Colin Calderwood trumps Johnsen in the insignificant stakes surely?
Surely the most Insignificant player for Villa must be Jim Herriott,we signed him on loan from the Noses in 1971 and i am pretty sure he never actually played a game for us
Geoff Vowden did indeed play for us around the same time,but he did play 97 games and score 22 goals .I use to like him as i can remember he use to get some awful stick from a lot of the Villa fans just for having come from the noses
Quote from: Irish villain on June 05, 2013, 12:30:15 PMColin Calderwood trumps Johnsen in the insignificant stakes surely?Bt... was it Calderwood who squared up to Phil Thomson on the Anfield touchline and Thomson reversed backwards at lightning speed? If so surely not insignificant.
Quote from: pooligan on June 06, 2013, 01:18:03 AMSurely the most Insignificant player for Villa must be Jim Herriott,we signed him on loan from the Noses in 1971 and i am pretty sure he never actually played a game for usQuite correct - he had to go to Durban City to get a game apparently....
Quote from: pooligan on June 06, 2013, 09:39:44 AMGeoff Vowden did indeed play for us around the same time,but he did play 97 games and score 22 goals .I use to like him as i can remember he use to get some awful stick from a lot of the Villa fans just for having come from the nosesWe had Vowden and Beard towards the end of their careers, both of whom, especially Beard, were past their best, but I liked them both before and after they joined us. Malcolm Beard later became our youth coach.
Did we not sign Johnsen and Leonhardsen because SGT was trying to strengthen the squad on a limited budget and they were both free transfers? They were a step up from Steve Sims and David Hunt to be fair. Jim Walker once said that Steve Sims was the only footballer he ever dealt with who had worse knees that Paul McGrath. Almost certainly the only time Sims and God have been seriously compared with each other.
Oyvind Leonhardsen. I remember when SGT bought him, all he could think to say was "I'd forgotten about him!"
Quote from: Damo70 on June 08, 2013, 11:03:08 PMDid we not sign Johnsen and Leonhardsen because SGT was trying to strengthen the squad on a limited budget and they were both free transfers? They were a step up from Steve Sims and David Hunt to be fair. Jim Walker once said that Steve Sims was the only footballer he ever dealt with who had worse knees that Paul McGrath. Almost certainly the only time Sims and God have been seriously compared with each other.Sims and Hunt did their bit in the promotion season though (well Sims more than Hunt anyway)