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Offline Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle

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Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
« Reply #1815 on: September 12, 2025, 09:41:25 PM »
Philogene has scored for Ipswich against Sheffield Utd.
Three times.

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Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
« Reply #1816 on: September 12, 2025, 11:28:11 PM »
Wonder if any other European Cup winning captains are uncapped? Doubt it.

John McGovern wasn't capped by Scotland.

Also Stevan Stojanović, Red Star goalkeeper in 1991. Only ever played for the Yugoslav Olympic team, in games which aren't recognised as full internationals.
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Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
« Reply #1817 on: September 13, 2025, 09:23:50 AM »
Philogene has scored for Ipswich against Sheffield Utd.
Three times.

A very good hat-trick.  If he'd gone straight to Ispwich instead of having his year with us, it's the sort of hat-trick that would have had us all screaming "why didn't we activate our buy-back clause?!?"

He's clearly too good for that level, maybe he'll prove himself at Premier league level in another year or two.

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Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
« Reply #1818 on: September 13, 2025, 10:45:11 AM »
Philogene has scored for Ipswich against Sheffield Utd.
Three times.

A very good hat-trick.  If he'd gone straight to Ispwich instead of having his year with us, it's the sort of hat-trick that would have had us all screaming "why didn't we activate our buy-back clause?!?"

He's clearly too good for that level, maybe he'll prove himself at Premier league level in another year or two.

I reckon him, Archer and AJ are all at that level of being too good for the championship but not quite ready for the premier league. There's loads of players like it right now, Southampton and Leicester have squads full of them.

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Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
« Reply #1819 on: September 13, 2025, 12:22:19 PM »
I wonder if they'd all flourish with good teams in the top-flight of the Bundesliga or other decent European divisions.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
« Reply #1820 on: September 13, 2025, 04:44:21 PM »
Weimann scores for Derby at the Hawthorns,

Offline Jane

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Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
« Reply #1821 on: September 13, 2025, 04:56:30 PM »
Go'on Andi

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Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
« Reply #1822 on: September 13, 2025, 06:25:51 PM »
Philogene wasn’t given an amount of time to come through at VP. Who knows what might have happened if he had been given a decent chance?
Unfortunately we seem to have a habit of not given young players a decent time, see Finn Azaz and various others. The result is we are putting out a team that was built by previous managers that are no going over the hill and no one coming through.

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Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
« Reply #1823 on: September 14, 2025, 01:54:31 AM »
Emery gave Philogene plenty of opportunities to show what he could do but the results were painfully thin.

Still, he's very young and has a chance to come again.

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Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
« Reply #1824 on: Today at 05:04:30 PM »
Uncle Albert scores again today for Walsall.

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Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
« Reply #1825 on: Today at 07:15:59 PM »
Uncle Albert scores again today for Walsall.
the gift that keeps on giving - that's U Albert

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
« Reply #1826 on: Today at 08:12:05 PM »
Bannan scored the first as Sheff Weds actually won a game.

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Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
« Reply #1827 on: Today at 09:43:44 PM »
James Bree was MOTM for Charlton as they prevented Sheffield United from scoring again.

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Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
« Reply #1828 on: Today at 09:46:36 PM »
Bannan scored the first as Sheff Weds actually won a game.

Does he count as a kind of legend for them at this stage? He's been decent for them and for a while, but in a really shite period in their history.

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Re: Ex- Villa Players still playing watch
« Reply #1829 on: Today at 10:34:48 PM »
Think he probably hit their "legend" status a while back.

 


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