Best Villa debut

[Damo70]

Another one thats probably been done before but I remember Steve Mcmahon against the Albion in '83 and Platt at Blackburn in '88. The Gray brothers Stuart and Andy jnr did well at Bradford in '87 too. And was anyone there at Exeter when Simon Stainrod got four goals on his debut, because it was mostly downhill after that wasn't it?

[Jon Crofts]

Didier Six 1984 was tidy, Carlton Cole 2004 scored on his debut against Southampton but both were downhill from there really.

[PeterWithe]

I was going to mention the two above, Draper was quite impressive as well.

[Gareth]

Carbone

Dion's first 3 or 4 games were pretty spot on

[Risso]

Dion Dublin made a fairly swift impact to be fair!

[Deano's Mullet]

Mark Draper vs Man United 1995 - completely ran the show.

Luc Nilis home debut vs Chelsea and Dean Saunders home debut vs Liverpool

[*shellac*]

Heskey?

He made his debut against Portsmouth on 27th Jan 2009 & scored from 20 yards, the 1st time he has scored on his debut for any club for which he has played.  He scored one more goal before the end of the season, with the opening goal in a 1–1 draw with West Ham United.  He finished the season with 14 appearances and two goals for Villa.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Big Ron's debut back at Hillsbrough, first game of the season.

Scorching hot day, half a dozen players making their debuts for villa, Sheff Weds fans howling abuse at Ron from 3 sides of the ground, S Yorks police deciding to open up a corners of the Leppings lane to make space for the thousands of extra Villa fans that turned up, Sheff Weds going 2-0 up, Villa tearing them to pieces in the second half, playing some fantastic football. Great day

[curiousorange]

Although we lost, Ashley Young against Newcastle I remember being a great debut and he scored as well.

[Richie]

Carbone against Wimbledon was awesome.

[Damo70]

Big Ron's debut back at Hillsbrough, first game of the season.

Scorching hot day, half a dozen players making their debuts for villa, Sheff Weds fans howling abuse at Ron from 3 sides of the ground, S Yorks police deciding to open up a corners of the Leppings lane to make space for the thousands of extra Villa fans that turned up, Sheff Weds going 2-0 up, Villa tearing them to pieces in the second half, playing some fantastic football. Great day

One of the best away trips without a doubt, Staunton, Teale, Richardson, Regis, Atkinson and Mortimer made their debuts and Regis, Atkinson and Staunton scored

[Chris Harte]

Didier Six 1984 was tidy...

That's quite an understatement, as I remember. I'd have used the word "explosive" myself.

Like you say, shame how his time at VP turned out.

[TopDeck113]

As with many of a certain age, I too will vote for Didier Six.   

[Deano's Mullet]

Sasa Curcic vs Derby looked very tasty. He did look the part in his first dozen or so appearances.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Suppose we should mention Andy Gray.

Man United? League Cup? goal on his debut