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Offline holtepaul

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #60 on: February 07, 2011, 07:57:34 PM »
Mark Lillis = thought he was superb = 100%er

Players like him got this club back to where we are now

Offline lordmcgrath5

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #61 on: February 12, 2011, 01:45:31 PM »
Stewart Downing springs to mind.

Offline Mortimer4England

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #62 on: March 11, 2011, 09:27:34 PM »
Gary Shelton and Terry Donovan

Online The Left Side

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #63 on: March 11, 2011, 09:36:35 PM »
Warren Aspinall.. I know I know!

Offline Hoppo

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #64 on: March 27, 2011, 04:24:48 PM »
Steve Sims and Mark Lillis..

Offline peter w

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #65 on: March 29, 2011, 10:31:56 PM »
Bullivant.

Offline 5ft811st2 Durham

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #66 on: March 29, 2011, 11:43:15 PM »
Gary Penrice. I only saw him play twice, but I honestly thought he was a talented player.

Seeing as no one seems to have a good word for him I can only assume that he was pretty pathetic in the remaining 18 games he played for us.

Offline Chipsticks

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #67 on: March 29, 2011, 11:49:21 PM »
Milan Baros.

People seem to forget that we probably would've gone down in the 2005/06 season if it weren't for his goals. A potentially good player for Villa; shame he was in a bad squad really.

Offline JJ-AV

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #68 on: March 30, 2011, 02:48:05 PM »
De La Cruz. Underrated.

Alpay as well.

Offline JJ-AV

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #69 on: March 30, 2011, 02:52:51 PM »
I always liked Gavin McCann. At the time, I thought he was great. At the time.

Super Tommy Johnson

These as well.

Offline Meanwood Villa

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #70 on: March 30, 2011, 03:04:23 PM »
Milan Baros.

People seem to forget that we probably would've gone down in the 2005/06 season if it weren't for his goals. A potentially good player for Villa; shame he was in a bad squad really.

I always liked Baros purely on the basis that he was our most talented player by some distance at that time and, like you say, we'd have been in real trouble if it wasn't for him. Shame he had such an appalling attitude.

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #71 on: March 30, 2011, 06:44:34 PM »
De la Cruz is a good shout, Alpay was a tool IMO.

Offline Meanwood Villa

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #72 on: March 31, 2011, 01:43:41 PM »
I think the thing with Alpay was that pretty much everyone did like him before he came back from the World cup with an over-inflated ego. It was great pre-match when he'd let the chants of his name reach a crescendo before he acknowledged them by saluting the Holte rather than just half-turning in applause. But surely no-one liked him when he later insulted our club and generally acted like a spoilt, arrogant wanker.

Online andyh

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #73 on: April 14, 2011, 04:52:40 PM »
Collymore.
I was desperate to sign him and when we did I was over the moon.
Even when he went off his rocker, I still backed him, hoping he would decide to come good and turn into the player he should have been.

 

Offline VillaSpen

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #74 on: April 24, 2011, 02:10:25 PM »
Ian Ormondroyd
Stanley Victor Collymore
Savo Milosevic - even after the spitting!

 


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