Aston Villa vs West Ham Post-Match Thread

[PeterWithesShin]

Guzan was great for a while, some of his saves were stunning. Playing a few seasons behind our defence would have destroyed anyone back then.

[Pat McMahon]

Tommy Hughes in the early seventies.  Awful keeper.

Evan Williams (loan) even worse.

If we hadn't taken Evan Williams on loan then we probably would not have landed up in the third division and the rest, as they say, would not have been history.

I was too young to know if he was good or bad but a few months after leaving us he played in a European cup final for Celtic and I think he was pretty popular up there

[aj2k77]

I hated Brad Guzan. Partly because he was part of the smirking Santa idiots video but mostly from when we got obliterated at Arsenal and he managed to push a penalty that was hit extremely poorly straight at him in to the net. The worst attempt at saving a very poor pen i've ever seen.

Shame. Didn't he emulate Bozzie in a penalty shoot-out up at Sunderland?

Yes, eventually succumbed to Lambert beatings shell shock and went shit.

[john e]

I hated Brad Guzan. Partly because he was part of the smirking Santa idiots video but mostly from when we got obliterated at Arsenal and he managed to push a penalty that was hit extremely poorly straight at him in to the net. The worst attempt at saving a very poor pen i've ever seen.

Shame. Didn't he emulate Bozzie in a penalty shoot-out up at Sunderland?

Yes, eventually succumbed to Lambert beatings shell shock and went shit.

Guzman was a million times better than Olsen
A million billion times better

[brontebilly]

Guzan was great for a while, some of his saves were stunning. Playing a few seasons behind our defence would have destroyed anyone back then.

Did very well initially for sure, took Shay Given's place who was well on the slide by then. But by the end of Lambert's time he was a shell of a player.

Kalinic was the worst. We had scouted him for years under 2 or 3 managers, paid decent money for him and he was absolutely shocking when he arrived. Smith getting Steer back from loan was critical to getting us promoted.

[LeeB]

Guzan was shit, a player not good enough for us that played way too many games as we got shitter and shitter.

[Somniloquism]

Was Enckelman always poor, or just blitzed after the 2002/03 Blues games?

[Dave]

I don't think he was as poor as his post-Blues reputation warrants, but nor did he really show enough before to justify trying to rehabilitate him.

[paul_e]

I don't think he was as poor as his post-Blues reputation warrants, but nor did he really show enough before to justify trying to rehabilitate him.

I think he had the ability to be a good keeper but was mentally too weak, which meant that he crumbled under pressure.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I’d forgotten about the handful of games Pepe Reina played for us while Tom Heaton was injured. Heaton who is still a Man U player

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

I’d forgotten about the handful of games Pepe Reina played for us while Tom Heaton was injured. Heaton who is still a Man U player

He was ok for us from memory, gave us a bit of experience and he’s still playing somewhere, Como maybe?

[Olneythelonely]

I’d forgotten about the handful of games Pepe Reina played for us while Tom Heaton was injured. Heaton who is still a Man U player

He was ok for us from memory, gave us a bit of experience and he’s still playing somewhere, Como maybe?

What match was it when he ran 20 yards outside of the box and got done?

[Dave]

I’d forgotten about the handful of games Pepe Reina played for us while Tom Heaton was injured. Heaton who is still a Man U player

He was ok for us from memory, gave us a bit of experience and he’s still playing somewhere, Como maybe?

What match was it when he ran 20 yards outside of the box and got done?

Leicester I think.

And yes, still playing regularly for Como at the age of 42.

[eamonn]

I thought his experience was pretty useful in the run-in to our great escape in 2020.

[paul_e]

I thought Reina was a great signing as cover and he did really well for us. If we hadn't gone and signed Emi I'd have been happy giving him another year whilst we found a long-term option.