Our 1,000th player is on the horizon

[SaddVillan]

A great idea by the club. Must have taken some research.

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2024/august/15/legacy-numbers--all-997-aston-villa-players/

Some great names from yesteryear:

Gershom Cox
Batty Garvey
Orlando Evans
Arthur Cartlidge
Percy Maggs
William Barnie-Adshead
Ken 'Shunter' Roberts

Names from a Monty Python sketch? (Ask your Dad kids).

[AV84]

Interesting. Seems the 1000th player will be someone who came in this summer, and possibly/probably happen against West Ham.

Could be Barkley, which would be funny given some people's reaction to his signing.

[Beard82]

I think this is amazing, it also makes you realise how much a person should cherish having played for Villa.

150 years, and less than 1000 have played for the greatest club on earth. 

[Beard82]

Interesting. Seems the 1000th player will be someone who came in this summer, and possibly/probably happen against West Ham.

Could be Barkley, which would be funny given some people's reaction to his signing.

Wouldnt he already be on it?  Ah yes - number 950

[AV84]

Interesting. Seems the 1000th player will be someone who came in this summer, and possibly/probably happen against West Ham.

Could be Barkley, which would be funny given some people's reaction to his signing.

Wouldnt he already be on it?

Of course! Silly me. He's 950.

Then seems like Nedeljkovic or Barrenachea are the most likely?

[Beard82]

You would think that Onana would be 998.  So I think your right. 

[cdbearsfan]

Yeah, Barkley, Philogene and Archer will already be counted.

Must be a decent chance that Onana starts. Maybe Maatsen, too? That would take us to 999 and likely leave a straight race between Iling-Junior, Barrenechea and the kids to be the 1,000th. Maybe Gauci if Martinez gets injured (hopefully not Gauci, then).

[ADVILLAFAN]

Was it Cox that scored the first ever League goal? An own goal for Wolverhampton.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

The history section on the official site has an incredible amount of information. Every player, every match sometimes with interesting press cuttings or other things attached. Somebody has put in a lot of work on this.
I suppose there has to be a rule that only players that have appeared in a 1st team game are on the list, but it's still a shame that Oscar Arce will not be one of `The 1,000`.

[cdbearsfan]

Kudos to anyone getting numbers 951-966.

[SaddVillan]

The history section on the official site has an incredible amount of information. Every player, every match sometimes with interesting press cuttings or other things attached. Somebody has put in a lot of work on this.
I suppose there has to be a rule that only players that have appeared in a 1st team game are on the list, but it's still a shame that Oscar Arce will not be one of `The 1,000`.

Aahh, the back that never was:

Wright, Aitken, Arce, Hole.

Remember Doug ushering Oscar onto the pitch after he'd signed with musical accompaniment by a "group of South American musicians". More like a  Mariachi band - but close enough for Herbert.

[cdbearsfan]

Wasn't it Wright, Aitken, Brown, Arce, Hole?

[Anthenagin]

Thank you for flagging this up
Saddvillan

[Dogtanian]

Yeah, Barkley, Philogene and Archer will already be counted.

Must be a decent chance that Onana starts. Maybe Maatsen, too? That would take us to 999 and likely leave a straight race between Iling-Junior, Barrenechea and the kids to be the 1,000th. Maybe Gauci if Martinez gets injured (hopefully not Gauci, then).

Part of me thinks they’d do it so the 1000th is someone they can make a big deal about, as they obviously want to with all this effort now.

But then another part of me can’t see Emery letting marketing influence his team selection and game management.

[cdbearsfan]

At least I can say I lived through The Golden Years.