Your worst ever Villa player

[dcdavecollett]

Geddis also slotted the winner against Wolves.

[Darlo Dave]

Without looking through 12 pages, to see if someone already said it, Carlton Cole. The answer is Carlton Cole.

[Pat McMahon]

Mike Pejic. had been with Stoke as a brilliant player for seemingly ever and at the just before end of his career he joined us. Played a game or two I think but was injured ever since. Forget Ivo Stas as we didn't really know him when Pejic was signed we thought we were getting top quality. Didn't turn out too bad, hough.

Pejic was fine for us - hard as nails and knew his job. He sadly just wasn't around for long (10-12 games?) and had to retire

[mattjpa]

Least amount of talent - Simon Dawkins/Isiah Osbourne/Alexandr Tonev
Biggest waste of talent - David Ginola
Least Contribution/Biggest Pussy - David Unsworth
Guy that made you just think WTF - Hassan Kachloul

[Damo70]

Didier Agathe... a MON special?? He was about as useful as a pair of glasses on a one eared person.

To be fair I think he was a free agent signed after the window had closed as MON joined us quite late in pre season. Although admittedly he was crap.

[Kimaster1976]

I was convinced Useless De La Cruz was the worst player in the premier league for a few years never mind just at Villa.

And for wasted talent Luke Moore, I was sure he was gonna be something very special, he was on fire during the last days of O'Leary then early on under O'Neill then picked up a shoulder injury and was sent to America for surgery by Randy and came back a shell of himself playing more like Stefan Moore.

[castlefields_villan]

David Geddis used to take pelters and i remember a two-fingered salute when he scored at Notts County i think, might have been a hat-trick actually. Whether he was that bad i can't honestly remember.

I was as critical as anyone with regards to David Geddis at the time, (I remember absolute sitter he missed against Tottenham at the Holte End towards the end of 1979-80).  However, after a while I thought - this poor lad is being compared as replacement to Andy Gray, and most of us could not come to terms with us losing him to Wolves.  Geddis was not an out and out centre forward like Andy was even though he played number 9.  I always felt we saw the best of him the next year after we'd signed Peter With, and even though Geddis only played a handful of games each year after that, when he came in, he scored vital goals just when we needed them - two against the rags in the 3-0 win just before Christmas 1980. - Am I right in thinking he was only playing because With was suspended ?

Worst ever player - Simon Stainrod (for us) and Steve Hodge would take some beating - surely that team of 1985-86 was far worse than what we've got now ?

[Big Dick Edwards]

surely that team of 1985-86 was far worse than what we've got now ?

We can review this question in six months time..

[Witton Warrior]

Least amount of talent - Simon Dawkins/Isiah Osbourne/Alexandr Tonev
Biggest waste of talent - David Ginola
Least Contribution/Biggest Pussy - David Unsworth
Guy that made you just think WTF - Hassan Kachloul

Best debut but it all went downhill from there - Tony Moooooon

[martin o`who??]

David Geddis used to take pelters and i remember a two-fingered salute when he scored at Notts County i think, might have been a hat-trick actually. Whether he was that bad i can't honestly remember.

I was as critical as anyone with regards to David Geddis at the time, (I remember absolute sitter he missed against Tottenham at the Holte End towards the end of 1979-80).  However, after a while I thought - this poor lad is being compared as replacement to Andy Gray, and most of us could not come to terms with us losing him to Wolves.  Geddis was not an out and out centre forward like Andy was even though he played number 9.  I always felt we saw the best of him the next year after we'd signed Peter With, and even though Geddis only played a handful of games each year after that, when he came in, he scored vital goals just when we needed them - two against the rags in the 3-0 win just before Christmas 1980. - Am I right in thinking he was only playing because With was suspended ?

Worst ever player - Simon Stainrod (for us) and Steve Hodge would take some beating - surely that team of 1985-86 was far worse than what we've got now ?

Yes you are right, and he did a brilliant but brief job deputising for Withey that season, he also scored a vital goal against Southampton if I remember rightly, his part in that Championship season is wrongly overlooked.

[Damo70]

David Geddis used to take pelters and i remember a two-fingered salute when he scored at Notts County i think, might have been a hat-trick actually. Whether he was that bad i can't honestly remember.

I was as critical as anyone with regards to David Geddis at the time, (I remember absolute sitter he missed against Tottenham at the Holte End towards the end of 1979-80).  However, after a while I thought - this poor lad is being compared as replacement to Andy Gray, and most of us could not come to terms with us losing him to Wolves.  Geddis was not an out and out centre forward like Andy was even though he played number 9.  I always felt we saw the best of him the next year after we'd signed Peter With, and even though Geddis only played a handful of games each year after that, when he came in, he scored vital goals just when we needed them - two against the rags in the 3-0 win just before Christmas 1980. - Am I right in thinking he was only playing because With was suspended ?

Worst ever player - Simon Stainrod (for us) and Steve Hodge would take some beating - surely that team of 1985-86 was far worse than what we've got now ?

Stainrod and Hodge were two of our best players in the '85-'87 period. Which admittedly is not much of a claim to fame. As a kid in my mid teens with very limited footballing ability at the time, if I had been given a few games I might have made the top three.

[oldham_villa]

Dave Norton gets my vote

[sid1964]

Dave Norton - his Dad (RIP) used to run the Vine in Wordsley, I remember when Dave was in the reserves and he came into the pub one night telling everyone how he had brought this BMW off Gary Shaw.

His Dad told me that Dave loved the lifestyle of being a footballer, but he lacked  the desire to want to work hard at trying to improve himself.... His Dad was not too impressed with his attitude.

[castlefields_villan]

David Geddis used to take pelters and i remember a two-fingered salute when he scored at Notts County i think, might have been a hat-trick actually. Whether he was that bad i can't honestly remember.

I was as critical as anyone with regards to David Geddis at the time, (I remember absolute sitter he missed against Tottenham at the Holte End towards the end of 1979-80).  However, after a while I thought - this poor lad is being compared as replacement to Andy Gray, and most of us could not come to terms with us losing him to Wolves.  Geddis was not an out and out centre forward like Andy was even though he played number 9.  I always felt we saw the best of him the next year after we'd signed Peter With, and even though Geddis only played a handful of games each year after that, when he came in, he scored vital goals just when we needed them - two against the rags in the 3-0 win just before Christmas 1980. - Am I right in thinking he was only playing because With was suspended ?

Worst ever player - Simon Stainrod (for us) and Steve Hodge would take some beating - surely that team of 1985-86 was far worse than what we've got now ?

Stainrod and Hodge were two of our best players in the '85-'87 period. Which admittedly is not much of a claim to fame. As a kid in my mid teens with very limited footballing ability at the time, if I had been given a few games I might have made the top three.

I seem to remember Hodge making an horrendous mistake to give Norwich their first goal in a 4-1 win against us a VP - I've never known the Holte End turn on a player so much, it looked to me like he was close to tears and Steve Hunt had to console him - (without checking) I think that was the final game of Graham Turner's disastrous reign and of course it came just a couple of months after he'd played that superb through ball for Maradonna to infamously score against England in the 1986 World Cup

[Damo70]

Turner went after the previous game, the 6-0 at Forest. Ron Wylie was in caretaker charge for the Norwich game before Billy McNeil took over.