Juan Pablo calls it a day

[adrenachrome]

Ryu said mofos were talking smack in the locker room and we had ghetto strikers on the roster. Know what I'm saying?

[LeeB]

He was a good guy, and had one good season.

Unfortunately, that good season led to Peter Crouch being sold for next to f-all, and Angel subsequently did jack shit from then on, whilst Crouch blossomed.

[eamonn]

Two good seasons in fairness, didn't he have 12 league goals the season Gregory left before being used sparingly by Taylor?

[Pat McMahon]

For some reason Graham Taylor didn't like him so that 2001-2 season I think nearly all of this goals were scored under Gregory. To be dropped for Marcus Allback is pretty spectacular...

JPA was a decent player, no more, but had the benefit of his name fitting an easy chant and being a hard working player who wouldn't shirk duties. He could score decent goals,had a great leap but was never prolific. We saw what he could be under Dolly of all people, and I recall him and Crouch working well together in are games at the end of the 2003-4 season.

Re the Stainrod comments above, my recollection is of him scoring circa 20 goals in all competitions in 1985-6, and those in the league were probably the main reason we stayed up.

[Axl Rose]

My favourite ever Villa player. And a gentleman. Good luck to you Juan Pablo.

[Monty]

A real Villa player. Great moments, the odd good season, extremely likable but, in the end, kind of amazingly inconsistent. He never really played the same style of football as the rest of the team either - he'd probably look quite good at Swansea or somewhere today, but we were always pretty functional in those days (how much has changed...).