Our 1,000th player is on the horizon

[Beard82]

I like numbers 951 - 966 - the Villa U19 team that ran Liverpool's A team close in the covid FA Cup.

What would be class (maybe) is if we put each players "legacy" number under the badge.  Like they do with English Cricket shirts. Mrs Beard bought me Stuart Broads autobiography and reading that - it was one of the things that he loved was having that number on his shirt.

[Beard82]

Kudos to anyone getting numbers 951-966.

Ah sorry just repeated that

[cdbearsfan]

I like numbers 951 - 966 - the Villa U19 team that ran Liverpool's A team close in the covid FA Cup.

What would be class (maybe) is if we put each players "legacy" number under the badge.  Like they do with English Cricket shirts. Mrs Beard bought me Stuart Broads autobiography and reading that - it was one of the things that he loved was having that number on his shirt.

Like it. Not sure if there are any rules against it.

[eamonn]

If three players make their debut at West Ham at the same time, how do they decide who is number 1,000?

[Beard82]

I like numbers 951 - 966 - the Villa U19 team that ran Liverpool's A team close in the covid FA Cup.

What would be class (maybe) is if we put each players "legacy" number under the badge.  Like they do with English Cricket shirts. Mrs Beard bought me Stuart Broads autobiography and reading that - it was one of the things that he loved was having that number on his shirt.

Like it. Not sure if there are any rules against it.

I think it would be class - and a way of emphasising our heritage - something we should lean into. 

[Beard82]

If three players make their debut at West Ham at the same time, how do they decide who is number 1,000?

I have spent about the last three hours thing about this.  I think the only fair way would be on there shirt number.  Lowest first. But I guess they must have used a methodology in the list to date.

[Beard82]

If three players make their debut at West Ham at the same time, how do they decide who is number 1,000?

I have spent about the last three hours thing about this.  I think the only fair way would be on there shirt number.  Lowest first. But I guess they must have used a methodology in the list to date.

Yes - 951-965 suggests its a-z

[Ivo Stas]

How low can you go..?

My first new player was number 669, Gary Penrice, in 1991.

Number 668 was Dwight Yorke but he'd already played for Villa, twice the season before under Taylor, before my first visit to Villa Park. In fact Penrice was the only player signed by Venglos (not counting the famous Ivo Stas who never played).

[Dogtanian]

It says in the article it’s A-Z for ties.

[Beard82]

How low can you go..?

My first new player was number 669, Gary Penrice, in 1991.

Number 668 was Dwight Yorke but he'd already played for Villa, twice the season before under Taylor, before my first visit to Villa Park. In fact Penrice was the only player signed by Venglos (not counting the famous Ivo Stas who never played).

I think Andy Townsend was the first one I saw make a debut.  I saw Dean Saunders home debut too

[AV84]

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.

Unless we sign Felix by the weekend, I can't see it being a massive deal. I suppose there's every chance none of the new players get on as subs this weekend. Even if Onana starts, it could be Buendia, Moreno, Ramsey, Bailey, Tielemans, Barkley, and/or Duran coming on as subs.

[Dogtanian]

I don’t mean like a star signing, just that some players are more articulate and some more marketable than others.

[cdbearsfan]

If three players make their debut at West Ham at the same time, how do they decide who is number 1,000?

Based on our first ever game, they seem to be ordered in a sensible way... eg the goalkeeper is listed number one. Since then though, they seem to have just gone with alphabetical order when more than one player has a debut at the same time... most obviously in that Liverpool Covid Cup game. So, assuming they stuck to that, it would be the third player alphabetically.

[AV84]

I don’t mean like a star signing, just that some players are more articulate and some more marketable than others.

Oh, I see what you mean. Baranechea then, and he scores that worldie Zaniolo never gave us, goes down in Villa history immediately.

[edgysatsuma89]

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

Who the fuck is Derrick Williams? Sounds like a name that should have a much lower number.