Your worst ever Villa player

[sirlordbaltimore]

I'm struggling to think of a worse one over all than Mr Richards

I'm not letting any past performances for other teams cloud my judgement, but based purely on his absolutely pathetic performances in the Villa shirt he's got to be number 1

[Damo70]

Regarding Ormondroyd, as I recall he was struggling so SGT left him out for a while. Then when he brought him back he played him wide left and hit high balls to him. With the average full back being a fair bit shorter than him he tended to beat them. I seem to recall him having a decent cross on him too.

[Mortimer's Bear]

Stephen Ireland

Ireland was 3 years of Bad Shit. CNZ was 5 years.

So are we doing it on longevity at the club or haw bad they were during their time here?

[Walmley_Villa]

Regarding Ormondroyd, as I recall he was struggling so SGT left him out for a while. Then when he brought him back he played him wide left and hit high balls to him. With the average full back being a fair bit shorter than him he tended to beat them. I seem to recall him having a decent cross on him too.

I'll always love him for his goal at WHL v Spurs which helped us go top of the league in 1990. Cracking game and performance.

[Perthvillan]

It has to be insomnia for taking the piss. 60k a week for crap performances and seeing out his contract by training with the academy kids. Complete Wanner.

[Perthvillan]

Wanker even.

[rob_bridge]

Stephen Ireland

Ireland was 3 years of Bad Shit. CNZ was 5 years.

So are we doing it on longevity at the club or haw bad they were during their time here?

Well they were both as fucking useless as each other cost a similar amount in transfer fees and wages - just we CNZ pain lasted longer

[martin o`who??]

The "worst" category is unfortunately rather spoilt for the choice, the most disappointing may well be, off the top of my head, possibly Nigel Callaghan.

[martin o`who??]

The very fact that N'Zog has cost us £211k per game in his 5 years here makes him by far the winner of this particular competition.

Worst/most resented or both.

[AGRIPPA]

Tommy Craig

[castlefields_villan]

Tommy Craig

Did he play enough times for us to qualify for consideration for worst player ?

[martin o`who??]

Tommy Craig

Scored a fantastic free-kick at the witton, screwed if i can remember who against. That's about my total recall of the lad, Saunders actually said he just couldn't make him fit into the system we were playing at the time.

[wittonwarrior]

Tommy Craig

Scored a fantastic free-kick at the witton, screwed if i can remember who against. That's about my total recall of the lad, Saunders actually said he just couldn't make him fit into the system we were playing at the time.

When we bought him we were in transition between the 77 team and the early 80's outfit.  Tommy Craig's movement was second to none other players just couldn't work it out and I am not being smart arsed here.

[martin o`who??]

Tommy Craig

Scored a fantastic free-kick at the witton, screwed if i can remember who against. That's about my total recall of the lad, Saunders actually said he just couldn't make him fit into the system we were playing at the time.

When we bought him we were in transition between the 77 team and the early 80's outfit.  Tommy Craig's movement was second to none other players just couldn't work it out and I am not being smart arsed here.

I remember us being chuffed to buggery when we bought him.

[Pat McMahon]

Tommy Craig

Scored a fantastic free-kick at the witton, screwed if i can remember who against. That's about my total recall of the lad, Saunders actually said he just couldn't make him fit into the system we were playing at the time.

It was against Everton in a 1-1 draw. A cracker into the top corner, and I think it was just after we had signed him. I don't think he did anything for us again. Interesting comments by wittonwarrior above - I was too young and tactically unaware to notice stuff like that, but I do recall people generally being chuffed he had joined us.

My main memory of that Everton game was leaving the Holte and walking down Trinity Rd. A foreign bloke stopped me and asked where he could get a taxi to New St - I was 14-15 and had probably never been in a taxi so I had no idea. I hit upon the idea of walking to the station with him so he could at least get a train. We chatted on the way and he was an Everton fan from the Lebanon and it was his first ever game. He was the first person from that region I had ever met (probably the first away fan I had spoken to) and I thought it was dead exotic, though I couldn't work out why somebody from the Lebanon would support Everton.

We came across a taxi on Jardine Rd (!!)  and he was happy to avoid the train queue.