Summer 2013: Villa Transfers, Speculation, Suggestions and Rumours

[Des Little]

What's happened to Jed Steer? I'm holding back on having my shirt name printed

[villa `cross the mersey]

Who taught the geriatrics how to use the internet?

Careful ... I was starting to warm to you Ads !!!!!

[maidstonevillain]

long

Who taught the geriatrics how to use the internet?

It was the geriatrics who invented it. Along witht the rest of the IT world.

[Steve R]

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Tch - you youngsters, 1959 against Ipswich and although I can't remember my own telephone number, without searching I think the team would have been Sims- Lynn - Aldis - Saward - Dugdale - right half Crowther? - Smith?- Dixon- Hitchins - Wylie - McParland.

Roger S and Brian Green of this parish go back way further I think.

Crowther would have departed by then for ManU.

Most likely Vic Crowe at right half, Pat Saward no, 6 and Jimmy MacEwan on the right wing.

The 60's are what made some of last year's extreme gnashing of teeth (no pun intended) so pathetic. True decline is when your club sells the training ground because it needs the money.

[godzvilla]

I like the understatement of the nature of our signings and the lack of press interest.  I read a fair amount of football related material and have not heard of any of our signings to date.

Takes you back to the old days before the internet and wall to wall football coverage on TV and in the press when we bought players no-one had heard of.  For the teenagers, Barry Stobart, Tommy Mitchinson, Dave Poutney....I could go on.   

Teenagers? I am 50+ and been supporting Villa since I could walk out of the house on me own and I have not heard of these names!

What about Charlie Aitken then, Alan Baker , Mike Tindall and Colin Withers?

Charlie yes not the other two. My "life" started with Cumbes, Wright, Curtis, Tyler, Atkin, Godfrey, McMahon, Hamilton,  Lochhead Vowden, Anderson.

I first went to VP in early 1967 at the age of 8 so caught the back end of the team that got relegated - Phillips, Aitken, Wright, Hole, Chatterley, Tiler et al.

Tch - you youngsters, 1959 against Ipswich and although I can't remember my own telephone number, without searching I think the team would have been Sims- Lynn - Aldis - Saward - Dugdale - right half Crowther? - Smith?- Dixon- Hitchins - Wylie - McParland.

Roger S and Brian Green of this parish go back way further I think.

So do I, a lot further, and i'm not happy about it.

And lets not forget the indefatigable Johnny ' Slogger ' Sleeuwenhoek and  the magical  Jimmy MacEwan  ( who I once saw beat 4 players by lobbing the ball over their heads , running round them , catching it on his instep and repeating the process ....4 times ! ) .  Oh ...... and the aptly named  Oscar Arce ! ................Godzvilla ! ( Golden Ager )

[villa kicks]

I wonder what fans of other clubs are making of us buying these players? At least those around us who have done little or nothing this summer.

A lot of fans from other Clubs especially Chelski think we have got a bargain with Okore. I've been reading different sites and comments from other fans are very praising of the players we are signing.

When he has the ball
the villa fans roar its Okore !!

You wont get the ball
he wont let you score
its okore

When the ball's in the air
And big Ron isn't there
It's Okore

When you can't get a kick
And you think "Fuck - he's quick!"
It's Okore.

thumbs up

[rob_bridge]

I wonder what fans of other clubs are making of us buying these players? At least those around us who have done little or nothing this summer.

A lot of fans from other Clubs especially Chelski think we have got a bargain with Okore. I've been reading different sites and comments from other fans are very praising of the players we are signing.

When he has the ball
the villa fans roar its Okore !!

You wont get the ball
he wont let you score
its okore

When the ball's in the air
And big Ron isn't there
It's Okore

When you can't get a kick
And you think "Fuck - he's quick!"
It's Okore.

thumbs up

Like it. Easy tune to sing to.

[E I Adio]

I like the understatement of the nature of our signings and the lack of press interest.  I read a fair amount of football related material and have not heard of any of our signings to date.

Takes you back to the old days before the internet and wall to wall football coverage on TV and in the press when we bought players no-one had heard of.  For the teenagers, Barry Stobart, Tommy Mitchinson, Dave Poutney....I could go on.   

Teenagers? I am 50+ and been supporting Villa since I could walk out of the house on me own and I have not heard of these names!

What about Charlie Aitken then, Alan Baker , Mike Tindall and Colin Withers?

Charlie yes not the other two. My "life" started with Cumbes, Wright, Curtis, Tyler, Atkin, Godfrey, McMahon, Hamilton,  Lochhead Vowden, Anderson.

I first went to VP in early 1967 at the age of 8 so caught the back end of the team that got relegated - Phillips, Aitken, Wright, Hole, Chatterley, Tiler et al.

Tch - you youngsters, 1959 against Ipswich and although I can't remember my own telephone number, without searching I think the team would have been Sims- Lynn - Aldis - Saward - Dugdale - right half Crowther? - Smith?- Dixon- Hitchins - Wylie - McParland.

Roger S and Brian Green of this parish go back way further I think.

So do I, a lot further, and i'm not happy about it.

And lets not forget the indefatigable Johnny ' Slogger ' Sleeuwenhoek and  the magical  Jimmy MacEwan  ( who I once saw beat 4 players by lobbing the ball over their heads , running round them , catching it on his instep and repeating the process ....4 times ! ) .  Oh ...... and the aptly named  Oscar Arce ! ................Godzvilla ! ( Golden Ager )

I didn't realise there were quite so many of us oldies on this forum. Maybe we should have a special Seniors section in order not to bore the arse off everyone else.

I go back to the early '50's although don't ask me the names of the players as I was one of those small kids they used to pass to the front to peer through the blue railings, as someone has already said. I do remember seeing Stanley Mathews play at Villa Park, but my earliest actual hero was Peter McParland.

Oh, and godzvilla - Although he was on the books in the late '60's, I don't believe Oscar Arce ever actually played a game for the Villa.

[eastie]

Its refreshing to hear these things - some people have surprised me with their age for example aftab , i go back to the mid 70s but love hearing of older days .

[ozzjim]

I am 31 tomorrow and feel very old.

[E I Adio]

I am 31 tomorrow and feel very old.

I didn't realise that anyone was only 31 any more.

Happy birthday kiddo.

[Toronto Villa]

I am 31 tomorrow and feel very old.

Happy birthday kid. Enjoy your 30's as much as you possibly can. You're a lot wiser than when you were in your 20's and can still move parts of your body that you'll appreciate when you hit your 40's. Use them well

[eastie]

I am 31 tomorrow and feel very old.

Have a good one ozz and enjoy your new shirt - you don't look a day over 40

[eastie]

@CallumRobinson7: After 10 years of being at Aston Villa I'm happy to say I have just signed my first professional contract with them! #AVFC #buzzing

[GordonCowansisthegreatest]

I am 31 tomorrow and feel very old.

I'm double your age and still feel young:-)

And good news ref; Callum.