Your worst ever Villa player

[Exeter 77]

If we are using contribution versus money paid as a barometer - Tommy Craig (I may have mentioned that before somewhere though).
As for least ability compared to peers and lack of effort - anyone of a number from 1986/87. Other than them Gabor Kiraly.

Unlike Bosko and a few other mentioned above, Tommy Craig did actually score a 30 yard piledriver in a home draw v Everton shortly after he joined.

Other than that, I cannot recall anything he did for us. I cant even remember who he joined.

I think Craig went to Swansea. He was the first Villa player I didn't like - I think I expected much more from an expensive signing - even as a 7 year old!

[Lobsterboy]

So many to choose from but in recent times the likes of Tonev, Sylla and Holman are amongst the worst I have seen...

[kippaxvilla2]

Did Carlton Palmer ever rock up in the end?!

[dave.woodhall]

Did Carlton Palmer ever rock up in the end?!

Ssssshhhh. Not even in jest.

[Pat McMahon]

Did Carlton Palmer ever rock up in the end?!

Ssssshhhh. Not even in jest.

Fear not, he is a PE teacher in Shanghai now.

[Oscar Arce]

My worst XI
Tommy Hughes: Neil Rioch, Paul Elliot, Steve Foster, David Hunt: Nigel Callaghan, Bobby Park, Oscar Arce, Freddie Mwila, John Inglis, John Fashanu.
Subs: Brian Tiler, Bernie Gallagher, Neale Cooper, Malcolm Allen, Tony Betts.

[dave.woodhall]

When it comes to worst XIs I'm always stuck between "He can't have been that bad if he played in the Premier League" (Balaban, Tonev) and sympathy for third division players who couldn't help being the best we could get at the time.

[Ron Manager]

My worst XI
Tommy Hughes: Neil Rioch, Paul Elliot, Steve Foster, David Hunt: Nigel Callaghan, Bobby Park, Oscar Arce, Freddie Mwila, John Inglis, John Fashanu.
Subs: Brian Tiler, Bernie Gallagher, Neale Cooper, Malcolm Allen, Tony Betts.

Brian Tiler was first rate. Never forgotten that header against Cardiff on Boxing Day in the snow.

John Inglis was, as the more mature posters will confirm the worst player who ever pulled the claret and light blue shirt on. Absolutely dreadful on all levels. Oscar Arce ,as you well know, never played a first team game.

[Legion]

No Grant Holt in there?

[steamer]

If Freddie Mwila  is in that team what about his team mate Ement Kapenwange  . sorry about the spelling, to lazy too look it up.
If I reflect on the names on this post, I would agree with most of them (except for Brian Tiler) but then I had this horrible thought that said, if You took 70% of our players in the last 10 years and put them in a Utd team and then asked the Utd fans the same question, I guess that most of them would feature on their
 list.
Despite them having had their own crap.
How can Liverpool have in essence a new team every year, with last years big spend dross disappearing ?
Rant time over, but apart from O'Neil's foray, we have never played the game.
Where will it all end ? 

[Mortimer's Bear]

John Fashanu

[Villa in Denmark]

John Fashanu

My only memory of Fashanu is getting sent off for a challenge on Giggs "up there" whilst lying on a stretcher, with what was to prove to be a career ending (knee?) injury.

I can't remember a single positive contribution on the pitch.

[Oscar Arce]

My worst XI
Tommy Hughes: Neil Rioch, Paul Elliot, Steve Foster, David Hunt: Nigel Callaghan, Bobby Park, Oscar Arce, Freddie Mwila, John Inglis, John Fashanu.
Subs: Brian Tiler, Bernie Gallagher, Neale Cooper, Malcolm Allen, Tony Betts.

Brian Tiler was first rate. Never forgotten that header against Cardiff on Boxing Day in the snow.

John Inglis was, as the more mature posters will confirm the worst player who ever pulled the claret and light blue shirt on. Absolutely dreadful on all levels. Oscar Arce ,as you well know, never played a first team game.

Yes I was there for his header on a snow covered pitch against Cardiff.
And of course, some of the players who we used in our nadir were not good enough for Aston Villa, but it's all about opinions and all I remember Tiler being booed mercilessly at Villa Park. Misplaced passes were his speciality (look at the League Cup Final versus Spurs video) although he had good leadership qualities that we needed surviving that first season under the Doc.
Yes I know Oscar never played a first team game apart from friendlies, but I couldn't resist including him!
Fashanu, I agree, was just awful, as a player and a person, as shown in BT Sport's recent Wimbledon documentary. Not Big Ron's finest moment.

[dave shelley]

Brian Tiler RIP.  I was at that Cardiff game and really thought we'd got ourselves a good 'un.  It didn't work out that way unfortunately.  A trier, always gave his best ;which sadly wasn't good enough.  His finest hour IMO came in a league match against Bristol Rovers at Eastville, we won 1-0 IIRC and Tiler was immense that day.  He played with a Terry Butcher type gash in his head for a lot of the game and never shirked.

[Pat McMahon]

My recollection of Tiler (I was a nipper when he played for us) was that he was a trier - a la Brian Godfrey.

Luckily I lived in France when we signed Fashanu, but I did have the pleasure of seeing him perform like a donkey in a 1-0 defeat at W Ham in 1994. The away end was being redeveloped so I had to sit in the stand on Green St among those delightful Eastenders. I think he did score a handful of goals for us, but I have no idea if any of them were important.