best Villa team of the last 20 years

[dutchvilla]

to take my mind off the current state of doom and gloom about the club, I got to thinking about the best side made up of players of the last 20 years. This lot wouldn't lose 1-0 at home to Sunderland...

Bosnich
Mellberg Laursen God Bouma
Cowans Barry
Milner Platt Young
Yorke

subs: Friedel, Staunton, Southgate, Townsend, Angel, Agbonlahor, Merson

[Holtenderinthesky]

to take my mind off the current state of doom and gloom about the club, I got to thinking about the best side made up of players of the last 20 years. This lot wouldn't lose 1-0 at home to Sunderland...

Bosnich
Mellberg Laursen God Bouma
Cowans Barry
Milner Platt Young
Yorke

subs: Friedel, Staunton, Southgate, Townsend, Angel, Agbonlahor, Merson

Daley instead of Young for me but yeah that's pretty good.  Not sure about Gabby on the bench either, Saunders over him I'd say.

[Chris Harte]

Alan Wright instead of Bouma at left-back.

[Mazrim]

.............................Bosnich
Barrett......McGrath.....Southgate......Staunton
...................Cowans......Taylor
.............Merson........Platt......Daley
...............................Yorke

[Risso]

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

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

[TaxDodger]

I've been watching Villa for 15, and Milner only just makes the bench in my team.

[garyshawsknee]

to take my mind off the current state of doom and gloom about the club, I got to thinking about the best side made up of players of the last 20 years. This lot wouldn't lose 1-0 at home to Sunderland...

Bosnich
Mellberg Laursen God Bouma
Cowans Barry
Milner Platt Young
Yorke

subs: Friedel, Staunton, Southgate, Townsend, Angel, Agbonlahor, Merson

 Thats pretty good,i'd have Delaney at Rb,its a shame his injuries harmed his career as when he was at full fitness he was a great player.

[DeKuip]

As I struggled to narrow down the best 11 Villa performers over 20 years I've gone off on a tangent and picked my team purely on Fantasy League points (at a guess!) earned over that time.....

                    James
Milner  McGrath   Southgate   Staunton
        Ginola  Merson  Barry  Pires
                Yorke   Dublin

Struggled to think of a right-back so adopted the Villa approach of not having a full back there rather than go for Luke Young, Aaron Hughes or Steve Watson who'd probably get in on points.
I'm sure Dunney would statistically get the nod for centre-half but I've deducted 1,000 points for every own goal.
The two left-wing frogs will have to keep switching and Friedel, Phillips, Heskey & Crouch will be banging on my door when they see the teamsheet, but I can't keep everyone happy.

[The Left Side]

Bosnich
Delaney McGrath Laursen Staunton
Solano Cowans Milner Young
Yorke Dublin

Subs - James, Southgate, Barry, Taylor, Merson, Angel, Daley

I know, I know Solano is in there but he could take a free kick and worked well down the wing with Delaney.

[pmk1981]

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

[Shrek]

.............................Bosnich
Barrett......McGrath.....Southgate......Staunton
...................Cowans......Taylor
.............Merson........Platt......Daley
...............................Yorke

This for me, Imagine Taylor, Platt and Merson in our midfield today.

[mikeb1982]

As I struggled to narrow down the best 11 Villa performers over 20 years I've gone off on a tangent and picked my team purely on Fantasy League points (at a guess!) earned over that time.....

                    James
Milner  McGrath   Southgate   Staunton
        Ginola  Merson  Barry  Pires
                Yorke   Dublin

Struggled to think of a right-back so adopted the Villa approach of not having a full back there rather than go for Luke Young, Aaron Hughes or Steve Watson who'd probably get in on points.
I'm sure Dunney would statistically get the nod for centre-half but I've deducted 1,000 points for every own goal.
The two left-wing frogs will have to keep switching and Friedel, Phillips, Heskey & Crouch will be banging on my door when they see the teamsheet, but I can't keep everyone happy.

If you're going on fantasy points it's got to be Schmeichal in goal, even if he was shit for us

[j66acd]

Gk - Oakes
Back four - Charles, Davies, Alpay, Unsworth
Midfield - Curcic, Kachloul, Kinsella, Gudjonsson
Forwards - Balaban, Milosevic

Subs - Ireland, Sidwell, Enckleman, Boulding, Whittingham

[RugbyVilla]

Certainly not this one....

[Irish villain]

I'd line up with wing backs because I think it's a system that served us well down the years with GT and Brian Little.

---------------------------Bosnich
-------------Laursen----McGrath-----Southgate
---Milner-----------------------------------------Staunton
-------------Merson-----Taylor (captain)-----Barry
----------------------Yorke-----Dublin

Subs: Friedal, Mellberg, Delaney, Petrov, Townsend, Saunders, Ashley Young,