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Re: Gareth Barry: Going Backwards Fast
« Reply #180 on: September 28, 2017, 01:57:19 PM »
Official website asking if he is our 'GOAT', which I'm guessing means 'Greatest of All Time'.  Not for me, I've been watching from the mid 80's and would have McGrath, Cowans, Platt and Yorke comfortably ahead of him.

Nowhere fucking near.

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Re: Gareth Barry: Going Backwards Fast
« Reply #181 on: September 28, 2017, 02:13:16 PM »
Official website asking if he is our 'GOAT', which I'm guessing means 'Greatest of All Time'.  Not for me, I've been watching from the mid 80's and would have McGrath, Cowans, Platt and Yorke comfortably ahead of him.

Wouldn't put Platt in that exalted company. Cowans or Mortimer for me during the last 45 years of watching Villa

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Re: Gareth Barry: Going Backwards Fast
« Reply #182 on: September 28, 2017, 05:01:06 PM »
Official website asking if he is our 'GOAT', which I'm guessing means 'Greatest of All Time'.  Not for me, I've been watching from the mid 80's and would have McGrath, Cowans, Platt and Yorke comfortably ahead of him.

Wouldn't put Platt in that exalted company. Cowans or Mortimer for me during the last 45 years of watching Villa

Platt was f#ckin brilliant in a Villa shirt, better than Yorke (in my opinion). Easily one of our best players of the last 40 years.

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Re: Gareth Barry: Going Backwards Fast
« Reply #183 on: September 28, 2017, 05:50:55 PM »
Platt was the type of player that you only truly appreciated when watching live. He was very intelligent, and the Frank Lampard of his era. Tremendous ability to make those runs in the box but in truth a lot more than that. If he played for Man U or Arsenal during that time he'd be a different conversation regarding his status of being a truly outstanding footballer.

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Re: Gareth Barry: Going Backwards Fast
« Reply #184 on: September 28, 2017, 06:16:09 PM »
Platt was fantastic for us, almost single-handedly kept us up and we wouldn't have finished anywhere near 2nd without him. Much like Fat Baz, even when he wanted away you couldn't fault him on the pitch.

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Re: Gareth Barry: Going Backwards Fast
« Reply #185 on: September 28, 2017, 06:33:00 PM »
Official website asking if he is our 'GOAT', which I'm guessing means 'Greatest of All Time'.  Not for me, I've been watching from the mid 80's and would have McGrath, Cowans, Platt and Yorke comfortably ahead of him.

Nowhere fucking near.

add to that Dean Saunders

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Re: Gareth Barry: Going Backwards Fast
« Reply #186 on: September 28, 2017, 06:45:52 PM »
Dean 'goaldrought' Saunders shouldn't be anywhere near a converstion like this.

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Re: Gareth Barry: Going Backwards Fast
« Reply #187 on: October 01, 2017, 12:35:26 PM »
Agreed.

A limited player who always gave his best.

The way his tongue stuck out was off-putting as well.

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Re: Gareth Barry: Going Backwards Fast
« Reply #188 on: October 01, 2017, 12:39:14 PM »
Nobody can dispute Platt surely!

The only villa player in my lifetime who's made a genuinely big impact at a World Cup and in the top league in Europe at the time

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Re: Gareth Barry: Going Backwards Fast
« Reply #189 on: October 01, 2017, 12:41:15 PM »
Nobody can dispute Platt surely!

The only villa player in my lifetime who's made a genuinely big impact at a World Cup and in the top league in Europe at the time

Spot on. He was brilliant in a Villa shirt.

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Re: Gareth Barry: Going Backwards Fast
« Reply #190 on: October 01, 2017, 12:47:04 PM »
Dean 'goaldrought' Saunders shouldn't be anywhere near a converstion like this.


Would that also be the same Dean 'goal  glut - once I get one, I go on a run' Saunders?
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Re: Gareth Barry: Going Backwards Fast
« Reply #191 on: October 01, 2017, 01:25:34 PM »
Platt was/is an arse.  But a great player for us.

And incredible value, considering we signed him from Crewe for 50p and a bag of pork scratchings, and sold him for £5.5 million. Which could have bought you almost 5 Cantscorinos or two Gordon Duries back then.

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Re: Gareth Barry: Going Backwards Fast
« Reply #192 on: October 01, 2017, 01:53:37 PM »
1 God
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To be fair Platt is one of the few that could be mentioned alongside the best of the fantastic fourteen.
« Last Edit: October 01, 2017, 01:55:20 PM by Damo70 »

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Re: Gareth Barry: Going Backwards Fast
« Reply #193 on: October 01, 2017, 02:55:00 PM »
I don't get the dissing of Deano, he was bloody good for us and doesn't airbrush us from his past like some of the others lauded.
His signing, and his immediate impact led to the best football I've ever seen us play, and he won us a cup final.

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Re: Gareth Barry: Going Backwards Fast
« Reply #194 on: October 01, 2017, 05:42:38 PM »
Aye, he was a big deal at the time. Had gone for a British transfer record the summer previous and joined us for a fee not far off that.   

Unlike Collywobbles and some of the other sugarbags, he didn't disappoint. And contributed massively to our second place finish and cup win the following year. He did seem a little less 'nippy' than when he was at Derby, though. But we signed him at 28, so perhaps not that surprising. He made up for it in other ways.

 


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