we signed him, he is playing at his level now.

He's got more than that. He scored a hat-trick a couple of weeks ago.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: paul_e on January 15, 2021, 01:46:42 PM
A record of about 1 in 5 at L1/L2 level is decent considering he was never really an out and out centre forward. I have no issue with him, not his fault Lambert had a punt on a player who was nowhere near premier league quality.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on January 15, 2021, 02:23:49 PM
Anyone who can play professionally for as long as he has can't be that bad. We took a punt on a lower divisions player - it happens.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: wittonwarrior on January 15, 2021, 02:31:49 PM
Barry bannon still a decent player and could do a job in the premiership
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on January 15, 2021, 02:49:52 PM
Jake Doyle-Hayes, released in June and signed for St. Mirren a couple of weeks ago. Scored the winner and was MOTM today in his second league start for them. Happy for the kid from Cavan.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54941165

Update

St Mirren's website now shows JDH as having make 12 starts.

Good to see.

Albeit from only seeing him a few times, JDH was a player that I thought might make it at Villa
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: paul_e on January 15, 2021, 03:10:28 PM
I liked JDH but I think he'd have suffered with the same issues as Conor has with us of just not having the physicality to cope with how we play.

I suspect the same is true of Jack Clarke who i thought looked a fantastic prospect as a 17-18 year old but who hasn't really progressed and has just gone out to chesterfield having been called back early from Yeovil where he couldn't get a game. I know this technically isn't the right thread for him but it might as well be, which is a shame.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on January 15, 2021, 03:53:20 PM
Barry bannon still a decent player and could do a job in the premiership

Wee Barry is 31 now.  I think he's playing at his level tbh.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Damo70 on January 15, 2021, 04:25:49 PM
Barry bannon still a decent player and could do a job in the premiership

Wee Barry is 31 now.  I think he's playing at his level tbh.

For me he has always been a good Championship level player and at best a Premier League squad filler.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on January 15, 2021, 04:52:42 PM
Bannan's had a good career for a player who looked at 18 like his next move would be Kidderminster Harriers.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: AV82EC on January 15, 2021, 04:55:27 PM
Bannan lacked the physicality and pace to play in the Premier League imv. Great passer of a ball though.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: wittonwarrior on January 15, 2021, 07:33:53 PM
Another player with a  frame like Bannon , Harry McKirty has just been transferred listed by Port Vale.  Think he is starting to run out of options.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: rooboy316 on January 16, 2021, 09:51:40 AM
Don’t really want his dad Steve around the club though.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Mister E on January 16, 2021, 10:55:36 AM
Don’t really want his dad Steve around the club though.
Bannan vs Bannon
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: rooboy316 on January 16, 2021, 01:20:56 PM
Don’t really want his dad Steve around the club though.
Bannan vs Bannon

That was the point of my comment - the misspellings in the last few messages (winky thing)!
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Post by: wittonwarrior on January 16, 2021, 09:27:48 PM
James Chester sent off today for stoke
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Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on January 16, 2021, 11:01:04 PM
Julian Joachim at 46 still plays for (or can when they start up again) Bourne Town in the United Counties league.

Nice kit !

(https://i.ibb.co/jwXrYQ4/F9-Y6-NP8-FVWZWMUNKTQ7-Y.jpg) (https://ibb.co/jwXrYQ4)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Joachim
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Post by: eamonn on January 17, 2021, 01:57:11 AM
Fuxking legend, Jools.
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Post by: Sdwbvf on January 17, 2021, 08:53:12 AM
33 goals in the 18-19 season.
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Post by: Mister E on January 17, 2021, 10:35:04 AM
Don’t really want his dad Steve around the club though.
Bannan vs Bannon
That was the point of my comment - the misspellings in the last few messages (winky thing)!
That was the point of my comment....

 8)
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Post by: paul_e on January 17, 2021, 01:25:35 PM
Don’t really want his dad Steve around the club though.
Bannan vs Bannon
That was the point of my comment - the misspellings in the last few messages (winky thing)!
That was the point of my comment....

 8)

It's easy to tell them apart though, one only plays to the right.
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Post by: Ad@m on January 17, 2021, 06:57:36 PM
Bannan's had a good career for a player who looked at 18 like his next move would be Kidderminster Harriers.

At 18 he looked like his next move would be to get the bus to school!

There's a picture from a pre-season game he played in when he was about that age and whilst the angles didn't help him he looked barely taller than the advertising hoardings!
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Post by: clash city rocker on January 17, 2021, 11:28:39 PM
Bannan's had a good career for a player who looked at 18 like his next move would be Kidderminster Harriers.

Dont diss Kiddy Harriers please Dave.
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Post by: SoccerHQ on January 17, 2021, 11:38:36 PM
I liked JDH but I think he'd have suffered with the same issues as Conor has with us of just not having the physicality to cope with how we play.

I suspect the same is true of Jack Clarke who i thought looked a fantastic prospect as a 17-18 year old but who hasn't really progressed and has just gone out to chesterfield having been called back early from Yeovil where he couldn't get a game. I know this technically isn't the right thread for him but it might as well be, which is a shame.

I do wonder if we use the loan system well enough. I know likes of Chelsea abuse the loan system but they've also had a loan manager in there for a few years (it's Tor Andre Flo) who's remit is to find clubs who'll fit the style the kids have been developed in. Chelsea also have that club in Holland, they sent Mason Mount to play there when he was just 18.

When you look at our best prospects in last 15 years who broke through they all tended to go out on loan at that age. Cahill at Burnley, Grealish at Notts County and Weimann at Watford who quickly overtook the Fonz in the pecking order in 2011 who didn't go out on loan in the years before when he badly needed it.

Feels a bit odd to me when we've finally decided to loan out Revan given he's 21 and we can only find him a non league club. Would've thought they'd have been plenty of interest from the league against his performance v Liverpool.

Was a bizarre use of O'Hare aswell, only started loaning him out when he hit 20 and we'd wasted the previous 18 months when he just stayed to play the odd cup game.

Given our continual improvement over next few seasons it's going to get harder for talented youths to break through so really feels like an area we need to get better as likes of Louie Barry and Kesler are probably good enough to be loaned out to league 1 clubs this month if we want to do it. Loaning out Ramsey to Donny this time last year has shown the benefit of that.
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Post by: Risso on January 17, 2021, 11:42:03 PM
I liked JDH but I think he'd have suffered with the same issues as Conor has with us of just not having the physicality to cope with how we play.

I suspect the same is true of Jack Clarke who i thought looked a fantastic prospect as a 17-18 year old but who hasn't really progressed and has just gone out to chesterfield having been called back early from Yeovil where he couldn't get a game. I know this technically isn't the right thread for him but it might as well be, which is a shame.

I do wonder if we use the loan system well enough. I know likes of Chelsea abuse the loan system but they've also had a loan manager in there for a few years (it's Tor Andre Flo) who's remit is to find clubs who'll fit the style the kids have been developed in. Chelsea also have that club in Holland, they sent Mason Mount to play there when he was just 18.

When you look at our best prospects in last 15 years who broke through they all tended to go out on loan at that age. Cahill at Burnley, Grealish at Notts County and Weimann at Watford who quickly overtook the Fonz in the pecking order in 2011 who didn't go out on loan in the years before when he badly needed it.

Feels a bit odd to me when we've finally decided to loan out Revan given he's 21 and we can only find him a non league club. Would've thought they'd have been plenty of interest from the league against his performance v Liverpool.

Was a bizarre use of O'Hare aswell, only started loaning him out when he hit 20 and we'd wasted the previous 18 months when he just stayed to play the odd cup game.

Given our continual improvement over next few seasons it's going to get harder for talented youths to break through so really feels like an area we need to get better as likes of Louie Barry and Kesler are probably good enough to be loaned out to league 1 clubs this month if we want to do it. Loaning out Ramsey to Donny this time last year has shown the benefit of that.

Good points. The obvious one is Keinan, who has probably missed the boat now in terms of becoming a regular at Villa. He really needed to go out and play 40+ games somewhere, but now he's only going to get 5 or 10 minutes here and there with us and he's just not going to develop doing that.
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Post by: SoccerHQ on January 17, 2021, 11:53:30 PM
We can still loan him out this window now he's fit and we get another striker in next two weeks. He certainly should've gone on loan in last 18 months.

I was hoping with him coming in from non league he'd have that hunger to go out and want to start 30-40 games in a season somewhere as Vardy apparently wanted to do that when he first joined Leicester and wasn't getting a run in the team but it all just feels a bit too comfortable, us regularly giving him new contracts every other season when he strings 5 sub cameos together so I think he knows deep down this is as good as it gets as another prem team wouldn't sign him if we let him go.

Really interested what we do with Kesler. Vibe seems to be we seem him as potentially good enough to be back up RB next season so seems ripe for a loan spell given he'll remain 3rd choice even if we loan out Gulibert this window.

Louie Barry I'll probably keep him around and give him some sub minutes in the run in and then do a season loan next season as plenty will be after him you suspect.

Cameron Archer will likely get a loan move to league club next season. Interested what Legion's view is on how we handle loans, do we sit down with players and go through clubs who'll fit their style or was it a case of Solihull on the blower and off you go son?
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Post by: eamonn on January 18, 2021, 12:24:08 AM
I think Purslow has said that getting our best young players loan moves at an earlier stage is one of the consistent strategies the club want to make happen.
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Post by: fredm on January 18, 2021, 04:31:47 PM
Think you will see an entirely different strategy towards loans for the younger players from now on.  The set up of Purslow, together with the player recruitment staff, tailored alongside Smiths outlook will see young players going out and growing up quicker.
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Post by: Mister E on January 18, 2021, 05:04:30 PM
... Feels a bit odd to me when we've finally decided to loan out Revan given he's 21 and we can only find him a non league club. Would've thought they'd have been plenty of interest from the league against his performance v Liverpool...
Agreed; my thought exactly when it was announced. He has the physique and skill to mix it at a higher level of  the pyramid, I would have thought.
JG went out at 17 to Notts County, but this almost seems the exception when - for those with the real potential - it should be the norm.
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Post by: wittonwarrior on January 18, 2021, 09:02:13 PM
... Feels a bit odd to me when we've finally decided to loan out Revan given he's 21 and we can only find him a non league club. Would've thought they'd have been plenty of interest from the league against his performance v Liverpool...
Agreed; my thought exactly when it was announced. He has the physique and skill to mix it at a higher level of  the pyramid, I would have thought.
JG went out at 17 to Notts County, but this almost seems the exception when - for those with the real potential - it should be the norm.

I think the problem with finding a league club half way through the season is the ceiling on the number of players in a squad.  Only got to look what has happened to McKirdy at Port Vale.
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Post by: Mister E on January 19, 2021, 09:16:16 AM
... Feels a bit odd to me when we've finally decided to loan out Revan given he's 21 and we can only find him a non league club. Would've thought they'd have been plenty of interest from the league against his performance v Liverpool...
Agreed; my thought exactly when it was announced. He has the physique and skill to mix it at a higher level of  the pyramid, I would have thought.
JG went out at 17 to Notts County, but this almost seems the exception when - for those with the real potential - it should be the norm.
I think the problem with finding a league club half way through the season is the ceiling on the number of players in a squad.  Only got to look what has happened to McKirdy at Port Vale.
Fair point; one that I'd not considered.
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Post by: VillaSpen on January 28, 2021, 04:26:42 AM
Callum O'Hare set up both goals for Cov with a couple of perfectly weighted passes last night.
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Post by: wittonwarrior on January 28, 2021, 06:16:15 PM
Good luck to Middlesbrough with that lazy git
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Post by: eamonn on January 28, 2021, 08:00:31 PM
How's our Russian out in Cyprus?
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Post by: cdbearsfan on January 28, 2021, 08:53:18 PM
One goal. He doesn't seem to ever start the match for them. Might not be the next Gerd Muller at this rate.
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Post by: eamonn on January 30, 2021, 11:29:29 AM
Luke Moore, Nathan Delfonz and Hepburn Murphy. Home-grown, skilful Villans whom I willed on so much to he heroes for us, alas ...  :(
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Post by: Footy-Vill on February 01, 2021, 01:21:34 PM
Milner was having to listen to Klopp go on to him when he was subbed v West Ham yesterday.
Didn't look totally pleased , perplexed if you will, but wasn't mouthing back... Then in next instance Liverpool go and score , assisted by Jones who had come on for Milner . James goes and gives Klopp a big hug and all smiles. To me the best thing about Liverpool winning the league last season was Milner being the winner. How he keeps going at top level is credit to longevity of a professional footballer performing at highest level.


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Post by: paul_e on February 01, 2021, 02:13:38 PM
Milner was having to listen to Klopp go on to him when he was subbed v West Ham yesterday.
Didn't look totally pleased , perplexed if you will, but wasn't mouthing back... Then in next instance Liverpool go and score , assisted by Jones who had come on for Milner . James goes and gives Klopp a big hug and all smiles. To me the best thing about Liverpool winning the league last season was Milner being the winner. How he keeps going at top level is credit to longevity of a professional footballer performing at highest level.

Milner was great but this is a season too far now, he's miles off the pace and it's painful to watch.
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Post by: danno on February 01, 2021, 02:50:43 PM
Milner was having to listen to Klopp go on to him when he was subbed v West Ham yesterday.
Didn't look totally pleased , perplexed if you will, but wasn't mouthing back... Then in next instance Liverpool go and score , assisted by Jones who had come on for Milner . James goes and gives Klopp a big hug and all smiles. To me the best thing about Liverpool winning the league last season was Milner being the winner. How he keeps going at top level is credit to longevity of a professional footballer performing at highest level.

Milner was great but this is a season too far now, he's miles off the pace and it's painful to watch.

Do you think he's off the Liverpool/Man City pace, or more generally?  What I mean is that there's a big difference in being not good enough for them and not good enough for the premier league. 
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Post by: Footy-Vill on February 01, 2021, 03:06:12 PM
I think Milner would make a great coach/manager
Hope he moves into that
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Post by: wittonwarrior on February 01, 2021, 03:50:52 PM
A  prime example of a superb footballer who lingered on a couple of seasons too long Gareth Barry
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Post by: paul_e on February 01, 2021, 05:32:49 PM
Milner was having to listen to Klopp go on to him when he was subbed v West Ham yesterday.
Didn't look totally pleased , perplexed if you will, but wasn't mouthing back... Then in next instance Liverpool go and score , assisted by Jones who had come on for Milner . James goes and gives Klopp a big hug and all smiles. To me the best thing about Liverpool winning the league last season was Milner being the winner. How he keeps going at top level is credit to longevity of a professional footballer performing at highest level.

Milner was great but this is a season too far now, he's miles off the pace and it's painful to watch.

Do you think he's off the Liverpool/Man City pace, or more generally?  What I mean is that there's a big difference in being not good enough for them and not good enough for the premier league. 

he hasn't got the legs for the top flight any more, the last few times I've seen him he looks slow but more importantly looks like he's struggling to get through games. This is no slight on him, he's 35 and his game was based on his energy levels that just aren't there any more. He might be ok in one of the handful of teams in the league where pressing in midfield isn't a requirement but there's not many of them.
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Post by: danno on February 01, 2021, 05:42:56 PM
Milner was having to listen to Klopp go on to him when he was subbed v West Ham yesterday.
Didn't look totally pleased , perplexed if you will, but wasn't mouthing back... Then in next instance Liverpool go and score , assisted by Jones who had come on for Milner . James goes and gives Klopp a big hug and all smiles. To me the best thing about Liverpool winning the league last season was Milner being the winner. How he keeps going at top level is credit to longevity of a professional footballer performing at highest level.

Milner was great but this is a season too far now, he's miles off the pace and it's painful to watch.

Do you think he's off the Liverpool/Man City pace, or more generally?  What I mean is that there's a big difference in being not good enough for them and not good enough for the premier league. 

he hasn't got the legs for the top flight any more, the last few times I've seen him he looks slow but more importantly looks like he's struggling to get through games. This is no slight on him, he's 35 and his game was based on his energy levels that just aren't there any more. He might be ok in one of the handful of teams in the league where pressing in midfield isn't a requirement but there's not many of them.

Thirty five is positively ancient for a central midfielder, doubly so if it's in a team built on high energy pressing. I have been a bit surprised to see him named in Liverpools starting eleven. I thought he was destined for 20 minute cameos and cup games this year.
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Post by: eamonn on February 01, 2021, 07:35:37 PM
Milner was having to listen to Klopp go on to him when he was subbed v West Ham yesterday.
Didn't look totally pleased , perplexed if you will, but wasn't mouthing back... Then in next instance Liverpool go and score , assisted by Jones who had come on for Milner . James goes and gives Klopp a big hug and all smiles. To me the best thing about Liverpool winning the league last season was Milner being the winner. How he keeps going at top level is credit to longevity of a professional footballer performing at highest level.

Milner was great but this is a season too far now, he's miles off the pace and it's painful to watch.

Do you think he's off the Liverpool/Man City pace, or more generally?  What I mean is that there's a big difference in being not good enough for them and not good enough for the premier league. 

he hasn't got the legs for the top flight any more, the last few times I've seen him he looks slow but more importantly looks like he's struggling to get through games. This is no slight on him, he's 35 and his game was based on his energy levels that just aren't there any more. He might be ok in one of the handful of teams in the league where pressing in midfield isn't a requirement but there's not many of them.

Back to Noocassil lad, you'll fit in well there.
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Post by: paul_e on February 01, 2021, 08:16:01 PM
Milner was having to listen to Klopp go on to him when he was subbed v West Ham yesterday.
Didn't look totally pleased , perplexed if you will, but wasn't mouthing back... Then in next instance Liverpool go and score , assisted by Jones who had come on for Milner . James goes and gives Klopp a big hug and all smiles. To me the best thing about Liverpool winning the league last season was Milner being the winner. How he keeps going at top level is credit to longevity of a professional footballer performing at highest level.

Milner was great but this is a season too far now, he's miles off the pace and it's painful to watch.

Do you think he's off the Liverpool/Man City pace, or more generally?  What I mean is that there's a big difference in being not good enough for them and not good enough for the premier league. 

he hasn't got the legs for the top flight any more, the last few times I've seen him he looks slow but more importantly looks like he's struggling to get through games. This is no slight on him, he's 35 and his game was based on his energy levels that just aren't there any more. He might be ok in one of the handful of teams in the league where pressing in midfield isn't a requirement but there's not many of them.

Back to Noocassil lad, you'll fit in well there.

They'd probably be th ebest fit for now if he wants to go for another year or 2 after this.
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Post by: go on the dog on February 16, 2021, 03:16:16 PM
Harry McKirdy played for Leicester u23's the other day,
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Post by: Brend'Watkins on February 16, 2021, 03:25:41 PM
A  prime example of a superb footballer who lingered on a couple of seasons too long Gareth Barry

I think he quit at the right time.  He was never blessed with pace but he still had plenty to offer Albion in terms of experience, passing and reading of the game.  I don't recall many Albion fans moaning about him and they love a good moan.
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Post by: eamonn on February 16, 2021, 05:53:42 PM
Harry McKirdy played for Leicester u23's the other day,

Just watch the Hurdy Gurdy go.
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Post by: Rory on February 16, 2021, 07:36:10 PM
A  prime example of a superb footballer who lingered on a couple of seasons too long Gareth Barry

I think he quit at the right time.  He was never blessed with pace but he still had plenty to offer Albion in terms of experience, passing and reading of the game.  I don't recall many Albion fans moaning about him and they love a good moan.

How do Everton fans remember him? I thought they got a good deal there, but his time with them went by in a flash.
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Post by: dave.woodhall on February 16, 2021, 07:41:09 PM
One that seems to have passed under the radar was Dan Crowley being loaned to Hull. Every time his career goes further downhill I'm reminded of when he went to Arsenal and someone on here got very upset that we didn't wish him every success.
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Post by: UK Redsox on February 16, 2021, 08:40:30 PM
Gana playing for PSG against Barcelona.
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Post by: Sexual Ealing on February 17, 2021, 08:17:55 AM
Milner was having to listen to Klopp go on to him when he was subbed v West Ham yesterday.
Didn't look totally pleased , perplexed if you will, but wasn't mouthing back... Then in next instance Liverpool go and score , assisted by Jones who had come on for Milner . James goes and gives Klopp a big hug and all smiles. To me the best thing about Liverpool winning the league last season was Milner being the winner. How he keeps going at top level is credit to longevity of a professional footballer performing at highest level.

Milner was great but this is a season too far now, he's miles off the pace and it's painful to watch.

Do you think he's off the Liverpool/Man City pace, or more generally?  What I mean is that there's a big difference in being not good enough for them and not good enough for the premier league. 

he hasn't got the legs for the top flight any more, the last few times I've seen him he looks slow but more importantly looks like he's struggling to get through games. This is no slight on him, he's 35 and his game was based on his energy levels that just aren't there any more. He might be ok in one of the handful of teams in the league where pressing in midfield isn't a requirement but there's not many of them.

Thirty five is positively ancient for a central midfielder, doubly so if it's in a team built on high energy pressing. I have been a bit surprised to see him named in Liverpools starting eleven. I thought he was destined for 20 minute cameos and cup games this year.

Important to remember that he's been playing in the PL since was 16. That's a long time.
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Post by: eamonn on February 17, 2021, 01:19:13 PM
Gana playing for PSG against Barcelona.

- Gana Gueye?
- The very one.
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Post by: steamer on February 18, 2021, 07:02:28 PM
I think Everton fans appreciate good footballers
My Everton mate was always complimentary about Barry, and Gana, but gets defensive and pissed off when I ask him why the snake is not in their starting line up.
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Post by: Aldridge Villa on February 18, 2021, 09:24:28 PM
De Laet playing for Antwerp v Rangers. In fact, he’s just conceded a penalty.
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Post by: Rory on February 18, 2021, 11:03:29 PM
I think Everton fans appreciate good footballers
My Everton mate was always complimentary about Barry, and Gana, but gets defensive and pissed off when I ask him why the snake is not in their starting line up.

I completely forgot Delph existed. As somebody said earlier, we have had so many forgettable players over the past decade.
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Post by: eamonn on February 18, 2021, 11:24:59 PM
Surely he was one of the more unforgettable or rather less forgettable.
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Post by: Rory on February 18, 2021, 11:27:20 PM
Surely he was one of the more unforgettable or rather less forgettable.

Yeah, he was one of the better players I've forgotten, certainly.
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Post by: Drummond on February 19, 2021, 08:51:16 AM
Not got a bad word to say about James Milner. He was fantastic for us and every other club he played for.

He'd be perfect as player/coach somewhere, a true professional in every way and what an example to set for players.
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Post by: eamonn on February 19, 2021, 09:52:40 AM
Scarily, he last played for us more than a decade ago.
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Post by: Damo70 on February 19, 2021, 01:54:46 PM
De Laet playing for Antwerp v Rangers. In fact, he’s just conceded a penalty.

'Ritchie Ria Alfons De Laet'. Three years, eight games. Legend.
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Post by: N'ZMAV on February 19, 2021, 02:18:44 PM
£40k a week.
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Post by: dcdavecollett on February 20, 2021, 02:14:39 AM
Unlucky with a bad injury, then unlucky not to get picked (well, hardly ever) by Bruce.
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Post by: VillaSpen on May 02, 2021, 02:10:15 AM
Carles Gil with the winner for New England Revolution against Atlanta United. Penalty scored against Brad Guzan.
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Post by: Fred Crump on May 02, 2021, 01:58:52 PM
Steven Davis just absolutely schooled Celtic. Another one who got away. Good for him , another model pro in the mould of Albrighton.
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Post by: Drummond on May 02, 2021, 02:05:09 PM
I was amazed last night that Delph is still only 31. And I wouldn't have him back (and I mean for his playing ability).
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Post by: brian green on May 02, 2021, 02:22:04 PM
Seconed to that Fred.  Steven Davis is the heart and soul of that Rangers team.
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Post by: Ad@m on May 02, 2021, 10:29:16 PM
I was amazed last night that Delph is still only 31. And I wouldn't have him back (and I mean for his playing ability).

I wouldn't have the snake back if he paid us!
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Post by: Exeter 77 on May 03, 2021, 03:46:59 PM
Ashley Young has won a Serie A winners' medal with Inter this weekend.
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Post by: Footy-Vill on May 03, 2021, 03:51:47 PM
Ashley Young has won a Serie A winners' medal with Inter this weekend.

Absolutely brilliant for him from a playing point of view he's shown like Milner can keep playing and involved to a high standard into 30s twilight's of career.

I read he's out of contract in the summer may or may not be staying on and may or may not be going to Watford as a homecoming.
Good luck to him whatever he does.
Think be a great signing for Watford.
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Post by: Damo70 on May 03, 2021, 04:04:33 PM
I was amazed last night that Delph is still only 31. And I wouldn't have him back (and I mean for his playing ability).

I wouldn't have the snake back if he paid us!

Regardless of what I think of him as a person/character I just think he is very much past his best.
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Post by: SoccerHQ on May 03, 2021, 04:21:46 PM
Young's had an amazing career when you compare him to some of the other wide players who emerged around that time e.g David Bentley.

One of those like Crouch who's maximised pretty much every ounce from his career. Talk he'll go to Watford and end his career there now they're up so would imagine he'll get a decent reception at VP next season.
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Post by: Aldridge Villa on May 03, 2021, 05:28:16 PM
Wouldn’t bet on it HQ. He seemed to revel in kissing his Man Utd badge when scoring at VP. I suspect a fair few haven’t forgotten.
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Post by: Drummond on May 04, 2021, 11:00:24 AM
I was amazed last night that Delph is still only 31. And I wouldn't have him back (and I mean for his playing ability).

I wouldn't have the snake back if he paid us!

Regardless of what I think of him as a person/character I just think he is very much past his best.

That's what I meant. I wonder if he's past his best or that the game has moved on a lot in the intervening years that a player of his style just doesn't cut it any more.
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Post by: Risso on May 04, 2021, 11:21:42 AM

That's what I meant. I wonder if he's past his best or that the game has moved on a lot in the intervening years that a player of his style just doesn't cut it any more.

I think he's suffered in a footballing sense by being a jack of all trades for Man City and England. Hasn't really got a position to call his own any more.
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Post by: SoccerHQ on May 04, 2021, 12:41:24 PM
Wouldn’t bet on it HQ. He seemed to revel in kissing his Man Utd badge when scoring at VP. I suspect a fair few haven’t forgotten.

I think time heals a bit especially when we know the player is about to retire.

We gave Yorke dogs abuse for years for doing that and also signing for SHA but when he was at Sunderland he came on near the end of a game at VP and got a decent round of applause which surprised me.

Barry also got stick, probably more unjustly but he got applauded off playing for West Brom in the championship the other season.

Playing for non threatening club like Watford I think he'll get a decent reception while all the stick is directed at Deeney if he's still there. Can't remember him scoring for Man. United v us although he did dive to win that penalty in his first season.
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Post by: SoccerHQ on May 04, 2021, 12:43:14 PM

That's what I meant. I wonder if he's past his best or that the game has moved on a lot in the intervening years that a player of his style just doesn't cut it any more.

I think he's suffered in a footballing sense by being a jack of all trades for Man City and England. Hasn't really got a position to call his own any more.

Everton's like a semi retirement home for players in the North west, I remember Cleverley (also at Watford) going there after his loan spell and doing nothing.

Delph won a bit at Man. City so motivation to do anything but get nice pension at Everton really isn't that high. He also seems to have been injured for 80% of the time since leaving us aswell.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on May 04, 2021, 02:23:06 PM
Re Ashley Young

I'm not sure whether this has already been discussed, but Ashley is the first English player to win Serie A since..............?

A question posed (and answered) by Mr Shin whilst I was chatting to him on the phone yesterday
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: aldridgeboy on May 04, 2021, 02:29:40 PM
Ray Wilkins?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on May 04, 2021, 02:33:49 PM
Re Ashley Young

I'm not sure whether this has already been discussed, but Ashley is the first English player to win Serie A since..............?

A question posed (and answered) by Mr Shin whilst I was chatting to him on the phone yesterday

Jimmy Greaves?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ChicagoLion on May 04, 2021, 02:35:53 PM
Paul Ince
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Drummond on May 04, 2021, 02:40:31 PM
Re Ashley Young

I'm not sure whether this has already been discussed, but Ashley is the first English player to win Serie A since..............?

A question posed (and answered) by Mr Shin whilst I was chatting to him on the phone yesterday

Jimmy Greaves?

I saw his granddaughter the other day, she works in a chippy near me.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on May 04, 2021, 03:00:28 PM
The previous English winner of Serie A was the first and only one until Young.

The players have a former club in common

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Martin Carruthers on May 04, 2021, 03:03:41 PM
Gerry Hitchins?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on May 04, 2021, 03:04:11 PM
Luther Blissett.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: SoccerHQ on May 04, 2021, 03:08:07 PM
Did Platt win it the season he was at Juve?

If not yeah probably have to go back to Hitchens.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on May 04, 2021, 03:21:30 PM
The previous English winner of Serie A was the first and only one until Young.

Jimmy Greaves won it at Milan too I think, before MC's correct Hitchens shout.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on May 04, 2021, 03:42:28 PM
Gerry Hitchins?

Correct
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on May 04, 2021, 03:44:09 PM
The previous English winner of Serie A was the first and only one until Young.

Jimmy Greaves won it at Milan too I think, before MC's correct Hitchens shout.

Milan won the title, but Greaves had already left by then
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Matt C on May 15, 2021, 12:50:55 AM
Nathan Baker & Henri (if I must spell it like that) Lansbury both released by Bristol City.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brontebilly on May 15, 2021, 12:58:13 AM
Nathan Baker & Henri (if I must spell it like that) Lansbury both released by Bristol City.

Henri will retire, beach bar at Ko Samui must be reopening soon.  I'm assuming Baker's injury problems never went away?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on May 15, 2021, 01:40:22 AM
Yes, he's always had injury probs.

This year's must have been bad -he's been out for most of the season.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on May 15, 2021, 01:45:26 AM
What's Bob Balaban's son Bosco up to these days, anyone know?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on August 02, 2021, 03:29:38 PM
No longer eligible for this thread....... Stewart Downing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58059148
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Drummond on August 02, 2021, 03:42:24 PM
No longer eligible for this thread....... Stewart Downing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58059148

And he retires having played in a World Cup and having won the League Cup.... twice.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on August 02, 2021, 03:58:44 PM
Is Julian Joachim still going to be playing, come the new season? A legend when it comes to longevity.
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Post by: Footy-Vill on August 20, 2021, 09:22:01 AM
Bournemouth have signed Gary Cahill on a one-year contract on a free transfer as he left Palace
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on August 20, 2021, 09:26:44 AM
Andre Green now playing in Slovakia
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on August 20, 2021, 09:41:27 AM
 Cane up with this     Premier league Players ex villa 11 :)

                         Gollini
       Lowton Walker Clark Bertrand
                  Westwood Milner
        Albrighton                    Grealish
                     Ayew Benteke

Carson and Cleverly just miss out ! Drinkwater and Barkley don't make squad.
Bardsley rightly exchanged for Bertrand. Thanks Monty
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Monty on August 20, 2021, 09:43:14 AM
Er...Bardsley over Bertrand???
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on August 20, 2021, 10:10:59 AM
I'd rather praise Footy's enterprise than criticise him even if Bardsley is a bully in the similar vein to Ben Thatcher and Ben Mee. Maybe he would be better-named 'Ben Bardsley'.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: chrisw1 on August 20, 2021, 10:39:09 AM
Nathan Baker & Henri (if I must spell it like that) Lansbury both released by Bristol City.

Henri will retire, beach bar at Ko Samui must be reopening soon.  I'm assuming Baker's injury problems never went away?
What a disgraceful waste of talent Lansbury was.  Someone who knew him once told me (not long after we bought him) that he just didn't give a shit.  He was just enjoying parties and the high life and had no real interest in improving.  Jack was similar at the time, except he did give a shit and worked hard as well as playing hard and had the talent to carry it off.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ian. on August 20, 2021, 10:43:58 AM
You would have thought if that was the case with Lansbury we’d have found this out before spending all that money on him. It couldn’t have been a secret.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on August 20, 2021, 01:47:14 PM
Not playing, but I noticed that Savo Milosevic now manages Olimpija Ljubljana in Slovenia.

Didier Six is the current Guinea manager.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithe on August 20, 2021, 08:09:02 PM
Tommy Elphick retires

He seemed the kind of character we needed at the time but if you are going to headbutt the Holte End goal posts you’ve got to be a lot better than he ever was

Meh…..
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on August 20, 2021, 09:05:37 PM
Rushian Hepburn-Murphy has joined Pafos in the Cypriot First Division. No competitive goals yet but scored 7 in a single pre-season friendly game, a 9-0 victory against a Riga FC XI.

Has now scored 5 in 23 in the Cypriot First Division.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on August 20, 2021, 09:13:09 PM
After 6 months at St. Mirren, Jake Doyle-Hayes signed a 2 year contract with Hibs in June and has started their first 2 league games. Seems to be doing okay for himself.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on September 04, 2021, 01:20:55 PM
Glenn Whelan signs for my second team

https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2021/september/glenn-whelan-joins-bristol-rovers/?fbclid=IwAR3YUh0bhXDrudOHOEkfUvGkgs1pcJQWlFLMQJ5lM_Y_NG8MDrIxHfOB7Zc
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Post by: wittonwarrior on September 04, 2021, 09:26:23 PM
Glenn Whelan signs for my second team

https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2021/september/glenn-whelan-joins-bristol-rovers/?fbclid=IwAR3YUh0bhXDrudOHOEkfUvGkgs1pcJQWlFLMQJ5lM_Y_NG8MDrIxHfOB7Zc

Can't see that lasting long, not with that prick Joey Barton as his boss
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on September 04, 2021, 11:04:13 PM
I’m hoping for a swift Barton exit and Glenn being named as player-manager
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on September 05, 2021, 12:16:14 AM
Hopefully it'll be better than his time at Hearts and that his missus takes to Brizzle. Didn't she engage in some argy-bargy with Villa fans on Twitter after we released her Glenn?
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Post by: dcdavecollett on September 05, 2021, 01:05:42 AM
I believe she did.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on September 05, 2021, 02:39:47 PM
Andre Green doing the business.
Give him regular game time and stay fit he's good enough for the Prem in a few years to me
At Slovan Bratislava in Slovakia now
He scored a hat-trick  in cup.
Also and on his debut scored against Olympiacos in a Europa League qualifying game
Well played Greeny
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on September 05, 2021, 04:00:21 PM
Good man Andre. Always had a great attitude. The memory of that late header against Sheff Utd will live on.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brian green on September 05, 2021, 04:23:40 PM
Such a pity Andre did not make the breakthrough we all hoped he would.  When we saw him play in a front three with Ratboy and RHM in a pre season at Cambridge United, if you had been told that one of them within a few years was going to sell for £100 million your first guess would have been Andre and your second guess would have been Rushian.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on September 05, 2021, 10:03:05 PM
He's always had ability and been hugely unlucky with injuries. Hopefully he has a good run now without any bad luck.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ad@m on September 05, 2021, 10:06:20 PM
Good man Andre. Always had a great attitude. The memory of that late header against Sheff Utd will live on.

It will with me too.  I stormed out of the ground at 0-3 and listened to his header on the radio in the car!!!

Doh!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on September 05, 2021, 10:14:06 PM
I also left at 0-3 and found out about the equaliser in a taxi as it arrived at the pub. I still cheered.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Lastfootstamper on September 05, 2021, 10:19:02 PM
We stopped til the end, only after deciding that was the best way to miss the traffic given the exodus going on around us. It made it very easy to spot myself on the highlights!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rory on September 05, 2021, 11:35:15 PM
We stopped til the end, only after deciding that was the best way to miss the traffic given the exodus going on around us. It made it very easy to spot myself on the highlights!

I stayed as well. Those last fifteen minutes were surreal. As soon as we got the first, it felt inevitable.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Border villan on September 10, 2021, 08:39:56 PM
A sad day for all fans of the beautiful game. Eric Djemba-Djemba (so bad they named him twice) has hung up his boots. Future Villa fans deprived of the chance of seeing one of our previous superstars.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on September 18, 2021, 10:17:19 AM
A sad day for all fans of the beautiful game. Eric Djemba-Djemba (so bad they named him twice) has hung up his boots. Future Villa fans deprived of the chance of seeing one of our previous superstars.

Have a vague memory of him having a decent game against us for Odense Boldklub (OB)
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: N'ZMAV on September 18, 2021, 10:25:20 AM
A sad day for all fans of the beautiful game. Eric Djemba-Djemba (so bad they named him twice) has hung up his boots. Future Villa fans deprived of the chance of seeing one of our previous superstars.
he should be locked up for stealing a living.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Border villan on September 18, 2021, 02:23:33 PM
Hourihane with two assists.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: steamer on September 18, 2021, 03:36:27 PM
Danny " Drinkwater" on for reading
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on September 18, 2021, 03:44:50 PM
Tammy's been on fire since joining Roma. Beautiful goal the other night, the type I never thought he had in his locker.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on September 25, 2021, 09:22:33 PM
Brad the Younger live on Sky at the moment.

Captain of Atlanta Utd against Philly.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ad@m on September 28, 2021, 08:10:33 PM
Idrissa "Gana" Gueye has just scored for PSG against Ratty's lot in the Champions League
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on October 02, 2021, 09:27:03 PM
With TAA out injured we could be seeing Milner vs Grealish Liverpool v Man City.
I'm sure JM will know exactly how to deal with JG
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on October 02, 2021, 09:32:15 PM
Well, why didn't he deal with him last time then?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brontebilly on October 02, 2021, 10:28:19 PM
With TAA out injured we could be seeing Milner vs Grealish Liverpool v Man City.
I'm sure JM will know exactly how to deal with JG

That could be a mismatch of epic proportions if it comes to pass.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on October 02, 2021, 10:34:59 PM
Well, why didn't he deal with him last time then?

TAA was the one constantly out of positions and Milner came on after 6 goals scored and even then not playing right back if that's what you're alluding to

I imagine James Milner will be quite physical with JG tomorrow!

I know who I'll be supporting in that potential duel
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on October 02, 2021, 10:37:15 PM
Had forgotten he was only sub, fair enough. I still hope both sides lose. Repulsive clubs.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ad@m on October 03, 2021, 07:44:02 AM
Looks like Bacuna has reverted to type at Cardiff...

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leandro-bacuna-should-never-play-21735189
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on October 03, 2021, 01:44:56 PM
Fucking Hell, that site is even worse than the Birmingham Mail's. Got about a third of the way down the page before giving up.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on October 03, 2021, 05:45:28 PM
Milner having a better match than Grealish.
And has his number in the few encounters they have had so far.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: SoccerHQ on October 03, 2021, 11:13:15 PM
Who's this Jota who scored for Celtic today, one we had for a season?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on October 03, 2021, 11:18:44 PM
No, he's a 22 year old on loan from Benfica. The ex-Villa one is currently without a club having spent last season at Spanish top flight side Elche.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on October 04, 2021, 07:36:02 PM
Tammy called up by Ingurlund
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brontebilly on October 04, 2021, 08:06:03 PM
Milner having a better match than Grealish.
And has his number in the few encounters they have had so far.

Thought they were the two worst players on the pitch. False nine or whatever is certainly not Jackie boy's position and he can't have been happy seeing a fully fit Foden coast past Milner at every opportunity. Liverpool's squad depth is paper thin.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: SoccerHQ on October 04, 2021, 09:13:35 PM
Milner was even worse at fullback than Targett at Watford which is saying something!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Bad English on October 05, 2021, 12:29:35 PM
Fucking Hell, that site is even worse than the Birmingham Mail's. Got about a third of the way down the page before giving up.
I somehow ended up looking at Carol Vorderman in a tight rugby top.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Drummond on October 05, 2021, 02:17:37 PM
Fucking Hell, that site is even worse than the Birmingham Mail's. Got about a third of the way down the page before giving up.
I somehow ended up looking at Carol Vorderman in a tight rugby top.

Why were you wearing a tight rugby top to look at Carol Vorderman?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Tayls_7 on October 05, 2021, 04:20:57 PM
Fucking Hell, that site is even worse than the Birmingham Mail's. Got about a third of the way down the page before giving up.
I somehow ended up looking at Carol Vorderman in a tight rugby top.

Why were you wearing a tight rugby top to look at Carol Vorderman?

My boss saw Carol wearing a lot less than a rugby top. I'll leave it there!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on October 05, 2021, 07:25:01 PM
Must have been a short sleeved top.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on October 06, 2021, 01:49:02 AM
Callum Robinson admits he is still not vaccinated despite contracting Covid twice he's declined to take the Covid-19 vaccine.

The West Brom player missed games last November and last month because of positive tests, yet that has not affected his stance on not taking the jab – although he has refused to rule out doing so in the future.

“I haven’t been vaccinated, no. That’s my choice at this moment in time,” he said. “It’s obviously annoying that I’ve caught it twice but I haven’t been vaccinated.

“Further down the line I could change my mind and want to do it but at this moment in time I haven’t been vaccinated, no.

“I know as you said there are managers and people that will want you to do it which is right in their way, the way they think but everyone has their choice and what they want to do. I wouldn’t force people to do it, it’s your choice and your body. If things change and I want to get vaccinated I will do it but at this moment in time I haven’t made that decision.”




Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on October 06, 2021, 01:50:56 AM
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Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Monty on October 06, 2021, 10:42:46 AM
Callum Robinson admits he is still not vaccinated despite contracting Covid twice he's declined to take the Covid-19 vaccine.

The West Brom player missed games last November and last month because of positive tests, yet that has not affected his stance on not taking the jab – although he has refused to rule out doing so in the future.

“I haven’t been vaccinated, no. That’s my choice at this moment in time,” he said. “It’s obviously annoying that I’ve caught it twice but I haven’t been vaccinated.

“Further down the line I could change my mind and want to do it but at this moment in time I haven’t been vaccinated, no.

“I know as you said there are managers and people that will want you to do it which is right in their way, the way they think but everyone has their choice and what they want to do. I wouldn’t force people to do it, it’s your choice and your body. If things change and I want to get vaccinated I will do it but at this moment in time I haven’t made that decision.”






What a dumbass.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on October 06, 2021, 11:21:46 AM
Callum Robinson admits he is still not vaccinated despite working in West Brom.

FTFY. ;)
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on October 06, 2021, 11:41:34 PM
Tammy Abraham has become the first England player to confirm he is vaccinated against coronavirus, but the subject remains a sensitive issue around the squad.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on October 07, 2021, 10:57:40 PM
Jordan Veretout came on for France in added time in the nations league semi final

Didn't get a kick cames on for Benzema in like the 94th minute


Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Woofles The Wonder Dog on October 09, 2021, 01:29:34 PM
McKirdy scores for Swindon. Looks a bit of a menace at this level. Not starting for Swindon: Lyden and Kessler Hayden.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: wittonwarrior on October 09, 2021, 05:22:26 PM
That is his level
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on October 09, 2021, 05:47:41 PM
No jabs but 2 goals for Callum Robinson first half away to Azerbaijan
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on October 09, 2021, 09:12:43 PM
Kessler-Hayden is away with the England U-20s at the moment. He was a sub at Chesterfield on Thursday night.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on December 15, 2021, 08:21:36 PM
Former Villa legend Tom Carroll on ITV4 playing for Ipswich at Barrow

Louie not in the squad
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Exeter 77 on December 15, 2021, 09:24:49 PM
Janoi Donacian also now on for Ipswich.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on December 15, 2021, 10:19:08 PM
Weren't Robinson's reasons for not getting vaxxed was that it would cause a lack of "virility" ?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: adrenachrome on December 16, 2021, 12:04:09 AM
I know he is not an ex-player in the strict sense of the term, but I watched Frédéric Guilbert playing for Strasbourg yesterday. He looked pretty good. It's on BT Sport. 
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: TonyD on December 16, 2021, 12:09:11 AM
Former Villa legend Tom Carroll on ITV4 playing for Ipswich at Barrow

Louie not in the squad
Get him home. 
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on December 17, 2021, 01:38:18 AM
Get him home so we can send him out again!

Hopefully to get some games this time...
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ad@m on January 02, 2022, 03:25:49 PM
Andy Weimann hat trick for Brizzle today as they win 3-2.

He wasn't the best striker we ever had but we've had plenty more skillful players that could've done with his enthusiasm.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Border villan on January 02, 2022, 05:51:37 PM
Uncle Albert scored against the noses today.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: stubbsyandy on January 04, 2022, 11:15:35 AM
Harry McKirdy got four for Swindon at the weekend..good for him
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on January 07, 2022, 07:49:24 PM
Harry McKirdy got four for Swindon at the weekend..good got him

And maybe one tonight? Vs Man City can see how he gets on.
Always felt should have been given more opportunity but hasn't the best attitude sometimes.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Villatillidie1982 on January 08, 2022, 12:08:32 PM
I saw Alan Wright playing for Cheltenham a couple of years ago. Not sure if he is still there though.
He must be quite old?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on January 08, 2022, 12:17:11 PM
I saw Alan Wright playing for Cheltenham a couple of years ago. Not sure if he is still there though.
He must be quite old?

He's 50 now, and the post you've quoted is over 11 years old! And it was 4 years before that that he signed for Cheltenham.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: nigel on January 08, 2022, 01:27:43 PM
Talking of Cheltenham, Dan Crowley has been let go
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Fred Crump on January 08, 2022, 01:46:27 PM
Talking of Cheltenham, Dan Crowley has been let go
He was on a short term contract until Christmas, they made him an offer but he wanted more money. Burton Albion believed to be interested I think.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ad@m on January 08, 2022, 04:48:24 PM
A certain D Drinkwater is currently helping Reading get knocked out of the FA Cup at the hands of National League North's Kidderminster Harriers!!!!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Border villan on January 08, 2022, 05:00:02 PM
A certain D Drinkwater is currently helping Reading get knocked out of the FA Cup at the hands of National League North's Kidderminster Harriers!!!!

So good they took him off.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on January 08, 2022, 05:33:34 PM
Talking of Cheltenham, Dan Crowley has been let go
He was on a short term contract until Christmas, they made him an offer but he wanted more money. Burton Albion believed to be interested I think.

Every time he gets mentioned I remember the poster on here who got into a right old ferment because we didn't wish Crowley all the best at Arsenal.
 
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ronshirt on January 08, 2022, 07:06:30 PM
Ørjan Nyland just gifted Yeovil a goal:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/59644008

48 mins.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: nigel on January 08, 2022, 08:03:02 PM
Ørjan Nyland just gifted Yeovil a goal:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/59644008

48 mins.

Was it as bad as Butland v Millwall?

Edit: Yes it was
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Fred Crump on January 08, 2022, 08:08:03 PM
Talking of Cheltenham, Dan Crowley has been let go
He was on a short term contract until Christmas, they made him an offer but he wanted more money. Burton Albion believed to be interested I think.

Every time he gets mentioned I remember the poster on here who got into a right old ferment because we didn't wish Crowley all the best at Arsenal.
Kind of appropriate that he may be going to the Brewers then!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Chris Harte on January 08, 2022, 09:00:13 PM
Ørjan Nyland just gifted Yeovil a goal:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/59644008

48 mins.

Was it as bad as Butland v Millwall?

Edit: Yes it was
I'd have said the Butland one was far worse. That said, Nyland always had a rick in him. Wasn't he the keeper that Steve Bruce had been scouting for about five years before signing him?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Border villan on January 22, 2022, 04:54:42 PM
Uncle Albert scores again. Coventry 1-2 QPR.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ad@m on January 22, 2022, 04:56:08 PM
Andi Weimann got the winner for Brizzle again today.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on January 22, 2022, 05:17:49 PM
I saw Alan Wright playing for Cheltenham a couple of years ago. Not sure if he is still there though.
He must be quite old?

He's 50 now, and the post you've quoted is over 11 years old! And it was 4 years before that that he signed for Cheltenham.

Apart from that though....could be him...
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: wittonwarrior on January 23, 2022, 01:59:21 PM
Uncle Albert what he does best score
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on January 24, 2022, 01:01:39 AM
Another goal for Scabby Mansfield for the great Boweryinho!

Any chance of a Bid before the window shuts?

Come on home, Jordan!!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Small Rodent on January 24, 2022, 10:44:22 PM
Tammy Abraham is the first Englishman to reach double figures in goals in Italy since David Platt in 91/92
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on January 24, 2022, 11:09:03 PM
Blimey...how many British strikers have played there in the last 30 years though, the insular, dumb, selfish bastards ?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on January 24, 2022, 11:12:02 PM
Danny Dichio. Jay Bothroyd. Um...I'm done.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on January 24, 2022, 11:17:55 PM
Danny Dichio. Jay Bothroyd. Um...I'm done.

Franz Carr.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on January 25, 2022, 12:02:42 AM
I think Ravel Morrison was at Lazio briefly but don't think he was an out and out striker. Nomadic talent, hardly even an out and out footballer.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ChicagoLion on January 25, 2022, 06:17:08 AM
Blimey...how many British strikers have played there in the last 30 years though, the insular, dumb, selfish bastards ?
Ian Rush played out there and said it was like being in a foreign country.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on February 12, 2022, 02:54:01 PM
Jack vs Deano in Norwich v man city today! Come on Norwich!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on February 20, 2022, 11:07:59 PM
Question for the Villa trivia types, with De Laet, Engels and Samatta all playing regularly for Royal Antwerp this season, what's the most ex-Villa all playing at the same time elsewhere?

Ideally foreign, but more than three at once domestically would be decent too.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on February 20, 2022, 11:14:44 PM
Good spot. I wonder are they best pals.

Ayew and Benteke at Palace to be joined in the summer by El Ghazi ?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on February 20, 2022, 11:17:14 PM
Good spot. I wonder are they best pals.

Ayew and Benteke at Palace to be joined in the summer by El Ghazi ?

Ayew, Benteke and Cahill last season is enough to equal my Antwerp three at least...
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on February 20, 2022, 11:24:24 PM
Another trio - Hogan, Gardner and Sarkic at the rabble down the road.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on February 21, 2022, 01:22:08 AM
Another trio - Hogan, Gardner and Sarkic at the rabble down the road.

Three and a half if you include Bacuna junior.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PaulTheVillan on February 21, 2022, 11:17:57 AM
Another trio - Hogan, Gardner and Sarkic at the rabble down the road.

Three and a half if you include Bacuna junior.

Jordan Graham is at the Sty as well now.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on February 21, 2022, 11:19:06 AM
We have a winner then, that's 4 then.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on February 21, 2022, 07:17:06 PM
We have a winner then, that's 4 then.

They'll probably try and claim that we're their feeder club now.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on February 21, 2022, 07:17:28 PM
Jake Doyle-Hayes scored twice for Hibs in their 2-0 win at the weekend.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on February 25, 2022, 07:32:11 PM
Doyle-Hayes got a 2 year deal when he signed for Hibs in the summer but in November they extended it till 2025 so pleased for the lad.

Before the extension he was only on 40k a year (which surprised me in the Premiership) so hopefully got a decent pay rise with the new contract.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on February 26, 2022, 01:35:18 AM
'Only' on 40k?!

Did you mean 4k, BV?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rory on February 26, 2022, 02:04:22 AM
'Only' on 40k?!

Did you mean 4k, BV?

To BV, £40k per year = homeless.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on February 26, 2022, 08:53:48 AM
Luton have now got 3/4 current/ex Villa players. Steer, Bree, Lansbury, Snodgrass.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on February 26, 2022, 08:56:56 AM
'Only' on 40k?!

Did you mean 4k, BV?



To BV, £40k per year = homeless.

I think the point is that 40K a year (£800 a week) is an absolute pittance for a Premier League player.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Border villan on March 12, 2022, 04:40:55 PM
Callum O’Hare has scored 2 for Coventry today.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on March 12, 2022, 04:47:46 PM
Barry Bannan scored for Sheff Weds today as they won 6-0.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on March 12, 2022, 05:17:50 PM
And Andi Weimann got his 17th goal of the season with a late winner for Bristol City against Blackburn.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on March 12, 2022, 05:23:02 PM
Weimann Pieman is really having a career-flourish, fair play to him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on March 13, 2022, 02:45:21 AM
Apparently, Weimann played wing-back today to cover for injuries.

God goal, though.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on March 13, 2022, 05:54:36 AM
Callum O’Hare has scored 2 for Coventry today.

And set another up. Always had talent, but we couldn't offer him first team football
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Smithy on March 14, 2022, 02:05:16 PM
Callum O’Hare has scored 2 for Coventry today.

And set another up. Always had talent, but we couldn't offer him first team football

I thought he'd have pushed on a bit by now.  Clearly he had a lot of ability on the ball, and I thought a year or two at Coventry would be enough for him to potentially move up a level.  Not happened yet, maybe it never will. It might be his lack of goalscoring that holds him back (the most recent game very much being an exception). He's always had the creativity required to play at a higher level.  He's the 5th in the 'chances created' stats in the Championship this season.  Not bad for a team in 10th place.

While we're on ex-Villa players, the player who has created the 8th most chances in the Championship this season? James Bree.  He's the highest placed defender in the list.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on March 14, 2022, 05:05:10 PM
Where's he at, Luton? They seem to be the most over-achieving club in the land. Hats off to the Hatters.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on March 19, 2022, 06:19:07 PM
Where's he at, Luton? They seem to be the most over-achieving club in the land. Hats off to the Hatters.

Pinged in a free-kick from 25 yards today to help Luton move up to third in the Championship.

Nathan Jones is doing a pretty astonishing job there.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Smithy on March 19, 2022, 08:08:40 PM
Where's he at, Luton? They seem to be the most over-achieving club in the land. Hats off to the Hatters.

Pinged in a free-kick from 25 yards today to help Luton move up to third in the Championship.

Nathan Jones is doing a pretty astonishing job there.

Luton and Forest are the two form teams in the Championship right now, Luton are 3rd, and Forest are in the play-off places if they win their game in hand.  I'd put money on one of them winning the play-offs if they both get there.  I could see Forest's late-season form doing for them what we did in 2019, coming from almost nowhere in the last three months of the season.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ad@m on April 16, 2022, 10:11:10 PM
Barry Bannan scored a worldie for Wednesday this evening.

I'm amazed he's still playing - he must be about 50 by now!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: nigel on April 16, 2022, 10:53:01 PM
Barry Bannan scored a worldie for Wednesday this evening.

I'm amazed he's still playing - he must be about 50 by now!

I always rated Bannan.
He was a great passer of the ball.
Unfortunately he lost his way a touch.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: algy on April 16, 2022, 11:04:41 PM
Barry Bannan scored a worldie for Wednesday this evening.

I'm amazed he's still playing - he must be about 50 by now!

I always rated Bannan.
He was a great passer of the ball.
Unfortunately he lost his way a touch.
Has he been attempting to drive his car again?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Mister E on April 17, 2022, 11:35:12 AM
Barry Bannan scored a worldie for Wednesday this evening.
I'm amazed he's still playing - he must be about 50 by now!
I always rated Bannan.
He was a great passer of the ball.
Unfortunately he lost his way a touch.
He had great potential at a time when our midfield needed dome physicality: he couldn't offer that.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: N'ZMAV on April 17, 2022, 12:35:22 PM
One of Bannan's problems were that he was only really managed by McLeish and Lambert - two negative managers who wouldn't really give a midfielder like Bannan any freedom.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: nigel on April 17, 2022, 12:48:51 PM
Barry Bannan scored a worldie for Wednesday this evening.
I'm amazed he's still playing - he must be about 50 by now!
I always rated Bannan.
He was a great passer of the ball.
Unfortunately he lost his way a touch.
He had great potential at a time when our midfield needed dome physicality: he couldn't offer that.

Agree.
Some of his passing was sublime.
I remember the media fawning over a Charlie Adam pass. Yes it was a good long pass into space and the winger ran on to it. The pundits were w**king themselves over it. The winger made it look better, if I’m being picky.
The week after Bannan hit a longer pass, almost identical scenario, his wasn’t into space, though, he’d seen Albrighton make the run, he put the pass where Albrighton didn’t even break stride. Wasn’t even mentioned.

But, yes, unfortunately he was the lightweight in a lightweight midfield. I’d have loved to have seen him in a proper midfield with some big chap protecting him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ad@m on April 17, 2022, 05:40:12 PM
Ashley Westwood's had a horror injury today. Looks like he's broken his leg pretty badly.

For a 32 year old that could be a career ender.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave shelley on April 17, 2022, 06:04:46 PM
Here's wishing him a speedy recovery.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PaulWinch again on April 17, 2022, 07:05:28 PM
Recover soon Ashley.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: steamer on April 18, 2022, 08:20:51 AM
Get well Ash
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Nunkin1965 on April 18, 2022, 08:57:59 AM
Wishing him the very best in his recovery.
Terrible thing to happen to the guy.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ivo Stas on April 18, 2022, 12:05:53 PM
Agree.
Some of his passing was sublime.
I remember the media fawning over a Charlie Adam pass. Yes it was a good long pass into space and the winger ran on to it. The pundits were w**king themselves over it. The winger made it look better, if I’m being picky.
The week after Bannan hit a longer pass, almost identical scenario, his wasn’t into space, though, he’d seen Albrighton make the run, he put the pass where Albrighton didn’t even break stride. Wasn’t even mentioned.

But, yes, unfortunately he was the lightweight in a lightweight midfield. I’d have loved to have seen him in a proper midfield with some big chap protecting him.

Away at Fulham, wasn't that..? I was there and thought to myself "there's Villa's bright future combining"...
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on April 18, 2022, 12:28:44 PM
The Blackpool night match that we only ust about won under Houlier, me & Oercy were sitting there watching Bannan, Albrighton and Gabby combining superbly and thinking how bright things looked.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: N'ZMAV on April 18, 2022, 12:32:59 PM
the Fonz also scored in that game. Another who ended up being a disappointment.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: nigel on April 18, 2022, 02:02:42 PM
Agree.
Some of his passing was sublime.
I remember the media fawning over a Charlie Adam pass. Yes it was a good long pass into space and the winger ran on to it. The pundits were w**king themselves over it. The winger made it look better, if I’m being picky.
The week after Bannan hit a longer pass, almost identical scenario, his wasn’t into space, though, he’d seen Albrighton make the run, he put the pass where Albrighton didn’t even break stride. Wasn’t even mentioned.

But, yes, unfortunately he was the lightweight in a lightweight midfield. I’d have loved to have seen him in a proper midfield with some big chap protecting him.

Away at Fulham, wasn't that..? I was there and thought to myself "there's Villa's bright future combining"...

Yes, that’s the game
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: tony scott on April 18, 2022, 02:18:20 PM
I wish Ashley Westwood a quick and complete recovery.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Steve67 on April 18, 2022, 02:20:04 PM
I wish Ashley Westwood a quick and complete recovery.

Absolutely.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Mister E on April 18, 2022, 03:31:34 PM
I wish Ashley Westwood a quick and complete recovery.
It wasn't a tackle by Ben Mee, was it?
Seriously, I never disliked Westwood and hope he recovers fully.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ad@m on April 18, 2022, 07:13:24 PM
Agree.
Some of his passing was sublime.
I remember the media fawning over a Charlie Adam pass. Yes it was a good long pass into space and the winger ran on to it. The pundits were w**king themselves over it. The winger made it look better, if I’m being picky.
The week after Bannan hit a longer pass, almost identical scenario, his wasn’t into space, though, he’d seen Albrighton make the run, he put the pass where Albrighton didn’t even break stride. Wasn’t even mentioned.

But, yes, unfortunately he was the lightweight in a lightweight midfield. I’d have loved to have seen him in a proper midfield with some big chap protecting him.

Away at Fulham, wasn't that..? I was there and thought to myself "there's Villa's bright future combining"...

Yes, that’s the game

I was at that game too. It was an absolute beauty.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ad@m on April 19, 2022, 09:04:22 PM
Not playing, but Shaun Maloney got the boot as Hibs manager today.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: adrenachrome on April 21, 2022, 04:21:56 AM
Not playing, but Shaun Maloney got the boot as Hibs manager today.

Wow.

A total eclipse of the Hearts.

Wuz never gonna end well, likesay. Shudda stuck with the bald wee Spanish fella. He falls on his feet.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on April 30, 2022, 06:39:29 PM
Joe Bennett wins the League One title today with Wigan.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: nigel on April 30, 2022, 07:18:48 PM
Joe Bennett wins the League One title today with Wigan.

Always liked Joe, lot of skill and a very good crosser of the ball, but he was never ready for the Prem.
He was one who could have a couple of seasons as a squad player.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: nigel on April 30, 2022, 07:38:34 PM
Andi Weimann scored another 2 today.
21 for the season
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on April 30, 2022, 08:24:13 PM
Joe Bennett on the left, James Bree on the right. A more honest couple of fullbacks you couldn't hope to have.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brontebilly on April 30, 2022, 08:29:58 PM
Andi Weimann scored another 2 today.
21 for the season

Having a great season, back playing for Austria too.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ldavfc4eva on April 30, 2022, 08:37:32 PM
Always liked him, not quite good enough for the Prem but always put a shift in.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: nigel on April 30, 2022, 08:59:44 PM
Always liked him, not quite good enough for the Prem but always put a shift in.

Always hoped that he and Benteke would be the new Withe and Shaw.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Hillbilly on May 01, 2022, 12:28:51 AM
Presumably the Jonathan Hogg captaining Huddersfield is the ex-Villa one?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on May 01, 2022, 02:56:46 PM
Always liked him, not quite good enough for the Prem but always put a shift in.

Always hoped that he and Benteke would be the new Withe and Shaw.

It's the hope that kills. And that was some hope.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Martyn Smith on May 02, 2022, 06:02:34 PM
Robert Snodgrass and Henri Lansbury both playing for Luton Town right now and on the end of a bit of a battering from Fulham, 2-0 down with h/t approaching
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Martyn Smith on May 02, 2022, 06:10:32 PM
The Blackpool night match that we only ust about won under Houlier, me & Oercy were sitting there watching Bannan, Albrighton and Gabby combining superbly and thinking how bright things looked.

I remember that. Marlon Harewood scored for 'pool that night. The only time I ever saw him score at a Villa game.

Got to that game as Deej had a spare ticket. Sat with him and his Dad, who'd been coming to the ground since the WWII filler competitions.

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: nigel on May 03, 2022, 08:18:29 AM
Always liked him, not quite good enough for the Prem but always put a shift in.

Always hoped that he and Benteke would be the new Withe and Shaw.

It's the hope that kills. And that was some hope.

Lol, Yes, I suppose I was certainly hoping a lot.
When they clicked together, though, Liverpool away, lime top, you can see where the hope came from.
Unfortunately it all to infrequent. Once again a light midfield let us down.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: algy on May 15, 2022, 07:58:46 AM
Noticed Jordan Bowery scored for Mansfield in the League 2 playoff semi final
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/may/14/mansfield-northampton-league-two-playoff-match-report
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave shelley on May 15, 2022, 09:13:35 AM
Noticed Jordan Bowery scored for Mansfield in the League 2 playoff semi final
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/may/14/mansfield-northampton-league-two-playoff-match-report

Took his goal well and set up the first with a very good defence splitting pass.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on May 15, 2022, 04:32:29 PM
Gurdy McKirdy scored twice for Swindon today in their Play-Off with the Vale. Our Louie Barry played for 92 minutes alongside him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on May 15, 2022, 05:33:04 PM
James Milner lifting the FA cup was one of the small graces for their victory .
Excellent penalty too.
Wouldn't say no to have him back here on a free
There were rumours earlier this season.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Sexual Ealing on May 15, 2022, 09:34:05 PM
This is depressing, and makes me glad he's no longer anywhere near us:
https://twitter.com/GFFN/status/1525922466308169729
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on May 16, 2022, 10:14:49 AM
This is depressing, and makes me glad he's no longer anywhere near us:
https://twitter.com/GFFN/status/1525922466308169729

Sad. I'm guessing that religious nutjobbery is at the heart of it.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Drummond on May 16, 2022, 02:03:22 PM
Enda Stevens still in the play-offs with Sheffield United.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on May 16, 2022, 02:16:55 PM
Enda Stevens still in the play-offs with Sheffield United.
Championship Play Off Villa links
Edna Stevens
James Bree
Henri Lansbury
Robert Snodgrass
Jonathan Hogg

Keinan Davis and Conor Hourihane also involved as loanees

And on Edna Stevens he seemed to thrive in that first season back in Prem under Wilder wing back system. Was really very good had improved and look comfortable at Prem level. They werent so good at all last season though.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Exeter 77 on May 16, 2022, 06:09:09 PM
This is depressing, and makes me glad he's no longer anywhere near us:
https://twitter.com/GFFN/status/1525922466308169729
The polar opposite to this announcement today.
https://twitter.com/BlackpoolFC/status/1526232455002345473?t=9eH2WnLSJ8drtAexCH_kbw&s=19
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Mister E on May 16, 2022, 06:11:18 PM
Enda Stevens still in the play-offs with Sheffield United.
Championship Play Off Villa links
Edna Stevens
James Bree
Henri Lansbury
Robert Snodgrass
Jonathan Hogg

Keinan Davis and Conor Hourihane also involved as loanees

And on Edna Stevens he seemed to thrive in that first season back in Prem under Wilder wing back system. Was really very good had improved and look comfortable at Prem level. They werent so good at all last season though.
Edna's a lovely old girl.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Lizz on May 18, 2022, 09:09:36 PM
Idrissa Gueye didn't play for PSG last weekend.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61492696
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on May 18, 2022, 09:48:18 PM
Steven Davis on as a sub for Rangers in the Europa League final
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on May 20, 2022, 12:35:59 AM
What a career he's had.

First saw him at BH in 2001!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: adrenachrome on May 20, 2022, 03:03:14 AM
What a career he's had.

First saw him at BH in 2001!

Always liked him as a player. But we had Barry, Petrov and Reo-Coker at the time.

Early hint of how Social Media would develop was that there was talk about MoN letting him go because he was a Protestant. Seriously.   
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on May 21, 2022, 01:27:42 AM
This is the first time I've heard this story.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on May 21, 2022, 06:44:40 PM
This is the first time I've heard this story.

I believe he mentioned it as an early example of the sort of bollocks you hear spouted on social media rather than there being any truth to the story.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on May 22, 2022, 12:19:53 AM
Fair enough -took it at face-value.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ivo Stas on June 02, 2022, 05:23:04 PM
Andi Weimann, a player I always liked (perhaps more than I rated), has made the Guardian's Championship team of the year:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/may/30/football-league-teams-of-the-season-2021-22 (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/may/30/football-league-teams-of-the-season-2021-22)

Apparently, he's had an absolute blinder of a season! 22 goals and 10 assists in an average-at-best side.

He's just turned 30 now, so about the same age as Danny Ings.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on June 02, 2022, 06:03:17 PM
Will he get one last move back to the Prem and a contract to secure his future and that of any sprogs he may have? Stay tuned to SSN to find out..
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on June 08, 2022, 01:23:37 AM
Good to see Jordan Bowery get a new two-year deal with Mansfield.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on June 08, 2022, 11:16:28 AM
Yep, should help finance a new conservatory and decking out the back.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: FatSam on June 10, 2022, 10:01:54 PM
Andi Weimann scores his first goal for Austria against France.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Martyn Smith on June 15, 2022, 01:12:22 PM
Not playing, but I see that Nobby Solano is the current manager of the Peru national team.

One of the most naturally gifted players ever to put on the shirt, I reckon
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on June 15, 2022, 01:16:11 PM
Has Nobby been announced as successor to Ricardo Gareca ?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Martyn Smith on June 15, 2022, 01:20:01 PM
Has Nobby been announced as successor to Ricardo Gareca ?

Oh he's assistant manger, sorry. Not reading the article properly...
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on June 15, 2022, 01:44:42 PM
Gareca's contract is up (I think). Hence why I thought Nobby might have been promoted after their defeat by ClownKeeper and Co
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: wittonwarrior on June 21, 2022, 08:45:49 PM
Sam Johnstone to Palace and not an automatic No 1.  Personally I think Butland is better and again he's not No 1 there.

Johnstone's distribution lets him down big time and another excellent shot stopper who is suspect off his line.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on June 21, 2022, 10:37:15 PM
Ben Siegrist has joined Celtic. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/61889407
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ldavfc4eva on June 22, 2022, 06:49:03 AM
Can remember when he was going to be the next big thing, hasn’t happened yet.

Number 2 to Hart though now and at a big club, so his day may yet come.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on June 23, 2022, 02:14:12 AM
He was a brilliant young 'keeper but broke his leg a few years ago which set him back.
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Post by: dcdavecollett on June 25, 2022, 12:53:31 AM
Did it in training as well, I believe.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on June 29, 2022, 11:32:57 PM
Jordan Veretout's wife's top has lasted pretty well all these years.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWbcg6kXgAUIrwP?format=jpg)
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Hillbilly on June 30, 2022, 06:15:50 AM
"Jordan, Rome sucks, I wanna go back to Brum."
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: JD on June 30, 2022, 08:44:39 AM
His Missus "Once a Villain".
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Clampy on June 30, 2022, 08:47:05 AM
Maybe he's coming back?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on July 01, 2022, 02:41:10 PM
Maybe he's just stoned.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on July 13, 2022, 09:53:53 PM
James Collins (not that one, the other one) has joined Derby
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: paul_e on July 13, 2022, 10:10:58 PM
James Collins (not that one, the other one) has joined Derby

Tuening into a bit of a villa old boys club.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Virgil Caine on July 15, 2022, 07:53:45 AM
Although Ciaran Clark resisted the Rams cult and has joined Sheffield United on loan, presumably for the season.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave P on July 15, 2022, 08:49:41 AM
Although Ciaran Clark resisted the Rams cult and has joined Sheffield United on loan, presumably for the season.

He was linked with small heath so that's a bit of a result for him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Mister E on July 20, 2022, 09:54:42 AM
Great article here about Andre Green (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jul/20/andre-green-slovan-bratislava-champions-league-aston-villa)
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on July 20, 2022, 10:00:57 AM
Fair play to him. Is he right about things going well for him at Villa up until Lockdown? I don't remember him being involved in our first season back up at all.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Smithy on July 20, 2022, 11:19:14 AM
Fair play to him. Is he right about things going well for him at Villa up until Lockdown? I don't remember him being involved in our first season back up at all.

He went on loan our first season back, PNE, then Charlton - he never played in the premier league for us.  I think the point he's making is that he was on loan and playing when Covid happened - which stopped all games - then he was released by us so it wasn't a great time to be without a club.

I remember at the time he was released being a bit disappointed, but confident that it was a sign our sights were being set a bit higher in terms of what we expected from our youth products.  Glad he's doing well and building himself a decent career over there.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: mike on July 20, 2022, 01:54:52 PM
I knew a school friend of his who said he is a genuinely nice bloke and a massive Villa fan.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: FailsworthVillan on July 21, 2022, 11:12:40 PM
Henry Cowans scored for Newtown tonight in the Europa Conference League.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on July 26, 2022, 12:32:05 PM
One who isn't still playing is Jota, temporarily at least. Without a club for the last year.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Hookeysmith on July 26, 2022, 12:43:46 PM
One who isn't still playing is Jota, temporarily at least. Without a club for the last year.

I am very surprised - he may not have been good enough for us but surely a Spanish, Italian side could of benfited from his ability.

Maybe he just has enough money  ...... if so fair play to him
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ad@m on July 30, 2022, 07:13:25 PM
Conor Hourihane showing on his first day that he's going to boss League 1
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on July 30, 2022, 07:15:39 PM
Weimann Pieman at it again For Brizzle C. Lost though.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on August 01, 2022, 08:28:45 PM
Kioron Klerk and Enda Stevens both starting for Sheffield Utd at Watford

Tom Cleverley, captain of Watford
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Jon Crofts on August 01, 2022, 08:50:03 PM
Kioron Klerk and Enda Stevens both starting for Sheffield Utd at Watford

Tom Cleverley, captain of Watford

Was Cleverley ever actually a Villa player or was he just here on loan? Either way, he was shite in the main.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brontebilly on August 01, 2022, 09:29:59 PM
Kioron Klerk and Enda Stevens both starting for Sheffield Utd at Watford

Tom Cleverley, captain of Watford

Was Cleverley ever actually a Villa player or was he just here on loan? Either way, he was shite in the main.

Loan....had a good run for us under Sherwood like a few more. Played in a cup final in a Villa shirt apparently
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Jon Crofts on August 01, 2022, 10:38:17 PM
Kioron Klerk and Enda Stevens both starting for Sheffield Utd at Watford

Tom Cleverley, captain of Watford

Was Cleverley ever actually a Villa player or was he just here on loan? Either way, he was shite in the main.

Loan....had a good run for us under Sherwood like a few more. Played in a cup final in a Villa shirt apparently

I remember he had 1 decent game in a Villa shirt v Everton under Tactics other than that anonymous.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave shelley on August 02, 2022, 09:36:15 AM
Kioron Klerk and Enda Stevens both starting for Sheffield Utd at Watford

Tom Cleverley, captain of Watford

Was Cleverley ever actually a Villa player or was he just here on loan? Either way, he was shite in the main.

Loan....had a good run for us under Sherwood like a few more. Played in a cup final in a Villa shirt apparently

I remember he had 1 decent game in a Villa shirt v Everton under Tactics other than that anonymous.

That's how I remember him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on August 02, 2022, 09:37:40 AM
That was the first game at VP for my two eldest kids.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: FatSam on August 08, 2022, 09:10:22 PM
Andre Green scored the Bratislava goal in a 1-1 draw away at Olympiakos in the Europa League qualifying on Thursday night.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Exeter 77 on August 11, 2022, 11:00:01 PM
Andre Green scored the Bratislava goal in a 1-1 draw away at Olympiakos in the Europa League qualifying on Thursday night.
He scored again in the second leg and then in the shoot out but Slovan went out.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on August 13, 2022, 07:29:14 PM
Andi Weimann goalmachine. 4 in 4 this season.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on September 01, 2022, 03:28:55 PM
Callum Robinson is in Cardiff doing a medical ahead of a move from West Brom.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on September 01, 2022, 03:49:41 PM
Idrissa Gueye Everton have re-signed him on a free.
Marseille Jordan Amavi gone to La Liga loan Getafe

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Mike Jeffries on September 01, 2022, 10:00:11 PM
Rushian Hepburn-Murphy signed for Swindon today.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Virgil Caine on September 02, 2022, 07:32:19 AM
Rushian Hepburn-Murphy signed for Swindon today.

Seems as though he saw his contract out with Cypriot side Pafos(?) FC and come back to replace ex Villan McKirdy who has joined Hibernian.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on September 03, 2022, 07:32:43 AM
Jordan Amavi has joined Getafe on loan.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on September 03, 2022, 08:29:06 AM
Callum Robinson now at Caerdydd
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on September 03, 2022, 09:17:55 AM
I hoped that Weimann would get a move back to the PL based on his 2022 goal return.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ldavfc4eva on September 03, 2022, 12:16:40 PM
Stephen Davis starts for Rangers in the old firm derby today. Stan is in the studio and he looks in great health too - good to see
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on September 04, 2022, 07:07:05 AM
Stephen Davis starts for Rangers in the old firm derby today. Stan is in the studio and he looks in great health too - good to see

Davis's 35th Old Firm derby apparently. Had me wondering who appeared in the most.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rory on September 04, 2022, 02:43:03 PM
Stephen Davis starts for Rangers in the old firm derby today. Stan is in the studio and he looks in great health too - good to see

Davis's 35th Old Firm derby apparently. Had me wondering who appeared in the most.

Not sure, but David Weir must be up there, given he was about 70 when he retired.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on September 04, 2022, 03:10:08 PM
87 is the most Old Firm appearances, according to Google.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ad@m on September 04, 2022, 10:51:47 PM
They have about 87 Old Firm matches a season don't they?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rory on September 04, 2022, 11:48:37 PM
They have about 87 Old Firm matches a season don't they?

Don't be stupid. The number depends on the split 😉

Out of interest PWS, who has the 87?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on September 05, 2022, 12:16:42 AM
Alec Smith. Couple of names associated with us are in the top 10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Firm#Most_appearances
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rory on September 05, 2022, 12:53:07 AM
Alec Smith. Couple of names associated with us are in the top 10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Firm#Most_appearances

Hmm, interesting, thanks PWS. I was going to say I'm surprised there aren't more modern players, but I guess any modern player will be looking to move to England at the first opportunity.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on September 05, 2022, 01:03:22 AM
Just a guess, but the lack of replays now could be a factor as well. As the 2 teams were often closely matched i'd imagine they had a fair few replays in the past.

If you scroll down a little, the managers with the best win percentages is quite interesting.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on September 07, 2022, 09:28:06 AM
Robert Snodgrass has signed for Hearts. Good luck to him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on September 07, 2022, 09:45:27 AM
That reminds me of Glenn Whelan going there and his missus  chucking her toys out on Twitter cos Villa had kept her in a lifestyle she enjoyed very much before her husband was released by the club.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Aldridge Villa on September 10, 2022, 08:00:16 AM
Bacuna’s Champions League aspirations remain very much a reality. He’s training at Small Heath.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: steamer on September 10, 2022, 08:06:20 AM
is greasy still playing ?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on September 10, 2022, 09:48:32 AM
Nobody is today. 🥺
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: RamboandBruno on September 11, 2022, 09:51:44 AM
Bacuna’s Champions League aspirations remain very much a reality. He’s training at Small Heath.

I think that might be his brother
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Aldridge Villa on September 11, 2022, 10:45:52 AM
No it’s definitely Leandro, formerly of this parish.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Exeter 77 on September 11, 2022, 11:15:02 AM
His brother (the who played for Huddersfield)is contracted to them.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on September 11, 2022, 11:28:16 AM
Just a guess, but the lack of replays now could be a factor as well. As the 2 teams were often closely matched i'd imagine they had a fair few replays in the past.

My mate's a "Rangers" fan and he reckons neither team has won all the Old Firm games in a given season. Even when Celtic were totally dominant under Rodgers they won 3 and drew 1 of the league games in 2016/17 and 2017/18.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: purpletrousers on September 14, 2022, 01:33:27 AM
Alec Smith. Couple of names associated with us are in the top 10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Firm#Most_appearances

Billy McNeil, who is the other?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ldavfc4eva on September 14, 2022, 06:49:59 AM
Roy Aitken
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Exeter 77 on September 14, 2022, 07:55:22 AM
Peter Grant is one of the lists. He was part of McLeish's coaching team
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: nigel on September 14, 2022, 08:17:48 AM
Alec Smith. Couple of names associated with us are in the top 10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Firm#Most_appearances

Surprised Dalgleish is on that list
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Aldridge Villa on September 15, 2022, 08:00:48 PM
Nicklas “pants down” Helenius playing against West Ham tonight
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Aldridge Villa on September 15, 2022, 08:27:57 PM
And a certain Kent Nielsen is the manager of Silkeborg, West Ham’s opponents tonight.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on September 15, 2022, 08:29:45 PM
Oh I didn't know he was manager. Can I adopt them as my Danish team, or are they scum? @Villa_in_Denmark
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Villa in Denmark on September 15, 2022, 08:37:35 PM
Oh I didn't know he was manager. Can I adopt them as my Danish team, or are they scum? @Villa_in_Denmark
Perfectly OK, non descript team these days.
Apparently they used to be quite good in the 80s and 90s so one of my colleagues tells me but I can't be arsed to check.

They were in the second division 2 seasons ago. Finished 3rd in their first season back up.

Kent Nielsen won the double with Aalborg a few years back
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on September 15, 2022, 10:20:14 PM
I knew there was a reason I developed a soft spot for Aalborg. Had forgotten what it was.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Exeter 77 on September 16, 2022, 09:47:28 AM
Trezeguet scored for Trabzonspor in the Europa League against Red Star Belgrade last night.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on September 16, 2022, 10:44:38 AM

Perfectly OK, non descript team these days.
Apparently they used to be quite good in the 80s and 90s so one of my colleagues tells me but I can't be arsed to check.
 

Sadly/Ironically/Devastatingly, that's word for word what your younger colleague says to his pals when discussing which English teams their acquaintances follow  :(
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Drummond on September 17, 2022, 04:50:45 PM
Hourihane scores a brace for Derby to win them the game..
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Drummond on September 20, 2022, 02:14:35 PM
Nathan Delfouenso has just signed a short term deal with Accrington Stanley.... he's 31!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Woofles The Wonder Dog on September 20, 2022, 04:46:33 PM
Nathan Delfouenso has just signed a short term deal with Accrington Stanley.... he's 31!

Sobs quietly.

I’m sure it was only a few years ago I saw him play for England under 16s. I was convinced he was the real deal, skill, pace, composure. I’ve given up on spouting  wretched punditry.

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Smithy on September 21, 2022, 04:47:08 PM
Nathan Delfouenso has just signed a short term deal with Accrington Stanley.... he's 31!

Sobs quietly.

I’m sure it was only a few years ago I saw him play for England under 16s. I was convinced he was the real deal, skill, pace, composure. I’ve given up on spouting  wretched punditry.



You weren't wrong, he had all of those things. But he was also still growing quite a bit at that age, and ended up quite big, and it also doesn't take into account the mental side of the game and what's needed to be a top player.  Nathan certainly had all the physical attributes needed, but maybe he just didn't have the rest of it?  I remember him emerging and thinking we were on a run of really good forward prospects coming through our academy over a 6 or 7-year period. We'd had Vassell, Gabby was in his prime, and now young Nathan following in their footsteps.  Alas, it was never to be.

As fans we often seem to lose sight of the fact that a player who looks incredibly promising at 17/18 can be a completely different player when they finish growing at 21-ish.  It's why I'm so pleased to see a few of our youth team players doing well during their respective loans - how they do in men's football is a much better indicator of their future success than how they get on in youth or youth international games.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on September 21, 2022, 09:09:29 PM
He appeared on the back of an edition of H&V with the tagline something like "Local goalscoring heroes from Gary Shaw to Gabby Agbonlahor via Darius Vassell and the Moores...no pressure, Nathan".
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on September 21, 2022, 09:18:28 PM
Rushian scored on his debut for Swindon. They lost the match though.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on September 21, 2022, 09:22:50 PM
He appeared on the back of an edition of H&V with the tagline something like "Local goalscoring heroes from Gary Shaw to Gabby Agbonlahor via Darius Vassell and the Moores...no pressure, Nathan".

Young Stefan will be 40 next year
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on September 21, 2022, 09:26:41 PM
Yep, and his kid plays for Villa tweenies.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Ad@m on September 21, 2022, 09:59:43 PM
He appeared on the back of an edition of H&V with the tagline something like "Local goalscoring heroes from Gary Shaw to Gabby Agbonlahor via Darius Vassell and the Moores...no pressure, Nathan".

Young Stefan will be 40 next year

I can't quite believe how promising Luke was as a kid and he eventually retired aged 29!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Martyn Smith on September 22, 2022, 10:43:54 AM
Bacuna’s Champions League aspirations remain very much a reality. He’s training at Small Heath.

I think that might be his brother

He has been without a club since leaving Cardiff in June, so there's every possibility he's hooked up with li'l bruv there...
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on September 27, 2022, 06:49:55 PM
Quisling, anti-Vax idiot Fabian Delph has had to retire aged 32. Such a shame.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PaulTheVillan on September 27, 2022, 07:50:38 PM
Delph can do one. More big injuries than good seasons. Turncoat. No doubt a Tory
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Cliftonville Villlain on September 27, 2022, 08:31:36 PM
Delph and Sterling - the snakes on a plane. Another Villa captain who took the money. And like Grealish good riddance.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: SaddVillan on September 27, 2022, 09:33:36 PM
BBC News - Fabian Delph: Ex-England, Man City, Aston Villa, Leeds & Everton midfielder retires aged 32
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63052878

The Snake slithers off
into the undergrowth.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Drummond on September 28, 2022, 09:57:26 AM
Delph and Sterling - the snakes on a plane. Another Villa captain who took the money. And like Grealish good riddance.

What's Sterling done?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: SaddVillan on September 28, 2022, 10:17:56 AM
Delph and Sterling - the snakes on a plane. Another Villa captain who took the money. And like Grealish good riddance.

What's Sterling done?

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/fabian-delph-everton-fans-retirement-28097207

Slithered off into the undergrowth.
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Post by: cdbearsfan on September 28, 2022, 10:27:37 AM
Sterling?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on September 28, 2022, 10:34:48 AM
Maybe he's angry and disappointed with the falling rate of the pound?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: chrisw1 on September 28, 2022, 10:39:35 AM
I'm pretty sure Delph was forced out by the club, after signing a contract that got us some money when he could have gone on a free.

I understood the disappointment, but the hate was OTT.

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on September 28, 2022, 10:42:04 AM
We forced him out for about a third of his value? Seems unlikely to me. If he had left in the summer without all that "this is my club" bollocks few would have batted an eyelid but he can fuck off after that shite.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: chrisw1 on September 28, 2022, 10:44:54 AM
We forced him out for about a third of his value? Seems unlikely to me. If he had left in the summer without all that "this is my club" bollocks few would have batted an eyelid but he can fuck off after that shite.
The price was set in the new contract - which he didn't need to sign.

Once City came in I think the club decided they wanted the £8m anyway and pushed him to go (after all the 'my club' bollocks.)
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: frank black on September 28, 2022, 10:57:37 AM
We forced him out for about a third of his value? Seems unlikely to me. If he had left in the summer without all that "this is my club" bollocks few would have batted an eyelid but he can fuck off after that shite.
The price was set in the new contract - which he didn't need to sign.

Once City came in I think the club decided they wanted the £8m anyway and pushed him to go (after all the 'my club' bollocks.)

That’s not how I recall it. I just saw it as a player having second thoughts, after making an Ill judged I’m staying and I love you statement.
After all the grief he had, I’d expect he’d have told his side of the story by now (if it wasn’t down to him).
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on September 28, 2022, 11:11:08 AM
We didn't push Delph out at all. The time line from when the contract talks were on that winter are important.

His agent advised against him signing a new deal. I don't blame him. At the time we were suffering the worst of Lambert, looking in a relegation scrap and he could have done a fortune in signing on fee if he went on a free.

Delph took his captaincy responsibilities seriously and didn't want to screw us over after standing by him through his injuries. It was Delph who insisted on signing against his agents wishes and who suggested a buyout clause of what we paid for him. His agent was flabbergasted that he signed the contract.

As things had been all bad news the club suggested that maybe he does an announcement they could play on the big screens to bring a feelgood factor back. Unfortunately he went a bit over the top with his comments (he talks too much).

When the Cited bid came in he was conflicted on whether to take the move. Again, unfortunately, he started talking before definitively making a decision.

He started off thinking it was the right move. Then felt bad at leaving his teammates in the lurch. And was constantly kept aware of the big changes we were making via the transfer window. So he changed his mind. And started talking about it again.

Citeh triggered his buyout clause again and offered more money. By now he was thinking he had made a mistake so changed his mind again. It is why he looked so thoroughly miserable when he signed for them.

The club didn't begrudge his move given what he did in the January but the real piss take was when he couldn't make our trip to Portugal whilst having these doubts because his wife was due to give birth (remember the Brummie daughter comments) yet was able to fuck off to Australia on their pre season tour before said child had exited the womb.

He isn't all bad and did some things he didn't have to in our favour. He was genuinely conflicted about the move. But it wouldn't have been half as bad if he had kept his trap shut.

Suggestions we pushed him out of the door are a load of nonsense though.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: chrisw1 on September 28, 2022, 11:48:04 AM
We don't know if all of that is true, I heard a different version but don't claim to be itk.  I do think the club was happy to take the money at the time.

What we do know is he signed a contract that secured us £8m.  But fans would have preferred he left on a free if only he didn't upset them with a video about liking the club.  It's madness really that something that stareted with an alturistic gesture ended up with him being one of our most hated players in the last 20 years - and bear in mind the absolute shisters and wastes of money that have darkened our doors in that time.

It's similar (but not quite the same) for Jack.  He probbaly increased his transfer value by £40m by signing his contract, bt it's still something that peope hold against him.

I'll save my real ire for people like N'Zogbia and Ireland, who had all the talent but just couldn't give a shit, or McCormack and Lansbury, who just took the piss.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on September 28, 2022, 11:58:07 AM
Nobody ever said that following football was a logical hobby did they?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on September 28, 2022, 06:47:18 PM
We forced him out for about a third of his value? Seems unlikely to me. If he had left in the summer without all that "this is my club" bollocks few would have batted an eyelid but he can fuck off after that shite.
The price was set in the new contract - which he didn't need to sign.

Once City came in I think the club decided they wanted the £8m anyway and pushed him to go (after all the 'my club' bollocks.)

The first paragraph is true, the second paragraph is entirely supposition. I've no reason whatsoever to believe that they wouldn't rather have kept him. We spent more on his replacement.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: chrisw1 on September 29, 2022, 10:40:39 AM
Even so, in both CL's version and mine, Delph still doesn't come accross as the heinous charachter he's made out to be.  He basically signed a contract (against advice) to secure the club £8m when he didn't need to.  As Risso said football isn't a logical hobby, but I still find the fact that people would rather he left on a free so long as there wasn't a video a bit perplexing.  Ultimately he's been hung by what many would consider to be a pretty honorable gesture. 

I hope we don't complain in future when players fuck off for nothing and others show no sentimentality or love for the club as they know it will only come back to bite them.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Sexual Ealing on October 12, 2022, 03:09:42 PM
Jota has retired at 31.

https://twitter.com/AVFCLatam/status/1580198144113274883
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on October 12, 2022, 03:10:41 PM
Well then why are you mentioning him in this thread? Tsk, honestly.

(Hopefully nobody scrolls up and notices my post about Delph on this thread)
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Sexual Ealing on October 12, 2022, 03:12:26 PM
Well then why are you mentioning him in this thread? Tsk, honestly.

(Hopefully nobody scrolls up and notices my post about Delph on this thread)

I knew this would be on the first couple of pages. Less so for the man himself's thread.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on October 12, 2022, 03:21:29 PM
Only 31...which means we had him in his prime. Gosh.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Aldridge Villa on October 17, 2022, 08:31:45 PM
Corey Blackett-Taylor has just scored for Charlton.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on October 18, 2022, 11:44:44 AM
Scott Sinclair has joined Bristol Rovers.

I never realised that he was from the West Country and started his career at Rovers
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Flin5tone on October 18, 2022, 12:19:08 PM
Anwar El Ghazi netted 2 for PSV at the weekend.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on October 18, 2022, 02:18:14 PM
Wesley still not making an impact it seems. Unused sub for Levante at the weekend.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on November 10, 2022, 08:57:46 AM
Playing for Derby County in the league cup versus Liverpool
Conor Hourihane missed in the penalty shoot out at Anfield yesterday.
I don't really care he missed as his biggest ever penalty he had no problems scoring vs W.B.A. in the play offs! Took the first and sent Johnstone the wrong way.

Sam Johnstone was involved in a penalty shoot out last night playing for Crystal Palace at Newcastle.


Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Bad English on November 10, 2022, 11:04:49 AM
Wesley still not making an impact it seems. Unused sub for Levante at the weekend.
The only Wesley I know who is any good is the chef at the casino down the road from ours. Plus he voted for us in the local elections.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on November 13, 2022, 12:30:32 AM
Milner became only the 4th player to rack up 600 Premier League appearances.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rory on November 13, 2022, 02:14:58 AM
Milner became only the 4th player to rack up 600 Premier League appearances.

One of the most underrated players of modern times. In 2009-10 he was every inch as good as Gerrard & Lampard.

Sadly those Manc prostitutes pissed away the best years of his career.

Quality footballer. Jimmy Milner eats nails.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on November 13, 2022, 11:18:07 AM
And admits he's boring and has the most monotonous voice since Ken Barlow.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on November 13, 2022, 11:26:17 AM
O'Hare seems to be doing well at Coventry lately. They've just won 4 in a row and yesterday beat coach of the millenium Beale's QPR.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on November 13, 2022, 01:28:17 PM
Beale, Beale is falling apart, (again?).
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: N'ZMAV on November 13, 2022, 01:29:14 PM
but he's the best manager ever, like.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on November 16, 2022, 01:24:19 PM
Cross Gary Cahill off the list

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12748638/gary-cahill-former-chelsea-and-england-defender-announces-retirement-following-illustrious-playing-career

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Villa Lew on November 16, 2022, 07:30:26 PM
Cross Gary Cahill off the list

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12748638/gary-cahill-former-chelsea-and-england-defender-announces-retirement-following-illustrious-playing-career



A goal I never get tired of seeing, Happy Retirement Gary.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on November 22, 2022, 12:53:31 AM
John Burridge played in a game on Saturday. He's 70, and still better than Olsen.

https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/article/the-family-reunion-match-story-of-the-day
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: LeeB on November 22, 2022, 09:47:08 AM
John Burridge played in a game on Saturday. He's 70, and still better than Olsen.

https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/article/the-family-reunion-match-story-of-the-day

Still quicker off his line
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Exeter 77 on December 13, 2022, 08:58:02 PM
Phil Bardsley joined Stockport today.
https://twitter.com/StockportCounty/status/1602725035315122176?t=IGMVPd7vG9Zr0c3aNIbt4g&s=19
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: cdbearsfan on December 14, 2022, 12:53:59 PM
Well, fair play to him for giving up his salary. I confess I had no idea he was still playing.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dinas_Caerdydd on December 14, 2022, 09:57:12 PM
not sure where to put this post but might be of interest to some on here

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">One of the earliest football paintings in the world, Thomas MM Hemy's &quot;Sunderland v. Aston Villa 1895&quot; depicts a match between the two most successful English teams of the decade @SunderlandAFC (https://twitter.com/SunderlandAFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) @AVFCOfficial (https://twitter.com/AVFCOfficial?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) pic.twitter.com/wH0kVzR3nI (https://t.co/wH0kVzR3nI)</p>&mdash; FootballRetroPlus (@robertmdaws) December 14, 2022 (https://twitter.com/robertmdaws/status/1603006733961625600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: chrisw1 on December 15, 2022, 01:50:05 PM
Cheers, but that link is horrible, i think it was this you were referring to

https://twitter.com/robertmdaws/status/1603006733961625600?s=20&t=VqGF1L1MhY2aQDhejQj06Q

and more info here
https://rokerreport.sbnation.com/2017/11/21/16681978/the-famous-sunderland-v-aston-villa-painting-that-hangs-in-the-lobby-of-the-sol-a-history-of

It's good stuff, thanks for pointing it out
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Virgil Caine on January 05, 2023, 04:15:51 PM
Matt Lowton, famous for ‘that’ goal considered surplus to requirements at Burnley has joined Huddersfield T’own on loan presumably for the rest of the season.  Good signing for them I’d say
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Matt C on January 06, 2023, 01:36:25 AM
Darren Byfield in as interim manager at Crawley (who look like they have all sorts of ownership issues).
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on January 06, 2023, 11:36:24 AM
Crawley seem to be the latest, but probably not last, club to be shafted by some internet idiots who think owning a football club's a piece of piss. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jan/05/crypto-chaos-how-crawley-crumbled-under-owners-reckless-leadership
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Virgil Caine on January 10, 2023, 01:41:32 AM
Burnley continue to clear out the Ex Villa section of the cupboard with Ashley Westwood joining Charlotte FC of the MLS on a free.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on February 02, 2023, 05:45:11 PM
I saw James Bree was now playing at Southampton.
Ex full back from Villa signed by Bruce.
The manager of Saints had him at Luton, so he is familiar with Bree and brought the bacon in transfer window.
Never got the breaks at Villa and be into see how he'll go for half a season in top flight as think Southampton likely to be relegated.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Clampy on February 02, 2023, 05:58:28 PM
I saw James Bree was now playing at Southampton.
Ex full back from Villa signed by Bruce.
The manager of Saints had him at Luton, so he is familiar with Bree and brought the bacon in transfer window.
Never got the breaks at Villa and be into see how he'll go for half a season in top flight as think Southampton likely to be relegated.


Shame we didn't go on a winning streaky.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Tayls_7 on February 02, 2023, 06:12:14 PM
I saw James Bree was now playing at Southampton.
Ex full back from Villa signed by Bruce.
The manager of Saints had him at Luton, so he is familiar with Bree and brought the bacon in transfer window.
Never got the breaks at Villa and be into see how he'll go for half a season in top flight as think Southampton likely to be relegated.


Shame we didn't go on a winning streaky.

Getting shot of Bree was possibly rash but not rasher than Cahill.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: paul_e on February 02, 2023, 06:29:36 PM
I saw James Bree was now playing at Southampton.
Ex full back from Villa signed by Bruce.
The manager of Saints had him at Luton, so he is familiar with Bree and brought the bacon in transfer window.
Never got the breaks at Villa and be into see how he'll go for half a season in top flight as think Southampton likely to be relegated.

He never looked good enough for me, the nail in the coffin was Bruce trying to turn him into a centre back in the last few weeks before he got sacked, I can't recall seeing many players ever looking so uncomfortably out of position.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on February 02, 2023, 06:45:26 PM
I saw James Bree was now playing at Southampton.
Ex full back from Villa signed by Bruce.
The manager of Saints had him at Luton, so he is familiar with Bree and brought the bacon in transfer window.
Never got the breaks at Villa and be into see how he'll go for half a season in top flight as think Southampton likely to be relegated.

He never looked good enough for me, the nail in the coffin was Bruce trying to turn him into a centre back in the last few weeks before he got sacked, I can't recall seeing many players ever looking so uncomfortably out of position.
Remember when Tuanzebe was deployed as a defensive midfielder by Bruce?
Speaking of which Tuanzebe has moved this winter window from Man Utd to Stoke on loan. 25 years old now.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PaulWinch again on February 13, 2023, 08:02:22 PM
Not a Villa player for long and he didn’t leave long ago, but Bednarak’s own goal at the weekend was quite something.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: brontebilly on February 13, 2023, 08:58:22 PM
Nice work from Pickford there
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: adrenachrome on February 13, 2023, 10:06:39 PM
Nice work from Pickford there

What's that got do with the price of sausages?

Wrong thread, Shirley?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: astonvilla82 on February 13, 2023, 10:45:18 PM
Not a Villa player for long and he didn’t leave long ago, but Bednarak’s own goal at the weekend was quite something.
we even picked shit loan players
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on February 18, 2023, 09:24:21 AM
Not a Villa player for long and he didn’t leave long ago, but Bednarak’s own goal at the weekend was quite something.
we even picked shit loan players
Worst loans of recent times has to be Danny Drinkwater up there.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on February 20, 2023, 10:33:17 PM
Did anyone notice Leandro Bacuna turning up at Watford?

Came on for them in their win against the Baggies tonight.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: LeeB on February 21, 2023, 09:41:34 AM
Did anyone notice Leandro Bacuna turning up at Watford?

Came on for them in their win against the Baggies tonight.

It was difficult enough to notice him when he was playing in our midfield.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on February 21, 2023, 09:55:43 AM
Davis is on loan at Watford

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on February 21, 2023, 10:00:32 AM
How much do you reckon we can get for Davis.
Out of contract next summer. Loan Watford.
Think it was £15m tag in summer but forest went elsewhere.
Perhaps can get around £8-10m.

If we can get £18- £20m combined for Wesley and Davis not too shabby.


£8m to £10m for Davis would be decent if he can stay fit. Wesley will leave on a free when his contract's up I would think. He's scored one goal all season in the Spanish second division, that injury against Burnley has ruined him completely.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on February 21, 2023, 10:01:52 AM
With respect to Davis and Wesley I don't think they are considered Villa players despite being on our books and with poetic licences if I may discuss them here as ex players. Technically it should be loan watch.

Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on February 21, 2023, 10:03:03 AM
How much do you reckon we can get for Davis.
Out of contract next summer. Loan Watford.
Think it was £15m tag in summer but forest went elsewhere.
Perhaps can get around £8-10m.

If we can get £18- £20m combined for Wesley and Davis not too shabby.


£8m to £10m for Davis would be decent if he can stay fit. Wesley will leave on a free when his contract's up I would think. He's scored one goal all season in the Spanish second division, that injury against Burnley has ruined him completely.

Wesley has a £9m tag if Levante are promoted. Its optional clause to buy, though
Levante 3rd in league battling for top 2 for automatic. Then 3rd -6th play off. (Like EFL championship)
2pts of 1st
1pt of 2nd.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on February 21, 2023, 10:08:57 AM
How much do you reckon we can get for Davis.
Out of contract next summer. Loan Watford.
Think it was £15m tag in summer but forest went elsewhere.
Perhaps can get around £8-10m.

If we can get £18- £20m combined for Wesley and Davis not too shabby.


£8m to £10m for Davis would be decent if he can stay fit. Wesley will leave on a free when his contract's up I would think. He's scored one goal all season in the Spanish second division, that injury against Burnley has ruined him completely.

Wesley has a £9m tag if Levante are promoted. Its optional clause to buy, though
Levante 3rd in league battling for top 2 for automatic. Then 3rd -6th play off. (Like EFL championship)
2pts of 1st 1pt of 2nd.

It was reported as an option to buy at the end of the season, not an obligation and nothing about it depending on promotion or not. I would think that they probably won't take up that option.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on February 21, 2023, 10:47:51 AM
There is also an agreed fee with Watford for Davis. He's not been really amongst the goals yet like he was at Forest, largely due to injuries and him being a selfless giant etc.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on February 22, 2023, 01:13:20 AM
Keinan was denied by two really good saves against the Bitters.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Martyn Smith on March 04, 2023, 04:17:56 PM
Not a Villa player for long and he didn’t leave long ago, but Bednarak’s own goal at the weekend was quite something.

His 'defending' against Leeds' goal last weekend was something special...
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Martyn Smith on March 04, 2023, 04:20:17 PM
Matt Lowton, famous for ‘that’ goal considered surplus to requirements at Burnley has joined Huddersfield T’own on loan presumably for the rest of the season.  Good signing for them I’d say

In Colin's starting XI with Jonathan Hogg today
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Martyn Smith on March 04, 2023, 04:30:49 PM
Rushian Hebburn-Murphy providing the assist for an equaliser for Swindon this afternoon

- Your Final Score Correspondent
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on March 04, 2023, 05:52:54 PM
Not playing but new roles for a couple of ex players

Quote
Former Wales defender Neil Taylor has been added to Wales Under-21s backroom staff as assistant to boss Matty Jones.

Taylor played 43 times for Wales and featured in their surprising run to the semi-final stage of Euro 2016.

The ex-Aston Villa defender is working towards his Uefa pro licence with the Football Association of Wales (FAW).

"I'm delighted to have been given the chance to join the coaching team with this highly talented under-21s group," said Taylor.

"Having walked the path that the players are currently on during my playing days, I feel I can have a positive impact on their careers.

"I appreciate the opportunity that Matty has given me and now I can't wait to start working with the players and building towards the next qualifying campaign."

The 34-year-old former Wrexham and Swansea defender has been coaching Aston Villa's under-16s since his retirement in November 2022 and will be joined in Jones' backroom staff by former Wales goalkeeper Boaz Myhill.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on April 01, 2023, 03:07:56 PM
Rushian Hebburn-Murphy has scored for Swindon after 4 mins.

- Your Deputy Final Score Correspondent.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on April 01, 2023, 08:12:16 PM
Rushian Hebburn-Murphy has scored for Swindon after 4 mins.

- Your Deputy Final Score Correspondent.

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/12847702/rushian-hepbury-murphy-scores-a-flyer-for-swindon
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Lastfootstamper on April 21, 2023, 06:05:13 AM
I don't know if it counts as "still playing", but Robert Snodgrass has had his Hearts contract terminated. He'd played pretty regularly, however they've changed manager after a sticky patch and on the surface it seems the new guy doesn't fancy him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: LeeB on April 21, 2023, 07:36:50 AM
I don't know if it counts as "still playing", but Robert Snodgrass has had his Hearts contract terminated. He'd played pretty regularly, however they've changed manager after a sticky patch and on the surface it seems the new guy doesn't fancy him.

Jambo c***s
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on April 21, 2023, 05:30:28 PM
Weirdly, I only heard him mentioned on Final Score or something recently. Think he was sent off against St Mirren.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Lastfootstamper on April 21, 2023, 05:45:25 PM
I think that was his final outing for them.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Exeter 77 on May 08, 2023, 10:47:05 AM
Looks like Glenn Whelan no longer qualifies for this thread.
https://twitter.com/karen3403/status/1655230080065449986?t=ZGVFtugUmKJdW3MaOezqqw&s=19
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on May 08, 2023, 11:42:43 AM
Speaking of ex-players no longer playing, I was surprised to learn recently that Nigel Reo-Coker is still only 38.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: not3bad on May 08, 2023, 11:45:08 AM
Periluigi Gollini has won the Serie A title with Napoli five years after leaving Aston Villa.

The Italian goalkeeper has played a bit-part role under Luciano Spalletti in the second half of the season, after joining the club on loan in January from Atalanta. He was signed as a back-up to Napoli's first choice stopper Alex Meret, who kept his starting spot throughout the campaign.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-flop-signed-tony-26848678
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on May 08, 2023, 01:30:33 PM
Add him to Carson as one of our ex-alumni with a full trophy cabinet for doing bugger-all.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: LeeB on May 08, 2023, 01:48:38 PM
Add him to Carson as one of our ex-alumni with a full trophy cabinet for doing bugger-all.

Stu Taylor is the king of that group, he eats first.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on May 08, 2023, 01:50:20 PM
Supposedly Carson is close to Ederson and is thought to be a big help to him, which is a big reason they keep extending his contract. Being a home grown player probably helps as well.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: LeeB on May 08, 2023, 01:55:07 PM
Supposedly Carson is close to Ederson and is thought to be a big help to him, which is a big reason they keep extending his contract. Being a home grown player probably helps as well.

Think this is often the role of the back up keepers these days, almost a part coach, part training assistant fir the first choice guy
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithe on May 11, 2023, 08:12:51 AM
Dan Crowley released on a free by Morecambe.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on May 12, 2023, 11:23:35 AM
Dan Crowley released on a free by Morecambe.

With a start he was awoken from the middle of a dream
He's making movies in his head that never will be seen
He's holding Oscars in his hands and kissing beauty queens
What might have been, what might have been
When we were young
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on May 12, 2023, 11:25:49 AM
I wonder if that bloke who threw a tantrum on here when we wished him all the worst is still stalking him?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on May 12, 2023, 02:09:10 PM
With a start he was awoken from the middle of a dream
He's making movies in his head that never will be seen
He's holding Oscars in his hands and kissing beauty queens
What might have been, what might have been
When we were young

Adele?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on May 12, 2023, 02:19:41 PM
With a start he was awoken from the middle of a dream
He's making movies in his head that never will be seen
He's holding Oscars in his hands and kissing beauty queens
What might have been, what might have been
When we were young

Adele?

Fernando Daniel.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on May 12, 2023, 02:35:26 PM
Looks like Glenn Whelan no longer qualifies for this thread.
https://twitter.com/karen3403/status/1655230080065449986?t=ZGVFtugUmKJdW3MaOezqqw&s=19

Finished his career by becoming Bristol Rovers' oldest player
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on May 12, 2023, 05:46:19 PM
With a start he was awoken from the middle of a dream
He's making movies in his head that never will be seen
He's holding Oscars in his hands and kissing beauty queens
What might have been, what might have been
When we were young

Adele?

Fearghal McKee! God love him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: algy on May 24, 2023, 07:12:44 AM
Andre Green has won a second Slovakian league title with Slovan Bratislava

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/former-aston-villa-man-continues-26971593
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on May 24, 2023, 01:03:26 PM
Good man Andre.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: not3bad on June 22, 2023, 11:28:50 AM
Borja Baston anyone? I have to admit I can't remember Villa signing this guy.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/aston-villa-striker-dean-smith-26590463
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 22, 2023, 04:37:49 PM
Future superstar Dan Crowley is continuing his quest for the Ballon d'Or by signing for 4th division Notts County.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on July 05, 2023, 06:41:43 PM
Enda Stevens has been released by Sheffield United and joined Stoke. Hasn't had a bad career all things considered.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on July 05, 2023, 11:30:08 PM
Indeed. Each time I think it's the enda the road for him, he manages to find a new path.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on July 05, 2023, 11:33:59 PM
Indeed. Each time I think it's the enda the road for him, he manages to find a new path.

Not for nothing is his nickname 'Nissan' in football circles.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Hookeysmith on July 06, 2023, 03:02:38 PM
Indeed. Each time I think it's the enda the road for him, he manages to find a new path.

Not for nothing is his nickname 'Nissan' in football circles.

**Scratches head**
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: not3bad on July 11, 2023, 01:42:40 PM
They honed their skills playing Gaelic football, they are Solihull lads who grew up at local club Aston Villa and both are natural entertainers who can bring a crowd to its feet.

Jack Grealish and Callum O'Hare competed as youngsters in the GAA leagues in the Birmingham area before joining Villa as teenagers. The players remain in contact and share family connections.

Grealish's career has rocketed since then to the degree he is now one of Britain's most recognisable footballers but having turned 25 only in May, O'Hare still has time on his side. Grealish did not establish himself in the Premier League until his mid-twenties, sealing his £100million transfer to Manchester City a month before his 26th birthday.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12284967/Jack-Grealishs-friend-Callum-OHare-hoping-hes-got-takes-Coventry.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailsport
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on July 20, 2023, 08:13:08 PM
Daniel Johnson gone to Stoke City.
Superb championship player
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on July 20, 2023, 08:28:41 PM
Formwr Villa striker Samatta has moved to Paok in Greece.
Great header in the League Cup final and good luck to him
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Drummond on July 24, 2023, 10:06:25 AM
Ross McCormack has signed for non-league Liversedge FC.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on July 24, 2023, 11:39:44 AM
Ross McCormack has signed for non-league Liversedge FC.

Seems apt with his drinking.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on July 24, 2023, 11:40:51 AM
Indeed. Each time I think it's the enda the road for him, he manages to find a new path.

Not for nothing is his nickname 'Nissan' in football circles.

**Scratches head**

Pathfinder.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Hookeysmith on July 24, 2023, 01:47:00 PM
Thanks but that is a bit shit as far as nick names go  ???
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on July 24, 2023, 02:01:21 PM
Thanks but that is a bit shit as far as nick names go  ???

It's definitely not up there with 'One Size'.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Footy-Vill on July 26, 2023, 06:32:21 AM
Brad Guzan is still the keeper for Atlanta who lost cup match to Inter Miami 4-0. Goat Messi scoring twice early on.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithe on July 26, 2023, 11:12:40 AM
Andre Green has won a second Slovakian league title with Slovan Bratislava

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/former-aston-villa-man-continues-26971593

Scored as a triallist for Rotherham United last night.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Drummond on July 26, 2023, 12:35:46 PM
Brad Guzan is still the keeper for Atlanta who lost cup match to Inter Miami 4-0. Goat Messi scoring twice early on.

Is that Lionel's lesser known sibling?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Mister E on July 26, 2023, 03:37:48 PM
Brad Guzan is still the keeper for Atlanta who lost cup match to Inter Miami 4-0. Goat Messi scoring twice early on.
Is that Lionel's lesser known sibling?
No, you're thinking of Shaun.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Drummond on July 26, 2023, 03:46:21 PM
I can't be, I've never heard of Shaun Messi either!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: rooboy316 on July 27, 2023, 04:26:36 AM
Wasn’t Shaun the sheep?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Mister E on July 27, 2023, 07:17:06 AM
Wasn’t Shaun the sheep?
Wasn't Shaun the Goater?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: adrenachrome on July 27, 2023, 04:53:23 PM
Wasn’t Shaun the sheep?
Wasn't Shaun the Goater?

Yeah. Citeh fans used to chant "feed the goat" or some such.

He's an MBE it seems.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on July 27, 2023, 06:43:06 PM
Saw this today:

'Easah Suliman, the 25-year-old former Villa centre-back, terminated the contract that linked him to Vitória de Guimarães and headed to Sumqayit, the Azerbaijani team announced on Tuesday. 
The defender, formed at Aston Villa, arrived at Guimarães in January 2020, but never managed to impose himself, not going beyond 18 games in a season and a half.  The international for Pakistan was later loaned to Nacional [15 games in 2021/2022] and Vilafranquense [18 games in 2022/2023].
He now says goodbye to Vitória to embrace a new challenge.'
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on July 27, 2023, 06:51:48 PM
I can't be, I've never heard of Shaun Messi either!

Shaun translates to Juan in Spanish, you must at least have heard the chant.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Drummond on July 28, 2023, 06:47:37 AM
I can't be, I've never heard of Shaun Messi either!

Shaun translates to Juan in Spanish, you must at least have heard the chant.

Oh Shaun Kerr!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: rooboy316 on July 28, 2023, 01:47:14 PM
I can't be, I've never heard of Shaun Messi either!

Shaun translates to Juan in Spanish, you must at least have heard the chant.

Oh Shaun Kerr!

Yes, that can get Messi.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Hookeysmith on July 28, 2023, 02:39:17 PM
Saw this today:

'Easah Suliman, the 25-year-old former Villa centre-back, terminated the contract that linked him to Vitória de Guimarães and headed to Sumqayit, the Azerbaijani team announced on Tuesday. 
The defender, formed at Aston Villa, arrived at Guimarães in January 2020, but never managed to impose himself, not going beyond 18 games in a season and a half.  The international for Pakistan was later loaned to Nacional [15 games in 2021/2022] and Vilafranquense [18 games in 2022/2023].
He now says goodbye to Vitória to embrace a new challenge.'

Bloody hell that is what you would call a football journeyman - starting a new life in Azerbaijan  - not sure if it would excite or terrify me?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on July 28, 2023, 02:45:43 PM
Saw this today:

'Easah Suliman, the 25-year-old former Villa centre-back, terminated the contract that linked him to Vitória de Guimarães and headed to Sumqayit, the Azerbaijani team announced on Tuesday. 
The defender, formed at Aston Villa, arrived at Guimarães in January 2020, but never managed to impose himself, not going beyond 18 games in a season and a half.  The international for Pakistan was later loaned to Nacional [15 games in 2021/2022] and Vilafranquense [18 games in 2022/2023].
He now says goodbye to Vitória to embrace a new challenge.'

Bloody hell that is what you would call a football journeyman - starting a new life in Azerbaijan  - not sure if it would excite or terrify me?

Just because it's pedantry Friday, journeyman means you are reliable and qualified, but not outstanding - not that you move around.

Not saying that Suliman isn't a journeyman footballer. But you can be one of those and never change club. It's just coincidence that reliable, but not outstanding footballers are the type that might well move around a lot.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on July 28, 2023, 03:11:18 PM
Although as Wiki now says:

"In British English, a journeyman is a player who has represented many clubs over his career. Prime examples from association football are: German goalkeeper Lutz Pfannenstiel, who represented 27 clubs, and he is currently the only athlete to have played professionally in all six FIFA Confederations; Trevor Benjamin, who has represented 29 clubs since 1995; Drewe Broughton, who has made 18 transfers in his career; John Burridge, who played for 29 clubs in a career spanning almost 30 years; Jefferson Louis who, since the 1990s, has represented 34 clubs and Dominica once; his cousin Richard Pacquette who boasts 19 clubs and even international honours in 10 seasons; and Sebastián Abreu, who in 2017 broke the world record for most clubs played by a professional; as of 2021, at the age of 44, he is playing for the 31st club in his career.[20]

The term is also used in Australian English and New Zealand English in the same context, with the added idiom of "recycling" for the tendency for the clubs in the relatively small structure of Australian football to continually rotate the same experienced, professional, but generally unspectacular players around the league to fill gaps in the club squads. An example of such "recycling" is found with Antony Golec, who has played for 7 of the 12 current A-League clubs, never staying with one for more than 3 seasons in a row.[21]

The term is also used derogatorily, along with mercenary, to refer to players who join various affluent clubs purely in search of higher contractual payouts, clubs which they would likely never join otherwise.[22][23]

In contrast, players who represent the same club throughout their entire careers are called one-club men."

Which I appreciate is a move away from the original meaning, from the French for day "jour" so somebody who worked for a day rate rather than being a skilled artisan. But the word journey does at least make sense in that the players have often travelled widely, so I think it's an example of language developing over time and one that probably makes more sense now than the original definition.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on July 28, 2023, 03:17:31 PM
I'm all for language developing to help the user but this sort of example is one up with which I will not put.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Bad English on July 28, 2023, 04:52:20 PM
Churchillian!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on July 28, 2023, 05:23:39 PM
Surely us taking an original American phrase and changing it, is a suitable riposte to all the times they've mangled our language?!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on August 06, 2023, 02:56:42 PM
Jake Doyle-Hayes starts for Hibs in their season opener.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: FatSam on August 08, 2023, 10:55:22 PM
Wesley got his first goal for Stoke in their 2-1 EFL Cup win over West Brom this evening. Seems to have been put down as an own goal by the West Brom keeper in some reports.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: paul_e on August 08, 2023, 11:26:09 PM
Wesley got his first goal for Stoke in their 2-1 EFL Cup win over West Brom this evening. Seems to have been put down as an own goal by the West Brom keeper in some reports.

It was an own goal, Wes did really well to control, turn and get a shot away but it hit the post and went in off the keepers back.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on August 09, 2023, 01:58:27 AM
Good to see Wes doing well.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Hookeysmith on August 09, 2023, 01:10:40 PM
Really pleased for him - he has put on so much timber i hardly recognised him
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PaulWinch again on August 09, 2023, 01:50:02 PM
Andre has signed permanently for Rotherham I see.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: FatSam on August 09, 2023, 02:49:01 PM
Andre has signed permanently for Rotherham I see.
I’m a bit disappointed by that. I thought it was a really interesting career choice to go to Bratislava.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on August 09, 2023, 03:10:03 PM
Ross Barkley's signed for Luton
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dogtanian on August 09, 2023, 03:17:43 PM
The orange on orange look;

https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1689277295926595584?s=20 (https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1689277295926595584?s=20)
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: LeeB on August 09, 2023, 03:29:24 PM
The orange on orange look;

https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1689277295926595584?s=20 (https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1689277295926595584?s=20)

He'll get sent off for running up behind someone and smacking their chops
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dogtanian on August 09, 2023, 03:38:05 PM
The orange on orange look;

https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1689277295926595584?s=20 (https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1689277295926595584?s=20)

He'll get sent off for running up behind someone and smacking their chops

 ;D
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: The Man With A Stick on August 09, 2023, 04:10:07 PM
Quote
Hibernian forward Harry McKirdy has had successful heart surgery, with the club saying he "will be out for a significant period of time".

The Scot, 26, joined Hibs from Swindon last year and made 23 appearances in his debut season.

However, he has not featured since the Easter Road side's final game of last season.

"The club are confident that Harry will return to full fitness following his rehabilitation period," said Hibs.

"The club's medical department will continue to have open dialogue with his surgeon, and specialists, to ensure he continues to recover in this positive manner.

"McKirdy will be out for a significant period of time."

It would have been good to see him back here with Hibs in a few weeks, wish him all the best.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave shelley on August 09, 2023, 05:42:29 PM
It would have been good to see him back here with Hibs in a few weeks, wish him all the best.

Echo this.  Get well soon Harry.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave shelley on August 09, 2023, 05:44:17 PM
The orange on orange look;

https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1689277295926595584?s=20 (https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1689277295926595584?s=20)

He'll get sent off for running up behind someone and smacking their chops

Looks like he's been working in a chip shop in the Black Country flogging orange chips...and eating 'em.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on August 11, 2023, 04:30:21 PM
Ludwig Augustinsson off to Anderlecht. https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1689988993419452417

Another one to cross off the list. :(
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: The Man With A Stick on August 11, 2023, 04:41:00 PM
Ludwig Augustinsson off to Anderlecht. https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1689988993419452417

Another one to cross off the list. :(

It's just mad to think he was one of our options less than 12 months ago.  What a turnaround.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on August 11, 2023, 04:58:38 PM
He was a bit Blose. God, I hope we're a top-four team/aspirant forevermore so we don't have to waste our lives cheering on dross like him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: algy on August 25, 2023, 12:53:07 PM
Ruben Shakpoke's career has taken a nosedive - he's now at Albion.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66614194
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on August 30, 2023, 08:25:37 PM
Archer making his debut for Sheff Utd tonight against Lincoln.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on August 30, 2023, 08:33:05 PM
On a less happy note, I see Brad Young is still without a club. Had a trial with Exeter City last month but they didn't offer him a contract.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PaulTheVillan on August 30, 2023, 09:09:48 PM
Archer taken off after 63. Uneventful evening by the looks of it.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Drummond on August 31, 2023, 12:01:23 AM
From BBC Sport

"Cameron Archer - making his debut after signing from Aston Villa for £18m - twice called Jensen into action after half-time as part of an energetic display that stood out in a flat United performance which leaves them still seeking a first win after four games of the season."
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: FatSam on September 02, 2023, 02:41:56 PM
Decent Sheffield Utd EPL debut for Archer; POTM, goal and assist.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: RamboandBruno on September 02, 2023, 02:48:29 PM
James Chester gone to Barrow
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on September 02, 2023, 03:01:57 PM
Decent Sheffield Utd EPL debut for Archer; POTM, goal and assist.

The season long loan, as that's pretty much what it is, will be great experience for him. He'll be back in June as Sheff Utd will be relegated.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: maidstonevillain on September 02, 2023, 03:35:00 PM
Plymouth 1 up. Azaz.

Kesler-Hayden also starts.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: KNVillan on September 03, 2023, 12:03:49 PM
Former U21 player Brad Young has signed for The New Saints

https://x.com/tnsfc/status/1697990185328230716?s=61&t=0hDYp8sAC4KCDeo1iQp4OQ

(Courtesy of @academyavfc)
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Risso on September 03, 2023, 12:18:57 PM
Blimey that's a fair old plummet down the leagues.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dave.woodhall on September 03, 2023, 12:27:42 PM
And he was one of the most promising.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: UK Redsox on September 04, 2023, 09:21:10 PM
Harvey Knibbs currently live on Sky playing for Reading at Cambridge
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on September 09, 2023, 07:24:22 AM
Axel Tuanzebe's signed for Ipswich.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: KNVillan on September 09, 2023, 06:34:49 PM
Brad Young scored his first goal for The New Saints

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66758002
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: FatSam on September 12, 2023, 04:48:32 PM
Keinan Davis starting how he means to go on:

Opinion: News emerging from Italy suggests Hull and Swansea may have dodged a bullet with unsuccessful Aston Villa transfer chase (https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/opinion-news-emerging-from-italy-suggests-hull-and-swansea-may-have-dodged-a-bullet-with-unsuccessful-aston-villa-transfer-chase/)

Quote from: Football League World
BY TOBY WILDING
PUBLISHED 10 HOURS AGO
The Championship duo missed out on signing a striker from Villa in the summer

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Both Hull City and Swansea City missed out on signing Keinan Davis from Aston Villa during the transfer window.
  • Recent reports indicate that Davis had suffered a potentially serious calf injury before even making his debut for Udinese.
  • This injury could have sidelined Davis until November, potentially delaying his impact on the pitch and making integration into a new team more difficult.

It is the nature of the transfer market that no club is ever going to sign every single player they are linked with or move for during any one window. With clubs often looking to strengthen in the same areas of the pitch, certain players will inevitably attract attention from multiple clubs, all of whom are keen to bring that individual in to do the same job for their respective sides. That, of course, means that all clubs will likely have to deal with some form of disappointment over the course of the summer or January window, as they miss out on a potentially important target. It is, of course, interesting to see whether that actually translates into disappointment as a result of what a missed target may or may not do on the pitch for the club they either stay with or sign for instead, once a window closes. While in some cases, that can rub salt into the wounds of those that missed out, in others, things can quickly start to look as though those that failed to make the signing, may in fact have dodged a bullet. Now it seems that for Hull City and Swansea City, when it comes to one player the Championship duo missed out on over the summer, the early signs are that it may in fact have been a bullet dodged.

Where is Keinan Davis playing his football?
As ever, centre forwards were high on the agenda for the vast majority of clubs over the course of the transfer window, and for Hull and Swansea, that led them to the same target from Aston Villa. Both sides were linked with the signing of Keinan Davis from Villa during the summer, with Hull boss Liam Rosenior even admitting he was confident of signing the centre forward at one point. Swansea, meanwhile, were also reported to have held talks with Villa about the potential signing of the 25-year-old. Ultimately though, both Championship clubs would be unsuccessful in their attempts to sign Davis, with the striker instead heading to Italy, joining Serie A side Udinese on the final day of the window for an undisclosed fee, signing a four-year contract.

With both Hull and Swansea seeing their top scorers from last season, Oscar Estupinan and Joel Piroe respectively, depart over the course of the summer transfer window, missing out on the additional firepower that Davis would have provided them late in the window, initially looked like being something of a blow for these sides. Now, however, the latest reports coming out of Udinese and Italy could arguably suggest that, for now at least, the Championship duo may have dodged a bullet by not agreeing a deal with Villa for the striker.

Keinan Davis injury latest
According to reports from Italian outlet Il Messaggero Veneto, Davis has now suffered a potentially serious calf injury, before he even made his debut for Udinese. It is therefore thought that the centre forward may now be absent until around November, meaning had he signed for one of those Championship sides, they would have had to wait for quite some time to get a return on their investment, with a fee of £2million having been suggested as the asking price for the centre forward. That, of course, would also have meant they were missing out on actually gaining anything from the signing on the pitch for quite some time, and being out for so long after a move, could make it harder to integrate Davis midway through a season, when he is coming into a side already up to full speed and in a particular rythym.

Admittedly, there may be some argument that he would not have suffered this injury had he joined Hull or Swansea, rather than Udinese. However, the report does go on to point out that even without the injury, Davis was apparently still not in a good condition physically when he made the move to Italy, and would likely have been out of action for some time regardless. Such an issue is not something that would have changed with a move to one of these Championship sides, meaning there would always have been an element of waiting around for him, had they got a deal done.

Given the risk that would have added to a signing that was evidently not the cheapest for clubs at Championship level, and the fact it would have provided a significant delay to any potential on-field impact, it seems that in the end, missing out on Davis may not have been the worst thing to happen to Hull and Swansea, over the course of the summer transfer window.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on September 12, 2023, 06:34:01 PM
Fuck me, if ever an article could do with shortening...!

Hard to fathom that Keinan's body keeps failing him. I'd be surprised if he hasn't retired by 30.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: OCD on September 13, 2023, 11:09:48 AM
I just read the highlights. Presumably their medical team needed a new signing to work on.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Matt C on October 02, 2023, 12:23:17 AM
Steven Davis in interim charge of Rangers makes me feel old.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on October 11, 2023, 06:46:56 PM
Curtis Davies is set to make his full international debut aged 38, for Sierra Leone.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on October 12, 2023, 02:11:42 AM
Good luck to him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: FatSam on October 12, 2023, 11:10:09 PM
Philogene scores 2 on debut for England U21s
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on October 13, 2023, 12:08:41 AM
Steven Davis in interim charge of Rangers makes me feel old.

Chesney off of Corrie you mean.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on October 13, 2023, 12:09:12 AM
Philogene scores 2 on debut for England U21s

Buy him back when we get shot of Zaniolo.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PaulTheVillan on October 13, 2023, 08:52:56 AM
Philogene scores 2 on debut for England U21s
That's it. Huge outcry incoming that we shouldn't have sold him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: OCD on October 13, 2023, 10:57:44 AM
Philogene scores 2 on debut for England U21s

And had an assist.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on October 17, 2023, 08:59:09 PM
Quote
Dutch winger Anwar El Ghazi has been suspended from training and games by his club side Mainz for a social media post about the Israel-Gaza conflict.

The 28-year-old has since deleted the post which his club felt was "unacceptable".

Bundesliga club Mainz said El Ghazi "took a position on the ongoing conflict in the Middle East that was deemed unacceptable by the club".

Former Aston Villa and Everton winger El Ghazi joined Mainz in the summer.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: AV84 on October 17, 2023, 09:10:33 PM
Some really embarrassing behaviour from clubs this past week.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ChicagoLion on October 18, 2023, 04:48:29 AM
Some really embarrassing behaviour from clubs this past week.
As soon as you start mixing sport and politics you get in all sorts of trouble.
Same with England and the Wembley Arch rubbish, they did if for Ukraine, why not Israel ? The answer is to not comment on political events.
I know that is difficult but it’s not up to sports people to get involved as much as we might sympathise with their position.
The alternative is a free for all and chaos.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: AV84 on October 18, 2023, 05:05:05 PM
Some really embarrassing behaviour from clubs this past week.
As soon as you start mixing sport and politics you get in all sorts of trouble.
Same with England and the Wembley Arch rubbish, they did if for Ukraine, why not Israel ? The answer is to not comment on political events.
I know that is difficult but it’s not up to sports people to get involved as much as we might sympathise with their position.
The alternative is a free for all and chaos.

A club banning a player because he expressed his support for an oppressed people is a bigger political statement than the player making the statement in the first place.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on October 19, 2023, 02:25:08 AM
Correct.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ChicagoLion on October 19, 2023, 06:42:25 AM
Some really embarrassing behaviour from clubs this past week.
As soon as you start mixing sport and politics you get in all sorts of trouble.
Same with England and the Wembley Arch rubbish, they did if for Ukraine, why not Israel ? The answer is to not comment on political events.
I know that is difficult but it’s not up to sports people to get involved as much as we might sympathise with their position.
The alternative is a free for all and chaos.

A club banning a player because he expressed his support for an oppressed people is a bigger political statement than the player making the statement in the first place.
It puts the club in an invidious position.
This is the point I am making, if the club let it go then you have a free for all,next you will have demonstrators turning up factions inside and outside the club, chaos.

 
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PaulTheVillan on October 23, 2023, 05:24:01 PM
Andre Green out for the rest of the season. 
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on October 24, 2023, 12:57:38 AM
What's happened to him, Paul?
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithesShin on October 24, 2023, 01:05:54 AM
Ruptured his achilles tendon during training.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on October 24, 2023, 01:52:20 AM
Bloody hell!!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PaulTheVillan on October 24, 2023, 08:14:19 AM
What's happened to him, Paul?
Yep, as other said. A bad one.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: ez on October 24, 2023, 04:47:53 PM
Danny Ings came on as a substitute for West ham on Sunday. Don't think he touched the ball.
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Post by: GordonCowansisthegreatest on October 24, 2023, 05:33:49 PM
What's new?
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Post by: Villa in Denmark on October 24, 2023, 08:20:41 PM
Just noticed the hero of Sheffield Utd, Ørjan Nyland is playing for Sevilla against Arsenal.
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Post by: Dave on October 24, 2023, 08:38:32 PM
Yup, slid down the table after he left us, then massively fell upwards and spent last year at Leipzig and now at Sevilla.
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Post by: LeeB on October 24, 2023, 08:40:57 PM
It's tighter than I'd be comfortable with but I'd have him over Olsen.
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Post by: LeeB on October 24, 2023, 08:41:40 PM
Sorry, to add, if they were the last two keepers on earth.
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Post by: Hillbilly on October 27, 2023, 01:16:57 PM
We can remove Villa legend Michael Bradley from this list. Just retired from Toronto FC. How will we ever forget his contribution to the McLeish glory years?
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Post by: danno on October 27, 2023, 01:28:26 PM
We can remove Villa legend Michael Bradley from this list. Just retired from Toronto FC. How will we ever forget his contribution to the McLeish glory years?

He was here for five months on a loan deal which ended before Mcleish was appointed so...
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Post by: Dave P on October 27, 2023, 01:40:07 PM
We can remove Villa legend Michael Bradley from this list. Just retired from Toronto FC. How will we ever forget his contribution to the McLeish glory years?

He was here for five months on a loan deal which ended before Mcleish was appointed so...

Yep, he was a Houllier signing.  In the same window as Jean "Jumper" Makoun II.
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Post by: UK Redsox on October 27, 2023, 02:01:09 PM
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Dutch winger Anwar El Ghazi has been suspended from training and games by his club side Mainz for a social media post about the Israel-Gaza conflict.

The 28-year-old has since deleted the post which his club felt was "unacceptable".

Bundesliga club Mainz said El Ghazi "took a position on the ongoing conflict in the Middle East that was deemed unacceptable by the club".

Former Aston Villa and Everton winger El Ghazi joined Mainz in the summer.

Mainz have now sacked AEG

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67232925
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Post by: PeterWithesShin on October 27, 2023, 02:10:27 PM
Whether you agree with what he said or not, he stuck to it and refused to do an apology he didn't believe in. He put what he believes in over a couple of years of what i'd imagine are decent wages. Unlike Lickspittle Henderson.
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Post by: Risso on October 27, 2023, 02:15:21 PM
Was it not the "River to the Sea" comment that got him in trouble?
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Post by: AV84 on October 27, 2023, 02:26:18 PM
Was it not the "River to the Sea" comment that got him in trouble?

That slogan has been used for decades and has had many different associations in that time. I do think that's the line that got him in trouble, but the assumptions that it's antisemitic, or solely used for supporting Hamas, are incorrect.
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Post by: Risso on October 27, 2023, 03:21:29 PM
Well that's the association these days, so in saying it, he's an idiot and only has himself to blame.
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Post by: AV84 on October 27, 2023, 03:27:53 PM
Well that's the association these days, so in saying it, he's an idiot and only has himself to blame.

No, it's not. Not everyone makes that association. As you can see at the various marches in support of Palestine where it's chanted, by people who aren't calling for the Jewish people to be wiped out, or for Hamas to launch a few more terrorist attacks.

There was another footballer who actually posted something antisemitic, and if he had used the phrase then I would think the assumption would hold some weight. AEG's post was clear and concise and factually accurate, so the assumption that he wants to wipe out all Jewish people or supports terrorist activities is a stupid one, and says more about the people making it than it does about the man himself.
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Post by: Risso on October 27, 2023, 03:37:00 PM
Well that's the association these days, so in saying it, he's an idiot and only has himself to blame.

No, it's not. Not everyone makes that association. As you can see at the various marches in support of Palestine where it's chanted, by people who aren't calling for the Jewish people to be wiped out, or for Hamas to launch a few more terrorist attacks.

There was another footballer who actually posted something antisemitic, and if he had used the phrase then I would think the assumption would hold some weight. AEG's post was clear and concise and factually accurate, so the assumption that he wants to wipe out all Jewish people or supports terrorist activities is a stupid one, and says more about the people making it than it does about the man himself.

I'm not sure you've really understood the meaning. What river and sea do you think they're talking about, and which bit of land is inbetween?
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Post by: AV84 on October 27, 2023, 05:23:30 PM
Well that's the association these days, so in saying it, he's an idiot and only has himself to blame.

No, it's not. Not everyone makes that association. As you can see at the various marches in support of Palestine where it's chanted, by people who aren't calling for the Jewish people to be wiped out, or for Hamas to launch a few more terrorist attacks.

There was another footballer who actually posted something antisemitic, and if he had used the phrase then I would think the assumption would hold some weight. AEG's post was clear and concise and factually accurate, so the assumption that he wants to wipe out all Jewish people or supports terrorist activities is a stupid one, and says more about the people making it than it does about the man himself.

I'm not sure you've really understood the meaning. What river and sea do you think they're talking about, and which bit of land is inbetween?

I think you've wilfully misunderstood the entire situation, and my posts, if you think my geography knowledge is what needs questioning.
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Post by: FatSam on October 27, 2023, 09:00:39 PM
Sorry, to add, if they were the last two keepers on earth.
I’d definitely take Nyland with this team. His distribution was always pretty good. He’s another keeper though who has played very few games by the age of 33, so it’s difficult to know how good he actually is.
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Post by: Hillbilly on October 27, 2023, 09:41:48 PM
We can remove Villa legend Michael Bradley from this list. Just retired from Toronto FC. How will we ever forget his contribution to the McLeish glory years?

He was here for five months on a loan deal which ended before Mcleish was appointed so...
You’re no fun.
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Post by: Brazilian Villain on October 28, 2023, 04:40:38 PM
Philogene has scored for Hull.
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Post by: Percy McCarthy on October 28, 2023, 06:56:45 PM
Philogene has scored for Hull.

Great goal as well, probably better than his one in the week. He’s coming back, even if it’s just so we can make more money on him.
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Post by: dcdavecollett on October 28, 2023, 08:11:37 PM
I think that bit 'between the river and the sea' is probably large chunks of the country they used to live in before someone took it from them and put them in an open air prison camp for sixteen years
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Post by: Footy-Vill on October 28, 2023, 08:34:45 PM
Philogene has scored for Hull.

Great goal as well, probably better than his one in the week. He’s coming back, even if it’s just so we can make more money on him.

Certainly performing well in Championship and had a great pre season.
Don't think it wa Monchi best decisions to sell and replace him.

I look forward to his return
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Post by: Lastfootstamper on October 28, 2023, 08:35:47 PM
Jordan Bowery scored for Mansfield against Walsall today. It would appear that these days he's a right back.
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Post by: Footy-Vill on October 28, 2023, 08:37:29 PM
I was just posting same! Jordan Bowery scored winner for  Nigel Cloughs Mansfield.
Unbeaten in all competitions this season.
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Post by: pauliewalnuts on October 28, 2023, 08:49:30 PM
Philogene has scored for Hull.

Great goal as well, probably better than his one in the week. He’s coming back, even if it’s just so we can make more money on him.

Apparently the clause kicks off when we and they are in the same league - ie they get promoted, obvs - and we have first refusal at 15m.
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Post by: Percy McCarthy on October 29, 2023, 12:48:55 AM
^^ Interesting stuff paulie, thanks.
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Post by: Mossie Hennebry on October 30, 2023, 08:15:13 AM
I see Keinan turned up on Udinese's bench yesterday. What? When? How?
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Post by: Brazilian Villain on October 30, 2023, 09:23:22 AM
I see Keinan turned up on Udinese's bench yesterday. What? When? How?

Are you surprised he's at Udinese, or that he's recovered from this injury so quickly?
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Post by: Drummond on October 30, 2023, 09:25:52 AM
Danny Drinkwater now not available for this thread any more.
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Post by: Risso on October 30, 2023, 09:30:48 AM
Danny Drinkwater now not available for this thread any more.

Good. The biggest tosser to ever play for us and one of the worst transfer decisions in our history. Utter twat of a person.
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Post by: RamboandBruno on October 30, 2023, 11:14:53 AM
Danny Drinkwater now not available for this thread any more.

Good. The biggest tosser to ever play for us and one of the worst transfer decisions in our history. Utter twat of a person.
Headbutting little Jota, do you imagine!!
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Post by: Exeter 77 on October 30, 2023, 11:18:01 AM
Danny Drinkwater now not available for this thread any more.

Good. The biggest tosser to ever play for us.
There's been a lot of competition in that award category.
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Post by: Risso on October 30, 2023, 11:39:52 AM
And he wins it, comfortably.
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Post by: AV82EC on October 30, 2023, 12:43:59 PM
And he wins it, comfortably.

Yep, useless on the pitch and a total ****** off it.
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Post by: OCD on October 30, 2023, 12:53:43 PM
Drinkwater talking about his time with us -

“That’s one club I wish went different, Villa. From the moment I walked in it surprised me. It felt almost similar to Leicester, so I was like come on.

“Finally a club where I feel like I can kick on a bit. The manager was Dean Smith at the time, he chucked me straight in, but I was nowhere near ready.

“I was miles off it to be honest. Debut was stinking. Two of three games later I was still stinking.

“I was out of games for a year and a half so the speed felt way too quick.

“I was thinking it’s got away from me here, so I ended up doing way too much physical work than what I should be doing.”
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Post by: Hookeysmith on October 30, 2023, 01:39:53 PM
Thats a pretty honest appraisal of him self

Fair play to any man that knows when he is beat.
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Post by: Chico Hamilton III on October 30, 2023, 02:40:09 PM
We were paying him £110k per week…..
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Post by: PeterWithesShin on November 10, 2023, 03:11:37 PM
Matt Lowton joined Witton Albion a few days ago.
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Post by: The Moose on November 10, 2023, 09:22:47 PM
Samatta scored for PAOK
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Post by: RamboandBruno on November 11, 2023, 10:35:01 AM
Matt Lowton joined Witton Albion a few days ago.

He was at Burnley playing the premier league literally two years, thats a fairly dramatic drop down the divisions via Huddersfield.
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Post by: dave.woodhall on November 11, 2023, 10:38:15 AM
Matt Lowton joined Witton Albion a few days ago.

He was at Burnley playing the premier league literally two years, thats a fairly dramatic drop down the divisions via Huddersfield.

Maybe he's decided to retire and just fancies playing for fun.
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Post by: Virgil Caine on November 12, 2023, 07:57:46 AM
Probably the wrong place to ask this so apologies in advance but is Kortney Hause on loan somewhere/long term injured/retired?
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Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on November 12, 2023, 08:36:45 AM
Probably the wrong place to ask this so apologies in advance but is Kortney Hause on loan somewhere/long term injured/retired?

Long term knee injury sustained during unsuccessful loan spell at Watford a year ago. Contracted to us until 2025.
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Post by: Hookeysmith on November 12, 2023, 08:57:50 AM
Have they put him on gardening leave as never seen him in any training pics
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Post by: Brazilian Villain on November 12, 2023, 02:08:44 PM
Have they put him on gardening leave as never seen him in any training pics

He's under Hause arrest.

I'll get my coat.
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Post by: VillaTim on November 13, 2023, 01:47:02 PM
Stan Collymore appears to have had a turbulent few days on twatter. Seems to be intent on taking everyone on again
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Post by: dr.chekov on November 13, 2023, 01:54:10 PM
Take everyone on about what?
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Post by: Hookeysmith on November 13, 2023, 02:01:47 PM
Last time i saw him in the flesh he did not look well although he had lost a lot of weight which did not help
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Post by: eamonn on November 13, 2023, 02:26:04 PM
Hard to disagree with his tweet yesterday about twatters questioning his "Britishness".
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Post by: dcdavecollett on November 14, 2023, 01:30:05 AM
I take it twatters is code for racist *****?
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Post by: frank black on November 14, 2023, 07:47:15 AM
Last time i saw him in the flesh he did not look well although he had lost a lot of weight which did not help

He was in the Sacred heart pre match on Sunday, looked well.
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Post by: Risso on November 14, 2023, 09:15:28 AM
Last time i saw him in the flesh he did not look well although he had lost a lot of weight which did not help

He put a video on Twitter of him training in the gym a couple of weeks to show how much weight he'd lost. I wish I looked half that unwell!
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Post by: AV82EC on November 14, 2023, 10:46:12 AM
Last time i saw him in the flesh he did not look well although he had lost a lot of weight which did not help

He put a video on Twitter of him training in the gym a couple of weeks to show how much weight he'd lost. I wish I looked half that unwell!

Stan C does some insane cardio workouts on the running machine, which as well as for fitness are for his mental health. He does have a tendency to lose it on X sometimes and he’d be better staying off it.
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Post by: Dave on November 14, 2023, 10:23:06 PM
According to the BBC lineups (which I appreciate can be nonsense) Conor Hourihane was Derby's sole defensive midfielder as they went out of the FA Cup to Crewe.

If they're close to being right with their formation, I think I can guess why Crewe scored three times.
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Post by: PeterWithe on November 15, 2023, 04:13:55 PM
'Player' might be pushing it but ex Villa.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12752313/Former-Premier-League-striker-JAILED-year-failing-pay-70-000-alimony-Miss-Croatia-ex-wife-support-three-children.html
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Post by: AV84 on November 15, 2023, 04:26:26 PM
El Ghazi is taking legal action against Mainz

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/67338002 (https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/67338002)

He's also received abusive messages and death threats on social media, some of which have come from the UK.

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Meanwhile, BBC Sport has seen a spate of abusive messages sent to the 28-year-old on social media, a number of which include death threats against the player and his family, as well as referring him to as a "terrorist".

Some of the abusive messages appear to be from accounts in the United Kingdom and have been passed on to the UK Football Policing Unit to investigate.
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Post by: adrenachrome on November 15, 2023, 06:05:42 PM
https://twitter.com/Conradreturns_7/status/1724837628275491287
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Post by: AV84 on November 15, 2023, 06:07:28 PM
https://twitter.com/Conradreturns_7/status/1724837628275491287

Reverse tapping up. "Any games lads?"
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Post by: eamonn on November 15, 2023, 07:41:06 PM
Never mind Stanley Victor, anyone know how Jools Joachim is keeping fit this autumn? I bet its even more impressive. He'd play football til the day he dies, that lad, if he could.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Joachim
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Post by: AV82EC on November 15, 2023, 07:53:34 PM
Never mind Stanley Victor, anyone know how Jools Joachim is keeping fit this autumn? I bet its even more impressive. He'd play football til the day he dies, that lad, if he could.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Joachim

What really stood out in that was scoring 5 goals in 7 games for Montpelier only 7 years ago at the age of …….43. Wtf!
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Post by: UK Redsox on November 15, 2023, 08:26:05 PM
Corey Blackett-Taylor playing for Charlton tonight in the FA Cup local derby replay against Cray Valley

EDIT…well, he was. Subbed at HT
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on November 15, 2023, 08:43:00 PM
Never mind Stanley Victor, anyone know how Jools Joachim is keeping fit this autumn? I bet its even more impressive. He'd play football til the day he dies, that lad, if he could.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Joachim

What really stood out in that was scoring 5 goals in 7 games for Montpelier only 7 years ago at the age of …….43. Wtf!

It's not *that* Montpellier though.
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Post by: Beard82 on November 15, 2023, 09:04:36 PM
Never mind Stanley Victor, anyone know how Jools Joachim is keeping fit this autumn? I bet its even more impressive. He'd play football til the day he dies, that lad, if he could.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Joachim

What really stood out in that was scoring 5 goals in 7 games for Montpelier only 7 years ago at the age of …….43. Wtf!

It's not *that* Montpellier though.
Did anyone else look at that and think "what the f*ck is going on with his hair"
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Post by: Dave on November 15, 2023, 09:47:34 PM
He looks like the leader of a gang of raiders who someone like Tom Hardy or Gerard Butler has to kill in a film set in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles.
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Post by: Beard82 on November 15, 2023, 09:55:43 PM
Exactly that.  Highly successful career, and wiki choose a photo of him with a bog brush behind him
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Post by: eamonn on November 15, 2023, 10:22:42 PM
I just think he's an inspiration to us all.
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Post by: KNVillan on November 16, 2023, 12:43:29 PM
Probably the wrong place to ask this so apologies in advance but is Kortney Hause on loan somewhere/long term injured/retired?

There was this piece in The Athletic by Jacob Tanswell

https://twitter.com/J_Tanswell/status/1725063125387411921?t=IKdA0klRp79hBnMGlJCNjQ&s=19

https://archive.ph/wKf0a


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Post by: nigel on November 19, 2023, 07:04:53 PM
Is that our former player Brad Young playing for New Saints in the Welsh Premiership?
Doing well if it is.
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Post by: Exeter 77 on November 19, 2023, 07:11:12 PM
Is that our former player Brad Young playing for New Saints in the Welsh Premiership?
Doing well if it is.
It is. I’m surprised he couldn't find a club at a higher level though.
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Post by: dcdavecollett on November 19, 2023, 08:22:02 PM
He had a trial at Exeter City but they didn't offer him a contract.
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Post by: Pat McMahon on November 19, 2023, 08:34:29 PM
IIRC he didn’t impress at Ayr either.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on November 19, 2023, 11:07:44 PM
On a bored Wikipedia trawl, Janoi Donacien who was one of that "might be our next central defensive colossus when Zat Knight packs it in" crowd of a decade ago is now 30, and a part of the surprisingly impressive Ipswich squad doing well in the Championship.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: nigel on November 20, 2023, 08:32:30 AM
Is that our former player Brad Young playing for New Saints in the Welsh Premiership?
Doing well if it is.
It is. I’m surprised he couldn't find a club at a higher level though.

Me, too. Always looked decent when I saw him.
Just read that he’s only 5’9”, so maybe he just struggled to make the step up physically?
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Post by: AV82EC on November 20, 2023, 08:44:59 AM
Is that our former player Brad Young playing for New Saints in the Welsh Premiership?
Doing well if it is.
It is. I’m surprised he couldn't find a club at a higher level though.

Me, too. Always looked decent when I saw him.
Just read that he’s only 5’9”, so maybe he just struggled to make the step up physically?

Would have had a great career at a higher level back in the 80s and 90s as part of a big man little man combo 4-4-2 meat and potatoes English style set up.
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Post by: Lastfootstamper on November 20, 2023, 08:59:54 AM
2½ years since scoring what proved to be the winner in the Youth Cup Final. Youth football's harsh.
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Post by: paul_e on November 20, 2023, 09:53:32 AM
He as quick and a decent finisher but his all round game wasn't good enough and that's shown by how far down he's had to go to get game time. I suspect he'll come back up though, if he wants it, I can see him in league 2 in a couple of years and ending up with a fairly decent lower league career.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: eamonn on November 20, 2023, 10:31:46 AM
IIRC he didn’t impress at Ayr either.

It's a shit business.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: LeeB on November 20, 2023, 11:11:54 AM
On a bored Wikipedia trawl, Janoi Donacien who was one of that "might be our next central defensive colossus when Zat Knight packs it in" crowd of a decade ago is now 30, and a part of the surprisingly impressive Ipswich squad doing well in the Championship.

I noticed that back at the start of the season, was watching some EFL highlights and the name rang a bell.
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Post by: dave shelley on November 20, 2023, 12:50:33 PM
Cory Blacket-Taylor is another who seems to be carving out a living in the lower leagues.  Currently at Charlton.
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Post by: rougegorge on November 20, 2023, 05:54:45 PM
Trez bagged a brace for Egypt yesterday in their World Cup qualifier against Sierra Leone.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on November 20, 2023, 05:56:21 PM
IIRC he didn’t impress at Ayr either.

It's a shit business.

Disappointing, but they're known for being straight talkers at Ayr.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on November 25, 2023, 04:43:33 PM
Thought I'd throw this one in here even though he's no longer playing, I heard today from a Swedish client that Olaf Melberg looks likely to take the job as Sweden's national team manager.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Brazilian Villain on November 25, 2023, 06:58:47 PM
Thought I'd throw this one in here even though he's no longer playing, I heard today from a Swedish client that Olaf Melberg looks likely to take the job as Sweden's national team manager.

Not the first time we've seen it on here but it's Olof. Obviously it's all Aftab's fault rather than yours. ;)
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on November 25, 2023, 07:36:29 PM
Thought I'd throw this one in here even though he's no longer playing, I heard today from a Swedish client that Olaf Melberg looks likely to take the job as Sweden's national team manager.

Not the first time we've seen it on here but it's Olof. Obviously it's all Aftab's fault rather than yours. ;)

The shame. And my bloody client is also an Olof. Fortunately it's his middle name.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Exeter 77 on December 03, 2023, 01:44:37 PM
Harvey Knibbs playing for Reading at Eastleigh in the FA Cup.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on December 12, 2023, 10:42:56 PM
90 minutes for Axel Tuanzebe as Ipswich win again and go top of the Championship.
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Post by: robleflaneur on December 12, 2023, 11:01:16 PM
Jordan Bowery,Mansfield's Player of the Month,also plays in defence and attack.
Watching MOTD,Ross Barkley seems leaner ., fitter and more hard working.Very anonymous against us,though.
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Post by: dcdavecollett on December 15, 2023, 12:23:43 AM
Scored a good goal for Mansfield a few weeks ago.

We're in the market for a right-back or a striker in January aren't we?

Just saying...
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Post by: PeterWithe on January 04, 2024, 05:08:04 PM
Jed Steer joins Peterborough
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Post by: Dogtanian on January 04, 2024, 06:08:47 PM
Pleased for him!
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: dcdavecollett on January 05, 2024, 12:56:00 AM
Be really good to see him playing again -it's been a long while.
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Post by: Three Spires Villa on January 07, 2024, 05:49:56 PM
Keinan Davis got 10 minutes today for Udinese in a 1-2 defeat at home to Lazio
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on January 07, 2024, 06:53:44 PM
That is good news. Don't expect he will, but hope he does a Lookman and smashes up northern Italy.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithe on January 08, 2024, 09:34:05 AM
Keinan Davis got 10 minutes today for Udinese in a 1-2 defeat at home to Lazio

First or last 10?
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Post by: Drummond on January 08, 2024, 10:18:24 AM
Jordan Bowery,Mansfield's Player of the Month,also plays in defence and attack.


Does he hit you and hurt you?

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Post by: Three Spires Villa on January 08, 2024, 11:26:33 AM
Keinan Davis got 10 minutes today for Udinese in a 1-2 defeat at home to Lazio

First or last 10?

I believe the last. A guy from the Latin Lions who is an Udiense fan messaged me yesterday, that he had finally seen him for 10 minutes
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Post by: robleflaneur on January 13, 2024, 02:44:55 PM
Callum O'Hare 2 goals v Leicester.He'll be playing in the Premier League next season,whether it's with Coventry or not.
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Post by: dcdavecollett on January 14, 2024, 01:59:38 AM
He's a good player.

It was a shame we couldn't keep him -in my view, a consequence of Bruce's cowardice when it came to playing young players that he hadn't signed.

Deano tried to get the lad some games by sending him on loan to Carlisle and Cov where he did very well and got himself a deal and a career. It might have been with us if not for his development being held up.
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Post by: Mister E on January 14, 2024, 08:16:33 AM
He's a good player.
It was a shame we couldn't keep him -in my view, a consequence of Bruce's cowardice when it came to playing young players that he hadn't signed.
Deano tried to get the lad some games by sending him on loan to Carlisle and Cov where he did very well and got himself a deal and a career. It might have been with us if not for his development being held up.
Agreed. I always saw him as a possible alternative to Grealish; different player, but very clever. I often look to see how he's getting on; pity we couldn't accommodate him at the time, but his development seems to be have been a little slow until the last 18 months.
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Post by: Dogtanian on January 14, 2024, 09:05:09 AM
His contract is up this summer. I know he refused to sign the contract we offered him, so I wonder whether he’ll move on a free this summer.
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Post by: Clampy on January 14, 2024, 09:19:38 AM
He's a good player.

It was a shame we couldn't keep him -in my view, a consequence of Bruce's cowardice when it came to playing young players that he hadn't signed.

Deano tried to get the lad some games by sending him on loan to Carlisle and Cov where he did very well and got himself a deal and a career. It might have been with us if not for his development being held up.

A bit unfair really. How old would he have been when Bruce as here, 18-19? He was always going to go out on loan at some point, most players that age do. It was hardly a masterstroke by Deano.
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Post by: Risso on January 14, 2024, 11:43:42 AM
I seem to recall he played in one of our typically dog's arse of a team selection home FA Cup defeats, against Peterborough, where the whole team stunk the stadium out. He was then judged that he wasn't going to make it, which seemed a bit daft at the time, because he must have only been 19, and I think he was being unfairly compared to Grealish.
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Post by: eamonn on January 14, 2024, 11:52:01 AM
Cov have gone from lower mid-table post-hangover from last May's unlikely Play-Off near-miss to now being back in contention for promotion this year. In a division that spits out managers like nowhere else, Mark Robbins has done incredibly well to be their gaffer for so long.
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Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 14, 2024, 01:34:31 PM
He's 25 and is doing ok in the second tier, nothing more. I don't think we missed out.
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Post by: RamboandBruno on January 14, 2024, 08:52:35 PM
I seem to recall he played in one of our typically dog's arse of a team selection home FA Cup defeats, against Peterborough, where the whole team stunk the stadium out. He was then judged that he wasn't going to make it, which seemed a bit daft at the time, because he must have only been 19, and I think he was being unfairly compared to Grealish.
Swansea 0-3 under Dean Smith. Near the start of that bad run when Grealish was out for 3 months.
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Post by: dcdavecollett on January 15, 2024, 01:45:04 AM
Cal played in both games and did well.

He had a fantastic attitude, never recognised a lost cause.

He had about five times the energy of Lansbury, for those who think he couldn't have got into the team.
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Post by: Russ aka Big Nose on January 15, 2024, 06:54:23 PM
Andi Weimann, who hasn't always been as popular at Bristol City as he is presently, is signing for the Tesco Carrier Bags until the end of the season. He's been the captain at Ashton Gate for the last year.

He seems a decent bloke so I wish him all the best. The Stripeys can sink without a trace though. UTV
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Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 15, 2024, 07:53:52 PM
Andi Weimann, who hasn't always been as popular at Bristol City as he is presently, is signing for the Tesco Carrier Bags until the end of the season. He's been the captain at Ashton Gate for the last year.

He seems a decent bloke so I wish him all the best. The Stripeys can sink without a trace though. UTV

He can score a hattrick against the noses and then fuck off into obscurity with the rest of his new teammates.
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Post by: Exeter 77 on January 17, 2024, 11:17:11 AM
Robert Snodgrass officially now no longer qualifies for this thread.
https://twitter.com/robsnodgrass7/status/1747356532302340355?t=ipM_085lSjcIBLzRPFNACQ&s=19
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Post by: eamonn on January 17, 2024, 11:31:40 AM
Crackin' farewell speech, almost as good as his last-gasp goal at Bramall Lane.
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Post by: AV82EC on January 17, 2024, 11:37:50 AM
Crackin' farewell speech, almost as good as his last-gasp goal at Bramall Lane.

What a night that was. Limbs as the youths are want to say.
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Post by: Dogtanian on January 17, 2024, 12:11:46 PM
Crackin' farewell speech, almost as good as his last-gasp goal at Bramall Lane.

What a night that was. Limbs as the youths are want to say.

It was an awesome night, and the source of a rare pic of me smiling with my mate in the carpark afterwards. That game had 0-0 written all over it and then he did that.
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Post by: RamboandBruno on January 17, 2024, 01:55:18 PM
Really liked Snoddy, his farewell notes were good
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Post by: Risso on January 17, 2024, 02:50:53 PM
A very good player with a great attitiude, hope he enjoys his retirement from football and whatever comes next for him.
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Post by: Meanwood Villa on January 17, 2024, 03:12:30 PM
Agreed he was a good player for us and seems to have his head screwed on. Interesting career looking at his post, never spent a long time at any one club seemingly. Suppose he was caught in that bracket of being a top end Championship performer who might not quite be good enough for the Prem. Good luck to him anyway.
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Post by: dcdavecollett on January 18, 2024, 01:17:57 AM
Fair play to Bruce. One of his strengths was to recognise and bring in some good loan players. Snoddy was one of the very best of these.

Sadly, under the owners at the time, there was no joined-up thinking as to whether we should try and get transfer options on some of these players to help with continuity.

Mind you, the money had just about run out while some of them were here.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Dave on January 24, 2024, 10:40:48 PM
A sighting of the elusive and rarely-spotted Aaron Tshibola, on the bench for DR Congo as they knocked Mbwana Samatta's Tanzania out of AFCON.

Now playing for an also-ran team in the UAE. Tshibola, not Samatta. He's at PAOK in Greece.
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Post by: Border villan on January 25, 2024, 05:41:11 PM
Steven Davis, Rangers and Northern Ireland, has announced his retirement. One that got away.
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Post by: Pat McMahon on January 25, 2024, 06:13:53 PM
Steven Davis, Rangers and Northern Ireland, has announced his retirement. One that got away.

He seemed like one of our better players under DOL but MON never took to him.
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: Percy McCarthy on January 27, 2024, 06:48:49 PM
Ex Villa player NOT still playing - Jordan Bowery sent off after 20 minutes today.
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Post by: robleflaneur on January 27, 2024, 11:35:32 PM
Raikhy,member of our Youth Cup winning side,came on as a sub for Leicester vs the Blues.
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Post by: SaddVillan on January 28, 2024, 12:51:23 AM
Good to see agents Albrighton and Raikhy disposing of Small Hesth this afternoon.
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Post by: eamonn on January 28, 2024, 01:20:10 AM
A sighting of the elusive and rarely-spotted Aaron Tshibola, on the bench for DR Congo as they knocked Mbwana Samatta's Tanzania out of AFCON.

Now playing for an also-ran team in the UAE. Tshibola, not Samatta. He's at PAOK in Greece.

Man alive...
Title: Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
Post by: PeterWithe on February 02, 2024, 11:34:59 AM
Jed Steer joins Peterborough

Jed Steer leaves Peterborough on Jan 29.

Jed Steer rejoins Peterborough on Jan 31.
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Post by: Smithy on February 07, 2024, 10:02:19 AM
Gone a bit under the radar lately, but Callum O'Hare has been doing brilliantly at Coventry since his return from an ACL injury before Christmas.  He only had his first start of the season in December after almost a full year out, but has now scored 9 goals since his return.

There is always the risk that an ACL can limit a player for good, but if anything, he looks to have come back even stronger. Always had talent. He's still only 25, so I wouldn't be surprised to see someone take a punt on him this summer. Maybe one of the newly relegated sides or a bottom-half Prem club.  He looks to be a bit heavier than back in the day, but maybe that's made him more effective? 

Either way, he's doing well (shame it's for Coventry), and is a player I think we would have kept, loaned, and potentially sold for a profit if he'd come through under this regime.
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Post by: Dogtanian on February 07, 2024, 10:14:18 AM
He's out of contract this summer, too.
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Post by: Brazilian Villain on February 10, 2024, 03:11:30 PM
Was wondering why Marvelous wasn't featuring for Litton. Apparently he might be out for the season.
https://www.herald.co.zw/nakamba-out-for-the-season/
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Post by: dave.woodhall on February 16, 2024, 02:00:01 AM
Nathan Delfouneso's signed for Hednesford.
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Post by: Brazilian Villain on February 17, 2024, 03:31:03 PM
Finn Azaz has put Boro ahead at Lesta.
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Post by: Percy McCarthy on February 17, 2024, 03:37:18 PM
Finn Azaz has put Boro ahead at Lesta.

Scored a cracker in the week.
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Post by: aldridgeboy on February 17, 2024, 04:22:21 PM
Aaron Ramsey serious knee injury. Possibly ACL.
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Post by: Monty on February 17, 2024, 04:23:39 PM
Aaron Ramsey serious knee injury. Possibly ACL.

Is there some sort of Norse god of knees we've offended in some way? He's going after the extended family now.
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Post by: maidstonevillain on February 17, 2024, 04:26:14 PM
Coventry  1 up. O'Hare assist.
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Post by: OCD on February 18, 2024, 01:30:31 PM
AJ looked a lovely technical player but he gets so many injuries. Probably a good job we sold him just because he's rarely fit.
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Post by: FailsworthVillan on February 23, 2024, 06:38:30 PM
Ciaran Clark & Wesley both starting for Stoke u21’s tonight against our kids.
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Post by: dcdavecollett on February 24, 2024, 12:46:35 AM
And Clacker scored a tap-in!
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Post by: dcdavecollett on February 26, 2024, 12:39:50 AM
Brad Young with a hat-trick for TNS.
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Post by: Border villan on March 02, 2024, 03:54:24 PM
Brad Young, another hat trick today for TNS.
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Post by: Clampy on March 02, 2024, 04:09:11 PM
Waiting for the 'we've fucked up selling him' posts.  :)
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Post by: paul_e on March 02, 2024, 05:54:58 PM
Waiting for the 'we've fucked up selling him' posts.  :)

We didn't but teams in league 2 fucked up not giving him a look, he has pace and can finish, which is enough to be dangerous at that level.
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Post by: Dave on March 02, 2024, 09:40:32 PM
Jonathan Hogg sent off for Huddersfield in their draw with Leeds.

Still their captain and playing pretty much every game at 35. Back in 2010 probably wouldn't have been one the favourites of that youth crop to have that solid a career at such a high level.
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Post by: Villatillidie1982 on March 02, 2024, 09:45:50 PM
Jonathan Hogg sent off for Huddersfield in their draw with Leeds.

Still their captain and playing pretty much every game at 35. Back in 2010 probably wouldn't have been one the favourites of that youth crop to have that solid a career at such a high level.
If Jonathan Hogg is 35 then I am old.
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Post by: Dave on March 09, 2024, 10:29:08 PM
Not still playing, but Tom Cleverley named interim Watford boss after they sacked Valerian Ishmael.

Feels like he should be older than 34.
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Post by: Matt C on March 10, 2024, 01:12:50 AM
Not sure I’m ready for a world where Tom Cleverley is a manager.
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Post by: FatSam on March 15, 2024, 11:50:02 AM
Coventry’s Callum O’Hare: ‘I was stuck in bed for two months, couldn’t move’ (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/mar/15/coventry-callum-ohare-fa-cup)

Quote from: The Guardian
Before FA Cup quarter-final the midfielder discusses Wembley, playing Gaelic football and still practising in the park with his dad

Ben Fisher
Fri 15 Mar 2024 10.57 GMT

When Callum O’Hare stepped up his rehabilitation from a serious knee injury last August, Coventry’s physios recognised the need to temper his enthusiasm. After eight monotonous months, he was inevitably excited to tie the laces on his boots and hit the grass. He felt “fresh out of the jailhouse” after countless days spent watching teammates train from an exercise bike in the gym, but was told to expect a fine if he began kicking the balls too soon upon his return.

“The staff know how much I love football,” he says. “If there’s a ball in front of me, I’ll always play with it, no matter what it is: a tennis ball, a little floater – anything. Or I’ll make socks into a ball. They were like: ‘You’re not quite at the stage to be kicking balls.’ My first jog around the pitch, one of the players tried to pass me the ball and I just had to leave it. It was heartbreaking. ‘Sorry, I can’t.’”

O’Hare, who spent 303 days on the sidelines, including Coventry’s Championship playoff final defeat last season, talks with the same eagerness about wanting to reach an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley, a stage he has graced only as a 12-year-old representing his Solihull district side. “It wasn’t a full pitch, so it wasn’t the same.” How did he fare? “Oh, we won, we won – we won 4-1 … though it wasn’t a real game,” O’Hare says, laughing at himself.

O’Hare makes warm company over half an hour of conversation, taking in his journey from playing for Binbrook under-sevens to learning from Jack Grealish and John Terry at Aston Villa and aiming to reach the top flight with Coventry this season. He is almost incredulous at the suggestion that the days honing his skills with his dad, Brendan, at Bentley Heath Park, round the corner from the family home where he lives with his parents and two siblings, are likely long gone. He smiles and shakes his head.

“Until my injury, if I had a bad game we’d be going to the park the day after, it didn’t matter how tired I was. When I was younger, my dad was the coach for my Sunday league team. We went unbeaten so obviously he thinks he’s Pep Guardiola now. He never wants to let it go, so I’m just like: ‘Come on then.’ It is good fun. We go down and have a good laugh and after it you feel better.”

His dad called on Monday, a scheduled day off for the players, but O’Hare was busy. “He was like: ‘I’m going to the park.’ I said: ‘I can’t, I’m already here [at training].’ I came in to do some shooting practice. He was fuming.”

Coventry, led admirably by Mark Robins, are eighth in the second tier, primed for another shot at the playoffs after losing on penalties at Wembley last May. O’Hare was in the stands, powerless to affect proceedings. Being told he had ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee and the subsequent recovery, he says, was the hardest time of his life.

“When I was stuck in bed for two months, couldn’t move, that was just horrible,” he says. “I couldn’t do anything – even going to the toilet was like a mad exercise. When I started to come back and the boys were playing all the big games, the semi-finals and at Wembley, I was just sat there thinking: ‘What I would do to play in this in front of everyone.’”

O’Hare spent 15 years at Villa, for whom he made four appearances, before joining Coventry on loan in 2019-20 and signing permanently the following season. “When I was there [at Villa] I lived in digs with [former academy defender] Liam Hailey. He’s a Wolves season-ticket holder. We speak all the time and he messaged me as soon the draw came out. He sent me the eyes emoji and I replied saying: ‘Yeah, I’ll see you soon.’ Hopefully he won’t go home happy.”

Callum O’Hare celebrates after scoring for Coventry at Birmingham in April 2022. Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA
There is footballing pedigree in the family. O’Hare’s uncle, the former Birmingham City captain Ian Clarkson, was in the stands at St Andrew’s working for BBC Radio West Midlands when O’Hare capped the scoring in a 4-2 comeback victory almost two years ago. O’Hare celebrated his goal by donning a pair of sunglasses sent his way by a Coventry supporter and the images went viral.

“It was a boiling-hot day and when we were celebrating someone has thrown them and everyone was trying to jump on me but I saw the glasses and I was like: ‘I have to put these on.’”

Growing up, local rivalries extended to Gaelic football. He and Grealish played for the same GAA team, John Mitchel’s, and O’Hare twice represented Warwickshire at Croke Park. “I didn’t play with Jack at Gaelic, but his games would often be just an hour after so you would stay and watch their games. He was a proper player.”

O’Hare’s expert technique was spotted by an eagle-eyed Coventry supporter when he punched the ball away after equalising against Leicester in January. “My mum and dad said the same,” he says, smiling. “I always pass the ball if it’s in my hands like a Gaelic pass. I pick the ball up doing the same thing; I’ll flick it up into my hands. It’s just natural.”

While O’Hare was a youngster at Villa, his older brother, Keiran, was playing for the same Coventry youth team as James Maddison. O’Hare’s younger sister, Alliyah, is a world-champion Irish dancer. “She’s like the Messi of Irish dancing,” the 25-year-old says. “She has won eight world championships and she has one coming up this month so she could get her ninth. Well, she will get her ninth one – she is unbelievable. It’s annoying because she is often banging downstairs practising when I’m trying to relax but I let her off because she’s always winning.”

O’Hare hopes to be a winner at Molineux on Saturday. Are Coventry’s players dreaming about the prospect of making it into the last four? “Yeah, of course,” he says. “Wolves are in the Premier League but I reckon they are doing the same. They’re probably saying: ‘We’re playing Coventry, we’re one game from Wembley.’ You win the game and you’re at Wembley: what more do you want from one match, really?

“Everyone is buzzing and we cannot wait. Hopefully we can go out and put a performance on – but the main thing is to win.”

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