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Author Topic: Back to the future. we want goals.  (Read 9722 times)

Offline Pete3206

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Re: Back to the future. we want goals.
« Reply #30 on: January 03, 2015, 01:24:24 PM »
Shaw and Withe went together like bacon and eggs...and they sizzled!

Offline rob_bridge

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Re: Back to the future. we want goals.
« Reply #31 on: January 03, 2015, 01:46:41 PM »
So which 2 strikers from the villa past would you like to sign to bring the goals back to the historic club!

Dublin and Carew for me !


Maybe Altidore in the future?

Offline Damo70

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Re: Back to the future. we want goals.
« Reply #32 on: January 03, 2015, 03:40:50 PM »
Genuine partnership - Shaw and Withe.
Fantasy partnership - Benteke and Yorke

Morley and Young wide left and wide right supplying them.

Offline john e

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Re: Back to the future. we want goals.
« Reply #33 on: January 03, 2015, 03:53:42 PM »
Before my time but didn't we have a fella called Gerry Hitchens who scored a few

Offline silhillvilla

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Re: Back to the future. we want goals.
« Reply #34 on: January 03, 2015, 04:04:40 PM »
Bienlich & Breikrutz .

Offline Damo70

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Re: Back to the future. we want goals.
« Reply #35 on: January 03, 2015, 04:08:56 PM »
Bienlich & Breikrutz .

That gave me an idea. Best Villa forward partnership based on Scrabble scores.

Offline Rico

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Re: Back to the future. we want goals.
« Reply #36 on: January 03, 2015, 04:10:01 PM »
Andy Gray & Brian Little for me. Lethal!

Offline Villa in Denmark

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Re: Back to the future. we want goals.
« Reply #37 on: January 03, 2015, 06:30:30 PM »
Before my time but didn't we have a fella called Gerry Hitchens who scored a few

From what I've read, he'd definitely be one is like to go back in time to see.

Offline montague

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Re: Back to the future. we want goals.
« Reply #38 on: January 03, 2015, 08:08:35 PM »
All of the above would have struggled to score in this team due to poor supply, so I will stick with Benteke and add Morley and Cowans to the team.

Offline pauliewalnuts

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Re: Back to the future. we want goals.
« Reply #39 on: January 03, 2015, 08:37:07 PM »
All of the above would have struggled to score in this team due to poor supply, so I will stick with Benteke and add Morley and Cowans to the team.

Indeed.

Our problem now isn't poor strikers. It is the total lack of a functioning creative midfield.

Offline john e

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Re: Back to the future. we want goals.
« Reply #40 on: January 03, 2015, 08:45:21 PM »
Before my time but didn't we have a fella called Gerry Hitchens who scored a few

From what I've read, he'd definitely be one is like to go back in time to see.

We can never know as we never saw him,
I used to go to VP with a friend who was 10 years older than me, and he always said he was the best striker he'd seen at Villa

Hitchens had a book out a couple of years ago I bought it him for Christmas

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Re: Back to the future. we want goals.
« Reply #41 on: January 03, 2015, 08:47:37 PM »
Gerry Hitchens, along with Peter McParland were my first real Villa heroes.  Both serious hard men and good with it.

Offline Risso

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Re: Back to the future. we want goals.
« Reply #42 on: January 03, 2015, 08:50:41 PM »
Just me who's got "World in Motion" in their head after reading the title?

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Re: Back to the future. we want goals.
« Reply #43 on: January 04, 2015, 02:12:16 AM »
I wouldn't pick more forwards. Our problem is we're far too creative and attacking.

Need to tighten up at the back so I'd go for Andy Comyn and Colin Calderwood.

Offline tomd2103

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Re: Back to the future. we want goals.
« Reply #44 on: January 04, 2015, 04:24:06 AM »
Benteke has proven he can score when up front on his own, so for me it would be a case of getting him the right support.  The ever popular Young and Downing either side of him, with Merson or Keane just in behind would do the trick.   

 


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