David Platt's Villa Dream Team

[PeterWithesShin]

Platt or Merson?

Not even close, Platt.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Really good player for us. Not a great player, but really good.

I wonder if he is being considered as assistant manager? His City pay off maybe about to end perhaps?

Would have to disagree with that Cigs.  He was fantastic in his last two seasons for us, scoring loads of goals and becoming a top international player as well.

Fair do's.

[Matt Collins]

Cowans wasn't better than gullit, come on!

There's a reason gullit went to ac Milan and sid went to Bari

He's a villa great and it's great to see platt's comments but gullit is one of the all time Dutch greats!

[Ian.]

Platt has always been one if my all time top Villa players. He was one of my first Heros as a kid and and his record for us from midfield was outstanding. Most definitely a former great.

[brian green]

David Platt was one of the common anomalies thrown up by sport namely a truly brilliant player but a very average man. As for Sid I would not demean him by comparing him with players who never had the honour of wearing the claret and blue and I rate him on the podium with Peter McParland and Paul McGrath as the finest players of the game in the Villa pantheon that I have seen.
My greatest regret is that due to the chaotic muddle and mismanagement at the club in recent times we shall not see Christian Benteke scale those heights with Villa. Yes, I think Benteke is that good.

[Deano's Mullet]

25 goals from midfield two seasons running. That's a pretty high ratio and we've had no one as prolific in that position since. I'd be surprised if any Villa midfielder has hit even double figures since (in the league at least) - Garry Parker hit 9 once and Gareth Barry scored a lot of penalties one season but even Ian Taylor wasn't mega prolific. And Platty was very under-rated technically. Look at some of the goals he scored in 89-90, was it Arsenal where he controlled the ball in midair with one touch and then volleyed it with the other past David Seaman. And he was PFA Player of the Year. Its easy to knock him because he glosses over the time he was here but lets face it, he was class for those 3-4 seasons he played at Villa. I wonder how many Villa fans who got into football in the late 80s like I did would include him in their best XI? He sure makes mine.

[Deano's Mullet]

Merson was a different kind of player, a creator who occasionally scored stunning goals. Platt was box to box goalscoring midfielder.

[tomd2103]

Merson was a different kind of player, a creator who occasionally scored stunning goals. Platt was box to box goalscoring midfielder.

I could see him playing in the "number 10" role in the modern game. 

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Platt scoring an overhead kick, TWO years ago:

[aj2k77]

Platt as big a spoon face as he is was quality and the best midfielder I've seen down the Villa for 25 years.

Platt, Cowans, Mcgrath, Neilsen, Mcinally. Now there is a strong spine to the team. Taylor working his magic in the market there.

[tomd2103]

Platt as big a spoon face as he is was quality and the best midfielder I've seen down the Villa for 25 years.

Platt, Cowans, Mcgrath, Neilsen, Mcinally. Now there is a strong spine to the team. Taylor working his magic in the market there.

Don't forget the likes of Spink and Daley were inherited as well.  If we'd had a profilic striker in the 89-90 season, we might well have got over the line.   

[tom jennings III]

Thanks to A View from L6 for this footage of that goal vs Arsenal
https://twitter.com/villaviewfromL6/status/456896805469290497

[Deano's Mullet]

Thanks to A View from L6 for this footage of that goal vs Arsenal
https://twitter.com/villaviewfromL6/status/456896805469290497

happy days. And of course he scored the goal against Bradford. Promotion clincher.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Thanks to A View from L6 for this footage of that goal vs Arsenal
https://twitter.com/villaviewfromL6/status/456896805469290497

happy days. And of course he scored the goal against Bradford. Promotion clincher.

Technically, not the promotion clincher. Still a wonderful moment when he scored though in the days when 36,000, or whatever it was, seemed like a massive crowd

[tom jennings III]

It would feel like a massive crowd now mate given the recent attendances!