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Offline the-farmer

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #75 on: May 09, 2011, 09:05:19 PM »
Paul Rideout
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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #76 on: May 10, 2011, 02:37:23 PM »
Frank Pimblett had a wonderful debut, ran the show from midfield, then disappeared without a trace.
Tommy Craig
Keith Leonard
Ian Olney
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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #77 on: May 10, 2011, 10:15:05 PM »
Tommy Craig? I think you're on your own there, Oscar.
Keith Leonard was brilliant. I'm sure everybody loved him.
Ian Olney? He was our super sub, never going to own the Villa number 9 shirt but he was what you expected from a sub.
Frank Pimblett? You're making him up, aren't you?
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Offline gav-avfc

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #78 on: May 10, 2011, 10:18:02 PM »
Heskey
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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #79 on: May 10, 2011, 10:19:54 PM »
and i got some good banter off a older gentleman at the stoke game as i was on crutches he asked me if the crutches (after a knee operation) came with the shirt when i bought it.. har har har
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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #80 on: May 13, 2011, 02:02:20 PM »
Quote from: lennythekad on February 04, 2011, 03:54:29 PM
Ken McNaught. Wasn't too popular amongst some fans when he first arrived due to replacing the legend that was Chris Nicholl.

I thought it was more to do with the fact that he had a really, really poor first season. A different Ken McNaught turned up the following season.

These days we'd just be saying things like "He'll be alright when he's had a full pre-season."
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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #81 on: May 13, 2011, 02:14:14 PM »
Going back to my childhood we signed a full back called Leslie Jones from Luton Town. He had an impressive debut at Villa Park and I remember thinking that we'd signed an excellent player.

He played 5 times for the first team before being transferred to Worcester City the following year.
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Offline The Left Side

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #82 on: May 14, 2011, 03:36:58 AM »
Steve Sims
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Offline adrenachrome

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #83 on: May 14, 2011, 04:03:00 PM »
Quote from: Oscar Arce on May 10, 2011, 02:37:23 PM
Frank Pimblett had a wonderful debut, ran the show from midfield, then disappeared without a trace.
Tommy Craig
Keith Leonard
Ian Olney

I remember Frank Pimblett's debut and it was indeed impressive.

The main thing I recall about young Frank though, was a piece in the satirical magazine "Private Eye", in which Frank pitched up at a training session and was heard to say "I'm pleasantly pissed" to which Ron Saunders replied "Well you can piis off then". And that was the end of that.

Bobby McDonald was also mentioned in that piece. Super Mac, as he was known by The Holte End, received a very good reception when he came back as a Coventry player.
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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #84 on: May 15, 2011, 01:22:52 AM »
Dariusz Kubicki had a decent debut v Crystal Palace at home in 1991. Came to us with a good reputation having played Man U in the ECWC Semi final and keeping Sharpe quiet.

We lost, but he got good reviews in the Mail the next day. He was OK for the next few games, but his form nosedived around November and never came back.
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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #85 on: May 15, 2011, 01:38:14 AM »
Quote from: KevinGage on May 15, 2011, 01:22:52 AM
Dariusz Kubicki had a decent debut v Crystal Palace at home in 1991. Came to us with a good reputation having played Man U in the ECWC Semi final and keeping Sharpe quiet.

We lost, but he got good reviews in the Mail the next day. He was OK for the next few games, but his form nosedived around November and never came back.

Didn't he have something like his father or stepfather who he was close to die suddenly, and his form went? 
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Offline KevinGage

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #86 on: May 15, 2011, 02:25:15 AM »
I think that was it, yeah.

Another one of those 'what could have been' scenarios.
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Offline Tokyo Sexwhale

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #87 on: May 15, 2011, 02:31:03 AM »
Quote from: Oscar Arce on May 10, 2011, 02:37:23 PM
Frank Pimblett had a wonderful debut, ran the show from midfield, then disappeared without a trace.


I'd never even heard of Pimblett, but a quick google suggests he disappeared to Brisbane:

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Frank Pimblett, Aston Villa Soccer Stars 75-76
The Liverpool suburb of Huyton has produced several well known footballers, including Steven Gerrard, David Nugent and, er, Joey Barton. As 14-year-olds, Frank Pimblett and Peter Reid had been the outstanding players in the Huyton Boys team that won the English Schools Trophy in 1970-71. The team's coach was an English and PE teacher called Alan Bleasdale, who later gained national recognition as a playwright. Peter Reid joined Bolton and Frank Pimblett made his debut for Villa as a 17-year-old in 1975. But he went on to play only another eight matches in their first team plus a further seven on loan at Newport before being released. He then emigrated to Australia where he spent a decade with Brisbane City, retiring as a player in the same year as Peter Reid.

http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/983/33/

Also, a video of him on YouTube.  Sounds like he was one of those lost talents.

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Offline Oscar Arce

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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #88 on: May 16, 2011, 09:33:43 AM »
That's a great spot, Tokyo...superb!
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Re: Players You Liked When No-one Else Did
« Reply #89 on: May 29, 2011, 06:27:23 PM »
Vowden,Lochhead,Turnbull, Woodward and two reserve regulars when i started watching Villa Jonny Gavan and Wilson Briggs
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