Villa All Black's

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I thought how about we agree the important colours are whatever colours they used for the lettering `The Doug Ellis Stand`.
Then I realised I dont know the colours, probably because whenever I walked down Witton Lane I would subconsciously avert my eyes down.
So I just googled and checked. It appears the letters as you approach from Witton island are claret with a blue surround but the letters as you approach from the Holte Pub are just claret.
 Whats all that about ? Why the inconsistency and blatant two faced approach to stand lettering ? Does Doug know about this ?

[Steve R]

....
Not fully black.

It's a tricky one, especially when you've left your Dulux colour card in B&Q. How about :-

James
Barrett, Mcgrath, Ehiogu, Chan
Young (A), Taylor,  Reo-Coker,  Gervais
Dublin, Marx (K)

Whilst preserving the essential blackness of the team, it's still possible to find room for an oriental, a marxist and an arsehole from Reading.

[cdbearsfan]

GK Given
RB Hughes
LB Staunton
CB McGrath
CB Nicholl
RM Ireland
CM Townsend
CM Houghton
LW McParland
CF Dougan
CF Cascarino

[adrenachrome]

GK Given
RB Hughes
LB Staunton
CB McGrath
CB Nicholl
RM Ireland
CM Townsend
CM Houghton
LW McParland
CF Dougan
CF Cascarino

Not too shabby, but where is Danny Blanchflower?

[cdbearsfan]

I was doing that Blacks of Europe team in a hurry. Put him in for Stephen Ireland. There are probably better choices than Cascarino and Hughes I could've thought of too.

[Olof's Beard]

Not as much as the missing one in your username offends me.

Haha, it's not possible to have one on the new version of the site.  I used to have one the previous board, those were the days :-(  McLeish Out!

[Legion]

Would you like me to add one for you?

[Olof's Beard]

Would you like me to add one for you?

If you could, I would give you a cyber hug.  But I am sure I asked before but it wasn't possible.

[Legion]

Odd:

The following errors occurred when trying to save your profile:
The selected username/display name has already been taken.

Do you have another account?

[Legion]

Ah. there's a registered user "Olof'sBeard" with 218 posts.

[Holte L2]

Offensive thread......no place for this nonsense here

Whats offensive about it?

As an aside we were discussing in the pub the game against Everton (?) where we had nine black players. Can you name them? Winner gets a biscuit.

Mcgrath,Blake,Daley,Regis,Atkinson,Small,Yorke,Barrett,Ehiogu???

Don't think that's correct, but thought it was worth a go!

[BegbieAV]

Offensive thread......no place for this nonsense here

You sound like Edward Tattsyrup. ''We'll have no racism here, this is a local shop for local people''

[Chris Harte]

Saw the title and assumed it was going to be a comprehensive list of New Zealanders to have played for Villa.

BTW, that Everton away game, it was definitely eight. How do I know despite the passage of time? Because the following Monday at work in West Bromwich, while walking through the factory, the natives were all frenziedly yelling eight at me and holding up eight fingers. I was confused at first because we won two-nil, but it was only later on that someone else told me what they were refering to.

[Olof's Beard]

Ah. there's a registered user "Olof'sBeard" with 218 posts.

I think there's a chance that could be my account too.  I had some password issues a while back, I've made a right shambles of it all!

[Legion]

If I delete that account, I could add the apostrophe. We'd have to confirm that it is your first. PM me with your 'real' name and E-Mail address(es) and I'll see if it marries up.