Did he really play for us?

[SarkGrime]

Correct: http://www.avfp.co.uk/markansell

So that's where I read about the Mark Ansell connection. You posted this on Ian Robo's forum didn't you. Though curiously I don't remember seeing the bit about Cardiff and Barrie Jones, honest!

Nice contribution by Mark Ansell isn't it?

[ronshirt]

Harry Gregory. I think I saw him play.

[eric woolban woolban]

Henrik Larsen?

No, not 'Henrik Larsson' but a Dane with a similar name.

Remember watching him in a reserve game at Walsall and err, that was about it.

[The Man With A Stick]

Henrik Larsen?

No, not 'Henrik Larsson' but a Dane with a similar name.

Remember watching him in a reserve game at Walsall and err, that was about it.

Against Man Utd wasn't it.  As I've said on here many times, he was the most out-of-condition player i've ever seen.  It was a shame as he looked a cracking player in Euro '92.

[garyshawsknee]

Franz Carr and Carl Tiler.

[gervilla]

David Hughes.

[Exeter 77]

Tommy Craig - my least favourite player as a kid.

[cheltenhamlion]

Michael Boulding

[eamonn]

Probably mentioned but at the time it felt strange seeing Ginola in a Villa shirt and almost a decade on (scary in't it?) it still seems strange to think that he spent a year with us.

[VillaZogmariner]

Drobny

Adam Rachel (Got to be the ugliest Villa player too)

David Hughes - fantastic debut (v Liverpool?) and then what happened?

[curiousorange]

Franz Carr and Carl Tiler.

Franz Carr scored for Forest in one of my early Villa home games. It finished 1-1.

Next I heard of him, he'd put us into the FA Cup semi-final.

[TaxDodger]

Drobny

Adam Rachel (Got to be the ugliest Villa player too)

David Hughes - fantastic debut (v Liverpool?) and then what happened?

I remember him managing Barry Town to relegation from the Welsh Premier League season during the 2003/4 season.

[eric woolban woolban]

Gilles de Bilde

[Olof's Beard]

Franz Carr and Carl Tiler.

Franz Carr scored for Forest in one of my early Villa home games. It finished 1-1.[/quote]

The first ever Villa game I went too.  Not so long back, I found a little notepad in which I'd written a match report of that game.  The eight year old me had actually used the pun "Carr drove his way through the Villa defence to equalise".

[Dave Cooper please]

Drobny

Adam Rachel (Got to be the ugliest Villa player too)

David Hughes - fantastic debut (v Liverpool?) and then what happened?

I remember him managing Barry Town to relegation from the Welsh Premier League season during the 2003/4 season.

Not quite true (and I acknowledge my anorakness for knowing this!).
Hughes was manager for a short spell in 2003/4 during the season when it all went tits up for Barry, the club went into administration and all the players were ousted, Barry completed the season with a team mainly made up from players from a local works team. It was Colin Addison who was in charge when they were relegated though.
Hughes did then take charge the following season when they were again relegated.