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Re: Villa's Fab 50 Top Players
« Reply #210 on: July 13, 2011, 07:58:36 PM »

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Re: Villa's Fab 50 Top Players
« Reply #211 on: July 13, 2011, 08:10:23 PM »
13: Andy Gray
Tbh i think he is the most exciting player I've ever seen in a Villa shirt!
He scared defences shitless and was so confident that he was gonna score and did!
I used to love driving home after the game with my mate Dave and Villa fan after Villa fan phoning up Tony Butler and crooning to him: "Hey Tone, what about the Villa? Andy Gray's great" and Butler simply had no response, week after week. We had the best striker in the league and everybody knew it! The good old days!

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Re: Villa's Fab 50 Top Players
« Reply #212 on: July 13, 2011, 08:52:29 PM »
Paul Mcgrath, Ian Taylor & Dwight Yorke should be top 3.They've never been replaced!

Never saw him play but ive been told Gary Shaw aswell.

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Re: Villa's Fab 50 Top Players
« Reply #213 on: July 13, 2011, 08:55:00 PM »
Gary Shaw was my boyhood hero/idol.

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Re: Villa's Fab 50 Top Players
« Reply #214 on: July 13, 2011, 08:56:52 PM »
Regardless, here is a far better summation:

Richard Whitehead in The Times

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Re: Villa's Fab 50 Top Players
« Reply #215 on: July 13, 2011, 08:59:31 PM »
Paul Mcgrath, Ian Taylor & Dwight Yorke should be top 3.They've never been replaced!

Never saw him play but ive been told Gary Shaw aswell.


You need to look deeper into our history.

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Re: Villa's Fab 50 Top Players
« Reply #216 on: July 13, 2011, 09:19:26 PM »
yea maybe but they are 3 top candidates!

Cant think of many better defenders? Yorkie is still the leading prem goalscorer and Ian Taylor is just Ian Taylor - legend!

Each to his own, i can only comment on what i think

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Re: Villa's Fab 50 Top Players
« Reply #217 on: July 13, 2011, 09:49:27 PM »
Paul Mcgrath, Ian Taylor & Dwight Yorke should be top 3.They've never been replaced!

Never saw him play but ive been told Gary Shaw aswell.


Ian Taylor, one of our top three players of all time?! Good grief!

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Re: Villa's Fab 50 Top Players
« Reply #218 on: July 13, 2011, 09:54:41 PM »
Sid should be in the top 5!

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Re: Villa's Fab 50 Top Players
« Reply #219 on: July 14, 2011, 08:37:07 AM »
12: Gareth Barry

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Re: Villa's Fab 50 Top Players
« Reply #220 on: July 14, 2011, 09:18:26 AM »
13: Andy Gray
Tbh i think he is the most exciting player I've ever seen in a Villa shirt!
He scared defences shitless and was so confident that he was gonna score and did!
I used to love driving home after the game with my mate Dave and Villa fan after Villa fan phoning up Tony Butler and crooning to him: "Hey Tone, what about the Villa? Andy Gray's great" and Butler simply had no response, week after week. We had the best striker in the league and everybody knew it! The good old days!

You could argue we have the best striker in the league now, well not far off surely.  Ian Taylor was a workhorse, but top 3 of all time, no where near.  Barry at 12 is a disgrace.

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Re: Villa's Fab 50 Top Players
« Reply #221 on: July 14, 2011, 11:12:27 AM »
They didnīt include Nigel Simsī nickname. Cant think why.

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Re: Villa's Fab 50 Top Players
« Reply #222 on: July 14, 2011, 03:36:02 PM »
Barry at 12 - Sir Brian at 25.

Enough said.

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Re: Villa's Fab 50 Top Players
« Reply #223 on: July 14, 2011, 03:40:25 PM »
BARRY??? Our twelfth greatest player ever?

Christ on a fucking bike.


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Re: Villa's Fab 50 Top Players
« Reply #224 on: July 14, 2011, 06:44:06 PM »
Barry at 12 - Sir Brian at 25.

Enough said.

Exactly Dave, who is coming up with this!

 


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