best Villa team of the last 20 years

[ADVILLAFAN]

GK Bosnich
CB McGrath
CB Laursen
LB Staunton
RB L. Young
CM Barry
CM Taylor
LM A. Young
RM Solano
CF Yorke
CF Dublin

Picked Laursen ahead of Southgate as he was more of a threat from set-pieces (except against Leeds) and Taylor as he's my favourite ever player and weighed in with his fair share of goals.

[glasses]

Purely based on how good I thought they were
Bosnich
Delaney McGrath Southgate Staunton
Milner Taylor Barry Young
Agbonlahor Yorke

[PeterWithe]

                          Bosnich
Delaney      McGrath  Mellberg    Staunton
Merson        Barry      Milner       A Young
                  Yorke      Platt

Not included Cowans as not sure he played that well after 1991, then again my memory is shit.

[dutchvilla]

I suppose we ought to exclude Platt and Cowans - all-time greats but active only for a small part of the period in question

from looking through all the suggestions, McGrath and Yorke seem to be the only ever-presents, with most going for Bosnich and Staunton. Honorable mentions to Southgate, Laursen, Barry, Taylor, Merson, Milner and A Young - only the last one being from the current team...

[Irish villain]

I was nearly going to put Angel in my bench but he missed out because he was at the club during the worst (sustained) of the period. He would have done a lot better if he was here a few years earlier or later. He was at his peak when we were quite bad but still scored a fair few goals and had a touch of class. That's why Saunders got on my bench.

JPA, unlucky son.

[PeterWithe]

I'm struggling to beleive that Taylor is only in a handful of teams here.  Either you are all too young to remember him or well I dunno lol. But Taylor will be the first name on my team sheet

If it was a team based on heart he'd be in my team but he wasn't that talented.

[maidstonevillain]

I'm going for a cheeky 4-3-3

Bosnich
Charles - McGrath - Southgate - Wright
Daley - Platt - Merson
Yorke - Dublin - Atkinson

Like it. My sort of team. I would possibly put in Delaney for Charles, and Laursen in for Southgate. I would also keep Saunders around as back  for when Atkinson was having an off day. He would therefore got a lot of games in. There would be no Cowans because I assume only the 90's Cowans, and not the 80's Cowans, can be included.

[dave.woodhall]

There's one player in my team I'm amazed that everyone else has missed.

Bosnich
Delaney
Staunton
McGrath
Southgate
Young
Townsend
Merson
Barry
Yorke
Milosevic
 

[Irish villain]

How could we forget Savo?

[PeterWithe]

I didn't forget him, he just wouldn't have made the 25 man squad.

[taylorsworkrate]

Bosnich,

Staunton
Mcgrath
Laursen
Melberg

A Young
Milner
Barry
Merson

Yorke
Angel

[Damo70]

Bosnich
Delaney,Laursen,McGrath,Staunton
Platt,Townsend,Cowans,Merson
Yorke,Dublin

Subs-Friedel,Teale,Southgate,Young,Taylor,Saunders,Atkinson

[dave.woodhall]

I didn't forget him, he just wouldn't have made the 25 man squad.

It wasn't him I was thinking about.

[Irish villain]

I didn't forget him, he just wouldn't have made the 25 man squad.

It wasn't him I was thinking about.

Townsend? He made most squads here in fairness. Townsend was my favourite player from the mid 90s era but I selected Taylor ahead of him in my first team due to the latter's support for villa.

[peter w]

Bosnich

Charles
Southgate
McGrath
Staunton

Daley
Platt
Sid
Barry

Yorke
Saunders