Delph

[pestria]

Personally I think he's possibly the worst player to put on the Villa how long you been watching villa? A week ?

Personally I think he's possibly the worst player to put on the Villa how long you been watching villa? A week ?

Personally I think he's possibly the worst player to put on the Villa how long you been watching villa? A week ?

That would mean you think he was the worse player in the last week, yes?

And no, ST last 6 years and also 96-99.

Perhaps I was exaggerating slightly, but he's not far off. Definitely in the lower regions of Villa standards.

Spectacular bit of quoting here.

You sure?

[Jarpie]

I'll also add that at least he puts himself in line, although sometimes too much and too harshly. Has a single other our midfielder shown the drive and effort he's put? He needs to learn to see when to tackle and when not to but that should come with age and match fitness.

He's not hot-headed asshole like Roy Keane was who also collected yellow cards, but Delph seems to be much more level-headed so he'll get there.

When we get proper defending midfielder, Lambert can start to give him more freedom to get forward and play him in more advanced role.

[paul_e]

We need a versatile bunch of 5-6 who can play in any pairing and fill the 2 deeper midfield roles, Currently Westwood and Delph look like long term options in there, KEA might make it still as the 3rd and then I'm happy for Gardner and Johnson to be considered as backup options.  That still means we need another experienced body in there, but I wouldn't want it to be a purely defensive player so Delph can be pushed forward.  I see Delph as more of a box-to-box player in there (which is why he'd do a decent job at left back as well) then the role in front of the 2 can be covered by Nzog, Bannan and a new creative player who is also needed.

[pauliewalnuts]

I have not really rated Delph at all, but thought he did well in his last couple of games.

[MoetVillan]

For the chap who quoted "worst player in a villa Shirt", might I just remind him of Djemba-Djemba.  So bad they named him twice.

[mattjpa]

Personally I think he's possibly the worst player to put on a Villa shirt.

I love seeing opinions like this. It reminds me never to take chat rooms too seriously and how outlandish and ridiculous some people's opinions are. 2 years hampered by injury, changing managers with different systems, being played out of position (he's an AMF) and coming back into a side stripped of confidence, direction and fight by a third relegation battle in 3 years and he's the worst you've ever seen? He's not even the worst in our team. He'll, he's not even the worst in our midfield!

He's shit, no doubt about that. It can't be denied our centre midfield has contributed greatly to where we are. And he's part of it.

I also posted it in slight jest from a previous thread where I pointed out the only people who usually get replies post something extreme.

Fair play, top bantz.  You have indeed got a reaction! But back to the point. I would argue that if Delph was sitting in a mf 4 with tiote, Milner and Barry for example we would be challenging for European places. The problem is that most of our team is good enough to get where we want to be, we just no longer have the 2/3 outstanding players that are required. Delph is most definately good enough, I hope we stay up and am confident you will be proved wrong

[Uknowthescore]

Now he's having a good run in the team hes starting to show us how good he is and why we signed him. He is definitely our best midfielder

[The Left Side]

Now he's having a good run in the team hes starting to show us how good he is and why we signed him. He is definitely our best midfielder

Is his contract up soon?

[PaulWinch again]

Looking a lot better now, just needs to watch his first touch sometimes.

[PeterWithesShin]

Strange how both he and Zog have started finding form at the same time. Anyone would think no Bannan or Ireland was a good thing.

[Mister E]

Now he's having a good run in the team hes starting to show us how good he is and why we signed him. He is definitely our best midfielder

Careful - you'll have "Can Bent Be Bothered" after you.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I have not really rated Delph at all, but thought he did well in his last couple of games.

Same here. I think the big difference is he's now allowed a bit of freedom to get forward whereas before he'd be stuck back as a defensive midfielder, something he's never been and never will be.

[barrysleftfoot]

 Still think if he and Westwood are our central midfield partnership next season, then we will struggle again.

[PeterWithesShin]

I've stuck up for Delph a lot on here, with one of my main points being we would never see the best of him as long as he was forced to be a defensive MF. His game has always been more about getting forward and roaming around more. Now he's started doing that we're seeing a better player.

[SoccerHQ]

He's starting to do the defensive aspect of the role pretty well.

But jeez his first touch on occasions is still pretty awful. One promising break in the first half today, he was breaking forward with decent options left and right and he totally overcooked his touch and lost the ball.